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Marketing Planning
Thursday, July 10, 2008, Santiago, Chile

This program is designed for sales and marketing managers who must analyze their markets and prepare a marketing plan. This program offers a comprehensive framework for strategic marketing planning and outlines a structured approach to identifying, understanding, and solving marketing problems.  For marketing managers and senior sales managers, this session will present a framework that will help develop a strategy for day-to-day decisions involving product and service design, branding, pricing, promotion, and channel distribution decisions. The session will include a take home set of worksheets that the manager may tailor to his own business.

Key Benefits
  • Understand market analysis and the creation of market segments.
  • Build a strategy canvass that is a picture of your own strategic market
  • Build a brand map that illustrates the voice of your customer in positioning your products and services
  • Match your products and services to high profit market segments
  • Measure market segment and customer profitability. Use “benchmarks” to assess your performance
  • Develop a mission and strategic statement
  • Develop a campaign plan to your high priority segments
  • Identify strategic gaps in organization, process, programs, people, and performance metrics.
  • Build a corporate culture focused on marketing planning – the vision of the future

This program is designed for:
  • Managers responsible for the areas of sales, marketing, key accounts, and customer service.
  • Managers from other functional areas that interface with key customers.

This program is held in Spanish.

For more information, please contact Sharolyn Arnett at sarnett@umich.edu