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We develop marketing strategies for small and medium-sized companies
Marketing strategy is a term often utilized with emphasis, only because it sounds good. At MKOR, we take strategy very seriously and we are passionate about doing everything we can to help our clients’ business grow.
Your marketing strategy is a great tool for business growth. But before you use it you need a clear direction. We’ll create your plan and help deliver it. MKOR is the strategic partner for ambitious leaders who want to drive lasting transformation in their business or niche.
What is strategy?
Marketing strategy combines all marketing objectives of a business and comprehensively puts them together in one plan. The marketing strategy has to be in full consistency with the company’s general strategy. A good marketing strategy has to come from market research, to focus on the appropriate elements of the market mix in order to achieve maximum profitability, and to sustain business growth.
MKOR develops strategies based on results from thorough market research and focuses on the appropriate marketing mix elements in order to achieve high profit and advantage against your competitors.
Why should you develop a marketing strategy?
A good marketing strategy helps you define your vision, mission and business goals, and outlines the steps you need to take to achieve these goals. Your marketing strategy affects the way you run your entire business, so it should be planned and developed in consultation with your team.
- Simplifying the activity. A well set up marketing strategy simplifies the implementation of any further marketing decision.
- Directions to follow. Marketing strategy offers concentration and directions to follow by identifying the opportunities which deserve to be exploited and the threats that have to be avoided.
- Competition. Marketing strategy helps identify resources and instruments that the company can efficiently utilize in order to obtain competitive advantage and to gain a better market position.
- Resources. A good strategy helps the company save time and optimize costs by attracting the right customers and by investing only in initiatives that sustain the company’s objectives. ???
- Differentiation. Marketing strategy helps identify the company’s differentiation points against the competition.
- Opportunities. A marketing strategy can transform the company’s vision, mission and objectives into efficient market initiatives.
- Communication campaigns. Marketing strategy can be used as a base for developing communication campaigns in order to simplify them and make them more efficient.
- Efficiency. Marketing strategy increases the efficiency of any other marketing activity.
- Best price. A part of marketing strategy targets setting the best price for the company’s products and services based on the results from the research.
- Profit. A well developed marketing strategy leads to sales and profit growths.
- Loyalty. Market strategy leads to an increase in customer satisfaction and implicitly in their loyalty.
When should you develop a marketing strategy?
- When you want to launch a new business.
- When you intend to launch a new product or service on the market.
- When you want to increase your company’s sales number and profit.
- When you wish to differentiate from you competitors.
- When you intend to reposition your business.
- When you intend to make the company’s marketing activity more efficient.
- When you want to increase customer loyalty.
- When you want to optimize product or service price.
- When you intend to change product or service distribution methods towards the consumers.
Steps to follow in developing market strategy
In order to develop an effective marketing strategy, several steps are required. MKOR walks through each of these steps analyzing and exploiting every detail that can add value to its customers:
- Setting goals is the first step, vital for developing a marketing strategy.
- Market research for:
- General market analysis (market size, trends, legislation, opportunities, threats, etc.)
- Competitive analysis (establishing top competitors, identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each competitor through primary research methods, such as mystery-shoppers, or secondary research).
- Determining the target audience profile (depending on your organization’s profile, we will identify the main customer segments, whether individuals or other organizations).
- Defining marketing mix is essential to optimize the strategy for all five elements (product, price, placement, promotion, and people).
- Financial analysis and budgeting is the stage by which the efficiency of marketing investments is assessed.
- Constant assessment is required to establish the effectiveness of marketing strategy by setting and measuring performance indicators KPIs.
At MKOR, we are passionate about strategy and we give our best – passion, experience, common sense – for each marketing strategy we develop. In our portfolio, you will learn more about the strategy projects we have worked on, and in the recommendations section, you can see what our customers have said about our results.
Our strategy clients love working with a dedicated professional research team
Transparent business practices and a dedicated expert team is what sets us apart. Grow your business relying on the expertise of professionals. No more guesswork.
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Take a look at our previous marketing strategy projects
Read some stories from our research portfolio to get an idea of what we've worked on. We can take on any kind of strategy project, in every business niche.
