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Assignment: E-Marketing Plan Report

Purpose

To assess your ability to analyze a real-world electronic marketing campaign.

Overview

Throughout this course, you will be searching and analyzing a company web site for its application of electronic marketing principles.

1. You need to select a B2C website that you will follow throughout the course. You have to get the approval from your instructor before you start your project.

2. The web site is to be a brand site, not a site for a mega corporation with many different brands.

3. The website must have a free newsletter or email communications.

4. If the company has retail outlets nearby, you also should consider a visit to the retail site. This will allow you to look for ways in which the firm is integrating marketing activities on and off the Internet.

You should put together an annual e-marketing plan to help set the marketing in general on the right course to make any company's business goals a reality. It is a high-level plan that guides the direction of the team's campaigns, goals, and growth.

Without an e-marketing plan, things can get messy and it will become nearly impossible to plan the budget that is needed for the projects, hiring, and outsourcing required over the course of a year if you don't have a plan.

For this part of the assignment, you need to write a report that describe a digital/e-marketing plan.

An effective e-marketing plan should contain the following elements:

I. Table of Contents

II. Executive summary

1. An overview of the entire plan.

III. Introduction

1. Company Name.
2. What is the product or service? Describe it in detail and explain how it fits into the market.
3. Headquarters, Office Locations.

IV. Business Summary

1. Marketing Leadership Team.
2. Mission Statement.

3. You should sign up for free to get newsletter or email communications from the website you have selected. This will help you to understand the various elements of their online strategies and give some insights into how their multichannel marketing is carried out.

4. Contact the chosen brand web sites by asking for information, or even purchase a product if you wish.

5. Register at the B2C web site you have selected. Indicate in your report what data was captured on the registration form.

6. SWOT Analysis.

7. Research what your competitors are doing. Select 2 competitors and write the Competitive Analysis section of your digital/e-marketing plan.

Note: You can use any free online third-party platform for further analysis.

V. Target Market

1. Describe your target market segment in detail by using demographics, psychographics, geography, lifestyle etc.
2. How large is it?

VI. Marketing Objectives and goals

1. Explain your marketing objectives and goals in term of sales volume, market share, return on investment or any others for your marketing plan and the time needed to achieve each of them.

VII. Market Strategy

1. Explain your marketing strategy chosen in term of aspects such as Product, Price, Promotion, People, Process, Physical Evidence and other tactical or environmental variables.

VIII. Marketing Channels (At least, If you are a group of 4, each student selects one channel [Assignment & Presentation])

Explain how you will use the following channels to achieve your goals:

1. Content marketing.

Content includes text, graphics, videos, and other related materials people are looking for and are very interested in.

2. Social media marketing

The student should decide what social media platform should be used; what content will be shared.

3. Email marketing.

In this part, you will plan and prepare an email marketing campaign.

You will write an e-mail, to/for (Select 2):

1. Welcoming new subscribers
2. Sales promotion (Promotional email)
3. Email newsletter
4. Inviting people to join your website/app
5. Promote social media accounts

• For each audience, students should compose an email that best targets each audience group.
• Students should consider headline, layout, message, bullet points, call-to-action, image, etc.
• With each email, students should include an explanation on why each email would be most effective for each audience.

4. SEO

• Provide a list of 10-15 words or phrases that you think people would use to find your company through search engines.
• Review their website and identify elements that are missing or can be improved to increase the website's marketing effectiveness.

Note: Keyword research involves investigating your competitor's sites and using a number of keyword analysis tools to determine which keywords or keyword phrases are searched most by users looking to find your products or site.

Display Advertising

In this part, you will design a Banner Ads

• What is the Type of Display Advertising you will design?
• What is the size of the ad (Check Standard Google Display Ad Sizes)?

IX. Budget

1. Detail the breakdown of the budget available to you and the expected ROI from each channel.

X. Evaluation Plan

1. You need to evaluate the system/strategy in place before the plan is put in action.

XI. Summary

1. Summaries profits, costs, advantages and why the plan should succeed.

XII. Reference list

1. list all the sources you have used in the process of researching your work.