Sunday, June 1, 2014

MKT 421 Week 2 Individual Marketing Mix Paper



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Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you describe the elements of the marketing mix: product, place, price, and promotion. Include the following:

  • Select an organization with which you are familiar and describe how each one of the four elements of the marketing mix affects the development of the organization’s marketing strategy and tactics.
  • Describe how each element is implemented.
  • Identify your selected organization and the industry in which it exists.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

THIS TUTORIAL IS 1,585 WORDS WITH 5 REFERENCES IN CORRECT APA FORMAT – GRADED 10/10 – A+++ WORK

MKT 421 Week 1-5 individual and Team Study Guides





THIS COMPREHENSIVE 5 WEEK TUTORIAL INCLUDES:
WEEK 1:
NOT INCLUDED
WEEK 2:
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you describe the elements of the marketing mix: product, place, price, and promotion. Include the following:
  • Select an organization with which you are familiar and describe how each one of the four elements of the marketing mix affects the development of the organization’s marketing strategy and tactics.
  • Describe how each element is implemented.
  • Identify your selected organization and the industry in which it exists.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines
THIS TUTORIAL IS 1,585 WORDS WITH 5 REFERENCES IN CORRECT APA FORMAT – GRADED 10/10 – A+++ WORK

WEEK 3:
Resource: Kudler Fine Foods Virtual Organization
Use the Virtual Organization link on the student website to access additional company information on Kudler Fine Foods.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you justify the importance of marketing research in developing Kudler Fine Foods’ marketing strategy and tactics. Include the following:
  • Identify the areas where additional market research is needed.
  • Analyze the importance of competitive intelligence and analysis regarding the development of Kudler Fine Foods’ marketing strategy and tactics.
THIS TUTORIAL IS 1,358 WORDS WITH 4 REFERENCES IN CORRECT APA FORMAT – GRADED 10/10 – A+++ WORK
Use the product or service you selected for your Marketing Plan: Phase I Paper.Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you address the following:

  • Identify the segmentation criteria that will affect your target market selection.
      • Identify your target market.
  • Describe the organizational buyers and consumers of your product or service and the factors that influence their purchasing decisions. Discuss how these factors will affect your marketing strategy.
  • Analyze current competitors and define the competitive landscape for your product or service.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
THIS TUTORIAL IS 1,450 WORDS WITH 7 REFERENCES IN CORRECT APA FORMAT – GRADED 4/4 – A+++ WORK
WEEK 4:

Complete the simulation, Using Perceptual Maps in Marketing, located on the student website.
Write a 1,050- to 1,450-word summary in which you address the following for each of the three major phases in the simulation:
  • The situation
  • Your recommended solutions, including why
  • Your results
Summarize the different marketing components addressed in this simulation by answering the following questions:
  • What is the relationship between differentiation and positioning of products or services? Is the repositioning of the product in the simulation as you had expected it to be? Explain why or why not.
  • What is the effect of the product life cycle on marketing? What effect did the product life cycle have on the product in the simulation?
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
THIS TUTORIAL IS 1,373 WORDS WITH 4 REFERENCES IN CORRECT APA FORMAT – GRADED 10/10 – A+++ WORK
Use the product or service you selected for your Marketing Plan: Phase I Paper.
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper that includes the following information:
  • Describe the attributes of your product or service in detail.
  • Describe the pace at which your product will move through the product life cycle and the factors that will affect its movement. How will the product life cycle affect the marketing of your selected product or service?
  • Identify the positioning and differentiation strategies for the product or service.
  • Identify the appropriate price strategy that should be used for the product or service.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
THIS TUTORIAL IS 1,040 WORDS WITH 2 REFERENCES IN CORRECT APA FORMAT – GRADED 4/4 – A+++ WORK
WEEK 5:

