In this episode, Kelly Fletcher and Mary Beth West warn against a tactics-centric marketing / PR plan, which generally yields money ill-spent, piecemeal results and little cohesiveness with overarching business goals . . . hardly a formula for success. 

Strong, strategic systems of promotional communications and brand reputation-building require marketers, the C-Suite team and boards of directors to engage in a meaningful, data-driven process.  Kelly and Mary Beth reveal the critical elements. 

• Kelly and Mary Beth explain:
  • How Marketing / PR RFPs go wrong with prescriptive tactics seeking a price list, rather than seeking agencies that offer a research-based, strategic approach
  • How to avoid misspending marketing dollars
  • Ways that social media methodology requires special treatment, given how fast-moving it’s changing
  • Why “the process is the product” in strategic communications development
  • Timing considerations to bear in mind when seeking to develop a strategy ahead of the necessary execution timeline
  • How competitive and situational analyses must factor in and how to engage input from the larger team
  • What a strategic mindset looks like through the marketing / PR lens and how it can be cultivated – and making sure the PR / marketing agency delivers the goods strategically with a “fiduciary” level of care for the marketing budget

Links

• Follow the #MsInterPReted hashtag
• Fletcher Marketing PR: https://www.fletchermarketingpr.com/ 
• Fletcher Marketing PR on Twitter: @FletcherPR 
• Follow Kelly Fletcher on Twitter: @KDfletcher
•  Follow Mary Beth West on Twitter: @marybethwest