[00:02] The biggest mistake that can cost you a lot of money in marketing your online store is going off the rails without a clear plan and thinking that marketing is just about ads. In the end, you're surprised to find there are no sales or results. The solution every marketer or store owner needs is to create a
[00:16] marketing plan, and today I'll teach you how to do it simply in three main steps. First, determine your current situation, or point A: Have you started your store yet? How are your sales? How's your cash flow? What are your strengths and weaknesses? Go to Google and search for social media to see
[00:32] who your competitors are, what they're doing, where they're advertising, and analyze their stores to identify your weaknesses and determine your current position. Second, define your goals or target situation. First,
[00:44] point B: You can't just go off the rails. Set goals and work towards them. Do you want sales? Do you want followers? Do you want awareness? Do you want app downloads? So, define one to three goals. Third, a key step:
[00:57] define the tasks that will...  It helps you achieve these goals. So now my current situation or point goals. So now my current situation or point A is sales of 10,000 riyals and my target situation or point B or my goal is sales of 100,000 riyals. Okay, in order to move from point A of
[01:12] 10,000 to point B of 100,000, what do I need to do to reach this goal? For example, I say I will hire a do to reach this goal? For example, I say I will hire a content writer, I want to make ads worth 20-3,000 riyals per month, I want to improve my SEO, I want to make three videos, and so on. We do this with
[01:28] each of our goals, we put an action plan in order to achieve each goal.