ABSTRACT

The main purpose of conducting this research is to analyse the marketing strategy of an
organisation. Customers are the very important stakeholders for an organisation as without
the customer there is not business. The marketing is the way to keep the customer aware of
the step forward and change in any product or service and make the minds of people to
come and buy a product. The current study focuses the marketing strategy of an organisation
with the specific study of Apple. The study also focuses the marketing strategies of Apple
Corporation so as to understand how these are effective in customer attraction and retention.
The current study comprises the means of gratifying the customer like the new features
product introduction and a modification in a product or service. It also demonstrates the
need of up radiation of the marketing strategies of an organisation specifically for the Apple
Inc. as the major markets of the corporations are up to some focused regions. The current
study describes the effectiveness of a marketing strategy and what is the important element
in the marketing strategy of Apple Inc. which could be said as key success factor. It presents
the research conducted by the researcher by a questionnaire. Also the research presents the
results produced by the researcher after analysing the situation and the prospects of the
respondents.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am putting forth my heartiest appreciation and immense gratitude to my supervisor who I must say
has been a great pillar of support and guidance throughout my dissertation from the start till the end.
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His knowledge about my subject and his ideas has provided me a good base to move forward with
the study and complete it in a successful way. I must say that under his guidance, I did learn a lot
whatever knowledge I gained from him will prove to be very useful for me in my rest of life.
I have no words to express my feelings for fascinating and ever loving Parents without their
encouragement, support and guidance I would be lost. Their immense motivation and prayers make
me able to accomplish this task and to achieve my goals. I am grateful to my dear brother whose
selfless care and support helped me fight the bad times and achieve my targets in my studies so far.
I am really thankful to teachers, colleagues, and friends whose heartiest gratitude and care remains
with me throughout my study.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Chapter 15
1.1
Background....5
1.2
Rationale....6
1.3
Aim & Objectives..7
1.4
Company Profile7
2. Chapter 2....9
2.1
Introduction...9
2.2
Nature and scope of Marketing..9
2.3
Marketing Strategies.10
2.4
Apple Marketing Strategies..13
2.5
Consumer Satisfaction..14
2.6
Evaluating Marketing-Antecedents..20
2.7
Marketing As a corporate resource...21
2.8
Customer Loyalty.25
2.9
Internal Marketing25
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2.10
2.11
2.12
2.13
2.14
2.15
2.16
2.17
2.18
2.19

Responsibility in marketing..26
Social and Ethical Constraints..27
Products versus service marketing28
Marketing and Customer Retention.29
New Technology and Modern Marketing30
Factors Influencing Marketing.31
Development of Marketing Plan..34
Relationship marketing35
Marketing Success...36
Marketing Effectiveness..36

3. Chapter 3...37
3.1
Introduction..37
3.2
Research design37
3.3
Data Collection Methods..38
3.4
Sampling...39
3.5
Instrument and Procedure39
3.6
Ethical Issues36
3.7
Conclusion...40
4. Chapter 4..41
4.1
Introduction..41
4.2
Findings41
4.3
Reaction of Contributors..42
4.4
Conclusion....47
5. Chapter 5..49
5.1
Discussion.49
5.2
Considering consumers Apprehension50
6. Chapter 6..52
6.1
Conclusion52
6.2
Recommendation .....53
References...54
Appendix 1..58

Development of marketing strategies by apple and its

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Competitive advantages
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION:
1.1

BACKGROUND:
Marketing is everything that one performs to put his service or product in the probable
consumers hands. It adds various disciplines like public relations, selling, pricing,
distribution and packing. As for promoting form other relevant profession facilities the
corporations also hire others services. For a successful planning there must have a
marketing plan. Without a plan, the organizational dream is actually aspiring consideration.
While a marketing plan may be a key to effectiveness, remember that the key isnt the
territory. A tactic that disregards the consumer inset a precise image of the background.
Successful marketing needs a deep research about the consumers, rivals, and collaborators
and the proficiencies in serving consumers profitably. (Silk, A. J. (2006), Page 207)
As the corporation is achieving success in achieving its goals so it means they have
developed best strategies for the selling and marketing their products. They must have their
plan to market their products so that they could achieve their objectives. In my current
research I will focus on the marketing strategies of Apple Corporation that what strategy
they adopt to fascinate and retain their customers.
Apple is leading the market due to its distinction in developing the device products and its
products are also very well accepted by the customer around the world. Not only is this by
the corporation astonishingly enlarging its business in computer as well. The owners of the
Apple Corporation Steve Jobs and Wozniak have first invented a building box which was
able to call for a long distance. He started selling these boxes and started known as the selftaught engineer.
Apple becomes the most fast developing organization of the US in 1978. Their progress is
still going and growing day by and recently the Apple Corporation has introduced a new
type of computer known as Macintosh. Other famous products by the corporation are iPad,
iPhone, iPad touch. The company is now not only known as the Apple USA but they are also
the owner of Apple Pacific, Apple Products, and Apple Europe. (Sinaga, G. 2010)

1.2

RATIONALE:
This study was undertaken to evaluate the marketing strategy of Apple and the competitive
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of advantage of Apple. As the marketing strategies supports an organisation to meet the

needs of marketing of the organisation and also it these strategies supports the organization
in eliminating the hazards in selling process.
IMPORTANCE:
Marketing is currently the necessity of every organisation and this importance is now
progressively known by almost every organisation around the world.
The researcher has selected the current topic as per the best knowledge of the researcher
about the marketing strategies and competitive advantage, and the best knowledge of
researcher regarding the selected organisation which can support the researcher in achieving
the goals of the research and producing the required results.
RESEARCH PROBLEMS:

What is importance of marketing for an organization having monopoly?

How an organization maintains its competitive advantage in the market?
What important aspects should be kept in mind while developing marketing strategies for an

organization?
How marketing impacts in the retention of customer?

1.3

AIMS & OBJECTIVES:

The aim of my research is to identify the strategy and plan adopted by Apple Corporation to
market its product and retain customers
Main objective is to identify the marketing strategy of an organization to create the
monopoly. Other objectives include:

To identify the role of marketing in the development of a new product Apple

To recognize the scope of marketing in present modern period by Apple
To identify the important elements which an organization considers while developing
marketing strategy

1.4

COMPANY PROFILE:
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At first the Apple began its matters as the business of sale of a computer that was 1976 in a
year. But in an apple of the last one 10 years specialized not only his operation on a
computer, but another electronic products as the telephones, etc. It obtained his principal
position 2001, breaking a barrier and becomes the leader of the market for with his named
product as the iPod. Seven years later in 2007, the Apple was including in the telephone
industry and the beginning of his first telephone named iPhone. One recent check did about
the Apple - that it has the basis for a lot stronger and more loyal one of the customer in
comparison of the other organization in the variously various industries.

