Monday, February 27, 2017

crafting a desired positioning


  • phase 1: scoping 
  • phase 2 : selecting 
  • phase 3: understanding 
  • phase 4: designing
  • crafting desired positioning statement 6.0 
  • internal statement about how you want to be percieved by your target audience 
  • marketing mix strategies 
  • product 
  • price 
  • place 
  • promotion  
  • phase 5: managing 
  • positioning is the act of designing the organization's actual and perceived offering in such 
  • important tips for positioning statements 
  • less is more 
  • keep it simple 
  • be clear and concise 
  • important tips for positioning statements 
  •  behavior focused 
  • highlight a description of the behavior 
  • example: national cancer institute's " 5 a day for better health" 
  • re positioning - the act of changing the actual and percieved offering in the mind of the target audience 
  • reasons for repositioning - you need to attract new audiences 
  • image problem with changing perceptions 
  • examples: seattle police department (2013) 
  • image problem due to use of excessive force 
  • shifted from "warrior" to "guardians of democracy" training

Monday, February 20, 2017


  • phase 1 : scoping 
  • phase 2 : selecting 
  • phase 3: understanding 
  • phase 4: designing 
  • phase 5: managing
  • understanding the target audience 
  • perciver barrirs 
  • desired benefits 
  • pitential motivators 
  • competition 
  • influential others 
  • desired benefits and potential motivators are correlated 
  • percived barriers 
  • reasons why target audience does not want to do or thinks they cannot do the behavior 
  • internal barriers 
  • lack of knowledge or skill 
  • external barriers 
  • lack of structureal changes 
  • real barriers time constraints 
  • percieved barriers percieved constraints 
  • desired benefits 
  • what your target audience believes in it for them 
  • what your target audience needs, wants and values 
  • benefits in the eyes of the customer- not the social marketer 
  • potential motivators 
  • target audience ideas about what would make them adopt the behavior 
  • what could someone say to you 
  • what could someone show you 
  • is there anything someone could give you 
  • is there anything someone could do for you 
  • competition 
  • competing individuals and organizations or ingrained behaviors that the target audience prefers to continue 

Wednesday, February 15, 2017


  • demographics 
  • geographics 
  • behavioral 
  • psychographics
  • get a strong sense of the value of people who are using the service 
  • dont only look for donations but also look for human capital 
  • donations- calling and social media 
  • human capital - look for voulenteers 

Monday, February 13, 2017


  • step 1: social isssue, background, purpose , and focus 
  • describe social issue and backgrounf ( why you have developed the plan) 
  • identify and conceptualize a social issue/need 
  • background information 
  • recall strategic social marketing plan 

Monday, February 6, 2017

marketing research


  • the systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data and findings relevant to a specific marketing situation facing the organization 
  • research is critical
  • marketing research terminology can be characterized in different ways 
  • research objective - explanatory, descriptive, casual (cause- effect) 
  • stage in planning process - fethonography, etc ormative, pretest, monitoring, evaluation
  • source of information - secondary data or primary data 
  • research approach - quantitative research or qualitative research 
  • primary data collection method - surveys , interviews, focus groups, crowdsourcing, experimental research, observation, ethnography etc. 
  • market research plan 
  • research purpose - what questions do you need to answer? what decisions will this research inform 
  • audience - for whom is the research being conducted? to whom will it be presented 
  • informational objectives - what specific information do you need?
  • respondents or participants - from whom do you need information? whose opinion matters? 
  • research techniques - what is the most efficent and effective way to gather this information
  • sample design - how many respondents or participants? from what population will you select your sample? how will you get access to this sample? 
  • pretest - with whom will the questionere or moderator's guide be pretested? who will conduct the pretest
  • data collection 
  • analysis 
  • report

  • group meetings met/ status report to dr. upadhyaya sent 
  • details were posted to moodle