1. Why is Marketing important?
Let me define first Marketing. According to the father of modern Marketing, Mr. Philip Kotler, Marketing is the “science and art of exploring, creating, and delivering value to satisfy the needs of a target market at a profit. Marketing identifies unfulfilled needs and desires. It defines, measures and quantifies size of the identified market and the profit potential. It pinpoints which segments the company is capable and serving best and it designs and promotes the appropriate product and services.”
Basically, Marketing is important in every business. Marketing comes with promotion, researches, and selling of good/products or services to your costumers, or we call them the “target market.”
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Discuss the role of Analyzing Macro environment in formulating marketing strategies and cite examples of significant trends in today’s macro environment for the service industry.
I think Macro Environment Analysis is all about forecasting possible trends base on current situation in the environment. It also talks about the opportunities and threats that may affect industries.
4. What are customer value, satisfaction and loyalty and how can companies in the retail industry deliver
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For example, giving a low price in a certain product, but a good quality and receiving in what is desire. Or receiving on what you pay, and expecting on what you will get.
Customer satisfaction, means the customer feels happy in receiving the item or service he/she wanted. For example, a girl really wanted an ice cream that tasted not very sweet, and he found it out in a specific ice cream parlor. And because of the good service and good product, the customer keeps on coming back. That what customer satisfaction means.
Customer loyalty means, aside from the customer keeps on coming back. The customer still want in a certain product of a company even there are lots of entrant products.
5. Explain the differences between the consumer and business (industrial) market in terms of buying behavior. Cite specific example.
In the customer market, the customer buy on what he or she needs and want for themselves. Not engage in selling and has no intention of gaining profits. He or she buys for his or her personal use.
While in Business market, it has the intention in gaining profit. He or she buys products not because for his or her personal use. Like from the other business, to gain
Having a good customer satisfaction will help increase their customer base, which will increase revenue and allow more profit and this will give the business a good name and reputation. Customer satisfaction means the level of how pleased your customers are. Tesco ensures they have great customer satisfaction by training their employees to the best
P1: Describe customers in four different contexts: A Market: A market is a place where demand and supply operate. Buyers and sellers interact to trade their good and services. (What is a market? , n.d.)
Customer satisfaction is the best way to find whether the customer would like to come back to the place to purchase again the best way to see whether the customer
Business products are types goods and services which make cost-effective purchasing decisions. Installations are major capital investments in the business to business market. For example, items in Publix have to constantly stay restock and fresh for consumers to purchase whenever they chose so. Publix has purchased 18 wheeler trucks to ship, carry, and deliver items to the store. A company truck is a capital investment and a major component of how the business operates.
What is the definition of marketing and where does advertising fit within that definition? Marketing refers to the processes involved in communicating a product or service to customers or consumers. These communication processes can be used to sell, purchase, distribute or even promote a product or service to various markets. Simply put, marketing is the communication between an organisation and its customers.
Argos is large retail company that acquires 170 types of products within. Argos have made the change in the online business by giving opportunity to their customer to buy and pay through online. Argos now have been planning to enter Indian market through their furniture product. A critical analysis on the micro and macro environment will be done on this company with marketing planning and possible risk analysis. 2 Environment Analysis for Argos 2.1 Macro Environmental Analysis
It is an approach that gives more value to the customers by satisfying their expectations on key quality/service/features/performance attributes while exceed their price expectations by providing at low costs. Companies that offer products/services relatively at low prices and offer substantial differentiation on
It could be defending on the markets size and growth, like how large is the market, is the market segment substantial enough to make profit for the company (market segment by measuring numbers of customer include sales value or volume). The best characteristics for consumer market particularly is based on every side, like example is behavioral segmentation, the marketers can know product usage rates, whether the consumer is brand loyalty and even benefits that consumer
(Jacoby, 1971; Jarvis & Wilcox, 1976). Dick and Basu (1994) propose that customer will be loyalty to the brand is the result of psychological processes and has behavioral manifestations. Therefore it should incorporate both attitudinal and behavioral. Satisfaction is recognized as an important element for loyalty in both the consumers and business marketing. Satisfaction with previous purchase experiences plays an important role in determining the future purchase behaviors particularly call as an effort-minimization strategy (Jones and Suh, 2000: Pritchard et al, 1999).
Introduction In this marketing assignment, we choose Apple as the company to analyze the marketing environment that affect the Apple Company’s ability to serve its consumer market and the major factors that influence consumer buyer behaviour. Apple became a computer company started in 1976. In the last decade, Apple had broaden into a complicated and intricate company.
First of all customer means A person who buys goods or services from a shop or business, loyalty means the state or quality of being loyal, faithfulness to commitments or obligations. So Customer loyalty is the key objective of customer relationship management and describes the loyalty, which is established between a customer and companies, persons, products or brands. “Customer loyalty is an essential aspect in any organization whether it is offering a good or providing a service. “Many organizations are looking for various ways to increase their customer loyalty as it has a positive effect on the profitability of the organization.” (Gremler 1996: 171, Abdullah et al. 2000: 826).The individual market segments should be targeted in terms of developing customer loyalty.
Strategic marketing is a broad and practical subject which included the concept of marketing subjects of previous semesters such as business marketing. The study of this subject has contributed to marketing knowledge in many ways, as well as it has strengthened my skills in application of marketing concepts. My knowledge was increased that I was able to develop a complete strategic marketing plan of not only on the part of marketing analysis or strategy of a product or service, but also the whole corporate plan. My skills and capabilities that were developed and integrated during lectures and tutorials include the analytical skills, coordination skills, presentation skills, organization skills, etc.
ECONOMICS ASSIGNMENT CLASSIFICATION OF MARKETS AND ITS PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE SUBMITTED BY, REVIN FRANCIS NO-b1488 MBA-A MARKET STRUCTURE Market structure is defined by economists as the characteristics of the market. It can be organizational characteristics or competitive characteristics or any other features that can best describe a goods and services market. The major characteristics that economist have focused on in describing the market structures are the nature of competition and the mode of pricing in that market. Market structures can also be described as the number of firms in the market that produce identical goods and services. The market structure has great influence on the behaviour of individuals firms in the market.
Introduction At the start of this course, I had no idea what to expect. This is due to the fact that marketing is a field that offers a combination of so many different disciplines such as art, psychology, and statistics. I encounter marketing on a daily basis but have strangely enough not reflected too much about it. Nevertheless, it is a very interesting subject, which deals with promoting and selling services and products.
Consumers make purchase decisions when buying small items (such as a cup of coffee) and buying larger items such as houses. Consumers begin to search for products or services that meet their needs after recognizing their needs or needs. They evaluate their choice and pay attention to everything from pricing to brand reputation before the mark is purchased. Four consumer buying behaviour overview product purchase