Your marketing strategy should be representative of the company’s vision, goals, and plans for long-term growth. It should be the blueprint for how you want your business to look and operate in the years to come.
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Brand awareness will only take your company so far. To truly grow your company and enhance your business, you must be focused on generating leads. A thorough marketing strategy will provide direction for messaging and will inspire your audience not only to take notice, but to take action.
How to Find the Right Marketing Strategy Agency
Finding the right agency to guide you through the marketing strategy process can be tricky. It’s not exactly a service you can just view and pick out of a catalog. Nor is it an aspect that many businesses would be willing to just share out of the goodness of their hearts. So while not a simple task by any means, finding the right agency to lead your strategic planning is one of the most important decisions you can make for your marketing efforts.
What you can do to prepare for your search:
Read case studies
While you’re not likely to stumble upon a free copy of a competitor’s strategic marketing plan, a detailed case study is likely the next best thing. A case study should be able to outline the client’s challenges as well as the agency’s plan of action for hurdling these challenges and increasing brand awareness, website traffic, lead generation, and sales.
Schedule a face to face
Googling and perusing social media will only get you so far in terms of finding a marketing strategy partner. Oftentimes the best way to learn how a marketing agency can help boost your business is to sit down and listen. No two marketing strategies are alike, so putting yourself in the shoes of a previous client isn’t going to get you the answers you need. An agency worth your time and investment would be happy to discuss the best strategy to turn your challenges into opportunities.
Find an agency that:
Is a full-service agency
For something like a marketing strategy, it’s best to have a single team helping to guide your business. This means having the developers, designers, copywriters, and other specialists under one roof and working cohesively to build your brand and advance your business.
Doesn’t outsource their work
Yes, even an agency that claims to be “full-service” may outsource key marketing tasks including graphic design, SEO, web development, etc. Having too many irons in the fire can blur the lines of communication and take aspects of control away from you and the agency. While these contracted freelancers may be good at what they do, it’s always best to know the team spearheading your messaging and marketing efforts.
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Why You Should Work With Us
Why should you work with Timmermann Group for your marketing strategy? Because we’re the best. But don’t just take our word for it: In 2019, we had the honor of being named Best Marketing Firm by St. Louis Small Business Monthly. We were also nominated for Best in Web Design and Best in Customer Service. These are honors we don’t take lightly.
We Take a Custom and Strategic Approach
to every marketing strategy, and every step of the process is meticulously planned out by our in-house team of developers, designers, strategists, and branding experts. Nothing is outsourced and nothing is overlooked. And, if we’re being honest, we love doing it. It’s more than a job; it’s our passion. Staying at the forefront of web design trends and tactics, our team aims to create a website that exceeds every one of your expectations and serves as an exemplary marketing and communications tool for your business.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is a marketing strategy really that important?
In a word: yes. You can have the best products or the best services around, but without a concentrated plan to strengthen your brand, broaden your audience, and grow your business, it’s an uphill battle. A marketing strategy is all about planning for the future and setting a foundation for growth. Even if you’re seeing some success right now, aimlessly doing the same thing over and over without measurable goals in place is not going to pay off when it really counts.
Can I build a marketing strategy myself?
Yes, but it’s not going to be an easy process, especially if you lack expertise. Obviously you know your business and your audience better than we or any other agency ever will. But knowing how to take these insights and translate them into effective marketing strategies is imperative. If you’ve never done it before, it can be hard to figure out where to start…and it only gets harder from there. We would strongly suggest bringing your strengths to the table and partnering with an experienced strategy agency in order to lay out the best plan for your company’s growth.
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Strategy is the development of your company’s long-term, big picture vision. It examines and helps shape and define the fundamentals of your business. It provides the roadmap for where your business is headed. Marketing strategy takes into account your company, your competitors, and your customers to set goals and key performance indicators that your business will work toward achieving. In short, marketing strategy provides the foundation upon which your entire marketing plan is built.
A good forward-looking marketing strategy begins by examining the present. You need to take a good hard look at every facet of your business and make objective, honest evaluations. This can be a difficult, uncomfortable exercise for many companies. That’s okay. It should be a bit uncomfortable. Remember that you are working toward the goal of creating a marketing strategy that positions your business for bigger and better things. Experiencing a few bumps and bruises along the way will be well worth it in the end.
Your Company
What does your company currently do well? In what areas could you improve? Answering these questions is an important early step in developing a sound marketing strategy. You’ll also want to think about other areas of your business that impact, and are impacted by, marketing including sales, operations, distribution, and customer service. It is important that your marketing strategy integrates with your entire organization.
Your Competitors
The next step after analyzing your business is to analyze your competitors. Items to consider include each firm’s line of products and services, their market share, their level of brand awareness and brand equity, and their respective strengths and weaknesses. Brand positioning is an important component of this phase of marketing strategy development. How is your brand perceived in the marketplace versus your competition? Are you known for your high-quality products? Exemplary customer service? Affordable prices? Understanding where and how your brand fits in the overall marketplace will help guide your marketing strategy. There are many ways to approach this, including SWOT analysis, perceptual mapping, and market segmentation analysis. Regardless of which method or methods is utilized, the goal is to fully understand your industry, and where your company fits within it.
Your Customers
After analyzing your company and your competitors, you’ll also want to focus on your customers. Specifically, spend time analyzing your ideal customers, those who generate the most revenue and are the most loyal. What do they like about your products and services? How can your business acquire more new customers just like them? Truly understanding your customers, their wants and needs, their desires and pain points, is crucial to creating a visionary marketing strategy.
Establish Goals
Once you’ve analyzed your company, your competitors, and your customers, another important component of a successful marketing strategy is establishing goals and key performance indicators (KPIs). These goals and KPIs should reflect the big-picture thinking involved in your marketing strategy. Your goals should make sense for your business, based on what you want your company to become. They should also be measurable and quantifiable in some way. You will also want to set goals that are attainable. This doesn’t mean that you can’t, or shouldn’t, dream big. But there should be a realistic opportunity to achieve the goals that are established.
Strategy is important because it provides the roadmap for all tactical marketing decisions that your company makes. Your strategic marketing plan will provide direction about which advertising and promotional channels to use. Decisions about digital and traditional advertising, trade shows and industry partnerships, special promotions and customer loyalty programs should all be filtered through the lens of your marketing strategy. Your strategic marketing plan will also help your company determine appropriate pricing for your products and services, as well as identify any new opportunities or threats facing your industry and determine how best to navigate them.
A sound marketing strategy also helps bring focus to your overall business. Remember, strategy is forward-looking and long-term. Too often businesses make decisions based on short-term thinking that seeks immediate results. Continually referring back to your strategic marketing plan will help you determine if an opportunity makes sense and will help your business achieve its long-term overarching objectives or not. Competitive and market forces will sometimes dictate that certain business decisions are borne of short-term need. But in general, marketing strategy should remain focused on achieving your long-term business goals and objectives to set your company up for optimum success not only now, but for many years to come.