Steps in Preparing The Marketing Plan

1. Presentation on
STEPS IN PREPARING THE
MARKETING PLAN
Group members
Saddam Husssain
Muhammad Karim
Maria Karim
Farhad ul haq

2. Situation Analysis
• Help you Better understand
• Outlines your company goals
• Describe your target customers
• Not an easy section
• Review of past performance
• Should also include information
Company Analysis:
• First part
• Describe marketing goals and objectives
• You should Provide description

3. Target Market analysis:
• Describe demographic characteristics
• Hire a market research
• Describe psychographic characteristics
• Include any knowledge
Key Collaborators:
• Describe strategies you have in place
• Outline distribution strategy
Competitive analysis:
• Final and important part
• List each of your competitors
• Describe their products
• Communicate and discuss their
• Provide key insights

4. SWOT Analysis
A clear understanding of SWOT is required for business majors.
Environmental factors internal to the firm usually can be classified as
strengths (S) or weaknesses (W), and those external to the firm can
be classified as opportunities (O) or threats (T).
A scan of the internal and external environment is an important part of
the strategic planning process.
The SWOT Analysis framework is a very important and useful tool to
use in marketing Management and other business applications.

5. SWOT Analysis Framework
SWOT Analysis Framework
Environmental Scan
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Internal Analysis External Analysis
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Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats
SWOT Matrix

6. The SWOT analysis provides information that is helpful in
matching the firm's resources and capabilities to the
competitive environment in which it operates.
Strengths:
A firm's strengths are its resources and capabilities that can be
used for developing a competitive advantage. Examples of
such strengths include:
 Patents
 Strong brand names
 Good reputation among customers
 Cost advantages from proprietary know-how

7. Weaknesses
 High cost structure
 Lack of access to best natural resources
 Lack of access to key distribution channels
 Lack of patent protection

8. Opportunities
• The external environmental analysis may reveal
certain new opportunities for profit and growth.
Some examples of such opportunities include:
• An unfulfilled customer need
• Arrival of new technologies
• Loosening of regulations
• Removal of international trade barriers

9. Threats
• Changes in the external environmental also
may present threats to the firm. Some
examples of such threats include:
• shifts in consumer tastes away from the
firm's products
• emergence of substitute products
• new regulations
• increased trade barriers.

10. Establishing goals and objectives
Activities comparing
Marketing plan effectiveness
“How do we get there?”
Control procedures
“How do we make sure we get
there?”
Evaluation procedures
“How do we know if we got there?

11. Market Segmentation
• Market Segmentation is a method of “dividing
a market (Large) into smaller groupings of
consumers or organizations in which each
segment has a common characteristic such as
needs or behavior.”

12. GEOGRAPHIC SEGMENTATION and
STRATEGIES
Divide the market into different group based on :
• Region – South India , North , Western Region, East
• City – metro cities, cities with population more than 1 million
• World
• Density
• Climate
• States
Ex.- Mcdonalds globally, sell burgers aimed at local markets, for
example, burgers are made from lamb in India rather then
beef because of religious issues. In Mexico more chilli sauce is
added and so on.

13. DEMOGRAPHIC SEGMENTATION and
STRATEGIES

14. BEHAVIOURAL SEGMENTATION
and STRATEGIES
Jackson Example…

15. PSYCHOGRAPHIC SEGMENTATION and
STRATEGIES

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