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The Marketing Plan
10.1
Identify the role of marketing objectives in
developing a marketing plan.
Name the five marketing strategies that make up
the marketing mix.
Describe the part marketing tactics play in the
marketing plan.
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Forming Marketing
Objectives
A convincing marketing
plan includes a rationale for
your selection of marketing
strategies and tactics.
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Key Term
marketing plan a
plan used by a
business to guide its
marketing process to a
desired conclusion
based on information
obtained through
market research and
target market decisions
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The Marketing Plan
A successful marketing
plan contains specific
marketing objectives.
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Key Term
marketing objectives
what a business wants
to accomplish through
its marketing efforts
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Developing the
Marketing Mix
Developing a marketing
mix enables an
entrepreneur to map out
how to accomplish
marketing initiatives.
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Key Term
marketing mix the five
marketing strategies used
to reach a market:
product, place, price,
promotion, and people
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PEOPLE
The people strategy means
assembling, preparing, and
maintaining the people who
will help you achieve success.
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Developing the Marketing Mix
The Five Ps of Marketing
P
Product
P
Place
P
Price
P
Promotion
P
People
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The Product Strategy
The product strategy deals with the goods or
services your business will provide.
Considerations Include:
features and benefits
branding, packaging, and
labeling
selection
positioning
product mix
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The Product Strategy
A product’s brand,
package, and label serve
as strategies for
maintaining customer
loyalty.
Key Terms
brand the name,
symbol, or design used
to identify a product
package the physical
container or wrapper used
to present information
label the part of the
package used to present
information about the
product
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The Product Strategy
Branding, packaging, and
labeling can have a bearing
on product positioning.
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Key Term
product positioning
how consumers see a
product in comparison
to another product
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The Product Strategy
The final consideration in
your product strategy is
determining your
company’s product mix.
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Key Term
product mix all the
products a company
makes or sells
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The Place Strategy
The place strategy deals with how you will deliver
your goods and services to customers.
Place strategy considerations include:
channels of distribution
transportation
location, layout, and
availability
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The Place Strategy
To formulate a place
strategy, the entrepreneur
needs to understand the
channel of distribution.
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Key Term
channel of distribution
the path a product takes
from producer or
manufacturer to final user
or consumer
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The Place Strategy
There are two basic types of channels of
distribution in the place strategy—direct
and indirect.
Key Term
A direct channel moves a product from
producer to customer with no other
businesses involved.
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The Place Strategy
An indirect channel of
distribution employs
intermediaries.
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Key Term
intermediaries people
or businesses that move
products between
producers and final users,
including wholesalers,
retailers, distributors, and
agents
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Channels of Distribution
Direct
Producer
Consumer
Indirect
Producer
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Intermediary
Consumer
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The People Strategy
The people strategy involves assembling,
preparing, and maintaining the people who will
help the business achieve success.
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The Price Strategy
The price strategy is a financial decision and
a marketing strategy that affects the customer’s
motivation to buy.
Costs & Expenses
Fixed costs and
expenses (expenses that
are not subject to change
depending on the number of
units sold), such as rent,
utilities, and insurance
premiums, affect
price.
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costs and
expenses
technological
trends
supply and
demand
Factors
Affecting
$ Price $
government
regulations
consumer
perceptions
competition
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Government Regulations
Key Terms
price gouging
an illegal practice
in which competing
companies agree,
formally or informally, to
restrict prices within a
specified range
price fixing pricing
above the market when
no other retailer is
available
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costs and
expenses
technological
trends
supply and
demand
Factors
Affecting
$ Price $
government
regulations
consumer
perceptions
competition
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The Promotion Strategy
The promotion strategy
is designed to tell
potential customers
about a business’s
products and their
characteristics, benefits,
and availability.
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The Promotion Strategy
Promotional
Mix
?
Product
?
Promotion
?
Price
?
Place
?
People
The Marketing Mix
sales
promotion
A promotional mix is
the combination of different
promotional elements that
a company uses to reach
and influence potential
customers.
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Marketing Tactics
To apply marketing
strategies, entrepreneurs
employ marketing tactics.
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marketing tactics
activities that are taken to
carry out a marketing plan
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Section Review
1.What is a marketing objective and what is it’s
purpose?
2.Describe the five strategies of the marketing mix.
3.What is a product mix? Give an example.
4.What is a promotional mix? questions might be
asked when making product strategy decisions?
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