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Steve Jobs the principal former director of the Apple left recently his position, his often
contacted brand of the Apple. It is because the majority of customers and of investors
communicated with a view of the Apple to the Steve Jobs as the big one and successful
architect of a lot of products of the Apple. Its representations often are declared products to
be the revolutionary one just as media. It often is looked at also one of the strategy the better
of marketing that was executed by the Apple than representations done by the Steve Jobs
(1955-2011), in an appealing way and with conviction enough for the consumers, only to try
again products of the Apple. The success of the Apple only is not limited the WORE or
Great Britain, but spread itself universally. The apple became a prestigious desirable
product for a lot and attains constantly new heights in the technological sector.
(http://in.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile?symbol=AAPL.O,
(AAPL.O), 29.02.2012). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

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CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1

INTRODUCTION:
Review of the literature is the important of part research as it demonstrates the research with
the perspective of research conducted by other researchers in past. This type of data is
known as the secondary data of the research. Data for the review of literature can be
compiled from a book, an article, journal, databases and internet.

2.2

NATURE AND SCOPE OF MARKETING:

Today, the businesses everywhere in the world, big and small cannot neglect the influence
that the economy placed in their decision. The globalization - directed the Internet, and one
the news transparency more and more of the movable work, the customers never more
changeable, the two changeable one quickly of the technologies and models of matters. A
result of him evidently unshakeable tendency consists, that - is less than the business in a
condition to predict - speaking not more of the check - the form in the short one run of their
markets. (Urbonavicius et al 2007)
Consequently more and more of than the wishes of organizations to accept spent philosophy,
selling to allow winning them a party in the market and to seize and to hold hearts and
spirits of current and of potential customers. Marketing turn out to be more significant as the
administrations inhale everywhere in the world to develop products and services that address
to their customers and inhale to differentiate their offer in the whole market global. These
calls strengthen the need of effective marketing, increasing its occasions outside of 'putting
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on the function market'. Placed, selling simply the "functions" even if the unique directions
on marketing the prerogative to unique arrives from this function, together with the structure
in limits of which putting on the market the strategy is conceived, is developed, considered,
I Executed, considered also is improved. (Urbonavicius et al 2007)
Marketing is the work of types of activity of business that directly a stream of the items and
the means of service of the manufacturer to the customer or the user. The marketing worries
with a recognition with a meetings and a condition social and identification human. The
simple definition of marketing 'meets the needs with the advantage'.
Marketing is logical as it displays a manner that the businesses, the group and the people
attain that they demanded, estimating the value, the creation is accessible, the fact of the
advertising for and if this is another. The roots of strategy of marketing - needs consumers
and of value a lot of products, divide the news and the strong attitudes. Strategically it is the
centers to the occasion detection that took actions long by the business to attain the
advantage in terms of competition. The business uses its resources in changeable to many
returns the environment to satisfy the request of the customer side issue with the hopes of
investors. (Anbuvelan, 2005)
In View these items, strategic marketing should create the strategy to do facing to the
competitors, to notice new occasions, and to create products and innovative services, to use
resources to sell countries and plan the structure organisations to attain the foreseen work.
There is not strategy or the standard process that works for every business without taking
account of a position of the market. The judgement strategically is some items that will be
considered: the restrictions in a selection of a product and geographic restrictions; the
actions of the market for which will want, the used chains, the importance of the
announcement, a degree that sells actions and the quality. It is essential to understand
actions of the organization to prepare of a product and of development, his position in the
technological sector that a message or to follow, the efforts for an innovation, a positions of
a product and to oversee principles of a judgement, and the attitude of the business with the
consumers, the partners, the competitors and the suppliers. Strategic marketing should
develop and should work complex decisions about marketing, the investments and only.
(Anbuvelan, 2005)
2.3

MARKETING STRATEGIES:
Marketing is designated as the activity of responsible direction of the identification, hope
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and a meeting of needs customer and with the advantage. Therefore it is philosophy and a
number of methods that addresses to the matters of scientific research, the judgements, the
project of a product, pack, the distribution, the sales and maintains. These functions define
huge occasions of marketing and his constant integration in the limits of the process of
marketing so known to sell the connection. Doyle (2000), offered marketing to be the
direction procedure that wants to maximize profitableness for the investors and the
shareholders, developing the advantage in terms of competition in the delivery, the attraction
in the communications and the value delivery for the organizations of the assistance of
consumers to develop good and healthy the attitudes with them. This marketing description
declares its goals and a manner by which his activity should be estimated. The marketing
contribution for the businesses can be noticed, developing the strategy to choose the market
target correct develops attitudes and the benevolence to develop the advantage in terms of
competition (Doyle, 2000).
The marketing project has often internal arrangement that is concentrated to some external
elections about the organization on to inform to its consumers in the competitive market. In
the marketing project there are 5 items keys: it result, that the organization of a place wants
to work; how to attain there; as the organization will arrive to the market target; in which
rate it is demanded to work; and as, as the receive business the profit of this (Hambrick and
Fredrickson, 2001)
The development of strategy of vital marketing for any matters. Without the one, your
matters cannot attain ideal customers for its items or its services. The center of your strategy
should informs advantages of your products and your services and as they can reply to the
needs of your customers. It then can help to develop you attitudes in the long term and
favourable with them.
You should create also the flexible strategy that can reply changes in the perception of the
customer and the condition. It can help to identify you also the new entire markets for
which you can want with success. This guide explains how to concentrate on to attain the
potential customers that use are good developed and the strategy of marketing of targeted
with the detailed market and the analysis of the customer.
The marketing strategy is done the several connected elements. The first one and the most
important one - a choice of the market: a choice of the markets that are served. The
planning of a product the cosmetic one of an industrial line, and the project of individual
offers includes in clothes the certain products that the business sells. The other element - the
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distribution system: the chains of wholesale and detail by which produces it transfers to the
people that at least it buy and uses il.il the strategy a lot of communications, the usage that
does the advertising to say to the potential customers of a product by the radio, the TV, the
sale of the items by the mail, a public press and the personnel, selling to develop exchanging
the Personal to address to the potential customers, to convince them of buy, and to obey. At
last, a judgement - the important element of any program marketing. The business should
establish the prices for a product, that the various classes of customers will pay and will
define edges or the commissions to give the compensation to the agents, the wholesalers,
and the detail salesmen to transfer a product to the final users.
Depend on the nature of a product and its markets, putting on the market the strategy can
include other components also. The business, the repair of which need of products and of
service should have programs for the service of a product. Such program - often firm in
demands itself also vast stores of repair, the technical custodians, and the stocks of
equipment of pieces of replacement. For some businesses, the nature and the quantity of the
technical assistance, furnished to the customers is critical to the success of marketing and
therefore the important party of strategy.
Now this is a lot of businesses, the credit of the customer - the important element of the
program marketing. The businesses that work stations of gasoline, the sale to the detail
warehouses, or the trip agencies, for example, should increase the credit simply to compete
for the matters. If to have the businesses that sell the equipment, the first matter, and the
industrial deliveries.
In the businesses where the products only can be sent the certain distance of a factory, the
site of a factory defines the accessible market of the business. The receptacle factory, for
example, can serve only to the geographic limited sector because sending expenditures are
high about the value of unity of a product. When the transportation on the long distances
becomes not very economical, the site of a factory becomes the decision of strategic
marketing. The other elements of strategy, especially for the businesses of the consumer
goods, are the billposting of the items in the sale item, and the encouragements to the
consumers (for example, the cents - vouchers, two a sale, and an in packet surpasses it), the
detail salesmen, and the wholesalers. The element list that could produce putting on the
market the strategy, is long and will change among the products, the markets, and the
businesses. Besides the accent on the specific aspects of strategy of marketing strongly will
change, even among the competitors that sell comparable products to the same markets. The
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accent will move itself, also, during the long time as ripens products and the change of a
condition of the market. Once the business can receive the superiority competitive by the
new vast development of a product; in other, it can count on the low price.
2.4

