Students are presented with multiple sales promotion (non-discount) tools being used by various clothing stores. By considering the array of customers (based on behavioral segments), students evaluate the likely impact of the sales promotions. An excellent activity for students to identify which types of sales promotion tools are effective for different retail settings.
Evaluating the Impact of Sales Promotions Review the Teaching Activity
This is a great exercise for connecting target market needs and positioning. Students are presented with profiles of 5 consumer segments and the positioning of 9 competing supermarkets. Helpful activity for connecting the STP dots.
Matching Positioning and Target Market Needs Review the Teaching Activity
In this task, students construct a new product evaluation scoring model and then assess a number of new product opportunities to determine whether the firm should go ahead and develop and launch the product. Great discussion exercise to understand the role of new product selection and prioritizing.
New Product Evaluation Challenges Review the Teaching Activity
This activity is a mix of retailing design and customer experience challenges – that is, how could have Toys R Us modified their in-store offering and design for continued success – plus it also reinforces the impact of marketing environment factors and how they can derail a long-term successful strategy.
Redesigning the In-store Experience for Toys R Us Review the Teaching Activity
Students are presented with three scenarios where large brands or industries are expected to be more socially responsible. But is that the essence of marketing? Indeed, do we need to rethink the definition of modern-day marketing? This is a discussion task variation of the debate task of the same name.
Do Firms Have a Social Responsibility? (Discussion Task) Review the Teaching Activity
Students, as marketing managers for a large hotel chain operating in a major tourist city, have been approached by their CEO to “pick a side” and lobby for a looming social issue of allowing e-scooters to operate in the city.
Who Has the Social Right of Way? Review the Teaching Activity
Students assume the role of a Communications Manager for a local government area, and to select the best communications campaign to persuade residents that a change to smaller waste bins is a positive change for the overall good. An activity that covers social marketing, communications, and perceptions.
Communicating the Social Change Review the Teaching Activity
Students explore a scenario involving a management meeting at a bank, where the participants in this meeting are discussing the bank’s potential engagement with a social issue, namely problem gambling. The task is to review the meeting and work out what the bank should do and how much they should be involved in this social issue.
Should the Bank Support the Social Cause? Review the Teaching Activity
Students are faced with evaluating and selecting sponsorship opportunities from a list of five possibilities. Unfortunately, the company only has enough budget to choose either 2 or 3 of them. A good activity to understand the impact of sponsorships and to evaluate how effective they may be.
Evaluating Sponsorship Opportunities Review the Teaching Activity
This role play exercise puts in a meeting scenario for a sustainable clothing company contemplating market expansion. Participants assume key roles within the management team, debating the merits and risks of entering new segments while maintaining the brand’s eco-conscious identity.
Should We Expand? Role Play Activity Review the Teaching Activity