...associations, as well as others. It is important when addressing marketing ethics to recognize that it should be examined from an individual, organizational, and societal perspective. Examining marketing ethics from a narrow issue perspective does not provide foundational background that provides a complete understanding of the domain of marketing ethics. The purpose of this chapter is to define, examine the nature and scope, identify issues, provide a decision-making framework, and trace the historical development of marketing ethics from a practice and academic perspective. DEFINITION OF MARKETING ETHICS Ethics has been termed the study and philosophy of human conduct, with an emphasis on the determination of right and wrong. For marketers, ethics in the workplace refers to rules (standards, principles) governing the conduct of organizational members and the consequences of marketing decisions (Ferrell, 2005). Therefore, ethical marketing from a normative perspective approach is defined as “practices that emphasize transparent, trustworthy, and responsible personal and organizational marketing policies and actions that exhibit...
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...associations, as well as others. It is important when addressing marketing ethics to recognize that it should be examined from an individual, organizational, and societal perspective. Examining marketing ethics from a narrow issue perspective does not provide foundational background that provides a complete understanding of the domain of marketing ethics. The purpose of this chapter is to define, examine the nature and scope, identify issues, provide a decision-making framework, and trace the historical development of marketing ethics from a practice and academic perspective. DEFINITION OF MARKETING ETHICS Ethics has been termed the study and philosophy of human conduct, with an emphasis on the determination of right and wrong. For marketers, ethics in the workplace refers to rules (standards, principles) governing the conduct of organizational members and the consequences of marketing decisions (Ferrell, 2005). Therefore, ethical marketing from a normative perspective approach is defined as “practices that emphasize transparent, trustworthy, and responsible personal and organizational marketing policies and actions that exhibit...
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...Statement: Although social media poses some limitations, it still benefits entrepreneurs and start-up businesses because it serves as a virtual marketplace, a platform of communication and a social influence in effectively gaining customers and building lasting relationships. I. II. Introduction: Digital Marketing and the 21st Century Social Media as a Virtual Marketplace a. Accessibility to both businesses and customers b. Convenience of online shopping c. Opportunities and potentials d. Examples (online businesses) III. Social Media as a Platform of Communication a. Attracting Online Audience b. Building fans and followers c. Managing customer relationships d. Staying connected with your customers e. Getting feedbacks IV. Social Media as a Social Influence a. Consumer Expectations b. Blogging and Microblogging c. Trends in the 21st Century V. Conclusion 2 Context The internet has become a part of our daily lives ever since it was introduced to us many years ago, and as a matter of fact, the generation today takes it for granted. The internet has given the people access to different parts of the world as a source of information and a platform of communication. With the advent of social media in today’s internet generation, that is easily accessible through smartphones, thanks to technology, it is expected to make communication faster and more convenient. As the social media constantly become a part of our lives, it is now integrated in education, lifestyle...
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...associations, as well as others. It is important when addressing marketing ethics to recognize that it should be examined from an individual, organizational, and societal perspective. Examining marketing ethics from a narrow issue perspective does not provide foundational background that provides a complete understanding of the domain of marketing ethics. The purpose of this chapter is to define, examine the nature and scope, identify issues, provide a decision-making framework, and trace the historical development of marketing ethics from a practice and academic perspective. DEFINITION OF MARKETING ETHICS Ethics has been termed the study and philosophy of human conduct, with an emphasis on the determination of right and wrong. For marketers, ethics in the workplace refers to rules (standards, principles) governing the conduct of organizational members and the consequences of marketing decisions (Ferrell, 2005). Therefore, ethical marketing from a normative perspective approach is defined as “practices that emphasize transparent, trustworthy, and responsible personal and organizational marketing policies and actions that exhibit...
