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Background Of Ethical Dilemm Fashionforward

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Background of Ethical Dilemma: Fashionforward! is an online auction site where those who have more style than money can bid on designer apparel. The site registers members for $30, who are then allowed to bid on exceptional deals. In an effort to stand out from the crowded field of online bargain sites, Fashionforward! reached out to the local community in search of help marketing their company to college students (Skarzynski, 2010). Carly LeBlanc has been excepted for an internship program at Fashionforward!. LeBlanc had been hired to develop and kick start Fashionforward’s! Internet marketing campaign. During her three-month internship, LeBlanc quadrupled the Fashionforward! Facebook fan base. Her project helped catapult the company into prominence. In the three months of her internship, Fashionforward! increased the number of items offered on the site threefold (Skarzynski, 2010). Leblanc was given a new assignment to register 100 new clients from her campus within a week. Being a member of her sorority, she appeared at four campus sororities that week. Promising a free Fashionforward! T-shirt with the sorority 's name for every membership purchased, LeBlanc registered 300 new members in one night. She believed she had developed an easy and effective marketing strategy that could be replicated at schools all over the country. LeBlanc planned to order different T-shirt designs for different sororities, highlighting the Fashionforward! logo in bold lettering. Ethical

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