Ajax Dish Soap

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Ajax Dish Pg.1 Ajax Dish Soap BUS339: Marketing Research Instructor: Victor Olufeso Denise L Severino-Todd March 28, 2011 Ajax Dish Pg.2 The product I have chosen to write about is Ajax dish soap. In this paper I will identify what factors a marketing manager will use to identify a target market. I will consider what are the environmental factors. I will determine what branding or positioning strategy might be chosen and why. Then I will describe how marketing research helps the manager in the marketing activities. All these activities tie into what is marketing research and is the basic platform in which marketing managers use to determine how to market a product or service. The first thing that is done after the product, service or idea is determined, the marketing manager will find out what the target audience is to be marketed to. Marketing managers must know what the target market is to make the right decisions in marketing the product. When a marketing manager knows what the target market is they are marketing to then, they will be able to research what will satisfy that market (Burns and Bush, 2008). A factor in determining the target market is the product itself. Ajax dish soap is a product that is used to clean dishes. What factors about the product will appeal to the consumer? Marketing managers will look at how effective the product is at cleaning dishes and removing grease. With knowing what the product does, market managers can determine the best way to market the product to the target market since that is what will appeal to the market. In this case, clean dishes and grease removal will appeal and satisfy the consumer. Other factor that will help determine the target market are status, sex and age group of the consumers. Teenagers would not be interested in a product that cleans dishes while a mother

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