The Next Vital Step You Need A Marketing Plan
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The Next Vital Step: Crafting Your Standalone Marketing Plan
Marketing is a critical component of any successful business, deserving its own dedicated plan rather than being just a segment within the broader business plan. Here's what your marketing plan should encompass.
Your Marketing Strategy
Documenting the core of your marketing strategy is essential. This provides a clear direction and accountability for all other plan elements. It helps you evaluate opportunities, ensuring any advertisements align with your overarching goals.
Understanding Your Competitors
Create a detailed list of your competitors and outline how you plan to differentiate your offerings. This clarity helps you position your business effectively in the marketplace.
Advertising Plan
Your marketing plan should include all intended advertising efforts?"be it your website, newspaper ads, or leaflets. For each, estimate the cost and anticipated customer reach. This will help you calculate the "cost of acquisition" (COA) for various customer segments, guiding budget allocation based on customer value.
Pricing Strategy
Define your pricing strategies and include potential special offers. While there’s flexibility to adapt promotions later, having a foundational strategy aids long-term planning.
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Example: The Catering & Cake Co. Marketing Plan
Strategy:
We aim to become the go-to catering service in the Anytown/Othertown area, particularly targeting weddings and corporate events. We will continually seek cost-effective marketing innovations and discontinue efforts where COA exceeds 20% of customer profits.
Competitors:
In Anytown, key competitors include Cathy’s Catering, which targets low-end corporate clients, and Funfoods, focused on children’s parties. Positioned in the middle-market, we offer a superior alternative to Cathy’s for corporate events. Our main competitor, Luxury Food and Cakes in Othertown, offers similar foods. However, we differentiate by providing comparable quality at lower prices, based on taste tests.
Advertising (Ranked by Cost-Effectiveness):
- Leafleting: $0.01 per leaflet, 10,000 leaflets, plus delivery at $100 = $200. Targets 50 customers, COA $4.
- Local Newspaper Ads: $500 per half-page, monthly. Targets 100 customers, COA $5.
- Corporate Mailshots: $0.10 per mail, 100 mails, plus delivery at $20 = $30. Targets 3 high-value customers, COA $10.
- ‘Weddings’ Magazine: $200 per quarter-page, quarterly. Targets 20 customers, COA $10.
Pricing Strategy:
- Basic catering: Cost + 50%
- Deluxe catering: Cost + 70%
- Cake: Cost + 100%
- Large cake: Cost + 80%
- Personalized large cake: Cost + 120%
Special Offers:
To boost business during slower winter months (November?"February), we’ll offer promotions like "every third person free" for basic catering and a "free champagne" offer with deluxe catering packages.
By establishing a detailed and standalone marketing plan, you can focus on the strategic growth of your business, tailoring every effort to align with your overarching objectives.
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