Student Number: (enter on the line below) Student Name: (enter on the line below) HI5004 marketing Management SUPPLEMENTARY ASSESSMENT Trimester 1, 2021 TIME ALLOWED: 4.5 hours All answers must be submitted within this time frame. Late submissions are not accepted. Assessment Weight: 50 total marks Instructions: All questions must be answered by using the answer boxes provided in this paper.Completed answers must be submitted to Blackboard by the published due date and time. Submission instructions are at the end of this paper. Purpose:This assessment consists of six (6) questions and is designed to assess your level of knowledge of the key topics covered in this unit Note. References are not mandatory for this assessment. However, please follow the Adaptive Harvard Referencing guidelines at the end of this paper if you use any reference(s) to explain any concept or theory. Question 1 (11 marks) You have been hired to develop a marketing plan for a small solicitor (lawyer) in your local town. Discuss the 4 segmentation bases that may be used, and then recommend a target market for your solicitor. Students should combine their discussion with theories provided in lectures ANSWER: ** Answer box will enlarge as you type For the marketing plan, the four bases of segmentation that may be used for a small solicitor (lawyer) are provided below: Demographic segmentation It is the most popular type of segmentation that is based on the statistical data of a group of people. For the small solicitor, it divides the markets into groups by considering different variables such as age, income, gender and occupation. Thus by following the reciprocity theory of marketing that states that providing something good can influence the people to repay the kindness, for this small solicitor people of age range from 20 to 50 years are targeted. Besides, working professionals, unmarried and married couples are chosen as the primary audience for the small solicitor. Psychographic segmentation Psychographic segmentation categorizes the consumers based on their lifestyle, social class and personality characteristics (Magalhães, Pereira & DOrey, 2019, p.15(2)). Thus based on this segmentation, it is seen that the small solicitor should target the middle and upper-middle-class people. Behavioral Segmentation This segmentation divides the people based on their attitude, knowledge, response and use of the product or services. As per this scenario, the small solicitor provides legal services to the people thus considering the marketing plan, the solicitor should target the individuals facing legal issues and wanted advice legally. Geographical Segmentation This segmentation divides the market based on different geographical units such as states, cities, regions and nations (Magalhães, Pereira & DOrey, 2019, p.15(2)). Thus based on this segmentation approach the firm should target local people of the area. Target market By considering the different bases of segmentation, it is recommended that the target market of this small solicitor should be people whose age ranges from 20 to 50 years and belonging to the middle and upper-middle-class families. Question 2 (11 marks) Consider the attributes of price, quality, availability, and promotion. Provide your justification for the best combination of these four attributes in brand positioning. ANSWER: Brand positioning refers to the process of positioning the brands in the mind of the consumers that influence them to purchase the product from a particular brand of their interest. Thus for positioning the brand in the markets, the price of the products plays a significant role. By maintaining a reasonable price of the products the business tries to gain their consumer attention and enhance the brand positioning status. Besides, for reflecting the high-quality brand image, most companies sometimes reduce the prices of the product as compared to their rivalries to ensure that it can grab their consumer attention (Wang, 2017, p.1465(3)). The quality of the product also influences the brand positioning status of a firm. Based on the quality of the product, every organization are trying to emphasize their commitment towards their audience. Availability of the products also enhances the brand positioning by helping the people to get the goods according to their needs. If the companies become successful in providing the products and services as per the convenience of the consumers then it effectively enhances their brand image in the market. Furthermore, promotion attributes help in advertising the product and services of the brand that also enhances the brand positioning status. However, the best combination that should improve the brand positioning status of a brand is price-quality attributes. According to the pricing strategy, if a firm sells a product at an affordable price range then it can easily attract its consumers and enhances the brand positioning status of the business. By providing good quality material the companies wanted to gain the trust of their consumers. Hence, when both these attributes are combined then automatically it influences the brand position in the markets. Question 3 (7 marks) A US health food store, Best Healthy Foods, has stores in over 100 countries, selling health food in a supermarket format. Their management are considering Australia as a potential market for their health food stores. As the marketing manager for Best Healthy Foods, you have begun your research into the Australian market. You have identified families with children who are interested in health foods in the major cities as your target market. Discuss how the economic and technological macro environments (external environment) may impact the marketing strategies you choose to implement. Give specific examples related to your discussion ANSWER: The scenario reveals that the US-based Best Healthy Foods firm wanted to sell their food in the Australian market but the economic and technological factors can be impacted on the firms marketing strategies. It is noted that in the current environment, the economic situations and factors of Australia are degrading and for this reason, it can impact the marketing strategy of the company. The recent economic recession that causes due to the pandemic situation cannot allow the business to do offline marketing of their products (Yamada, 2019, p.470(2)). The companies have the option of doing online marketing for grabbing the consumer attention. Hence, based on this fact it is analysed that for the economical condition, the marketing aspect of the business gets negatively impacted and the firm has to change their marketing strategies for gaining their consumer attention towards the business. For instance, in this Covid-19 situation, most of the organizations follow the digital media platform for marketing their products in Australia and avoid traditional marketing strategies. Besides, the technological environment also can create some impact on the marketing strategies of this health food store