February 2011 Master of Business Administration - MBA Semester 2 MB0046 – Marketing Management - 4 Credits Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks) Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions. Q.1 What is Marketing Information System? Explain its characteristics‚ benefits and information types. (10 marks) Q.2 a. Examine how a firm’s macro environment operates. (5 marks) b. Mention the key points in Psychoanalytic model of consumer behaviour. (5 marks) Q.3 Explain the key roles
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firm is to have a growth objective to gain position and increase the sales. Otherwise the product would become a Dog and the best thing for the company would be divesting instead of building. The four marketing P’s (product‚ price‚ place and promotion) are important in developing the entire marketing process. In order to succeed the company has to take into consideration the different ways it can expand their product‚ in this case Fresh Rollwipes are an upward stretching strategy to the regular paper
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Professor Ted Framan Lowes uses several resources for information to help build their marketing decision support system and its customer relationship management. Market research technology is a big benefit for making marketing decision. The use of powerful software tools and online technologies bring research to any level in the organization (Johnson & Marshall‚ 2010 p.139). One source of marketing research that Lowes uses is online surveys. Lowes gives online surveys with chances of
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Principles of Marketing‚ Junfeng Pan 1. Market segmentation Midea has considered several segmentation variables (mainly including city size‚ generation‚ and occupation) to segment the Chinese microwave oven market. Midea divided the market into two broader segment: householders in primary cities‚ and tertiary cities. The primary city markets has already been saturated‚ while there were a considerable number of potential customers in tertiary cities. On the other hand‚ in China‚ those people
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Fail Pass Credit Distinction Max Mark Actual Mark Marketing environment Provides little or no description of the marketing environment and omits implications for the brand. Ignores or does not grasp the significance of information provided. Provides some description of the marketing environment and hints at implications for the brand. Takes into account all relevant information provided. Provides good description of the marketing environment and has good understanding of implications
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Volkswagen (VW) means ‘people car’ in German. It is the biggest automakers in German and second biggest automakers in the world. It founded by Ferdinand Porsche in Wolfsburg‚ Germany at 28 May 1937. Recently‚ VW has three cars in the top 10 list of best selling cars. They are Volkswagen Golf‚ Volkswagen Beetle‚ and Volkswagen Passat. Martin Winterkorn‚ the chairman of the board of management has pronouncements Strategy 2018. The Strategy 2018 is focus on positioning the Volkswagen Group to overtake
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The Promotion Mix A promotional mix is the term used to describe a business’s total marketing communications program. KEY POINTS A promotional mix is the term used to describe a business’s total marketing communications program. It specifies how much attention to pay to each of the five promotion subcategories‚ and how much money to budget for each. Advertising - Presentation and promotion of ideas‚ goods‚ or services by an identified sponsor. Personal selling - A process of helping and persuading
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Lecture 1 Marketing: the art and science of finding‚ retaining and growing profitable customers Task to provide real customer value to targeted customers‚ motivate purchase and fulfil consumers needs. P’s: product‚ price‚ place‚ promotion‚ people. Process‚ physical evidence 4 characteristics of services: Intangibility: services can not be seen‚ tasted‚ heard or smelled before purchase Inseparability: services cannot be splitten from their providers (taxi driver drives you) Variability:
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Definition The process of defining and subdividing a large homogenous market into clearly identifiable segments having similar needs‚ wants‚ or demand characteristics. Its objective is to design a marketing mix that precisely matches the expectations of customers in the targeted segment. Few companies are big enough to supply the needs of an entire market; most must breakdown the total demand into segments and choose those that the company is best equipped to handle. Four basic factors that affect
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2.1 Define segmentation (using more than just the textbook’s definition) According to Kotler et al. 1999‚ a market segment consists of consumers who respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing stimuli. Segmentation is the analytical dissection of a set of customers that possess the same attributes. A group of people would be divided into subsets based on their segmentation variables that are Geographic‚ Demographic‚ Psychographic and Behavioural (Cyr‚ Donald and Douglas Gray 2009). Market
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