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Develop a marketing plan Assignment -
Assessment Task 1 -
Activity 1A - For this activity, you will identify organisational objectives of Cocoa Delight (Attachment 1) to devise, document and present a marketing plan. Your marketing plan must also include: evaluation of marketing opportunity options, marketing strategies that utilise existing strengths and opportunities and develop resources and expertise as needed to meet objectives, marketing tactics that are legal, ethical, achievable and can be reviewed, costs, scheduling, responsibilities and accountabilities for tactics, strategic use of marketing approaches and marketing mix, rationale for objectives and chosen strategies and tactics.
Show your draft marketing plan to your Trainer for feedback, incorporate any changes required and submit the draft marketing plan to your Assessor for summative evidence.
Activity 1B - For this activity, you will adjust the draft marketing plan developed for Activity 1 above by response to feedback from key stakeholders and disseminate for implementation. Your Assessor will role-play a key stakeholder for this Activity.
Show your draft marketing plan after adjustment to your Trainer for feedback, incorporate any changes required and submit your final marketing plan to your Assessor for summative evidence.
During these Activities, you will be observed by your Assessor demonstrating the following:
Devise marketing strategies by:
- Evaluating marketing opportunity options that address organisational objectives and evaluate their risks and returns in the selection process
- Developing marketing strategies that address strengths and opportunities within the organisation's projected capabilities and resources
- Developing strategies which increase resources or organisational expertise where gaps exist between current capability and marketing objectives
- Developing feasible marketing strategies and communicate reasons that justifies their selection
- Ensuring strategies align with organisation's strategic direction
- Developing a marketing performance review strategy, incorporating appropriate marketing metrics to review the organisational performance against marketing objectives
Plan marketing tactics by:
- Detailing tactics to implement each marketing strategy in terms of scheduling, costing, accountabilities and persons responsible
- Identifying coordination and monitoring mechanisms for scheduled activities
- Ensuring tactics are achievable within organisation's projected capabilities and budget
- Ensuring tactics meet legal and ethical requirements
- Ensuring tactics provide for ongoing review of performance against objectives and budgets and allow marketing targets to be adjusted if necessary
Prepare and present a marketing plan by:
- Ensuring marketing plan meets organisational, as well as marketing, objectives and incorporates marketing approaches and a strategic marketing mix
- Ensuring marketing plan contains a rationale for objectives and information that supports the choice of strategies and tactics
- Presenting marketing plan for approval in the required format and timeframe
- Adjusting marketing plan in response to feedback from key stakeholders and disseminate for implementation within the required timeframe
Assessment Task 2 -
Question 1. Summarise organisational structure, products and services and overall strategic and marketing objectives
Question 2. Outline common marketing opportunity options including:
- strategic alliances and cooperative business models
- new products or services to target specific markets
- greater market penetration with existing products or services
- take-overs
- new businesses and franchising
- other options relevant to the organisation
Question 3. Outline common marketing strategies and marketing approaches
Question 4. Explain processes to ensure marketing strategies, approaches and marketing mix align to organisation's objectives and are legal, ethical and achievable
Question 5. Outline the legislative and regulatory context of the organisation as relevant to the marketing plan.
Note - Need help for a diploma level assignment - Develop Marketing Plan.
Attachment:- Assigment File.rar