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Involves conducting research and
establishing goals and objectives that
will maximize the effectiveness and
success of your overall marketing
strategy.
Strategic
Marketing Process
A marketing strategy is a plan where a
company or firm implements
promotional tactics with the aim to win
prospective customers over to become
customers. Some examples of
marketing strategies include promoting
brand awareness
A marketing
strategy
MISSION
IDENTIFICATION
SITUATION ANALYSIS
POBJECTIVE
SETTING
STEPS OF STRATEGIC MAKETING
PROCESS
Step 1 Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
MARKETING
STRATEGY
DEVELOPMENT
Step 5
STRATEGY
EVALUATION AND
CONTROL
The marketing process is the series of steps businesses
follow to promote their products or services to potential
customers. It involves identifying the target audience,
creating a marketing strategy, implementing the plan,
and capturing customer value.
MARKETING PROCESS OCCUR
Before we begin developing a marketing process, it is
essential to identify and define the mission statement of
your company. It explains the purpose of your business
and how it helps your target customers. Here, you also
mention your company's value proportions, goals, and
objectives.
State the Mission of Your Company
MISSION
IDENTIFICATION
Situational analysis is a process of examining a company
and its competitors on the basis of size and share of the
market, sales history including costs and profits, the use
of advertising, the nature and types of customers and
more.
Situation Analysis
Market share is the percent of total sales in an industry
generated by a particular company. Market share is
calculated by taking the company's sales over the period
and dividing it by the total sales of the industry over the
same period.
Situation Analysis
Q: How to set marketing objectives? A: Marketing
objectives should be S.M.A.R.T., meaning they are
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-
Bound. Setting goals that meet these requirements will
help ensure that you are successful and that you fully
understand your audience and market positioning..
OJECTIVE SETTING
Market development is a growth strategy that involves
selling your existing products or services to a new group
of customers. It begins with market research where you:
carry out a segmentation analysis of your existing
market. shortlist those market segments which you feel
you should pursue.
MARKETING STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
A segmentation strategy is a marketing concept that
refers to a company's plan for identifying each section of
its target market. Businesses develop a segmentation
strategy to appropriately categorize their customers and
choose the best niches for their products and
advertising.Feb 3, 2023
MARKETING STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
1. COST LEADERSHIP
2. DIFFRERENTIATION
3. FOCUSED
MARKETING STRATEGY BROADLY
CLASSIFIED:
1. COST LEADERSHIP- The cost leadership strategy is a
business model that focuses on reducing the cost of
production and offering the lowest priced products to
outperform competitors and gain market share.
MARKETING STRATEGY BROADLY
CLASSIFIED:
DIFFERENTIATION- A differentiation strategy is an
approach to make your business unique and distinct from
the rest, in order to stand out from the noise and give
people a reason to choose you over others.
MARKETING STRATEGY BROADLY
CLASSIFIED:
FOCUSED- effort are concentrated on a relatively small
but profitable market. The development of products and
services primarily ensures that the needs and wants of
this market are addressed and that satisfaction is
provided.
MARKETING STRATEGY BROADLY
CLASSIFIED:
Forward integration is a business strategy
that involves expanding a company's
activities to include the direct distribution of
its products.
A good example of forward integration
would be a farmer who directly sells his
crops at a local grocery store rather than to a
distribution center that controls the
placement of foodstuffs to various
supermarkets.
Forward integration-businesses acquire or
merge with raw materials inventory or parts
suppliers in their supply chain. The
companies then own and produce these
earlier-stage inputs vs. buy them from
outside companies in the supply chain.
An example of backward integration might
be a bakery that purchases a wheat
processor or a wheat farm. In this scenario,
a retail supplier is purchasing one of its
manufacturers, therefore cutting out the
intermediary, and hindering competition.

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Strategic Marketing Process definitionpdf

  • 1. Involves conducting research and establishing goals and objectives that will maximize the effectiveness and success of your overall marketing strategy. Strategic Marketing Process
  • 2. A marketing strategy is a plan where a company or firm implements promotional tactics with the aim to win prospective customers over to become customers. Some examples of marketing strategies include promoting brand awareness A marketing strategy
  • 3. MISSION IDENTIFICATION SITUATION ANALYSIS POBJECTIVE SETTING STEPS OF STRATEGIC MAKETING PROCESS Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 MARKETING STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT Step 5 STRATEGY EVALUATION AND CONTROL
  • 4. The marketing process is the series of steps businesses follow to promote their products or services to potential customers. It involves identifying the target audience, creating a marketing strategy, implementing the plan, and capturing customer value. MARKETING PROCESS OCCUR
  • 5. Before we begin developing a marketing process, it is essential to identify and define the mission statement of your company. It explains the purpose of your business and how it helps your target customers. Here, you also mention your company's value proportions, goals, and objectives. State the Mission of Your Company MISSION IDENTIFICATION
  • 6. Situational analysis is a process of examining a company and its competitors on the basis of size and share of the market, sales history including costs and profits, the use of advertising, the nature and types of customers and more. Situation Analysis
  • 7. Market share is the percent of total sales in an industry generated by a particular company. Market share is calculated by taking the company's sales over the period and dividing it by the total sales of the industry over the same period. Situation Analysis
  • 8. Q: How to set marketing objectives? A: Marketing objectives should be S.M.A.R.T., meaning they are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time- Bound. Setting goals that meet these requirements will help ensure that you are successful and that you fully understand your audience and market positioning.. OJECTIVE SETTING
  • 9. Market development is a growth strategy that involves selling your existing products or services to a new group of customers. It begins with market research where you: carry out a segmentation analysis of your existing market. shortlist those market segments which you feel you should pursue. MARKETING STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
  • 10. A segmentation strategy is a marketing concept that refers to a company's plan for identifying each section of its target market. Businesses develop a segmentation strategy to appropriately categorize their customers and choose the best niches for their products and advertising.Feb 3, 2023 MARKETING STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
  • 11. 1. COST LEADERSHIP 2. DIFFRERENTIATION 3. FOCUSED MARKETING STRATEGY BROADLY CLASSIFIED:
  • 12. 1. COST LEADERSHIP- The cost leadership strategy is a business model that focuses on reducing the cost of production and offering the lowest priced products to outperform competitors and gain market share. MARKETING STRATEGY BROADLY CLASSIFIED:
  • 13. DIFFERENTIATION- A differentiation strategy is an approach to make your business unique and distinct from the rest, in order to stand out from the noise and give people a reason to choose you over others. MARKETING STRATEGY BROADLY CLASSIFIED:
  • 14. FOCUSED- effort are concentrated on a relatively small but profitable market. The development of products and services primarily ensures that the needs and wants of this market are addressed and that satisfaction is provided. MARKETING STRATEGY BROADLY CLASSIFIED:
  • 15. Forward integration is a business strategy that involves expanding a company's activities to include the direct distribution of its products.
  • 16. A good example of forward integration would be a farmer who directly sells his crops at a local grocery store rather than to a distribution center that controls the placement of foodstuffs to various supermarkets.
  • 17. Forward integration-businesses acquire or merge with raw materials inventory or parts suppliers in their supply chain. The companies then own and produce these earlier-stage inputs vs. buy them from outside companies in the supply chain.
  • 18. An example of backward integration might be a bakery that purchases a wheat processor or a wheat farm. In this scenario, a retail supplier is purchasing one of its manufacturers, therefore cutting out the intermediary, and hindering competition.