How to Set Marketing Goals that are Achievable

It is important to set achievable marketing goals for your business. A business’s marketing plan is the key to its success, and without specific and realistic marketing goals you lose the ability to create a solid marketing plan. As a business owner, it is time to really focus on your goals in order to finalize your marketing strategies. Here are some steps that work well for our clients.

How to Start Setting Marketing Goals

Sit down and assess your company’s current position. This step helps you to evaluate your current strategies and to identify ways you can improve them. Focus on setting goals that will help you let people know about your products and services and establish your company’s reputation. If you are an established company, you would want to focus on other goals such as increasing your audience reach.

Consider what you want to accomplish for the year and make sure you have a clear and concise vision of your goal. Set your goal using as much detail as possible and then establish your timeline to accomplish it.

Be honest with yourself about the kind of goals you want to set. Don’t set a goal that doesn’t benefit you or that are impossible to achieve; set a realistic goal that is important to you and your company. Make sure that your goals are measurable. Set up ways to track your progress as you go. This will help you to determine if your strategy is working or not.

Understand that your marketing strategy may need to change throughout the year and that is not a bad thing. Your goals may change as the year progresses and new information may require changes to certain aspects of your marketing strategy to reach your goals.

Achievable Means Realistic

Make sure that your goals are realistic. For example, if your current marketing reach is five hundred people a month, then a realistic goal would be an increase of ten percent in reach. Set realistic time frames for your goals. Set a start and finish date for your project or campaign and stick to it. Not only will this motivate you to push towards your goals, but it will help you stay on track to achieve your them. For example, set weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual goals. Check on your progress at regularly scheduled intervals and make adjustments to your strategy as needed.

Set weekly meetings in order to assess where you are in reaching your goals and to review and feedback from customers and staff. If you are ahead of schedule, make sure everyone remains focused as you move forward. If you are behind schedule, implement changes that will put you back on target.

The most important thing in marketing is to stay focused. Don’t set too many goals and spread yourself too thin. Don’t let an unsuccessful campaign be a deterrent. Use each campaign as an opportunity to learn and improve future campaigns.

Resources:

https://blog.kissmetrics.com/set-achievable-marketing-goals/