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Getting started on marketing strategy

By Linda Julian

If you haven’t developed a clear marketing strategy, here’s a good way to get started.

Do a competitive SWOT analysis  -  strength, weaknesses, opportunities, threats  -  honestly. 

  • list your distinctive features, benefits
  • review the implications
  • generate a practice positioning statement
  • agree criteria for identifying and prioritising target markets
  • list existing and potential market targets and rank these
  • discuss and agree criteria for identifying and prioritising target clients
  • list existing and potential clients and rank these
  • determine a client development and growth strategy for each existing client
  • determine a business development strategy for each potential client.

This will help you to get underway.


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