MKT 100 Chapter Notes -Swot Analysis, Apple Watch, Mega Brands
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Internal environment: opportunities, external environment, threats, external environment. How do you address/compensate for the weakness in the decision to be made. Objectives: organizations want to accomplish the end results they want to achieve in a given time frame: should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely, smart, eg. To increase sales by 2% by the end of the year. Help guide and motivate a company"s employees and give its managers reference points for evaluating the company"s marketing actions. Company"s marketing objectives should be consistent with the company"s objectives at other levels, such as the corporate level and business level: eg. Pepsico to increase by 4 percent the market share of gatorade by the end of the year . Strategies: means to the ends, the game plan, or what a company is going to do to achieve its objectives. Successful strategies help organizations establish and maintain a competitive advantage that competitors cannot imitate easily.