Building The Annual Marketing Plan

Far too often, marketing’s annual plan is created in silos, resulting in a cycle of replanning during execution. This doesn’t have to be the case. Getting the correct input to the plan will align marketing activities to business priorities and put marketing on the right path for business growth. An effective marketing plan integrates information from strategy, product, audience, and revenue plans and organizes it to produce an overall marketing plan on a page. This report describes the key sources of information, how to transform that information into appropriate formats, and how to layer it into the marketing planning process phases to produce a marketing plan on a page.