B2C Strategic Marketing

MRKT-1002
Closed
Red River College Polytechnic
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Andrea McCann-Suchower
Instructor
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Timeline
  • January 18, 2020
    Experience start
  • January 14, 2020
    Group agreement
  • January 18, 2020
    Initial meeting with the industry partner
  • February 15, 2020
    Rough draft
  • March 14, 2020
    Recommendations
  • March 24, 2020
    Plan completion
  • April 20, 2020
    Experience end
Experience
7/7 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Canada
Social Enterprise, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise, Sole proprietorship, Family-Owned
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Market research Marketing strategy
Skills
digital marketing creative thinking marketing research marketing strategy branding
Student goals and capabilities

Student-consultants working in groups will develop a comprehensive B2C marketing plan for a marketing objective of your choice. This will include market segmentation, social media analysis and a competitive analysis.

Students

Students
Undergraduate
Any level
36 students
Project
30 hours per student
Students self-assign
Teams of 5
Expected outcomes and deliverables

At the completion of this project, your organization will receive:

  • A full marketing plan and presentation.
  • Analysis of all four marketing mix elements; product, price, distribution and promotion.
  • Apply market segmentation techniques to identify target market opportunities
  • Apply research techniques to solve problems and guide marketing decisions
  • Primary and secondary competitive analysis
  • Creative and actionable recommendations based on a clear, well-defined goal.

Project timeline
  • January 18, 2020
    Experience start
  • January 14, 2020
    Group agreement
  • January 18, 2020
    Initial meeting with the industry partner
  • February 15, 2020
    Rough draft
  • March 14, 2020
    Recommendations
  • March 24, 2020
    Plan completion
  • April 20, 2020
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Starting this January, a group student-consultants (usually 5-6 students per team) will spend 200 hours building an effective marketing plan for your organization.

Based on their research and analysis, groups will create a plan that fulfills the objective defined by your organization, under the guidance of their instructor.

The resulting plan will serve as a research-based road map to successfully achieve your marketing objective(s).

Potential scopes for this project can include, but are not limited to:

  • Promoting a new product/service launch.
  • Improving online communications.
  • Creating a competitive analysis
  • Increasing market share/brand awareness .
  • Improving customer segmentation for consumer driven branding.
  • Identifying new market segments and opportunities.

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
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    Must be available to attend final presentations remotely

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    Be available and have someone dedicated to answering questions and be present through either Zoom meetings and/or email.

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    Be available for a quick phone call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.

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    Be available to present to the students on current issues/current state/goals/Q+A period a few days prior to the assignment start