Chapter 12: Setting Product Strategy GENERAL CONCEPT QUESTIONS Multiple Choice 1. Marketing planning begins with the formulation of an offering to ________ target customers’ needs or wants. a. undermine b. meet c. capture d. compete with e. comprehend Answer: b Page: 318 Difficulty: Easy AACSB: Reflective Thinking 2. The customer will judge the offering by three basis elements: ________‚ services mix and quality‚ and price. a. performance b. salespeople
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Competitive Advantage High product quality Rapid delivery Low prices Excellent service Unique features MARKETING COMMUNICATION PROCESS Communication is the process by which we exchange or share meanings through a common set of symbols. 2 categories of communication: a) Interpersonal communication: Direct‚ face-to-face communication between two or more people. b) Mass communication : To communicating a concept or message to larger audiences‚ usually through a mass medium
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Table of Contents Introduction & Company profile: Type of business Geographic domain Culture of senior management Competitive situation Marketing Audit: External environment - Macro environment (PEST) Political‚ Governmental‚ and Legal forces: Political stability‚ Government regulations & deregulations. Changes in tax laws‚ Changes in patents(التراخيص) laws Level of government subsidies‚ Country to other countries relationships Trading policies& Import-export
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commuters. The railway has a large collection of Vintage carriages; some of them are used to carry passengers on specifically selected open days. Recently the Airedale Springs company has produced a flat spring product that helps extend the life of wooden railway sleepers‚ this was specially produced for Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. This spring is used to repair and prevent the worsening of cracks which tend to appear due to wear and tear. The railway preservation society has recently reached
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by how you treat employees‚ the community in which you operate." Discuss the concept of social responsibility marketing and how it impacts both companies and consumers. Cause Related Marketing is defined as “a commercial activity by which business and charities or causes form a partnership with each other to market an image‚ product or service for mutual benefit.” The main reason for getting involved in Cause Related Marketing is not philanthropy. On the contrary‚ business gets benefited by
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Problem Statement……………………………………………………………………... page 2 III SWOT Analysis of Micro and Macro Environments………………………………......page 2 i.) Micro analysis……………………………………………………………...page 2 i. Competition……………………………………………………page 3 ii. Marketing ……………..……………………………………....page 3 iii. Customers……………………………………………………...page iv. Suppliers v. Publics vi. Company vii. Management viii. Accounting ix. Finance x. Operations
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International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 15; August 2011 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN NIGERIA GAFAR .T. IJAIYA MUKAILA. A. IJAIYA RAJI .A. BELLO MICHAEL .A. AJAYI Abstract Studies on economic growth indicates that economic growth is essential for poverty reduction‚ especially when it leads to increase in employment and improvement in opportunities for productive activities among the people that are poor. Using a multiple regression analysis this
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Abstract This paper shows the major types of marketing intermediaries‚ marketing decisions do those marketing intermediaries make‚ the major trends with marketing intermediaries and future hold for private label brands. Marketing intermediaries‚ also known as middlemen or distribution intermediaries are an important part of the product distribution channel. Intermediaries are individuals or businesses that make it possible for the product to make it from the manufacturer
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The International College of Xiamen University 11 HND Business Accounting Marketing: An Introduction Unit Name: Marketing: An Introduction Name: Zhu Yuanyuan Student ID No.: 135118494 Supervisor: Zhang Hui Submission Date: 12 April‚ 2013 Table of Content 1 Introduction of the Haier Group 2 2 The Micro and Macro environment 3 3 The importance of marketing research 6 3.1 Importance of marketing research 6 3.2 Example and explanation of qualitative and quantitative techniques 8 4 The
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Differences and similarities between prescriptive and descriptive strategies Similarities There is a strong similarity to descriptive and prescriptive strategies. As the definition reads; descriptive: “what is usually done” or prescriptive: “what can be done most realistically” could end up being the same outcome on many occasions. The definitions even make sense when put together. What is usually done is most likely what can be done most realistically. However‚ when studied in more depth
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