Goes beyond simple promotion and advertising; it encompasses analyzing market trends, understanding customer needs and preferences, identifying competitive advantages, and developing tactics to achieve long-term success
Key elements of strategic marketing
Marketanalysis
Targetaudience
Positioning
Monitoringandevaluation
Marketanalysis
Understanding the industry landscape, including competitors, market trends, and customer demographics
Targetaudience
Identifying the specific segments of the market that the organization wants to reach and understanding their needs, preferences, and behaviors
Positioning
Determining how the organization wants to be perceived in the market and developing strategies to differentiate itself from competitors
Monitoringandevaluation
Continuously monitoring the performance of marketing initiatives, collecting feedback from customers, and evaluating the effectiveness of strategies to make adjustments as needed
SWOTanalysis
Strategic planning tool used to identify and evaluate your business
SWOTanalysis
Helps in understanding the internal and external factors that can impact the organization's performance and strategic decision-making
Strengths
Strong brand reputation
Unique product or service offerings
Skilled workforce or expertise
Efficient processes or technology
Strong financial position
Weaknesses
Lack of brand recognition
Limited resources or budget constraints
Inefficient processes or outdated technology
Poorly trained staff
Vulnerability to market changes or trends
Opportunities
Emerging market trends or consumer preferences
New technological advancements
Untapped market segments or geographic expansion
Changes in regulations or government policies
Strategic partnerships or alliances
Threats
Intense competition
Economic downturns or market fluctuations
Changing consumer behavior
Technological disruptions
Legal or regulatory challenges
PESTLEanalysis
Evaluate the political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors that affect the organization's operating environment
PESTLEanalysis
Organization's needs to know the things that can be a hindrance in their growth
Political factors
Government policies, regulations, and political stability
Taxation policies
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Economic factors
Economic growth
Inflation rates
Exchange rates
Interest rates
Unemployment rates
Social factors
Population demographics
Cultural attitudes
Lifestyle preferences
Health consciousness
Social values
Technological factors
Innovation
Automation
Digitalization
Research and development (R&D) activities
Technological disruptions
Food delivery
Legal factors
Employment laws
Consumer protection laws
Environmental regulations
Intellectual property rights
Industry-specific regulations
Compliance with food safety regulations
Minimum wage
Environmental factors
Climate change
Environmental regulations
Resource scarcity
Energy consumption
Waste management
Intuitivethinking
Sensing or knowing without using rational processes such as reading facts and instructions
Types of intuitive thinking
Emotional intuitive thinking
Mental intuitive thinking
Psychic intuitive thinking
Spiritual intuitive thinking
Factors that influence intuitive thinking
Experience
Networks
Emotionalintelligence
Risktolerance
Limits
Intuitivethinkers
Rely on their past experiences, emotions, and intuition to guide their decision-making process; trust their instincts and are comfortable taking risks based on their gut feelings
Globalization
The interconnectedness and interdependence of peoples and countries
Types of globalization
Economic globalization
Ecological globalization
Geographic globalization
Political globalization
Technological globalization
Globalinterconnectedness
The ability to understand and function in an increasingly multicultural, international, yet interconnected environment
Weather
Short-term atmospheric conditions observed at a specific time and place
Climate
Long-term average patterns and variations in weather conditions observed over an extended period in a particular region
Weather can change rapidly and vary from day to day, climate represents the broader, underlying patterns and trends that characterize a region's atmospheric conditions over time
Climatechange
Long-term change in the Earth's weather patterns brought on by greenhouse gas emissions
Aspects of climate change
Globalwarming
ElNinoandLaNina
Impacts of climate change
Water
Food
Health
Environment
Emotional intuitive thinking
Ability to immediately pick up on other people's personality traits or emotional states
Mental intuitive thinking
Finding an immediate answer to a problem, without analyzing it
Psychic intuitive thinking
Ability to choose the best path to overcome a personal difficulty, without putting much mental effort into it
Spiritual intuitive thinking
States of enlightenment or revelations, more of an experience than a fact
Factors that influence intuitive thinking
Experience
Networks
EmotionalIntelligence
RiskTolerance
Limits
Experience
The more experienced a person is in a particular field, the more their subconscious mind will be able to observe and recognize patterns, which translates to better intuition
Networks
The more a person interacts with a network of people with a lot of experience in a certain field, the more they learn about the minute cues that help others make their decisions