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STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES PLANNING
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PURPOSES OF THIS PRESENTATION
Purposes:
1. To gain a common set of principles and knowledge about the similarities and
differences between marketing and sales functions, and how they are
integrated with corporate strategy.
2. To provide a structure to design, build, implement, and sustain a Strategic
Marketing and Sales Plan.
3. To provide the tactics, tips, and techniques to successfully implement this
plan and keep it up to date year after year.
4. To discover the benefits of, and identify your positioning in, the marketplace
in order to focus your sales and marketing efforts.
5. To review the traditional and 21st Century aspects of the 4 Ps, including e-
commerce.
6. To understand different approaches to marketing and sales success.
7. To identify and examine all aspects of the major issues facing those of us in
sales and marketing.
8. To implement a complete toolkit of powerful and practical sales and marketing
strategies.
9. To achieve marketing and sales success.
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SALES AND MARKETING
RELATIONSHIP
Remember:
Marketing, sales and customer service (conception, delivery, and support)
are part of an integrated process for delivering customer value by creating
the best experience possible for the customer.
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UNARTICULATED NEEDS
Figure out what the customer needs but doesn't know they need
Example: Nobody (except Steve Jobs) knew they had a need for the iPad/tablet
Break a paradigm.
Anticipate the future.
Consider new applications for existing products and services.
Don't let the word "impossible" stifle creative thinking.
Make it simpler, faster, easier, and more complete.
What might be the next fad in every category you can think of?
Look at technology trends and anticipate social trends
Would a customer ask for a compact disc in the 1970s or ask for better
records?
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STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES PLAN
Each organization in this world (public and private), needs a "Strategic Marketing and
Sales Plan". It should be derived from the organization's overall Strategic Plan and used
as a primary source document , leading the effort to establish yearly/annual marketing
and sales strategies, action plans, and budgets.
A Strategic Marketing and Sales Plan is the most important
thing you can do to generate revenue, crystallize your thinking
about who you are, and build your brand.
Critical Issue
Before you implement any Marketing and Sales plan...
Be sure the organization can deliver what you sell.
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THE MARKETPLACE
The Market
Description of products and services
Size, trends, seasonality, region, distribution, pricing, geography, etc.
Broad environmental effects, changes in consumer behavior, technology
changes, the economy, government, etc.
The Competition
Sales and share trends
Strengths and weaknesses across marketing mix
Corporate philosophy/strategy
Stage in product life-cycle
Spending support
Potential entrants from your industry or others
Substitutes
1 OF 2
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WHAT IS MARKETING?
Marketing's fundamental function is not to influence the customer
to do what suits the interest of the firm, but rather to find an
effective and efficient means of making your business do what suits
the interests of customers.
Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception,
pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to
create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational
objectives.
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FOUR MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
IN
MARKETING!
The Next Three Questions:
The Current State
4. What business are we in now?
5. Who are our customers and competitors now?
6. What are customers buying now?
B
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PART II:
OVERVIEW
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STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES
PLANNING PROCESS:
Plan to Plan: First: 1 day - then begin the planning process
Environmental Scanning - Duration 1 day
Conduct Environmental Scan - agree on the future of the
marketplace/industry. Environmental Scanning is ongoing at every step,
and is done more formally each quarter throughout the year.
Create Your Own Marketplace Future Position - Duration: 2 days
Conduct Review of Corporate Strategic Plan.
Refine or develop your future vision of the marketplace, mission, values
and unique marketplace positioning and differentiation in draft form.
Develop Key Stakeholder Parallel Process/feedback.
Feedback Loop/Goals - Duration: 1 day
Develop measurable Key Success Measures (KSMs - long term strategic
goals): market share goals, product goals, positioning goals,
breadth/depth goals, business development goals,
marketplace/product/customer profitability goals.
E
Phase
B
Phase
A
Phase
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STANDARD STRATEGIC MARKETING
AND SALES PLANNING DOCUMENT
9. Key Success Measures (long-term Strategic Marketing and Sales
goals)— share goals, product goals, positioning goals,
breadth/depth goals, business development goals, and
marketplace/product/customer profitability goals.
B
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KEY ELEMENTS OF MARKETING PLANS
1. A company must be good at strategic and tactical marketing, as well as administrative
marketing and cyber marketing in today's marketplace, to be a winner.
2. The ability to prepare and execute high value marketing and sales plans with clear, well
defined strategies and actions plans is crucial. Targeted marketing plans are typically
developed within an overall strategic marketing plan for every:
brand
product category
new product
market segment
geographical market
valued customer
3. This varies depending on the size of the company, the breadth of the market, products,
and service. There should be both annual and longer term action plans for each
strategy. All of these plans should be synchronized, not written independently of each
other.
4. Marketing plans should be as simple and to the point as possible. They should include
the costs to carry out the plan and revenues generated by the plan, along with the
strategies and action plans.
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MARKETING PLAN TEST QUESTIONS:
1. Does the plan list some exciting new opportunities? Has it also
considered major threats?
2. Is the plan clear in defining target market segments?
3. Will the customers in each target market segment see our product
or service as superior?
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FIVE BASIC STEPS TO EFFECTIVE
MARKETING
Marketing Opportunity
An area of identified, articulated or unarticulated
buyer need or interest in which there is a high
probability that a company can perform profitably
by satisfying that need.
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GUIDELINES FOR STRATEGIC
MARKETING AND SALES PLANNING
10. Have Strategic Marketing and Sales Plans endorsed by the entire
Senior Management Team.
11. At the end, once the plan is finished, conduct a large group plan
review (one half-day meeting) with all management, supervisory
(from all departments), and sales and marketing personnel
involved in the Strategic Marketing and Sales Plan.
12. Set up a follow-up review, evaluation and assessment by the
marketing and sales planning team on a regular basis.
13. Continue strategic assistance and coaching for the Senior
Executive Team by the person with overall management
responsibility for the marketing and sales plan, and by a master
external facilitator/coach. This is essential because most
management team members are not marketing experts. Do not
get too far out in front of them.
