1. Marketing Plan

2. Marketing Plan
To provide direction and focus for your brand, product, or company.
Nonprofit orgs: to guide their fund-raising and outreach efforts
Gov. agencies: to initiate such as building public awareness of proper nutrition and stimulating area tourism

3. Marketing Plan Components
Executive Summary
Current Marketing Situation
SWOT Analysis
Objectives and Issues
Marketing Strategy
Action Programs
Budgets
Controls

4. Executive Summary
This section summarizes the market offerings, target segments, main goals, recommendations, and points as an overview for senior managers who will read and approve the marketing plan.

5. Current Marketing Situation
In this section, marketing managers discuss the overall market, identify the market segments that they will target, and provide information about company’s current situation.

6. Current Marketing Situation
Market description:
Describing the targeted segments and the benefits and product features in detail provides context for the marketing strategies.
Product review
Competitive review
Channels and logistics review

7. Current Marketing Situation
Market description
Product review:
The product review summarizes the main features for all of the company’s products, organized by product line, type of customer, market, or order of product introduction.
Competitive review
Channels and logistics review

8. Current Marketing Situation
Market description
Product review
Competitive review:
The purpose of a competitive review is to identify key competitors, describe their market positions, and briefly discuss their strategies.
Channels and logistics review

9. Current Marketing Situation
Market description
Product review
Competitive review
Channels and logistics review:
In this section, marketers list the most important channels, provide an overview of each channels arrangement, and identify developing issues in channels and logistics.

10. SWOT Analysis Strengths:
Internal capabilities that can help the company reach its objectives.
Weaknesses:
Internal elements that may interfere with the company’s ability to achieve its objectives.

11. SWOT Analysis Opportunities
External elements that the company may be able to exploit to its advantage.
Threats
Current or merging external elements that could potentially challenge the company’s performance.

12. Objectives and Issues
The company’s objectives should be defined in specific terms so management can measure progress and plan corrective action if needed to stay on track.
This section describes any major issues that might affect the company’s marketing strategy and implementation.

13. Marketing Strategy Positioning Marketing tools: product strategy
Marketing tools: pricing strategy
Marketing tools: distribution strategy
Marketing tools: marketing communication strategy
Marketing research
Marketing organization

14. Action Programs
Spells out how marketing strategies will be turned into specific action programs that answer the following questions:
What will be done?
When will it be done?
Who will do it?
How much will it cost?
Action programs should be coordinated with the resources and activities of other departments, including production, finance, purchasing, and so on.

15. Budgets
Managers use budgets to protect profitability and plan for each marketing program’s expenditures, scheduling, and operations.

16. Controls
Controls help management assess result after the plan is implemented, identify any problems or performance variations, and initiate corrective action.

17. In-class Assignment: Group Project
Group of 5 members and create group name
Project instruction: create the marketing plan of a new product/service for the target segments as the following:
Age: 25-40
Gender: female
Draft the current marketing situation part and submit before 4 pm