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Assignment Details

This assignment builds upon your work in Units 1, 2, 3, and 4.

You have compiled all of the data for the board of directors and the chief marketing officer (CMO), and they have asked that you report it to the shareholders as a marketing plan. Your marketing plan will outline where the business is, its desired destination (objectives), and the conditions it will face in its efforts to reach that destination. The plan helps to integrate activities, schedule resources, specify responsibilities, and provide the means for measuring progress. Understanding the market situation reveals a set of key issues that needs to be addressed to reach the desired destination. Situation analysis and identification of key performance issues are critical inputs to the marketing plan. To construct a realistic plan, managers need to estimate what the total market demand might be (Hollensen, 2019).

You are to create a marketing plan of your chosen company that enhances organizational efficiency and effectiveness through the application of ACBSP key business domains of accounting, finance, statistics, economics that outlines where the business is, its desired destination (objectives), and conditions it will face in efforts to reach that destination, how to integrate activities, schedule resources, specify responsibilities, and provide a means of measuring progress.

Using the research you have from the discussions and assignments in Units 1, 2, 3, and 4 and six outside sources, create your marketing plan with the following framework:

• Title
• Executive summary
  • Purpose of the report
  • The problem it is addressing
  • Problem analysis
  • Results of analysis
  • Recommendations
• Introduction
  • Your key business objectives
  • Your strategy for achieving those objectives
• Situational analysis
  • Target market
  • Competitors
  • Business challenges
  • The company’s competitive differentiators
• Marketing objectives and goals
  • Increase brand awareness
  • Increase market share
  • Improve ROI (return on investment)
  • Attract new customers
  • Retain current customers
• Marketing strategies and programs
  • Target audience
  • Segmentation
  • PEST analysis
  • SWOT analysis
  • Completive analysis
• Budgets
  • Content marketing
  • Paid advertising
  • Public relations (PR). search engine optimization (SEO), and influencer marketing
  • Relationship management, business-to-business (B2B), and business-to-consumer (B2C)
  • Events
• Implementation and control
  • Identify the goal for each segment
  • Strategy to achieve the goal
• Conclusion

As you progress through this assignment, keep in mind that marketing management includes strategy as a process and a way of approaching decision-making about essential marketing opportunities and challenges. The quality of your research will reflect in the quality of your marketing plan.

Deliverable Requirements

Your company’s marketing plan will be at least 25 pages (5 pages/unit = 25 total) as an accumulation of all the pages from previous units. Your marketing plan must in APA formatting while using your textbook as a source and six other outside sources, for a total of seven.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

• Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
• Length: 25 pages minimum
• Body: This begins on the page following the title page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 25 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
• Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

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