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Marketing Plan : College Connector

Apr 16, 2017

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College Connector“Setting you on the right track for your future”

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Executive Summary

• A comprehensive guide for engineering aspirants

• Helping students in college selection process

• Available on Google Play and IOS

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SWOT Analysis

StrengthFirst of its kind college counselling

Huge College Network

Opportunity Huge Potential Market of Engineering Aspirants

ThreatsOther Competitors

WeaknessNo Marketing Budget

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Company Overview

• App for guiding engineering aspirants in college selection

• Generic Rankings, updated college data and discussion forums

• Branch Selection guide describing programs of different colleges

• Personal guide to help through the process to chose the best college

• Student buddy: College Student mentor to help through

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Market Analysis

• Huge Potential Students Base ( 1 Million + )

• General sources give biased reviews

• Students face difficulties deciding the right college

• No Major Competition

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Target Customers

• Engineering Aspirants in major coaching institutes( XII students)

• School Science students who wish to pursue engineering

• Parents of such students

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Objectives and Goals

• Main focus is to help students make the right choice for their future

• Plan to generate revenue through advertisements through forums and genuine useful information for students

• Major part of revenue through paid counselling of students

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Consumer Needs

• Be a proper guide to the students

• Genuine latest data and forums about Colleges

• Real time notifications and relevant updates, easing it up

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Brand Positioning

POP

• Engineering College Selector

• College Guide

• Rankings

POD

• AI based latest notifications

• Analysis of Cutoffs

• Unbiased Rankings ( Government Data)

• Personal Mentor/College Budy

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Product and Service

• Latest notifications on user selected/major colleges counselling

• AI based query system

• Authentic Rankings and Updated College Data

• Analysis of Previous Years Cutoffs

• Genuine College Data

• Branch Feedback

• (Paid):Mentor for Counselling -> Personal Guide for the whole process

• (Paid) : College Buddy -> Personal interaction with student of dream college

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Brand

College Connector

“ setting you on the right track for your future”

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Pricing

• Motto of the app and website is to help the students

• Most services free of costs

• Premium services of counselling at 5000 for extensive one month/5 hour capped counselling with the personal expert guide

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Marketing Build-up

• Extensive social media marketing, seo, google adwords

• Tie ups with top coaching centers at discounted price initially

• Associations with engineering entrances magazines/other publications in return of ad’s

• Available on Google Play and IOS, redirected from website as well

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Company Structure

• A set of mentors working from their place under a core team

• Student buddy mentors working under the mentors

• A Technical team for functioning of the app

• A logistics and operations team, mentor assignment, etc.

• A Marketing team for establishing associations and online publicity

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Performance and Evaluation

• Regular feedback by the customer service team

• Mentor feedback, to understand exactly what the student wants for future improvements and additions

• Student Buddy Mentors feedback

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• Situation Analysis

• Market Analysis

• Objective and Goals

• Brand Positioning

• Marketing Ideologies and Company Structure

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This Presentation was created by Lakshya Ghuliani from BITS Pilani Goa Campus, under an internship ( Jan-Feb 2017) with Prof. Sameer Mathur,

IIM Lucknow.