Strategic Marketing Essays and Term Papers
1,705 Essays on Strategic Marketing. Documents 726 - 750 (showing first 1,000 results)
-
Marketing Mix
Marketing Mix In order for a company to achieve its goals, the company must have a strategy that mixes the correct elements of marketing. The term Marketing Mix refers to “the four Ps” of marketing which are product, price, place, and promotion (Kotler & Keller, 2006). When creating a mix, a company must keep their target market in mind. The company must also understand the needs of the customer, then create marketing strategies that will
Rating:Essay Length: 1,034 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: February 2, 2010 -
Marketing James Patterson
Marketing James Patterson James Patterson is a popular crime fiction author with a unique business strategy: he produces approximately 3 times more books annually than comparable authors and employs unconventional advertising tactics. Patterson’s unique writing style and use of co-authors to write more books has proven to be successful, generating annual book sales of $120 million. Using his advertising background, Patterson has turned his name as an author into a well-known brand. Patterson built his
Rating:Essay Length: 1,907 Words / 8 PagesSubmitted: February 2, 2010 -
Marketing Project
Green Acres Sustainable Community Sumter County, Florida Marketing Plan December 8, 2007 Team PACK Lee Harrop Stephen MacDonald Margot Meeker Nuru Mugambi Sri Kidambi Jason Rexroat Rebekah Youngers TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 SITUATION ANALYSIS 2 The Housing Market Green Building and Energy Efficiency Trends Overview and History of Solar Energy Solar Module Pricing and Manufacturers Limitations of Solar Energy The Target Market for Beazer’s Solar Strategies Beazer’s Competition STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS & SWOT ANALYSIS
Rating:Essay Length: 803 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: February 2, 2010 -
Strategic Management
Over the past two decades, liberalization have washed away protection barriers in developing countries. Many local companies lost market share or sold off business, but on the other hand, some restructured their business, exploited new opportunities and built world-class companies. Some emerging giants compete in several countries, e.g Lenovo, Huawei Tech, Tata Group, etc. But, others operate mainly at home. Therefore, it is interesting to study strategies and business models implemented by emerging giants to
Rating:Essay Length: 382 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 2, 2010 -
Marketing Mix
Developing MBA Programme Marketing Mix Abu Dhabi University The 4 PC developing Abu Dhabi University set the current Marketing Mix as the follow Product: Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme 11 courses (8 core Course) and(3 Elective) consisting of the following :  8 Core Courses: Each student is required to complete the following: Course Title Credit Hours Marketing Management 3 Financial management 3 International Business Management 3 Advanced Managerial Accounting 3 Leadership and Communication
Rating:Essay Length: 254 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 3, 2010 -
The Role of Leadership in the Strategic Change Process
Although this paper is my own research, there are some people who helped me prepare to write this paper; others supported me in navigating my way over, under, and through what was at times some rough and challenging terrain. First, Andrew, my friend and my colleague helped me with words of encouragement and moral support during the time I struggled to write this paper. Whenever I felt like giving up, he put some words of
Rating:Essay Length: 254 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 3, 2010 -
The Latest Trends in Marketing Methods in the Brewing Industry
TARGET GROUPS OF THE BEER INDUSTRY Main Consumers of Beer Products Every product has a group that is labeled as it’s main consumers. As shown in figure 1, the primary consumers of beer are males from the ages of 21-30. This age group annually consumes 58% of America’s beer. The rest of America’s beer is consumed by males in other age groups and females. Figure 1. Main Consumers of Beer Source: Primary ? Groups Targeted
Rating:Essay Length: 4,821 Words / 20 PagesSubmitted: February 3, 2010 -
Marketing
SUBJECT: MARKETING MARKETING Marketing as defined by me and defined by others will be explored throughout this paper. The idea of marketing integrates and aligns itself with the power and variety of thought that allows the expansion of an idea or concept to flourish. The underlying theory of marketing is to penetrate the psyche. Effective marketing in varying capacities and environments can dictate and somehow predicate how we feel and react to a product or
Rating:Essay Length: 1,160 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: February 3, 2010 -
Outsourcing: Staying Competitive in the Global Market
