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Business notes especially for grade 11 full coverage AS level

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Local market - in the city
National market – a country
International market – across the country
Institution markets – schools
Reseller markets
Industrial markets- construction
Consumer markets
Digital market- e- commerce
MARKET- refers to a place where buyers and sellers are physically present to
purchase and sell goods and services for a price.
Integrated business functions to help the business to succeed - Finance,
HRM, marketing, operations
Importance of marketing
- Create engagement, keeping customers interested
- Strengthens brand identity and build trust
- Awareness and leads to conversions, increasing
revenue.
- With increased visibility, engagement
- Helps educate potential customers
Marketing - is a process of promoting, selling, distributing a product
Advertising is a component of marketing
Marketing and other business functions:

What is produced How many are What are the How much? which
produced range of products product are sold
offered


MARKETING ORENTATION ( customer or product)
- Refers to a business approach where a company
focuses on its product or customers
- Market research, to gather information, preferences,
behaviours, and trends
- Prioritize customers satisfaction to build a long-term
relationships
MARKETING OBJECTIVES
AND SALES OBJECTIVES :
- Sales target
- Market share
- Brand awareness

,Corporate objectives(set by the entire business) - 5% profit - marketing
objective(setting out what to achieve and when by marketing)_ 12% increase in
market share
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Marketing objectives is connected to the corporate objectives
Promotion – to create awareness
Customer orientation –
- Building long term relationships
- Market research
- Focus on communicating the product or service solves
customers problems
- Used feedback to improve products or services
- focuses on the need’s preference and desires of the
targeted customers
product orientation:
- features and attributes of the product or service itself
- quality, innovation, features,
- create new and improved products
- emphasize the features, specification, and
performance of the product
LINK BETWEEN MARKETING AND CORPORATE OBJECTIVES

MAREKTING CORPORATE
INCREASE MARKET SHARE

, FINANCE HRM Operations
Help construct Workforce plan Product
cash flow development
Availability of Enough Capacity needed
the capital manpower , supply and
machines to be
used




DEMAND – refers to the good or services that consumers are willing and able
to purchase
Law of demand- as the price of good decreases, the demand increases and
vice versa, all else being equal
Demand curve – the inverse relationship between price and quantity
demanded.
Factors affecting demand- several factors can shift, including changes in
consumer preferences, income levels, price of related goods
(substitutes and complements), and expectations and future prices
SUPPLY- refers to the quality of a good or services that producers are willing and
able to offer for sale at various prices over a given period
Law of supply - if the supply is high the company will supply if not then they
will not supply
Supply curve – the direct relationship between price and quantity
supplied
Factors affecting supply - including changes in production technology, input
prices, number of sellers, and expectations about futures prices
EQUILIBRIUM- balance between supply and demand
Equilibrium price
Adujustment to equilibrium-


Before the pandemic, the demand and supply for face masks were
stable. The price was affordable, and the quantity supplied met the
regular health and industrial needs
- change: when a pandemic starts, two things happen

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Publisher: 28 mei 2021 ISBN: 9781398308190 Edition: Unknown

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