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Your Business Marketing Plan
The 4 Critical Success Factors
There are four critical success factors to be taken into account when developing a business marketing plan.
First, you need to assess your desired outcome. What is your business objective, what are the milestones by which you’ll determine the marketing to have been effective, or not effective? By clearly defining, up front, what you want marketing to do for you, you are in a better position to manage the business marketing planning implementation to ensure things stay on track.
Second, you need to determine the macro environment within which you’re trading. Is there anything happening that could affect you, but over which you have no control. For example is there a strong chance that a change in legislation could significantly impact your ability to run your business effectively. Look at all the macro issues to ensure nothing catches you side on and capsizes your intentions.
Third, clearly define who your target market is. A lot of business marketing plans define “everyone” as the target market. But this is clearly not the case, it’s just lazy strategy development. Challenge yourself, and your team, to describe the type of people that have problems you can provide the solution to. What is the problem, who are the people, where do they live, what do they read etc. Drill it down until you can get right into the minds and hearts of the type of people that will form your primary target market. Clear focus here will ensure the rest of your marketing plan will be effective. Lack of focus here will deliver a business marketing plan that is wishy-washy, unstructured and ineffective.
Last, look at what you want to tell those people about you that will make them sit up and take note. For example what are the benefits of your products/services in assisting your target market to solve their problem? People only buy products and services because they have a need (real or perceived) that needs satisfying. Your job in developing a business marketing plan is to determine what that need is and then work with your organization to deliver the solution to the need profitably!
Author: Dianne Perrett
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There are four critical success factors to be taken into account when developing a business marketing plan. First, you need to assess your desired outcome. What is your business objective.
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