...BTEC Business Project |Assignment |2013/2014 | Learner Declaration I declare that all the work submitted for this assignment is my own work or, in the case of group work, the work myself and other members of the group in which I worked, and that no part of it has been copied from any source. I understand that if any part of the work submitted for this assignment is found to be plagiarised, none of the work submitted will be allowed to count towards the assessment of the assignment. |Centre Name: |Westminster Kingsway College |Centre No: |10240 | |Learner’s Name: | | |Learner’s Signature: | | |Assessor’s Name: | | |Assessor’s Signature: | |Date: | | |Date Issued: |3rd February 2014 |Submission Date: ...
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...and their needs in order to produce a successful promotional campaign. You are an employee of Swift & Swift working in the Communications Department as a Communications Officer. Your job role often involves various projects that might last for at least two weeks or more and you often work with the local schools and colleges. Recently you have been involved in a ten week programme working with students from one of the local colleges. There are twenty students on the programme and they attend your organisation one day a week where you provide them with workshops, seminars, training and work shadowing in the various areas of marketing. In preparation for your seminar on the Role of Promotion within the Marketing Mix please carry out the following tasks. Task 1: Promotional Campaigns a) Prior to the seminar you will need to research and gather information to support you in describing the promotional mix used by two selected organisations for a selected product/service. b) Choose one of the products/services used above and describe how the organisation uses promotional activity to encourage sales, with particular reference to price and quality. c) Now explain how the promotion integrated with the rest of the marketing mix to achieve its marketing aims and objectives with particular reference to the importance of developing the business brand. d) Finally, go on to evaluate the promotional mix used for the campaign and comment on its effectiveness...
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...be considering continuing your studies at University. You may already have been on the receiving end of university promotional campaigns and in this assignment you have the opportunity to examine the promotional skills of a selected institution in more depth. You will then be asked to compare this organisation’s promotional activities and campaigns with those of a more commercial business of your choice.Choose an organisation which is currently running a promotional campaign that you would like to investigate. This might be a retailer or manufacturer in a competitive market, such as: * the car, food or clothing industries * travel and tourism * hospitality and catering * or any industry that interests you [Please check the suitability of your selected organisation with your tutor].Your objective is to identify and evaluate the promotional campaigns of different types of organisation, to explain how the campaigns help organisations to communicate with their target customers, and to understand the role of advertising agencies in the marketing promotions industry. | Presentation The tasks below are to be presented as a written report for your tutor. Tutors are sometimes called upon to give informal advice to learners on their future university choices and would therefore benefit from knowing which universities have the most sophisticated promotional strategies. Your report should include diagrams and tables as appropriate and all sources of information used should...
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...P1 – Describe the promotional mix used in two selected organisations for a selected product/service. (Xbox and Apple iPhone) What is promotional mix: Promotional mix Using several different types of communication to support marketing goals which include Advertising, Personal selling, Publicity, and Sales promotions. Marketers to help choose these different types of marketing a firm reach its goals. Furthermore the promotional mix is a combination of methods that are used for a product or service in order to sell that specific product or service. Moreover the methods in the promotional mix are: * Advertising * Personal selling * Sales promotion * Public relations * Sponsorship * Direct mail Advertising: advertising is a way of displaying a product or service in a attractive way to a customer in a non-personal presentation. * Xbox use advertising on a regular basis on television, they show both genders and different age groups playing and using the Xbox as the want the console to appeal to as many people as possible. * Apple also use advertising on a regular basis on television. They recently have Justin Timberlake advertising there new IPhone 6 which will persuade viewers to buy the iPhone as if the phone is good enough for a well paid celebrity then it is good enough of them Personal selling: personal selling is where businesses use people to sell the product after meeting face-to-face with the customer. The sellers promote the product...