APPLES MARKETING STRATEGIES:

According to Gaudenz, U. 2004), with two new and astonishing products, the music of iPod
and iTunes stores commercial Corporation of the Apple. The questions remain, which shows
this step, will have for commercial Corporation of the Apple as the commercial corporation
data processing of an industry of transformation, believe, that the principal party of the
income of the Apple always is done by the computer matters. (Gaudenz, U. 2004)
During the development in 2002 to new OSX the operational system, the Apple began 'the
Switch', selling the movement that was regulated as the goal to attempt the consumers to a
platform of the Apple. But Switches were rare. The consumers Microsoft always seems the
Apple as the player of a call, and not to be able absolutely on the products of the Apple
although the brand of the Apple was known and was raised by an innovation. (Gaudenz, U.
2004)
Examination of various factors of the project that sells the arrangement that the numerous
aspects implied in a new saturation souk and the effective establishment again service or a
product. The being knows position and competence, and in View the perspectives in the
new tendency that the commercial corporation can move itself in new souk and growing.
On his approach, the commercial corporation should use its strengths, consider its internal
weaknesses and consider walked others with its perspectives and its dangers. Maintain and
the development of a product could be done on assessment of market and competition.
Logical lead only might be attained with the vibrant and deliberation distinctive. Apple PC
offered it in an effective manner with the movement of bear of discontent to the music
matters. And this step was the not only favourable bend for Inc. of Apple, but was also the
revolt for all the matters of music (Gaudenz, U. 2004)

2.5

CONSUMER SATISFACTION:
As the markets are squeezed, the businesses climb for student the satisfaction of the
customer and hold their customers instead of consecrating current the additional resources,
to follow of new potential customers. The condition, that costs five - eight times for that to
receive it again customer that to keep for old, is key to the comprehension of the motor to
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address to try and pricking of satisfaction of the customer.

The measure of satisfaction of the customer - the rather new concept to a lot of businesses
that were exclusively concentrated to the declarations of income and the accounting
balances. The businesses recognize now, that the economical new one changed things for
evermore. The increased competition, the markets flown across to the small differentiation
of a product and years of the commercial growth continues accompanied for two decades of
smoothed commercial bends specified to the competitors of today splitting ones, that their
center should change.
The competitors that prospers in economical new, recognize, that the measure of satisfaction
of the customer is key. Only to do can they to keep if for the customers that they have and
understand, how it is better to imply again customers. The competitors that will be
succeeded, recognize, that the satisfaction of the customer - the strategic weapon criticizes
that can bring the increased party in the market and the increased profit. The person of the
businesses of a problem is nevertheless exact as to do all this and to do it well. They should
understand how to define the quantity, measure and trace the satisfaction of the customer.
Without the clear and exact direction needs to be measured and how to muster, analyse and
use data as the strategic weapon to do the matters, no business can be effective in this new
climate of matters.
The projects constructed, using results of research of satisfaction of the customer can be
developed to want for the customers and the processes that are most of all in a condition to
increase the profit. Too many businesses count on the obsolete measures and not very
reliable of satisfaction of the customer. They observe the commercial volume. They listen
sale representatives that describe moods of their customers. They trace and consider the
complaint frequency. And they observe old growing messages of the debts, recognize, that
the unfortunate customers already pay possible - if to all. While these approaches not
completely without the value, they not the replacement for the validates, is the program
good developed of consideration of satisfaction of the customer.
It is made known, that no matters can exist without the customers. In the matters of the
project of the website, it is important to work in the cooperation close with your customers
to assure a site or a system that you create for them - also close to their conditions as you
can consult. As critic, that you form close professional relations with your customer, your
service of the customer has the vital value. That follows - an assistance choice that will do
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your sensation of estimated customers, demanded and favourite.

1. Endorse face-to-face contacts:
This is the majority to tame and the absolutely terrible party of interaction with the
customer. If you did not use to this type of a thing, this can be the pleasant destroyed nerve
experience. Remain in confidence, nevertheless, it becomes validates easier during the long
time. It is important to meet your customers do facing to do facing at least once or to
balance two times during the project. My experience showed, that the customer finds easier
to concern, and work with someone they met in fact personally, instead of a voice by the
telephone or someone printing in the program of the messenger or e-mail. When you meet
them really, be quiet itself, assured and first of all, borrow the time, ask them that they
demand. I believe, that if the potential customer spends more than the half of the meeting
that does the conversation, you are well on the way to the sale.
2. Reply to messages promptly and make consumer informed:
We all knows that, how irritating should await it days of the response to send by e-mail or
the reference by the telephone. This could not always be practical to treat questions of all
the customers in the limits of a place of several hours, but several at least e-mail or to recall
them and to inform them you received their message, and you will contact them of him as
soon as possible. Even if you not in a condition to resolve a problem, inform right away the
customer, you influence it.
3. Be accessible and friendly:
Person that said me once, that you can hear a mouse by the telephone. This is very true. It
is very important to be friendly, polite and to force your customers to feel, that you - their
friend, and you should win them there. There will be times when you wish to beat your
customers on a head to many returns with the stupid object are arrive with all we. Vital that
you held a clear head, the wishes of response of your customers as is better, you can, and
always to remain polite and polite.
4. Have a Vibrantly described consumer service policy:
It, probably, not too important when you begin only, but the clearly certain service of the
customer will help you a lot of times and the effort at last. If the customer has a problem,
that they should do? If does not the first choice work, that? They should contact various
people to bill and the technical investigations? If they are not satisfied by the aspect of your
service of the customer that they should say?

