Are you still developing your strategic approach for 2023? That shouldn’t detract you. In fact, you should be planning for 2023 throughout 2023! Ain’t no plan like the one you’re making, right? If you’re still not quite confident with the direction of your digital marketing, or simply looking for tweaks to make your plans just a little bit spicier, then this could help – SEMRush put together a team and tasked it with creating an overview of how you can formulate an effective marketing plan.

Planning in The Moment

The listing looks at determining goals, developing audience personas, conducting competitor analysis, and optimizing your communications. All in all, it’s a good collection of key fundamentals that might just guide you in the ideal direction for a bountiful 2023 Social Media tour.

You can check out the full details on SEMRush’s blog. Let’s quickly cover some of the highlights. SEMRush opens up with what is perhaps the granddaddy of all planning moves – identifying/establishing your (marketing) goals. Whenever you pinpoint objectives, remember to always be S.M.A.R.T. about them.

There are five other major points on the overview, with the next being to define your audience and buyer personas. Basically, SEMRush reminds you to double down on your customer profiles and customer segmentation efforts. A few things you can do to help this along is to conduct several customer interviews, gather client review and feedback, and, of course, use and take advantage of various analytics tools.

Tips #3 to #6 cover running a comprehensive competitor analysis, creating messaging that resonates with your audience, being critical about the marketing channels you’ll use (based on customer feedback), and picking the ideal tools to scale and measure marketing performance. Especially on that last one, your digital strategy should ‘mature’ to make sure every new marketing plan is both more streamlined and overall better than the last.

So, what SEMRush talks about isn’t too new or different from what every other expert has laid down before, however, what’s important to note here is how this guide incorporates what is now considered general knowledge, from an industry standpoint, while also mixing in that patented SEMRush touch, providing you with a highly personalized guide that’s full of insight from one of the best in the whole SEO game.

The Wrap

You might have heard some of these tips before, but that only means that you don’t always have to reinvent the wheel if you mean to achieve greater results. Sometimes, what you need to do is not to reinvent, but redo – as in the process. If you can make your brand stand out by essentially doing what everybody else did before you, albeit with a distinction or two here and there. As history has proven, doing things differently, more often than not, leads to better outcomes.

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