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...------------------------------------------------- BTEC National Diploma in Business 2014/2015 Student Name: | Unit: 3 – Introduction To Marketing | Year Group: 12 | Tutor: Miss Chotai | Date Issued: | Submission Deadline: 27th March 2015 | Deadline Met: Yes/No | Task | Criteria to be met | Issue date(w/c) | Submission date(w/c) | Task 1 | P1, P2, M1 and D1 | 12th January 2015 | 2nd February 2015 | Task 2 | P3, P4, M2 and D2 | 16th February 2015 | 2nd March 2015 | Task 3 | P5 | 2nd March 2015 | 9th March 2015 | Task 4 | P6 and M3 | 9th March 2015 | 23rd March 2015 | Grading Criteria Met & date achieved: | | | | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | P6 | M1 | M2 | M3 | D1 | D2 | | | | | | | | | | | | Final Feedback to Student | Final Grade Awarded: | Fail | Pass | Merit | Distinction | I CONFIRM THAT THE ATTACHED ASSIGNMENT IS MY OWN WORK Student Signature: Date: Tutor Signature: Date: Internal Verifier: Date: INTERIM FEEDBACK RECORD Date | Comment | Target | | | | UNIT 3: Introduction to marketing ASSESSMENT CRITERIA To achieve a Pass grade the evidence...
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...Unit 9 P1 - Describe the promotional mix used in two selected organisation for a selected product/service. Promotion Promotion is all about communication and trying to let your target market know that you exist and that you want them to use your products and services, it is also a competitive strategy because you want your target market to come to you so you have to persuade them that your product or services are better than your competitors. The promotional mix is all about a business trying to attract interest, create awareness, create an image and constantly remind your target market that your products and services exist. The promotion mix consists of 5 elements; Advertising Businesses around the world pay to have their brand promoted, this can be done through Television, Newspapers, Radio, Billboards, Social Media and many more. The purpose of advertising is to tell people that the brand and its products or services exists. There are three types of advertising these are informative, persuasive and corporate. Informative advertising is to simply tell people about the product or service through television or radio. Persuasive advertisement is aimed at our emotions to persuade the viewers or listeners to buy the product, for example this is commonly used in adverts which aim to get people to stop drinking for example, they normally show graphic images of the effects of drinking and hope you will be put off drinking and instead buy their product they are trying...
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...this unit is to give learners an understanding of how marketing, research and planning and the marketing mix are used by all organisations. Unit introduction Marketing is at the heart of every organisation’s activity. Its importance is also growing in the non-commercial, public and voluntary sectors. Also, at the heart of marketing is the customer. This unit will introduce learners to some of the tools and techniques all types of organisations use to achieve their objectives. Firstly, learners will explore how different types of organisations use marketing principles to meet the needs of their customers and achieve their objectives. The constraints under which organisations operate are important and learners will study the legal requirements and voluntary codes that affect marketing. Learners will then go on to investigate how organisations collect data through market research and turn it into useful information which can be analysed and used to plan their marketing activities. The segmentation and targeting of groups of customers is a key marketing technique and this is studied in detail. This includes the different bases for segmentation of both consumer and business markets. Next, learners will examine how a marketing mix is developed to meet the needs and aspirations of a targeted group of prospective customers, before going on to develop a marketing mix for a new product or service. The unit gives a brief overview of the principles of marketing or can be...
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...CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate CSEC ® PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS SYLLABUS Effective for examinations from May/June 2008 Including 2009 amendments CXC 08/G/SYLL 06 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or publisher. Correspondence related to the syllabus should be addressed to: The Pro-Registrar Caribbean Examinations Council Caenwood Centre 37 Arnold Road, Kingston 5, Jamaica, W.I. Telephone: (876) 630-5200 Facsimile Number: (876) 967-4972 E-mail address: cxcwzo@cxc.org Website: www.cxc.org Copyright © 2006, by Caribbean Examinations Council The Garrison, St Michael BB14038, Barbados CXC 08/G/SYLL 06 2 Contents RATIONALE...........................................................................................................................................................1 AIMS ........................................................................................................................................................................1 GENERAL OBJECTIVES ......................................................................................................................................2 SKILLS AND ABILLITIES TO BE ASSESSED ........................
