{"id":6538,"date":"2022-04-21T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2022-04-20T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T16:29:02","slug":"do-you-use-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/do-you-use-maps","title":{"rendered":"Do You Use MAPS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can remember driving down the road as a kid, with mom looking at a map, giving dad directions. I don\u2019t think he ever fully trusted the directions she gave him. And I recall a fight or two over it.<\/p>\n<p>I must have gotten my map reading abilities, or lack thereof, from my mom.<\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason, reading a road map was never something I was very good at.<\/p>\n<p>Until I realized, if I turned the map in the direction I was going, then I would know which way the next turn was, it got so much easier.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness for GPS \u2013 it\u2019s made map reading largely a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>In business, when I talk about maps, I\u2019m referring to your <strong>Marketing Action Plan&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar playerhost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/2022-ezine-videos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/secure\/\" : \"http:\/\/2022-ezine-videos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/player\/\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + playerhost + \"flv\/CC82F7BB-FD16-8A57-3EE5D647CA22CA64.js?t=\"+(Math.random() * 99999999)+\"' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The good news about your business Marketing Action Plan (MAP) is that it is way easier to read than a roadmap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And there\u2019s no twisting and turning it. No struggling to figure out what to do next or which way to turn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your MAP is simply your Promotional Plan.<\/p>\n<p>How do you sell?<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>2 critical parts<\/strong> to this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First, who are your <strong>prospects<\/strong> and how do you <strong>attract<\/strong> them?<\/p>\n<p>And second, how do you<strong> turn those prospects into paying clients?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Want a <strong>MAP<\/strong> for that?<\/p>\n<p>Join me for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ShiftItBootcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Shift-It Bootcamp\u2122<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, May 23-25, 2022, from 9am \u2013 1pm Eastern time. It\u2019s a virtual event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discover how to strategically engineer your growth with your very own customized MAP!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ShiftItBootcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ShiftItBootcamp.com<\/a> now to discover how!<\/p>\n<p>To Your Success \u2013<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4638 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dianesig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can remember driving down the road as a kid, with mom looking at a map, giving dad directions. I don\u2019t think he ever fully trusted the directions she gave him. And I recall a fight or two over it. I must have gotten my map reading abilities, or lack thereof, from my mom. For&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/do-you-use-maps\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":6544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[599],"tags":[29,13,10,30,708,1097,221,1145,45],"class_list":["post-6538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-general","tag-business","tag-complete-marketing-systems","tag-diane-conklin","tag-entrepreneur","tag-articles-marketing","tag-marketing-action-plan","tag-plan","tag-shift-it-bootcamp","tag-strategy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6547,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions\/6547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}