You work in the marketing department of XYZ Corporation, and your director, Michael Johnson, has assigned you to work with Local Goods and Services, Inc., a small company that is struggling to find its way. Richard Milton, the company’s president, started this company 5 years ago and wants to grow his business. He isn’t fully convinced, however, that he needs formal marketing to do so; he says that “much of my company’s success has come from word-of-mouth and personal connections!” Your job is to present Richard with some important information that will help him understand what marketing really is and to demonstrate the ways in which marketing can be used to create and build relationships with both current and potential customers of his company.
For this Assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation that showcases the value of marketing and its role in building and maintaining connections with customers.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Submit your presentation for Local Goods and Services, Inc. In your presentation, you should include examples of effective marketing campaigns (via links, images, etc.) to demonstrate this value creation. Your presentation must include a cover slide and References slide that includes properly formatted citations for a minimum of four scholarly sources to support the information you presented. You must also include speakers’ notes that would serve as a script if you were to deliver this presentation to the leaders of Local Goods and Services, Inc.
Part 1: The Value Proposition of Marketing (7–11 slides)
In the first section of this presentation, you will set the stage for an explanation of why marketing is valuable to an organization by doing the following:
Part 2: The Customer Experience (6–8 slides)
In the second section, you will expand upon the value proposition by addressing the following related to the product or service you have selected to highlight for this business:
Note: For each part of the presentation, be sure to reference at least two scholarly sources (for a total of four) to support your work. Use the Week 1 Assignment Template, provided in this week’s Learning Resources, to complete this Assignment. As a reminder, your presentation must include a cover slide, as well as detailed speakers’ notes that would serve as a script if you were to deliver this presentation to the leaders of Local Goods and Services, Inc.
References
The Purpose and Role of Marketing