QUESTION 1 a) Define the term “MARKETING” Marketing is the process of communicating the value of a product or service to customers‚ for the purpose of selling the product or service. It is a critical business function for attracting customers. From a societal point of view‚ marketing is the link between a society’s material requirements and its economic patterns of response. Marketing satisfies these needs and wants through exchange processes and building long term relationships. It is the
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Marketing in a Complex World Unit 3 Understanding the Marketing Environment Prepared for the Course Team by Haider Ali‚ P.K. Viswanathan and Tony Stapleton Masters CORE COURSE TEAM Andrew Lindridge‚ Course Team Chair and Author Josie Woods‚ Course and Award Manager Haider Ali‚ Author Sally Dibb‚ Author‚ Course Team Member Jeanne Barby‚ Course Team Assistant Vyv Pettler Gareth Stone External assessor Professor Malcolm McDonald‚ Cranfield University External examiner Professor
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Assignment 1.1: Discussion — The Value of Marketing to Customers In this assignment you will participate in a discussion on the value of marketing to customers. Procedure 1. In the forum‚ discuss the value of marketing to the consumer‚ the stakeholder‚ and the stockholder. Your forum post should address the following: a. The value you place on marketing. b. The value of marketing to customers and consumers. c. The value of marketing to stakeholders and stockholders. 2
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Manual on Elective III – Hospitality Marketing By Amy Tan‚ Ph.D. Eliza Ching-Yick Tse‚ Ph.D. Cynthia Ling Wong‚ M.S. School of Hotel and Tourism Management The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hospitality Marketing Copyright © The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region All rights reserved. The copyright of this manual belongs to the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Commercial use is strictly prohibited. Offenders will be liable to legal
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T he basic premise of the marketing concept is that its adoption will improve business performance. Marketing is not an abstract concept: its acid test is the eff ect that its use has on key corporate indices such as profitability and market share. Fortunately‚ in recent years‚ two quantitative studies in both Europe and North America have sought to examine the relationship between marketing and performance. Th e results suggest that the relationship is positive. We will now examine each
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Task 1 What is marketing? What does the term marketing mean? Many people think of marketing only as selling and advertising. And no wonder‚ for every day we are bombarded with television commercials ‚newspaper ads‚ direct mail campaigns‚ Internet pitches and sales calls. Although they are important‚ they are only two of many marketing functions and are often not the most important ones. Today‚ marketing must be understood not in the old sense of making a sale – ‘telling and selling’ – but
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MARKETING AND SALESMANSHIP (REVISED CURRICULUM) MARKETING-I 3 HOURS CLASS XI MARKS: 60 Theory I. Introduction: Meaning‚ nature and scope of Marketing; Importance of Marketing; Difference between Marketing & sellings; Concepts of Marketing: Production concept‚ product concept‚ Sales concept & Marketing concept; Marketing Philosophies: marketing & societal marketing 15 II. Marketing Segmentation and Targeting: Meaning and importance; Bases of market segmentation: geographic‚ demographic
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space which can pave the way for them to sneak in the minds of the consumers. Once settled in they begin playing with the brain eventually creating and modifying concepts called “needs” which would have never existed. The traditional concept of marketing was only about sales or meeting the “current needs” of a consumer. But the same cannot be felt‚ today with the number of firms on the rise in the same industry‚ state and even the same street. Everyone is in a race either to: * Capture a customer
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in the Basic Marketing text‚ see page 8. Internet Exercise: ONSALE Auction Supersite The ONSALE Auction Supersite features a number of on-line auctions in which different sellers auction off computer‚ consumer electronics‚ and other products to buyers. Visit the web site at www.onsale.com and review an open auction for a consumer electronics product. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this market for sellers? For buyers? For related discussion in the Basic Marketing text‚ see page
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introducing a 32-bit system‚ investing heavily in game development‚ and leveraging its massive clout with distributors. • In late 2001‚ Microsoft entered the video game industry with a 128-bit system. It had an advanced machine‚ and spent a lot on marketing and games‚ but Playstation2 (also 128-bit) already had an installed base of 20 million. • In late 2005‚ Microsoft introduces the Xbox 360‚ beating the Playstation3 to market. Would it be able to displace Sony as the dominant console producer
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