It is sometimes confusing distinguishing between strategies and tactics as they refer to interdependent aspects of marketing activities. Basically, strategy refers to major decisions that impact the competitive position of a firm, whereas tactics are the activities that support and deliver the strategy.As an example, one aspect of a firm’s strategy could be to build […]
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The marketing mix has been a fundamental concept of marketing textbooks the past 50 years or more. This article explores the benefits and the role of the marketing mix in both the study and the practice of marketing.
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The extended marketing mix for services (the 7P’s)Services marketing emerged primarily in the 1980s, as more developed economies became more reliant on services as part of their overall gross domestic product. (Please see the article on service firm examples to have better sense of types of industries that need to operate under the 7P’s.)It was
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The 12 Component Marketing MixNeil Borden, of the Harvard Business School, was the first to document the concept of a marketing mix, way back in the 1950s. At that stage, the marketing profession was still considered to be art, not science, and in his paper, it compared a marketer to a chef in a restaurant
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What is the traditional marketing mix?E. J. McCarthy, in 1960, classified the marketing activities into a tool designed to describe the 4 types of choices an organization has to make in order to successfully be engaged in marketing. His classification was a simplification of Borden’s initial 12 component marketing mix.This classification is also known as
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Overview of the 4P’s Marketing MixA key model in marketing is the marketing mix, usually known as the 4P’s (where the 4P’s are product, price, place and promotion). The 4P’s marketing mix model is commonly covered in all marketing textbooks, with some introductory texts also addressing the expanded marketing mix (the 7P’s), which is more
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