What is SWOT Analysis in marketing plan?
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SWOT Strategies
are those providing strategies for organizing information for identifying the strategic direction inwriting your marketing plan
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SWOT Analysis
allows the organization to focus on its critical strength and weaknesses relative to opportunities and threats faced in the environment. -
SWOT Analysis
means the analysis of four paradigms; each one has a great impact on your business:
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Philip Kotler's View of SWOT Analysis:
'Strengths and Weaknesses represent where the organization is now. Opportunities and threats represent where it wishes to be at a given time in the future. The role of the marketer is to supply the creativity to fill the gap between the two'.
What are SWOT Strategies?

The Matching and Conversion are 2 major strategic options from a SWOT analysis; to match the strengths to the opportunities, and to convert the weaknesses to strengths and opportunities.
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