Strategy development and marketing planning - Developing a marketing strategy

4 important questions on Strategy development and marketing planning - Developing a marketing strategy

What are the four investment strategies?

  1. Build strategy (aggressive growth strategy to increase market share)
  2. Hold strategy (maintain the SBU's current market share by defending it's market position)
  3. Harvest strategy (investments in marketing are kept to a minimum in order to maximise the cash flow)
  4. Divest strategy (Sometimes its best to withdraw of the proceeds from the sale will generate a higher return on investment elsewhere)

What are Michael Porter's generic strategies?

  1. Cost leadership (concentrate on cutting expenses and reducing prices while appealing to a wide range of market)
  2. Differentiation (Charge premium prices for unique products/services with an attractive brand image that are valued by customers and conceived better than those of the competition (APPLE))
  3. Focus strategy (create products/services that completely meet the needs of a limited group of buyers in the market (Bentley)

What is the Ansoff model?

An analytical tool to help managers select the best strategies to increase market share is Ansoff's PRODUCT-MARKET EXPENSION MATRIX

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How can you realise more sales with selling existing products to markets we are already active in?

Deepening the market (Penetration) let existing customers by more products
Broadening the market (Expansion) sell to new customers in the existing target group

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