Marketing Help for College and University Students

Business Risks

What are the factors for a business risks?

Positioning Errors to Avoid

You have been asked to give a brief lecture on "Positioning Errors to Avoid" for a local Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Provide a brief summary of your lecture. In your lecture be sure to give specific examples, other than those indicated in the textbook, of known service companies avoiding or falling prey to "positioning errors" ...continues

Marketing Spotlight - Microsoft

Microsoft was founded in 1975, when Bill Gates left Harvard at age 19 to work with high school friend Paul Allen on a version of the BASIC programming language. After moving the company from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Seattle in 1979, Gates and Allen began writing operating system software. What happened to the company since it ...continues

Online market for travel services

The online market for travel services will reach $63 billion within a few years, and Priceline.com aims to capture a significant share; already, it is high on the top-ten list of travel Web sites. After a brief period of diversification into name-your-price sales of groceries and gasoline, the company has refocused on its core t ...continues

Is the right price a fair price?

You are an executive for a large multinational corporation and are meeting with other managers (your classmates) to discuss the following topic: Is the right price a fair price? Prices are often set to satisfy demand or to reflect the premium that consumers are willing to pay for a product or service. Some critics shudder, ho ...continues

Peoples Bank

As mentioned earlier, Peoples Bank, based in Connecticut, uses its web site as a key channel for reaching individuals, business customers, and prospects. Not only can customers e-mail the bank with questions, they can click on a link to have a bank representative call them with further information or choose another link if they ...continues

Marketing is more than a four-step approach

Marketing is more than a four-step approach to increase sales. It excites people, and keeps them interested over long periods of time. Such is the case with the movie trilogies Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Let's look at the Harry Potter phenomenon. The four-book series has sold enormous amounts in more than 200 countries. ...continues

The use of television to advertise

Your company is considering the use of television to advertise its product. The CEO has asked you and the other members of the marketing department (your classmates) to evaluate this option. In particular you are to debate the following issue: Has TV advertising lost power? Long deemed the most successful advertising medium, ...continues

Microsoft - marketing success?

Could Microsoft be considered one of the best and worst examples of marketing success in America during the 1980s and 1990s? Discuss. The Marketing Spotlight notes some of the effective competitive marketing strategies that Microsoft has exhibited in a short but very successful history. Could a similar firm entering the marke ...continues

Ricketts Heating and Air

Ricketts Heating and Air installs natural gas-fired central heating systems with timers. In the wintertime, if the owner of a system wants to have the house cooler when no one is there, but have it heated back up before anyone arrives home, he or she can use this timing system. How could Ricketts use service to differentiate its ...continues