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5. The attention to detail:

Never received Happy holidays e-mail or a card of the business of which ones were you the
customer? You never had individualized, the e-mail of sign of recognition for the service
that you could say, was printed on a place empties?

These small subtleties can be

consuming work and are not always effective in the expenditures, but not to forget to do
them. Even if this is all envoy the Happy e-mail of Vacation to all your customers, it something. It shows, that you care for; it shows, that there are true people in the fine other
of this screen or of this telephone; and this is the most important, it let welcomed customer
feel, demanded and estimated.
6. Antedate your consumers requirements and go out of way to support them out:
Nevertheless, the accomplishment of this higher level of comprehension with your
customers done of the miracles for your professional relations
7. Honour Promises:
Probably is that this is the item more important in this suggestion. The simple message:
when you promise something, deliver. The example the more general here - conceives of
the date back to delivery. The customers do not like to be disappointed. Sometimes,
something cannot be done, or you could pass a date limit by the own error. The projects can
be late, the technology can suffer failure, and subcontracting them always do not deliver in
the time. In this case the excuse quick and a guarantee, it will be ready, would not be lost as
soon as possible.

According to Moore and Knight (2010), the Apple carries its superiority, taking PC class a
big variety in the 7th year successively. The commercial corporation of the Apple has now a
head with 9 items its most of the competitors close. Do not import that more of Commercial
Corporation in ACSI has any terrible one a head in its own matters. A selection of a product
and an innovation, strong service of the consumer, were long to the center of success of the
Apple. Time to time, the condition for the brands of Apple, has eclipsed the delivery, with
3MN iPads sold in the 2nd quarter only. The same time, the sales PC of the Mackintosh
established unknown three monthly tops that offer that admiration iPad did not influence PC
of matters of office of the Apple. (Moore and knight (2010)
The good one leaves in the market is based on how the basis of the customer of the strong
business is or which the potential this basis of the customer, the also attitudes of the business
with the investors, the questionable property, the consumers *the suppliers play a vital role.
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Active of the business and of resources are so important, trying to increase his party in the
market. The businesses have also the specific potential one that helps with to execute of
active one of the business that finishes itself together also the advantage as they can use it
every time when they want. They the potential one of the business can be testified with his
day to the actions that cannot be cancelled by easier does not import that. Any business can
have the advantage in terms of competition, only if it has good products, the effective
resources, of technology and useful.

Fig: 2.2
Source: Google images (2012)

The delivery of value of the customer proves consumers of the promise of the business to
furnish enough a lot of variants for the products and the services. The consumers always
demand products that are converged the value of the customer that lacks in the products and
the services of competing others. There 'with the additional cost' - meaning extremely and
important philosophy that is described as an element of value of the customer that is done
accessible by the unique business in the limits of all the departments of matters. Estimate
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for the value of the customer set up it on the products and on the services is taken of an
environment of matters in which ones the business works its operations. Every business
strengthens other members in an environment, including the customers, the investors, the
suppliers and especially those that consider that the business furnishes - in the development
of this value.

. . . Figure: 2.3, Marketing System,

Source: Google images (2012)

This circuit that is converged the value, includes suppliers, the business, the consumers, the
partner surrounded in a reasonable situation that changes often factors that are economical,
legal, political and cultural. There is an occasion that attends every step of this circuit of
value that can absolutely bring the contribution to the strategy of the business for the
competition, playing some processes in such manner that surpasses that that of the
competitors, book the advantage a not very unique one. Often the businesses attain the
advantage in terms of competition before the competitors that are, the bears estimate in the
market, maintain the difficult manuscript, protect against the assaults of the competitors and
always brands takes advantage for the business. Such advantage in terms of competition has
the potential one to put the foreseen norm or to surpass to return even when the industry a
lot not to support or to approve significant profit. The marketing strategy that is planned, in
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View the suppliers in the long term of unities of the goals, the competitors, the customers
and the questionable property in a matter atmosphere to establish the worth in marketing
countries. It is a matter atmosphere in all such situations progresses the particular standards.
Marketing set-up comprises 5 principal associates like follows:

2.6

The consumers
The concurrent organization
The investors, does the questionable property or accompany
The suppliers
The business

EVALUATING MARKETING-ANTECEDENTS:
Administration should identify the value of an invention from the standpoint of consumer
and also guaranteed that the value desirable by the consumer is informed and put. The
principal idea to sell demanded to estimate, needs which influences a choice of the
connected needs of the noticed consumer in the products of that the business furnishes, the
news and furnishes thus an exchange to establish the long and strong attitude the consumers.
The conditions are the internal needs that worsen the certain behaviour, for the conditions of
example of a body of the person - for the food, water and a refuge while the other daily
needs could be the security and the prestige.
The principal ideology of marketing can be of various the other simple elements:
Deliver: An innovation of the Product, the Judgement, the authority of brand of commodity
and To Pack.
The News discussion: Includes the sale stimulation, the personnel and directs marketing.
To put the value: The distribution chains, serving and the logistical one.
A lot of organizations identifies their position that the two work consequently and learns
from any errors those they did earlier. The consequently new thoughts and innovations are
endorsed to this gratification of the customer, is attained. It is convoluted for the businesses,
select the specific stance in souk as the rivalry becomes intensive, and they should be there
or deals all the time on a time intermission

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Fig; 2.3, Apple Marketing

Source: Google images (2012)

2.7

MARKETING AS A CORPORATE RESOURCE:

According to Illiev et al (2004), the Apple projects, makes and PC walked them and
pertinent software, periphery and the personnel that calculate and cooperate of the decisions.
How the sales and marketing could attain the advantage of a competition and adds the value
in a value circuit? As, the consumers are fascinated on the computers of the Mackintosh of
the Apple for the sequence including the reduced size of training of collision of a computer
of the Mackintosh, easy instinctive in the usage, changed graphic competence, the
characteristic of industrial aesthetic one of products of equipment of commercial
corporation, and the capacity of computers of the Mackintosh to communicate with the
somewhere else of computer systems and of networks and the environments. Such attributes
demand to be matters, selling the section and cooperated to the possible consumers. The
element key of success should develop the value, lighting ideas of people and develop the
impression optimist of the items by a brand arrangement, the encouragement and
advertising.

