Marketing provides the potential to help a business grow. That growth can come slowly or scale substantially with the help of a living breathing marketing plan. The strategy behind a marketing plan balances the speed of growth with the capabilities and resources a business has. Since every business is different, the marketing plan should be individual to your business. The marketing plan should always include long-term growth goals that can be broken down into short-term objectives. Those objectives are just a pipedream unless they have predictable results, action plans, measurement, and reachable timelines. A plan is not set in stone; the business should be flexible in adjusting the marketing plan based on learnings that happen over time. Scalable growth comes when the business figures out how to deliver more value out of the same amount of effort.