while doing marketing in the Australian market. The technological factors will help the food industry in producing more food in a short span of time. It is analysed that the health food industry can face technological problems while marketing their products or demonstrating their product offering towards their consumer base. Technological issues can also create while advertising their products in the online forum that can drastically be impacted on their business performance. For example, while advertising the product in an online forum some technical errors face by several organizations that drastically impacted their marketing strategies effectively (Milinkovi?, Jaki?, Vuksanovi?, Macura & elmi?, 2017, p.85(3)). Question 4 (7 marks) Discuss each of the five stages in the consumer decision making process when purchasing a gold necklace for a close female relative who is in her late 50s. You should combine your discussion with theories provided in the lectures. ANSWER: The consumer decision making process is regarded as the process through which customers become aware of and recognize their needs. The stages of consumer decision making process are as follows: Need recognition The step while purchasing a gold neckplace will be based on the recognition of the product. Maslows hierarchy of needs theory determines the five categories of human behaviour such as self-actualization, esteem needs, lobe and belonging, safety, and physiological needs. Thus, this stage helps will help in analysing the needs of close female relative while purchasing a gold neckpalce for her. Information search While researching their options, customers de
pend upon the external and internal factors. In this stage, the consumer browse their options by consulting online resources like customer reviews or Google or at a physical location (Jun-Hwa Cheah et al., 2019, p.556(2)). Alternative evaluation At this stage, the prospective customer have got the idea of what needs to be purchased by analysing consumer behaviour and purchasing options. Consumer behaviour theory determines how individuals make decisions while they purchase products (Lynch & Barnes, 2020, p.476(2)). Now while buying the neckplace they will weigh their propspective choices against the comparable alternatives. Purchase decision At this stage, the customer is waiting to make actual purchase as they have collected all the necessary information regarding the product. Post-purchase evaluation At this stage, the customer have considered all the the solutions adequate to the shopping needs of his or her close female relative. Question 5 (7 marks) Discuss what and how personal factors influence consumer behavior. Provide an example of how age affects a consumers taste in products to support your discussion. ANSWER: Personal factors can create an impact on the consumer behavior. Some of the significant personal factors which creates an impact on the buying behavior are self concept, personality, age, occupation, economic situation and lifestyle. It is seen that age have impending impact on the consumer purchasing behavior. It is evident that the customers change the purchase of products and services with the course of time. Consumer behaviour theory helps in analysing how people make decisions while purchasing a product or service. It proves to be helpful for marketers and businesses to capitalize on these behaviors by estimating how and when a customer will make a purchase (Ranjbarian, Ghasemi & Shekarchizadeh, 2018, p.467(1)). Thus, with the help of this theory marketers and businesses analyses the taste and behaviour of consumers towards a product as per their age. Individuals selection of products and brands begin altering as they grow older. For example, lifestyle magazines and gadgets are generally marketed to the millennial generation or to the youth. Since, the taste of this generation is massively dissimilar and they are more persuaded towards digital technologies. Age regulates vatious things and when an individual retire their consumption patterns also alters. In comparuison with youths, elderly people are less inclined towards digital technologies and thus their use of digital products can also be lesser. As a result, this creates an impact on the marketing channel utilized to market them along with the implementation of the marketing strategy. This indicates that with growing age, the health needs along with many other needs of a customner changes which affects their buying decision, behaviour and pattern in various ways. Thus, age brings considerable amount of change in an individuals lifectyle which affects their personal values and needs. Question 6 (7 marks) Social Media is rarely used as the only source for brand communications. Identify and explain in detail at least three reasons why. ANSWER: Social media is used as the only source for brand communications as it is considered to be a part of brand-related communication delivered through social media which allows internet users to co-create, involve with, add to, access and share. Social media brand communication creates an impact on brand associations or awareness and creates a positive impact on perceived brand quality and brand loyalty. The reasons behind which social media is used as the source of brand communication are as follows: Improves brand awareness Social media is regarded as one of the utmost lucrative and stress-free digital communication marketing stages which can be applied to enhance the business perceptibility. To begin, organizations are required to design social media profiles for the business and begin networking with others (Khadim et al., 2018, p.4(3)). By applying a social media strategy, will assist business in significantly increasing its brand recognition. Having a social media page help businesses in communicating the major aspects regarding their brand to the target market. Improves brand loyalty Social media also help businesses in increasing brand loyalty and makes it easier for customers to connect with the business. By connecting with the target market via social media, business organizations are more likely to increase customer loyalty and customer retention as building a loyal customer base is the major goal of businesses. Social media bot only helps in introducing a new product by communicating its features to consumers but also a primary platform for promotional campaigns. Healthier customer satisfaction Social media used as a source of brand communication helps in increasing the rate of customer satisfaction. It play a major role in communication and networking platform. Through this platforms, generating a voice for the firm is vital in enhancing the overall brand image. END OF SUPPLEMENTARY ASSESSMENT Submission instructions: Save submission with your STUDENT ID NUMBER and UNIT CODE e.g. EMV5897 HI5004Submission must be in MICROSOFT WORD FORMAT ONLYUpload your submission to the appropriate link on Blackboard Only one submission is accepted. 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