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...Blekinge Institute of Technology School of Management Master Thesis M.Sc. in Business Administration The Use of Promotional Activities in the Tourism Industry: The Case of Bangladesh [pic] By Md. Jakir Hossain Dr. Klaus Solberg Søilen ID # 670504-P777 Academic Supervisor E-mail: mjho05@student.bth.se hossainj67@yahoo.com Date: 07 June, 2006 Abstract This thesis is an attempt to investigate how the use of promotional activities can help to develop the tourism industry by giving a special concentration to the case of Bangladesh. The investigation was conducted from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view. The contribution of the same industry to the world economy is considerable. Many countries are now dependent on this sector for foreign currency earnings. Every destination country is trying to achieve more gain by developing this industry. The expansion of the tourism through out the world has increased competition among the tourist destinations, trying to attract more tourists by adopting appropriate marketing techniques and strategies. Failure of doing so by a particular marketer will lead to a less competitive in the world tourism market. As an important element of marketing mix, promotion plays the vital role in marketing any product and service. Tourism product/service is of no exception. Because of the tourists want to know in advance about the attractions and the facilities of a particular destination. The tourist...
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...MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS Study material COMPLEMENTARY COURSE For I SEMESTER B.COM/BBA. (2011 Admission) UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION CALICUT UNIVERSITY P.O. MALAPPURAM, KERALA, INDIA - 673 635 409 School of Distance Education UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION Study Material COMPLEMENTARY COURSE I SEMESTER B.COM/BBA Managerial Economics Prepared by: Module I, II, V(A) : Sri. M.V. Praveen, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Commerce, Govt. College Madappally. Module III, IV & V (B) : Sri. Vineesh A.K., Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, Govt. College, Madappally. Dr.K.Venugopalan, Associate Professor, Department of Commerce, Govt. College, Madappally. © Reserved Edited & scrutinized by : Managerial Economics-I Sem.B.Com/BBA 2 School of Distance Education CONTENTS MODULE PARTICULARS PAGE NO. 5 12 33 42 1 II III IV INTRODUCTION DEMAND CONCEPTS PRODUCTION MARKET STRUCTURES AND PRICE OUTPUT DETERMINATION PRICING POLICY AND PRACTICES BUSINESS CYCLE V (A) V (B) 60 66 Managerial Economics-I Sem.B.Com/BBA 3 School of Distance Education Managerial Economics-I Sem.B.Com/BBA 4 School of Distance Education MODULE I INTRODUCTION Introduction The term “economics” has been derived from a Greek Word “Oikonomia” which means „household‟. Economics is a social science. It is called „social‟ because it studies mankind of society. It deals with aspects of human behavior....
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...MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS Study material COMPLEMENTARY COURSE For I SEMESTER B.COM/BBA. (2011 Admission) UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION CALICUT UNIVERSITY P.O. MALAPPURAM, KERALA, INDIA - 673 635 409 School of Distance Education UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION Study Material COMPLEMENTARY COURSE I SEMESTER B.COM/BBA Managerial Economics Prepared by: Module I, II, V(A) : Sri. M.V. Praveen, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Commerce, Govt. College Madappally. Module III, IV & V (B) : Sri. Vineesh A.K., Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, Govt. College, Madappally. Dr.K.Venugopalan, Associate Professor, Department of Commerce, Govt. College, Madappally. © Reserved Edited & scrutinized by : Managerial Economics-I Sem.B.Com/BBA 2 School of Distance Education CONTENTS MODULE PARTICULARS PAGE NO. 5 12 33 42 1 II III IV INTRODUCTION DEMAND CONCEPTS PRODUCTION MARKET STRUCTURES AND PRICE OUTPUT DETERMINATION PRICING POLICY AND PRACTICES BUSINESS CYCLE V (A) V (B) 60 66 Managerial Economics-I Sem.B.Com/BBA 3 School of Distance Education Managerial Economics-I Sem.B.Com/BBA 4 School of Distance Education MODULE I INTRODUCTION Introduction The term “economics” has been derived from a Greek Word “Oikonomia” which means „household‟. Economics is a social science. It is called „social‟ because it studies mankind of society. It deals with aspects of human behavior....