Select an organization with which you are familiar that conducts both domestic and global marketing.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you identify the environmental factors that affect global and domestic marketing decisions. Address the following as they relate to the organization’s marketing decisions:
  • Analyze the influence of global economic interdependence and the effect of trade practices and agreements.
  • Examine the importance of demographics and physical infrastructure.
  • Analyze the influence of cultural differences.
  • Examine the importance of social responsibility and ethics versus legal obligations.
  • Analyze the effect of political systems and the influence of international relations.
  • Analyze the influence of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, and the influence of local, national, and international legislation.
  • Explain the effect of technology.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
THIS PAPER IS 1,418 WORDS WITH 11 REFERENCES IN CORRECT APA FORMAT – GRADED 10/10 – A+++ WORK
Resources: Marketing Plan: Phase I Paper, Marketing Plan: Phase II, Paper, Marketing Plan: Phase III Paper
Use the Marketing Plan Outline listed on the student website as a guide.
Write a 6,300- to 7,000-word paper integrating your previous Learning Team assignments into a final Marketing Plan Paper. Address the following information in your paper:
  • Identify the appropriate place and promotional strategy that should be used in developing the strategic marketing plan.
  • Develop an initial sales promotion schedule.
  • Create an advertising plan.
  • Identify public relations opportunities for the product or service.
  • Analyze the effect of channel management decisions on the marketing of your selected product or service.
  • Select appropriate distribution channels for your product or service and address costs in terms of placement, shipping, and middlemen.
  • Develop a budget for your plan.
  • Identify quantifiable elements that can be used to evaluate, monitor, and control the effectiveness of your marketing plan.
Prepare a 15- to 20-minute oral presentation accompanied by 15- to 20-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation illustrating your Marketing Plan Paper.
Format your paper and presentation consistent with APA guidelines
THIS TUTORIAL INCLUDES A 19 SLIDE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION WITH 16 REFERENCES AND A 5,056 WORD PAPER WITH 16 REFERENCES IN CORRECT APA FORMAT – GRADED 7/7 – A+++ WORK

