Crafting a Marketing Plan – By Small Business Resource Ltd
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Why develop a plan? Provides a sense of purpose and direction Guide to implementation and control
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Why develop a plan? A Marketingoriented planning can help the entire organization achieve its goals
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The Marketing Plan Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4: Step 5: Step 6: Step 7:
Situation Analysis Objectives Budgeting Strategies and Tactics Coordination Measure Effectiveness Evaluation
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Situation Analysis Cultural and social influences, individual differences, decision processes ● Definition and identification of target groups ● Segmentation and Positioning ● Competition ● S.W.O.T. ● 4 P's ●
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Set Your Objectives Objectives should be SMART: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Time limited
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Set Your Budget ●
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Try to get budget to meet your plan and not a plan to meet your budget Develop plan, then revise if needed
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Strategies and Tactics Specification and Management of Program Elements • • • • •
advertising PSAs promotional activities partnerships public relations, etc.
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Coordinate Your Efforts •
Achievement of proper balance between program elements
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Scheduling of execution
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Utilization of personnel and outside services
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Revise budgets
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Monitor Your Progress and Effectiveness •
Effects to be measured • awareness (aided and unaided) • interest • recognition • recall • attitude change • behavioural intentions • adoption of behaviour
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Monitor Your Progress and Effectiveness (Contd.)
Methodologies
tracking
surveys
media audits
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Evaluation and followup
Post mortem
Assessment of accountability
Did we do the right things?
Did we do the things right?
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Final Thoughts • Once the Marketing Plan has been written and developed, we know what needs to be done. • We must now concern ourselves with putting the plan into operation.
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