(Illiev et al (2004) Putting on the market the strategy of commercial

Corporation of the Apple should place its consumers of 1 st: the Apple develops, thus the
populace must use them to develop their lives better. (Illiev et al (2004)
Brand Equity:
The brand action - a number of active one of marks and the debts connected with the brand,
his name and its symbols that adds to or subtracts from the value furnished by a product or a
service to and or of business the customer of this business. For active or the debts for
underlie the brand action that they should be connected with the and or of name a symbol of
brand. If the name of brand or a symbol should change, someone or all active or debts could
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be mentioned and even are lost, although the some people could be the adhesion of locate of
shift
Brand of the consumer to the given brand of the items, the a long time central conception in
marketing, is a measure of the annex that the customer must mark. It reflects how probably
the customer should change to the other marks, especially when this brand changes, in the
price or in the characteristics of a product. As the increases in the adhesion of the consumer
to gave it the brand of the items, the vulnerability of a basis of the customer to the
competitive action is reduced.
PERCEIVED QUALITY:
People will buy often the familiar brand because they are convenient with the brand. Or
there can be an assumption that the brand that is the friend, is probably reliable, in the
matters to remain, and the reasonable quality. The recognized brand thus it will be frequent
to be chosen on the unknown brand. The comprehension factor is especially important in
the contexts in which these marks it should enter into a consideration series once more. This
should be one of brands that are estimated.
THE Brand APPREHENDE of QUALITE will be connected with that with the perception of
the full quality that necessarily was not based on the knowledge of detailed specifications.
The apprehended quality will influence directly decisions of purchase and the adhesion of
the consumer to the given brand of the items, especially when the buyer not or is able to take
the detailed analysis. It can support also the price of bonus that, in the bend, can create the
big one of edge that can be invested to many returns in the brand action. More, the
apprehended quality can be the basis for the brand expansion. If to mark it will be good-j'
considered in a context the assumption will be that it will have the superior quality in the
connected context.
The ASSOCIATION OF BRAND The basic value of the logo often is based on the certain
connected associations with that. The associations, the type of Makdonalda of Ronald can
create the positive attitude or feeling that could become connected with the brand, type. If
the brand will well be placed on an attribute key in a class of a product (, the type of a copy
of reserve of service or the technological superiority) the find competitors, that it attacks
with difficulty.

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OTHER OF ACTIVE PROPRIETE of MARKS Last three categories of the action of brand
that we discussed just, represents the perception of the customer and of reaction to mark;
was it first the loyalty of a basis of the customer. The fifth category represents such other of
active property of marks as the patents, the commerce brands, and the attitudes of the chain.
POSITIONING STRATEGY:
Any placement on the market the strategy is based on. Segmentation, the Planning, and
Arrangement. The business discovers various needs and the various groups in the market,
wants for those needs and group with which it can satisfy with to surpass in a manner, and
places then his offer for that the market target recognized the distinctive offer of the business
and the picture. If the business will be the poor work of an arrangement, the market will be
mixed what to foresee. If the business done the excellent work of an arrangement it can
resolve the somewhere else of his marketing that plans and the differentiation of his strategy
of an arrangement. Arrangement - the certificate to conceive offer of the business and the
picture to take a distinctive place in the opinion of the market target. One coming from an
arrangement is the successful creation of the judgement of value concentrated by the
customer, the convincing reason why the market target should buy a product. Of hertz
thinks as the biggest one in the agency of world-wide auto rent, Coke as the biggest one in
the world the business of non-Labrador drink, and Porsche as one of the world of the better
cars of sport. These brands have these positions, and it would be firm to demand them for
the competitor. (http://www.studymarketing.org/)
The strategy of the market is the result of the meticulous analysis of the market. The
analysis of the market obliges the businessman to become familiar with all the aspects of the
market for that the market target could be certain, and the business can be placed to extract
his sale party. The analysis of the market allows also to the businessman to establish the
judgement, the distribution, and to promote the strategy that will allow the business to
become favourable in the competitive limits of an environment. Besides furnishes him a
capacity attribute to the growth in the limits of the industry, and it will allow you to develop
your own judgements for the future your matters.
Begin your analysis of the market, defining the market in the terms of the size, the structure,
the growth perspectives, the tendencies, and the commercial potential one. The cumulative
sales a lot of your competitors will give to you demand enough judgement of the full
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potential market. For example, in the limits of the tossing industry of beer, the potential a
lot of the market would be sales a lot of drinks of malt to the United States that are $15.2
billion. Immediately that the size of the market was certain, the following step should define
the market target. The market target reduces the full market, concentrating on the
segmentation factors that will define the full addressed market - the total of users in the
limits of sphere of influence of matters. The segmentation factors can be geographic, the
attributes of the customer, or set up itself on a product.
For example, if the distribution of your product is limited by the certain geographic sector,
you would like to define more the market target to reflect the number of users or the sales of
this product in limits on this part geographic. Immediately that the market target was
detailed, it should be certain more to define full walked it. It can be done in several
manners, but THE schedulers THE more PROFESSIONAL will sketch the market,
concentrating on the factors of segmentation of a product that can do the intervals in the
limits of the market. In case of a microbrewery that which projects to ripen the beer of full
bonus walked it could be certain, defining how much wood of the premiums pilsner beer is
in the market target.
It is important to understand, that full walked it - a part of the market that can be seized if
every condition in the limits of an environment and is perfectly the very small competition.
In the industry majority it - is simple not a case. There are other factors that will mention a
party the market, that the matters raisonablement can receive. These factors become attached
of ordinary one to structure industry, competition influence, the strategy for the penetration
on the market the two long growths, and the quantity of the capital, that the matter wishes to
spend to increase his party in the market.
2.8

CUSTOMER LOYALTY:
By way of period while the Sony made mistakes in publicizing and advertising, Apple
commenced hitting with the races of the house. On the success of a creation afterward other
than Apple repeatedly raised a community:
o To escort with opponent and sworn Microsoft the locomotive brand to launch MS. Office for
Macintosh and allow the corporation, to take advantage of $150mn in the actions of the
Apple that does not have a vote.
o To escort with a universal bug with Intel of brand of the locomotive. By 2006 ranges of all
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the products of the Macintosh passed to the microprocessors of Intel.

