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Assignment Details

Based on your Product/Service/Consumer Behavior paper, develop a strategic plan including promotional strategies for your product, and internal SWOT analysis, and compare and contrast your strategies to your top competitor. This paper should be 2-3 pages in length. Please see the rubric and the assignment outline below:

I. Cover page (your name, course section, date, title)

II. Body

a. You can choose TWO media strategies from the list below that your company will use and be sure to analyze WHY you choose them. (Refer to the information in the lecture regarding advantages and disadvantages of each). You can choose social media but only ONE can be used (for example, if you choose facebook then you can only use that and need to select another one from the list below)

i. Radio

ii. Magazine

iii. Television

iv. Direct Marketing

v. Public Relations

vi. Social media (choose one: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat, Instragram, YouTube, Pinterest)

b. What are your promotional goals? Informative? Persuasive?

c. Compare and contrast your promotional strategy with your competitor.

d. Describe your competitor’s SWOT analysis.

e. Describe YOUR company SWOT analysis using TWO areas in each SWOT section (for example two strengths of your company might be “one of a kind” and another might be ‘less expensive’).

f. Compare and contrast your SWOT analysis with your competitor.

III. References

Paper #2 Promotional Strategies/SWOT Analysis Rubric Criteria

Criteria

Not Evident

0%

Needs Improvement

55%

Proficient

85%

Exemplary

100%

Development of Promotional Strategies

30%

No promotional strategies are developed

Does not meet the criteria for numbers of media strategies and/or does not explain the media strategies selected

Explains all aspects of the of the media strategies selected using appropriate justification to support why the media strategies were selected

Thoroughly explains all aspects of the media strategies selected using appropriate justification to support why the media strategies were selected

Internal SWOT Development

30%

Does not develop a SWOT analysis appropriate for the product/company

Some aspects of the SWOT are explained, but does not use appropriate justification

Explains all aspects of the SWOT analysis using appropriate justification

Thoroughly explains all aspects of the SWOT analysis and uses appropriate justification

Compare and Contrast Competition

30%

The competition’s strategies are not evaluated

Some aspects of the competition’s strategies are explained and/or does not use appropriate justification

The competition’s media strategies and SWOT are explained using appropriate justification

Thoroughly explains the competition’s media strategies and SWOT using appropriate justification

Technical Requirements

References, meets page requirement, proof read, and cover page

10%

The paper does not reference APA citations, has many grammar errors, does not meet the page limit, and/or does not have a cover page

The paper has some APA citation errors, some grammar errors, does not meet the page limit, and/or cover page has some errors

The paper has a few grammar and citation errors, meets the page limit requirement, and a cover page is included

The paper is free from grammar and citation errors, meets for exceeds the page requirements, and the cover page is appropriately formatted