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GETTING STARTED:
EDUCATE, ORGANIZE AND TAILOR"
Task #
1. Executive Briefing on business planning
2. Guidelines for planning set
3. Personal readiness/past experiences and effectiveness in strategic
marketing and sales planning
4. Barriers and issues resolved
5. 'Strategic Issues List' developed
6. Environmental Scanning conducted for marketing and sales
7. Marketing and Sales “Staff Support Team” needed
8. Marketing and Sales planning team membership selected
9. Identification of Key Stakeholders
10. Key Stakeholder involvement/communications
11. Marketing and Sales planning link (to budgets and corporate plan)
(YOUR PROCESS OF STRATEGIC MARKETING
AND SALES PLANNING)
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Two key Questions:
1. Who is on your Strategic Marketing and Sales Planning Team?
2. How to participate, and encourage the involvement of others who want
to provide input into these decisions, whose support, innovation, and
buy-in are important?
ORGANIZING AND PLAN-TO-PLAN
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STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES
PLANNING “STAFF SUPPORT TEAM”
Position/Functions Typical Tasks/
Expertise
Name
(List Staff Support Team
Names)
Question: Which of these staff support functions are
needed for successful Planning and Implementation?
1. Marketing
(various functions)
2. Sales
3. Services
4. Manufacturing/Oper-
ations/Engineering
• Strategic Marketing and Sales Plan
• Market Research
• Current State Assessment
• Budgeting
• Sales/Customer Input
• Front Line Current State
• Customer's Agent
• Implementation
• Service Issues
• Customer Input
• Follow-through
• Product Issues
• Delivery Support
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22 COMMON MISTAKES IN A STRATEGIC
MARKETING AND SALES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Which of these mistakes are you making? Score this H–M–L (H = yes, all/most
of the time; M = yes, at times we do; L = no, we don't make this mistake)
______ 12. Failing to define and implement the organization structure needed for success in an
accurate and meaningful way.
______ 13. Not setting concrete, clear annual plans.
______ 14. Neglecting to benchmark yourself against the competition and other best-in-class
organizations.
______ 15. Seeing the Strategic Marketing and Sales planning document as an end in itself.
______ 16. Having confusing terminology and language.
______ 17. Trying to facilitate the process yourself.
______ 18. Failing to have data-based discussions and decision making.
______ 19. Failing to monitor the environment as an ongoing process.
______ 20. Not getting resource commitments for implementation.
______ 21. Not "walking the talk"; lack of internal/external alignment.
______ 22. Seeing Marketing and Sales as departments instead of an organization-wide
endeavor.
Total # of H _______; M _______ ; L _______.
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GOAL #1: STRATEGIC MARKETING
AND SALES PLANNING
Develop a Strategic Marketing and Sales Plan
(Steps #2-7)
Plans are Nothing.
Planning is Everything.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A decision without an allocation of resources is not a
decision... A Marketing and Sales Plan without the
organizational buy-in, resources, and support to
implement it is not an effective plan.
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CLARIFYING THE
MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S MISSION
1. What business should we be in?
2. Why do we exist? What is our basic purpose? For stakeholders? For
society?
3. Who are our principal customers, clients, or users?
4. What do our customers want from us?
5. What is unique or distinctive about our organization in the marketplace?
6. Does this distinctiveness give us a competitive business advantage/edge?
Why or why not?
7. What are our principal products and services, present and future?
8. What are our principal market segments, present and desired in the future?
9. What are our principal outlets or distribution channels, present and desired
in the future?
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POSITIONING FOCUS
Dominate a narrow focus:
Service businesses fear that standing for one thing will limit their firm’s
appeal. It doesn’t work that way, because of the Halo Effect.
We tend to think that attractive people are smarter, friendlier, more
honest, and more reliable than less attractive people. We associate one
positive thing— attractiveness—with many other good things.
Similarly , prospects who see you in a positive light in one area will
think of you positively in many other areas.
Your position is how you are perceived by prospects.
Your positioning statement expresses how you wish to be perceived.
Establish a position to leverage into other markets, services,
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PRICE DIFFERENTIATION
A study reported in The Harvard Business Review in 1980 is still
relevant today. Companies that stressed differentiation were
compared with companies that competed on cost. In every measure
that mattered—in return on equity, return on capital, and average
annual revenue growth rate—the differentiators beat the price
warriors every time.
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DIFFERENTIATION
2. Cause some confusion
In some industries, pricing can be quite complicated. Consider telephone
rates. When MCI introduced its “Friends and Families” rate plan, its market
share started to climb at the expense of AT&T. Things got even more
confusing when Sprint got into the act. AT&T fought back with ads that
suggested that the discounts were not as big when the small print was
read. Suddenly, no one could understand which company’s prices were
lower. When the dust settled, it was AT&T that came out on top. People
figure “Why bother? Let’s stay with AT&T”. When the market is confused,
the leader wins.
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SPEED AND RESPONSIVENESS
Why? Because speed kills the competition.
What's new is a realization that time is an awful lot of money - far more than
most executives understand.
If you come up against one of the fast corporations and you are not prepared,
you are history.
Guidelines for Speeding Up
Start from scratch
Wipe out unnecessary approvals
Worship the schedule
Utilize trained teams
Use process analysis
Put speed in the culture
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BUILDING A BRAND
By building a brand you can spend less time and money to get more
business.
Word of mouth for a branded service spreads easier and farther
because the name is remembered as the story is passed along.
People perceive less risk with a brand name.
Brands offer a shortcut to busy people who have no time to compare
products before making a decision.
Brand identity is created by promises made and delivered. The
customer's actual experience ultimately creates the identity.
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TIPS - POSITIONING MESSAGES
• People are essentially interested in themselves, so the message
should focus on what you will do for the prospect.
• People cannot pay attention to two messages at once. Say just one
thing, and then say it over and over again.
