Marketing 301: Marketing group project (2500 words)
This exercise requires you to analyze the whole Marketing process of an actual firm. Based on secondary market research, you need to explain the firm’s chosen actions. You will be assigned a group and the project consists of a written report and group presentation.
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of this exam assignment, students should be able to:
- Understand the concept of marketing and the whole marketing process of an organization
- Use secondary research to understand a company's marketing strategy and its effectiveness
- Analyze a company's marketing strategy using strategic concepts including Customer Value proposition, SWOT, and Business Environment.
INTRODUCTION
According to Grewal and Levy (2016), marketing is a set of activities and processes aimed at creating, capturing, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that provide value to customers, clients, partners, and society at large. For marketing to be successful, it is essential for the marketer to Understand the marketplace and consumer needs and wants, especially in today's business environment where consumer needs are always changing. For marketing to be successful, it is essential for marketers to learn about and have a clear understanding of the customers, their needs, wants, and demands. It is thus essential to conduct research on the target market in order to gain clear insights into their consumption habits.
According to Kotler and Armstrong (2012), Customers form expectations about the value and satisfaction that a given product or service should deliver and buy accordingly. It is thus essential to satisfy the needs and desires of customers because satisfied customers buy again and also tell others about their good experiences, which in tandem attracts more customers. On the other hand, dissatisfied customers tend to switch to competitors and also denigrate the product to others.