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Strategic
Marketing
Planning
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Companywide Strategic Planning:
Defining Marketing’s Role
Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is the process
of developing and
maintaining a strategic fit
between the organization’s
goals and capabilities and its
changing marketing
opportunities.
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Steps in Strategic Planning
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Defining a Market-Oriented Mission
Mission statement: The organization’s purpose, what
it wants to accomplish in the larger environment
Market-oriented mission statement: Defines the
business in terms of satisfying basic customer
needs
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Companywide Strategic Planning:
Defining Marketing’s Role
Setting Company Objectives and Goals
• Business objectives
• Marketing objectives
Companywide Strategic Planning:
Defining Marketing’s Role
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Designing the Business Portfolio
The business portfolio is the collection of businesses
and products that make up the company.
Companywide Strategic Planning:
Defining Marketing’s Role
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Analyzing the Current Business Portfolio
Analyzing the current business portfolio is the process
by which management evaluates the products and
businesses making up the company.
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Companywide Strategic Planning:
Defining Marketing’s Role
Developing Strategies for Growth and Downsizing
The product/market expansion grid is a tool for
identifying company growth opportunities through
market penetration, market development, product
development, or diversification.
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Companywide Strategic Planning:
Defining Marketing’s Role
Developing Strategies for Growth and
Downsizing
• Product/market expansion grid strategies
• Market penetration
• Market development
• Product development
• Diversification
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Companywide Strategic Planning:
Defining Marketing’s Role
The Product/Market Expansion Grid
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Developing Strategies for Growth and Downsizing
Market penetration is a growth strategy increasing sales to
current market segments without changing the product.
Market development is a growth strategy that identifies and
develops new market segments for current products.
Companywide Strategic Planning:
Defining Marketing’s Role
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Developing Strategies for Growth and Downsizing
Product development is a growth strategy that offers new or
modified products to existing market segments.
Diversification is a growth strategy through starting up or
acquiring businesses outside the company’s current
products and markets.
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Companywide Strategic Planning:
Defining Marketing’s Role
Developing Strategies for Growth and Downsizing
Downsizing is the reduction of the business portfolio by
eliminating products or business units that are not
profitable or that no longer fit the company’s overall
strategy.
Companywide Strategic Planning:
Defining Marketing’s Role
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Marketing Strategy
A marketing strategy is the marketing logic by which
the business unit hopes to achieve its marketing
objectives.
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Marketing Strategy and
the Marketing Mix
Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy
Market segmentation is the division of a market into
distinct groups of buyers who have distinct needs,
characteristics, or behavior and who might require
separate products or marketing mixes.
Marketing Strategy and
the Marketing Mix
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Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy
A market segment is a group of consumers who
respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing
efforts.
Target marketing is the process of evaluating each
market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one
or more segments to enter.
Marketing Strategy and
the Marketing Mix
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Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy
Market positioning is the arranging for a product to
occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place
relative to competing products in the minds of the
target consumer.
Marketing Strategy and
the Marketing Mix
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Developing an Integrated Marketing Mix
The marketing mix is the set of controllable tactical marketing
tools—product, price, place, and promotion—that the firm
blends to produce the response it wants in the target
market.
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Marketing Strategy and
the Marketing Mix
Developing an Integrated Marketing Mix
The four Ps
• Product
• Price
• Place
• Promotion
Marketing Strategy and
the Marketing Mix
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Developing an Integrated Marketing Mix
The four Ps
Product is the goods and services in combination that the
company offers to the target market.
Price is the amount of money customers have to pay to obtain
the product.
Marketing Strategy and
the Marketing Mix
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Developing an Integrated Marketing Mix
The four Ps
Place is the company activities that make the product available
to target customers.
Promotion is the activities that communicate the merits of the
product and persuade target customers to buy it.
Marketing Strategy and
the Marketing Mix
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Marketing Strategy and
the Marketing Mix
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The 4 Ps versus The 4 Cs
Product Customer solution
Price Customer cost
Place Convenience
Promotion Communication
Managing the marketing effort requires:
• Analysis, Planning, Implementing and Controlling
Managing the Marketing Effort
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Marketing Analysis
Marketing analysis is the complete analysis of the company’s
situation in a SWOT analysis that evaluates the company’s:
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Opportunities
• Threats
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Managing the Marketing
Effort
Marketing Analysis
• Strengths include internal capabilities, resources, and
positive situational factors that may help to serve company
customers and achieve company objectives.
• Weaknesses include internal limitations and negative
situational factors that may interfere with company
performance.
• Opportunities are favorable factors or trends in the
external environment that the company may be able to
exploit to its advantage.
• Threats are unfavorable factors or trends that
may present challenges to performance.
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Managing the Marketing
Effort
Example of a SWOT Analysis
Market Planning
Planning is the development of strategic and marketing plans to
achieve company objectives.
Marketing strategy consists of the specific strategies for target
markets, positioning, the marketing mix, and marketing
expenditure levels.
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Managing the Marketing
Effort
Market Planning
Sections of a marketing plan include:
• Executive summary
• Current marketing situation
• Threats and opportunities
• Objective and issues
• Action programs
• Budgets
• Controls
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Managing the Marketing
Effort
Marketing Implementation
• Implementing is the process that turns marketing plans into
marketing actions to accomplish strategic marketing
objectives.
• Successful implementation depends on how well the
company blends its people, organizational structure,
decision and reward system, and company culture into a
cohesive action plan that supports its strategies.
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Managing the Marketing Effort
Marketing Department Organization
• Functional
• Geographic
• Product
• Market or customer management
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Managing the Marketing
Effort
Marketing Department Organization
• Functional organization: This is the most common
form of marketing organization with different marketing
functions headed by a functional specialist.
• Marketing Manager
• Sales manager
• Market research manager
• Customer service manager
• New product manager
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Managing the Marketing
Effort
Marketing Department Organization
Geographic organization:
• Useful for companies that sell across the country or
internationally.
• Managers are responsible for developing strategies and
plans for a specific region.
Product management:
• Useful for companies with different products or brands.
• Managers are responsible for developing strategies and
plans for a specific product or band.
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Managing the Marketing
Effort
Marketing Department Organization
Market or customer management organization:
• Useful for companies with one product line sold to many
different markets and customers.
• Managers are responsible for developing strategies and
plans for their specific markets or customers.
Customer management involves a customer focus and not a
product focus for managing customer profitability and
customer equity.
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Managing the Marketing
Effort
Marketing Control
• Controlling is measuring and evaluating results and taking
corrective action as needed.
• Operating control
• Strategic control
• Operating control involves checking ongoing performance
against annual plan and taking corrective action as needed.
• Strategic control involves looking at whether the company’s
basic strategies are well matched to its opportunities.
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Managing the Marketing Effort
Return on Marketing Investment (ROI)
Return on marketing investment (ROI) is the net return
from a marketing investment divided by the costs of
the marketing investment. Marketing ROI provides a
measurement of the profits generated by
investments in marketing activities.
Measuring and Managing Return on
Marketing Investment
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Customer-Centered Measures
• Customer acquisition
• Customer retention
• Customer lifetime value
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Measuring and Managing Return on
Marketing Investment
Return on Marketing
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