o To accompany with the extremity of principal thing, the photo, the rest and the businesses of
the software to do the products iMac sociable.
o To encourage dedicates it like a community of the Macintosh beside addresses, the users of
Macintosh and rest of the modes to observe the group of growth of a assistant that this is
never direct one also and business
o Creates resourceful advertising that matters as the anti- head has continually, calling the
market target of the Apple of the first parents of reception, dominating renegades and
innovative (Harris, M. (2010)

2.9

INTERNAL MARKETING:
It is the movement of successful job; the motivation and inducing capable personnel that
which wish to use the consumers. Rather evidently it is obliged to define the culture of
internal business of the business before the movement more to use the consumers on a
foreign market. The personnel should be to response in a necessary mode that is much called
as similar to marketing (Gronroos, 1984).
Interior marketing aids with the connection efficiently with the products and the services
sold by the business. Without this communication that the personnel involuntarily can
neglect hopes of communications of marketing of the business. When the people have
confidence in actions of the business, they support it and put efficiently the increase in their
loyalty to the business. According to Mitchell (2002), in a lot of businesses that internal
marketing efficiently is not done, and some organizations understand the seriousness of
convincing personnel of the mission of the business and the goals as they accept as evident.
The meeting of needs consumer is central to in the marketing activity, it is necessary, that
everyone in the business that cooperates with the consumers, was filled by the marketing
sensation that comes the interior marketing for them and exterior for preservation. The
customers are therefore as to the interior, and outside business.

Concentrate on the

customers, the perspectives of the business are received. In the traditional businesses the
principal director and the superior frameworks appear above with the sales and the personal
other in the basis that pains without the customers in the majority of them.
Mitchell (2002) opposed representation fact by effective marketing and especially in the
organization of internal marketing that the customer is placed in the first sales accompanied
of and the personal other, the average directors to the under and the superior frameworks in
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the basis. As the administrative personnel cooperates with the consumers, they should
receive the additional attention in the business. The average directors attend this reflection
to support average operators of a level. It is important to note, that everyone - someone the
customer. This is the reason to place consumers in the summit and this is rather essential to
a survival and to the growth of the business. Mitchell (2002)
2.10

RESPONSIBILITY IN MARKETING:
It should identify the difference amongst the needs in the short one run of the individual
customer thinking the advantage in the long term of the world. For example, the dear
magnificent vehicles major bring in pollution and a fuse on the city road, while the
cigarettes are the reason a lot of serious problems of health, even the death, for the active
ones just as passive smokers. Consequently, it is indispensable to unite conditions of
profitableness being given the restrictions of health and an environment. As the authors of
several decades on marketing specified, that the basic function of marketing 'is not in were
very qualified to induce the consumers to do, that is suitable for the interests of the business
to be in qualified and then the volume, force matters to do the things that are correct for the
customers.
In a current location, an art to persuade the true want of clienteles, the businesses should
have the stability between ecological The considerations against the advantages of the
organization; the individual conditions against the advantage of a corporation; and the
advantage in the long term of consumers against the needs in the short one run of
consumers. We should increase the marketing concept to a bigger degree and a bigger
measure therefore.

2.11

SOCIAL AND ETHICAL CONSTRAINTS:

Core concept about the social responsibility while it is deliberated in the orientation to
marketing must comprehend the communication amongst the marketing like the body and
the communal obligation thus in which they work. The social responsibility often can be
deliberated to a responsibility of the business that is more than the obedience to the rules and
to the instructions and does consequently by the elections that mean the future consequences
just as the support profit for the organization. This ideology of a corporation and its must
established restrictions for the business thus; it works with a meeting of other calls as for the
conditions of the law also. The need for the business that will be interested of a corporation
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is in the roots of operation of the business that is connected with the government and has the
potential one to influence investors and the questionable property of the organization. (The
Wall Street Journal Europe (2002), P. 10)
The multinational businesses with their manoeuvres in the various cultures appear before the
calls of extreme levels in to take forms with the mixed series of consumers and before the
discussion to their ethical norms.

An example: US began the movement to help the

pharmaceutical businesses to employ patients for the tests clinics. According to Thomas
Harrison, Omnicom Group Inc. that is the founding business of BBDO of agency of
advertising everywhere in the world, BBDO everywhere in the world and TBWA
everywhere in the world: (The Wall Street Journal Europe, (2002), P. 10)
Such development and the creation have more occasions on the collision before the
distinctions between the ethics of a corporation and matters. Such institutions have rather
evidently advantages to be connected at first during which are appealing and student an
occasion of a gain of the account when the product is begun. For the pharmaceutical
business the connotation of organization can decrease the period and the dear procedure of
accomplishment of a preparation by the progression for communal market. In this position
of business could be implied for institution to perform the figures of findings of test or to
work representation in a mode that would perform in service of pharmacological business
while waiting to be kept later develop, the advertising project is received with the biggest
payments of advertising. It resembles an inconsistent question between ethics discussion to a
corporation and to the matters. (The Wall Street Journal Europe, (2002), P. 10)
2.12

PRODUCTS VERSUS SERVICE:

Sanwal, (n.d), states that the mainstream of the bodily items have tendency to be high
enough in the qualities, such qualities, - the attributes that the customer can define before
that the purchase of a product, as the colour, the grace, the form, the suitable price, the
sensations, rigidity, and an odour. The other items and the definite services, in contrast to
him, the treatment comfort, do be quiet and the personal treatment can underline attributes
of practice that could distinct just after the acquisition or for consumer length as along the
taste, the capacity of procedure of process of wear. Eventually, there are abilities of
conviction - the characteristics, which customers find difficult to estimate even after the
consumption. The examples contain surgery, the legal means of service, etc. on the opposed
services on the part underlines qualities of experience that only can be differentiated during
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exhaustion, and a qualities of the conviction, that the customers should take the conviction
as they imply characteristics that are difficult to estimate even afterward the consumption.
Besides more than the composed services as some services or some professional financial
services, can be "insignificant perception" in it, the comprehensions of customers of average
characteristics and extremely can be limited by the advantages. Therefore, more probably to
describe the nature of a product of service until more rigidly, buy and judge it against to
fight alternate. This exertion is the more splitting for the new users, deprived the preceding
experience of the thought on the service. (Sanwal, (n.d.)

