Revised Marketing Plan for Qantas

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

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Name of Student: Abhilash Vijayan
Student Registration Number: SG 229
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Module Name: Contemporary issues in strategic marketing
Module Number: WEC-MBA-10-0506
Assignment Title: Revised marketing plan for Qantas
Submission Due Date: 1st November 2009
Student’s Electronic Signature: Abhilash

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Executive summary
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1. Literature review
According to Alvin J Silk “one of the main aims of business purpose is to create a customer and hence marketing and innovation are two basic entrepreneurial function of any profitable business” (Silk, 2006: 7). Marketing is essential for an organization/company so as to attract and retain the customers. The opinion of Sergio Zyman, former Vice-president of Coca Cola is that, ‘the purpose of marketing is to sell more products to more people more often for more money in order to make more profit’ (Newman, 1999). Marketing is important for the creating and exchanging value with the customers (Silk, 2006:7). The opinion of Philip Kotler and Kevin Lane Keller is that ‘marketing is the most important component of a business for financial success as without the demand for products/services there won’t even be a Finance, Operations, Accounting and other functions.’ The new age companies/organizations have recognized the importance of marketing and hence most of the big fishes in the pond has added a position in their firm named ‘Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)’, similar to the CEO and CFO (Kotler and Keller, 2006).
Two main tools to consider, while preparing

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