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MODULE 3
LESSON 3
ACTIVITY
Create a marketing plan driven by social media tools for a social enterprise of their
choice. Within the plan, you should decide what social media platform should be
used, what content will be shared and how to convey your message and product
proposition to your target market on the organization’s products and services.
MARKETING PLAN
Cigarette Butts stuff toy Co.
CONTENT
1. Purpose and Mission
2. Summary of Current Situation
3. Marketing Strategy
4. Budgeting Performance Analysis and Implementation
5. Conclusion
Purpose and Mission
We care about the environment by turning garbage into products which could
be use in income generation. We want to create stuff toys out of cigarette
butts which are discarded materials from local stores public garbage facilities.
We can disseminate this information by using the social media platform.
We also want people to practice proper segregation of waste.
Summary of Current Situation
Strengths – we have learned that cigarette butts is made of foam which can
be use as stuff toys components to make it more fluffy and soft, and will
undergo cleaning and drying process.
Weaknesses – training of workers may take some time. We don’t have
experience in this field (stuff toy making). Limited knowledge and capital.
Opportunities – less competitors. People care about the environment. Most
social media platform is free for marketing.
Threats – new industry. Others may imitate the ideas and start an
organization same as ours.
Marketing Strategy
Objectives:
Increase Brand Awareness
Drive Sales
Help the environment
Create Community around the Brand
Promotion
Resources: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,
Audience: 15 years old and above. Usually hangout on social media such as
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Create a social media manager team
This people will have a calendar ready for the events or promotional
campaign about the brand.
A Page Optimization Checklist:
Optimizing Headers and Profile Images
Provide Complete Company Information
Add a Facebook Page
Pin the Best Content or Limited-Time Promotions to Top
Boosting Social Media Following
People are more likely to Like something which has been Liked before.
This is why customer testimonials, good reviews, and influencer
recommendations really work. Audiences don't trust the brand unless
someone has before them.
Referral Promotion
Referral promotions work through incentivized sharing. Entrants share the
contest with their friends, colleagues and family. Whoever gets the most
people in their network to enter the contest wins the final prize, (e-money
transfer using GCASH or PAYMAYA and stuff toys) and everybody else gets
a discount code incentive for entering.
Posting
The less people want to be at work, the more they are on social media. It is
very accessible to audience when posting the products online. However, stick
with the 80:20 rule - 80% educational, entertaining, fun content and 20%
promotional.
Also, the information and contacts are included.
This will call the attention of customers and buy the product. Therefore, there
will be a sales drive happen.
Moreover, volunteers may find it very interesting to join the campaign
especially when it comes to helping the environment and the society, as well.
2. In your own opinion, which among the most common social media platforms
(Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogs, Instagram, LinkedIn) is the most successful tool
in promoting your social enterprise? Cite an illustrative example to support your
answer.
In my perspective, Facebook is the most successful tool to promote my social
enterprise since this site is very accessible to the market. According to the
study of wishpond.com, it is the most popular social media platform and it
boasts 1.79 billion worldwide users.
For me, linking this tool in my social enterprise is very convenient.
To cite an example why this is convenient to use is that, you can create a
page on this platform freely without hassle and post your products and
services right away. Also, there is a button about MARKETPLACE which is
intended only for selling so that your posts will not be mixed up. Once you
post products or services along with its price, there is an automatic button
appear which emphasize that you are selling something.
APPLICATION
Alternative Nest and Trading/ Training Hub for Indigenous/ Ingenious Little
Livelihood (ANTHILL) seekers is a social and cultural enterprise working on elevating
Filipino culture through contemporary and circular design. It supports cultural
preservation and sustainable livelihood through community enterprise building
among its partner artisan communities. Please see sample of their product offering
below.
Instruction - Based on what you had learned in this lesson, formulate a marketing
strategy utilizing various social media platforms that will further promote the product
offering of ANTHILL among its target customers:
In this matter, I will be using a RACE (Reach, Act, Convert, Engage)
MARKETING STRATEGY
REACH
- ANTHILL may create content to publish and promote in social media,
engage in other influencers, and allow sharing to other outposts. For
example, posting the products online and how this possibly created and
the benefits of making this kind of product to the organization and the
people around them. It is very important to note when posting the
products, it should create a buzz so that unique visitors, fans, and
followers will be persuaded to buy it. Also, remember to include the value
of it upon posting.
ACT
- ANTHILL is worth to find online. This is because the company creates
relevant content for the customer and audience that lead to their decision
making. If they find the product of ANTHILL good enough for them, then it
is easy for them to decide next. This include allowing comments and
shares of the post and tagging people on it. Also, ANTHILL include
purchase button to the post that directs to the uploader or post manager,
so that customers who want to buy the item can directly send its message
to the management.
CONVERT
- Now is the time to cater the purchase of the customers. Also, price of the
items is stated clearly to avoid confusion. This stage includes income
generation through sales.
ENGAGE
- Once ANTHILL formally made an entrance to the virtual world, and some
customers already purchased the products, there are feedbacks and
comments about it. Also, ANTHILL has a satisfaction survey sheet online
to know how satisfied or dissatisfied the customers are. The real work of
marketing started here. Some customers may refer the products to their
relatives and friends. The referral and promotion continues and the
advocacy of the company continue to implement.