4. How to Create a Marketing Plan

<p>These seven steps are meant to guide you through formulating a marketing plan that's realistic and attainable, one that you can use to actually grow your business. This plan needs to be personalized to YOUR business. You don't have to do the same thing as everyone else!</p> <p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_13a56a-4e"> <div class="kt-inside-inner-col"> <div class="wp-block-group"> <div class="wp-block-group__inner-container"> <h2>Transcription</h2> <div class="wp-block-group"> <div class="wp-block-group__inner-container"> <p>Hello again, this is Monica Pitts and Katie Guinn. Welcome to Marketing With Purpose. Today, I am going to do my very, very best to answer the incredibly elusive question. How to create a marketing plan in like, less than an hour.&nbsp;</p> <p>0:19&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>I mean, it sounds like a feat.</p> <p>0:23&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>I think that this could roll out into a whole semester worth of content course. We are going to have a course based on this whole blog post now, we might. Maybe someday, if ever get that LMS installed in our website.</p> <p>0:41&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Nervous laughter. Learning management systems are hard. Yeah, you just let us know. Hey, you know what, seriously, if you listen to this podcast, and you're like, Man, this stuff is real, and I need to know more about it. You should make an online course about it. Let me know because I would Yeah.</p> <p>1:00&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Contact us while we're saying Yeah. Okay, so I talked to business owners all the time, and especially small business owners get very intimidated by the thought of making a marketing plan. There are so many pieces, and it's very, very easy to get them all tangled up. It's hard to wrap your mind around all of the individual pieces and make sure you've done enough covered everything, not done too much. And don't even get me started.</p> <p>1:34&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>So from a big pic