Your Perceptions of Marketing
In this activity, students review ten statements with differing views on marketing and then they indicate to what extent they agree/disagree with the statement.
In this activity, students review ten statements with differing views on marketing and then they indicate to what extent they agree/disagree with the statement.
In this activity, students are presented with a discussion from a manager’s meeting for a new manufacturer of bicycles. The students’ task is to determine which marketing orientation/philosophy they should adopt.
The aim of this exercise is to identify the likely tasks of someone in a marketing role. In other words, what day-to-day functions do marketers perform?
For this exercise, students review a list of work tasks and identify which ones are likely (or not) to be part of a marketing role – an activity designed to help students further understand what a marketer does.
In this activity, students review an overview of McDonald’s in their early days to identify the reasons for their success and the importance of marketing in their overall performance.
The task is to review the following list of new product development tasks and evaluate whether or not the marketing function would be involved.
As implied by their business title, a sales manager is responsible for achieving targeted sales through the effective management of a sales team. In this activity, students identify what tasks that a sales manager actually does.
In this task, students consider these questions: Does marketing promote consumption for its own sake and does society need marketing?
EXCLUSIVE MEMBER ACTIVITY
This exercise contains is a list of questions facing particular industries, where there is increased expectations on them to move to a more socially responsible position. Students need to identify the arguments for/against these positions.
This task uses a profit/loss table to highlight a firm that has dramatically increased its profitability in a few years. But they have focused on a short-term, not long-term, basis and students need to determine what impact this may have?
EXCLUSIVE MEMBER ACTIVITY