Marketing Mix Paper University of Phoenix MKT/421 July 11‚ 2010 The marketing mix plays an important part in marketing. The purpose of the marketing mix is to use a combination of tools to satisfy customers and obtain company goals. Often the marketing mix is referred as the four P’s: product‚ price‚ place‚ and promotion. The elements are adjusted until a right combination is found that serves the needs of the product’s customers while generating optimum income” (Marketing Mix‚ 2010‚ p. 1)
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Research the Braaap organisation at: BRAAAP BRAAAP company has been established by Brad Smith. The business started when Smith imported elite motocross bikes from Asia‚ and then moved into bike design and manufacture. Noticing a gap in the market‚ he expanded the business in 2008 into a retail concept store‚ selling motocross bikes‚ accessories and street wear‚ with the unique addition of an indoor foam pit for the practicing of jumps and tricks on BMX In 2008 he thinks a retail outlet
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Introduction The term “marketing mix” was introduced by Neil Borden in his 1964 article “The Concept of the Marketing Mix”. Borden’s (1964) original marketing mix was a list of 12 elements that make up a marketing programme. McCarthy (1964) refined Borden’s list and reduced Borden’s 12 elements to four Ps: product‚ price‚ place and promotion. In addition‚ McCarthy (1964) defined the marketing mix as “a combination of all the factors at a marketing manager’s command to satisfy the target market”
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| | | Apple Marketing StrategyApple has been so successful in these last years thanks to his fresh‚ imaginative way to think and do its business: a winning combination of exceptional products‚ great style and design‚ great strategy‚ innovative marketing‚ sleek and enticing communications. Apple owes its overwhelming success in the last years to the iPhone and to the smart iPod and iTunes product combination‚ a combination of a great hardware piece with great style‚ great software‚
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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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was increased in the U.S. in 2001 with the return of four flavors: orange‚ strawberry‚ pineapple and grape. Orange‚ the biggest seller‚ is now available in most of the country. Product Fanta is available in 3 flavors namely Orange‚ green Apple and lime‚ green apple and lime were introduced only recently whereas the Fanta orange flavor has been prevalent in India for very long time now. Fanta orange is distributed everywhere i.e. throughout the country where as other two are distributed only in selected
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Marketing Principles Task B 24 – 11 – 11 By Ayesh Goburdhun A. Define your product The product chosen for this assignment will be a laptop‚ the Macbook Pro by Apple. The product is a personal computer that can be used for communicating with people or whoever‚ working on different kinds of software‚ listening to music and mostly to go on the Internet with the rising of the social networking websites. Apple Computers
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4.1 Marketing mix The marketing mix is one of the major concepts in modern marketing and is often brought up in general discussions of marketing. Marketing mix is a set of marketing tools that a company uses to pursue its marketing objectives in the target market. When a company is making decisions on marketing they generally fall into four controllable categories known as the 4 P’s: product‚ price‚ place and promotion. As shown in the figure 3; in Kotler’s Marketing mix chart the target
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Apple Marketing Strategy A. Marketing Strategy 1. Company Presentation The Company was created on April 1st‚ 1976 by two friends‚ Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak along with one of the former colleagues of Jobs at Atari‚ Roald Wayne who was supposed to act as an arbiter between the two former students but who left the company after only 2 weeks because of his financial situation and the risks involved in the project. The first computer ever created by the company‚ Apple 1‚ was built in
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Marketing Strategy Case Analysis – Apple Inc. Content Introduction -----------------------------------------------------------3 SWOT analysis -------------------------------------------------------4 Question 1 -------------------------------------------------------------6 Question 2 -------------------------------------------------------------7 Question 3 ------------------------------------------------------------10 Recommendation ---------------------------------------------------12
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