Term Papers on Marketing

Term Paper Title	Marketing
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Marketing

Question1.List and briefly describe the major advertising decisions which it’s described.

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Objective Setting

Communication

Objectives

Sales

Objectives

Budget decisions

Affordable approach

Percent of sales

Competitive parity

Objective and task

Budget decisions

Affordable approach

Percent of sales

Competitive parity

Objective and task

Media Decisions

Reach, frequency, impact

Major media Types

Specific media vehicles

Media timing

Message decisions

Message strategy

Message execution



Question2. Advertising objectives can be classified as to primary purpose. List three broad forms of objectives. Define each.

Informative advertising is used heavily when introducing a new product category. In this case, the objective is to build primary demand.

Persuasive Advertising is used to build selective demand for a brand by persuading consumers that it offers the best quality for their money.

Reminder Advertising is used to keep consumers thinking about a product. This form of advertising is more important for mature products.

Question 3. Discuss the differences between reach, frequency and impact

Media Selection

Definition

Examples

Reach

Is a measure of the percentage of people in the target market who are exposed to the ad campaign during a given period of time

The advertiser might try to reach 70 percent of the target market during the first three months of the campaign.

Frequency

Is a measure of how many times the average person in the target market is exposed to the message.

The advertiser might want an average exposure frequency of three.

Impact

Is the qualitative value of a message exposure through a given medium.

For products that need to be demonstrated, messages on television may have more impact than messages on radio because television uses sight and sound.

Question4. It is often difficult to determine which of the mass media forms are most appropriate in certain situation. List the advantages and disadvantages for using newspaper, television, radio, and magazine.

Medium

Advantages

Disadvantages

Newspapers

Flexibility ; timeline ; good local market coverage ; broad acceptability ; high believability

Short-life ; poor reproduction quality ; small pass along audience

Television

Good mass-market selectivity ; low cost per exposure ; combines sight, sound, and motion, appealing to the senses

High absolute costs ; high clutter ; fleeting exposure ; less audience selectivity

Radio

Good local acceptance ;  high geographic and demographic selectivity ; low costs

Audio only ; fleeting exposure ; low attention ; fragmented audiences

Magazine

High geographic and demographic selectivity ; credibility and prestige ; high-quality reproduction ; long life and good pass-along readership

Long ad purchase lead time ; high cost ; no guarantee of position

Question5. Explain what’s a sale promotion is and how the major forms are primarily used, give one example of a specific sales promotion technique for each of the major forms of sales promotion.

Sales promotion is a mass communication technique that offers short-term incentives to encourage the purchase or sale of a product or service.
Question6. Define sales force management and list the six major steps in the sales force management process.

Sales force management is the analysis, planning, implementation, and control of sales force activities. It includes designing sales force strategy and structur...

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