Strategic Plan Sample

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Strategic Plan Sample

• Strategic/Marketing plan
• August 2004
• Dan Beaulieu
• D.B.Management Group L.L.C.

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• Objectives
• To increase sales
• To be more visible in the marketplace
• To grow our fast turn business
• To gain dominance in specialized niche
  Electronics
• To get more out of our reps
• To get more out of our sales force

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Strategic Plan Sample Before Getting Started

• A word about D.B.Management and how we operate
  This is what we promise you
• We teach you how to sell and market we dont do
  it for you.
• We help you with all of your sales/ strategic and
  marketing needs. We train, we strategize, we help
  you to compete better and we show you how to win.
• We work with strategically and tactically not
  specifically. We dont get involved in specifics
  like customers and pricing. By doing this we work
  with more than one client at a time in the way
  that a personal trainer/ coach does
• The very nature of our work is highly
  confidential. What happens in your shop stays in
  your shop.
• We equip you to compete successfully in the
  marketplace.
• Besides being strategists we are implementers. If
  our are plans are not realized through direct
  implementation and success measurement, you will
  not be successful and we will not be successful.
• When we take on a client we assume responsibility
  for their success.

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• Deliverables
• Develop a marketing communications plan that will
  include
• Updated sales literature
• New Niche electronics brochure
• Updated focused web site
• Specialized marketing plan
• Intro Package for reps
• Sales Presentation
• Manage, measure and motivate the sales team
• ACT AS IMPLEMENTOR. MAKE SURE ALL PLANS ARE
  IMPLEMENTED AND SUCCESSFUL.

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• Strategic Plan Sample
• The Image
• High tech
• High quality
• Customer focused
• Consistent
• Reliable
• Dependable
• Flexible
• We are willing to do whatever we must to meet our
  customers needs.

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• THE MESSAGE
• MUST BE CONSISTENT
• ALWAYS TALK ABOUT PERFORMANCE/PERFORMANCE
• USE ON-TIME STATS
• QUALITY STATS
• SATISFIED CUSTOMERS/ Let our satisfied customer
  speak for us.
• REFERRALS
• TESTIMONIALS
• SUCCESS STORIES

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• The message By getting the right message out we
  will make people doubt themselves when they use
  other shops
• They will second guess themselves and get to the
  point where they feel that they have not done
  the very best for their company by using
  Strategic Plan Sample. By reading our constant
  message they will have a great picture of what
  Strategic Plan Sample can do, and that we are the
  best value in the industry
• We are reliable
• We can show ads and scenarios where terrible
  things happen when boards are not there on time
  or if they fail
• There is a definite need for a shop that can do
  everything we can do
• Strategic Plan will meet that need of getting the
  right message out to the right people.

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT
• LITERATURE
• WEB SITE
• E-MAIL POST CARDS
• DIRECT MAILINGS
• ADVERTISING
• PROMOTIONAL CARDS
• ARTICLES
• TRADE SHOWS

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• LITERATURE Strategic Plan Sample/ /Niche
  electronics
• UP TO DATE FOLDERS AND INSERTS
• TRI-FOLD CARRIES THE MESSAGE FOR THE INDIVIDAL
  NICHE INDUSTRY INDUSTRY
• PERSONAL BROCHURE
• TELLS THE COMPANYS STORY IN NARRATIVE. THIS IS
  THE BEST WAY TO PORTRAY THE COMPANYS CULTURE

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• PERSONAL COMPANY BROCHURE
• TALK ABOUT WHAT WE DO BEST
• HOW WE GOT HERE
• OUR PHILOSOPHY
• CUSTOMER FRIENDLY
• READABLE/INTERESTING
• BOOK LIKE

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• WEB SITE
• CARRY OTHER LITERATURE
• THE PERSONAL BROCHURE
• THE STATISTICS
• TESTIMONIALS
• ALL OTHER MATERIALS NEED TO LEAD TO THE WEB SITE
• WEB SITE MARKETING/DIRECTORY PLACEMENT
• WEB SITE IS HOME AWAY FROM HOME

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• E-MAIL POSTCARDS/
• CARRY SPECIFIC MESSAGES
• VERY QUICK AND FAST
• OFFER IMMEDIATE PROMOTIONS
• LEAD TO WEB SITE
• FOLLOW UP
• DISCUSS FREQUENCY
• BUILD D-BASE

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• DIRECT MAILING/
• POSTCARDS
• Be consistent in sending out regularly
• Collect the right data bases
• Numbers game
• Need coordinated follow up
• Consistent message

