SEGMENTING THE CONSUMER MARKET

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 There is no single way to segment a consumer market. A marketer has to try different segmentation variables, singly and…

AN OVERVIEW OF MARKETS AND TARGET MARKET

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Markets are collections of people or organizations with (a) needs to satisfy (b) money to spend, and (c) the willingness…

ANNUAL MARKETING PLANNING

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 Apart from the basic strategic planning spanning several years into the future, it is also necessary to develop a more…

THE STRATEGIC MARKETING PLANNING PROCESS

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Strategic marketing planning is a five-step process that assesses current performance; establishes specific marketing objectives; determines positioning and differential advantage;…

STRATEGIC MARKETING PLANNING

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Companies that adopt the marketing concept realize that strategic marketing efforts are more successful when they are carefully planned. Strategic…

THE MARKETING MIX: CONTROLLABLE MARKETING VARIABLES

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Definitionally, marketing mix is the mixture of controllable marketing variables that the firm uses to pursue the sought levels of…

The Marketing Forces in a Company

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A company's marketing system often operates within the framework of marketing forces, which constitutes the system's environment. Such forces are…

ANALYSIS OF THE MARKETING ENVIRONMENT

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 Every move a marketer makes is affected by, and has some effect on his marketing environment. This could happen on…

MARKETING MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHIES

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 Marketing management philosophies involves carrying out tasks to achieve desired exchanges with the target market. The question then is, what…

MARKETING AND DEMAND MANAGEMENT

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Introduction  Marketing management can be defined as the analysis, planning, implementation, and control of programmes designed to create, build, and…

MARKETING FUNCTIONS

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Marketing is made up of a number of activities known as marketing functions. Ordinarily, identifying these functions might look simple…

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF MARKETING

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 We may view marketing generally as resting on six inter-connected platforms. These are the building blocks of marketing, which are:…