Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Commercial Day
Marketing 11
Notes  on product life cycles Discussion on 'Fads'

Activity: Answer the following questions after reading about Pet Rocks
1. How was Mr. Dahl able to turn his "Pet Rock" idea into a million dollar company?
2. Why do you think his idea worked?
Go to this link http://www.answers.com/topic/fads-and-trends~look at three different fad and then answer questions #3.
3. Name and briefly describe your three fads
4. a) Why do you think fads happen?
 
Marketing 12
 today we are going to take a look at 'Mobile Marketing'.

Use the following link to answer the following questions.


1. What is mobile marketing?

2. How is mobile marketing involved with video games?


3. Why us it important to continue to spend money on marketing even during a recession.

4. Why is mobile marketing said to be a good way of advertising during a recession?

Use the following link for question 5


5. How has mobile marketing evolved and changed?

6. Mobile Marketing is expected to change and become more widely used. Do you agree, why or why not?

7. Find 2 example of mobile marketing and explain them (include pictures if you can).
 
 
 

Friday, March 30, 2012

Fri Mar 29

Marketing 11

Make sure that your projects are handed in!

Today we are going to be talking about market share and market segment.

Please finish the work sheet and question 1a 1b 2a and 3a page 117 then hand them in via paper or email.

If you haven't already done so, finish the review questions from yesterday. We will be doing more review next week and your Chapter 3 quiz will be next THURSDAY

Marketing 12

Carry on with your projects but remember you will not get much class time next week.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Tue Jan 17

Commercial Day.

Today, both Marketing 11's and 12's will recieve your last assignment. I have decided to use this final assignment instead of a Final Exam, so there will NOT be a Final Exam, just this assignment.

Marketing 11

Marketing is more than just advertising. It involves creating an idea, invention, or innovation, then marketers are invovled in designing a product. Next they need to price and distribute the product. Finally they need to promote the product (4P's). Your assignment is to describe this process in detail. You can use one product as an example or you can talk abou the marketing process in general. To help you out, I have included a list of all of the key terms from the entire semester at the bottom of this post.


Marketing 12

You are all quite familiar with tradtional advertising, TV, newspaper, and radio ads. You are to write a paper explaining how advertising is changing. You have learned about Guerilla marketing, word of mouth marketing, mobile marketing, and using social networking to market. In your paper discuss how these and other stratagies are used to market products and services. You may include pictures/video as examples just make sure that you demonstrate your knowledge about how marketing is different now than it was 50 years ago.

Remember, your commercial projects are due to me on THURSDAY. NO LATES WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Final assignment DUE FRIDAY. Again, NO LATES!!!


MARKETING 11 Terms
Here is a list of terms for Chapter 1

Here is a list of what you are responsible for knowing for the Final Exam. Today we will have to computer based review activities and then you are to work on writing brief definitions for the following terms to study from. We will work on the difficult ones as a group.

* = Not in Textbook


Marketing:
Industrial goods (finished goods)
Raw material
Supply and Demand
Marketing Organization (Regional, International, Brand, Distribution)
Target Market
aggregate market
differentiated market

Marketing mix (4 P's)
Product Mix
Promotions Mix
Pricing Mix
Place Mix

Brand / Branding
Push strategy
Pull strategy
* Census

Chapters 2 and 3.


Here is a list of what you are responsible for knowing for the Final Exam. Today we will have to computer based review activities and then you are to work on writing brief definitions for the following terms to study from. We will work on the difficult ones as a group.

* = Not in Textbook
Chapter 2

Customer
Consumer
(*) Consignment
Gatekeeper
Product Life cycles (traditional, seasonal, fad, niche)
fad vs trend
demographics
baby boomers
Thorndikes Law of Effect
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Household name
* Celebrity endorsement
Bust
* Spin off product

Chapter 3

profit
free market
perfect competition
monopoly
oligopy
private property
public property
R & D (research and development)
direct competition
indirect competition
customer loyalty (card)
production cost
Top of the mind
Service base
Product base
value added service
market share
* communism
market segment
landed cost
category killer


Chapter 4

market research
hard data
primary data
secondary data
periodicals
consultants
quantitative research
qualitative research
test marketing
closed ended questions
open ended questions
random sampling
media reasearch
consumer tracking devices
*how store design increases sales
*how store design decreases shrinkage
*shrinkage

Chapter 5

feasibility study
invention
innovation
8 stages of product development
utility
form utility (material, sent,flavour, colour, design, packaging)
information utility
place utility
time utility
possession utility
product mapping
marketing oppourtinity analysis
cost benefit analysis
ergonomics
* GATT
* WTO
* Subsidies
* Hyperinflation
* Tween
* Age Compression
* Word of mouth marketing (idea virus)
* commercial real estate
* residential real estate
(*) Slogan
(*) Jingle
* Knock off

Here is the list of terms from Chapter 9.

