Strategic planning and its relationship to marketing planning?

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Strategic planning is the fundamental input to marketing planning. So, the strategic plan must come first (typically it is a component of the marketing plan or the business plan). Once you have a strategic plan in place, then you can put together the details of your marketing tactics.
Strategic planning is about matching the strengths of your business to available market opportunities.
To do this effectively, you need to collect, screen, and analyze information about the business environment. You also need to have a clear understanding of your business - its strengths and weaknesses - and develop a clear mission, goals, and objectives. Acquiring this understanding can take work, but in many ways it is the process of strategic planning that you go through in creating your business plan that is the most valuable step of all.
Joanna Lees Castro
Easy-Marketing-Strategies.com
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