BILLY ONG
Strategic Marketing Planning
A 3-Day Programme

 
Programme Outline
 
› Introduction
  • The importance of strategic planning today
  • The difference between strategic and tactics
  • The marketing plan and its function
 
› What Are We Now
  • Business definition
  • Management audit
  • Current strategy
  • Solving existing problems
  • Internal analysis: Strengths & Weaknesses
  • External analysis: Opportunities & Treats
  • The SWOT summary
  • Who are your customers?
  • Project or Bid analysis
  • Listing of your competitors
  • Competitors informations
  • Comparing yourself to the competitors
  • A quick comparison on your facilities/services against your competitors
  • Competitive continuum
  • Competitor analysis summary
  • Promotion audit
  • Are you promoting right?
  • Price range guidelines
  • Product comparison
  • Product guidelines
 
› Where Do You Want To Be
  • Why do people buy (video supported)
  • Developing a mission statement
  • External analysis: Opportunities & Threats (revisited)
  • Identifying your most important strengths and weaknesses; and your most dangerous weaknesses and threats
  • Your personal goals (video supported)
  • Long term goals
  • Advertising/promotion goals
  • Building on your weaknesses; avoid the threats
  • Turning goals into objectives
  • Pricing objectives
  • Product/service – targeting the market
  • Expected revenue based on “Worst”, “Most Likely” and “ Best” scenarios
  • Competitive objectives
  • Preliminary marketing, sales, and profit goals
 
 
 
 
 
› Which Is The Best Way To Get There
  • Good management scorecard
  • Identifying the problems faced by you and how do you intend to rectify them
  • Market segmentation criteria
  • Market segment analysis
  • Market segmentation worksheet
  • Customer/prospect summary form
  • Promotion Smorgasbord
  • Promotion summary
  • Price setting
  • Product application
  • Relating your product/service to its benefits and the intended market segment
  • The O & P Analysis (Overhead and Profits)
  • New product/service objectives
  • Summary of product/service goals
  • Business goal summary
 
› Putting Details Into The Plan
  • Marketing Action Plan
  • Marketing Action Timetable
  • Drafting out the marketing plan