Tutorial 1
1) Discuss the concept of marketing strategy.
A marketing strategy refers to a business's overall game plan for reaching prospective
consumers and turning them into customers of their products or services. A marketing
strategy contains the company’s value proposition, key brand messaging, data on
target customer demographics, and other high-level elements.
2) Compare between strategic planning and marketing planning.
3) Discuss the basic cycle of control.
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entrepreneurship/controlling-cs/control-process/
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Establish goals and objectives
This is because the main aim of controlling is to direct a business’s actions towards its goals.
If the members of an organization know their goals clearly, they will invest their entire focus
in achieving them.
Performance standard
Set a standard performance to control the objectives to make sure the process is going
smoothly in order to achieve the goals and objectives.
Compare result against standards
Once managers know what their goals are, they should next measure their actual performance
and compare. This step basically helps them in knowing whether their plans are working as
intended.
Taking correction and alteration
This step becomes essential if performance falls short of standards and the analysis indicates
that corrective action is required. The corrective action could involve a change in one or more
activities of the organization’s operations.
4) Discuss the strategic marketing planning.
Strategic marketing planning concerned with the development of strategies that are
based on the planning team’s assessment of the market & perceptions of managerial
expectations & firm capability. It is a great tool to assess where the company is
positioned and to complete a situation analysis. It’s important to understand what the
available resources are, as well as how is the competitive environment developing. All
the data which is collected during the marketing research stage is essential to gain a
good understanding of where the business currently sits.