Maria T Barbieri
Integrated Marketing Strategy
Unlocking the Full Growth Potential
of Your Business
The key lies in identifying and solving the crux of the matter!
1 / Results
Do your numbers reflect the true potentials of your business?
2 / Budget
Are you allocating your money to the right project?
3 / Scope
Are you prioritising the most effective activities?
4 / Time
Are you spending your time wisely?
Is your Marketing leading you to the top?
The ultimate question is
Are you comfortable with the nature of the marketing problem you are trying to solve?
If the answer is not close to 100%, probably your money, energy and time are not used at their best!
I can facilitate your journey to become an optimizer!
By following an integrated approach, encompassing marketing, strategy, and branding I can help you identify the weakest link within your 'marketing machine', address it and unlock the full potential of your business growth!
Finding simplicity on the other side of complexity.
Great marketing is critical to the success of every organization. However, many managers or founders find marketing to be complicated, ineffective or ephemeral ....There is some truth in that. Marketing is a complex and ever-evolving field. That said, complex does not mean necessarily complicated. Marketing can be simple, fun and effective and I can facilitate your journey.
Effective marketing requires
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a strategic and multidisciplinary approach based on a deep understanding of both the business and the customer
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a willingness to adapt and innovate in response to changing market conditions while taking into account the internal resources and processes
How will I help you in finding the crux of the matter and optimize on it?
1
Diagnosis
Here is where we dig deeper to find the root cause of the issue:
- are you 100% sure about what's the problem at stake?
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what's the level of your customer knowledge ?
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how about the market?
- is there any data gap that needs to be addressed?
Outcome: Alignment on the nature of the problem and maybe a new perspective.
2
Strategy
Now it's the time to identify, based on your goals, the most impactful actions of intervention throughout the process of :
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building the promise associated with your brand
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delivering on it
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communicating about it ( Target, Positioning, Messaging, JTB, etc)
Outcome: a number of choices that will set you up for success. Ultimately you choose.
3
Tactics
Finally we select which lever to pull from the wider marketing toolkit, including the 4Ps,
( Product, Pricing, Placement, Promotion)and devise a plan to holistically drive growth.
Outcome: Selection of tactics based on the outcome of step 1 and 2.
"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Sun Tzu.
I always start the process with the Diagnosis. This normally helps in defining the exact nature of the problem you are dealing with. Afterwards, you can choose how to progress with your journey and how much more of my involvement you require. You might find that the actual problem is not what you initially thought.. That the solution is a different one...Maybe now you can use your internal resources or maybe not. Worth exploring!
A modular approach gives you the flexibility to adapt along the way rather than spending money on tactics that won't work.
Some of the areas I draw my inspiration from....
Strategy
Marketing
Branding
Behavioural Science
"Creativity is just connecting things"