Marketing & Communications Strategies for a Social Enterprise
Project scope
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Communications Market research Sales strategy Marketing strategySkills
digital marketing marketing research marketing strategy sales & marketing business strategyCafe Etico would like to develop a marketing/communications plan. As a small social enterprise with limited resources (staffing, knowledge, funds, etc.) we do experience some difficulties producing content and maintaining an online presence as those tasks can be challenging and time consuming. We hope that students will keep in mind the limitations of the business, (budget and other constraints) to ensure these recommendations are realistic and actionable. We are open to short term and long term recommendations.
Project Goals:
- To develop or help to create the skeleton of a marketing/communications plan.
- Make recommendations for mapping our operational processes.
- Make social media campaign recommendations.
- Recommend improvements to optimize our organization.
- Look at the data from the results of Facebook, Twitter and Mailchimp reports and design a template for interpreting an disseminating the information.
- Review email practices and analyze for improvements.
- Online store analysis, promotions, etc.
- Other operational/marketing suggestions or recommendations that come out of the student's work.
We hope to implement changes that will help us increase our online presence and brand awareness that will hopefully translate to increased sales. We are open to discussion around some of the project goals/ specifics.
About the company
Café Ético is proud to be one of Vancouver's first fairly traded coffee importers. We have consistently paid a higher price that international fair trade minimums, and today have a commitment to pay at least 20% more than the established fair trade base price.
Café Ético believes in doing responsible, socially-just, and environmentally friendly business. With millions of people's lives worldwide depending on coffee trade, we are aware that paying a fair price to coffee makers is central in making a significant and direct positive impact on the lives of farmers and their families.