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...School of Business Course: HND Business Level 5 Unit Name: Marketing Principles Student Name: Date Issued: 10/07/2014 Fail P1 P12 P2 P13 P3 P14 P4 P15 Pass P5 P6 M1 P7 M2 Lecturer’s Name: Completion Date: 07/08/2014 Merit P8 M3 P9 D1 P10 D2 Distinction P11 D3 Year: 2013/14 Learning Outcomes: 1 Understand the concept and process of marketing, 2 Be able to use the concepts of segmentation, targeting and positioning, 3 Understand the individual elements of the extended marketing mix, 4 Be able to use the marketing mix in different contexts. Comments: Assessor’s Signature: Date:______________ Referred Late: Yes No Internal Verification: Yes No I declare that the work I am submitting for assessment contains no sections in copied in whole or part from any other source, unless it is explicitly identified by means of quotation mark or by means of wholly indented paragraphs. I declare that I have also acknowledged such quotations by providing detailed references in an approved format. I understand that unidentified and un-referenced copying both constitutes plagiarism which is an offence. I give my consent for my work being scanned by Turnitin formatively and summatively for the purposes of assessment. Student Signature: Received: Date: Date: T +44 (0)20 8795 5509 ǀ info@csbm.co.uk ǀ www.csbm.co.uk Capital House ǀ 388 High Road ǀ Wembley ǀ Middlesex ǀ HA9 6AR ǀ Registered in Cardiff. 7027500 EDEXCEL HND Business Level 5 Unit 13: Personal and Professional Development ...
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...Unit 3 – P1 P1 – Describe the marketing techniques used to market products My chosen organisations are NHS which is charity and Tesco which is private P1 Ansoff matrix Strategic marketing planning tool that links a firm's marketing strategy with its general strategic direction and presents four alternative growth strategies in other words there is four strategic parts to ansoff matrix which i will explain what it is and what is the purpose or definition for it. These are the four strategic parts to ansoff matrix below: Market penetration: A measure of the amount of sales or adoption of a product or service compared to the total theoretical market for that product or service.by pushing existing products in their current market segments in other words allowing existing product to gain potential customer in its market segment. Market development: The expansion of the total market for a product or company by entering new segments of the market and also allowing developing new markets for the existing products, trying to target new customer with an existing product. Product development: The creation of products with new or different characteristics that offer new or additional benefits to the customer. Product development may involve modification of an existing product or its presentation, developing new products for the existing markets. Creating new products for an existing market for example iPhone which then developed ipad. Diversification: Diversification...
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...The 4P Classification of the Marketing Mix Revisited Author(s): Walter van Waterschoot and Christophe van den Bulte Source: Journal of Marketing, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Oct., 1992), pp. 83-93 Published by: American Marketing Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1251988 . Accessed: 21/10/2013 10:06 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . American Marketing Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Marketing. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 130.88.179.25 on Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:06:41 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Walter van Waterschoot & Christophe Van den Bulte The Classificationthe of Revisited MarketingMix 4P McCarthy's 4P classification of the marketing mix instruments has received wide acceptance in past decades. In recent years, however, increasing criticism has been voiced, among other reasons because of its inherent negative definition of sales promotion and its lack of mutual exclusiveness...
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...Qualification structure and syllabus CIMA Chartered Management Accounting Qualification 2010 December 2008 Contents CIMA now designs its qualifications in what we believe to be a unique way. Based on rigorous international primary research with all of our key stakeholders and involving the participation of over 6,000 individuals and organisations – members, students, employers (both existing and potential), CIMA tuition partners, universities and our examiner and marker team – we have designed a professional finance training and development solution that is second to none. I commend this revised CIMA Professional Qualification to you. It will be examined for the first time in 2010, so there is plenty of time to absorb the exciting changes contained in the pages that follow. A qualification focused on the future – fit for purpose, relevant and unique I am honoured to introduce the new 2010 Chartered Management Accounting Qualification to all of our stakeholders. With seismic shifts occurring in the world’s economy, coupled with accelerating concerns about the sustainability of our planet, never before has there been a greater need for organisations to train and develop their people to manage the impact of these changes. With this revised qualification CIMA remains true to its long and proud history of providing finance professionals with a difference – Chartered Management Accountants – who combine management and finance skills in a unique way and who fully understand...
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