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Marketing Plan
You are asked to develop a new product and write a brief marketing plan (8-10 pages, double-spaced, in font size 12, Times New Roman style) for marketing that product. The product has to be new, meaning that it does not yet exist. Use your creativity. Examples from past classes (among others) include a new “Apple iVideo” device similar to the iPhone which creates & edits videos, an internet café adjacent to the Emporia campus as a franchise of a national chain, a pet waste pick-up service added for a local pet supplies store, and a new lightweight kayak carrier designed for smaller cars. The outline of the marketing plan is given below:
Executive summary (one-page summary of all of the following items)
The Target Market (use secondary data and/or primary data to justify)
Identifying characteristics (demographics, geography, values, and other characteristics)
Basic needs, wants, preferences, or requirements
Buying habits and preferences
Consumption characteristics
Product Strategy
Brand name
Major features and benefits
Differentiation/positioning strategy
Supplemental products (including customer service strategy)
Pricing Strategy
Overall pricing strategy and pricing objectives
Price comparison to competition
Specific pricing tactics (discounts, incentives, financing, etc.)
Distribution/Supply Chain Strategy
Overall supply chain strategy (including distribution intensity)
Channels and intermediaries to be used
Connection to differentiation/positioning strategy
Strategies to ensure channel support (slotting fees, guarantees, etc.)
Tactics designed to increase time, place, and possession utility
Integrated Marketing Communication (Promotion) Strategy
Overall IMC strategy, IMC objectives
Consumer promotion elements
Advertising strategy
Public relations/publicity strategy
Personal selling strategy
Consumer sales promotion (pull) strategy
Trade (channel) promotion elements
Advertising strategy
Public relations/publicity strategy
Personal selling strategy
Trade sales promotion (push) strategy
This is only a general outline. Under each of the P’s in the marketing mix, you may choose to emphasize or de-emphasize some of the items listed above. However, for each P, make sure you discuss the overall strategy.
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