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Posted on 06 March 2010
Many of the “new marketing realities” listed below have created new behaviours, opportunities and challenges that those in marketing need to understand. They have also given new capabilities to both customers and consumers that can be very powerful when understood and utilised.
The information age promising more accurate levels of production, targeted communications and relevant pricing.
Globalisation [...] Continue Reading...
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Posted on 06 March 2010
Needs, wants AND demands you might say? Marketers really do have to be psychologists? Yes, you are definitely right there.
Needs are the basic human requirements. Needs become wants when they are they are directed to specific objects that may satisfy the need. Demands are wants for specific products backed by the ability to pay. Marketers [...] Continue Reading...
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Posted on 06 March 2010
Just for fun, some Marketing 101.
Define: Marketing
A brief and effective definition is “meeting needs profitably.”
The American Marketing Association defines Marketing as “Marketing is the activity, set of institutions and processes for creating, communicating, delivering and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners and society at large.”
What can be marketed? Goods (food, TVs), services [...] Continue Reading...
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Posted on 03 March 2010
As mentioned in my last post, I will be talking about topics and ideas out of my Masters program here on Estate of Flux, with a strong focus on Marketing, Strategic Management and Intellectual Property (IP) Management. Kicking off the IP Management module we looked at different places where companies can focus innovation efforts, and [...] Continue Reading...
Featured article
Posted on 03 March 2010
This week is the first of my Masters of Commerce at the University of Sydney. I am doing a double major in Strategic Management and Marketing full-time over the next 18 months. I’m also hoping to do an overseas exchange during this time to a University in either Europe, Asia or the US.
It took me [...] Continue Reading...
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