Marketing yourself plan

Simplified Marketing Yourself Plan

for Personal/Professional Branding

MAR 4354 – Marketing Yourself

“Brand image exists in the minds of the audience members.

It's the marketer’s job to shape that image accordingly.”

Typical marketing plans require marketers to assess their own sets of resources, evaluate the

marketplace, determine their target market(s), and then create a set of reasonable objectives

(goals) with an accompanying set of appropriate strategies and tactics to reach those objectives.

For this assignment, you will create a simplified marketing plan for your own personal and/or

professional brand, i.e., “Brand You.” This could in itself be a daunting task, but fortunately,

most of this has already been completed by you for you in previous class assignments.

Your Simplified Personal/Professional Marketing Plan must include the following elements:

1. Plan introduction and duration. This is a brief introduction to the purpose of the plan,

including the duration of its scope (1 year, 2 years, 3 years, etc.). The duration must be for at

least one year.

2. Summary/synthesis of your personal raw materials. (This was accomplished as part of

your Raw Materials Assessment.) Summarize and synthesize your personal raw materials in a

manner that allows a reader to understand the opportunities and challenges that may face you as

you construct and develop “Brand You.”

3. Market segment(s) that are to be targeted. (This was accomplished if you completed the

Product/Audience Match assigned earlier in the semester.) This section should include any

relevant portions from your Product/Audience Match Strategy assignment that would apply to

this particular marketing plan:

a) The potential target markets for your personal/professional brand (from “Part 1: List

Current Audiences” and “Part 4: List Prospective Audiences”).

b) Why these audiences are being targeted (from “Part 2: Importance of Current

Audiences” and “Part 5: Importance of Prospective Audiences”).

c) What the people in those segments desire in a person, employee, boss, etc.; that is, the

attributes of the ideal candidate to be courted by that market segment (from “Part

3: What Current Audiences Want from You” and “Part 6: What Prospective

Audiences Want from You”).

NOTE: Even though you will only mention in this document the target segments that are

applicable to this marketing plan, you must still include the COMPLETE Product/Audience

Match Strategy assignment as an Appendix to this assignment.

4. Objectives/Goals for your brand. (Much of this was accomplished if you completed the

Personal Marketing Strategy assigned earlier in the semester.) List at least five clearly

identified goals that have a measurable component and a time (deadline) component. Delineate

how each goal will be measured to ensure, eventually, that it has (or has not) been accomplished.

You can have multiple-level objectives and combine this section with multiple-level strategies

from the next section if desired. The key is that all objectives must lead you to your overall goal

of winning the hearts of your target audience(s).

NOTE: Even though you will only mention in this document any objectives/strategies that you

feel are relevant to this marketing plan, you must still include the COMPLETE Personal

Marketing Strategy assignment as an Appendix to this assignment.

5. Strategies and tactics designed to reach the objectives. (Much of this was accomplished if

you completed the Personal Marketing Strategy assigned earlier in the semester.) Your

strategies should have direct-line connections to the objectives they are designed to reach. As

mentioned above (in Part 4), you can combine this section with the Objectives or leave it as a

separate section. In either case, you must include a one-page figure/chart/image that depicts how

the strategies and objectives are connected.

6. Marketing Plan Timeline. Create a timeline for your plan where you detail the start and end

dates for each strategy and tactic. You must include a one-page figure/chart/image of the

timeline. You can be as creative as you like to create the timeline.

Specific Formatting Instructions

 Compile all of the above parts into one PDF document to upload to the appropriate location on Canvas.

 Please use single spacing and 12-point Times New Roman font for the text portions of the document.

 Use appropriate headings, subheadings, and spaces between sections, as well as proper grammar, spelling, etc.

 For any other elements, you can be as creative as you desire.

 Be sure to include the 1-page figure/chart/image that shows how your strategies are connected to your objectives.

 Be sure to include the 1-page figure/chart/image of your marketing plan timeline.

 Include in an Appendix the following two assignments (that should have been completed earlier in the semester):

o Product/Audience Match Strategy assignment o Personal Marketing Strategy assignment

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