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Marketing Your Product Building a Successful Marketing Plan Sales and Marketing Plans
Marketing Your Product Building a Successful Marketing Plan Sales and Marketing Plans
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This section of the marketing plan outlines each marketing event or action planned to increase sales. The plan will generally cover a calendar year, broken down by month or by quarter. For example, it may contain a summary of quarterly promotion and advertising plans, with spending, timing, and share/shipment goals for each program.
Sales and marketing plans should be a logical outgrowth of short- and long-term company objectives and your marketing strategy. In the business plan, the sales and marketing plans provide an outline of each marketing event for the year, covering the following information:
- description of each event vehicle (e.g., media, promotion, trade, sales)
- timing of each event
- event goals and objectives (e.g., volume, share gains)
- cost of each event
