There are hundreds of ways to market your business. Which silver bullet should you use?
At the heart of a successful business is an understanding of who your customers are, what they want, how they buy, where they are, and if there are enough of them to warrant you even being in business in the first place. Successful businesses also need to have, or be able to build, the core capability to provide what your customers really want, at a profit, and be ready to execute focused and targeted promotions and communications programs to attract and engage potential buyers.
Dee Davey, from Creative Ideas Marketing will talk about some of the questions you should be asking within your business about your business’ competencies, customer needs, and market opportunity in order to begin to shape a marketing roadmap that will meet the financial goals of your business, provide focus and direction for growth.
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1. Creative IDeas Marketing
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Which Silver Bullet?
(Strategic Market Planning)
Dee Davey l Creative Ideas Marketing
www.creativeideasmarketing.com
dee.davey@creativeideasmarketing.com
Creative IDeas Marketing
January 6, 2010
Interim Marketing and Service Product Management
2. Which Silver Bullet
• Blogging
• Twitter
• Trade Shows
• Mobile Marketing
• Newsletters
• Public Relations
• Sales Calls
• Internet Marketing
• Branding
• Ethnic Marketing
• User Experiences
• Messaging
• Website Best Practices
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3. Which Silver Bullet
Guarantees Public
Articles Print Ads
Radio Relations
Private Case Affiliate
Label Studies Marketing Briefings
Newsletters Media
Press Editorial
Talk Shows Releases
Forums Blogging White Seminars
Webinars Papers
Welcome Joint
Packs Ventures Web &
Trade
Biz Cards Email
Shows Direct Mail
Phone
Tele-
Awards marketing Direct
Email
Teleconferencing
Sponsorship Corporate
Feedback Advertising
Hospitality
Forms Endorsements
Videos
Social Point of
Networking Sale
Testimonials Internet
TV
Analyst/ Media Marketing
SEO Relations
Postcards Freebies
Discussion
Groups eCommerce
Webcasts
Banners Community
Public
Relations
Speaking Podcasts
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5. Strategic Market Planning
• What • Existing
• Why Businesses
• How • Entrepreneurs
• Individuals
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6. Strategic Market Planning - What
Understanding
• Who Your Customers Are
• What They Want
• & Why
Matching
• What You Are Really Good At Doing
• With What Your Customers Really Want
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7. End Result - Plan
Roadmap
• Business
• Non Profit
• Individual
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8. Strategic Market Planning - What
Strategic Market Planning • Where are we now?
Situation Analysis
• How did we get there?
Where is the Company Now?
• Where are we
Setting Marketing Objectives
heading?
Where Does Management Want the
Company to Go?
• Where would we like
to be?
Marketing Strategy • How do we get there?
What Should Be Done in Order to
Achieve the Objectives?
• Are we on course?
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9. Strategic Market Planning - What
Strategic Market Planning
Hard Questions /
Situation Analysis What:
Where is the Company Now?
• Business
Setting Marketing Objectives
Where Does Management Want the
• Capabilities
Company to Go?
• Markets
Marketing Strategy
• Customers / $
What Should Be Done in Order to
Achieve the Objectives?
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10. Strategic Market Planning - Why
• Focus / Direction –
Marketing Effort
Business Objectives
• Minimize Waste
Maximize ROI
• Time
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12. Strategic Market Planning - Why
• Corporate Identity
• Brand
• Quality Standards
• Communication Tool
• Integrated Marketing
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13. Key Elements in Strategic Market Planning
Key Elements
• Core Competencies
• Customers / How to Get to Them (Channel)
• Market
• Environment
• Competition
• Marketing Mix
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14. Key Elements – Competencies
Core Competencies
• Provides Customer Benefits
• Hard for Competitors to Imitate
• Can be Leveraged - Many Products / Markets
Niche
Business Core Competency / Match to Customer Need
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15. Key Elements – Customers
• Customer Demand
• Customer Drivers
• Customer Buying Behaviors
• Wants / Needs
• Benefits
Know Your Customer / Needs / How to Reach Them
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16. Key Elements – Market
• Market Size, Growth
• Buyer / Seller Landscape
• Changes / Shifts
• Is There A Market for My Product / Service
Know Where the Opportunity Is
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17. Key Elements – Market
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18. Key Elements – Market
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19. Key Elements – Environment
• Trends • Factors driving
• Sociological customer need
• Technological • Now
• Economical • Future
• Political / Legal /
Regulatory
Anticipate Change / Plan to Flex
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20. Key Elements – Competition
• Who Are They?
