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Understand your challenges and objectives

Consult with all stakeholders to gain clarity and ensure the relevancy of the engagement to the broader organisation

Agree achievable, actionable outcomes with you

Seek to minimize expenditure and conclude assignments as rapidly as quality work allows

Maintain objectivity at all times, focusing on your needs rather than ours

Collaborate and consult with you through the duration of the assignment, and provide suitable check point progress review opportunities.

 

Consulting and Marketing Services

Marketing Minds improve business performance through bringing clients an external perspective, objectivity, analysis, facilitation of strategy development, tools and ideas. Specific areas include:

 

Marketing Plan Development

 

Demand Generation Strategy

 
  • Goal setting & clarification of needs of marketing's stakeholders
  • Assessment and sizing of market opportunity
  • Customer research & needs analysis
  • Match of opportunity areas to delivery capabilities of the business
  • Segmentation
  • Target customer groups and market coverage strategy
  • Positioning and brand strategy
  • Value propositions and message development
  • Channel / distribution strategy
  • Marketing campaign and implementation strategy
 
  • Goal development / success criteria
  • Competitive situation analysis / review of basis of competition
  • Differentiation opportunity analysis
  • Market segment prioritisation
  • Targeting plans
  • Channel engagement plan
  • Development of market offer / proposition
  • Call-to-action plan
  • Lead management plans
  • Integrated marketing channels plan
  • Marketing communications plan
  • Campaign plans / timing of specific programs
     
 

Customer Profitability Review

 

Customer Experience Design

 
  • Analysis of cost of serving existing customers
  • Identification of customer profitability profiles
  • Tools and methodologies to group customers into profitability segments
  • Strategies for matching cost of customer relationship with likely customer revenue streams

 
  • Review of dealing with the business through customers' eyes
  • Gap analysis of business' intent and actual customer experience
  • Identification of customer experience segments
  • Strategies for profitably aligning the business with different segments
       
 

Marketing Efficiency Review

 

Customer Relationship Systems Design

 
  • Development of appropriate marketing metrics
  • Availability of data to measure success/ marketing roi
  • Benchmarking of past performance / history
  • Accuracy of defining and reaching target customer groups
  • Precision of marketing activities in not spilling over into non-target areas
  • Match to the timing of customers' buying patterns
  • Marketing processes and systems used
  • Techniques for communication of results to stakeholders / organisation
 
  • Identification of key data needed to improve ROI on sales & marketing
  • Access to data generated through normal business operations
  • Marketing database structure & data model design
  • Processes for maintaining, updating, and accessing marketing database
  • Compliance with privacy and other legislation
  • Implementation plan
     
 

Marketing Team Design &
Marketing Budget Planning

 

Customer Franchise Improvement

 
  • Clarification of needs of stakeholders in marketing
  • Match of current success criteria for marketing to organisations' expectations
  • Opportunity areas for marketing (on overall success of business)
  • Costing of para-marketing resources and activities elsewhere in business
  • Development of a marketing ROI plan
  • Insource / outsource / para-marketing integration decision framework
  • Refining and agreeing team accountabilities (with stakeholders)
  • Identification of marketing-dependent success metrics across the business
  • Building a resource plan
  • Strategies for gaining agreement and endorsement from stakeholders
 
  • Value expected by customers
  • History of delivering against brand promise
  • Alternatives available to customers
  • Review of competitive position
  • Customer history, cohorts, and segments
  • Customer Engagement model
  • Channel model
  • Customer communications, including advertising planning
  • Strategies for aligning total organisation to delivery of brand promise
  • Metrics for continuous improvement of customer experience
     
 

Go to Market Strategy

Marketing Workshops and Training

 
  • Refinement / definition of target customer groups
  • Customer engagement, channel & distribution strategy
  • Value proposition development
 
  • Segmentation & Positioning
  • Value proposition development
  • Media planning / marcoms ROI
  • Competitive analysis
  • Market research management
  • Marketing program and event management
  • Sales coverage / planning

Our preferred methodology is to collaborate closely with clients. An example of our approach to a marketing project is shown below (the project is help a service company by creating a market entry plan for a new line of business).

Example of methodology used to develop a market entry plan.

If you would like to discuss how a marketing consultant from Marketing Minds may be able to help you, please contact us.

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