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Marketing mix(toothpaste) choose a product that you have purchased recently.  Research and investigate this product on the Internet and in the marketplace.  Evaluate the marketing mix (product strategy, pricing strategy, distribution strategy, and promotion strategy) used by the manufacturer of this product.  At a minimum, consider the following questions in your investigation: Product Strategy : * In what category of consumer products (convenience, shopping, or specialty) does this product fall?  Why? * At what stage is this product in the product life cycle (introductory, growth, maturity, decline)?  Why? * What role, if any, did branding (brand name, symbol, slogan, etc.) play in your selection of this product?  Why? * What role, if any, did packaging play in your selection of this product?  Why? * Evaluate the quality of the product in terms of quality level and product consistency. Promotion Strategy : * Identify the various media used to promote/advertise the product. * Did other…

1 Use the marketing process to examine and evaluate each of these factors about the products. Consider what Formula Botanica says about hair trends, and highlight the environmental factors that affect your function in the marketing of this product. • Understanding customer needs and wants; • Market offerings: bundle of benefits; • Being aware of market myopia; • Marketing, customer value and satisfaction; and • Exchanges, transactions and relationships and how it leads to market.

There are services and products involved when buying or renting a car, and in both cases, the customer drives away in a car.  But buying a car focuses more on the product, whereas renting involves the service.  Explain four ways in which marketing for a rental car company differs from marketing for an automobile dealership.

Write the following as prolog statements. Customers are offered discount on certain products and they love to buy such products.

E3 1. Think of a product that you ought to sell as an entrepreneur/ businessman in the future. Describe the product.2. How much price do you ought to charge on your product?3. What are your reasons for your price? Justify the price of your product based on the input cost, value of the product and customer perception.

A. Discuss the TWO (2) brand development strategies marketers use to develop brands. Give an example of each strategy. B. Given that Mary Jane is on the verge of introducing her brand of flavored water on the market, she also asks you for advice on the choice of a distribution channel to use. You are required to advise her on the following: i. Differentiate between direct and indirect marketing, giving an example of each. ii. Explain warehousing and inventory management and their importance to the flavored water that is being manufactured by Mary Jane. Predictions: On

With the help of your lectures, explain how 4Ps are used for marketing plan and used for a product or a service marketing strategies. Explain your answer with the help of an industry example

Marketing Mix choose a product that you have purchased recently.  Research and investigate this product on the Internet and in the marketplace.  Evaluate the marketing mix (product strategy, pricing strategy, distribution strategy, and promotion strategy) used by the manufacturer of this product.  At a minimum, consider the following questions in your investigation: Product Strategy * In what category of consumer products (convenience, shopping, or specialty) does this product fall?  Why? * At what stage is this product in the product life cycle (introductory, growth, maturity, decline)?  Why? * What role, if any, did branding (brand name, symbol, slogan, etc.) play in your selection of this product?  Why? * What role, if any, did packaging play in your selection of this product?  Why? * Evaluate the quality of the product in terms of quality level and product consistency.

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Select any organization that you and your group find to be of interest. What product or service do they offer?  [Highly recommend that you choose one from the companies and products you all wrote about in Module 4!] Discuss the product/service base knowledge within your group.   How would this organization benefit from a marketing dashboard approach? Discuss. Using both your experience and unique perspective, discuss the elements you would recommend adding to this organization’s dashboard.  Why do you recommend these elements? How could this organization avoid some of the pitfalls potentially associated with marketing dashboards?

Make BeatBox beverage company marketing program  as a below instruction. * This is the section in which you can finally explain what you feel the company should do with the product.This is to show that you have learned the marketing concepts and that you can apply them to a marketedproduct, service or idea.Make sure you provide examples of the 4P’s in each of the sections above.Make sure you address issue of how and what should done if possible. Indicate the activities that will have tobe undertaken in order to execute the strategies (4P’s).Product – features, idea behind the product, brand name, packaging, service warranty. E.g. Rolaids soft chewsare convenient, fast-acting medicine, in a roll, easy to chew and carry.Price – list price, discounts, allowances, credit terms, payment, top pricing in category vs. moderate price vs.lowest price. If you do not think pricing should change, you would provide current pricing information andrecommend that the current pricing strategy should be…

We all realize that the marketing mix has at its center the customer and the four Ps: product, price, place of distribution, and promotion. However there are also external forces that management must consider. The acronym here for these external, less controllable forces is   Briefly identify and describe these external forces that must be considered.

Most organizations sell more than one product. They may offer a portfolio of products. Construct a matrix of an organization’s product portfolio that reflects its width (variety) and depth (assortment). Imagine you are the organization’s Chief Marketing Officer. How would you defend the decision to offer so many options to meet buyer needs?

