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2. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Entire Course (Ash Course) BUS 620 Final Marketing Plan • BUS 620 Week 1 DQ 1 What is Marketing (Ash Course) • BUS 620 Week 1 DQ 2 Marketing Strategies (Ash Course) • BUS 620 Week 1 The Future of the New York Times (Ash Course) • BUS 620 Week 2 DQ 1 Buyer Behavior (Ash Course) • BUS 620 Week 2 DQ 2 Customer Needs (Ash Course) • BUS 620 Week 2 Industry Forecasting (Ash Course) • BUS 620 Week 3 DQ 1 Braining Nordstrom (Ash Course) • BUS 620 Final Marketing Plan

3. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Industry Forecasting BUS 620 Promotion • BUS 620 Industry Forecasting • BUS 620 Promotion

4. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Retail Business Analysis BUS 620 Space and Place • BUS 620 Retail Business Analysis • BUS 620 Space and Place

5. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 The Exchange Relationship BUS 620 Week 1 DQ 1 What is Marketing • BUS 620 The Exchange Relationship • What is Marketing? Marketing has often been defined in terms of satisfying customers’ needs and wants. Critics, however, maintain that marketing goes beyond that and creates needs and wants that did not exist before. They feel marketers encourage consumers to spend more money than they should on

6. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Week 1 DQ 2 Marketing Strategies BUS 620 Week 1 The Future of the New York Times • Think About It” activity in Section 1.2 of the text: • Select a consumer product of personal interest—one that you have purchased within the past six months. It can be anything, just as long you are familiar with the product and generally understand how it is marketed. Using the matrix model of marketing management in Table • Read the article: The Future of the New York Times, BusinessWeek, January 17, 2005, 64-72 (Also Posted in the Announcement page). • Readership through circulation and news quality are key ingredients to

7. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Week 2 DQ 1 Buyer Behavior BUS 620 Week 2 DQ 2 Customer Needs • Buyer Behavior. The typical buying process consists of the following sequence of events: problem recognition, information search, evaluation of alternatives, purchase decision, and post purchase behavior. What specifically do you do as a consumer in each of these stages in a high involvement purchase like buying a • Customer Needs. Visit GE Healthcare (www.gehealthcare.com/). In context to the major points of chapter 5, define how GE is addressing the needs of their hospital customers by the design of this Web

8. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Week 2 Industry Forecasting BUS 620 Week 3 DQ 1 Braining Nordstrom • Industry Forecasting. Identify an industry of choice (Auto Industry, Healthcare, PC or Telecommunications). Using the PESTEL analysis from the readings, discuss and analyze the factors that may impact the industry and the successful • Branding Nordstrom. After reading the article “Conservative Nordstrom to sell trendy Topshop fashions,” respond to the following:

9. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Week 3 DQ 2 Marketing Segmentation BUS 620 Week 3 The Case of the New Apple • Marketing Segmentation. What are the different levels of market segmentation? Synthesize the segmentation strategies that manufacturers of personal computers should implement to attract both the Gen Y and baby boomer • The Case of the New Apple, Inc. Read the article: • Burrows, P., &Satariano, A. (2012). Can Phil Schiller keep Apple cool? Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved from http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-07/can-phil-schiller-keep-apple-cool#p2 • Assignment Instructions:

10. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Week 4 Ad Compaign BUS 620 Week 4 DQ 1 The Role of Pricing • the article: • Stanford, D. (2012). Mountain Dew wants some street cred. Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved from • The Role of Pricing. Review the article: • Mohammed, R. (2012). J.C. Penney’s risky new pricing strategy. Harvard Business Review. • Is your own buying behavior influenced by coupons and sales? • Why do you think J.C. Penney’s pricing

11. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Week 4 DQ 2 Product Development Process BUS 620 Week 5 DQ 1 Marketing Channels • Product Development Process. Do an internet search of the new product development process of any product of your choice, and analyze the process for developing the product. Review the reasons why new products fail and make • challenges that organizations face in the effective transition between selling products using the traditional brick and mortar marketing channel and selling products online. Synthesize the strategies that organizations like Zara and Wal-Mart- two companies that are having difficulty developing eCommerce capability can implement to increase the effortless movement of customers between

12. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Week 5 DQ 2 Going Global BUS 620 Week 5 Marketing in a Global Economy • Going Global. Identify the strategies for entering into the global market. Assess the strengths and limitations of each. Give an example of a company that has made a success of doing business in the global economy. What lessons from • Marketing in a Global Economy. Review the following article: • Faris, S. (2012). Grounds zero: A Starbucks-free Italy. Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved from Proquest.

13. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Week 6 DQ 1 Proctor BUS 620 Week 6 DQ 2 Creating a Plan • Proctor & Gamble in Vietnam. Review the article: • Coleman-Lochner, L. (2012). P&G plays kindergarten catch-up with Unilever in Vietnam. Bloomberg. Retrieved from • Creating a Plan. Provide a brief overview of the product for which you are going to write your Marketing Plan. Why did you choose it? Which elements of the plan are you having difficulty with? What additional information would be needed to make the most informed strategic

14. BUS 620 APPRENTICE TUTORS BUS 620 Week 6 Final Paper • Develop a marketing plan for the successful development, commercialization and introduction of any product of your choice in the market place. You are required to: (1) analyze the general business situation in detail, including organizational strengths and weaknesses, environmental opportunities and

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