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What a Sandcastle Reminded Me About Strategy

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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.

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5 Creative Strategies for Link Building

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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.

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

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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.

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Don’t Lose Clients Due to Lack of Content Strategy

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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.

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

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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.

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Your Strategy Will Not Produce in 2019 Without These Two Steps

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This is not your typical post about planning and strategy because that would be a waste of your time. The core of this is to recognize that you are THE KEY to the success of any planning or strategy you put into place. Your best winning strategy begins in your mind! Guest Post by Kathy Vaske. You aren’t a computer program.

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Three Keys to Blueprinting Your Social PR Strategy

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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. It starts to become a beautiful, never-ending loop, that also allows for pivoting the strategy when needed ( I talked about this with Rebekah Iliff recently ).

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