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marketing assignment unit 2

Competitive Advantage

In this Assignment, you will read a case study and do some research before responding to some questions concerning competitive advantage in a business memo format.

Reference

A business memo is a document commonly used in the workplace to convey information to company employees. In that sense, it is an internal document, which means that, generally, the audience is internal to the company; it is not a form used for outside customers or clients. The purpose of a memo, usually, is to inform employees of policies or other company-related matters, such as a change in personnel within departments, change in a process or procedure, or an upcoming company meeting.

Assignment: Read the Disney® case study: “The Happiest Brand on Earth”

In this Assignment, you will engage in the development of the following professional competencies:

  • Obtain and Process Information
  • Written Communication

These competencies also are critical to your success in most jobs. By knowing how to obtain and process information, you do not have to know everything, but you need to know where to find the most reliable information and then be able to process it — analyze and summarize the pertinent information for the task at hand, and then be able to communicate it in writing. These competencies are critical to your educational and professional success. In this Assignment, you will have the opportunity to practice obtaining vital marketing information and then summarizing it.

In this Assignment you will be doing some research on the Disney Company as the new marketing associate.

Review the grading rubric below to see the full instructions and grading rubric for this Assignment.

Rubric

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 Resources

Access the case study

Document

 What is a memo?

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Required Resources

Text Chapters

White, S. (2012). Principles of marketing [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://ashford.content.edu

Chapter 5: The Marketing Mix: Price

In this chapter, we’ll explore the role of price in the marketing mix. Key concepts:

  • What is “Price”
  • Buyer psychology
  • 3 objectives of sales promotions
  • Challenges to setting price

In the featured case study, Price War in Mariachi Plaza, you will learn how price decreases as demand decreases (known as “elastic”) and examine the pricing decisions a budding Mariachi band might face and how it can leverage the remaining marketing mix elements to differentiate itself.

Chapter 6: The Marketing Mix: Promotion

In this chapter, we’ll explore the role of promotion in the marketing mix:

  • Analyzing the business portfolio
  • Growth opportunities and market-product strategies
  • Corporate and marketing department organization

In the featured case study, Barilla’s “Summer of Italy,” you will learn how a manufacturer of Italian food, Barilla, combined brand ambassadors, food bloggers, and local promotional activities to increase its market share in an American city.

Multimedia

Forbes video interactive: Hear how t-shirt company Threadless crowdsources product and place ideas.

Recommended Resources

An overview of the top social media tools and how to use them successfully:

Kabani, S. (2013). The zen of social marketing.Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, Inc.

Learn about netnography (ethnography adapted to the study of online communities) and its application to marketing research:

Kozinets, R. V. (2002, February). The field behindthe screen: Using netnography for marketingresearch in online communities. Journal ofMarketing Research, 39, 61-72 A

$7 million neuromarketing study reveals what really gets us to buy (& why sex doesn’t sell!):

Lindstrom, M. (2010). Buy ̵ ology: Truthand lies about why we buy. New York City,NY: Crown Books

Learn how social media is transforming the way we live and how we do business (and market):

Qualman, E. (2013). Socialnomics. Hoboken, NJ:John Wiley & Sons.

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Ruiz, R. (Producer). (2011). Marketing success[Video segment]. In Target: Inside the Bullseye.Available from Films on Demand database.

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Video Education America (Producer). (2009).Pricing strategies [Video segment]. In The FourP’s: Marketing Strategies. Available from Filmson Demand database.

DISCUSSION 1

Pizza Pricing Strategies

This week you learned about the three core pricing strategies: penetration, neutral, and skim. Now we’re going to examine those pricing strategies in action. Hope you’re hungry, because you’re going to be looking at a lot of pizza.

In this interactivity, you’re going to briefly recap the three pricing strategies, use them to classify the major pizza chains based on exploring the online ordering process and then answer a few related questions. So let’s dig in!

Guided Response:

  1. Re-familiarize yourself with the three main pricing strategies
  • Review section 5.2 in the text as needed.
  • Research actual pizza pricing
  • Visit each site, identify your location and simulate an order.
  • Price out a medium cheese or pepperoni pizza.
  • Proceed to payment stage, observing the selling process.
  • Record your pizza choice and final price (minus tax).
  • Execute your purchase as you see fit.
  • Note: One brand doesn’t offer online ordering. Poke around their website for an online menu or consult fastfoodmenuprices.com (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Create a forum post that includes the following:
  • A brief description of the three pricing strategies (from least to most expensive).
  • Your research driven price strategy classifications of the five brands.
    • For any pricing strategy where you have multiple brands, rank them from least to most expensive.
    • Include the kind of pizza you priced out, your recorded prices and any other pertinent notes.
    • Your classifications may differ from others. That’s okay.
  • Your answers to the following questions:
    • Did your perception of these chains’ pricing strategies change based on this exercise? If so, how?
    • Based on this exercise, identify three factors that complicate price comparisons.
    • For you, which of these chains represents the greatest value and why? Explain how each of the Ps contributes to your answer.
  • Reply to and pitch your peers.
  • Price-value perceptions vary by individual. Respond to three of your peers, including one who selected a different chain as offering the best value. Customize your “pitch” to try to change their mind.

DISCUSSION 2

IMC Campaign Stories

IMC Campaign Stories

One Message, Many Media: Integrated Marketing Campaigns

In this interactivity, to examine integrated marketing in action, you’re going to tell the Storify story of a particular campaign from your internship brand across multiple media. We want to know what unifies the campaign and how the unique nature of each medium is being utilized (or underutilized if you feel so). And we want to hear if you think the campaign is effective or not and why.d then answer a few related questions. So let’s dig in!.

Guided Response:

1. Check out our sample Twix campaign storify  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.for inspiration.

    • Note: you only need to include three media in your Storify. We overachieved.

2. Identify a significant marketing campaign from your internship brand.

    • Find one that was supported across multiple media (e.g, TV, print, website, banner ads, etc.).
    • How to identify and research major marketing campaigns?
      • Search the web or major advertising publications (Adweek (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. or AdAge (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.) for articles about your brand’s advertising campaigns.
      • Check your brand’s Twitter feed for recurring ad messages.

3. Find campaign executions for at least three different media

    • Search for links you can include in your Storify story. Where? See our advertising creative finder (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for suggestions by media type.

4. Create a new storify story containing the following elements:

    • Title and subtitle
    • Headings for the three media you’ve found
    • For each medium, a brief description of how it is being used, focusing on what it can do that other media cannot.
    • A final paragraph summarizing what unifies the campaign and whether or not you think it’s effective and why.
    • Reference our example and our Storify tutorial (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. as needed

5. Post your Storify link to the forum below

6. Provide feedback to three of your peers

  • Do you agree with their assessment of the campaign’s effectiveness? What previously unmentioned factors contribute to your assessment?
  • In our Twix example, this might relate to your feelings about chocolate, whether you found the ads funny or not, your past experiences with Twix, your reaction to specific imagery, other ads in the campaign, etc.

Social and Ethical Aspects of Advertising and Promotion

Each person will write 200-250 word count on the following:

Research a single pair using the Opposing Viewpoints in Context database, available in the Specialized Resources section of the University Library.

Include a defense of the pro position and arguments for the con position, as well as counterarguments and closing rebuttals for both positions. Select only one set for this assignment.

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Support your arguments with credible sourced information rather than your opinion.

We will merge all the information together to make it flow nicely, so this cannot be written on your view points, but a research paper with information only. Fair? Thoughts? Almost like a min paper.