Description
Discussion Assignment # 1
1. Your company president has decided to restructure the firm and become more market-oriented. She is going to announce the changes at an upcoming meeting. She has asked you to prepare a short speech outlining the general reasons for the new company orientation.
2. Donald E. Petersen, chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company, remarked, “If we aren't customer-driven, our cars won’t be either.” Explain how this statement reflects the marketing concept.
3. How are Coke and Pepsi using their Web sites, http://www.coke.com and http://www.pepsi.com, to promote their newest product offerings? Do you see hints of any future strategies the companies might implement? Where?
4. How can a new company best define its business mission statement? Can you find examples of good and bad mission statements on the Internet? How might you improve the bad ones?
5. What techniques can make your school enrollment marketing plan more effective?
*** I am going to send chapter 1 & 2 PowerPoint ****
Unformatted Attachment Preview
Purchase answer to see full attachment
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Discussion Assignment # 1
1. Company president speech: General reasons for the new company orientation.
Structuring the firm to make it more market-oriented entails investing in development of
products which consumers want to buy rather than attempting to convince them to purchase them.
The general reasons for the new company orientation is increasing sales and income. This approach
tends towards pulling customers and invoking them so that they become more willing to buy from
the company. Market orientation is also geared towards increasing customer loyalty through
customer satisfaction. Market-orientation will make the customers feel that the company
appreciates them through revealing high quality products and appropriate pricing. Apart from this,
the customer-directed marketing will also increase the market share through creating a sustainable
competitive edge amongst competing products and services. The aim of this new approach to the
product and services is customer needs and wants. This means focusing on valuable customer
information and updating the products such that they mirror what the custo...