Advertising is most important for
identical
mass marketed
easy to describe
low priced
new
heavily competitive
Brand awareness
brand trial
brand preference
brand reminder
brand repositioning
Unique selling proposition
SWOT
biological appeal
emotional appeal
rational appeal
social appeal
8 Types of media with advantages and disadvantages for each.
Lobbyist
Contests and sweepstakes
refunds and rebates
redemption
premium
self liquidators
Point of purchase


Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Wed Jan 11

For BOTH Marketing 11 and 12
Good morning, today we are going to look at the world largest auto show. This is where cars are announced and the process of selling to the public begins. Some cars here are just CONCEPT cars, others are ready for production. Please use the following link to answer the questions.

LINK

1. What is a concept car and why are they made?

2. You are now to pick 2 of the cars highlighted at this link. For each one, please give a brief write up (in your own words) and include a picture. In your write up include the main interesting features of the car, a picture, how is it different than its competition, its target market and whether or not you feel it will be successful.

Enjoy.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Tue Jan 10

Commercial Day

Marketing 11

Please read through pgs353-367

Next, answer questions 1a, 2a and 3a

Marketing 12.

Today you are to create a blog post that will be put on the class blog to share. You are to research the 2012 consumer electronics show and create a post about 1 or 2 interesting products. You need to describe them, (you can use pictures and links). You need to also say how (if at all) the company is marketing the product, and finally if this product will be successful (explain your reasoning). Send me your post and I will put it on the blog.

Search CES 2012 on google, in youtube or in news sites.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Mon Jan 9

Marketing 11
Read and discuss Section 9.1 in your textbook. 2 Worksheets to complete. Please HAND in the 2nd worksheet ONLY.

You will then have time to catch up on any missed work. All missed work due TOMORROW!!
Go online and find some billboard advertisements. Next copy the chart below. You need to find two examples of advertisements that fit the 4 advertising appeals. (Social, biological, emotional, and rational). Please hand this in when you are finished.


Advertisement Target Market Advertising Goal Advertusing Appeal Overall
(picture of ad) (see textbook) (social, emotional, etc) Effectiveness
1-10 (opinion)

Marketing 12

Negative Advertising"

"Negative Advertising"
Sometimes calle attack ads have become the staple of political campaigns. Now negative advertising is gaining in popularity throughout the ad business. But do negative ads work? This week, Terry O'Reilly explores the attraction- and danger- of ads that take shots at rivals. He shows how some great campaigns are negative without seeming negative. And he'll recall some notable negative campaigns that backfired. Go to the following link and listen to the podcast, but before you do, watch the video's below as Terry O'Reilly talks about these ads in the podcast. You may use headphones of course. Once you've watched the videos and listened to the podcast, answer the questions below.

Listen to this episode as streaming audio (runs 27:30)


Same war, different campaign. Terry explains why this ad featuring MC Hammer was banned in Japan and what Pepsi had to change in the spot to have it air in the U.K.



1. What do you think of negative advertising?
2. Does negative advertising work? why or why not. use examples.
3. What is a potential danger of negative advertising.
4. Find at least one other example of negative advertising, it could be a link to a commercial or website.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Fri Jan 6

Marketing 11

CH 5 TEST

Marketing 12

Go to the following link and read the article on the future (it is several pages long) and answer the following questions?

http://www.macleans.ca/science/technology/article.jsp?content=20071008_110118_110118

1. According to the article, how will homes be different in the future?
2. As a young person what are some business oppourtunities that may exist for you because of changing home technology?

3. According to the article, how may cars be different in the next 10 years?
4. What's your opinion, do you think that these changes would be good/bad why/why not?

5. What are some of the changes predicted for the office?

6. How will entertainment change in the future?
7. Come up with at least 5 business oppourtunities that these changes may create for you?