Marketing Plan Work Sheet
Message
Research on competition and similar businesses, products and services - their features, benefits, claims, USPs, etc.:
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Features and benefits of your business, products or service:
Feature Benefit
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

USP (Unique Selling Proposition) - describe:




Write 3 different headlines based on your USP:




Irresistable offer(s):
Develop one or more irresistable offers compatible with your USP and summarize each offer in twenty words or less:




Presentation:
Explain the need of your customer:




Explain the general "thing" that fulfills that need:




Explain why your product, service, or business is the best "thing":




Justify your price:




Give the reasons the customer should act now:




How can you build the customer's interest in your product, service, or business (at least 5 ideas):






Set up your call to action.  What do you want the customer to do? (options):




Targets:

Describe your geographic target market:




Describe your demographic target market:




Describe your association/affinity target market(s):




Proof:

List all the types of "Pictorial proof" you have:




List all the "testimonial proof" you have:

Real people:




Celebrities:




List the "reference proof" you have:




List the "demonstration proof" you have:




List any other proof you have:




Describe the guarantee(s) you offer:




Image
Notes Re: Appearance of business premises:




Notes Re: business premises facilitating buying:




Notes Re: community affairs:




Notes Re: celebrity spokesperson(s):




Notes Re: brand-name identity:




Publicity:

Charity/nonprofit connection ideas:



Personal self-promotion ideas:



Positioning as an expert:



Creative promotions to media:



Talk shows:



Press kit:



Malibu-ism: staying hot
Planned/built-in constant change
What's new 30 days from now



What's new 60 days from now

What's new 90 days from now


Seasonal promotions
To-do list:




Calendar weeks (52 weeks = 1 year):
 
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       

Poor Boy Marketing Strategies

Inbound Telephone Procedures:



Telephone upsell procedures:



Outbound telemarketing ideas:



Proactive ideas:



Co-op projects:



Window displays:



"Teaser" newspaper advertising:



Maximizing Customer Value

Honored guest greeting procedures:



Product knowledge - team training:



Policy control:



Complaint-resolution process



Customer-retention plan



Referrals

EARN-ideas



ASK-ideas
How can we convey our expectations?



Referral promotions:



Referral events:



Recognize and reward:



Sales Surges

Big discount, reason why - ideas:



Sweepstakes winners - ideas:



Red-tag sale  ideas:



Coupons - ideas:



Premiums - ideas:



Crazy accountant sale - ideas:



Sports-related promotions - Ideas:



Trade-Ins-ideas:



E-Z Payment terms - ideas:



Celebrity Appearances - ideas:



New Technologies

Nonthreatening first contact/record message - ideas:



900# - ideas:



audio brochure - ideas:



video brochure - ideas:



info-mercial - ideas:



desktop publishing / marketing - ideas:



robot telemarketing - ideas:



focus groups - ideas:



experiment! - ideas: