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Sheikh Ijaz
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By Sheikh Ijaz
Published on 05/18/2008
 
Marketing plan means the sketch or lay out of your policies and vision about how to win the market by introducing and selling our product. A good marketing plan always clicks and earns a lot for the owner from the market.

Developing a Marketing Plan
What is a marketing plan?

Marketing plan means the sketch or lay out of your policies and vision about how to win the market by introducing and selling our product. A good marketing plan always clicks and earns a lot for the owner from the market.

How to develop an effective marketing plan?

In order to develop an effective marketing plan we must be aware of the constituents of a good marketing plan which are as follow.

Making more and more people aware of the product

The first and foremost concern of a good marketing plan is to make more and more people aware of the utility of the product. No one likes to buy any product unless he is fully aware of its merits. So a marketing plan must ensure a certain mechanism of communicating with the people about that very product. For this very purpose, the marketing plan must include the use of different or various tools of communication. It means that all the available media fronts should be used to propagate the efficacy of the product. Print and electronic media, audio-visual aids and door to door visits can help a lot in this connection.

Ensuring prompt access to the market

While developing a sound marketing plan, a good planner pays special attention to the factors ensuring prompt access of the product to the market. This is because an ever-available product paves its way to the depth of the market and dominates many other contemporary products. Therefore a good marketing plan covers this very important aspect of the business, and arranges for the regular supply of the product to each and every corner of the market. Obviously it involves a very strong transportation network to ensure the supply of the product to the market, so developing a marketing plan also demands a special focus on this important wing as will.

A fool-proof mechanism for the co-ordination among different units

Another important factor in the development of a good marketing plan is fool-proof mechanism for the coordination among different units ranging from the very first thought about production to the ultimate use of the product by the consumer. This mechanism must be oriented on the scientific grounds and must also be self-sufficient in its operation or execution. Coordination among different departments makes it much easier to produce, propagate, supply and sell the product in the market. It also arranges for the true feed-back of the product from the consumers So that the producer may improve his product accordingly.

Collection of the revenue and financing the product

Last but not the least in the development of a marketing plan is the collection of the revenue from the market in order to finance and refinance the production of our product. If some manufacturer fails in this regard and is no more able to support the production financially, he will flop in the market. Therefore it is almost compulsory for good marketing plan to focus on this areas well.

Conclusion

A marketing plan must be developed keeping in mind all the above mentioned constituents so that it may support the product on all the fronts and prove an excellent trick for the manufacturer as well.

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