Marketing is an integral function in your firm’s overall strategy, But sadly, marketing is frequently not fully incorporated into an overall market development and corporate strategy – and in the end, the investment you make in marketing ends up being more of an expense, failing to advance your overall firm objectives.

Marketing Evolutions has developed a systematic and strategic process that aligns marketing with firm strategy, a collaborative and inclusive process that ensures many voices in your firm are heard and ensures a program that all firm personnel buy into and commit to achieving.

The Process

The ME strategic planning process answers the following questions:

• What is your firm’s overall vision?
• Do your employees support and advance this vision through their actions and work?
• Does your firm’s vision align with the firm’s core competencies and strengths?
• Does every element of your firm’s business and marketing strategy tie back to the vision?
• What is your competitive market position?
• How do your customers and clients see you?
• Do you have weaknesses in both service delivery and market perception?
• Are you maximizing your market strengths?
• Which market sectors offer the greatest growth potential for your firm?
• Are you positioned to capture work in those sectors?
• What strategies and tactics must be in place to take you from your current position to your desired one?
• What internal resource constraints exist to get you from point A to point B?
• Does your messaging and marketing communications program align with all of the above?
• How will you measure success?

 A concise, straightforward, action-oriented plan – not a dust-gathering 50 page plan you’ll never look at again – that is easy to follow, easy to implement, with an eye on both your short and longer-term needs. Your plan will fully integrate not only marketing efforts, but also face-to-face business development initiatives to achieve maximum impact.