Whether you are a one-map operation of a vast corporation (or any business operation that falls between the two), you need to plan your Internet marketing process if you are going to have any kind of benefit derived from your marketing efforts. The bigger a business grows the more elaborate and sophisticated the marketing tools become. The thing is that these tools can help anyone but unless you are on the larger side of the business pool, you probably cannot hire twenty people to analyze the global market and present a report telling you exactly where your business is, where the competitors are, what they are doing, what you need to do, how to do it, and how much it will cost for how long.
However, just because it sounds so intimidating does not mean that you can it without further thought. You do not need an army of marketing gurus in order to plan your Internet marketing process. All it needs a little common sense and business acumen, both of which can be acquired through education, training, and experience.
The best to go in case you are new to the whole Internet marketing game is to do what is known as “micro level planning”. Micro planning is a...