Sports Product Development
Task:
You have recently appointed SPORTEX* Marketing Manager, a sports event management company specialized in triathlon and endurance events. Your main competitors are IRONMAN and XTERRA. As a Marketing Manager you need to prepare a report for regarding the product development, marketing & communication and sponsorship initiatives
You need to prepare a report to the management team answering the following questions:
Q1. Develop a relevant product concept in order to gain customers from competition and attract new customers
Q2. Suggest specific initiatives to strengthen customers’ experience
Q3. Develop an IMC plan for the new products
Q4. Develop a sponsorship proposal to attract sponsors
Formalities:
– Wordcount: 3000 words
– Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.
– Font: Arial 12,5 pts.
– Text alignment: Justified.
– The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.
Individual task
It assesses the following learning outcomes:
Outcome 1: understand the sports product development
Outcome 2: understand how to plan an IMC plan and how to attract sponsor. For more information on Sports Product Development checkout this: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-development-factor-th_b_6020680
