Marketing Mix MKT421 June 12‚ 2013 Marketing Mix This paper is going to discuss the marketing mix‚ also known as the 4 P’s. The 4 P’s are product‚ place‚ price‚ and promotion. There will also be an example of a business and how it has applied the marketing mix. The customer is the main focus when marketing. Everything is tailored to fit the wants and needs of the customer. Product The product is the goods‚ services‚ or a combination of the two that the customers buy from the company. The
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Marketing Principles Today‚ marketing must be understood not in the old sense of making a sale‚ but in a new sense of satisfying customer needs. Without customer needs there is no marketing. If the marketer understands customer needs; develops products that provide superior customer value; and prices‚ distributes‚ and promotes them effectively‚ these products will be sold easily. Selling and advertising are just part of “marketing mix” which is a set of marketing tools that work together to satisfy
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Introduction When the marketing plan implementation does not successful of marketing plan which practitioners expected which‚ they have to used a range of structural and behavioural intervention strategies to improve their marketing performance‚ such as‚ According to Cravens and Piercy‚ 2006 have been mention that “exiting from a product/service market‚ new product planning‚ changing the targeting market strategy‚ adjusting marketing strategy‚ pr improving efficiency”. However those two interventions
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ANALYSIS OF MARKETING STRATEGY (MARKETING MIX AND PROMOTIONAL MIX) OF COCA COLA INTRODUCTION Coca-Cola is one of the most widely used soft drinks in the world. There is a great variety of brands offered by Coca-cola like diet Coke‚ Sprite‚ RC Cola‚ Minute Maid etc. You can find the Coca-cola soft drinks in any places. In 1919 Coca-Cola decided it was time to go global. The Coca-Cola Company decided to take its operations beyond national boundaries and marketing research was started
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Marketing mix for competitive advantage: Introduction: The main intention of market research is to analyze the demand of customers. In fact‚ consumers are so close with the market research and product development to their integration into the 4 Ps--that people might even be called: The fifth "P" of marketing. The four P’s of effective marketing mix strategy was developed by McCarthy. Focusing upon customers‚ company could take right decision for the customers‚ according to the right place and
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BSBMKG502B - ESTABLISH AND ADJUST THE MARKETING MIX Assessment Task 1 – Work Based Knowledge Test 1. What are the characteristics of the products and/or services in your business? Ans. I am working in . We are selling burgers as well as fries and soft drinks. But recently we start selling frozen coke and ice cream‚ which Mc d was selling and now we are making good money. 2. How do these products and/or services relate to the market they are in‚ and to the immediate competitors? Ans. We have
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A)Marketing Mix variables (The 4 P ’s of Marketing) The major marketing management decisions can be classified in one of the following four categories: * Product * Price * Place (distribution) * Promotion These variables are known as the marketing mix or the 4 P ’s of marketing. They are the variables that marketing managers can control in order to best satisfy customers in the target market. The marketing mix is portrayed in the following diagram: The Marketing Mix
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The Marketing Mix Marketers‚ in order to bring out desired responses from their target markets‚ use a number of tools that form a marketing mix. Marketing mix is defined as the set of marketing tools that an organization uses to follow its marketing objectives in the target market. McCarthy has classified these tools as the 4Ps of marketing which are product‚ price‚ place and promotion. (McGraw-Hill/Irwin‚ 2002) The 4Ps are the ideas to take into account while marketing a product. They constitute
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INTRODUCTION According to palmer (2004; 576)‚ “the marketing mix refers to the choices available to a company or organization regarding the promotion or marketing of its product or services. Usually this process involves considerations regarding where the marketing will take place‚ the product or service‚ the customers‚ and the best way to carry out the promotion as a whole.” The marketing mix is not based on any theory‚ but on the need for marketing managers to breakdown their decision making into
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Marketing Mix The marketing mix is essentially about meeting the needs of the customer. Companies must make determinations about what “works” and what does not “work”. In order to assess where the company stands with their product or service‚ a marketing mix that is focused on the customer will help in addressing the changes that should be made. Companies can address such things as the packaging of the product or service. Warranties can be
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