Marketing Assisgnment

Question 1: (4 points) Consider the ski resort satisfaction data we used in class (“satisfaction.sav” in Week 7 folder). This is data based on a survey of 500 users of a ski resort. In class we did part of the analysis. In this question you will be asked to redo some of the analysis and complete the rest. For part a), b) and c), write down your null and alternative hypotheses and then discuss the hypothesis testing results based on SPSS output. Please show your SPSS output for part a), b), and c).

ASSIGNMENT QUESTION Marketing Plan: Your company has just developed a new sports drink that is in a container which will keep it cool for up to 6 hours.  Write a 3 page paper discussing how you would market the product.

Marketing into To make a product appeal to the right person, a marketer would start by segmenting the market, and then target a single segment or a group of segments. Market segmentation is segmenting markets into homogenous groups of consumers, with every group reacting in a different ways to the marketing mix. Market segments should be created in that way that difference in buyer behaviour within each segment is as small as possible. This will hopefully ensure every segment can be targeted using the marketing mix.

1. Market development strategy involves A. increasing the sale of present products to present customers. B. finding new customers for its present products. C. targeting present customers for the newly developed products. D. leading an organization into entirely new and unrelated businesses. 2. Product development strategy A. involves seeking new products for customers not currently being served. B. offers product-line extensions of existing products to present customers. C. is merely getting the product to a new market. D. deals with developing a production plan for a product. 3. Eddy's Ice Cream developed a line of whole fruit sorbets targeted at people who are loyal Eddy's consumers, but dislike all the fat and calories in

DBA 1652 Marketing Management UNIT -- I Unit No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Unit Title Marketing management – an introduction Marketing environment Marketing with other functional areas of management Market segmentation Market targeting and positioning Product management Brand management Pricing Channel design and management Retailing and Wholesaling Integrated Marketing Communication Advertising management Sales promotion Personal selling Public relations Understanding individual consumer behaviour Understanding industrial consumer behaviour Customer satisfaction Customer relationship management Marketing of services Rural marketing Types of marketing research Process of marketing

Predict: This sort of discriminatory selection puts A&F at risk of a lawsuit for violating antidiscrimination laws. If A&F does end up facing a lawsuit, it could hurt its reputation and cause it to lose consumer support.

2 In a perfectly competitive market, who benefits from an event that lowers production costs for firms?

New World vs. Old World Wine A great debate raging in the wine world today is over the differences between wine coming from the New World versus the Old World. Much of this arguing quickly becomes obscured by emotions. Wine has the ability to create great passions. This in some way

Week 8 Marketing Plan Lacey Davis A marketing plan is a strategic document outlining an organization’s advertising and marketing efforts describing its goals and objectives within a certain time period. **The components and dimensions are important in developing a marketing plan and useful to non-profit and profit organizations. A Marketing Plan assists in obtaining external funding, useful in identifying strategic alliances, and assist in gaining customer commitment, strategic plans often required to dispel debt.

Strengths and Weaknesses One key strength of RBS is high distribution penetration, with 90% of grocery stores and mass merchandisers, 85% of warehouse clubs, and 80% of drug stores stocking at least one size. The demand for different box sizes varied by channel; for example, warehouse clubs exclusively purchased the 5 lb. size. Exhibit 5 provides detailed channel data. The Household Division maintained a 150-person sales force to manage the retail and wholesale accounts for all products within the division. The sales force was incentivized through a quota system, with divisional senior management establishing quarterly volume quotas for each salesperson. Salespeople received a small base salary; most of their compensation came from bonuses for meeting and exceeding sales targets. Regnante was expected to work with sales management in creating a schedule of consumer and trade promotion. Randall Todd, senior account manager for several major grocery chains, pointed out a major weakness of the RBS brand. He stated, "RBS needs a lot of push marketing to stimulate trade interest. Baking soda is not a natural traffic builder, it does not have high turnover, and it is boring. The product hasn't changed in almost 100 years. The only way I'm going to make my quotas is if we offer attractive incentives to the trade."

| 2014 | | | [ Marketing Principles] | | Contents Introduction 2 LO 1: Understanding the concept and process of marketing 2 AC 1.1: Explain the various elements of marketing 2 AC 1.2: Evaluating the approach of Amazon towards marketing 3 LO 2: Using the concepts of segmentation, targeting and positioning 4 AC 2.1: Product opportunities in changing family structure providing consumer companies 4 AC 2.2: Identifying appropriate market segmentation 5 AC 2.3: Appropriate targeting strategy for product launching 5 AC 2.4: Buying behavior of customer depending on product. 6 AC 2.5: Amazon Fire product’s position in target market. 7 LO 3: Understand the individual elements of the extended marketing mix 8 AC There are a quite a few examples of where some very potential product got them exiled due to not running proper marketing activities. So, marketing is one of the most essential business elements.

1.0 Situational Analysis/Current Marketing Mix 1.1 Current Product The core benefit of the ‘Kraft Tiger Energy Choc’ (Kraft Tiger) biscuit is its nutritional value. These biscuits are fortified with the nine vitamins and six minerals recommended by the World Food Programme. They are enriched with Vitamins such as Vitamin A, B1, B2, B5, B6, B12, D, E, Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Zinc and Iron. These vitamins can help to fulfill consumer’s daily intake of vitamin nutrition in addition to keeping their stomach full.

Ch 1 Question 1 Which of the following statements is correct? a) Marketing is the term used to refer only to the sales function within a firm b) Marketing managers usually don 't get involved in production or distribution decisions c) Marketing is an activity that considers only the needs of the organization, not the needs of society as a whole d) Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large Question 2 The term marketing refers to: a) New product concepts and improvements b) Advertising and promotion activities c) A philosophy that stresses customer value and satisfaction d) Planning

What has Accenture done well to target its B-to-B audience? Has Accenture done the right thing by dropping Tiger Woods as its spokesperson? Why?

Problems in marketing practices have two components: structural and human. Strategy or implementation? Marketing strategy and implementation affect each other. Poor implementation can disguise good strategy Two points stand out to help managers diagnose ‘ Gap bridging: execution skills Managers bring four execution skills to the marketing job: interacting, allocating, monitoring, and organizing. Interacting. Influencing others inside and outside the corporation Allocating: parcel out everyone 's time assignments etc. Monitoring: using monitoring skills to reconstruct degraded corporate information and control systems. Organizing: Good implementers have an almost uncanny ability to create afresh an informal organization, or network, to match each problem with which they are confronted.