PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND MARKET SEGMENTATION AS ALTERNATIVE MARKETING STRATEGIES WENDELL R. SMITH Alderson & Sessions decade the 1930’s‚ the work of D URING theRobinsonofand ofChamberlin resulted in a revitalization economic theory. While classical and neoclassical theory provided a useful framework for economic analysis‚ the theories of perfect competition and pure monopoly had become inadequate as explanations of the contemporary business scene. The theory of perfect competition assumes homogeneity
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Conglomerate | Founded | 7 May 1946[1] | Founder(s) | Masaru Ibuka Akio Morita | Headquarters | Minato‚ Tokyo‚ Japan | Area served | Worldwide | Key people | Sir Howard Stringer (Chairman of the Board) Kazuo Hirai (President & CEO) | Products | Consumer electronics Semiconductors Video games Media/Entertainment Computer hardware Telecom equipment | Services | Financial services‚ insurance‚ banking‚ credit finance and advertising agency | Revenue | US$ 79.186 billion (2012)[2]
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Background of the study Marketing is based on thinking about the business in terms of customer needs and their satisfaction. Marketing differs from selling because (in the words of Harvard Business School’s retired professor of marketing Theodore C. Levitt) selling concerns itself with the tricks and techniques of getting people to exchange their cash for your product. It is not concerned with the values that the exchange is all about. And it does not‚ as marketing invariable does‚ view the entire business
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MARKETING RESEARCH Dr. Hong Liu LEARNING OBJECTIVES The importance of marketing research in international marketing decisions The factors involved in international marketing research Management of international marketing research process Sources of data availability Challenges in international marketing research DEFINING MARKETING RESEARCH (1) The “function that links the consumer‚ customer and public to the marketer through information – information used to identify and define marketing
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Product distribution (or place) is one of the four elements of the marketing mix. An organization or set of organizations (go-betweens) involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a consumer or business user. The other three parts of the marketing mix are product‚ pricing‚ and promotion. The distribution channel Distribution is also a very important component of Logistics & Supply chain management. Distribution in supply chain management refers to
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rights reserved 0160-7383/94 $6.00 + .00 0160-7383(93)E0032-9 THE TOURISM PRODUCT Stephen L. J. Smith University of Waterloo‚ Canada Abstract: An industry is characterized by a generic product and production process. For tourism to be considered an industry‚ it is necessary to show that such a genetic product and process exist. This paper argues that they do exist‚ and presents a model that describes the product as consisting of five elements: the physical plant‚ service‚ hospitality‚ freedom
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Product Offering MKT/571 Product Offering Verizon Communications Incorporated (Verizon) is an international leader in providing broadband and other wire line and wireless communications services to wholesale‚ mass market‚ business‚ and government customers (Verizon‚ 2011). The corporation primarily operates in the United States. To respond to the economic crisis‚ marketing challenges and opportunities
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A product is anything that meets the requirements of a particular market‚ this term involves a lot of dimensions because it is essential to recognize what contributes to the “total product offer”1 in order to be successful in the market or simple to keep our customers satisfy. A service is an intangible economic activity‚ not stored and does not result in ownership; Services nowadays are becoming more important and growing faster and consumers are more apprehensive with performance and satisfaction
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Pricing productsIntroduction Products and services have a price just as they have a value. Many non-profit and all profit-making organizations must also set prices. Pricing is controversial and goes by many names: Price is all around us. You pay rent for your apartment‚ tuition for your education. The airline‚ railway‚ taxi and bus companies charge you a/are; the local utilities call their price a rate; and the local bank charges you interest for the money you borrow ; the guest lecturer charges
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Smart Products and Services A smart products is an electronic device‚ generally connected to other devices or networks via different protocols such as Bluetooth‚ NFC‚ WiFi‚ 3G‚ etc.‚ that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously. It is widely believed that these types of devices will outnumber any other forms of smart computing and communication in a very short time‚ in part‚ acting as a useful enabler for the internet things. Uses of Smart Services Minimize maintenance and repair
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