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Page updated 2 Aug 2001
copyright Sheila Webber

Department of
Information Studies
Sheffield University

The marketing cycle

The marketing process is cyclical:
  1. Formulate a mission for your information service / library (where do we want to be?)

  2. Review current position (where are we now?), and identify opportunities, using techniques such as SWOT and PEST

  3. Formulate marketing objectives

  4. Undertake market research

  5. Modify marketing objectives

  6. Formulate marketing strategies (how do we get there?), balancing various components of the marketing mix

  7. Implement marketing strategies.

  8. Monitor success (how do we find out whether we got there?)

  9. Review strategies - and objectives and mission if necessary (starting again from the top)

Contents | Definitions | Some marketing jargon | The Marketing cycle | Mission | Market research | Reviewing your position | The marketing mix | Services marketing | List of readings and links about marketing library and information services | List of links about marketing in general
Send an email to Sheila Webber at s.webber@sheffield.ac.uk

Sheila Webber. 2 August 2001