Pitching a specific leader as a driver of change and to mobilise voters’ support is hardly a new political strategy. After all‚ the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had projected L.K. Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee its prime ministerial candidates in the past (remember the Ab ki baari Atal Bihari slogan in 1996?). The Congress party’s projection of Indira Gandhi as the country’s tallest leader with its ’Indira lao desh bachao’ tagline in the 1970s is another such example. But the personal rhetoric had
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As three of America’s leading retailers‚ Home Depot‚ Nordstrom‚ and Cold Water Creek‚ are responsible for over $80 billion in annual sales. Retail industry analysts look for commonalities in inventory management reporting in order to track company’s ability to move inventory and maximize pricing strategies and avoid having to discount obsolescent inventory thus affecting profit. Through analysis of a company’s inventory management ratio‚ outside investors and inside management can track the number
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Objectives of the Marketing Plan “Setting objectives for a marketing plan is not simple and straightforward matter. It is an iterative process whereby objectives are set‚ strategies and action plans are developed‚ and then it is decided whether the planned objectives are impossible‚ achievable or easy. Marketing objectives should be difficult‚ but they must be achievable. The aim is to set objectives that a challenge‚ but can be achieved with effort. They must be motivating rather than discouraging
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Marketing Case: Office depot The case that we are going to talk about today is about how office depot manages customer care & services. In the article we had to read they took an example of a couple‚ Steve and Dana. Dana experienced a dreadful delivery and therefore Steve‚ a marketing professor who heard the story from Dana and had just done a presentation about how important customer service is‚ decided to phone office depots customer service to see how they would handle his complaint. Steve had
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In this case‚ upward and lateral influences are used as preferent power tactics by influence direction. Firstly‚ rasional persuasion is presenting logical arguments and factual evidence to demonstrate that a request is reasonable. For example‚ An employee informs to her superior about her performance and achievement as a reason for her to get a promotion in job. Secondly‚ consultation is increasing the target’s motivation and support by involving him or her in deciding how the plan or change will
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Pricing strategy is an idea implemented into a plan to get the most favourable price for a service or product that will give way the highest profit. Pricing is one of the most important elements of the marketing mix‚ as it is the only mix‚ which generates a turnover for the organisation. The remaining 3p’s are the variable cost for the organisation. It costs to produce and design a product; it costs to distribute a product and costs to promote it. Price must support these elements of the mix. Pricing
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The beachhead tactic is when a unit arrives to shore and begins to defend the area and wait until other reinforcements that are a big enough unit to arrive to help. The Beachhead tactic worked for the ANZAC’s‚ even if it was only 3 km in length. The Beachhead worked so well‚ that it made both commanders from both divisions request for an evacuation. This tactic came with a price‚ with over 2‚000 of their men either killed or wounded. Aftermath
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Channel and Pricing Strategies Team B University of Phoenix MKT/571: Marketing Kudler Fine Foods had determined that expanding their markets will allow foreign market growth and increased profits. Kudler Fine Foods has decied to launch a fine and organic wine assortment in the country China. China’s culture and markets align with Kathy Kudler’s vision for Kudler Fine Foods. China is the seventh largest country in the world for wine consumption. This revealed the need for this type of expansion
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CHAPTER 10: MARKET POWER AND PRICING STRATEGY Introduction We have examined how firms with market power can generate positive economic profit by influencing the price at which their products or services are sold. This conclusion was based on the assumption that firms must charge the same price to all customers. Now we explore alternative pricing strategies and show that when a firm with market power can “discriminate” among customers‚ additional surplus (beyond that achieved by a single-price
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battlefield without the use of tactics. Tactics is “the art and science of winning engagements and battles. “It includes the use of firepower and maneuver‚ the integration of different arms‚ and the immediate exploitation of success to defeat the enemy” (MCDP 1-3‚ Tactics‚ 1997‚ p. 3). Simply put this is how we gain victory of the enemy and win battles. Tactics use elements of maneuver warfare and coordinated fires to gain advantage to destroy the enemy. In war‚ “tactics is the application of combat
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