Produce an E- Marketing Plan or Strategy for organisation

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Plan E-Marketing Communications Assignment - e-Marketing Plan

The purpose of this assessment is to assess the student in the following learning outcomes:

1. In consultation with relevant personnel, determine electronic marketing (e-marketing) purpose and objectives reflecting organisation's strategy, direction and values

2. Develop an e-marketing strategy or plan that addresses aims and targets of organisation's existing business or marketing plan, and is consistent with organisational and budgetary requirements

3. Develop a value proposition for e-marketing strategy or plan

4. Identify, cost and detail e-marketing tools for the organisation and its products and services in the e-marketing strategy or plan

5. Identify and incorporate e-marketing approaches, tools and strategies to reach target market and achieve objectives

6. Ensure e-marketing strategy or plan includes an action plan, schedule and budget estimates for developing and implementing e-marketing strategies

7. Ensure e-marketing strategy or plan includes effectiveness measures and meets legal and ethical requirements

8. Evaluate website marketing objectives to ensure they are consistent with e-marketing strategy or plan, and modify if required

9. Establish strategies for evaluation of website as a marketing tool

10. Evaluate website design according to e-marketing strategy, to ensure the design projects required image of the organisation, and conveys features and benefits of products or services; recommend modifications if required

11. Evaluate website data recording, contacts and feedback mechanisms as part of website evaluation

12. Develop website marketing strategy in accordance with, and for inclusion in, e-marketing strategy or plan

13. Integrate website marketing strategy into overall e-marketing strategy

14. Evaluate effectiveness of website marketing strategy

ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY: E-MARKETING STRATEGY/PLAN

INSTRUCTIONS & ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXTS:

You are appointed as an Electronic Marketing Manager of an Online Marketing Company XYZ that provides e-marketing services to online businesses. Your senior manager has requested you to pick any ONE of the projects listed below and you will be required to produce an E- Marketing Plan/Strategy for any ONE of the organisation. All of these organisations listed below are Australian based organisations and have online stores that provide online transaction services and sells product or services on Internet.

ASOS - Online clothing store or departmental store
CLASSIC BET - online sports bet company
FOODORA - food delivery company
Buddy's - online grocery store
OZBARGAIN deals website
KOGAN - online electronics company
ACER PRESS - online printing and publishing company
DYMOCKS - online bookstore
CRAZY DOMAINS - web hosting & domain company
CLOUDCENTRAL - online cloud service provider

However, the scope and choice of the business, product or service is not limited to the list above and you may wish to use an alternative business, product or service at your discretion.

You will require some organisational information to conduct some analysis which you will find the company website. For the purpose of analysis, you will still need to conduct research to identify the environment, competitors, customer groups, and various other stakeholders. Your delegated task to research and provide and implement an E- Marketing Plan/Strategy for the business, product or service based on the assumptions you have made during your research. Using the e-Marketing template & the structure as provided below, develop a full version of the E-Marketing Plan/Strategy. Marking criteria and weights for each section of the plan are also provided below.

E-MARKETING PLAN STRUCTURE & MARKING CRITERIA

1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

3. Situational Analysis

a. SWOT Analysis

b. Issues Identified

4. The e-Marketing Schedule - Gantt Chart or Timeline for the e-Marketing Plan

5. The e-Marketing Strategies & Action Plan

a. product strategies

b. price strategies

c. promotion strategies

d. distribution strategies

6. Costing and Budget

7. Technical Issues

a. website content & search-ability

b. Customer registration & logging security (for customers and staff)

c. Coupon codes, rewards for old clients, discounts

d. multimedia

e. autoresponders

f. order forms and feedback forms

g. access levels to online resources

h. credit card transactions

i. website hosting & publishing

j. technical staff (size, requirements)

8. Monitoring Strategy

9. e-Marketing Evaluation methods

10. Sources & References

11. Appendix

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - Provide an executive summary of at least 300 words. The summary should include:

Overview of the organisation
The product or service you decided to prepare an e-marketing plan for
The target market of the product or service
Key objectives of your e-marketing plan

INTRODUCTION - Your introduction should include:

1. Initial consultation with stakeholders (in this case it may be your trainer and assessor who will act as the senior manager and your direct supervisor)

2. Mission, Vision and objectives of the organisation in regard to the product or service

The objectives need to be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely). When defining these objectives think about the following:
What the 'Return on investment' will be? This may include increased customer spend, greater brand awareness, an increase in visits and online registrations, etc. How you quantify and measure the success of your plan will depend on your business and marketing objectives. This will differ from business to business.
Define objectives for each part of the customer journey - Awareness, Acquisition and Conversion. Your plan needs to look at the whole customer journey.
Make sure that your objectives reflect exactly what you will be measured on (KPI's).

3. Summary of strategies and tactics to be used - Once your objectives have been defined, you need to provide a top level summary of your Strategy - outlining how you are going to use digital marketing to meet them. The strategy should summarise the 'bigger picture' without yet going into the detail. It should explain the concept behind the tactics, providing a general overview of the techniques to be used.

4. A brief summary of the marketing environment for this product or service

5. Projected outcomes and 'return on investment'. Details can be included in budget or costing section.

SITUATION ANALYSIS - The situation analysis needs to set the context for the plan. It should include an analysis of the micro (internal) and macro (external) environment. Address each of the following:

Digital specific SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) or PESTLE analysis
Summary of the key issues that have emerged
Where possible use qualitative and quantitative data to support your analysis
Use images, charts and graphs to illustrate your findings

E-MARKETING SCHEDULE - Your e-Marketing schedule should include a timeline or Gantt chart to explain the activities of your plan to be completed within a specific timeframe (e.g. 10 weeks). Put a X sign in the specific grid(s) that relates to your activity. You may wish to use this template or develop a Gantt chart/schedule using a separate template.

THE E-MARKETING STRATEGIES & ACTION PLAN - The Strategies and Action Plan section should address the electronic marketing strategies of your product or service based on the 4Ps. Also address how each of the following strategies will comply with the Australian e-Marketing Code of Practice.

E-MARKETING/WEBSITE MARKETING STRATEGIES & TECHNICAL ISSUES - This section should clarify the technicalities of your e-marketing plan. The section should include the following (add more issues if required):

website content & search-ability
Customer registration & logging security (for customers and staff)
Coupon codes, rewards for old clients, discounts
multimedia
auto responders
order forms and feedback forms
access levels to online resources
credit card transactions
website hosting & publishing
technical staff (size, requirements)

THE E-MARKETING MONITORING STRATEGY & EVALUATION METHODS - The final part of plan should explain and describe how you will monitor the e-Marketing plan when it is activated. You will also have to describe the methods you will use to measure the success or failure of your e-marketing plan for the product or the service.

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Word/Page Count: 2500. BSBMKG510 Plan E-Marketing Communications. ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY: E-MARKETING STRATEGY/PLAN. The assessment is to be completed according to the instructions given by your assessor. Feedback on each task will be provided to enable you to determine how your work could be improved. You will be provided with feedback on your work within two weeks of the assessment due date. All other feedback will be provided by the end of the term.

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Should you not answer the questions correctly, you will be given feedback on the results and your gaps in knowledge. You will be given another opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and skills to be deemed competent for this unit of competency. If you are not sure about any aspects of this assessment, please ask for clarification from your assessor. Please refer to the College re-assessment for more information (Student Handbook).

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GENERIC GUIDELINES FOR REPORTING - Include any Supplementary Documents utilized. All sources are referenced consistently and comprehensively using the recommended referencing system as prescribed in the subject description/outline. Use of language is appropriate to academic writing, the industry context, Marketing themes and principles and the assessment criteria. The responses are succinctly and clearly written or presented in English. Overall presentation is professional including spell and grammar checked judicious use of headings, font size, layout etc.

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