2.13

CUSTOMER RETAINING AND MARKETING:

Everybody desires to hold their current customers. There are some commercial companies
nevertheless, execute the optimistic strategy intended to a delay. Most of the businesses are
organized for the acquisitions. Their publicity and the marketable programs are
industrialized to discover and to improve their goods and their services to the new
customers. The commercial corporations are in planned advance while basing itself on a
product or while basing itself on a brand, not while basing itself on a part of the customer.
Whereas all have departments of CRM, and the majority has the service of the customer the
number out tax, they the absence the strategy of incorporated marketing that is directed on a
delay, and it defines a delay as the quantity of success. (Hughes, M. 2012)
Allow us to consider this last political one, show what we mean. Consequently, here the
journalist alienated customers in five groups, extremity in favour of the less. They
articulated putting on the market then the strategy for every group:
The customers in now should not be gone to sleep with the programs marketing. Something
straight out, it needs to be given the compensation with the convenience of the quality of
superior quality. They are roughly 80% of income done. It is necessary to support such
loyal people. (Hughes, M. 2012)
The detail business is huge and the business where the alteration continually arrives. As the
passed some tenures in N. America and in EU everyone was a supermarket origin as the
form of visible detail. It - by means of the fact, that the work of customers changed and
passed an aptitude direction, the brand of superior quality, and a condition for the care of the
consumer. To treat conditions of salesmen of detail of the consumer the continually strategy
of form for their matters and tries to offer correct services and the items and to enter in
collision with the dominating conditions that the two to do in advance and to encourage next
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needs. (Datta, P. R. 2010)

The relationship marketing is the principal exemplary change in a practice of marketing and
the theory the very last decades. It does a return manner to sell to its origins and in the
markets of service and of matters; putting on the attitude market appears the gasoline to
exist. The detention of the consumer attained the essential accent and became the principal
problem for the commercial corporations, wishing more to live in the matters, increase
harvests or construct and withstand the competitive direction. The longer consumers are
kept by the commercial corporation, the truest advantages will collect. Of ordinary this is
more than the expenditure of purchase of the consumer than an expenditure of preservation
(Datta, P. R. 2010)
2.14

NEW TECHNOLOGY AND MODERN MARKETING

The matters that students on the usage of new technology, the task, that the advanced
methods of marketing were compared. The party of Commercial Corporation is equalled
energy and stretched through Virgin whereas it arrives to carry of a commodity to thinking.
URLs of Virgin Trains arent certainly exceptions. Problem of Numerical Director of Virgin
Trains consisted in to do average customers assessed on news and ordered over Internet
marked, performing little with the partners of authorities of convenience and of simplicity of
usage. The numerical Agencies of Train line of the Communications and Elvis to distribute
again sites that it wished to assure itself, that they had the partner to return hospitality that
could deliver the installation that will help fascinating changes with the movement.
(Ratcliffe, J. 2011)
The imagination of style of the expert on the motors of easy landing 'the impacts of Trains of
the Virgin of the Fly during of 50 themselves the period in now of commercial growth of
travels in the oneself summer while the globe seems right away more possible, opening
frequent means and quicker of travels, as Birmingham to the service of London. (Ratcliffe,
J. 2011)

2.15

FACTORS INFLUENCING MARKETING

According to Aaker et al (2001), the examination of instances of publicizing on one hand
criticizes of such marketing system; it helps to increase the direction of decision developing,
while suitable, to demand, and properly the news. Every decision declares the condition of
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unique information, and the suitable strategy can be developed base on the news that was
taken by the analysis of occasions of sale in the operation. Also often, the analysis of
occasions of marketing of little are as confidence, musters, and the data analysis for
someone uses. The businesses can attain and can support the advantage in terms of
competition by the creative usage of the news of the market. Therefore, the analysis of
occasions of sale is assured as one the news introductions to the decisions, not simply the
judgement of decisions that were done. The study of a condition of the market the one
guarantees not nevertheless the success; the usage intellectual of study of a condition of the
market - a key to the matter accomplishment. The competitive superiority - is the biggest
result of how the news are used than the one that does or does not have any information.
The sale decisions imply problems that calm themselves basic changes in the arrangement of
matters or the pronouncements to introduce.
The new marketplace to reduce tactical questions as it is better to deliver a provision shelf. A
background for such verdicts is the procedure of planning for the market that passes
consistently by 4 phases: examination of condition, strategy formulation, market
development plan, and enactment. This is the infinite process, thus a judgement of strategic
last decisions uses a data to a judgement of a position... During every step, the analysis of
occasions of sale did the contribution in the deliberation and judgement of issues and them
selection among the alternate ones of judgement. (Aaker et al 2001)
The examination of occasions of marketing is not at the upright lines or an evident way to
the detection of decisions of all the problems of the organization. The director that does
facing the certain problem should not address instinctively to carry analysis of occasions to
sell, to find the decision of a problem. The director must deliberate few elements in front of
the order of examination of prospects of marketing. The better sometimes should not direct
the analysis of occasions of sale. Therefore, the primary application that will be done
consists in, if named to study really a condition of the market in the certain position. The
factors that do this initial decision include follow.
Significance
Type and the nature of found info
Time selection
Appropriateness of means
The examination of cost and effectiveness
(Aaker et al 2001)
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Figure 2.5, Marketing Strategy of Apple

Source: Google images (2012)

The scientific strategy accepted that the energetic capacities let the directors to receive to
feel for, to be united, and develop physical, the mortal, or the administrative capital to meet
the line with a changeable environment of matters and - the reason of direction of a
competition. The revolution strategy are these strategies that describes to many returns of
the matters and transforms the markets, are developed under the norms of discovery of the
only thing a position that maintains the arrangement with the change of conditions of an
environment organisationnel and is ordered with success. Therefore, it considers it, the
creative strategy for marketing and in the strategy of ordered marketing would allow the
commercial corporation to maintain this arrangement. Therefore, the preparation for the
directors should the fight for the superiority in the two.