• Focus on meeting your market’s very first need: Give it one good
reason.
• To get your point across, use the power of stories. Stories can help
you to overcome the stereotypes about your particular service.
• Get rid of the hype and the puffy adjectives in your letters;
document the value you add, and communicate it.
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ANALYZING YOUR IDEAL FUTURE
SUMMARY
Instructions: Answer the following questions and discuss as an entire
Strategic Marketing and Sales Planning Team.
1. What will the industry and the market look like 5 to 7 years from now?
2. What will a successful company in our business look like?
3. Who are likely to be the key industry and market players?
4. Who will be the typical consumer or client in 5 to 7 years
5. What will be the forces driving the market in 5 to 7 years?
6. Are any of these projections possible within your current
Positioning/Driving Force(s) and specific competencies, or do they seem
beyond your reach?
7. What is the level of risk you are willing to take?
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MEASURES OF SERVICE
The American consumer measures service in a retail store by the following ten
standards:
1. The employees show that they want to be at work.
2. A salesperson is available to offer genuine suggestions.
3. The store is clean.
4. Store signage makes the store easy to shop.
5. The salesperson is knowledgeable.
6. The store’s return policy makes customers feel that the retailer truly
wants to satisfy them.
7. The store guarantee has no exceptions.
8. The store has wide aisles.
9. The salesperson is a well-dressed professional.
10. The store has a 30-day complete satisfaction guarantee.
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STRATEGIC MARKET RESEARCH
“FROM DATA/FEELINGS TO TRENDS/INTELLIGENCE
TO BETTER DECISION MAKING”
(AND WORLD-CLASS STAR ( ) RESULTS)
Creating
Customer
Value
C = Choice
R = Responsiveness S = Service
T = Total
Cost
Q = Quality
Strategic
Market
Research
Product Design/Development
Marketing
Sales
Manufacturing
Shipping/Distribution
Service
Customer-Focused Culture
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SURVEYING AND RESEARCH
Oral Surveys
Allow you to clarify your questions and ask people to explain their
answers.
Create better understanding of how people really feel from the tone of
their voices.
Must be designed to account for tone, attitude, and feel of an interview.
Can easily irritate the participant solicited.
Must be performed by well-trained experts and carefully monitored by
company personnel every step of the way.
Must be executed by people with accents and mannerisms comfortable
to the target audience.
Must be simple, concise, and short.
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THINK DUMB, THINK DIFFERENTLY
Don’t just think better. Think different.
Desired Product – Rather than creating what the market needs or wants,
create what it would love to have.
e.g., Don't sell light beer to overweight people, sell it to people who want to drink
more beer as Miller did originally.
Pork - the other white meat.
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MARKET FACTS
Business Development/Emerging Markets
1. Who are our present customers? _________________________________
________________________________________________________________
2. Who are our potential customers? ________________________________
________________________________________________________________
3. Who are our best prospects? ____________________________________
________________________________________________________________
4. What trends are influencing those prospects? ______________________
________________________________________________________________
5. What opinions do those prospects hold? ___________________________
________________________________________________________________
6. What likes and preferences do those prospects have? _______________
________________________________________________________________
7. What gripes and dislikes do those prospects have? _________________
________________________________________________________________
8. Why will they buy our product, if they do? __________________________
________________________________________________________________
9. Where will they buy our product, if they do? ________________________
________________________________________________________________
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MARKET FACTS
Our Image
30. What do our customers say about us? ___________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
31. What do former customers say about us? ________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
32. What do prospects say about us? _______________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
The Marketplace
33. What is the total spent by our target market segment(s) on management consulting
services in an average year? ______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
34. How much of that total volume do we have? ______________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
35. What are the market share trends in each of our target market segments? _____
_______________________________________________________________________
36. What is our potential share? ___________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
37. With which market segments do opportunities exist?_______________________
_______________________________________________________________________
38. What causes growth in our type of business? _____________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
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SEGMENTATION
Mass Customization
1. The trend today is to customize to fit each individual's desires - for
example, you can customize a pager with features that exactly fit your
needs.
2. Try to give each customer exactly what he or she wants and needs.
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ASSESSING WHICH COMPANY DEPARTMENTS
ARE CUSTOMER – MINDED
R & D
They spend time meeting customers and listening to their problems.
They welcome the involvement of marketing, manufacturing, and other departments in each
new project.
They benchmark competitor's products and seek ‘best of class’ solutions.
They solicit customer reactions and suggestions as the project progresses.
They continuously improve and refine the product on the basis of market feedback.
Purchasing
They proactively search for the best suppliers rather than choose from those who solicit
their business.
They build long-term relationships with fewer but more reliable high-quality suppliers.
They don’t compromise quality for price savings.
Manufacturing
They invite customers to visit and tour their plants.
They visit customer plants to see how customers use the company’s products.
They willingly work overtime when it is important to meet promised delivery schedules.
They continuously search for ways to produce goods faster and/or at a lower cost.
They continuously improve product quality, aiming for zero defects.
They meet customer requirements for ‘customization’ where this can be done profitably.
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ASSESSING WHICH COMPANY DEPARTMENTS
ARE CUSTOMER – MINDED
Public Relations
They disseminate favorable news about the company and they ‘damage control’
unfavorable news.
They act as internal customer and public advocate for better company policies
and practices.
Other Customer Contact Personnel
They are competent, courteous, cheerful, credible, reliable, and responsive. Rate
your company: Add the total number of statements answered ‘YES’ and divide
by 32. This is your percentage score.
