SOPA's effect on the online culture
Case study - 26 pages - Business strategy
Slashdot.org was founded in 1997 by Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda, and is now owned by Geeknet, Inc. Numerous editors and coders run the site. Users can submit a news story through the use of a web submission form, where it will be moderated and edited for proper grammar and spelling. Users...
MacDonald's business assessment
Case study - 3 pages - Management
MacDonald's greatest strength is its ability to reach many people. The giant food supplier has over seventy million customers spread over more than 100 countries. These provide it with steady revenue and continuous ability to expand. This vast outreach has a variety of advantages, for example, a...
Marketing case: Palm
Case study - 7 pages - Services marketing
To develop the PalmPilot, Palm Computing used the following steps: •New product Strategy development •Idea generation •Development •Market testing •Commercialisation The PalmPilot target market includes technology opinion leaders; they are innovators, which involves...
"Imagine the subculture of the future"
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It is hard to determine which subculture is likely to become dominant in the future (or at least very popular), considering the plethora of influences and socioeconomic factors that play a role in the emergence of new subcultural forms. Moreover, no subculture is static: they all evolve and...
Gambling Art: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Custom-House Introduction
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
In the preface of the second edition of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne discusses the “unprecedented excitement” generated by the publication of his novel (5). Ironically, this public excitement, and more importantly, the ensuing public discontent, originated not in the novel...
The Chinese wine market (2006)
Essay - 8 pages - Business strategy
We are going to enter Shanghai wine market with our French wine such as Roman County, which is expensive but excellent taste. Now is the most perfect time to go into China wine market of high income because there three advantages for us. Our goal is to take more than 10% of market share in...
History of the Scopes Trial
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Modern history
In 1925, one of the most famous trials in American history took place. The question being debated was evolution, and a young teacher by the name of John Scopes was on trial for teaching it to his students. After an enormous amount of publicity, the famous William Jennings Bryan decided to...
Does television advertising have a negative effect on children?
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
Advertising is a collective term for public announcements designed to promote the sale of specific commodities or services. Advertising is a form of mass selling, employed when the use of direct, person-to-person selling is impractical, impossible, or simply inefficient. ‘It is to be...
UK Education: An analysis of the significance of gender at key stage 5 and beyond
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Recently it has been argued that the underachievement of boys has been happening for many years (Epston, Elwood ET. Al. 1999), it was simply the fact that female students were prevented from entering schools that enable this to go unnoticed for so long. During the days of the 11 plus it was well...
Advertising - An overview
Thesis - 27 pages - Services marketing
Advertising is one of the largest generators of revenue in the world economy. Yet it remains enigmatic to a large section of people. It is akin to dream selling for some. For others it is a sheer waste of money. Whatever the perception, advertising in India as anywhere else continues to mesmerize...
Image creation, building and management through advertising
Thesis - 5 pages - Services marketing
Marketing managers and PR personals do not always talk the same language. Marketing managers are much more bottom - line oriented, whereas PR practitioners see their job as preparing and disseminating communications. But these differences are disappearing. Many companies are turning to Marketing...
How viral marketing enhances the ingredients of a promotional mix
Tutorials/exercises - 61 pages - Services marketing
Word-of-mouth publicity is a centuries-old marketing technique. Once customers had a good experience with a product, they would tell their friends, who would often buy and use that product and then tell other friends - dispersing information and recommendations about the product via a...
Retail marketing and strategies: A look at India (15 slides)
Presentation - 5 pages - Services marketing
This presentation deals with retail marketing in India and lists some ways to improve the market standing of the product and the retailer. Some of the points covered are advertising media comparison charts and public relations / publicity objectives for retailers. The presentation also...
A survey on recruitment advertisements
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Human resources
Advertising is a phrase used for the announcements made by the seller to promote the sales of their products. Advertising refers to the mass selling techniques used when direct face to face selling is not possible or is too time consuming and expensive. It is different from propaganda,...
Evaluation of print media as a medium of advertising with respect to consumers and advertisers
Dissertation - 46 pages - Services marketing
The topic Evaluation of print media as a medium of advertising with respect to consumers and advertisers is one of the best topics, which focuses on the print media sector as one of the means of providing services to the society that carries the idea or message of the marketer to the masses....
A brief look at the market feasibility of an intended hotel
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
As per the definition of MANZINKER and KRAFT of Beam University, tourism is the sum of the phenomenon and relationship rising from the travel and stay of a non-resident so far as they do not lead to permanent residence and are not connected to any earning activity. Tourism today is one of the...
Does sex sell? Advertising techniques of the physical
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
“Publicity persuades us of such a transformation by showing us people who have apparently been transformed and are, as a result, enviable, ” the goal of any advertisement is to make us feel that buy using this product we, too, will be envied. Advertisements prey upon the common...
Aubade on the lingerie market
Case study - 2 pages - Services marketing
Aubade has managed to become one of the most famous lingerie brands on the French market, basically owing to the impact of the publicity campaign led by Ann-Charlotte Pasquier since 1992. Aubade has always innovated without renouncing to the basics. Its product line kept to the basic...
Extreme sports
Dissertation - 35 pages - Services marketing
The sporting culture penetrated our quotidian as a major reference. Even if it is difficult to define, sports is known by everybody and is omnipresent. Today, sports profit from a positive image (to be well, healthy). It occupies an important place in the media (newspapers, TV, sporting press,...
The evolution and implications of Hedge Fund institutionalization
Essay - 12 pages - Finance
Hedge funds and their managers, once obscure enigmas of the investment community, have become in the last decade household names due to their overwhelming publicity as money-hungry madmen. Part of the reason why these loosely regulated funds have drawn so much attention is because their...
Public Relations
Essay - 4 pages - Management
The term 'public relations' is recognized and widely used by many people. However, it is often misused and misunderstood. It is sometimes confused with press release and publicity. A career in public relations is wrongly perceived as the perfect job for people who enjoy parties and...
The public relations department & its functions
Essay - 3 pages - Management
The public relations (PR) department is a unit in the firm that manages items such as publicity and other communications with all of the groups who make contact with the company. Some marketing experts argue that public relations should be part of the marketing department, just as...