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...Marketing 101 Chapter 9- Marketing segmentation, targeting and positioning Market- people with the willingness to buy, purchasing power Target market- people you believe will buy your product Consumer product- product for personal use Business product- for directly/indirectly in production of other products for resale Market segmentation- division of the total market into small groups. To satisfy different needs The market segment has to be measureable purchasing power and size. Has to promote and serve market segment. Must be large enough. Segmentations: o Geographic- based on location. Pay close attention to fast-growing states o Demographic- gender, income/occupation, age, education, sexual orientation, household size, stage in family life o Psychographic- interests Chapter 2- Strategic planning in contemporary marketing Planning is the process of anticipating future events and conditions and determining the best way to achieve organizational objectives. Planning is a continuous process that includes identifying objectives and then determining the actions through which a firm can attain those objectives. Marketing planning- implementing planning activities devoted to achieving marketing objectives. Establishes the basis for a marketing strategy. Virtual conferences: telephone conferences with computer interfaces. Strategic planning- the process of determining an organizations primary objectives and adopting courses of action that...
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...Enterprise Marketing Management IBM’s State of Marketing Survey 2012 Marketers’ biggest challenges and opportunities reveal the rise of the empowered customer 2 IBM’s State of Marketing Survey 2012 Contents 2 Leading the customer experience 4 Removing silos and integrating across channels 6 Embracing an IT partnership 7 Conclusion 7 Survey Methodology 8 About IBM Enterprise Marketing Management Consumers are changing marketing. Today’s consumers are well-informed, social media-savvy, and likely have two or more mobile devices. They are more demanding—expecting current and perpetually shifting new channels, such as mobile and social, to deliver an exceptional customer experience. But it’s the dynamism of this change and conversation that is forcing marketers to re-think their craft. In an increasingly digital world, customers have a voice in their relationship with your brand, communicated through multiple channels, freely expressing their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with their experience. As a result, marketers must put the customer at the center of their business, or risk not just negative Twitter commentary, but ultimately lost customers. Marketing technology is enabling these profound changes in an organization’s relationship with customers, creating new challenges and new opportunities. Getting an in-depth look at how marketers from across the globe are responding to this empowered consumer provides important insights into the underlying characteristics of successful...
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...Digital Marketing Dominant digital consumers – proactively use the internet at every opportunity Hybrid digital consumers – use the internet to facilitate better perceived outcomes for their lives Reluctant digital consumers – have to use the internet but do not actively seek to use it in their daily activities Intensity of Interaction Intensity of Interaction Access to Content Access to Content The balance of power shift from marketers to consumers 1. Unprecedented access to information about products, prices and competition 2. The ability to control the processes in the transaction through technologies such as online service automation Distinctly digital consumer elements 1. Transparency of information (product, price, promotion) 2. Personalization and customization 3. Loss of control over the brand interaction * Customers become more demanding and less forgiving * Consumers play a significant role in how and where brand interactions occur * Firms cannot control all touchpoint engagement * Trialogue: communication between the firm and the consumer-to-consumer engagement * Consumer interconnectedness: the desire to be connected all of the time with their device, friends, work and social or non-social environments. 4. Demand for individualization of exchange * A need for new forms of sociality and empowerment around brands/consumption 5. Demand for relevant active information * Consumers want truly innovative things,...
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...Building Brands - Of the Consumers, By the Consumers, For the Consumers In July 2006, HUL (then HLL) launched India’s first community portal exclusively belonging to a brand – The Sunsilk “Gang of Girls”. The initiative was an instant success with the number of members crossing the half million mark within six months of launching. It was HUL’s attempt to revive the Sunsilk brand. Today with a member base of 7.5 lakh users (a mere 2.5 lakh users in four and a half years), the success of Sunsilk’s brand building exercise is debatable. But, what cannot be denied is HUL’s early recognition of a marketing channel – Conversational Marketing - that is moving towards becoming the trend for marketing and brand building in 2012. The launch of Orkut in 2004 (later in India in 2006) and the rise of Facebook’s usage as everyday’s must activity, paved the way for a new kind of a marketing channel which we all know as “Social Media”. Today almost each brand has their own Facebook page which is “liked” by fans, where the brand gets promoted each time the target segment logs onto Facebook. But, not all brands have sufficiently leveraged the true value of social media. Social Media have been extensively used for advertising and sales promotion. So much so that the value of communities like Facebook to marketers has been questioned as to whether it is the right place to reach your consumer. The regular argument is the fact that Facebook advertisements have critically low Click-Through-Rates...
