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 strategy construct
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pricing‚ etc. Price skimming is a pricing strategy in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first‚ and then lowers the price over time where a new‚ innovative‚ or much-improved product is launched onto a market. The objective with skimming is to “skim” off customers who are willing to pay more to have the product sooner; prices are lowered later when demand from the “early adopters” falls. The success of a price-skimming strategy is largely dependent on the inelasticity
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MARKETING ESSAY In affluent societies‚ one observes a growing fragmentation of markets‚ buyers requesting more and more products adapted to their specific needs. How can we reconcile this fact with the objectives of global marketing that emphasises a strategy of standardisation of products and brands across the entire world? Executive Summary: Companies developing a global marketing strategy must consider its impact and influence on the company. Crucial for development of global marketing strategy
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Marketing and Selling Strategy of Amul [pic] Amul is the largest co-operative movement in India and as the country’s largest food company‚ is the market leader in butter‚ whole milk‚ cheese‚ ice cream‚ dairy whitener‚ condensed milk‚ saturated fats and long life milk. Amul follows a unique business model‚ which aims at providing ’value for money’ products to its consumers‚ while protecting the interests of the milk-producing farmers who are its suppliers as well as its owners
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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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Case Study: Home Depot Implement Stakeholder Orientation Case Study: Home Depot Implement Stakeholder Orientation Gupta Bhagirath‚ BUS604 Grand Canyon University Abstract The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. The Home Depot employees Three Hundred Forty Five Thousand and it operates 2‚193 big-box format stores across the United States (including all 50 U.S. states‚ the District of Columbia‚ Puerto Rico‚ the Virgin
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What Marketing Strategies Help Overcome the Existing Global Crisis? A case study of Indian Industry Abstract The global financial system literally went into a cardiac arrest after the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed and a meltdown was barely avoided through very aggressive policy responses. Unfortunately‚ the worst is ahead. The entire global economy will contract in a severe and protracted U-shaped global recession that began sometime back. The recession in the US markets and the global
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The Concept of Just-in-Time Delivery and Its Implications on the Marketing Strategy of a Company. by Mara Bateman July 26‚ 2008 1. Diagnose the underlying causes of the difficulties that the JITD program was created to solve. What are the benefits and drawbacks of this program? 2. What conflicts or barriers internal to Barilla does the JITD program create? What causes these conflicts? As Giorgio Maggiali‚ how would you deal with these? 3. As one of Barilla’s customers‚ what would your
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study entitled‚” Strategic Marketing and Its Effect on Business Performance: Moderating Effect of Country-specific Factors”conducted by Matti Jaakkola‚ Marketing efforts and know-how are instrumental in commercializing ideas and inventions successfully. Therefore‚ it could be fatal for companies to ignore the importance of marketing (cf. e.g. Yli-Kovero‚ 2006; Salminen‚ 2006). Kotler (1999) emphasizes the position of marketing to even argue that‚ in the future‚ marketing has the main responsibility
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Global Marketing Environment and Its Effect On Marketing In this paper‚ I briefly analyzed global marketing environment and its effect on global marketing. There are 6 components of the global marketing environment: (1) Economic Environment‚ (2) Social Environment‚ (3) Technical Environment‚ (4) Institutional Environment‚ (5) Legal‚ Political Environment‚ and (6) Competitive Environment (Corner‚ n.d.) The changes of these components affect the market directly and create opportunities or threats
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