MKT 421 FINAL Exam Answers



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1) Big Fizz Co., a manufacturer of cola-flavored drinks, wants to add packaged fruit juices to its existing product line. Big Fizz must make some decisions regarding packaging and branding the fruit juices. These decisions would fall under which variable of the marketing mix?
A. Product
B. Place
C. Promotion
D. Price
2) Hewlett-Packard sells personal computers through specialty computer stores, electronics superstores, and its own Internet site. What is the marketing mix variable that is being considered here?
A. Price
B. Promotion
C. Product
D. Place
3) Marketing strategy planners should recognize that:
A. target markets should not be large and spread out
B. mass marketing is often very effective and desirable
C. large firms like General Electric, Target, and Procter & Gamble are too large to aim at clearly defined markets
D. target marketing is not limited to small market segments
4) Target marketing, in contrast to mass marketing,
A. is limited to small market segments
B. assumes that all customers are basically the same
C. ignores markets that are large and spread out
D. focuses on fairly homogeneous market segments
5) The process of naming broad product-markets and then dividing them in order to select target markets and develop suitable
A. market penetration
B. market segmentation
C. market development
D. market research
6) ______________ is the process of naming broad product-markets and then segmenting these broad product-markets in order to select target markets and develop suitable marketing mixes.
A. Market positioning
B. Market segmentation
C. Mass marketing
D. Diversification
7) Marketing research which seeks structured responses that can be summarized is called
A. focus group research
B. quantitative research
C. qualitative research
D. situation analysis research
8) One of the major disadvantages of the focus group interview approach is that
A. ideas generated by the group cannot be tested later with other research
B. it is difficult to measure the results objectively
C. it is difficult to get in-depth information about the research topic
D. there is no interviewer, so the research questions may not be answered
9) When focus group interviews are used in marketing,
A. each person in the group answers the same questionnaire, to focus the discussion
B. the typical group size is 15 to 20 typical consumers whether online or off-line
C. it is primarily as a follow-up to more quantitative research
D. the research conclusions will vary depending on who watches the interview whether online or off-line
10) Focus groups
A. are usually composed of 10 to 15 people as participants
B. yield results that are largely dependent on the viewpoint of the researcher
C. always do a good job of representing the broader target market
D. have a low cost per participant
11) A small manufacturing firm has just experienced a rapid drop in sales. The marketing manager thinks that he knows what the problem is and has been carefully analyzing secondary data to check his thinking. His next step should be to
A. conduct an experiment
B. develop a formal research project to gather primary data
C. conduct informal discussion with outsiders, including intermediaries, to see if he has correctly defined the problem
D. develop a hypothesis and predict the future behavior of sales
12) The marketing manager at Massimino & McCarthy, a chain of retail stores that sells men’s clothing, is reviewing marketing research data to try to determine if changes in marketing strategy are needed. Which of the following sources of data would be a secondary data source?
A. Looking through the company’s marketing information system to see past sales trends
B. Reviewing videotapes of a recent focus group
C. Making phone calls to some of the best customers to learn their interest in a new line of clothing
D. Spending time in stores observing customers’ behavior
13) Which of the following statements about consumer products is true?
A. Convenience products are those that customers want to buy at the lowest possible price.
B. Shopping products are those products for which customers usually want to use routinized buying behavior.
C. Specialty products are those that customers usually are least willing to search for.
D. Unsought products are not shopped for at all.
14) The attitudes and behavior patterns of consumers making a purchasing decision are part of the
A. political environment
B. social and cultural environment
C. competitive environment
D. firm’s resources and objectives
15) The observing method in marketing research
A. uses personal interviews
B. may require customers to change their normal shopping behavior
C. is used to gather data without consumers being influenced by the process
D. is not suitable for obtaining primary data
16) The first step in market segmentation should be
A. deciding what new product you could develop
B. evaluating what segments you currently serve
C. finding a demographic group likely to use your products
D. defining some broad product-markets where you may be able to operate profitably
17) The product life cycle
A. describes the stages a new product idea goes through from beginning to end
B. has three major stages
C. applies to categories or types of products as opposed to brands
D. shows that sales and profits tend to move together over time
18) Which of the following is one of the product life cycle stages?
A. Market analysis
B. Market growth
C. Market feedback
D. Market research
19) While watching a television program, Liza gets a phone call just as a commercial is starting. She presses the mute button on the television’s remote control and takes the call, so she pays no attention to the commercial. In terms of the communication process, the telephone call is an example of what?
A. Encoding
B. Noise
C. Decoding
D. Feedback
20) Which of the following functions are performed by wholesalers in the channel of distribution?
A. Providing information to retailers
B. Placing radio advertisements for retailers
C. Placing newspaper advertisements for retailers
D. Providing goals for retailers
21) Typically the ______________ and the marketing manager are responsible for building good distribution channels and implementing place policies.
A. public relations manager
B. sales manager
C. advertising manager
D. human resources manager
22) SGCA is having a sales contest to encourage retailers to quickly reduce the inventory of SuperGamer computers. Retailers with the highest sales during the next month win an expense paid trip to a special dealer meeting at a resort in Hawaii. This is
A. probably illegal because it might encourage price competition among retailers
B. an example of cooperative advertising
C. the type of promotion that continues to impact sales even after the promotion is over
D. an example of a manufacturer using trade sales promotion in the channel
23) Advertising allowances
A. are incentive monies given to firms further along in the channel to encourage them to advertise or otherwise promote the firm’s products
B. involve intermediaries and producers sharing in the cost of ads
C. allow for coordination and integration of ad messages in the channel
D. set the allowance amount as a percent of the retailer’s actual purchases
24) Price reductions given to channel members to encourage them to promote or otherwise promote a firm’s products locally are
A. quantity discounts
B. brokerage allowances
C. push money allowances
D. advertising allowances
25) A producer using very aggressive promotion to get final consumers to ask intermediaries for a new product has
A. a pulling policy
B. a target marketing policy
C. a selective distribution policy
D. a pushing policy
26) Nantucket Hammocks, Inc., uses dealer incentives, discounts, and sales contests in order to encourage retailers to give special attention to selling its products. Nantucket Hammocks is using
A. exclusive distribution
B. a corporate channel system
C. dual distribution
D. pushing
27) Quality Ceramic, Inc., (QCI) defined five submarkets within its broad product-market. To obtain some economies of scale, QCI decided NOT to offer each of the submarkets a different marketing mix. Instead, it selected two submarkets whose needs are fairly similar, and is counting on promotion and minor product differences to make its one basic marketing mix appeal to both submarkets. QCI is using the
A. combined target market approach
B. single target market approach
C. multiple target market approach
D. mass marketing approach
28) When segmenting broad product-markets, cost considerations tend
A. to encourage managers to disregard the criterion that a product-market segment should be substantial
B. to lead to more aggregating
C. to be unimportant as long as the segmenting dimensions are operational
D. to lead to a large number of small, but very homogeneous, product-market segments
29) ______________ focuses on introducing new products to existing markets.
A. Market development
B. Product development
C. Diversification
D. Market penetration
30) When a company grows globally by introducing existing product lines to new markets, this is an example of what?
A. Market development
B. Product development
C. Diversification
D. Market penetration

