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DEVELOPING A COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY. Kelly R Hall, CCE IOM President/CEO Longview Chamber of Commerce president@longviewtx.com. Developing Your Plan. Where To Begin Why do want to have a communications plan? What do you want to communicate?
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DEVELOPING A COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY Kelly R Hall, CCE IOM President/CEO Longview Chamber of Commerce president@longviewtx.com
Developing Your Plan Where To Begin • Why do want to have a communications plan? • What do you want to communicate? • Have you asked each person on the team what they need to accomplish? • What results do you want? • How will you measure success? • How will you use it? • How to you engage staff? How do you secure buy in and support of staff?
Communication Checklist Information Collection Defined Framework Organization FAQs Chamber News Room Template for Press Releases Relationships w/ Media
Step 3 • Formative Research • Situational • Analysis
Step 4 • Set your goals and objectives • Objectives are SMART • (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-sensitive) • Strategic Summary
Step 5 • Create an implementation schedule • What tactics are you using to reach your target markets? • How do you build your content calendar? • Where is the information released? • How do to track progress? • How do you tract and measure … Gantt chart • Schedule
What will it cost your organization to execute? • Staff time, consultant, graphics designer, ad space, editorial space, website, e-news, etc. • Budget
A Marathon Not a Race • Consider through out all phases … • Evaluation • & • Measurement
Moving Your Plan Forward Four Steps to Begin
Resources: • http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/09/how-to-write-an-executive-summary.html
Q & A Get Set Ready …. GO!