100 - 95% = excellent
94 - 85% = good
84 - 75% = air
below 75% = poor
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HOW TO IDENTIFY PROBLEMS
3. Look for any obstacle standing in the way of achieving a marketing goal...
such as:
Materials shortages
Product quality
Production limitations
Competitor dominance
Pricing factors
Foreign competition
Inability to reach decision makers
Low market awareness
Customer dissatisfaction
Lack of clear-cut product benefits or advantages (customer fulfillment)
Capacity
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GROWTH SHARE MATRIX
1. STARS
Objective: Hold dominant share and/or build share
Gain a large proportion of new users
Price reductions, product improvements, increased efficiency, better
market coverge
Self sufficient cash flow
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GROWTH SHARE MATRIX
4. DOGS
Objective: Near cash cow - use CC approach to boost
Those with no hope:
Abandonment
Divestment
Harvesting
Focusing
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PRODUCT/MARKET CERTAINTY
MATRIX “Z MODEL”
Markets
(Customer
Segments)
Products (or Product Lines)
90
%
Very High
Certainty
New, but
Related
Existing
Existing
New and
Unrelated
New, but
Related
New and
Unrelated
Very Low
Certainty
60
%
20
%
40
%
60
%
30
%
20
%
10
%
30
%
1. New Products/same customers = 60% success rate.
2. New products/new customers = serious problems with any success.
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CREATING MARKET OPPORTUNITY
1. Providing something in short supply - This is the easiest method.
Customers do not need to be convinced to buy it and they will pay
high prices.
2. Supply an existing product or service - A company can do this in a
new or superior way once the company understands how the
product or service can be improved.
3. Supply a new product or service - This is the most challenging area
because customers usually cannot express a need for a product
that has not been invented yet (unarticulated needs).
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HOW TO DEFINE YOUR AUDIENCE/CUSTOMER
Completing the following form will help you identify the primary and secondary
audiences for your products or service:
Audience characteristic
Primary
Secondary
Industry
Size of organization ($)
Geographic area
Purchaser title
Client (end user) title
Buying influences
Usage rate
Loyalty status
Current supplier
Readiness
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PRODUCT STRATEGY
Branding
national brand vs. private label vs. dual label
preferred vendor strategies
packaging
Ease of Use
industry part numbers versus co-op numbers versus supplier's
numbers
cross reference
catalog needs
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE (PDC)
_____ 8. Is there a clear set of product development steps, accountability, authority,
milestones, and reporting procedures? Are these clearly understood and
utilized? Comments:
_____ 9. Are product development timetables realistic and adhered to? Comments:
_____ 10. Is there a cross-functional team effort and shared goals across the
organization for product development? Comments:
_____ 11. Are people open and honest about issues and results during product
development? Comments:
_____ 12. Is there department/senior management accountability and rewards for
product development efforts and support? Comments:
_____ 13. Summarize your Mission and needed changes in your PDC:
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DISCUSSION ON NEW PRODUCT/
SERVICE/OPPORTUNITIES
II. Criteria for Decision-Making
Sample List: Which ones fit your new product
criteria: (________________________________):
Yes/No
____ 1. Mission fit
____ 2. Core Values fit
____ 3. ROI
____ 4. Counter cyclical
____ 5. Synergy with vendors/partners
____ 6. Vertical/horizontal integration
____ 7. Size/impact is material
____ 8. Fit with today's Core Competencies
____ 9. Can achieve a competitive business advantage
____ 10. Cope with or eliminate our threats and weaknesses
____ 11. Increase short-term revenues (and profits)
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POSSIBLE PRICING OBJECTIVES
Pricing
Objectives
Profit
Oriented
Sales
Oriented
Status
Quo
Target
Return
Growth in
Market Share
Maximize
Profits
Dollar or Unit Sales
Growth
Meeting
Competition
Nonprice
Competition
Question: Which
of these are
your pricing
objectives?
Question: Which of these are your pricing objectives?
Do you agree/disagree as a planning team?
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COMPETING AGAINST PRICE
Three tried and true methods a market leader can use to fight back against a
price attack:
1. Do something special
The leader can go to its biggest customers and make a unique offer. Nike
went to Foot Locker with Tuned Air, a $130 running shoe that it makes
exclusively for the big shoe retailer. The result: Footlocker has ordered
more than a million pairs, and expects to sell $200 million worth.
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PRICING STRATEGY
Supply influences are the result of three basic factors:
Pricing objectives
Cost considerations in pricing
Product considerations
• perishability
• distinctiveness
• life cycle
Environmental influences are those which you cannot control:
Competition
Government regulations
Prevailing business climate
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TWO MAJOR APPROACHES TO PRICING
Cost oriented
Market oriented
In practice, most opt for a combination of the two
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DIFFERENT PROMOTIONAL TOOLS
Advertising
Sales promotion
Public relations
Sales force
Direct marketing
e-marketing
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PRIORITIES/WORKLOAD CHALLENGE
“All Things to All People”
While constructing alternative visions of the future can be helpful, it
can also carry a price. Says Harvard Business School's Michael Porter:
“If you try to be flexible and be ready for everything, you could end up
raising your costs and not being good at anything.” Managers
ultimately have to make choices, as Grove and his colleagues learned
the hard way at Intel. Says he: “I'd rather have all my eggs in one
basket and spend my time worrying about whether that's the right
basket, than try to put one egg in every basket. Because then you have
no upside.”
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HOW TO BUILD A RELATIONSHIP
From two years of research conducted by the Centre for Strategic Management, in
which more than 2000 corporate CEOs were surveyed, a business "relationship" was
defined as having the following components (in order of the frequency each was
mentioned).
Trust - your client or prospect needs to know that you are who you say you are, that
you'll do what you say you'll do, and that your conversations with them will remain
confidential.
Mutual Respect - each person in the relationship must honor the abilities and
aspirations of the other.
Commitment - within legal, moral, and ethical bounds, you must be prepared to do
anything necessary to help a client or prospect achieve success.
Confidence - your client or prospect must have a comfort level with your
professionalism and your expertise, and have faith in your ability to solve problems and
meet challenges.
Guidance - be a mentor, counselor, advisor, and teacher to your client or prospect...with
their success as the ultimate goal.
Endurance - meaningful relationships last a lifetime.
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KEEPING CLIENTS
• A service is many times arbitrarily chosen based on other-than-cost
benefits – who you know and how well you know them counts
heavily.
