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Simplified Marketing Yourself Plan
for Personal/Professional Branding
MAR 4354 – Marketing Yourself

“Brand image exists in the minds of the audience members.
It’s the marketer’s job to shape that image accordingly.”

Typical marketing plans require marketers to assess their own sets of resources, evaluate the
marketplace, determine their target market(s), and then create a set of reasonable objectives
(goals) with an accompanying set of appropriate strategies and tactics to reach those objectives.
For this assignment, you will create a simplified marketing plan for your own personal and/or
professional brand, i.e., “Brand You.” This could in itself be a daunting task, but fortunately,
most of this has already been completed by you for you in previous class assignments.

Your Simplified Personal/Professional Marketing Plan must include the following elements:

1. Plan introduction and duration. This is a brief introduction to the purpose of the plan,
   including the duration of its scope (1 year, 2 years, 3 years, etc.). The duration must be for at
   least one year.
2. Summary/synthesis of your personal raw materials. (This was accomplished as part of
   your Raw Materials Assessment.) Summarize and synthesize your personal raw materials in a
   manner that allows a reader to understand the opportunities and challenges that may face you as
   you construct and develop “Brand You.”
3. Market segment(s) that are to be targeted. (This was accomplished if you completed the
   Product/Audience Match assigned earlier in the semester.) This section should include any
   relevant portions from your Product/Audience Match Strategy assignment that would apply to
   this particular marketing plan:

a) The potential target markets for your personal/professional brand (from “Part 1: List
Current Audiences” and “Part 4: List Prospective Audiences”).
b) Why these audiences are being targeted (from “Part 2: Importance of Current
Audiences” and “Part 5: Importance of Prospective Audiences”).
c) What the people in those segments desire in a person, employee, boss, etc.; that is, the
attributes of the ideal candidate to be courted by that market segment (from “Part

3: What Current Audiences Want from You” and “Part 6: What Prospective
Audiences Want from You”).
NOTE: Even though you will only mention in this document the target segments that are
applicable to this marketing plan, you must still include the COMPLETE Product/Audience
Match Strategy assignment as an Appendix to this assignment.

1. Objectives/Goals for your brand. (Much of this was accomplished if you completed the
   Personal Marketing Strategy assigned earlier in the semester.) List at least five clearly
   identified goals that have a measurable component and a time (deadline) component. Delineate
   how each goal will be measured to ensure, eventually, that it has (or has not) been accomplished.
   You can have multiple-level objectives and combine this section with multiple-level strategies
   from the next section if desired. The key is that all objectives must lead you to your overall goal
   of winning the hearts of your target audience(s).
   NOTE: Even though you will only mention in this document any objectives/strategies that you
   feel are relevant to this marketing plan, you must still include the COMPLETE Personal
   Marketing Strategy assignment as an Appendix to this assignment.
2. Strategies and tactics designed to reach the objectives. (Much of this was accomplished if
   you completed the Personal Marketing Strategy assigned earlier in the semester.) Your
   strategies should have direct-line connections to the objectives they are designed to reach. As
   mentioned above (in Part 4), you can combine this section with the Objectives or leave it as a
   separate section. In either case, you must include a one-page figure/chart/image that depicts how
   the strategies and objectives are connected.
3. Marketing Plan Timeline. Create a timeline for your plan where you detail the start and end
   dates for each strategy and tactic. You must include a one-page figure/chart/image of the
   timeline. You can be as creative as you like to create the timeline.
   Specific Formatting Instructions
    Compile all of the above parts into one PDF document to upload to the appropriate
   location on Canvas.
    Please use single spacing and 12-point Times New Roman font for the text portions of
   the document.
    Use appropriate headings, subheadings, and spaces between sections, as well as proper
   grammar, spelling, etc.
    For any other elements, you can be as creative as you desire.
    Be sure to include the 1-page figure/chart/image that shows how your strategies are
   connected to your objectives.
    Be sure to include the 1-page figure/chart/image of your marketing plan timeline.
    Include in an Appendix the following two assignments (that should have been completed
   earlier in the semester):
   o Product/Audience Match Strategy assignment
   o Personal Marketing Strategy assignment

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