Your marketing strategy
Posted: 09/12/2011
This week we have focussed on all the key ingredients that make up a marketing strategy.
Here’s a recap on what we’ve covered so far:
- Defining your target market
- Analysing your strengths and weaknesses
- Determining your USP
- Carrying out a competitor analysis
Now, we need to use what we’ve learnt and put them into writing your marketing strategy. Star explains: “A clear and focussed marketing strategy is vital for any business and should fundamentally outline how the products and services you provide meet your customer needs and how long term and profitable relationships will be developed.”
Your marketing strategy should cover core areas including:
- How your marketing strategy supports the overall business objectives
- An outline of your target markets
- A definition of your customers and their ‘needs’
- A clear idea of your proposition
Read our guide to writing you marketing strategy for more tips.
If you have been following STar’s advice this week writing your marketing strategy this should not be that difficult! If not, you can get the elves to help you with this.
Next week the elves will teach you how to achieve your marketing strategy through the development of a marketing plan, We will also cover marketing tactics that can be implemented to achieve help you achieve this.
Have any questions for the elves? Please email us and we'll be sure that one of our elves answers them. They are waiting to help you...
Call us on 0845 075 5955 or drop us an email: hello@horizonworks-marketing.co.uk.
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