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Marketing plans are tools used by managers to guide the process of marketing. They contain strategies and consider many environmental aspects that work together to affect the success of the product or service being marketed.
Marketers must learn to do solid research in support of upcoming projects.
This a research paper and should address the following:
Provide a quick definition of marketing plans using your text. Include the following:
- Using an article from the library's full-text databases, discuss an example of how a marketing plan helped make a product or service successful.
- On the other hand (using an article from the library's full-text databases), discuss an example of how decisions in a marketing plan led to failure.
- Analyze what was different in the2 examples.
This section of the paper should be at least2 pages in length.
In a marketing plan, objectives are created that can be used to gauge progress. You can have some fun with the concept. Movie studios pay stars a lot of money to star in what they hope is a blockbuster. But asyou know, there are lots of box office failures. Consider the following:
- Using an Internet search, find a movie that failed. Provide a quick overview of why the movie was considered a failure.
- Applying what you have learned about the concept of market plans, extrapolate what could have gone wrong in the studio's plan with regard to forecasting demand for the project.
This section should be at least 2pages in length.
The assignment requires the use of articles from the library's full-text databases. Articles are found in periodicals. These are not to be confused with eBooks or reference books. The most popular databases in marketing are: ABI Inform Global, Academic Search Premier, and Business Source Premier.
Your reportMUST include a reference list. All research should be cited in the body of the paper. In-text citations and corresponding references should be included in your paper. For more information on APA,please visitthe APA Lab. The paper should be written in third person; this means words like "I", "we", and "you" are not appropriate. The use of direct quotes is discouraged, but may be used sparingly in appropriate situations.
Your assignment should contain a cover page, an abstract page, and a reference page (in addition to the body). The body of the paper should be 4-5 pages in length, starting with a brief1-paragraph introduction and ending with a short conclusion.The entire submission will be 7-8 pages in length.