• To explain what marketing is • To differentiate between “needs” and “wants” • To understand the fundamental marketing concepts • To explain why and how companies learn about their customers • To describe the main tools of marketing research • To identify and comment on the four elements of a company’s marketing mix • Marketing is more than a fancy image‚ a clever commercial‚ a special contest or a discount • Name some examples of marketing questions! Marketing involves a lot of planning
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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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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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Long term maintenance of a classic brand name A Nestlé case study Page 1: Introduction Kit Kat was launched in 1937. Since then‚ it has consistently been one of the best selling chocolate bars on the market and has acquired an instantly recognisable brand name and identity. In 1997‚ British sales of Kit Kat amounted to some £227 million‚ which made it easily the most popular confectionery product on the market. Forty four Kit Kats are consumed every second in the UK! The UK confectionery market
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Wal-Mart ’s Promotion Mix and Integrated Marketing Communications Marie Snyder Webster University Promotional Management Michael John ’s October 2nd‚ 2012 Wal-Mart’s Promotion Mix and Integrated Marketing Communications Wal-Mart ranked one of the top ranked companies with high financial performance. The giant is a none other-than but a retailer of general and consumable goods. They are an envied company that seem to do everything right. As a company‚ they position themselves
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Question 1 Describe the 7 Ps of marketing and provide examples with which you are familiar. Question 2 Discuss the importance of the ‘marketing mix’ to the success of a firm. 7Ps of marketing: Philip Kotler elaborated McCarthy’s (1960) traditional marketing mix; according to him it consists of 4Ps namely Product‚ Price‚ Place and Promotion. These 4Ps of marketing mix were considered as the main areas where marketing managers try to use limited business resources to achieve their objectives
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Marketing Plan: Part B Prepared for Vivian McDonald Table of Contents Key Issues There are various key issues present with regards to the marketing plan of Vitalyze. These were detailed in Part A of this report. These various issues that are present will guide the numerous marketing strategies that will be detailed in this section of the marketing plan. Perhaps the most important of these key issues present is the issue of how Vitalyze will gain and market a competitive
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Segments Segments marketing: A market segment consists of a group of customers who share a similar set of needs and wants. Rather than creating the segments‚ the marketers task is to identity them and decide which one (s) to target. Niche Marketing: A niche is a more narrowly defined customer group seeking a distinctive mix of benefits. Marketers usually identity niches by dividing a segments into sub segments. Local Marketing: Target marketing is leading to marketing programs tailored to
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INTRODUCTION Marketing is essentially a matching process between the needs and expectations of customers‚ and the organization’s ability and capacity to satisfy them. One of the main points of this process is the marketing planning. The purpose of marketing planning and its principal focus are the identification and creation of competitive advantage. Marketing planning is the planned application of marketing resources to achieve marketing objectives. In other words‚ it is the written document
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importance of internal marketing in service product development. The first part of this essay will discuss the origin and growth of the concept of internal marketing. Then it will focus on the benefits of internal marketing. In the later part‚ it will demonstrate a specific case‚ Mary Kay‚ which has successfully implemented internal marketing. It shall first briefly introduce fuzzy sets and related concepts. The concept of internal marketing originally emerged from the services marketing literature (Berry
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