How To Build Your Inbound Marketing GamePlan

It’s time to change the game.

You have a choice. Stick to the traditional, safe marketing strategies that you have always known, or employ the inbound marketing tools and strategies that are giving organizations the power and agility to overtake the competition.

If you’d like to go the conservative route, you can stop reading now. For the underdogs and innovators, now is your time. Introducing the Inbound Marketing GamePlan (click here to download the free PDF eBook).

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In early 2007, Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, co-founders of HubSpot and authors of Inbound Marketing, set out to level the playing field. Their vision and business model have given organizations of all sizes the ability to grow smarter and faster by outthinking, not outspending, the competition.

Around that same time, David Meerman Scott published The New Rules of Marketing & PR, which remains highly relevant today as a revolutionary book for organizations stuck in traditional, outbound marketing activities. (EDITOR NOTE: The second edition of "New Rules" was released in paperback Jan. 12, 2010)

The work of Halligan, Shah and Meerman Scott, along with the collective knowledge of the social Web, have inspired us to build and publish the Inbound Marketing GamePlan.  

The GamePlan follows a standard marketing-strategy methodology, but concentrates on shifting budgets and resources to more effective and measurable inbound marketing strategies.

Our hope is that this eBook serves as a resource for organizations of all sizes to take a more strategic approach to marketing, and tap into the full potential of inbound marketing to connect with all relevant audiences, generate leads and build loyalty.

The GamePlan in Action

• STEP 1: Clearly define and differentiate your brand.

• STEP 2: Design and deploy a content-driven Website.

• STEP 3: Go beyond prospects, and consider the impact of your inbound marketing efforts on all audiences.

• STEP 4: Establish measurable and meaningful campaign objectives designed to achieve the primary goals of leads and loyalty.

• STEP 5: Build an integrated campaign fueled by the four core inbound marketing strategies: Search Marketing, Social Media, Content Marketing and Public Relations. The success of each strategy creates momentum that drives your organization forward.

• STEP 6: Establish dynamic budgets that can be easily shifted based on campaign performance and analytics.

• STEP 7: Define campaign timelines with milestones, tasks and responsibilities.

• STEP 8: Measure everything, and be willing to adapt and evolve.

It’s Time . . .

The social Web and inbound marketing have leveled the playing field. Underdogs and innovators now have the power to grow faster and smarter than their competitors. They have the ability to control their destiny.

Don't be afraid to completely evolve what you have spent years building. Listen to the markets, adapt to demand and move where others aren't willing or able to go.

• It’s time to differentiate your brand and build a powerful, lead-generating Website.
• It’s time to consider the needs and goals of all audiences and connect with them in more meaningful and personal ways.
• It’s time to stop hiding behind arbitrary measurements, and start building integrated marketing campaigns around metrics that directly affect the bottom line.
• It’s time to stop paying for placement and start publishing relevant, link-worthy content.
• It’s time to participate and bring real value to online communities.
• It’s time to set dynamic, performance-based budgets that constantly shift and adapt based on analytics, consumer behavior and market forces.
• It’s time to tap into the endless resources of the social Web.
• It’s time to “get found” when audiences are searching for knowledge, products and services.
• It’s time to generate leads and build loyalty.
• It’s time to look beyond traditional wisdom and conventional solutions.
• It’s time to innovate and lead.
• It’s time to build and activate your Inbound Marketing GamePlan (click here to download the free PDF eBook).

Inbound Marketing GamePlan eBook Table of Contents

• Chapter 1> Intro: The Shift to Inbound Marketing
• Chapter 2> Discovery: Define, Differentiate & Design
• Chapter 3> Audiences: Segment & Prioritize
• Chapter 4> Objectives: Set Your Success Factors
• Chapter 5> Strategies & Tactics: Take an Integrated Approach
• Chapter 6> Budgets: Calculate Time & Money Investments
• Chapter 7> Timeline: Track Activities & Milestones
• Chapter 8> Measure & Evolve: Use Analytics to Adapt
• Chapter 9> Resource Center: Tap into the Social Web
• Chapter 10> The Beginning: Look Beyond

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