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Decisions and Mini-Cases

Designing Internal Marketing Campaigns

For this task, students are the marketing manager for a bank and planning a major new product launch. They need to develop an internal marketing program for the bank’s branch and call center staff to complete the sales.

Categories Decisions and Mini-Cases, New Product Process, Promotion, Services/CRM, Strategy and Plans

What CRM Tactics Should We Use?

For this exercise, students are the marketing manager for a large hotel chain, where they are asked to put together a CRM program for the hotel’s major customers.

Categories B2B Marketing, Business Markets, Decisions and Mini-Cases, Services/CRM, Strategy and Plans

Should We Introduce a CRM Program?

Students help a major department store to evaluate their idea for a new CRM program. What advice do they give them?   

Categories Decisions and Mini-Cases, Places and Channels, Services/CRM, Strategy and Plans

Poor Target Market or Poor Positioning?

This case study outlines a new retail store concept, which has proved somewhat disappointing for the two owners. The student task is to evaluate whether they adequately identified a viable target market and also to evaluate the appropriateness of their positioning

Categories Decisions and Mini-Cases, New Product Process, Places and Channels, Research and MIS, Segmentation and Positioning, Strategy and Plans

Positioning Kid’s Home-delivered Food

For this activity, students need to select the most appropriate positioning for a firm that currently home delivers pre-prepared food to people who are trying to lose weight. They have now decided to pursue an opportunity in providing a somewhat similar product, but this time, targeted at children.

Categories Consumer Behavior, Decisions and Mini-Cases, New Product Process, Segmentation and Positioning

New Target Market = New Marketing Mix?

For this activity, students need to determine whether the law firm will need to modify its marketing mix as they pursue another target market.  

Categories Consumer Behavior, Decisions and Mini-Cases, Introductory Concepts, Segmentation and Positioning

Making a Joint Business Decision

This group task is to reach a decision through consensus (by role-playing members of a firm’s executive management team). To complicate the decision, the three alternatives ‘benefit’ different functional departments.

Categories Business Markets, Consumer Behavior, Decisions and Mini-Cases, role play

Which Learning Theory?

In this mini case study, the firm is considering four promotional approaches. Each of their promotional approaches relies on a different learning theory.

Categories Consumer Behavior, Decisions and Mini-Cases, New Product Process, Promotion

Perception: Which Ad is Best?

The task in this exercise is to select the best radio commercial from the three presented, considering the model of perception (how consumers process information). 

Categories Consumer Behavior, Decisions and Mini-Cases, Promotion

A New Environment; Time for a New Strategy?

In this exercise, students are required to help a traditional hamburger store adapt to the new market environment of more health-conscious consumers. To help guide them, market research data has been presented.

Categories Decisions and Mini-Cases, Marketing Environment, Places and Channels, Services/CRM
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Great Ideas for Teaching Marketing has been developed as an alternative to long case studies. Hundreds of  activities, discussion exercises and tools are provided on this website, with new content added regularly.

They are ideally suited to topics that only require a 10-30 minute exercise addressing a distinctive concept, rather than a detailed, all-encompassing case study.

All the activities and discussion exercises are provided free for marketing lecturers to use in their classes.

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