Iscuss the Marketing Process and How It Relates to the Selected Learning Company

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Principles of Marketing Assignment Unit 4- Code: F/601/0556 Task 1 1.1 Discuss the marketing process and how it relates to the selected learning company. Marketing is the process of identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably. (CIM, 2001). Marketing is also described as a process of planning and executing the conception, pricing and distribution of ideas, goods and services to create exchange that will satisfy individual and organisational objectives. ( American Marketing Association, 1985) Marketing involves identifying customer needs and requirements, and meeting these needs in a better way than competitors. In this way a company creates loyal customers. The main objective of marketing is to increase sales. All objectives should consist of SMART. * Specific- State what to be achieved * Measurable- An outcome that can be measured e.g. how many students will access Jerome Restaurant * Achievable-Has the Jerome Restaurant achieved its goal? Is it achievable? * Realistic-Is the objective realistic? Is it possible to achieve the goals considering the market conditions? * Time- Is there enough time to complete the objective in? Is the deadline sufficient? Marketing process involves situation analysis. This analyses the internal and external environment in an effort to identify opportunities to satisfy unfulfilled customer needs http://www.netmba.com/marketing/process/ Once the opportunities have been identified the company needs to come up with a marketing strategy for their target market. A marketing mix will be decided which consists of seven elements which help the promotion of a product or service. These seven elements are called marketing mix 7Ps namely product, price, place, promotion, people, process and physical evidence. Business must identify the product or

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