From the course: Note-Taking for Business Professionals

Using timelines to create a yearly marketing plan

From the course: Note-Taking for Business Professionals

Using timelines to create a yearly marketing plan

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- In this video, you're going to learn how to create a timeline for a yearly marketing plan using the XMind software platform. Timelines can help you take note of information in chronological order. This template will help you easily and visually create a timeline for a yearly marketing plan. Now, as you can see here, this particular timeline is organized by quarter. Under queue one, you'll see the months January, February, and March. If you click on the plus sign next to the month of January, you'll notice it will expand and you can add whatever details you want in this area. For example, you might add three marketing initiatives that need to get done in January. For the other months, you can easily add these subtopics by clicking on the month and pressing the Tab button on your keyboard. What if you wanted to organize it by month instead of quarter? You can easily do so by double clicking on the text and renaming. Since I'm now organizing it by month instead of quarter, I can modify all these other areas to reflect the new timeline. If you're now organizing it by month, we'll need to add a few more months to the timeline. To do that, just click on the Marketing Plan and press Enter. Then rename it to the next month. As you've probably already noticed, this particular template has a fishbone-like structure to represent the timeline and you can use this template to organize your own chronological information in a very visual way.

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