An Alternative to Clunky Gantt Charts for Marketing Campaigns

Circular planning helps make complex marketing campaigns simple to understand while avoiding the drawbacks of a Gantt chart. Marketing strategies can get pretty complex, especially if you’re planning a comprehensive campaign for more than a quarter. To keep it under control and running smoothly, you need to capture multiple layers of activity, by multiple players[...]

Smart Tips for Long-term Instructional Planning

Unforeseen events can throw your long-term instructional plan off schedule. Follow these best practices to make your plan more successful. Effective teaching starts with effective planning. Without a well thought-out long-term instructional plan, your classroom will drift unevenly through the year—paced too slowly one week, crammed for time the next. Plan Around the Academic Calendar[...]

The Benefits of Circular Planning

Complicated tools are not necessarily the most effective tools. There’s a case to be made for simplicity and clarity. That is particularly true when it comes to planning and scheduling tools. Many of our modern planning tools and apps simply get too far into the weeds. Unnecessary details and features can convolute and confuse the[...]

How to Use Plandisc To Plan Your Marketing Calendar

Using Plandisc may seem a little different than some of the planning tools you are used to. Instead of making your plan more complex, Plandisc simplifies it by working the way you do. The example below is a go-to-market plan that was created by digital marketing agency for an real client in the healthcare industry.[...]

Using Plandisc to Manage Complex Marcom Plans

Traditional marketing communications planning in large organizations often winds up falling into various silos. Multiple channels including print, broadcast, sales collateral, trade shows/events, can be all created and managed by different people or agencies. Add in half a dozen social channels and you begin to see the challenge that faces marketing managers to keep everything[…]

The Evolution of Planning Tools

Why Plandisc’s Elegant Cyclical Design Makes Sense As our lives become more chaotic and technology becomes more prevalent, I find myself constantly seeking more and better ways to manage my time. For me, it started with a basic pocket diary, which quickly evolved into the “Day Timer.” The Day Timer eventually gave way to the[…]