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2. MKTG 522 Week 1 DQ 1 (Market Research) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Name the six steps in the marketing research process as discussed in the Kotler text. • Why is it important to include all of these steps in the research process?

3. MKTG 522 Week 1 DQ 2 (Strategic Marketing Planning) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Why is it important for a company to have a well written mission statement? • What key points do you think need to be included in the mission statement? • Should a mission statement also be a marketing tool?

4. MKTG 522 Week 1-7 All DQs For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • MKTG 522 Week 1 DQ 1 (Market Research) • MKTG 522 Week 1 DQ 2 (Strategic Marketing Planning) • MKTG 522 Week 2 DQ 1 (Consumer Buying Behavior)

5. MKTG 522 Week 2 DQ 1 (Consumer Buying Behavior) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • What are some of the factors that influence consumers’ buying behavior? • Have the purchasing habits of your parents and/or grandparents influenced your buying behavior? • If you were to open your refrigerator and cupboards and compare the contents with those of your parents, would you find some brands in common?

6. MKTG 522 Week 2 DQ 2 (Target Market Selection) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • What are some of the challenges faced by marketers as they attempt to define their target markets? • How necessary is it to fine-tune your Marketing Plan so that your target market is clearly defined and measurable?

7. MKTG 522 Week 3 Assignment Create the Value (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • This Tutorial contains 2 Papers • Week 3: Assignment • Create the Value: Market Segmentation Analysis and a Value Proposition

8. MKTG 522 Week 3 DQ 1 (Branding) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Procter & Procter & Gamble (P&G) perhaps epitomizes the ability to create highly successful brands and marketing efforts. Read the Breakthrough Marketing case study about Procter & Gamble on page 269 in chapter 9 of your e-text.

9. MKTG 522 Week 3 DQ 2 (Competitive Strategies) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • As part of the Marketing Mix, PRICE, P, is important to the marketer. Yet when we look at price, it is more than just a dollar figure. What does price represent to the consumer? What does price

10. MKTG 522 Week 4 DQ 1 (Pricing Strategies) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • As part of the Marketing Mix, PRICE, P, is important to the marketer. Yet when we look at price, it is more than just a dollar figure. What does price represent to the consumer? What does

11. MKTG 522 Week 4 DQ 2 (Marketing of Services) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • How is the marketing of services different than the marketing of a product? What are the challenges of marketing a service? How is marketing shoes different from marketing shoe repair?

12. MKTG 522 Week 5 Deliver the Value IKEA Case Study (3 PPT) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • This Tutorial contains 3 PPT/Tutorials • Week 5 Assignment • Your assignment this week is to review the IKEA Case Study below. While reviewing it, consider it as background information for your upcoming presentation to the IKEA Senior Management Team. More details on your upcoming PowerPoint presentation to the management team are provided at the end of the case study

13. MKTG 522 Week 5 DQ 1 (Channels of Distribution) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • As part of the Marketing Mix, Place, or Channels of Distribution, is important to understand. What is the difference between Direct channels of distribution and Indirect channels of distribution?

14. MKTG 522 Week 5 DQ 2 (Retailing, Wholesaling, and Logistics) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Describe Market Logistics. What are some of the steps necessary for market logistics planning? Please provide an example.

15. MKTG 522 Week 6 Assignment Communicate the Value (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • This Tutorial contains 2 Papers • Week 6 • Assignment: Communicate the Value • Communicate the Value: Integrated Marketing Communications Brief • Please select a brand that has a brand problem. For example, recent player legal troubles have been a problem for the NFL brand. Another example is the Bonefish Grill, the country’s second largest seafood chain after Red Lobster. Although their check average is more than $3.00 less than Red Lobster, many consumers see that brand as “expensive”.

16. MKTG 522 Week 6 DQ 1 (Marketing Communications) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Describe Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC). Why is it so important in the 21st century for marketers to embrace this? What are some of the concerns of the marketer when it comes to creating an IMC approach via the promotional mix components of advertising, public relations, sales promotion, direct marketing, and personal selling?

17. MKTG 522 Week 6 DQ 2 (Advertising Effectiveness) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Select an advertisement to which you have recently been exposed. It can be in any paid communications medium, such as TV, radio, newspaper, or magazine. The ad that you select should be one to which others in the class can easily relate, such as Verizon's "Can you hear me now?" ads or the Aflac ad (with the white duck that squawks "AFFFFLAAAAAAAC!")

18. MKTG 522 Week 7 Course Project Marketing Plan (5 Projects) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • This Tutorial contains 5 Projects • Project 1: A Sister Can Fix It Upholster Shop • Project 2: Wall Street Bar • Project 3: Pasta Restaurant • Project 4: Louis Vuitton

19. MKTG 522 Week 7 DQ 1 (International Markets) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Kellogg Company (you know them as Kellogg's, makers of Rice Krispies, Corn Flakes, and a variety of other cold cereal products) celebrated its 100th anniversary a few years ago in 2006. As with many companies, it has attempted to expand internationally.

20. MKTG 522 Week 7 DQ 2 (Ethics and Social Responsibility) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Customer complaints about Toyota cars suddenly accelerating were initially downplayed by Toyota Motor Sales in December 2009, which initially stated that it was caused by the driver's side carpeting getting in the way of the pedal. Toyota's announcements at the beginning of 2010, however, suggested that the real culprit was a defective gas pedal. This resulted in many calls for an investigation, as the initial claim about the carpeting was seen as apparent camouflage for

21. MKTG 522 Focus Dreams/uophelp.com For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com