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• ADVERTISING
• GET THE MESSAGE OUT
• We are the best value in the industry
• Special ads for
• Niche business
• Specialized business
• Company message
• Exactly what we want to sell
• DEVELOP 4 ADS AND ROTATE THEM
• ADVERTISE IN PCBDM AND US TECH
• Circuits Assembly and appropriate medical trades

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• ADVERTISING/ direct mailing list are available
  for advertisers in PCBDM at 800 per five
  thousand mailing labels.
• We should do four mailings using these labels

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• Permission marketing
• Get customers and target customers permission to
  send them info about our company on a regular
  basis.
• Add to data base
• Send them valuable information on steady basis
• They get used to us and hearing from us
• Are exposed to benefits of dealing with us
• Become customers
• Become loyalists

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• Customer Surveys
• We need to know what our customers are thinking.
  What they are saying about us and what their
  needs are. Our focus has to be on the customers
• Online surveys
• Phone surveys
• Develop a users group?
• Action Decide and implement Date

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• Trade Shows
• Selection which shows should we attend?
• Show strategy/ reasons for attending
• Tactics Getting the most out of the show
• Set and meet goals
• Measure success
• Plan for next time
• Post show follow up
• Action develop a trade show plan/ Date_____

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• Promotional items
• Items have to be consistent with our message
• They need to be helpful and valuable
• Something the receivers will keep and use
• Something that will show our name
• Something that will be kept at work
• Neat products

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• Articles and Seminars/ Niche
• To position us as industry experts
• Multi-uses An article in a magazine can be
• Basis for a paper at IPC expo
• Reprinted as literature
• Made into a pamphlet
• A branding device
• A promotional give away
• A basis for a seminar
• Given at customers sales meetings
• Action developed a multi-year publication plan

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• Niche
• Marketing plan
• Getting the word out
• Separate from Strategic Plan Sample
• Good business
• Good lead producer
• Good marketing lead
• Good advertising pioneer

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• Special Niche
• Special literature
• Tri-fold
• Clear and to the point
• How to use our services
• Used for direct mailings
• Important that we keep this business apart
  marketing wise from others. This is very
  different than medical electronics

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• FIND THE RIGHT REPS
• THE SALES FORCE
• INDEPENDENT SALES REPS
• TERRITORY EXPERTS
• RELATIONSHIP MANAGERS
• FOCUSED ON SELLING OUR PCBS
• FOCUSED ON SELLING OUR TECHNOLOGY
• SUCCEED BY MAKING US SUCCEED
• PAID WHEN WE GET PAID

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• INDEPENDENT SALES REPS
• ATTRACTION to Our Company
• GOOD STRONG COMPANY
• CLEAR AND DIRECT STRATEGY
• FINANCIALLY SOUND
• MARKET FOR AND WITH THEM
• DEVELOP REPUTATION
• GREAT TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
• NO HOUSE ACCOUNTS
• SOME PRE-EXISTING RELATIONSHIPS
• WIDE SPAN OF SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
• GREAT IN-HOUSE SUPPORT
• NICHE ELECTRONIC MARKET
• QUICK TURN

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• QUALIFYING A REP evaluate
• BOARD EXPERTISE
• WELL RUN AGENCY
• SUCCESSFUL
• RELATIONSHIP WITH TARGET ACCOUNTS
• HOW MANY PEOPLE IN FIRM?
• OTHER BOARD FABRICATORS
• WORK ETHIC
• TIME DEDICATED TO COMPANY
• REFERENCES
• SPECIALITY

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• TREAT THE REP AS A PARTNER
• INDEPENDENT SALES REPS
• FINDING AND KEEPING REPS
• NO HOUSE ACCOUNTS
• GOOD CONTRACT
• TREAT AS PARTNERS
• GOOD LONG TERM CONTRACT
• GOOD COMMUNICATIONS
• PAY ON TIME
• MARKET IN THEIR REGION

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• TRAIN THE REPS
• Communicate our strategic plan
• Let them know our sales tactics
• Provide them with the right sales tools
• Assist them in lead generation
• Trade shows in their region
• Regular phone meetings
• Regular live customer co calls

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• Actions
• Review and discuss this plan
• Assert that we are on the right track
• Document comments
• Update this plan
• List actions with dates
• Begin actual implementation

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Strategic Plan Sample Strategic/marketing plan

• About this plan
• This is a living plan. We work on it as we go so
  that we are always making progress.
• It is also an implementation tool. Giving us a
  step by step roadmap to implement these
  strategies, tactics and tools.
• We use Microsoft Project as tool to make sure
  that we continuously track our progress and
  achieve our goals on or ahead of schedule.