Description
This assignment builds on the proposal you submitted eariler (attached). Using the target audience and product or service you identified in your proposal, create a marketing mix for launch. Define your product, price, place, and promotion using the criteria below. Include how you will measure success. write for your intended professional audience.
Marketing Mix Criteria:
Product/Service:
What need does the product or service satisfy for the customer?
What features does it have to meet these needs?
How and where will the customer use it?
What does it look like? Think size, colors, materials, etc.
What will it be called?
How is it differentiated versus your competitors?
Suggestions
Where will buyers get your product or service?
How can you access the right distribution channels?
Do you need to use a sales force? Or attend trade fairs? Or make online submissions? Or send samples to catalog companies?
How can you differentiate from the competition?
Suggestions
•Review Chapter 17 in the text.
•Remember to be clear about why your chosen distribution method will be acceptable or preferable to your target audience and why.
Price
What is the value of the product or service to the buyer?
What pricing strategy will you use?
How will your price compare with your competitors?
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Where and when can you get your marketing messages across to your target market?
Will you reach your audience by advertising online, in the press, on TV, on radio, or on billboards? By using direct marketing mailshots? Through PR? On the internet?
When is the best time to promote? Is there seasonality in the market? Are there any wider environmental issues that suggest or dictate the timing of your market launch or subsequent promotions?
How do your competitors do their promotions? And how does that influence your choice of promotional activity?
Suggestions
Reference (Kotler, P., & Keller, K. L. (2016). Marketing management. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.)
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Running Head: MARKETING MIX FOR LAUNCH
Marketing Mix for Launch
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
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MARKETING MIX FOR LAUNCH
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Product/Service
Aldi will be launching a new gas station and auto service facility which aims at providing
one-stop services such as gas refill, tire replacement and repair, brakes, mufflers and exhaust,
wheel alignment, tire rotation and balance, and oil change. The facility will have a filling station
and a bay for the other car repair services within the same facility.
The gasoline and repair services will be able to be accessed by the customers from the onestop facility (Isoraite 2016). The theme color of the facility will be blue and white for the entire
facility, and in addition to the repair services, customers will be able to access spare parts and
have them fitted in their vehicles.
The facility will be named Aldi gas station and auto service. The facility will be
differentiated from the competitors through the branding, as aforementio...