Feeling stuck? Take a look at previous projects and see what our clients said about working with us
At MKOR, all our efforts are directed towards successful marketing strategy. Each project we develop has strategic goals and a global focus on the whole organization. Over time we have worked on strategy projects that led to start-up launches, social businesses, and new products of global brands. We invite you to take a look at our portfolio for more details.
Clients love working with our agency
We have already conducted two successful projects with MKOR. The first, where they helped us assess the market potential for the employment force in five different Romanian cities, with the goal of opening a local contact centre. Following it, we have opened two contact centres, in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca. The second project consisted in a complex market assessment (macro-economic, available infrastructure, raw-materials and human resources) with the goal of us launching a new furniture manufacturing plant in Romania. I kindly recommend MKOR team for any project in the market research field, they are true professionals!Corina Nicolau, Country Manager of VidaXL Romania
The collaboration with MKOR on the quantitative market study we conducted was close and constructive. We have worked closely to meet our goals and have managed to achieve the best results. We cordially recommend the MKOR services and we will continue to work together on future research projects.Ivona Babarelu, Marketing Manager at Clever Taxi
We had the pleasure of working with Corina and her team, and our collaboration on market research we conducted was very successful. We appreciate the professionalism and the commitment they have provided. We warmly recommend MKOR to all who need quality research services.Alin Prunean, President at Sănătate Dulce (Sweet Health), winner of OMV Petrom’s national entrepreneurship contest, Țara lui Andrei
We have collaborated with the MKOR team in a project that consisted in surveying our clients’ perceptions and satisfaction level. It was a wonderful project, that we enjoyed. We learned a great deal of new things from our collaborators and we appreciate them as very good in their practice. We kindly recommend their business, to everyone interested in growing through better customer satisfaction.Ramona Cuc, General Manager of Lunchbox
Thank you for your commitmentand expediency in responding to our request. Your work is very useful for the enterprise's launch on the market, and through the results you've delivered, we now understand the real needs of our customers and we can adapt our marketing plan. Fine work and, at least for me, thrilling. Congratulations! The recommendations and conclusions of the study VERY USEFUL.Mihail Apostolescu, President of Apicola Prahova Valley, winner of OMV Petrom’s national entrepreneurship contest, Țara lui Andrei
We are very pleased to recommend MKOR, which we consider to be one of the most professional players in the field. The delivered materials thoroughly met our requirements and demands, and the conclusions and recommendations were valuable and useful. During our collaboration we noticed the scrupulousness and seriousness of the team. The delivered materials were of good quality and the communication was clear and concise. We also admired the leadership of Corina Cimpoca, the company's manager.Dr. Claudiu Filip, Project Manager at INCDTIM Cluj-Napoca
We started working with MKOR in 2016 and we continued to develop new projects together ever since. Over the last few years, we have conducted together some of the most complex studies on the satisfaction of our clients and beneficiaries. We are delighted to have chosen working with MKOR, who have offered support from research design to final report delivery - in record time. I appreciate the openness and availability of MKOR consultants to understand business requirements and deliver projects in a timely manner to the expected quality.Andreea Gheorghiu, Head of Marketing at Edenred România
We love the professional manner in which you gain key information from our clients [for the case studies] and then translate them into useful materials. Congratulations and best of luck!Oana Moldovan, Marketing Manager at Beck et al. Services
The MKOR team is professional and dedicated to each project, regardless of its size. Throughout the research project, I worked very well with Corina and her team. Even when things got a bit difficult, the recommendations came proactively and the target was overcome. Thank you and I warmly recommend your services!Simona Mincu, Marketing Manager Intrum România
I express my appreciation for our collaboration with MKOR. The MKOR team, through the professionalism of its members, has always offered us support in choosing the best options and solutions for our specific requests related to market research services. I recommend MKOR as a professional and trustworthy collaborator and appreciate its quality services and the flexibility of the services offered that differentiate it in a favorable way from its competitors. Dragoș Pîslaru, Project Manager at GEA Strategy & Consulting (Civitta Romania)
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