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As important as any other kind of plan that is made for the start-up or continuity of a business, a marketing plan contains the strategies and foreseen actions to be taken to increase the profitability of a business by making it known to more people and giving the business the capability to fulfill the requirements of consumers. As a new business starts its operation, it is important that it has an outline of the steps to be taken to make its product or service popular and wanted by many consumers. Existing businesses make it a good practice to create a marketing plan annually to address the ever-changing behavior of consumers in terms of the demands and requirements.

A marketing plan initially contains an analysis of the current status of the business and based from this information, a list of actions to be done to elevate the status of the business is created. If the business is just starting, the prevalent status is its origin. If the business exists for some time now, the current status of the business is obtained from its historical data. A comprehensive analysis of the current status of the business is a very solid basis of finding ways and pinpointing opportunities to increase profitability and popularity among consumers.

After listing some acceptable actions to be taken, decisions should be made as to which items in the list should be pursued. For start-up businesses, some decisions involve the determination of the type of product to be offered, pricing strategy, channels of distribution, and initial advertising methods to be used. For existing business, fortifying its current top rank is the foundation of the decisions made for the business. It will be determined here whether venturing in a new product line will be profitable, increasing of current price is acceptable, and tapping other modes of promotional campaign is profitable. Once the decisions have been made, the corresponding implementations should be taken to achieve the objectives of the marketing plan.