Marketing Planning

Step 3: Marketing Planning

Our marketing planning services replace guessing with science. Usually senior management sets sales objectives and the marketing team develops a marketing plan it hopes and prays will increase sales. But hopes and prayers more often than not end in frustration. Marketing planning should not happen this way.

Copernicus Marketing Consulting offers marketing planning services we can apply to consumer and business to business companies:

We describe each of our marketing planning services in detail below and in our corporate brochure. Click here to download our brochure.

Our Marketing Planning Services

Modeled Marketing Plans
Copernicus Marketing Consulting developed the world's first modeled marketing plans to aid companies in the marketing planning process, by setting specific and realistic objectives and achieving measurable outcomes. Using marketing management expertise, best practices automation tools, and The Copernican Discovery™ and Copernican Strategic Decision Simulator™ models, we can consider all the marketing mix elements and forecast an outcome in terms of campaign penetration, sales, profitability, and more.

Simulated Test Marketing—The Copernican Discovery™
The principals of Copernicus Marketing Consulting literally wrote the book on simulated test marketing—Simulated Test Marketing: Technology for Launching Successful New Products (Lexington Press). Another of our marketing planning services, The Copernican Discovery™ takes more elements of the marketing mix into account than any other modeling system in the world. We have used The Copernican Discovery™ to help many of America's most successful marketers through the marketing planning process, launch successful new products and services, and revitalize established ones in consumer and business to business industries. To view applications of The Copernican Discovery™, click here.

We have also pioneered a specialized model for the pharmaceutical industry, Copernican Discovery DTC™. For a list of Copernican discoveries about direct-to-consumer campaigns, click here.

Customer Equity Optimization
Based on the cutting-edge work done by Rust, Zeithaml, and Lemon, described in their book Driving Customer Equity (Free Press), the Copernican Strategic Decision Simulator™ provides a strategic framework from which to build more powerful marketing plans. Unifying customer value management, brand management, and relationship management, the Strategic Decision Simulator™ allows companies to calculate the ROI of a marketing investment.


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