Business plan = marketing plan? i am confused?
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No. Business plan is different from marketing plan, but they are interrelated in the sense that your marketing plan can be detailed writeup of your market analysis in the business plan.
One of the key components of a business plan is Market Analysis, which provides a summary of your typical customers, competitive landscape, market size, and expected market growth. A marketing plan expounds on the market analysis that you have initially thought of in the business plan --
- you will explain why you chose the strategies for reaching your target customers,
- identify target customers clearly to better finetune your advertising and promotion strategies,
- write your positioning statements
- include preliminary budgets and timelines
Here is an outline for a marketing plan http://mplans.com/dpm/article.cfm/122.
You can see samples of marketing plans here http://mplans.com/spm/index.cfm?a=mc.
However, many small businesses simply write the business plan and try to include their marketing plan in it, rather than prepare a separate document.
Read some business and marketing tips on this site
no, in a business plan you set down how you want to run your business. in a marketing plan you set down how you want to bring your business's product to market.
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no.
Marketing plan is part of your business plan. A business plan covers
things like cashflow projection, objectives, key performance indicators, goals, human resources (that's too long to mention all. It depends on what type of business you are talking about and who is preparing it). I suggest you google on business plan and find some samples.
Ken
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business plan is larger picture, marketing plan is a part of business plan. business plan includes vision, mission, production process, cost of production, source of fund, financial projections, exit policy in addition to marketing plan.
For small businesses, a business plan and a marketing plan usually have completely different goals. Business plans, while good for any business, usually are created to receive outside funding from investors. Marketing plans, on the other hand, are usually created when launching a new product. Business plans will usually have a summary of the information contained in the marketing plan, but not all the details on implementing the marketing plan.
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