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...CHAPTER ONE: 1. INTRODUCTION: The background of the essay is discussed in the first chapter .Then, the research findings about customer satisfaction in Apple iPhone is being discussed in the next chapter. This finding is found out by taking short interview of students and some working professionals in the University of Chester. In the end the research comes to conclusion with understanding about what drives customer to buy Apple iPhone in comparison to other mobile phones available in market. 1.1 BACKGROUND: The background of mobile handset industry and some information on Apple iPhone is discussed in this section. It contains some general idea of new upcoming mobile handset in the market and some relationship of customers and their purchase of these products. Oliver (1997), defines customer satisfaction as the fulfilment of customers’ response to the wants of his needs and wants. This adds the pleasurable level of this consumption with respect to a particular product or a service feature can either be under fulfilled or over. (Grigoroudis & Siskos, 2010). Therefore a brief study on customer satisfaction in Chester study regarding their satisfaction for the Apple iPhone is discussed. This section also describe the importance of the quality of customer service quality and its impact on customer satisfaction. 1.2 MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THIS RESEACH WORK: For the attainment of the broad objective of customer satisfaction discussed above, some of the specific objectives...
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...DEPARTMENT OF MARKETING STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL MARKETING University of Chittagong An assignment of MARKETING RESEARCH Course no: 402 Submitted To: Mr.Sagib Kumar Ghosh Assistant professor Department of Marketing Studies and International Marketing University of Chittagong Date of Submission: 08/03/2015 Submitted by Member’s Name | ID | Farah Salsabil Faria | 10304069 | Md. Mehedi Hasan | 10304100 | Md. Saiful Islam | 10304065 | Sanjida Akter | 10304038 | Rifat Fouzia Rifa | 10304093 | S.M Zia Uddin | 10304017 | Md. Saidur Islam | 10304111 | Md. Ariful Islam | 10304043 | Md. Munsurul Islam | 10304054 | Ruma Chukraborty | 10304027 | Mukta bhattacharjee | 10304086 | Israt Jahan Lipy | 10304101 | Sharmin Akter | 10304116 | Syed Mahamodul Hasan | 10304050 | Acknowledgment With great pleasure we are now in the position to present our assignment. First of all we would like to thank Almighty ALLAH for giving us the strength, spirit & enthusiasm to accomplish this assignment. We express our heartfelt gratitude & thanks to our honorable course instructor Mr. sagib kumar ghosh for inspiring & assigning us with such an interesting as well as educative topic for this assignment. This has been a worthwhile experience as we got to learn many new things regarding measuring customer satisfaction with technological...
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...Table of Contents I. SUMMARY EXECUTIVE ................................................................................................... 2 II. INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................. 2 Definition and Benefits of Internet Marketing: .............................................................. 2 Types of Internet Marketing: ........................................................................................... 3 III. HOTDEAL VIETNAM AND ITS INTERNET MARKETING ACTIVITIES ........... 3 1.1 The factors that affect to the internet marketing of the chosen company: ................... 4 1.1.1 Macro-environment: ............................................................................................... 4 1.1.2 Micro-environment: ................................................................................................ 7 1.2 The marketing mix (7P) of Hotdeal Vietnam: ............................................................. 10 1.2.1 Product ................................................................................................................... 12 1.2.2 Promotion .............................................................................................................. 19 1.2.3 Price ........................................................................................................................ 26 1.2...
