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Combo SP. Created By: Peter Collins Carson Ingle . Our Mission . To be the bat used by most professional baseball players To make a profit How are we going to do this? To use our 5 marketing plans to gain expose and popularity with our target markets
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Combo SP Created By: Peter Collins Carson Ingle
Our Mission • To be the bat used by most professional baseball players • To make a profit • How are we going to do this? • To use our 5 marketing plans to gain expose and popularity with our target markets • Start at the lowest level and work our way up
Target Markets • Our first target market is professional baseball teams • Selected this because of the amount of professional team in this country • More opportunities to make a profit • Divisions of baseball: • Major league • AAA • AA • A • Advance A • Short season A • Rookie ball
Target Markets • Our second target market is the baseball fan community • Research has shown that this community is one of the biggest purchasers of sports memorabilia • Baseball memorabilia tend to be very pricey • Plan to have cheaper memorabilia to attract more customers and revenue
Our Product • Stands out in many ways: • Safety guarantee • New type of production • The new look • Price
Plan #1 • Gain a partnership with the company Louisville Slugger • Biggest distributor of baseball bats in the sport • Well known reputation in the sport • Use their reputation to gain prestige in baseball • They would be interested because of our safety guarantee • Helps grow their already prestigious reputation and image • New design will also help reach new potential buyers
Plan #2 • Ironbirds in Aberdeen Maryland • Baltimore Orioles short season A team • Own by Cal Ripken Jr. • Plan is to get have the Ironbirds use our product • Get Cal to back our product and use his connections with the Baltimore Orioles organization
Plan #3 • Target young power hitters in the minor leagues • Get them to use our bat exclusively • Plan is as they move up our bat moves up • Gains exposure throughout the levels as players get moved up and traded • Increases the bats popularity • Increases the number of players wanting to use the bat
Plan #4 • Use partnership with Louisville to gain excess to their players • Get their players to use the bat • If we get players like Derrick Jeter and Josh Hamilton using our bat other players will want to use it as well.
Plan #5 • Create league wide and fan excitement • Use new camouflage design to create different bats
Timeline • Have paperwork signed to complete partnership with Louisville by March 30, 2013 • Give Ironbirds their free samples before the start of their season on June 17, 2013 • During the 2013 season pick which players to sponsor from minor leagues and have that list finalized by end of 2013 season • 2014 season use they players from Louisville to use our bats and unveil our new camouflage designs