You currently work as a consultant for a large beverage corporation. Include a discussion with the company about how it should update its online image and how it should incorporate the internet into its overall marketing strategy. It is strongly recommended that draughts be created in advance to ensure that all essential web pages function properly after they have been published live.

A brand is “a name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination of them, intended to identify the goods or services of one seller or groups of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competitors”. ~American Marketing Association   Brand Plays many roles, keeping this definition in mind try to explain what kind of roles Brands play for:  - Customers - Company  - Competitor

Please write a short note on "Product Concept" with two suitable examples. Please answer at your own words.

Help with the below homework. Please explain why certain products are shifting from a "good" to a "service"? What is the implication of this shift to marketing strategy?

choose a product that you have purchased recently. Research and investigate this product on the Internet and in the marketplace. Evaluate the marketing mix (product strategy, pricing strategy, distribution strategy, and promotion strategy) used by the manufacturer of this product. At a minimum, consider the following questions in your investigation: Product Strategy : In what category of consumer products (convenience, shopping, or specialty) does this product fall? Why? At what stage is this product in the product life cycle (introductory, growth, maturity, decline)? Why? What role, if any, did branding (brand name, symbol, slogan, etc.) play in your selection of this product? Why? What role, if any, did packaging play in your selection of this product? Why? Evaluate the quality of the product in terms of quality level and product consistency. Promotion Strategy : Identify the various media used to promote/advertise the product. Did other promotional tools (sales promotion,…

The Life Framework requires that regular contribution family takaful productsmarketed via non-agency channels should exceed 30% of the operator’s marketshare and with improved performance. Formulate a marketing strategy for a takafuloperator to achieve this given target?

Compare the hamburgers sold by Angel’s Burger, Jollibee, and MacDonalds in terms of value (tangible and intangible benefits and costs) from a consumer’s point of view.

You are the newly appointed marketing manager for First Choice Bank Limited, a local financial institution that offers a wide range offinancial services. Growth of the Bank’s 4C’s branded Credit Card portfolio have been declining for quite some time and recentexploratory research conducted by the company suggests that your 4C’s brand is no longer price competitive. From your study ofmarketing, you think that a reconsideration of the market segmentation used previously to better understand the target consumer mightbe the key to this dilemma.    Solve the problem

You are the newly appointed marketing manager for First Choice Bank Limited, a local financial institution that offers a wide range offinancial services. Growth of the Bank’s 4C’s branded Credit Card portfolio have been declining for quite some time and recentexploratory research conducted by the company suggests that your 4C’s brand is no longer price competitive. From your study ofmarketing, you think that a reconsideration of the market segmentation used previously to better understand the target consumer mightbe the key to this dilemma.    what is the target market ? what is the goal ? what will be your commnication strategy

You are the newly appointed marketing manager for First Choice Bank Limited, a local financial institution that offers a wide range offinancial services. Growth of the Bank’s 4C’s branded Credit Card portfolio have been declining for quite some time and recentexploratory research conducted by the company suggests that your 4C’s brand is no longer price competitive. From your study ofmarketing, you think that a reconsideration of the market segmentation used previously to better understand the target consumer mightbe the key to this dilemma.  b. From your own investigation of an organization like yours, you discover that many marketers of Credit Cards in thoseorganization sharpen their marketing strategy by adopting a multivariate demographic segmentation (i.e., combining two or moredemographic variables) approach. Using examples, explain why and how such a segmentation approach might be used to informstrategy in attempting to resolve the sales decline  Discussions on multivariate…

You are the newly appointed marketing manager for First Choice Bank Limited, a local financial institution that offers a wide range offinancial services. Growth of the Bank’s 4C’s branded Credit Card portfolio have been declining for quite some time and recentexploratory research conducted by the company suggests that your 4C’s brand is no longer price competitive. From your study ofmarketing, you think that a reconsideration of the market segmentation used previously to better understand the target consumer mightbe the key to this dilemma.  Give five recommendation for this prooblem

Show a description of a "Kellogg's Frosted Flakes", a retail comparison of the product and at least four competitive products and a demographic description of the consumers.

The mraketing head of your company has called for an urgent meeting and the agenda is to decide are how & where to make available good for customers? which of the following elements of marketing Mix is in question here    Options Are : promotion product distribution

Analyze the problem and answer what is asked for.   One of your dreams is to have a new cell phone. You went to a mall and the dealer gave you the following options. Brands: Love, Hope, Care Colors: white, black red, blue Models: X,Y,Z   Questions: 1. How many brands are there? 2. How many colors are available? 3. How many models are given? 4. How many available cellphones could you choose from?