Ethical Issues In Marketing

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Marketers Unethical Who are the marketers trying to market towards? Marketers are those people that tend to sometime choose to be ethical in a way and unethical in another way. Is this common with marketers of a certain product that they are trying to get customers to buy? Yes this is seen as unethical mainly because marketers are more about trying to sell the product and make a profit that will only benefit them and their company which is really not ethical at all from the customer’s point of view. When the marketers is only worried about making a profit, instead of making a product of quality for the customer is unethical. Marketers should always put customers first when it comes down to marketing. For example if a customer has a want or a need for a particular product they want the best of that product. Wal-Mart for example market Great Value brand and people tend to say that Wal-Mart great value is better than other brands because of the fact that they give customer the quality expected. Even though the brand is known as a cheaper brand product but you get the best for what you have paid for. Customers expect the cheaper brand to be not so good, but in some case it’s the best brand for that product or so on. Just because a brand like peter pan peanut butter has been on the market for over 20 years don’t mean that you get the best for that product, but since customer don’t buy that brand anymore because of what happened in the recent past Wal-Mart great value brand sales have increased and peter pan products have decreased. That’s because customers know their needs and want for a certain product and quality is the one that is mostly enforced for a customer. Marketers try to provide some kind of segmentation and targeting for their customers. Is segmentation and targeting ethical or just good marketing? In some cases segmentation and targeting can be ethical
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