• Earn trust.
• Under -promise and over-deliver.
• Be truly concerned with your client's and customer's personal and
business success.
• Succeed together with your customers and clients - no win/lose.
• Celebrate your client's and customer's successes with them.
- Alan R. Caron
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Strategic Marketing and Sales Planning

  • 1. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES PLANNING
  • 2. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management PURPOSES OF THIS PRESENTATION Purposes: 1. To gain a common set of principles and knowledge about the similarities and differences between marketing and sales functions, and how they are integrated with corporate strategy. 2. To provide a structure to design, build, implement, and sustain a Strategic Marketing and Sales Plan. 3. To provide the tactics, tips, and techniques to successfully implement this plan and keep it up to date year after year. 4. To discover the benefits of, and identify your positioning in, the marketplace in order to focus your sales and marketing efforts. 5. To review the traditional and 21st Century aspects of the 4 Ps, including e- commerce. 6. To understand different approaches to marketing and sales success. 7. To identify and examine all aspects of the major issues facing those of us in sales and marketing. 8. To implement a complete toolkit of powerful and practical sales and marketing strategies. 9. To achieve marketing and sales success. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 3. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management SALES AND MARKETING RELATIONSHIP Remember: Marketing, sales and customer service (conception, delivery, and support) are part of an integrated process for delivering customer value by creating the best experience possible for the customer. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 4. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management UNARTICULATED NEEDS Figure out what the customer needs but doesn't know they need Example: Nobody (except Steve Jobs) knew they had a need for the iPad/tablet Break a paradigm. Anticipate the future. Consider new applications for existing products and services. Don't let the word "impossible" stifle creative thinking. Make it simpler, faster, easier, and more complete. What might be the next fad in every category you can think of? Look at technology trends and anticipate social trends Would a customer ask for a compact disc in the 1970s or ask for better records? This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 5. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES PLAN Each organization in this world (public and private), needs a "Strategic Marketing and Sales Plan". It should be derived from the organization's overall Strategic Plan and used as a primary source document , leading the effort to establish yearly/annual marketing and sales strategies, action plans, and budgets. A Strategic Marketing and Sales Plan is the most important thing you can do to generate revenue, crystallize your thinking about who you are, and build your brand. Critical Issue Before you implement any Marketing and Sales plan... Be sure the organization can deliver what you sell. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 6. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management THE MARKETPLACE The Market Description of products and services Size, trends, seasonality, region, distribution, pricing, geography, etc. Broad environmental effects, changes in consumer behavior, technology changes, the economy, government, etc. The Competition Sales and share trends Strengths and weaknesses across marketing mix Corporate philosophy/strategy Stage in product life-cycle Spending support Potential entrants from your industry or others Substitutes 1 OF 2 This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 7. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management WHAT IS MARKETING? Marketing's fundamental function is not to influence the customer to do what suits the interest of the firm, but rather to find an effective and efficient means of making your business do what suits the interests of customers. Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 8. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management FOUR MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS IN MARKETING! The Next Three Questions: The Current State 4. What business are we in now? 5. Who are our customers and competitors now? 6. What are customers buying now? B This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 9. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management PART II: OVERVIEW This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 10. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES PLANNING PROCESS: Plan to Plan: First: 1 day - then begin the planning process Environmental Scanning - Duration 1 day Conduct Environmental Scan - agree on the future of the marketplace/industry. Environmental Scanning is ongoing at every step, and is done more formally each quarter throughout the year. Create Your Own Marketplace Future Position - Duration: 2 days Conduct Review of Corporate Strategic Plan. Refine or develop your future vision of the marketplace, mission, values and unique marketplace positioning and differentiation in draft form. Develop Key Stakeholder Parallel Process/feedback. Feedback Loop/Goals - Duration: 1 day Develop measurable Key Success Measures (KSMs - long term strategic goals): market share goals, product goals, positioning goals, breadth/depth goals, business development goals, marketplace/product/customer profitability goals. E Phase B Phase A Phase This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 11. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management STANDARD STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES PLANNING DOCUMENT 9. Key Success Measures (long-term Strategic Marketing and Sales goals)— share goals, product goals, positioning goals, breadth/depth goals, business development goals, and marketplace/product/customer profitability goals. B This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 12. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management KEY ELEMENTS OF MARKETING PLANS 1. A company must be good at strategic and tactical marketing, as well as administrative marketing and cyber marketing in today's marketplace, to be a winner. 2. The ability to prepare and execute high value marketing and sales plans with clear, well defined strategies and actions plans is crucial. Targeted marketing plans are typically developed within an overall strategic marketing plan for every: brand product category new product market segment geographical market valued customer 3. This varies depending on the size of the company, the breadth of the market, products, and service. There should be both annual and longer term action plans for each strategy. All of these plans should be synchronized, not written independently of each other. 4. Marketing plans should be as simple and to the point as possible. They should include the costs to carry out the plan and revenues generated by the plan, along with the strategies and action plans. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 13. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management MARKETING PLAN TEST QUESTIONS: 1. Does the plan list some exciting new opportunities? Has it also considered major threats? 2. Is the plan clear in defining target market segments? 3. Will the customers in each target market segment see our product or service as superior? This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 14. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management FIVE BASIC STEPS TO EFFECTIVE MARKETING Marketing Opportunity An area of identified, articulated or unarticulated buyer need or interest in which there is a high probability that a company can perform profitably by satisfying that need. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 15. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management GUIDELINES FOR STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES PLANNING 10. Have Strategic Marketing and Sales Plans endorsed by the entire Senior Management Team. 11. At the end, once the plan is finished, conduct a large group plan review (one half-day meeting) with all management, supervisory (from all departments), and sales and marketing personnel involved in the Strategic Marketing and Sales Plan. 12. Set up a follow-up review, evaluation and assessment by the marketing and sales planning team on a regular basis. 