Situational Analysis

What is a situational analysis

Situational analysis is the first step in planning SOSTAC marketing strategies. This is where marketing should start for any self-respecting company.
First of all, let us define what we mean by marketing in our company. Marketing for Pigeonbone is a business function that aims at increasing the organizational profit and therefore takes control of the product, pricing, point of sale, target audience and communication channels with the audience, so that the company's decisions are based on data and the cold sales function of the company disappears (turns into a shipping department).

That is, the main task is to turn your sales department into a shipping department.

SOSTAC

is a model for effective marketing strategy planning based on 6 mandatory components:
  1. Situation analysis — analysis of the current situation of the company

  2. Objectives — the goal to reach

  3. Strategy — how we are going to achieve the goal

  4. Tactics — what we will use to achieve the goal

  5. Action — specific actions, tasks and deadlines

  6. Control — how we will understand that we have reached the goal, by what indicators.

Thus, it can be seen that first of all for the development of marketing strategies it is necessary to carry out a situational analysis. This is the base of the strategy. Therefore, it is very important to do this step qualitatively. We at Pigeonbone know how to do it!

What you get

We gather facts about the current situation on the Internet. We study the segments of the target audience according to the JTBD (Jobs To Be Done) model. We analyze the presence and volume of generated demand, the competitive situation. We carry out trend analysis and make predictive analytics. We draw conclusions from the facts. According to theses we offer the best options for the strategy.

To form a thesis you need to go through the following steps:
  • collecting facts through the 6P framework
    (Product, Price, Promotion, Place, People,Positioning)
  • fact grouping
  • derive the theses from the facts

The final product of the situational analysis should be a set of theses. For each thesis, the course of the analysis from which the thesis was derived is shown.

Prior to the situational analysis:

  1. The brief is a must!
    Collect primary information about the client. Send a file to Google Table to fill in the data.

  2. Semantics
    (collection of semantics at the level of generated demand) - mandatory! Semantic kernel must be approved by the client.

Structure:

Introductory information
Theses derived from the study
Target audience
  1. Base Parameters
  2. Needs analysis of target audience segments using the JTBD (Jobs To Be Done) model
  3. Crossing groups of requests between TAs
Analysis of demand on the Internet
  1. Serviceable Available Market (available volume of the target market at the level of generated demand)
    1. General structure of the analyzed core
    2. Distribution of the key frequencies in the context of groups
  2. Financial analysis of the semantic core
    1. Zero requests and their number
    2. Distribution of keywords by cost per click (general analysis of semantics)
    3. Distribution of keywords by cost per click by group
    4. Distribution of keywords by cost per click and frequency
    5. Expensive keywords
    6. Budget analysis by group
  3. Serviceable & Obtainable Market (actually achievable market volume at the level of formed demand)
  1. The probability of getting conversions, leads, customers
  2. Budget range summary table
Competitor analysis
    1. Competitor Overview
    1. Websites present in most sources and channel
  1. Engaging
    1. Attendance at competitors' sites
    2. Types of devices
    3. Traffic sources used by competitors
    4. Search engine results page analysis (SERP)
      1. Paid output from Google
        1. Number of unique domains in auctions
        1. Coverage of the semantic core by competitors' sites in the Google Ads auction
          1. By all the competitors
          1. By the direct competitors
        2. Number of ads per group
        3. Number of ads per key
        4. Distribution of the positions
      1. Google organic traffic
        1. Semantic coverage by competitors
          1. By all the competitors
          2. By the direct competitors
          3. Number of unique domains per group
          4. Number of ads per group
          5. Distribution of competitors by average position and coverage
          6. Sites with coverage in Google's paid results and organic results
    5. "Vertical SEO"
    6. Brand Lift
Willingness
  1. Analysis of USP in Google
    1. In ads
    2. in ad texts
    3. snippets in the organic output
    4. on the site
  2. Recommendations for creating a website
Trend analysis
  1. Google
    1. trend research
    2. seasonality
    3. time series decomposition
Predictive models
  1. Predictive analysis of demand and/or interest in Google
Conclusions
  1. What we do next. Conclusion of hypotheses based on theses
  2. Recommendations for creating a strategy

Price and timing

Standard
Professional software + expert handwork
$ 6 990
  • With a study of three competitors
  • Great value for business
  • 4 week ready
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Premium
Professional software + expert handwork
$ 9 990
  • With a study of ten competitors
  • Great value for business
  • 6 week ready
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