0Lecture 3: Marketing Environment Scanning of the Marketing Environment – Opportunities or threats? Environmental Forces—Firms must monitor six major forces in the broad environment: Demographic Political-Legal Economic Technological Socio-Cultural Natural 1. Demographic Environment The main demographic force that marketers monitor is population because people make up markets. Marketers are keenly interested in the: Size and growth rate of populations in cities‚ regions‚ and nations. Age distribution
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Microenvironmental factors are “The factors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers” [principles of marketing]. The microenvironmental factors that affected the introduction and sale of the Toyota Prius were it customers‚ competitors and publics. Customers are anyone who buys or rents from the company. Customer are the most important microenvironmental factor that affect company as they survive on meeting the wants and needs of the customer and failure to do so will result
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Discuss the factors causing a shift in the demand and supply of a specific commodity. In economics‚ Demand refers to the quantity of a goods or services that consumers are willing and able to buy at a given price in a given time period. The law of demand stipulates that there is an inverse relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded‚ that is to say‚ if the price of‚ say‚ good X rises‚ it will decrease the quantity demanded of good X and the price of the good falls‚ this
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child’s mind and a healthy mental development. Also children that move country are cognitively halted due to the fact that they have to ‘catch up’ with new languages and culture. As children enter the later stages of their childhood‚ many differing factors can be identified about how they were raised or just by assessing their attitude‚ actions and abilities. Some children are more interested in getting a university degree‚ while others are still immature and don’t have any idea of what they want to
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different levels (Kim‚ 1988). In this essay‚ we will argue that the globalization of formula feeding‚ the promotion of bottle feeding through media‚ health systems and policies‚ societal pressures and health problems all serve as physical and social factors that reduce breastfeeding practices worldwide. To begin with‚ the global spreading of the phenomenon of formula feeding‚ greatly promulgated by the interests of commercial industries has widely contributed to the decrease rates of breastfeeding
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Return to top I am thinking about getting pregnant. How can I take care of myself? You should start taking care of yourself before you start trying to get pregnant. This is called preconception health. It means knowing how health conditions and risk factors could affect you or your unborn baby if you become pregnant. For example‚ some foods‚ habits‚ and medicines can harm your baby — even before he or she is conceived. Some health problems also can affect pregnancy. Talk to your doctor before pregnancy
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1. Explain ten ways in which technology has affected communication a. Redused social interactions-When we consider the socializing among people life has changed a lot‚rarely there are no social meetings and get-together.People feel closer through daily communication but in real life the distance between them is very long.Most of the people No barriers –communication is now easy in case of situations when you want to convey something urgently to someone‚ mobiles and emails come in hardly b. Strengthened
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MACRO-ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR BUS 765 Facilitator: Harry J. Bury‚ Ph.D. Office: (216) 826-2395 Home: (216) 891-9517 E MAIL: hbury@bw.edu Website: http://homepages.bw.edu/~hbury The macro-perspective provides a broader view of organizational effectiveness by dealing with the major sub-units of the organization rather than individuals and small groups. This perspective deals with employee behavior as well
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Factors Affecting the Romantic Period Nasim Afsari English Literature of Semnan University‚ Iran Nasim.afsari1990@gmail.com Abstract This paper elaborates on the factors which affected the rise of Romantic Movement and it tries to show how the works of art in this era were influenced by social and historical influences such as French Revolution‚ Industrial Revolution and publication of Lyrical Ballads. Among these factors posthumous impact of writers such as Milton‚ Rousseau and Gray are
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2-14-2013 Factors Affecting Students’ Decision of Hotel Selection Mingyang Liu Johnson & Wales University - Providence‚ MGL375@wildcats.jwu.edu Ritong He Johnson & Wales University - Providence‚ RGH625@wildcats.jwu.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/mba_student Part of the Hospitality Administration and Management Commons‚ Marketing Commons‚ and the Tourism and Travel Commons Repository Citation Liu‚ Mingyang and He‚ Ritong‚ "Factors Affecting Students’
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