MKT 411 Week 5 Individual Study Guide Sustainable Product Presentation



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Select a product from your Sustainable Product Proposal and create a product launch.
Present the product launch to the product management team. You must sell the idea and deliver this account for your firm.
Prepare a 20-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with the following elements:
  • Review of product design’s key elements
  • Discussion of customer effect
  • Promotion designs
  • Comparison of awareness and cause marketing promotions
  • Identification of greenwashing in another firm’s marketing and an explanation of how your promotion design avoids it
  • Sustainable distribution plan
  • Description of green distribution practices
  • Explanation of why product is effective for organization, consumer, and environment.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.
THIS TUTORIAL INCLUDES A 20 SLIDE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
PRODUCT:  ‘EARTH-GIRL BARBIE’ A 100% SAFE & ECO-FRIENDLY PROPOSED TOY MADE FROM HEMP PLASTIC

MKT 411 Week 4 Team Study Guide Sustainable Product Design Report




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Read the following scenario:

Your Learning Team members are account managers working for a green marketing firm. You must select one product from the previously created proposal and develop it.

Work together to develop the idea further and report your ideas to the firm.
Prepare a 1,050- to 1,750-word report, proposing the sustainable product.

  • Include a cover page memo to your department head, explaining why your team chose this product.
  • Describe elements of your sustainable product.
  • Explain how the firm may use sustainable methods to develop your product.
  • Describe how your proposed product may be integrated into consumer life.

Format your report consistent with APA guidelines.

THIS TUTORIAL IS 830 WORDS WITH 3 REFERENCES IN CORRECT APA FORMAT – GRADED 15/15 – A+++ WORK
PRODUCT: HEMP PLASTICS

MKT 411 Week 3 Individual Study Guide Sustainable Product Proposal




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Resources: IKEA® and Home Depot® websites
Read the following scenario:
You are an account manager at a marketing firm specializing in creating green and sustainable marketing plans for businesses that want to improve their effect on the environment. Several businesses have asked your firm to help develop marketing around sustainable products.
Choose one of the following industries and select a company:
  • Toy: Mattel, Inc.®, The LEGO Group®, Nintendo® Co., Ltd., or Hasbro, Inc®.
  • Health and beauty: Proctor & Gamble®, Johnson & Johnson®, Avon Products, Inc.®, or Revlon Consumer Products Corporation®
Propose the project to the client and your firm’s upper management in a 1,050- to 1,400-word proposal, identifying three sustainable product opportunities in the product line.
  • Explain how the firm may internally market green and sustainable philosophies.
  • Explain the relationship between sustainable products and consumer demand, and how your proposed products meet demand
  • Explain advantages and disadvantages of converting to green philosophies.
  • Analyze costs associated with the transitions.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

THIS TUTORIAL IS 1,365 WORDS WITH 5 REFERENCES IN CORRECT APA FORMAT – GRADED 15/15 – A+++ WORK

MKT 411 Week 2 Team Study Guide Sustainability Brochure




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Read the following scenario:

Your Learning Team is a marketing firm specializing in creating green and sustainable marketing plans for businesses that want to improve their effect on the environment. Your firm wants to convey its marketing philosophy to potential clients. Your team is creating a brochure, educating customers on sustainability and marketing. The brochure must do the following:

  • Explain the effect of sustainability on marketing.
  • Explain the role of ethics in green marketing and sustainable product design.

Create the brochure, using the Green Marketing Brochure on the University of Phoenix Student Web page link.
Submit the completed brochure to your facilitator.

THIS TUTORIAL IS 529 WORDS IN CORRECT APA FORMAT – GRADED 10/10 – A+++ WORK