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...and loyalty leads to improved and better business results. Marketing experts Don Peppers and Martha Rogers say, “The only value your company will ever create is the value that comes from customers—the ones you have now and the ones you will have in the future. Businesses succeed by getting, keeping, and growing customers. Customers are the only reason you build factories, hire employees, schedule meetings, lay fiber-optic lines, or engage in any business activity. Without customers, you don’t have a business.” Companies must establish and maintain a high customer value for their products and services because consumers use customer value to make buying decisions. You make buying decisions in day-to-day life experiences. For example in buying for a bottled water drink. Should you buy the wilkins worth P15 or the evian water worth P65? In every buying decision, a consumer asks the same question: 'is what I am going to receive worth what I have to give up in order to get it?' The gain the consumer receives for the benefit is weighed against the cost the consumer must pay to acquire the benefit. The value the individual consumer places on a product or service becomes the customer value for that offering. This customer value is weighed against the customer values assigned for similar products and services that would provide a similar benefit. Consumers will typically purchase the item with the highest customer...
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...take advertising online Page 2 B2B Paul Taylor sees a chance for business to gain traction with customers Page 2 Ownership Ajay Makan looks at the wide variety of corporate responses Page 2 Viral campaigns April Dembosky looks behind the success of internet sensations Page 3 Marketing budgets Tim Bradshaw says campaigns via social media are still often unpredictable Page 3 A life in the day David Gelles follows the chief marketing officer of Gannett Page 3 Advertising Predictions of the display ad’s demise are premature, writes Jane Bird Page 3 Mobile Tim Bradshaw explains why the promised land is not quite with us Page 4 On FT.com April Dembovsky explains everything you need to know about Pinterest O nly a few years ago digital marketers might have thought all was plain-sailing. After a decade of disruption wreaked by the emergence of the popular web, companies and advertising agencies had finally understood the intricacies of placing online display and search ads. Yet in the past few years, a new generation of technologies has come along to disrupt once again the way advertisers operate. Led by Facebook and Twitter, and joined by behemoths such as Google and a bevy of start-ups, these Silicon Valley misfits have muscled into the ad business and upended traditional assumptions about how companies should allocate marketing budgets. In addition to search and display advertising, big companies must now factor in social media, video advertising, mobile marketing...
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...agencies and resources failing to bring value-added thinking, innovation, or technical knowledge to the table, notes the CMO Council, a global affinity network of 6,000 chief marketers controlling more than $200 billion in annual spend. Among the priorities, marketers intend to add a one-twopunch of marketing analytics talent coupled with strategic planning and business development experience to better target, segment and then act on growth opportunities. The global marketing leadership group with members in 110 countries surveyed over 600 of its members to gather insights and contributions for its seminal report, The 2011 State Of Marketing: Outlook, Intentions and Investments. The fifth annual State of Marketing Report extracted a broad range of insights and views specific to mandates, spend, intentions and frustrations. Participants were drawn from each major region of the world and were representative of most vertical industry sectors and company sizes. Almost 64 percent of respondents said they reported directly to the CEO, president or COO, while another 14 percent said they were accountable to a regional vice president, general manager or division/business group head. Among the respondents, 34 percent held CMO or Head of Marketing titles, while 33 percent held roles of Vice President or above. Having felt the sting of flat or tight budgets over the past two years, market- ing spend is being influenced by a shift to digital media...
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...The theory of customer service is based on identifying and satisfying your customers' needs and exceeding their expectations. A company must be totally committed to delivering consistently high standards of service to gain and retain customer loyalty. Everyone from top management on down must be tuned into what the customer wants. Creating a customer service culture within a company can help build success. Customer satisfaction and loyalty are inextricably linked to the quality of customer service and, ultimately, to the company’s profitability. The customer plan is well-found with perception of Vision and Mission of Internal and External Customers. According to (Chris Adalikwu,(2012) Mission Statement The mission of Cree’s Customer Service function is to always convey a passion for the customer and to consistently deliver the best service experience. Statement of Work Customer Service is any activity provided by a Cree employee that enhances the ability of a customer to realize the full potential value of a Cree product or service before and after the sale is made, thereby leading to Customer Satisfaction and repurchase. Customer Service Principles * Recognize the importance of all customers and the role every Cree employee plays in influencing the customer's perceptions. While impacting these perceptions, be professional, reliable, credible, responsive and friendly. * Communicate promptly and honestly and via the customers’ choice of medium. Try to be brief and...
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