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Planning and Implementing Marketing

Objectives

• Outline the planning process of creating a marketing plan
• Explain the important considerations in implementing a marketing plan

Discussion Overview

This discussion forum explores the important considerations when developing a marketing plan.

Deliverables

Your participation in the discussion forum including:

• Step 1 An initial post in response to question(s) by the due date
• Step 2 Responses to at least two other students’ posts by the until date

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Post your answers to the discussion board.

• Scenario 1: Imagine that you are the newly appointed Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Big Established Company Inc. (BEC). BEC has been around for more than 50 years and has many well-known brands, the majority of which command large market shares. Your first task is to develop a marketing plan. What kinds of things will you consider? How would the types of products or services affect your answers? How might your approach differ from what would be proposed in Scenario 2? 

• Scenario 2: Now imagine that you have been appointed the CMO at Small New Start-Up Company, Inc (SNSU). SNSU is a new company which hopes to challenge the entrenched players. Again, your first task is to develop a marketing plan. What kinds of things will you consider? How would the types of products or services affect your answers? How might your approach differ from what would be proposed in Scenario 1? 

HINTS:

• Be sure to address the strategic, functional, and operational aspects of a marketing plan.
• The brief scenarios have been left purposefully vague; feel free to add in further creative details about the types of products BEC or SNSU produces or other aspects of the company (as long as in doing so it helps market planning).