Marketing Plan for your bakery business
TIPS - Marketing plan for small bakery
Why need a Marketing Plan ?
Marketing plan would consider following factors such as distribution costs, production costs,
advertising expenses and any expense related to identifying and marketing the products to the
consumers in the targeted markets. Marketing involves identifying, anticipating and satisfying
customer needs. A marketing plan takes the stated aims and objectives and then puts in place a
series of marketing activities to ensure those objectives are achieved .Strategies as how these
plans are going to be communicated or promoted to your end users .
Any business marketing plan require s to be based on four pillars of marketing generally known
as four Ps
Product
Bakery product manufactured to be of the best quality with local preference for sweet /whole
grain /white bread .Packaging to be selected for consumer convenience such as smaller pack s
Select the product as per the local taste . Different region s have different palate .
Place
Bakery product to be launched in urban areas in intial phase and later to be promoted into
rural areas . To cover major markets and retailers . Local retailers of major colonies . Dealer
can be depute to reach out the retailers .
Price
Bakery product to be priced lower than or equal to market price with higher incentive to
retailers and agent .
Promotion
Bakery product promotion has to be done mainly through word to mouth and to ensure that its
available to major hyper market and super markets .leaflets to be distributed in major colonies
Advertise into local dailies then with the increase demand go for national dailies ,magazines
and other print media .Sponsorship of local events like mela ,fairs , sporting events or school
functions .
Tools
Word to mouth
Local media
Online presence
Banners/Billboards
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