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Marketing Planning
Marketing Plan
All linked to the Business overall objectives … (MBO …)
Typical components of the Marketing Plan:
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Purpose “Mission”
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Situation Analysis - also known as?
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Marketing objectives
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Marketing Tactics – also known as?
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The Budget
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Executive Summary
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Situation analysis
Where are we now?
What
are the problems if one is not done?
Why
are Apple so successful?
The Situation Analysis must cover 5 main areas:
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What’s the main message to take out of this example ?
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That no matter who you are and what you have done in the past if there is not a
enough consumer demand or want for your product then you will fail !
How could they have avoided this ?
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By conducting RELEVANT market research
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The definition of market research is:
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Marketing is the PROCESS of researching into and identifying
consumer needs and employing appropriate price, product,
place and promotion strategies in order to satisfy these needs
profitably (4 P’s – The Marketing Mix)
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Market Orientation (outward looking – the marketplace)
Product Orientation (inward looking – the product)
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Important to distinguish between the two.
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A company will describe themselves as ‘market orientated’ or ‘market led’ this
means ?
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The business will focus on consumer needs and wants and try to satisfy them.
This requires market research and analysis to help show present and future
demand.
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The consumer should always come first
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Business should always try and satisfy their demand rather than trying to sell
them a product they don’t really want.
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Benefits of this approach are:
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The chance of newly developed products failing are reduced, but not eliminated if
proper market research has been done. With the high costs of developing new
products this is a big argument for being market orientated.
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Consumer needs are being met with appropriate products meaning longer survival
and better profits for these companies as opposed to product led companies.
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Market research should never actually end and feedback allows for the product to
be developed and improved before its too late.
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The days of being product orientated are fading fast but they still do exist !
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Where does this still exist ?
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Electronic and pharmaceutical companies.
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Mobile phones being a good example and their applications.
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Product orientated firms spend their time efficiently producing high quality
products cause they feel if the product is of a high quality then it creates its
own demand and consumers are not too bothered with fashion or fad type
goods.
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These types of companies still exist especially in areas such as safety for
example crash helmets
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Something to consider:
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If businesses are market orientated and respond to every consumer whim they may
overstretch and becomes expensive !
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So, Another way of doing things is called asset-led marketing….
Still market research based
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But firms will consider their own strengths in terms of skills and resources
available to them and will make products that take advantage of these.
For example?:
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BMW – they don’t branch off into any other markets like other car manufacturers
do
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Levi – don’t go into any other markets and stay around denim and casual clothes.
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