new firm that will be opening in the near future. The founder of the business is Susan Superfit. The company’s business objective is to sell all types of training, fitness, conditioning, and exercise equipment to the general public. The Fit Stop plans to specialize in this equipment and provide customers with personalized advice geared to customer needs. The owner, Susan suffered an injury while engaging in sports activities. She came up with the idea for this business during her recovery. She found
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Marketing Developing a marketing plan is one of the most important things you can do to ensure that your business will make a profit. This guide is intended to provide an overview of the importance of market research and analysis, product development, pricing, advertising, promotions, publicity, sales and customer service. Contents: Market Research Developing a Marketing Plan Mission Statement Identify products and/or services The market Competition Pricing Promotion mix Advertising Advertising
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Appendices Appendix 1: Cocoa Delights media plan ‘Get in touch with your dark side’ MEDIA PLAN Period: July 2010–June 2011 10 Chocolate Parade Melbourne, VIC, 3181, Australia Phone: 12 3456 7890 Fax: 12 3456 7890 Email: mediaplanning@cocoadelights.com Website: www.cocoadelights.com Contact: Coco Jones Table of Contents Executive Summary ........................................................................................................ 117
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Direct Competitors 2 Indirect Competitors 2 Strengths of Competitors 3 Weakness of Competitors 3 How IHOP’S Products Are Different 3 Why IHOP is Better Than the Competition 3 MARKETING STRATEGY 3 Overall Strategy 3 Target Markets 4 Primary Targets 4 Secondary Targets 4 Marketing Mix 4 Price 4 Promotion 4 Distribution 4 Product 5 MANAGEMENT PLAN 5 Operations Standards 5 Personnel Standards 5 S.W.O.T. Analysis 6
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INTRODUCTION Due to recent economic crisis, companies are trying harder to survive in this wild business environment by carefully planning their each step. To maintain and/or increase their profitability, they set goals; develop strategies and plans, and put them into action. Marketing plan is one of the most important elements of these processes for the companies to decide on best use of their resources to achieve its goals. Marketing planning is defined by McDonald’s research (1992) as “simply
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Leading Licensing Companies By Dawn Wilensky A combination of new and evergreen properties/brands drove 2006 worldwide retail sales of licensed merchandise. Over the last five years, we have made strategic changes to our Leading Licensors list to ensure up-to-date, accurate worldwide retail sales estimates. This year, we made yet another change. As the line between licensor and licensing agent continues to blur—with many licensors taking on the task of representing properties/brands outside
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to the 2% decline in cigarette volume over the same 17 years. Many factors contributed to the success of the smokeless tobacco industry. Increases in smoking bans caused many customers to switch to smokeless. Many consumers also perceived the smokeless tobacco as less of a health risk. The price of moist smokeless tobacco is comparably less than cigarettes. It is predicted that the market will continue to grow 1-3% over the next few years. UST is the largest smokeless tobacco producer controlling
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Foundations of Marketing Theory GSBS6010 Trimester 3, 2010 Lecturer and Course Coordinator: Penny Crittall Group 11: Ruth Hartmann Siu Wai Da Wang Xiao Wen Marketing Plan for Peg-It [pic] patent pending Name： Ross Merkel Business name： Ground breaker Pty Ltd ABN: Address: Telephone： +61 419336847 Email： niigrkfil^bigpQinLcQiiLau Internet： http://www.peg-it.com.au Date: Prepared: November, 2010 Executive Summary This marketing plan has been prepared
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| Strategic Marketing | | | | | 1. The usefulness of two forecasting methods Forecasting, if correctly implemented, allows companies to strategize ahead of their prerequisites, fostering their probabilities of keeping strong through all markets (Johanson&Vahlne, 2011).There are several diverse methods by which anindustry forecast can be made. However, in this report, the usefulness of two forecasting methods is evaluated. They are discussed below: Market Research:
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CHLOROPHYLL RESTAURANT BUSINESS PLAN a Table of Contents Executive Summary…………..……………………………………….…….. Company Profile……………..……………………………………………… Marketing Plan……………………………………….……………………... Marketing Objectives……………………………………………………. Marketing Mix…………………………………………………………… Target Market Segmentation…………………………………………….. Competitor Analysis……………………………………………………... SWOT Analysis…………………………………………………….. Five Forces Analysis………………………………………………... Marketing Strategy……………………………………………………….. Advertising Method…………………………………………………
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