Assignment 1-Marketing

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6) Firms using mobile marketing to reach out to its customers may benefit from this type of marketing because it provides timely information to its customers as they go about their days activities. This would be especially useful for short term sales on products. If I was to get an e-mail notification of a two day sale at thegolfworld.com, I am able to use the link to view sale items right away.

Throughout the course of Marketing 425, group 13 has decided to collect data according to our topic which was “success versus happiness.” Also, the product category was whether they have considered of using self-help book to get undepressed or get motivated in life.

Use the four Ps of marketing to develop a marketing plan to address a new device to increase medication adherence or oral health in your new practice?

Our company M320 developed an app facilitating sharing Textbooks and Notes based on the sharing economy. M320 app will allow students to share their textbooks and notes both virtually and shipping it to the person who orders it for the lesser cost. Our company goal is to minimize the cost of textbooks that each individual student has to spent. For example: The book originally cost $100, the person who wants the book will only have to pay 20% of the originally cost. Which in this case would be $20 plus shipping fees, which is much lower cost than the price of most book stores offer.

More and more people like to eat outside in a restaurant. Restaurant services can help people establish the satisfaction of ingredients, provide considerate services, and save customers’ time. The restaurant industry occupies an important place in the service industry, and because the demand of customers is increasing, the demand on the level of service is becoming greater. The stages of the industry’s life cycle are typically separated into three stages: beginning, maturity, and recession. The restaurant industry is clearly in the maturity stage. For now, people usually can find what they want by using some Apps, and find the restaurants near them. It is convenient for people to eat in a restaurant. The trend of restaurant will be continued in next five years. The charts(4) below showed the restaurant industry sales have been increasing since 1970, and the restaurant sales was $709.2 billion dollars, the sales of restaurant industry included commercial restaurant services, eating places, bars and taverns, managed services, lodging places and retail, vending, recreation, mobile. Commercial restaurant services occupied the most sales from restaurant industry. The major emerging trend in restaurant industry is the way we manage restaurant, more and more technological products were used in restaurant, we use tablet to order food. Restaurant were using advanced technique to have a better dining experience, like the

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AT&T is the 2nd largest cellular company in the U.S. today. While there are several competitors in the telecommunications industry, the company’s largest competitor however, is Verizon wireless. AT&T has several services in its portfolio, to include, wireless cellular service,

For the last two years, Central Store has been working with SEE-LA to improve its fresh produce, promotion of healthier foods and its customer service. The store has received government grants to purchase equipment to meet their needs. For example, the store now has a compact display refrigerator to place fresh fruits and vegetables cups and other premade healthy food options. Furthermore, the store has also been given a bigger produce display refrigerator to accommodate the needs of the community.

Without emphasize the price and product strategies previously discussed, a brief analysis of the marketing mix underlines some other specific traits of the company. An interesting aspect is represented by promotion. In the solar Industry a great part of the promotion effort lies in the downstream, and this is where SolarCity put a greater effort: on the 2,510 employees (2012), 661 work in sales and marketing and 248 work in customer care (SolarCity, “SolarCity annual report 2013”, SolarCity, 2013). SolarCity promotion relies mainly on a well-trained direct sales force used for what the founder calls in-house sales. The direct-sale force is backed up by a call center and a cross-promotion channel partner such as Home Depot (home improvement supplies superstore) and customer referrals. It is also true that not all of the promotion effort lies on the downstream of the industry. Customer sensitization, especially in a young industry such as the solar one, is a shared need and in addition seen the involvement of government in the industry join effort may become a necessity. To fight the opposition on the “Net metering” and the planned decrease in governmental subsidies many solar companies formed trade associations for lobbying purposes and industry-wide advocacy groups. In addition all companies in the industry are active supporter of various “green initiatives” aimed at the sensitization of potential customer toward a “sustainable lifestyle”. Solarcity also

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1. Critique on this comment: "People are spending most of their time online and they are communicating via social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook. As such, there's no need for companies to advertise in traditional media such as TV, newspaper or radio anymore."

As urban redevelopment and urban renewal tend to be on the increase in Perth, so does the percent of people seeking dwellings that fit into the category of apartments and townhouses. There has been a general drift among first home owners from buying a separate house on the urban fringe to higher density inner city housing. In 1997 – 1998, 17% of first homebuyers had purchased medium to high density accommodation, up 3% since 1988 (Survey of income and Housing, 1998).

The competitive positioning paradigm, drawing largely on the work of Porter (1980, 1985), dominated strategic management in the 1980s. It emphasized the idea of strategic fit between the organization and its environment so as to achieve competitive advantage, referring to this as competitive positioning. “When the prospective market can clearly see how the company 's product differs from the others, it will be easier for the company to guide them to purchase the product.  A key element of the positioning strategy is the value proposition” (Campbell, et. al. 2002).

The paper presents an analysis of the different factors influencing the restaurant industry and how these factors increase or decrease the demand for such services. The hypothesis that will be examined is that the performance of restaurants is mostly based on the type of food chosen by customers when they decide to go out for dinner, lunch, breakfast, or simply for a snack. What type of food refers mainly the nationality or concept of the food, (traditional American, Italian, Indian, Latin, or from any other type of culture). This factor is important because when customers go out to for dinner; they decide what to eat before deciding where to eat. That is why this factor is considerably important according to the hypothesis.