Abstract As more companies expand their business globally, they are seeing more opportunities and an increased set of threats to the market. Threats like war, political revolutions, new currencies, and natural disasters can affect growth and political stability throughout the world, so in order to successfully compete in the international market more companies are faced with the decision of relocating part of their operation offshore. This paper will address what key elements companies in this
Rating:Essay Length: 1,723 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: February 3, 2010 -
Busi 353 Capital Markets
Busi 353 Capital Markets Assignment The article “Google: Too much information?” brings to light two main issues that analysts are facing with Google’s management; the first being high information risk and the second being a high perception of information asymmetry between management and investors. Information Risk Google is famously known for not giving earnings and sales guidance which has resulted in analysts becoming frustrated with the company and labeling it as a one with high
Rating:Essay Length: 866 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: February 3, 2010 -
Marketing to Gen Y
Introduction Generation Y (Gen Y) is the cohort of people born between 1977 and 1995. This group is also known as the echo baby boomers because birth rates in developed countries increased after the decline that defined Generation X. Most members of Gen Y are children of baby boomers and their sheer size makes it collectively worth more than Generation X. Furthermore, as baby boomers approach retirement age, a progressively larger portion of Gen Y
Rating:Essay Length: 3,453 Words / 14 PagesSubmitted: February 4, 2010 -
Fresh and Easy Marketing Mix
Having only launched in the USA in November, 2007 (BBC, 2007), Fresh & Easy is in the market introduction stage of its product life cycle. Typical of this stage of the product life cycle, Fresh & Easy is not yet profitable (BBC, 2007) and is suffering from low sales (Rigby & Braithwaite, 2008). It has endured high distribution costs, having to build a new distribution network from scratch (BBC, 2007), including building its own distribution
Rating:Essay Length: 1,611 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: February 4, 2010 -
Defining Marketing Paper
Defining Marketing Paper Everyday people are exposed to at least one form of marketing, even if they do not realize it. What is marketing? Marketing involves activities and strategies which result in making products available that satisfy customers. Marketing effects the profitability of the company for which the product is offered. Marketing activities include: designing a product, promoting a product, and setting the price of a product (About). Marketing plays a vital role in the
Rating:Essay Length: 820 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: February 4, 2010 -
Obesity Caused by Fast Food Marketing
In “The Big Fat Case Against Big Macs,” published in The Washington Post on December of 2002, Ellen Goodman argues that the best lawyers cannot prove that the fast food industry caused the obesity epidemic in its customers, but they may prove that they fooled its customers, especially the young customers. Goodman argues that corporations like McDonalds target young kids by putting toys with their meals to attract them. She also states that they put
Rating:Essay Length: 1,522 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: February 4, 2010 -
Analysis of Integrated Marketing Communications Campaign
IBMS, PT3 Diemen, April 2007 Analysis of integrated marketing communications campaign Dove Pro - Age. Prepared for: Menno van Voorthuizen Prepared by: Ewa Kozlowska (405825) Table of contents: 1. Introduction. 3 2. Marketing communications and branding. 3 3. Target groups and positioning. 4 4. Analysis of elements of communication mix, and message strategy. 4 5. Integration level of the communication. 6 6. Marketing communication objectives. 6 7. Building a relationship with customers. 7 8. The
Rating:Essay Length: 3,006 Words / 13 PagesSubmitted: February 4, 2010 -
International Capital Markets
International Capital Markets A capital market is a market in which corporations trade long-term security bonds. “Companies search the international markets for opportunities to raise debt capital at the lowest cost. Many corporations list their common stock the world over to increase liquidity for their stockholders.” (Block-Hirt, 2004) One of the most important developments since the 1970s has been the internationalization and globalization of capital markets. (University of Iowa) With the advent of globalization, capital
Rating:Essay Length: 499 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 4, 2010 -
Hospitality Marketing
Name: Erika Cabrera Course: HRT 321- Hospitality Marketing Date: October 24th, 2006 Assignment: Since students in Hospitality programs across the country are required to take a “Hospitality Marketing” course in addition to a “Principles of Marketing” course, there must be some fundamental or additional information differences between these two courses. One would assume there would be some differences within the established four P’s of marketing (product, price, place, promotion). For this question explore and clarify
