MKTG7501– Marketing Seminar 2 Creating Value and Competitive Advantage 1 COMPETITION AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Today understanding your competitor is not enough – Marketers must consider not only the needs of the target market but also the strategies of competitors Competitive advantage - An advantage over competitors gained by offering consumers greater value The first step is the competitor analysis – Followed by the process of identifying major competitors‚ assessing
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the ants chase away the insects that may harm the ceropias and kill the climbing vines that might choke these trees. An example of a symbiotic relationship is the one between ants and caterpillars. The ants feed on sweet juices produced by spots on the caterpillars’ back. In return‚ they protect the caterpillars from attack. Producers Green plants are the producers of this ecosystem. There are four layers of plants in this ecosystem. The emergent layer includes huge trees towering 165 feet or more
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The five relationships of Confucianism are father and son‚ elder brother and younger brother‚ husband and wife‚ older friend and younger friend‚ and ruler and subject. Confucius believed in these relationships as the building blocks of a civilized society. He also believed that a particular set of behaviors must be maintained in each relationship‚ which usually comes from the development of deliberate traditions. Without them‚ he believed humans would return to anarchy. Being morally upright means
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Touching Spirit Bear‚ a book about a young teenage boy‚ Cole Matthews‚ is a lively story penned by Ben Mikaelsen. This is the story of a young troubled teen who finds himself in major trouble after physically damaging another boy‚ Peter Driscal. Cole finds himself getting banished to an island by himself for a year. He does not apprehend the extremity of this situation because he always was in power‚ and was feared in any given environment. Cole only spent a slight amount of time on the island though
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star “attraction” at a carnival. Will stows away in their truck and joins the Butterfly Circus however as a bystander. Will‚ as many others in the circus‚ must overcome his lack of self-worth and triumph through hope and faith. He‚ in truth‚ is a caterpillar who must inwardly transform in order to prove his worthiness and join a circus of those who believe in themselves. His metamorphoses is complete when he triumphs over his struggle for self-worth and indeed becomes a valued person in the group
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Climate Change and Biodiversity How Global Warming Affects the Life on Earth Climate change is the changing of patterns in climate‚ and the most obvious changes are usually the average temperature and the average precipitation. Climate change will also affect the timing of seasons‚ as well as causing extreme events to happen‚ for example‚ drought‚ fire‚ hurricane‚ etc. Since climate is defined as a certain region’s long term atmospheric conditions‚ the change of climate will have a great impact
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(Postman‚ 2013 213)‚ therefore‚ is highly important that a person‚ a society pay attention to all these normal changes. He compares a technologist with an ecological change‚ arguing that if the caterpillars are removed from‚ its habitat‚ the environment will be different without them. In the same way‚ if caterpillars are added to an environment that never has had any‚ of course a change will be produced. (Postman‚ 2013 213). In other words‚ when the technology was introduced to society‚ a change was produced
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explaining how long they have been around and that tattoos are more popular now than they have been before. Tattoos have been looked upon years ago as being for those of “low lives”‚ bikers or gang bangers‚ so to speak. But now tattoos have made a comeback to many as a form of art. People would now get tattoos for several different reasons; people get tattoos to express their lost for a loved one. It was said that ancient Hawaiians would tattoo their tongues as a sign of mourning when a loved on died
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war were at work. During the war‚ the Roosevelt administration and other leaders inspired Americans to favor the establishment of the United Nations‚ and following the war‚ the threat embodied by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin dampened any comeback of
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used as a tool to examine AirAsia’s strategic moves. Keywords: Low-cost airlines‚ budget airlines‚ marketing strategy‚ Asian entrepreneurship In the case study ‘AirAsia: The Sky’s the Limit’‚ the authors Ahmad and Neal (2006) discussed AirAsia’s comeback from a debt-laden scheduled airline (US$ 10.5 million in December 2001. The airline was bought by Tune Air for a token sum of one ringgit1 or 0.26 US cents) to a profitable low-cost or budget airline that managed to attract US$ 200 million in additional
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