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2) Market Projection
2) Market Projection
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Small businesses should evaluate the current business of the company, the remaining
business should be quantified, and then sales strategies should be exercised.
how many units the customer buys Because every market is different, every
in a given time is identified. Then market share projection will involve
that information is used to quantify different approaches and different
your current business and circumstances. However, the basic
determine the remaining business.
approach is to determine how much new
business (units) the company can steal
how is this done? from its competition
1. Explore: You need to explore the current trends of the industry, the future
expectations, government involvement, major changes, technological
advancement etc. Thus you need to first explore your surroundings to be
sure of the background of the marketing plan.
2. Analyse your customers: Instead of asking questions to others, ask
questions to your own customers and you will get the best answers and the
best advice possible. In fact, not listening to your customers is a sure shot
way to achieve Marketing failure.
3. Analyze your competitor: who are your competitors and what are you doing
to attract customers? At the same time, you need to know which
characteristics among those advertised by competitors are the most
prominent in the minds of customers. It is necessary to know your
customers and your competitors, as well as the market scenario.
4. Analyze yourself: At this stage you need to decide what is your budget, how
many man hours can you dedicate to this campaign, if you have the
capacity to go ATL or not or if there is a need for price promotions. Thus
your overall strategy will depend on where you stand in the market.
5. Prepare your marketing plan: You need to scale down the entire marketing
plan and the best step over here is to hire a marketing consultant / ad
agency as required. At this stage, you decide your long term as well as short
term strategy.
6. Implement: You are ready to implement the plan. However, don’t forget the
contingency plan. Contingency plans are used when your strategy is not
well received in the market. The top brands always have a contingency plan
prepared.
7. Follow up: You have now implemented the marketing plan. But what is the
reaction of your customers? Are they satisfied with it, or was it a
disappointment to them? Once you have the customer feedback, you can
improvise in your future plan.
8. Explore other opportunities: Your customers do not expect the same
things again and again from you. On the contrary the more varied you keep
it, the better is the response from customers.
These 8 steps are very important when implementing your marketing plan. These
steps are applied in different priority depending on their size. A higher mark can
skip the passage of competition and go to the step of retaining customers
otherwise a lower mark must analyze very carefully each step for the marketing
plan to be successful.The key to the success of marketing depends on good
planning, information and implementation