· Provide a brief summary of the marketing plan.
Introduction
· State the objectives of the strategic plan.
· Explain how your marketing plan will achieve specific objectives and support the organization’s business plan and strategic plan.
Market Analysis
· Describe the organization’s products and services
· Explain how these products and services meet the needs of the organization’s determined customer base.
· Include relevant aspects from the SWOT analysis
· State the competitive advantage your plan provides.
Environmental Analyses
· Internal: Include an analysis of the role of leadership and employees, the communication processes, and the culture of the workplace.
· External: Include an analysis of socioeconomic, legal, ethical, political, and technological factors that could affect the organization.
· Describe how data, based on the quadrants presented in the Boston Consulting Group Matrix, would apply to your marketing plan.
Marketing Mix
· Describe the marketing opportunities and marketing goals for your chosen HCO.
· Explain the marketing strategies that are employed in your plan.
· Apply market segmentation to your plan based on the target markets you have identified.
· Explain how database marketing was used or why it was not included in your marketing plan.
Plan Evaluation
· Discuss methods of performance evaluation and monitoring that will be used to evaluate the success of your chosen healthcare organization’s marketing plan.
· Explain why reports for a particular timeframe (weekly, monthly, quarterly) would be important and how you would use feedback in these reports to control the future of your marketing.
Conclusion
· Provide a conclusion that summarizes your marketing plan. Include persuasive statements that explain how your marketing plan supports the goals of your chosen healthcare organization’s strategic plan.
The Marketing Plan:
· Must be ten double-spaced pages in length (not including the title page and references page) and formatted according to APA style
· Must include a separate title page with the following:
· Title of paper
· Student’s name
· Course name and number
· Instructor’s name
· Date submitted
· Must use at least ten scholarly sources
· Must document all sources in APA style.