Kostas E. Sillignakis – www.sillignakis.com SAMPLE OF RESEARCH PROPOSAL: “Rural Tourism Development for the Prefecture of Lassithi in Crete.” 1.0 INTRODUCTION TO PROBLEM STATEMENT AND PURPOSE OF STUDY Over the last two decades or so‚ the whole world has experienced rapid changes and socioeconomic transformations. The socioeconomic changes affected and caused severe stress mainly to isolated‚ peripheral and rural areas of the world. However‚ the changes in economic and social culture structure of
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Yoga was commercialized by like of Bikram Choudhury and Tara Stiles. Today people like Bikram churn out around $ 5 Million through his training centres where as Tara Stiles is working with brands like Nissan and launching Ipad Apps for yoga. Branding Yoga and Value Creation * As per tradition‚ the Yoga has been considered as an activity for quieting the mind‚ transcending the physical self and attaining communion with the divine. It was considered as an art to be passed from one generation
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billboard to advertise our talents and goals. Developing a personal brand makes us a more valuable asset‚ whether to the company we work for‚ a potential employer‚ or your own enterprise. This paper discusses the development and deployment of “personal branding” through appropriate social media platforms such as LinkedIn‚ Facebook and Twitter. It gives and insight on strategies for using social media for career advantage‚ privacy issues and its future outlook. From the job seeker side‚ traditional resumes
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A marketing campaign should have the goal of meeting customer needs in mind. There are certain things you can do to make sure you meet your customer needs‚ and those are explained below: First and foremost offer good customer service. The customer is not always right‚ but they should always be respected and valued. So‚ make sure that your customers know they are important to you‚ and that you want to meet their needs. If they know this‚ they will be more forgiving‚ and they will be more willing
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……………………………………………………………………….3 2.1 Introduction to Dissertation………………………………………………….....3 2.2 Research Questions…………………………………………………………….4 2.3 Research Objectives…………...……….………………………………………4 3. Literature Review …………………………………………………………………5 3.1 Online Shopping in China………………………………………………………5 3.2 Concept of E-service Quality…………………………………………………...5 3.3 Dimensions of E-service Quality……………………………………………….5 4. Research Model……………………………………………………………............6 4.1 Website Design…………………………………………………………………7
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Effect of Brand Image on Consumer Purchasing Behaviour on Clothing: Comparison between China and the UK’s Consumers By Kwok Keung Tam 2007 A Dissertation presented in part consideration for the degree of “MSc International Business” Table of Content Page numbers Abstract i Acknowledgements ii Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 The importance of brand image on fashion clothing 1.2 Background information of China and the UK clothing markets 1.2.1 China clothing market 1.2.1.1 Chinese
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Devising a Branding Strategy A firm’s branding strategy—often called the brand architecture—reflects the number and nature of both common and distinctive brand elements. Deciding how to brand new products is especially critical. A firm has three main choices: 1. It can develop new brand elements for the new product. 2. It can apply some of its existing brand elements. 3. It can use a combination of new and existing brand elements. When a firm uses an established brand to introduce a new
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Executive Summary Branding has become one of the most powerful tools in the marketing strategy. A brand is the symbolic embodiment of all the information connected with a product or service and it usually includes a name‚ logo‚ and other visual elements such as images or symbols. People still use brands as a cue in their purchasing decisions. More and more often the term branding is used in connection to countries‚ which likes companies compete with each other and try to brand themselves using marketing
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in the marketing activities of the company have to be backed up by legitimate research. The introduction of new products‚ decisions on whether to invest more in certain channels of distribution‚ change of features of the product‚ advertising or pricing strategies have to be backed up by evidence based on the results of continuous marketing research. In the case of a big corporation like McDonald’s‚ the marketing research reports should answer lots of consumer behavioral questions in order to distinguish
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Paul Wehr Self-limiting Conflict: The Gandhian Style I have mentioned two basic categories of conflict regulation scholarship. In the preceding section we concerned ourselves with the first‚ specialists engaged in third-party intervention research and experimentation-intermediaries‚ negotiation‚ conciliation‚ communication control and modification. The second involves the study of ways of waging conflict that tend both to keep it within bounds and to limit its intensity or at least the possibility
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