What is a Marketing Strategy?

A marketing strategy refers to a business's overall plan for how to reach prospects and turn them into customers. A marketing strategy contains the company’s or brand’s value proposition, key messages, data on target customers, and other essential data.
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Marketing for Managers
This video is part of course module number 8.3.2
Program 8: Managing Customers & Clients
Course 3: Marketing for Managers
Section 2: Marketing Strategy
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LESSON NOTES
A marketing strategy starts with the company's or the brand’s value proposition. This tells customers why the company deserves their business. It also gives marketing teams a template to inform their initiatives and marketing plans across all of the company's products and services.
Marketing Strategies vs. Marketing Plans
The marketing strategy informs the marketing plan.
A Marketing Strategy is a long-term document, which will span a number of annual marketing plans. It needs to be refreshed each year to adapt to changes in the market.
A Marketing Plan is a document that details the specific marketing activities, budgets, and timetables.
Marketing strategies cover the big-picture, and marketing plans set out the tactical details of specific campaigns.
How to Build a Marketing Strategy
The goal of a marketing strategy is to create a sustainable competitive advantage over competitors in grabbing the attention, commitment, and loyalty of customers. It will embrace the marketing mix, or ‘four Ps’ of marketing: product, price, place, and promotion.
1. Strategic analysis
2. Develop your goals
3. Competitive Strategy
4. Articulate your Core Messages to the Market
5. Define your Approach to market
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2. Consider a product or a service you know well. What would you put into the five components of a marketing strategy that we discuss in this video? (5 MC CPD Points)
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Marketing For Dummies geni.us/sZXAw
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