Success of a company mainly depends upon its marketing activities and the effectiveness of these activities. In order to know if your marketing is effective all aspects of your marketing function need to be analyzed, compiled and studied. With this information a strategic marketing plan can be created and applied in the years to come.

By analyzing the current marketing data flaws in the planning and weaknesses in your company's (or your competitor's) products or strategies can be discovered. Proper action can then be taken to ensure a better functioning of the weak parts of your marketing engine or to make better use of the competition's weaknesses and flaws.

Having an in-depth insight of the structural factors that influence your company you cannot only respond to changes, but more importantly anticipate to changes in the surroundings that (may) effect your company's success. Alas, most small(er) companies do not use this important tool to plan better. Large companies don't work without. That's why they are large and small companies are small.

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The analysis process