Overview
I need to write the Brand Project Final Paper with my team members. My team members will write the first half (points one to three), while I will write the second half (points four to six). Based on the Brand Project Final Paper, we need to create our PowerPoint presentation and give a speech. We have finished my PowerPoint and speech, and I can also provide our PowerPoint and speech script. You need to help me finish the second half of the paper based on the content of the PPT I provided
Components of the Plan:
Written Report
- Executive Summary
- Market Analysis
- Required elements
- Company history and profile
- Industry analysis (trends, size, growth, market structure) with implications for your plan
- Competitive analysis (key players, performance, marketing strategies, communications components, distribution channels) with implications for your plan
- Company’s mission statement
- Company Perceptual map
- Company SWOT with Implications For The Plan
- Lessons learned from the above with Implications For The Plan
- Optional elements
- Sources of company volume
- Analysis of marketing successes and failures at the company
- Consumer perceptions of the company
- Pictures, charts, graphs where helpful
- Required elements
- Product Strategy & Plan
- Required elements
- Business objective for the product
- Product concept statement
- If this is Blue Ocean Thinking, explain why and how
- Product value proposition using the Value Proposition tool
- Market research technique(s) used, how they will be used with details and why you chose these techniques
- Target customer(s) with demographic & psychographic elements. Rationale for chosen target
- Pricing strategy with rationale behind it
- Product perceptual map
- Competitive analysis with implications for your product
- Product SWOT with Implications for the Plan
- Optional elements
- Customer persona(s)
- Volume forecast
- Revenue and Profit forecast
- Research questionnaires
- Environmental Sustainability and/or Social Responsibility considerations
- Product concept drawings, schematics
- Product offering if more than one variation (ie: size, packaging elements, colors, etc)
- Required elements
- Brand Strategy & Plan
- Required elements
- Business objective for the brand
- Brand Name
- Brand Value Proposition statement using the Brand Value Proposition Tool with rationale for target audience
- Brand Personality using ideas learned in class and linking this to your target audience
- Brand elements (for example: tagline, packaging, logo, colors, font) and why you choose these linking them to your brand strategy, target market, etc..
- Brand short story (“elevator pitch”)
- Distribution channel(s) and why you chose these are they relate to your brand strategy
- Market research plan with specific objectives you’re trying to achieve with chosen research
- Brand perceptual map
- Geographic considerations with rational behind your choice(s)
- Communications plan (media, promotion, trade/industry, thought leadership, social, PR) with rationale for choosing these vehicles tied back to your business objectives and target audience(s)
- Brand equity measurement plan and elements
- Optional elements
- Business model type
- Experiential tactics
- Environmental Sustainability and/or Social Responsibility considerations
- Cause marketing
- Brand associations
- Brand hierarchy if other brands in the portfolio
- Drawings, graphics, schematics of the brand elements
- Pictures
- Marketing communications plan flowchart
- Brand Resonance pyramid
- Required elements
- Risks and Mitigation Plans
- What are the biggest risks to your marketing plan?
- What will you do to mitigate these risks?
- What gaps are in your plan and what do you propose to management to remove these?
- Final Recommendations