Our group project for marketing, which is assigned for this semester, with a group of five students including myself is a restaurant located in Wilton called Cactus Rose. Cactus Rose is a vibrant dining area with a fusion of Latin American entrees. Part one in our textbook is called “Marketing the First Century” which covers chapters 1-3. Part one of the textbook basically covers the importance of marketing in our everyday lives and the different strategic plans and ways of the marketing concept that will help us, particularly in the real world. Studying about this section help us gain better knowledge how important marketing is and understand the effective plans that will help us solve future problems for the business world. Part two in our
Chapter 1 emphasis the importance of why marketing matters in our everyday lives. Cactus Rose is the first Latin American fusion cuisine restaurant that draws its own crowds also for its well-known tequila bar around the town of Wilton. They offer in their cuisine which includes fresh ingredients, natural beef, free range chicken, wild caught organic fish and seafood and also a variety of handcrafted margaritas. With the benefit of the marketing mix, Cactus Rose should think about what could impact its demand in terms of good, service or idea. The four Ps which are product, price, place and promotion. The four Ps will help Cactus Rose distinguish what they need to improve to better increase customer awareness, sales and profitability. A part of my contribution to the group project is conducting a new website for Cactus Rose. In terms of the four Ps, the improvements that are needed for this restaurant to gain more profit are more in the promotion decisions. In order to accomplish the marketing mix, our group planned to do more advertising for the restaurant through social
The consumer decision-making process is the way in which individuals and organizations make decisions to spend their available resources, such as time or money. By filling out this process, Cactus Rose will productively market much more to customers in order to meet their needs and wants. The steps include problem recognition, information search, evaluating alternatives, making the purchase and post- purchase evaluation.
Chapter 6 covers the “product life cycle”. Product life cycle is series of stages a product goes through from the time it is launched into the market until the time it is removed from the market. Cactus Rose is currently in the stage of growth. Since, Cactus Rose has been around the town of Wilton for just a couple of years, it is considered as one of the best fine dining area around town. The restaurant can still can be enhanced and promoted and gaining the people around town’s full support. Eventually, it will reach its full marketing potential in the near
If the partnerships that Planet Shrimp have created are continuing to experience growth, Planet Shrimp should re-assess their marketing strategy. They should evaluate their tactics against key performance indicators such as cost, return on investment, whether the tactics are still aligned with their values, and if they are failing to meet, meeting or exceeding demand. They should also watch their various promotional mix to understand how much exposure they have gained, whether consumer awareness, comprehension and attitude has increased or decreased, and the impact on their sales. From there, Planet Shrimp should consider developing a customer relationship management or database system to anticipate and exceed the expectations of their consumers. Although feedback during the implementation should be gathered and addressed, a thorough evaluation should be conducted for three months to best understand the current market segments’ response to Planet Shrimp and allow for adjustments to be made in future marketing plans. The evaluation period also serves to gather information and begin a projection of which areas of growth Planet Shrimp should focus on.
Firstly, one of the most important focuses would be given to the target customer as we will need to know more about their taste and preferences. What it is they need and or want. Particular topics covering this area will be, the need for ‘Market segmentation’, identifying a competitive position in the market about to enter in the market and studying consumer behaviour, will all be discussed.
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The consumer decision process consists of these six steps. First, problem recognition: Awareness of an unmet need. Second, information search: Search for alternatives that will meet your needs. Third, alternative evaluation: Evaluate the alternatives. Forth, purchase decision: Decide on the best alternative for you based on your criteria. Fifth, post-purchase behavior: Determine if you are satisfied with your choice. Sixth, disposal of product: Determine if you will keep it, upgrade it, or get rid of
Marketing In this day and age is vital for a company to perform at its possible best. Marketing’s main focus is to give great satisfaction to a customer. There are many aspect of marketing, these aspects give marketer’s the tools to help strive for the best possible success they can achieve. They hope that they can create exposure for their brand, product or service.
Marketing is not just about selling and advertising products and services. In general, marketing is associated with identifying the particular wants and needs of a target market of customers, and then working to satisfy those customers better than the competition. This involves doing market research on customers, analyzing their needs, and then making strategic decisions about product design, pricing, promotion and distribution or place (Bethel, 2007). Understanding ways to identify the target market is crucial in developing market strategy. This paper is intended to define target marketing and examine a market analysis of Stacy's Pita Chip Company.
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1. The product life cycle is essential when a firm is a managing a product. While a product is in the introductory phase of its life cycle the customer is going through a learning process. Firms must consider this learning process when determining how much to spend on marketing strategies, the firm must understand that it will spend a lot of money to make the customer aware of their product and they wont see a lot of sales. During the growth phase of the life cycle the firm will see fast growth which will lead to profits or they will break even. The firm will also see declining expenditures so to properly manage their product they should concentrate more on building and holding customers rather than focusing on innovators and early adopters. At the beginning of the maturity phase sale will increase but slower because the market becomes saturated so the firm must work harder to maintain customers to keep profits from declining rapidly. Firms should focus on customer loyalty and try to increase usage by each user. When a product begins to decline a firm could either move the product to a new market in a different country or they could leave the product in the same market but not spend money on marketing the product and focus more on other products they could market.
From buying a hamburger to buying a house people use a process in order to make a decision on what to buy. (book cite) describes this as the consumer decision process (pg.175). Utilizing a consumer decision process model, marketers are able to better understand how consumers are purchasing products and services. The five step consumer decision process model includes need recognition, information search, alternative evaluation, purchase, and post purchase. Not all purchases require following all five steps to a T, but consumers, whether they know it or not, follow a version of this model when making a purchase. Companies also use this model in order to effectively market their products and services. A company
Marketing is very important to the success of a business. Before people can buy a product or service they have to know about it. However, marketing entails more than just letting people know what your company has to offer. Throughout this paper, I will define marketing, offering my personal definition as well as more formal definitions from other sources. Furthermore, I will explain to the reader the importance of marketing to organizational success giving real world examples in support of this explanation. The field of marketing can include many things. I believe, however, the most important thing which it should include is communication with customers as to the value and benefits of using that particular company's products and services. It should help to establish the business's niche in the industry and distinguish it from other such businesses.
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Marketing is a process of determining a consumer’s needs, devising a product or service to satisfy those needs, and trying to focus customers on the goods and services you are offering. Marketing is extremely important, and a fundamental building block for business growth. A marketing team is given the task of creating customer awareness through a variety of different marketing techniques. If a business does not pay close attention to their consumer demographic and needs, they will eventually fail over time. Two important aspects of marketing include acquiring new customers, and the preservation and growth of relationships with current customers. Marketing has always been viewed as a creative outlet, which encompassed advertising, distribution, and the selling of goods and services. Marketing staff will also try to anticipate what customers will want in the future, often being accomplished with market research. In summation, a good marketing plan should be able to create a favorable proposition or series of benefits that a customer can value through goods or services. The marketing mix is normally described as the strategic positioning of a product or service in the marketplace, using the specification of the four Ps. During the early 1960’s, Professor E. Jerome McCarthy of Harvard Business School stated that a marketing mix contains four elements. The four key points are product, pricing, promotion, and placement. It is recognized that all these aspects must be present to ensure a successful business model within a given industry. We will now take a thorough look at the four marketing mix points.
The main objective of this report is to develop and provide a sales and marketing plan for which the company will help to generate more profit and acquire more customers to patronize the product. This report will cover the period of 2016 to 2017 which will serve as guidelines that needs to follow of the employees, managers and management team to reach the desired goals and target for the company.
2. What stage of the product lifecycle describes this product? Which of the four main marketing strategies apply here?
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