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A great marketing tool that can help your business boost sales is a marketing calendar.

Successful marketing requires that, in simple ways, you present your products and services to potential clients. A marketing calendar helps you to accomplish specific marketing goals in a time frame that will be best for your company.

Victor Kiam, a famous entrepreneur from the US, was quoted as saying, “Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.” Since effective marketing relies heavily on good timing, this quote definitely applies. Using a marketing calendar to keep all of your strategies organized and streamlined is an excellent way to keep beneficial opportunities from passing you by.

Use a marketing calendar to automate planning and preparation as you look for ways to market and increase your business’s sales. Here are some ideas for how to implement a marketing calendar into your company.

* Choose your calendar – Marketing calendars are not all made in the same format. You can use a desk calendar, a wall calendar, a planner, a spreadsheet, or anything else that works best for you. Using a large wall calendar is often a good idea since it will be visible to your entire marketing team.

* Develop a plan. Assign each marketing project a specific day, week or month on the calendar. Include a description of the project, cost estimate and tasks necessary in order to complete the project. If desired, you may assign different tasks to separate dates on the calendar. Allow for plenty of time to promote your product if you are marketing prior to a specific date or event.

* Try new things. Occasionally try new marketing techniques that haven’t been used within your company. While you should first utilize those techniques that have proven successful in the past, a previously untried method may yield even better results.

* Update the marketing calendar regularly. Make notes regarding the outcome of each project. Mistakes are valuable only when they are learned from. Use these results to determine what projects will be included on next year’s calendar.

Any small business can increase its sales with successful use of a marketing calendar.

Ray Perry is an Internet marketing executive with more than 25 years of experience. He is the Chief Marketing Officer at MarketBlazer, a small business marketing company and authorized Duct Tape Marketing coach. You can get more information about a marketing calendar at www.MarketBlazer.com.