13. Continue strategic assistance and coaching for the Senior Executive Team by the person with overall management responsibility for the marketing and sales plan, and by a master external facilitator/coach. This is essential because most management team members are not marketing experts. Do not get too far out in front of them. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 16. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management GETTING STARTED: EDUCATE, ORGANIZE AND TAILOR" Task # 1. Executive Briefing on business planning 2. Guidelines for planning set 3. Personal readiness/past experiences and effectiveness in strategic marketing and sales planning 4. Barriers and issues resolved 5. 'Strategic Issues List' developed 6. Environmental Scanning conducted for marketing and sales 7. Marketing and Sales “Staff Support Team” needed 8. Marketing and Sales planning team membership selected 9. Identification of Key Stakeholders 10. Key Stakeholder involvement/communications 11. Marketing and Sales planning link (to budgets and corporate plan) (YOUR PROCESS OF STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES PLANNING) This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 17. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management Two key Questions: 1. Who is on your Strategic Marketing and Sales Planning Team? 2. How to participate, and encourage the involvement of others who want to provide input into these decisions, whose support, innovation, and buy-in are important? ORGANIZING AND PLAN-TO-PLAN This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 18. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES PLANNING “STAFF SUPPORT TEAM” Position/Functions Typical Tasks/ Expertise Name (List Staff Support Team Names) Question: Which of these staff support functions are needed for successful Planning and Implementation? 1. Marketing (various functions) 2. Sales 3. Services 4. Manufacturing/Oper- ations/Engineering • Strategic Marketing and Sales Plan • Market Research • Current State Assessment • Budgeting • Sales/Customer Input • Front Line Current State • Customer's Agent • Implementation • Service Issues • Customer Input • Follow-through • Product Issues • Delivery Support This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 19. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management 22 COMMON MISTAKES IN A STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Which of these mistakes are you making? Score this H–M–L (H = yes, all/most of the time; M = yes, at times we do; L = no, we don't make this mistake) ______ 12. Failing to define and implement the organization structure needed for success in an accurate and meaningful way. ______ 13. Not setting concrete, clear annual plans. ______ 14. Neglecting to benchmark yourself against the competition and other best-in-class organizations. ______ 15. Seeing the Strategic Marketing and Sales planning document as an end in itself. ______ 16. Having confusing terminology and language. ______ 17. Trying to facilitate the process yourself. ______ 18. Failing to have data-based discussions and decision making. ______ 19. Failing to monitor the environment as an ongoing process. ______ 20. Not getting resource commitments for implementation. ______ 21. Not "walking the talk"; lack of internal/external alignment. ______ 22. Seeing Marketing and Sales as departments instead of an organization-wide endeavor. Total # of H _______; M _______ ; L _______. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 20. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management GOAL #1: STRATEGIC MARKETING AND SALES PLANNING Develop a Strategic Marketing and Sales Plan (Steps #2-7) Plans are Nothing. Planning is Everything. — Dwight D. Eisenhower A decision without an allocation of resources is not a decision... A Marketing and Sales Plan without the organizational buy-in, resources, and support to implement it is not an effective plan. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 21. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management CLARIFYING THE MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S MISSION 1. What business should we be in? 2. Why do we exist? What is our basic purpose? For stakeholders? For society? 3. Who are our principal customers, clients, or users? 4. What do our customers want from us? 5. What is unique or distinctive about our organization in the marketplace? 6. Does this distinctiveness give us a competitive business advantage/edge? Why or why not? 7. What are our principal products and services, present and future? 8. What are our principal market segments, present and desired in the future? 9. What are our principal outlets or distribution channels, present and desired in the future? This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 22. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management POSITIONING FOCUS Dominate a narrow focus: Service businesses fear that standing for one thing will limit their firm’s appeal. It doesn’t work that way, because of the Halo Effect. We tend to think that attractive people are smarter, friendlier, more honest, and more reliable than less attractive people. We associate one positive thing— attractiveness—with many other good things. Similarly , prospects who see you in a positive light in one area will think of you positively in many other areas. Your position is how you are perceived by prospects. Your positioning statement expresses how you wish to be perceived. Establish a position to leverage into other markets, services, This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 23. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management PRICE DIFFERENTIATION A study reported in The Harvard Business Review in 1980 is still relevant today. Companies that stressed differentiation were compared with companies that competed on cost. In every measure that mattered—in return on equity, return on capital, and average annual revenue growth rate—the differentiators beat the price warriors every time. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 24. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management DIFFERENTIATION 2. Cause some confusion In some industries, pricing can be quite complicated. Consider telephone rates. When MCI introduced its “Friends and Families” rate plan, its market share started to climb at the expense of AT&T. Things got even more confusing when Sprint got into the act. AT&T fought back with ads that suggested that the discounts were not as big when the small print was read. Suddenly, no one could understand which company’s prices were lower. When the dust settled, it was AT&T that came out on top. People figure “Why bother? Let’s stay with AT&T”. When the market is confused, the leader wins. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 25. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management SPEED AND RESPONSIVENESS Why? Because speed kills the competition. What's new is a realization that time is an awful lot of money - far more than most executives understand. If you come up against one of the fast corporations and you are not prepared, you are history. Guidelines for Speeding Up Start from scratch Wipe out unnecessary approvals Worship the schedule Utilize trained teams Use process analysis Put speed in the culture This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 26. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management BUILDING A BRAND By building a brand you can spend less time and money to get more business. Word of mouth for a branded service spreads easier and farther because the name is remembered as the story is passed along. People perceive less risk with a brand name. Brands offer a shortcut to busy people who have no time to compare products before making a decision. Brand identity is created by promises made and delivered. The customer's actual experience ultimately creates the identity. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 27. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management TIPS - POSITIONING MESSAGES • People are essentially interested in themselves, so the message should focus on what you will do for the prospect. • People cannot pay attention to two messages at once. Say just one thing, and then say it over and over again. • Focus on meeting your market’s very first need: Give it one good reason. • To get your point across, use the power of stories. Stories can help you to overcome the stereotypes about your particular service. • Get rid of the hype and the puffy adjectives in your letters; document the value you add, and communicate it. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 28. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management ANALYZING YOUR IDEAL FUTURE SUMMARY Instructions: Answer the following questions and discuss as an entire Strategic Marketing and Sales Planning Team. 1. What will the industry and the market look like 5 to 7 years from now? 2. What will a successful company in our business look like? 3. Who are likely to be the key industry and market players? 4. Who will be the typical consumer or client in 5 to 7 years 5. What will be the forces driving the market in 5 to 7 years? 6. Are any of these projections possible within your current Positioning/Driving Force(s) and specific competencies, or do they seem beyond your reach? 7. What is the level of risk you are willing to take? This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 29. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management MEASURES OF SERVICE The American consumer measures service in a retail store by the following ten standards: 1. The employees show that they want to be at work. 2. A salesperson is available to offer genuine suggestions. 3. The store is clean. 4. Store signage makes the store easy to shop. 5. The salesperson is knowledgeable. 6. The store’s return policy makes customers feel that the retailer truly wants to satisfy them. 7. The store guarantee has no exceptions. 8. The store has wide aisles. 9. The salesperson is a well-dressed professional. 10. The store has a 30-day complete satisfaction guarantee. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 30. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management STRATEGIC MARKET RESEARCH “FROM DATA/FEELINGS TO TRENDS/INTELLIGENCE TO BETTER DECISION MAKING” (AND WORLD-CLASS STAR ( ) RESULTS) Creating Customer Value C = Choice R = Responsiveness S = Service T = Total Cost Q = Quality Strategic Market Research Product Design/Development Marketing Sales Manufacturing Shipping/Distribution Service Customer-Focused Culture This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 31. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management SURVEYING AND RESEARCH Oral Surveys Allow you to clarify your questions and ask people to explain their answers. Create better understanding of how people really feel from the tone of their voices. Must be designed to account for tone, attitude, and feel of an interview. Can easily irritate the participant solicited. Must be performed by well-trained experts and carefully monitored by company personnel every step of the way. Must be executed by people with accents and mannerisms comfortable to the target audience. Must be simple, concise, and short. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 32. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management THINK DUMB, THINK DIFFERENTLY Don’t just think better. Think different. Desired Product – Rather than creating what the market needs or wants, create what it would love to have. e.g., Don't sell light beer to overweight people, sell it to people who want to drink more beer as Miller did originally. Pork - the other white meat. Purdue created a quality image for chicken and commanded a premium price.This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 33. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management MARKET FACTS Business Development/Emerging Markets 1. Who are our present customers? _________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 2. Who are our potential customers? ________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 3. Who are our best prospects? ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 4. What trends are influencing those prospects? ______________________ ________________________________________________________________ 5. What opinions do those prospects hold? ___________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 6. What likes and preferences do those prospects have? _______________ ________________________________________________________________ 7. What gripes and dislikes do those prospects have? _________________ ________________________________________________________________ 8. Why will they buy our product, if they do? __________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 9. Where will they buy our product, if they do? ________________________ ________________________________________________________________ This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 34. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management MARKET FACTS Our Image 30. What do our customers say about us? ___________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 31. What do former customers say about us? ________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 32. What do prospects say about us? _______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ The Marketplace 33. What is the total spent by our target market segment(s) on management consulting services in an average year? ______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 34. How much of that total volume do we have? ______________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 35. What are the market share trends in each of our target market segments? _____ _______________________________________________________________________ 36. What is our potential share? ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 37. With which market segments do opportunities exist?_______________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 38. What causes growth in our type of business? _____________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 35. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management SEGMENTATION Mass Customization 1. The trend today is to customize to fit each individual's desires - for example, you can customize a pager with features that exactly fit your needs. 2. Try to give each customer exactly what he or she wants and needs. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 36. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management ASSESSING WHICH COMPANY DEPARTMENTS ARE CUSTOMER – MINDED R & D They spend time meeting customers and listening to their problems. They welcome the involvement of marketing, manufacturing, and other departments in each new project. They benchmark competitor's products and seek ‘best of class’ solutions. They solicit customer reactions and suggestions as the project progresses. They continuously improve and refine the product on the basis of market feedback. Purchasing They proactively search for the best suppliers rather than choose from those who solicit their business. They build long-term relationships with fewer but more reliable high-quality suppliers. They don’t compromise quality for price savings. Manufacturing They invite customers to visit and tour their plants. They visit customer plants to see how customers use the company’s products. They willingly work overtime when it is important to meet promised delivery schedules. They continuously search for ways to produce goods faster and/or at a lower cost. They continuously improve product quality, aiming for zero defects. They meet customer requirements for ‘customization’ where this can be done profitably. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 37. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management ASSESSING WHICH COMPANY DEPARTMENTS ARE CUSTOMER – MINDED Public Relations They disseminate favorable news about the company and they ‘damage control’ unfavorable news. They act as internal customer and public advocate for better company policies and practices. Other Customer Contact Personnel They are competent, courteous, cheerful, credible, reliable, and responsive. Rate your company: Add the total number of statements answered ‘YES’ and divide by 32. This is your percentage score. 100 - 95% = excellent 94 - 85% = good 84 - 75% = air below 75% = poor This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 38. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management HOW TO IDENTIFY PROBLEMS 3. Look for any obstacle standing in the way of achieving a marketing goal... such as: Materials shortages Product quality Production limitations Competitor dominance Pricing factors Foreign competition Inability to reach decision makers Low market awareness Customer dissatisfaction Lack of clear-cut product benefits or advantages (customer fulfillment) Capacity This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 39. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management GROWTH SHARE MATRIX 1. STARS Objective: Hold dominant share and/or build share Gain a large proportion of new users Price reductions, product improvements, increased efficiency, better market coverge Self sufficient cash flow This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 40. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management GROWTH SHARE MATRIX 4. DOGS Objective: Near cash cow - use CC approach to boost Those with no hope: Abandonment Divestment Harvesting Focusing This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 41. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management PRODUCT/MARKET CERTAINTY MATRIX “Z MODEL” Markets (Customer Segments) Products (or Product Lines) 90 % Very High Certainty New, but Related Existing Existing New and Unrelated New, but Related New and Unrelated Very Low Certainty 60 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 30 % 20 % 10 % 30 % 1. New Products/same customers = 60% success rate. 2. New products/new customers = serious problems with any success. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 42. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management CREATING MARKET OPPORTUNITY 1. Providing something in short supply - This is the easiest method. Customers do not need to be convinced to buy it and they will pay high prices. 2. Supply an existing product or service - A company can do this in a new or superior way once the company understands how the product or service can be improved. 3. Supply a new product or service - This is the most challenging area because customers usually cannot express a need for a product that has not been invented yet (unarticulated needs). This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 43. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management HOW TO DEFINE YOUR AUDIENCE/CUSTOMER Completing the following form will help you identify the primary and secondary audiences for your products or service: Audience characteristic Primary Secondary Industry Size of organization ($) Geographic area Purchaser title Client (end user) title Buying influences Usage rate Loyalty status Current supplier Readiness This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 44. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management PRODUCT STRATEGY Branding national brand vs. private label vs. dual label preferred vendor strategies packaging Ease of Use industry part numbers versus co-op numbers versus supplier's numbers cross reference catalog needs This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 45. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE (PDC) _____ 8. Is there a clear set of product development steps, accountability, authority, milestones, and reporting procedures? Are these clearly understood and utilized? Comments: _____ 9. Are product development timetables realistic and adhered to? Comments: _____ 10. Is there a cross-functional team effort and shared goals across the organization for product development? Comments: _____ 11. Are people open and honest about issues and results during product development? Comments: _____ 12. Is there department/senior management accountability and rewards for product development efforts and support? Comments: _____ 13. Summarize your Mission and needed changes in your PDC: This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 46. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management DISCUSSION ON NEW PRODUCT/ SERVICE/OPPORTUNITIES II. Criteria for Decision-Making Sample List: Which ones fit your new product criteria: (________________________________): Yes/No ____ 1. Mission fit ____ 2. Core Values fit ____ 3. ROI ____ 4. Counter cyclical ____ 5. Synergy with vendors/partners ____ 6. Vertical/horizontal integration ____ 7. Size/impact is material ____ 8. Fit with today's Core Competencies ____ 9. Can achieve a competitive business advantage ____ 10. Cope with or eliminate our threats and weaknesses ____ 11. Increase short-term revenues (and profits) This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 47. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management POSSIBLE PRICING OBJECTIVES Pricing Objectives Profit Oriented Sales Oriented Status Quo Target Return Growth in Market Share Maximize Profits Dollar or Unit Sales Growth Meeting Competition Nonprice Competition Question: Which of these are your pricing objectives? Question: Which of these are your pricing objectives? Do you agree/disagree as a planning team? This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 48. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management COMPETING AGAINST PRICE Three tried and true methods a market leader can use to fight back against a price attack: 1. Do something special The leader can go to its biggest customers and make a unique offer. Nike went to Foot Locker with Tuned Air, a $130 running shoe that it makes exclusively for the big shoe retailer. The result: Footlocker has ordered more than a million pairs, and expects to sell $200 million worth. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 49. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management PRICING STRATEGY Supply influences are the result of three basic factors: Pricing objectives Cost considerations in pricing Product considerations • perishability • distinctiveness • life cycle Environmental influences are those which you cannot control: Competition Government regulations Prevailing business climate This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 50. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management TWO MAJOR APPROACHES TO PRICING Cost oriented Market oriented In practice, most opt for a combination of the two This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 51. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management DIFFERENT PROMOTIONAL TOOLS Advertising Sales promotion Public relations Sales force Direct marketing e-marketing This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 52. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management PRIORITIES/WORKLOAD CHALLENGE “All Things to All People” While constructing alternative visions of the future can be helpful, it can also carry a price. Says Harvard Business School's Michael Porter: “If you try to be flexible and be ready for everything, you could end up raising your costs and not being good at anything.” Managers ultimately have to make choices, as Grove and his colleagues learned the hard way at Intel. Says he: “I'd rather have all my eggs in one basket and spend my time worrying about whether that's the right basket, than try to put one egg in every basket. Because then you have no upside.” —Adapted from Ronald HenkoffThis document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 53. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management HOW TO BUILD A RELATIONSHIP From two years of research conducted by the Centre for Strategic Management, in which more than 2000 corporate CEOs were surveyed, a business "relationship" was defined as having the following components (in order of the frequency each was mentioned). Trust - your client or prospect needs to know that you are who you say you are, that you'll do what you say you'll do, and that your conversations with them will remain confidential. Mutual Respect - each person in the relationship must honor the abilities and aspirations of the other. Commitment - within legal, moral, and ethical bounds, you must be prepared to do anything necessary to help a client or prospect achieve success. Confidence - your client or prospect must have a comfort level with your professionalism and your expertise, and have faith in your ability to solve problems and meet challenges. Guidance - be a mentor, counselor, advisor, and teacher to your client or prospect...with their success as the ultimate goal. Endurance - meaningful relationships last a lifetime. This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
  • 54. Copyright 2014 Haines Centre for Strategic Management KEEPING CLIENTS • A service is many times arbitrarily chosen based on other-than-cost benefits – who you know and how well you know them counts heavily. • Earn trust. • Under -promise and over-deliver. • Be truly concerned with your client's and customer's personal and business success. • Succeed together with your customers and clients - no win/lose. • Celebrate your client's and customer's successes with them. - Alan R. Caron This document is a partial preview. Full document download can be found on Flevy: http://flevy.com/browse/document/strategic-marketing-and-sales-planning-612
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