Developing A Sample Marketing Plan

By Tammie Caldwell


All businesses are started with one common objective which is always to make profit to the owner or owners of the firm. In order for a business to do this it has to ensure that their sales is enough to generate revenue to enable them to stay in business. There are many ways through which the business can booster their sales which includes lowering prices of their products, discounts and also providing high quality products. However, how a business markets its goods will have a great impact on their sales. This is because sometimes a business might have a good pricing policy and also good quality products but still fail. This is because of how they present their goods to the final market which is why we should look at a sample marketing plan.

Target group is an important consideration to take when you are generating the plan. This is because you need to know how the population you intend to provide your good or service is composed of in terms of age, sex and also tastes and preferences. This will ensure that whatever the good or service you are offering meets its intended demand and thus avoid any surplus or shortages.

Preparing a budget for the whole marketing process is also very important in ensuring that the undertakings of your business yields significant returns on the amount invested. Your budget should be designed in such a manner that it is flexible enough to incorporate all the changes that might occur in the future. This will be as a result of adjustment of strategies to ensure it conforms to current market situation.

Consider what effect your marketing activities have on your sale from time to time. This will inform you on whether the current plan is effective or not. Through this monitoring you will be able to adjust the proposal from time to time rather than sticking to a rigid one. This will ensure that your business is able to compete even with the changing tactics of marketing.

How your commodity will be distributed should also be outlined in your plan. You can decide whether the customer should buy from your website, through middlemen or your mobile shops. This will ensure that your product meets its intended gap in the market.

How you price the goods and service that you are producing will determine whether you will sell your commodity or not. This is because the price should be set in such a way that it takes care of the welfare of the customer. It should exceed the maximum willingness of the customer to pay for that particular good.

Marketing plans should be maintained on yearly basis. This will ensure monitoring is done at the end of each year to measure how successful it was. However, if you launch a new product or a service you consider going back to your original plan and make some adjustments that will point out the uniqueness of this product.

Every firm would want a reasonable return on its investment. However, this is not always the case as the firm does not operate in isolation from competition with other similar firms. Thus the firm needs to generate a strategy that will influence the customers into buying from them and not from the other firms. This is where the marketing plan offers you the edge.




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