CONCEPTUAL/THEORETICAL PAPER Strategic marketing and marketing strategy: domain‚ definition‚ fundamental issues and foundational premises Rajan Varadarajan Received: 20 April 2009 / Accepted: 24 September 2009 / Published online: 28 October 2009 # Academy of Marketing Science 2009 Abstract This paper proposes a domain statement for strategic marketing as a field of study and delineates certain issues fundamental to the field. It also proposes a definition for marketing strategy‚ the focal organizational
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International Marketing and Marketing Research Compare the advertising campaigns (message‚ media‚ target audience...)which company may use a) to launch new product b) to support a long established product whose sales are slowly declining Introduction Due to new challenges which business organisations encounter in ever changing environment‚ the present marketing must focus on much more than creating new products or services. It is
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Marketing Strategies for Green Business for sustainable future Presented by‚ V. ARAVIND K. M. UDAY RAJ MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR GREEN BUSINESS FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE There is always a better strategy than the one you have; you just haven’t thought of it yet -Sir Winston Churchill‚ Former British Prime Minister ABSTRACT For almost half a century‚ environmentalists have been advocating for big businesses to incorporate sustainability principles into their practices. Yet even ten years ago‚ it
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Unit 1 – i Introduction to Marketing 1 About Me… b Professor Mark Runge markrunge.rmit@gmail.com k it@ il Cell # by request Office hours are by appointment 2 Class Structure The course will be structured as follows – I will lecture for the first part of class I will then assign discussion questions for groups to answer. You will have 20min to formulate your answers. You will then share these answers with the class. 3 Assessment Assignment 1: A
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importance of internal marketing in service product development. The first part of this essay will discuss the origin and growth of the concept of internal marketing. Then it will focus on the benefits of internal marketing. In the later part‚ it will demonstrate a specific case‚ Mary Kay‚ which has successfully implemented internal marketing. It shall first briefly introduce fuzzy sets and related concepts. The concept of internal marketing originally emerged from the services marketing literature (Berry
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What is Marketing? What is marketing? If you were to have asked me that question before I started this class‚ I would have likely answered that marketing is “advertising and selling products”. I now realize that advertising and selling makes up only a portion of marketing and that there are other components as well. Listed below are other components in marketing: • Identifying and understanding customer’s wants and needs • Understanding the marketplace • Customer-driven marketing strategy
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The marketing mix in marketing strategy: Product‚ Price‚ Place and Promotion The marketing mix is the set of controllable‚ tactical marketing tools that a company uses to produce a desired response from its target market. It consists of everything that a company can do to influence demand for its product. It is also a tool to help marketing planning and execution. The four Ps of marketing: product‚ price‚ place and promotion. The marketing mix can be divided into four groups of variables commonly
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Strategic Planning Business Unit Strategic Planning • SWOT Analysis – External Environment Analysis (Opportunity and Threat Analysis) • Marketing Opportunity – Buying opportunity more convenient or efficient – Meet the need for more information and advice – Customize an offering that was previously only available in standard form Business Unit Strategic Planning – Marketing Opportunity Analysis (MOA) • Can the benefits be articulated to a target market? • Can the target market be reached with cost-effective
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MARKETING APPLICATIONS OF INTERNET MARKETING Internet-based media offer a range of opportunities for marketing products and services across the purchase cycle. Organizations can use online communications such as their websites‚ third-party websites and email marketing as means of: • An advertising medium. For example‚ BP plc and its subsidiary companies‚ such as Castrol Limited‚ uses large-format display or interactive ads on media sites to create awareness of brands and products such as fuels
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Marketing Case Study II: Aqualisa Quartz Introduction and Problem Statement Aqualisa‚ a premium British shower manufacturer‚ is experiencing teething problems with its new line of electronic mixed shower products – Quartz. Despite being hailed as “a breakthrough in shower technology” (Case p. 6)‚ early sales were dismal. Plumbers‚ the main channel of Aqualisa’s products‚ have developed an ‘electronic phobia’ since the late 1980s when early electronic showers failed‚ hurting Quartz by association
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