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The Planning Process

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CREATING A BREAKTHROUGH MARKETING PLAN takes time, energy, and effort. You can’t just sit down and write a marketing plan in an hour, unless you are working in a very small organization and already know the business exceptionally well. A good plan is based on a deep understanding of the business, the customer, the competition, and the market, together with smart strategic thinking and solid program development. All of this takes time.

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  1. Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive (New York: Crown Business, 1999), 155.

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Calkins, T. (2012). The Planning Process. In: Breakthrough Marketing Plans. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137107619_6

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