Rating:Essay Length: 1,951 Words / 8 PagesSubmitted: February 4, 2010 -
Marketing Audit
Table of Contents Executive Summary…………………………………………………………………………..Pg 3 Environmental Aspects………………………………………………………………Pg 3, 4, & 5 Marketing………………………………………………………………………….Pg 5, 6, 7, & 8 Product, Price, Place, & Promotion…………………………………………… Pg 8, 9, & 10 Organization…………………………………………………………………………..Pg 10 & 11 Audit Recommendations…………………………………………………….Pg 11, 12, 13, & 14 Key Results…………………………………………………………………………………..Pg 14 References…………………………………………………………………………………...Pg 15 Executive Summary The selected marketing approach will be conducted on Sony Electronics. A thorough SWOT analysis will be performed to record the daily operations. This audit will also serve as a
Rating:Essay Length: 3,151 Words / 13 PagesSubmitted: February 4, 2010 -
Marketing Intelligence
Learning Outcomes 4, criteria 4.1 and 4.2 (A) Assessing customer satisfaction is a task that can benefit most companies, as precious and useful data about consumer attitudes can be gained through this typical marketer endeavour. Data on customer opinion relates to satisfaction experienced by the purchase of the product, here cheese sold by the Cheese company. The company can obtain information about whether its customers are happy or, as can be the case, dissatisfied. Various
Rating:Essay Length: 5,292 Words / 22 PagesSubmitted: February 5, 2010 -
Strategic Planning
Describe the problem The problem is associated with upper and middle management teams and or departments. The entire management team has been contaminated and fragmented by indecisiveness among key management personal due to the lack of communication on the executive level which has either indirectly or directly negatively impacted other levels of management. Management teams seem to disregard methods for communicating ethically or in a professional manner. Further, there seems to be a lack of
Rating:Essay Length: 1,126 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: February 5, 2010 -
Defining Marketing
Marketing Marketing can be described as advertising a product. Marketing occurs when a company is trying to persuade costumers to buy the product that they produce over another company’s product. Marketing includes intensive research so that the company can get an outlook at what is the current trend in the marketplace. The problem is that marketing in theory contains these following activities also known as the 4-Ps which are developing the product, pricing the
Rating:Essay Length: 770 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: February 5, 2010 -
Assess the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Single Market.
There have been various stages of economic growth between the countries of the European Union since 1958, when its history began. The pen-ultimate stage of its integration was a common or single market. Within a single market there a no tariffs between member countries and there are common external tariffs against countries outside the agreement. A single market is a strong form of integration involving the establishment of a common system of taxation, common
Rating:Essay Length: 853 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: February 5, 2010 -
Market Potential Indicator
Market Potential Indicator Purpose of Indicator As the name states, it is a measure of the market potential of a country using several dimensions, ratings, indexes and percentages. Currently, emerging economies comprise more than half of the world's population, account for a large share of world output and have very high growth rates, which mean an enormous market potential. With global marketing becoming more important, companies and marketers are attempting to determine which international markets
Rating:Essay Length: 465 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 5, 2010 -
Marketing
The factor proportions model was originally developed by two Swedish economists, Eli Heckscher and his student Bertil Ohlin in the 1920s. Many elaborations of the model were provided by Paul Samuelson after the 1930s and thus sometimes the model is referred to as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson (or HOS) model. In the 1950s and 60s some noteworthy extensions to the model were made by Jaroslav Vanek and so occasionally the model is called the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek model. Here
Rating:Essay Length: 2,799 Words / 12 PagesSubmitted: February 5, 2010 -
How Strategic Planning Helps in Ensuring the Survival and Growth of an Organisation
HOW STRATEGIC PLANNING HELPS IN ENSURING THE SURVIVAL AND GROWTH OF AN ORGANISATION. Undergoing the process of strategic planning can go a long way in helping to ensure the survival and growth of an organization it seeks to eliminate the weaknesses of an organization and to confirm its strengths. It also analyses the environment and other factors that might affect the smooth running of an org and tries to rectify them accordingly and also to
Rating:Essay Length: 1,552 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: February 5, 2010