Distribution channels: availability of products (time, place, quantity); movement of goods from manufacturer to retailer to consumer; distribution channels for different…
3. (TCO H) Marketers recognize that the marketing of services is different than the marketing of a product because of the different characteristics that distinguish them from physical products. How do marketers communicate the value of services to consumers? How do they make these intangible services appear tangible to the consumer? What are some marketing strategies that might be employed with services to ensure positive results? In your answer, provide an example of a service to which your strategies would be utilized.(Points : 25)…
• Select a product with which you are familiar. What stage is your selected product at in the product life cycle? Provide rationale for your answer. Based on your knowledge of the product life cycle, what types of changes will occur to your selected product as it continues through the product life cycle? How will this affect the marketing of your selected product?…
4. Based on your objectives in question 3, please provide at least three supporting tactics for each of the four elements of marketing mix. Please explain and justify each tactic.…
1. Briefly explain the nature of the three basic promotion methods available to a marketing manager. What are the main strengths and limitations of each?…
What are some marketing strategies that might be employed with services to ensure positive results with these distinguishing characteristics (choose at least two)? In your answer, provide an example of a service to which your strategies would be utilized.…
Q2: Explain and discuss the role of the expanded service marketing mix in this case.…
Compare and contrast the marketing concept and the societal marketing concept. Do you agree that marketers have an obligation to consider society’s long-term well-being? Give several examples you have found of hospitality companies being socially responsible. Include in your discussion how being socially responsible helps the company.…
9. The societal marketing concept calls on marketers to balance consumer wants and desires, company profits and society 's interest.…
The differences have resulted in a divergence in the education of services marketing versus regular marketing. Apart from the traditional "4 P's," Product, Price, Place, Promotion, there are three additional "P's" consisting of People, Physical evidence, and Process.…
Service firms compete in a difficult economic environment; discuss how service firms can use the three generic strategies to help them gain competitive advantage..…
Huczynski, A., Buchanan, D., (2001). Organisational behaviour: an introductory text: 4th Edition. Hemel Hempstead UK: Prentice Hall Europe.…
List the principles of writing a memo. Discuss the various approaches in writing a memo.…
1. What is so distinctive about services marketing that it requires a special approach, set of concepts, and body of knowledge?…
The societal marketing concept holds that the organisation task is to determine the needs, wants and interests of target markets and to deliver the desired satisfactions more effectively and efficiently than competitors in a way that preserves or enhances the consumer's society or well-being…