Waxing UnLyrical

article thumbnail

What a Sandcastle Reminded Me About Strategy

Waxing UnLyrical

After all, there has been no dearth of “hooks” in the past couple of weeks to kick off the new year + decade with musings on innovation, strategy, new directions… the kind of thing one expects to be reading (and writing about) when a New Year rolls around. Sandcastle as strategy. Smart strategy needs to be flexible.

Strategy 253
article thumbnail

I Need to Develop a Strategy. Now What? The Winnie-the-Pooh Way Forward

Waxing UnLyrical

Organization is paramount in moving from planning to developing, and then executing, the strategy. You need to plan, then write your strategy based on these findings. For example, this fictitious small business focuses on exit strategies for other small businesses which are selling or passing the business on to future generations.

Strategy 220
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

#measurePR Recap (August 2017): How Measurement Affects Strategy Development

Waxing UnLyrical

In August, #measurePR focused on incorporating measurement from the start of your campaign before even thinking of implement your strategy. On measurement’s role in developing strategy: A3 – B If you don’t understand what you are getting into you can not set a good strategy, plan, message etc #measurepr.

Strategy 209
article thumbnail

5 Creative Strategies for Link Building

Waxing UnLyrical

At least not if you want the link building strategy to work. There are tips and tricks to using this strategy to build high-quality backlinks. Like anything the more time and work you put into planning your strategy the better your results will be. Guest Post by Stuart McHenry. Interview Experts. Image by PIRO4D via Pixabay.

Strategy 158
article thumbnail

Three Keys to Blueprinting Your Social PR Strategy

Waxing UnLyrical

It was an intense couple of days, but absolutely essential to mapping out and implementing their social PR strategy, which is what we’ve been retained to do. Nowhere does it tell you SBC is like every other PR consulting outfit out there. (Of Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Three Keys to Blueprinting Your Social PR Strategy.

Strategy 243
article thumbnail

A Heart to Heart with My Industry: Five Ways to Improve the Business Consulting Industry

Waxing UnLyrical

As my business consulting partner Jason Arcemont once put it: “I’ve always enjoyed my job until it became full-time.” But it’s not uncommon for marketing professionals and other business consultants to get creatively and occupationally stuck on a hamster wheel, partly as a result of things we do to ourselves and our industry as a whole.

article thumbnail

Don’t Lose Clients Due to Lack of Content Strategy

Waxing UnLyrical

Now, imagine that your agency had laid out an entire content strategy for you at the beginning of the project. They executed that strategy and show you with objective data that they’ve accomplished or even exceeded the goals they set out to accomplish. Strategy and measurement are hard. Probably not.

Strategy 161