• What Do They Offer / How?
• What Are Their Strengths/Weaknesses?
• Markets Served / Not Served & Why?
• How Do You Compare?
• What Can You Learn?
• Future Competitors?
• Potential Partner?
Find Differentiators / Find Competitive Advantage
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21. Key Elements – Marketing Mix
7 not 4 Ps
• Product • People
• Price • Process
• Place • Physical Evidence
• Promotion
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22. Strategic Market Planning Steps
Internal Discovery
• What do we know?
• What don’t we know?
• Use Internal Knowledge
• Different Perspective
Understand Behaviour / Build Customer Profile /
Define Value Proposition
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23. Internal Questions
From Customer Eyes
• What is important?
• What do customers most value?
• What do customers say about us?
• How do our customers engage with us?
• How do they think we compare with our
competitors?
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24. Key Elements – Market Intelligence
• Acquire / Analyze Information
• Determine Current / Future Needs
• Understand Preferences, Attitudes, Behavior
• Assess Changes in Business Environment
• Use Knowledge of Experts
• Collectively Gathered Intelligence
• Learn from Others – Other Markets!
Informed Decision Making
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25. Strategic Market Planning - External
External Market Analysis
• Gather Information
• Trends and market drivers
• Industry vertical market penetration
• Industry purchasing behaviors
• Competitive Assessment
• Opportunities and threats
• Position your business within the context of competing
companies, methods, alternative sources of a business
offer
• Identify Niche Pockets of Opportunity
• Sociological, technological, environmental, economic,
environmental, legislative and political changes
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26. External Research
Traditional & New Media Social Networking
Primary Secondary
• Engage Directly • Indirect
with Customer Information
• Use Conversations
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28. Market Segmentation
• Which Market Segments
• Attractiveness of Each Segment
• Size, Growth Rate
• Competition
Ways of Segmenting
Demographics / Pain / Needs
Geography
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29. Research / Segmentation Process
Use Market Intelligence Select & Prioritize Potential Markets
⇓ ⇓
Which Markets Purchase? Build / Define Target Profile
⇓ (Purchaser/Buyer Profile)
Which Segments Have “Pain”? ⇓
⇓ Create Value Proposition For
Opportunity By Geo Constraints Selected Markets & Define
Specific Offer For Selected
⇓
Market
Areas Are Growing / Shrinking?
⇓
(Gov Statistics, SBTDC, MEDC Etc)
Go Test
⇓
⇓
Estimate Opportunity Size / Potential
Refine Strategy / Based On
Feedback
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30. Strategic Market Planning Steps
Validate Understanding
• Clarify Your Understanding
• Not an Island
• Customer Validation
• Iterative
• Building
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31. Strategic Market Planning Steps
• Marketing Objectives
• Outline the Strategy
• Segment Your Market
• 7 Ps
• Alliances / Partners
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32. Strategic Market Planning Steps
• Marketing Communications Plan
• Product Development Plan
• Sales Development Plan
• Customer Service Plan
• Operational
• Organizational
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33. Strategic Market Planning - Summary
Know / Understand Customer Needs
• Match Core Competencies to Customer Need
• Right Things - Right Customers - Right Reasons
• Ensure you can make $ (Market Big Enough?)
• Position Yourself so Customers will Buy
• Build Brand
• Build Messaging
• Build Product / Service Offerings
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34. Q&A
Dee Davey
Creative Ideas Marketing
www.creativeideasmarketing.com
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35. Biography
Dee Davey helps businesses become more successful by delivering
strategic market planning, service product development and business operations
improvement projects; primarily for companies who offer technology or business
services to their customers. Her interim marketing business, Creative Ideas
Marketing, started in 2004 in the UK, helps companies adapt and extend client
service offers, helps clients find new sources of revenue and brings ideas for
new service products to life. Creative Ideas Marketing helps businesses who
want to take the next step in marketing their business, but lack the resource or
time to pull it all together.
Dee has extensive marketing experience engaging with mid-sized to major multi-
national technology & service companies including AT&T/NCR, Siemens,
Vodafone, Hays DX, StairMaster and Nautilus. An international marketer
resident in England for 30 years, Dee has a unique ability to view and
understand global marketing issues from a different perspective. Relocated to
Michigan, Creative Ideas Marketing services clients primarily in technology,
telecommunication and health and fitness industry sectors. Dee achieved her
Professional Diploma in Management from the Open University, Open Business
School in 1991, and in the same year her Diploma in Marketing Management
from the United Kingdom’s most stringent professional marketing body, the
Chartered Institute of Marketing.
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