Help me please....marketing question...my Urgent HOMEWORK!?
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Wow - how negative those answers are.  OK - here's the real answer:\n\nWhile bad marketing techniques do create a false image, good technique portrays the benefits of the product or service being sold.  There's no need to mislead a buyer when you have something they want to buy.  \n\nIntelligent marketing will identify those customers that want your product, and then introduce it to them.  That's why good marketing works, and bad marketing always fails.\n\nBad marketing sells a product or service by tricking someone into buying it - and they only get fooled once.  There's rarely a repeat sale.\n\nGood marketing makes the initial sale, and then the customer comes back again, and again, while the marketing effort is bringing in more new sales.  It becomes self fullfilling.\n\nThis is why ads that tell the truth always produce more sales, and why the ones that promise the earth soon disappear as the company goes down the pan!\n\nI hope this helps.
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word of mouth.also, don't spread yourself too thin by marketing to everyone. find you target market.
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Thank you for being honest instead of just expecting someone to do your homework for you... you may have to read and comprehend this - but it might help you get done what you need to get done \n\nhttp://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm\n\ngood luck !!
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Okay well, there is a book that I have recently read to get ideas for promoting my own webshop (I go live in June 2006).  It's called "Marketing without Megabucks" by Shel Horowitz. I got my copy on Amazon.com for 4 dollars.  I have put a link to the book as well as his frugal marketing website.  Sift through his archives as well, tons of great ideas for free and low cost marketing.\n\nA marketing method that "DirtBag" clothing used, they called on Independant Record Labels and offered to let bands wear their gear (IF they wore it on stage) for free (now the simply give a huge discount), but it worked.  And all of the fans of these bands of curse simply HAD to have what they were wearing :)\n(the 1st link is of an article about how they advertised when they first started out)\n\nYou should try to get local coverage as well, if you get involved with a charity and create a one page press release you may be able to get local televison, print and radio stations to give you free coverage with a Human Interest Story.  Call and get the names of the assignment editors at the TV stations (they make the decision on what stories get coverage)  You can simpy donate say 5% of sales for 6 months to a local children's hospital or donate some of your items for a local auction benefiting a charity.\n\nVisit the "Business Owners Idea Cafe" listed below, awesome place for home and small business owners.  And if you visit forums and give advice remember to put a link to your website under your name as your signature.\n\nI wish you the best
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Advertising... Market Research...
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Try marketocracy.com.  I've been using it for years.  I think you'll find what you're looking for.
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Excellent Question!!! I'm truly putting this on the watchlist.. because I can't really come with something witty right now... don't take this from me okay? I'm just brainstorming with you: How about saying that given that the company itself has a "sterling" reputation... I look forward to contributing to it with quantitative and community contributions through my enthusiasm, team spirit and hardwork... (cause they like results, eh?)... So in plain terms what you're here for is to deliver results that forwards their company.. after all.. every bit of effort definitely helps! Does this help? I'm still staying tuned to see other answers!! Good luck!
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if you sell a snack once, no matter how many you sell - once, you will never sell enough.. \ni think a major issue is to realise it is a repeat market type of business. \nIf your product is not liked, give it up.\n\nBest way to start to see first of all whether it is liked it to do alot of personal work with giving away taste testing, possibly in a mall / supermarket or on the street corner. If people don;t like it, forget it, its over.. if they do, then begin with a shop (or outside it with the shop owners permission as a marketing ploy) give away taste testers, tiny little bites of it, with some colour flyers with a description of how good it is taste and let them know if they really want some, to go in the shop and buy one, or a packet...\nand then just do the same thing, area by area and you will build a region...
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I hope this helps:\n\nhttp://www.websitemarketingplan.com/
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This site is full of information, advice and opportunities for marketing. \n\nHope it helps!
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This can get you started.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_marketing
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totally depends on what the product is and who the target market is! you need to look at what other products are already in the market and if they are competition for your product. theres lots of books available that explain the different methods that can be used to market a product.
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Well, the target market could be any group of customers who could use your product. It is better to prepare a priority list regarding to the level of usage of your product for different customers, then start your marketing procedure as per to that list
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Hi,\nThere are many marketing firms out there that will and can get you started. Check the yellow pages or internet.
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Could you tell me what exactly you're looking for? I deal with a lot of these data problems at work everyday. I need to understand a few things:1. What geography are you talking about? 2. For what are you doing the report? school/b-school/business? 3. What do sort of inferences are you looking for in your data? Do you want to establish eating habits/buying behaviour/etc? You can write to me on equitymonkinlove@yahoo.com
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Increase demand of product by advertisement.\n\nAnd ake sure you have more demand than supply.
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you need to first identify who is your target market,\nsuch as age group,and many more variables, then you can establish a strategy to target that specific group,with\nwhat they identify with in correlation to your product.\nYou know this is very basic stuff, maybe you should hire a firm to help you along.