leadsilkaluminum‚ zinccottonparaffin waxebonitepolyethylene (plastic)carbon‚ copper‚ nickelrubbersulfurPlatinum‚ goldWeak hold on electrons POSITIVE CHARGE Strong hold on electrons NEGATIVE CHARGE Think If a piece of gold is rubbed with a piece of wool‚ which object loses electrons Explain using the electrostatic series. The wool is at the top of the electrostatic series so will lose electrons and have a positive charge. The gold is lower on the electrostatic series so gold will gain electrons and have
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What is a Marketing Map? Marketing Map is the process followed by marketers to generate value for the customers. Value can be defined as the ratio of perceived costs to perceived benefits. Perceived benefits are the advantages of the product perceived by the customer as compared to its competitors. Tangible benefits are physical benefits say a light weight comfortable shoe. An example of intangible benefit is the promise of quality that a product brings. Perceived costs are the economic
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Netflix launched its website in April of 1998‚ offering customers online rentals and sales of DVDs. Netflix experienced rapid growth; revenues grew from USD 1.4 million in 1998 to USD 152.8 million in 2002. Netflix’s strong record of executing on its core principals – value‚ convenience and selection – enabled the company to win subscribers at a much faster rate than directly competing online services. After Netflix had its first positive cash flow in the fourth quarter of 2001; Company’s management
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The Company Blockbuster‚ Inc. is a company that is a leader in video‚ disk rental. The company has about 27 percent of the U.S. market share; it operates about 6‚500 video stores‚ providing service to more than 87 million customers in the U.S. alone‚ and 25 other nations. The company maintains a database of over 43 million households with Blockbuster memberships all used to help customers select movies. Blockbuster origins date back to 1985‚ when the first Blockbuster store was open in Dallas.
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Netflix was the first company to create an online DVD movie rental service. The service has created a new movie market niche which has secured them a competitive first-mover advantage in this new high-tech venture. The popularity of the service has sparked the interest of market competitor Blockbuster who may become a growing threat to Netflix should they enter the online movie rental market (Perreault‚ 2004). Netflix was founded by Reed Hastings‚ Netflix was incorporated on August 29‚ 1997
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Introduction Our assigned company‚ Netflix‚ does not have a sustainability report in their form 10-K‚ nor do they have any mention to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that can be located on their webpage. After an exhausting search through third party sites‚ it has been determined that Netflix has no mention of CSR. So‚ in that vein‚ we accepted the challenge in designing a CSR report for Netflix. CSR can be dissected into three broad categories; Social Responsibility‚ Economic Responsibility
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Executive Summary VODISNOWHERE. What do you see from the block of letters? Is it “VOD IS NOWHERE” or “VOD IS NOW HERE”? You are right if you guess the former and latter. That depicts the fast pace of technological development. VOD‚ which refers to Video-on-Demand‚ is the recent video streaming technology where pay-per-view programming merges with Internet downloading. Netflix‚ an online subscription-based DVD rental company‚ entered the video industry with disruptive technology of offering online
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be in a strong competition between the telecommunication companies. The competition among these three companies is started to raise recent years in the form of providing services to their customer ‚ developing their network signals and other types of services to the customer . We can say that there are a three key-rivals companies which compete strongly to gain more and more market shares as follows: 1- Bahrain telecommunication company " Batelco " 2- Zain 3- Viva Intensified competition
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⌞ What does your character value the most? ✧ Love - SHE THINKS LOVE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE AND TRIES TO SPREAD IT DESPITE SHE HASN’T FOUND IT HERSELF YET. ✧ Reputation - SHE JUST WANTS A NEW CLEAN REPUTATION INSTEAD OF HER STAINED ONE THAT SHE IS VERY ASHAMNED OF. SHE WORKS VERY HARD TO MAKE PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT HER WRONG BY DOING ALOT OF GOOD BUT SHE THINKS ITS STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH ✧ Family - SHE THINKS FAMILY IS IMPORTANT AND SHE LOVES HER FAMILY BUT SOMETIMES SHE WONDERS IF BLOOD
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beginning‚ Blockbuster was the leader in the video rental industry (Forbe). They had thousands of retail locations‚ millions of customers‚ and massive marketing budgets and efficient operations (Forbe). However‚ just a few weeks before it 25th birthday‚ on September 23rd 2010‚ Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy (Gandel/Dallas). The human relations management system theory was developed in the early 1920’s during the industrial revolution (Perry). This theory can relate to Blockbusters failure because
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