Strategic Marketing: Developing a Market-focused Approach

 

We define strategic marketing as an umbrella management process for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers  The process of strategic marketing guide the following organizational decisions:

· Developing a marketing strategy

· Selecting market types, audiences and market segmentation

· Designing competitive and cooperative behaviors

· Shaping the internal organizational environment: market orientation in research and development, organizational culture and market knowledge

· Shaping the external organizational environment: customer relations, marketing communications and corporate social responsibility.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As illustrated in the above model, strategic marketing include 3 major stages:

1. Analysis - Analyzing the organization, customers, competitors and the business environment in which we operate.

2. Planning - Match between the business environment and our mission and values. This stage focus on two steps: develop products and services with a sustainable competitive advantage, and design an attractive brand.

3. Execution - In order to communicate our improved value proposition, the communication tactics of public relations, advertising, sales promotion, direct marketing, guerrilla marketing, e-marketing and others should be employed.

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