- •What is management? What is the difference between a manager and a leader?
- •Consider three categories of the management style.
- •What is marketing? What are the responsibilities of marketers?
- •What is Macro Environment? Consider how it affects all aspects of business.
- •Describe the microenvironmental forces. Consider how they affect all aspects of business.
- •What does a swot analysis identify? Why is it important to carry out a swot analysis?
- •What is international marketing? Describe the factors of prioritizing foreign markets for company’s entry and growth.
- •What does market segmentation identify? How does it work?
- •Define the difference between segmentation in b2b market and that of b2c market.
- •Describe a company's marketing strategies.
- •What is market research? Why do companies do it? Overview the market research process.
- •Give a description of the market research methods.
- •Primary and secondary research
- •Primary research
- •Secondary research
- •Quantitative and qualitative research
- •Quantitative research
- •Qualitative research
- •What is the role of the marketing mix? Describe the Ps and Cs of the marketing mix.
- •What does the term “a product” cover? Give a product description and features using a particular example.
- •Describe the stages of plc.
- •What is branding? What is the difference between a product and a brand? Speak about brand values.
- •What is the aim of promotion? Describe the elements of the promotion mix.
- •Speak about advertising as one of the promotional tools.
- •What is the difference between Personal selling and Sales promotion?
- •What are the advantages and the disadvantages of Public Relations? Why do marketers tend to underuse it?
- •Why are pricing decisions so important?
- •What are the fundamentals of the supply chain management?
- •What are the current issues related to logistics?
- •Illustrate how people contribute to the development of an organization.
- •What do you know about motivation marketing?
- •Describe the factors of the physical evidence.
- •Evaluate both positive and negative aspects that can be associated with physical evidence.
- •Explain the various attributes that comprise packaging.
- •How has packaging developed over the past 100 years?
- •Describe the key types of processes that are used within the marketing concept.
Illustrate how people contribute to the development of an organization.
People is the core of any organization. Without people there is no business because they are the ones who create the product or services. Especially it’s important to remember if you work in service sphere, because the procedure of production and consumption is inseparably linked with the professionalism or even mood of the employee, who produce this service. If you want to develop your organisation first of all you need to motivate your staff. There is a Maslow’s Pyramid, which can help you about that. It says that every person has hierarchy of needs from simplest: Physiological (like food or sleep) to the most complex: Self Actualization (like sense of accomplishment). And of course you should remember that even good motivated cashier or guard can improve customer’s impression from your company.
What do you know about motivation marketing?
There are three ways to get a motivational growth-strategy. First, link it to what people feel strongly about.
Many leaders wrongly believe that just because they have taken the trouble to develop a marketing strategy, that strategy automatically excites others.
If you don't root your strategy in the fervent convictions of employees and customers, you don't have a motivational growth-strategy. Steve Jobs' strategy for providing a powerful, versatile computer into the hands of average people around the world, fired the imaginations and the ardent actions of his colleagues and, ultimately, customers.
Second, raise the stakes. Follow Emerson's dictum: "Hitch your wagon to a star." Distinguish between vision and motivational growth-strategy. A vision is the star. The strategy is how you will hitch your wagon to it. When people's vision and strategy provide a higher purpose in their lives, their motivation is of a higher order.Steve Jobsconvinced John Scully to leave a high-level, fast-track position at PepsiCo and commit himself to the uncertainties of working at Apple by asking: "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to change the world?"
Third, make the strategy simple and short. Growth can be complicated, but people's needs are simple. Bill Gateswrote a strategy in longhand on a single sheet of paper when he founded Microsoft. He still has possession of that paper and is still following that strategy.
The processes of putting that strategy into action may take comprehensive descriptions. Still, those descriptions should flow from simple, brief motivational elements.
Describe the factors of the physical evidence.
Exteriors
The architecture and design of buildings
Design of vehicles
Landscaping
Parking facilities
Interiors
Ease of access
Confines of an environment
Product access
Foyers, entrance areas and public spaces
Signage and corporate identity
Space
Layout and configurations
Seating
Security and privacy
Cleanliness and hygiene standards
Ambience and atmospherics
Visual factors
Lighting and illumination
Colour
Uniforms
Stationary
Presentation
Aural factors
Music and sounds
Olfactory factors
Air quality
Smells and odours
Taste
Tactile factors
Temperature
touch
