This document discusses marketing planning and the PESTLE analysis tool. It identifies the 5 stages of marketing planning as: 1) audit of the environment, 2) SWOT analysis, 3) marketing audit, and 4) marketing assumptions. The document then explains the PESTLE factors - political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental - and how companies can use PESTLE analysis to evaluate how these macroenvironmental factors may impact their marketing and business. Learners are asked to provide definitions and examples of the PESTLE factors, and to consider how changes in these factors could impact a chosen business's marketing mix of product, price, place, and promotion.