Creating doable tactical plans enhanced by digital marketing to realize your strategic marketing goals and objectives.
Product: Build Brands with Products that Perform Beyond Expectations.
Understand how to carefully integrate value adding, new product development, and product/brand management to strategically influence the consumer and change the competitive landscape to your advantage. Create products that satisfy not just functional needs, but also the challenging dimension of experiential and symbolic needs, the key to brand loyalty. Identify that Winning Combination of attributes in must have products that delight consumers and build strong brand equity.
Price: Offer Value or Prestige.
Use price strategies to accurately position your product and company, ensuring that you make the best of your first break in the market. Learn to use just the right price point that encourages consumption by capturing outstanding value, and ensures decent financial returns. Learn tactical price strategies that can earn a quick return or negate competition. Know what to apply specific strategies to differentiate not just for tactical but for strategic advantage.
Place: Be Where it Matters.
Effective management of the distribution channel is essential to ensure client’s easy access to your unique offerings. Learn how to deny competitors the chance to touch-base with their target markets. Leave them high and dry while you welcome consumers to your door. Learn how to reach the previously unreachable micro-consumers through creative logistics management. Avoid stock-out situations that leave your back door open to competitors and escape the hazards of drowning in old inventory through supply chain and sales forecasting strategies.
Promotions: Entice a First Trial.
Learn a rich blend of street-smart below-the-line tactical promotions/activations strategies to exclusively lock in the attention of your target customers. Explore the best use of various promotional activities such as in-store and outdoor sales promotions, public relations, direct mailing, trade fairs and exhibits, sponsorships, events, and direct selling. Know what ingredients from this recipe will work best for your unique offer.
Digital Marketing
Learn how to use digital media technology enabling your brand to connect and engage with loyal consumers, leading them to be active and loyal users, advocating leading them to be active and loyal users, advocating your brands and products to others.
Marketing Plan Formulation
This one-day module provides the framework, tools and techniques needed to develop appropriate marketing strategies and to formulate plans for effective execution. Students learn how to use a strategic marketing planning model that integrates the various elements of the marketing mix into a unified, coherent plan that enables effective execution. Marketing Plans are prepared, reviewed and refined in preparation for final presentation and judging at the culmination of the diploma program.