Homework: Global Marketing Management
The homework builds on the proposal you submitted. Using the target audience and product or service you identified in your proposal, create a marketing mix for launch. Define your product, price, place, and promotion using the criteria below. Include how you will measure success. This will end up being part of your final marketing plan so write for your intended professional audience.
Article: The Marketing Mix and the 4Ps of Marketing- Understanding How to Position Your Market Offering by Mind Tools.
Marketing Mix Criteria:
Product/Service:
• What need does the product or service satisfy for the customer?
• What features does it have to meet these needs?
• How and where will the customer use it?
• What does it look like? Think size, colors, materials, etc.
• What will it be called?
• How is it differentiated versus your competitors?
Place
• Where will buyers get your product or service?
• How can you access the right distribution channels?
• Do you need to use a sales force? Or attend trade fairs? Or make online submissions? Or send samples to catalog companies?
• How can you differentiate from the competition?
Price
• What is the value of the product or service to the buyer?
• What pricing strategy will you use?
• How will your price compare with your competitors?
Promotion
• Where and when can you get your marketing messages across to your target market?
• Will you reach your audience by advertising online, in the press, on TV, on radio, or on billboards? By using direct marketing mailshots? Through PR? On the internet?
• When is the best time to promote? Is there seasonality in the market? Are there any wider environmental issues that suggest or dictate the timing of your market launch or subsequent promotions?
• How do your competitors do their promotions? And how does that influence your choice of promotional activity?
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.