Relationship-Based Marketing
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Salebarn
3823 160th Street
George, Iowa. 51237
712-475-3085
[email protected]


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Table of Contents

1.0 Executive Summary
2.0 Situation Analysis
     2.1 Market Summary
         2.1.1 Market Demographics
         2.1.2 Market Needs
         2.1.3 Market Trends
         2.1.4 Market Growth
     2.2 SWOT Analysis
         2.2.1 Strengths
         2.2.2 Weaknesses
         2.2.3 Opportunities
         2.2.4 Threats
     2.3 Competition
     2.4 Product Offering
     2.5 Keys to Success
     2.6 Critical Issues
3.0 Marketing Strategy
     3.1 Mission
     3.2 Marketing Objectives
     3.3 Financial Objectives
     3.4 Target Markets
     3.5 Positioning
     3.6 Strategies
     3.7 Marketing Mix
     3.8 Marketing Research
4.0 Web Plan Summary
     4.1 Website Marketing Strategy
     4.2 Development Requirements
5.0 Financials
     5.1 Break-even Analysis
     5.2 Sales Forecast
     5.3 Expense Forecast
6.0 Controls
     6.1 Implementation
     6.2 Marketing Organization
     6.3 Contingency Planning

Appendices


1.0 Executive Summary
2.0 Situation Analysis
2.1 Market Summary
Market Analysis
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2.1.1 Market Demographics

Customer wants, needs, desires, preferences

Frequency of purchases and/or updates

Age, gender, nationality, education, household composition, occupation, and income of customers.

Geographic factors, industry factors, environmental factors, political factors, access/familiarity to information technology

Psychographic factors: rural lifestyles, independent personalities, ag-based

Market behaviors - buyers knowledge, attitude, use, or response to professional services and consultants

 

2.1.2 Market Needs
2.1.3 Market Trends
2.1.4 Market Growth
2.2 SWOT Analysis
2.2.1 Strengths
2.2.2 Weaknesses
2.2.3 Opportunities
2.2.4 Threats
2.3 Competition

Salebarn works with its customers and the applications and tools that they use, but Salebarn also faces competition from customers themselves, including their commission-based sales representation networks. 

Goldmine, Act!, Entellium as well as Outlook based contact-mgmt [such as OpusFlow] and other inexpensive contact mgmt software applications

Web-based sales force automation application such as Salesforce.com

 

2.4 Product Offering

Marketing planning

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software specifically-tailored per customer requirements

CRM implmentation project management

2.5 Keys to Success

Being able to ramp up and provide JIT consultancy when customers NEED help ... i.e. understanding a customer's needs before a customer understands those needs and acts.

Establishing the Salebarn funnel for Salebarn's own marketing efforts.

Establishing a qualified network of programmers and software engineers to support the needs of Salebarn customers.

Understanding information technology developments and marketing trends before others do.

 

2.6 Critical Issues
3.0 Marketing Strategy
3.1 Mission
The mission of Salebarn.com to assist rural microenterprises in adopting a systems - based quality orientation, lean thinking principles and the tactics of Six Sigma necessary for relationship-based marketing.  Relationship-based marketing is based upon investing heavily in the customer relationship and knowledge of the customer in order to provide optimal service -- this understanding is critically important in order to design a product and produce what exactly matters most in the eyes of the customer.
3.2 Marketing Objectives
3.3 Financial Objectives
3.4 Target Markets
3.5 Positioning
3.6 Strategies
3.7 Marketing Mix
3.8 Marketing Research
4.0 Web Plan Summary
4.1 Website Marketing Strategy
4.2 Development Requirements
5.0 Financials
5.1 Break-even Analysis
Break-even Analysis:
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5.2 Sales Forecast
Sales Forecast
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5.3 Expense Forecast
Marketing Expense Budget
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6.0 Controls
6.1 Implementation
Milestones
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6.2 Marketing Organization
6.3 Contingency Planning

Sales Forecast
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Marketing Expense Budget
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