This activity is important because as a marketing manager, you must allocate resources to reach your target market. During the strategic marketing process, managers move through three important phases to determine how to optimally allocate resources: a planning phase, an implementation phase, and an evaluation phase. In this interactive exercise, you are asked to review various actions and determine where in the strategic marketing process the action would occur.

The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of the Strategic Marketing Process and related marketing actions.

Read the description of the marketing action and then match it to the appropriate stage of the Strategic Marketing Process.

Planning phase

Step $1$

Step $2$

Sltuation $($SWOT$)$ analysls

Marketing plan

Implementation phase

Results

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Evaluation phase

Step $3$

Marketing program