Marketing Planning Articles & Resources
How To Write a Marketing Plan and What to Include Marketing plans are an essential part of a successful marketing strategy. This article discusses the importance of a marketing plan, what needs to be included in a marketing plan and how to create a successful marketing plan. What is a Marketing Plan? A marketing [.....]
A marketing audit is a structured survey of an organisation's Marketing efforts. It looks at the way Marketing is planned and managed. It asks what has been done and what else should be done. In other words: what has worked? and what has failed? An audit provides a "snap shot" of the current situation.A marketing [.....]
The benefits of using the Internet to exploit international markets are straightforward: Additional revenue can be generated from new international markets. Higher margins, or profits because of lower costs, since: less need for local agents and distributors less need for local fulfilment infrastructure such as shops or distribution centres less need for the expense of [.....]
How To Write A Marketing Communications Strategy To gain strategic advantage in your Marketing Communication Strategy, an organisation has to formulate and implement a value-creating strategy - that is, a comprehensive set of decisions and commitments on the direction to take in order to fully achieve its aims and goals. This process begins [.....]
How To Create an Integrated Marketing Plan Integrated Marketing Plan Campaign objectives Marketing communications objectives form part of an organisational hierarchy of objectives - marketing objectives cascade down from the organisational objectives, and communication objectives cascade down from marketing objectives. All objectives should be ‘SMART’ - Specific, Measurable, Achievable/Actionable, Relevant and Time-bound. Typical [.....]
A MARKETING PLAN AS AN OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK A marketing plan provides a framework for the organization's activities. In addition to the mission and the statement of strategic intent, the marketing plan sets out plans for every aspect of the strategies to be pursued towards the organization's goals. At various levels of the organization, the [.....]
Integrated Marketing Strategy For your Integrated Marketing Strategy to be effective, start with the audit. In conducting the marketing organisation audit the McKinsey 7-S model is extremely useful - it provides a framework for analysing seven important aspects of any organisation: structure, systems, strategy, shared values, staffing, skills and style. The three following elements [.....]
The Marketing Planning Process: How to plan your marketing strategy The marketing planning process is a systematic and methodological approach for planning, forecasting and coordinating all marketing needs and objectives. It is a structured and systematic approach for developing, implementing, executing and evaluating marketing strategies. The marketing planning process The marketing planning process starts [.....]
What Is A Marketing Plan? A marketing plan is a detailed set of strategies for communicating, promoting, and delivering a product or service to a defined audience. A marketing plan may cover media advertising, social media, public relations, sponsorship, direct mail, and more. There is a lot of jargon in the world of marketing, [.....]
How to Create a Marketing Plan (Template and Breakdown) Here is a template that can help you create a marketing plan for your company or business. The process of creating a marketing plan is not as difficult as it may seem, and this template will walk you through the steps. Introduction A marketing plan [.....]
Positioning is all about how a brand or company is positioned, or perceived, in the minds of a target group of customers. Perceptual maps help us to plan positionings and repositionings. A perceptual map is a diagram which plots different positionings and repositionings. For example Guinness was positioned as an 'old unfashionable mature drinker's drink' [.....]
Tomorrow morning you are going to wake up, breakfast, and leave the house. On the way to the bus-stop or the station you will buy a newspaper. Which one? The prices are different. How much will you pay? Prices vary according to situations. Different prices reflect what different customers are prepared, and able, to pay. [.....]