So really this is the logic

instruction? Certain of commercial corporations that they named as the skilful commercial
corporations, were effective the two to the research of approach and to the direction of a gift.
Therefore, certain commercial corporations execute it well. (Aaker et al 2001)
According to the Slater et al (2010), marketing hard mentions the potential one to creative
works, but refused to try about the presence of this association. Afterward, there was that a
positive association among the creative beginning of strategy and the work of marketing of
the market. Therefore, any association among the potential creative marketing project and
work of a new one produces the creative beginning of strategy and the effectiveness of
marketing of realization of strategy of marketing - the connected concepts of a fiction of
strategy of marketing as their value for the directors. It also was found by the Slater et al
(2010), that confuses enough, which authors of strategy have no, examines problems, those
present themselves to the effort communication for potential creative and the realization (the
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Roofer and of others 2010)

Attain such customers and such development of their loyalty, transporting the superiority,
the aptitude, price enthusiasm, of a correct product and service, incites with constant of
marketing by e it strategy. If you done the movement to the e-commercialisation or preliminary and to the e-negotiator, you should develop the project, follow arrangement, are
responsible of the true consequences, and use the metric one that helps prepayments you to
the effectiveness of e0trading. The days while the wealth of stolen business has a lot to a
point coms with the excitement of models of matters, are taken. The leaders in all the types
of research of electronic commerce for the useful metric one to receive the comprehension
criticizes in the matters works. It astonishes, although a lot of electronic commerces that
given vast of their waiters collect, the majority of electronic commerce, not to have a
presentiment to transform such given to the valid metric one. Neglect e-metrics recalls the
feat in anonymity and lack of metric one, responsibility is improbable. Currently the project
of e-commercialisation could do extra than, spoke the tradition of innovative technology.
One should do extra than, articulate IT, connected with the online charming purchasers and
development on one hand in the market. A part of the always vital market but also and - the
profit and the responsibility; the two demanded progressive shareholders. The matters,
costing the improvement and ROI never had a bigger problem during electronics business
years. The productive packages of marketing and these strategies define the quantity of the
goals and deliver effect measureable - the manners to the efficacy in the new frugality.
(Griffin, M. P. 2000)
The internet considers having all in a lot - private the responsibility and profitableness.
Despite more big perspectives delivered by the markets of electronic matters, the enegotiator should give most initial biggest of attempt "pure" to income and should go to the
biggest heights to be responsible of each consumed the dollar. This attempt begins with the
electronic projects of constant marketing and the vouchers themselves -high of
responsibility; those depend on the metric electronics. The metric electronics of term
designates to full yield and the per cent, these support merchants predict, the track, produce
tendencies, observe and work the follow:
The Behaviour of the e-client, the costs, the values, and the purchases
Movement of a network, a representation, income and the rest of vital consequences
E-promotional and the representation of an advertising campaign adding e-mail marketing,
the historic sale of the items by the mail, and doing the advertising for by the Internet
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Success of the website

(Griffin, M. P. 2000)
2.16

DEVELOPMENT OF MARKETING PLAN:

Putting on the market of the project should identify numerous actions of the souk for
product or facility and deliberate, in what way adapt the product, attain such excellent souks.
As a replacement for of marketing a produce in to unique direction to every person, you
should do the common cause that some actions are not only excellent, but also and this is
better than others for your items of industrial goal. This effort could be favourable in
penetration of souk that will be extensive and too private segmentations. Without taking
account of the fact, that you does or sell, take the full market, and to divide it as the diagram
of the diagram of a pie (Rice, F. H. 1991)

2.17

RELATIONSHIP MARKETING:
Association marketing is the view point to change irritably the performance of the customer
and the work that depend on which one these the customer thinks about matter of the
commercial corporation, and that the personnel of commercial corporation should know
about the customer. The attitude values as it is noted by the customer, considering a lot of
ideas in the recent editions. Similar to the muffled customer, that the value that has a
presentiment of value of the supplier of attitudes shows the insight of the dealer of a
conversation among the advantages and the fatalities comprised in the attitudes. The
judgement of arrogances of the customer receives explains all contributions optimists and
negative of the customer to the goals of the supplier. The marketing of attitudes of term was
used usually to add numerous deeds, with distinction done amidst its logical, strategic and
working sizes. The series of current themes helped to describe the sector of marketing of
attitudes, especially the conviction, the duties, the old line and the old cooperation. It was
mentioned, that putting on the attitude market in an exchange step B2B demands absolutely
other principles and the other methods with the marketing attitudes among the commercial
corporation and a lot of low values of personal consumers. (Karadeniz, M. 2010)
In the current development and the combined world, the value of a product was based
tactics, disappeared and in an exchange, the customer was based on the approach that, it
appears, more essential, doing the new period with the compensation of the customer.
Squeezed by a part of the market, the economic disaster of such bigger weight, such
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provisions with the smallest condition extra than decreased life line of due commodity to,
that quickly erroneous characters and a progression in the technologies, the commercial
corporations ordered to do the new strategy of marketing that the permit be a unique phase
before their competitors. In this regulation the concept of connected marketing became the
essential element in the last one some years. The commercial corporations intervene to
develop the various strategy to take advantage, the loyal customers that the customer has
putting concentrated on the market the strategy that gives a remarkable position to the
consummation of customer and the brand (Karadeniz, M. 2010)

2.18

MARKETING SUCCESS:
Organizations occur to attain definite assignment for an interval of indefinite period. To
prevail in the matters in the course of large period of time, the corporations could look for
effective and productive manners of direction of matters, execute, and attain the goals of the
organization. Now, by means of practicability and by means of the ecological
competitiveness, the effort for the existence and consecutive in the matters has, appears a lot
complex and excitement. The tendency of a progression and the nature of sphere of services
with a competition environment had the various one and certain problems to sell services.
As the service meetings are complicated, and the repeated elements influence interactions,
the groups should recognize that full marketing tries to concern with such problems.
(Potluri, R. M. 2008)
Complex that puts on the market the attempt for the services demands the event sale that
concerns with the communications of Commercial Corporation completely with the
consumer in the manners of a product of Commercial Corporation, the prices, the delivery
chains, and the promotion matters. Internal marketing - the procedure of communication of
means and the duties of the worker and the rest of partners of the organization with a view
of and the goals of commercial corporations; and resolve the problems of the end of
consumer. 1P of the marketing of communication - the popularity named also as placement
on the communication market. The organizations should cooperate with their predominance
and that the possible consumers that they execute. (Potluri, R. M. 2008)

2.19

CONCLUSION:
The data compiled in the above literature is the secondary data and it specifies the part and
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vitality of marketing. It demonstrates the disputes of marketing as well those the corporation
has to consider beside the prospect of consumer. Composed on the compiled data and
quarrel given by most of the scholars it is obvious that corporations have to permanently
assess their marketing tactics by always having the consumers prospect in mind.

CHAPTER 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1.

INTRODUCTION:
Methodology section of the research is extreme vital section. It presents the procedure
accompanied by researcher for compilation of primary type of data and instrument used by
the research for conduction of research. As for the current research the researcher has
employed the survey method to compile the primary data. Present section also presents the
sample size the method of presentation of data.

3.2.

RESEARCH DESIGN:
Methodology is the significant fragment of a project of research as is the accent and the
drivings on procedures those correspond to be employed by investigator, executing
research. As to prepare of a stream that the researcher used a method of the magazine for the
assembly of primary data. The research execution often is described as the procedure, in
which the step series is accompanied to attain the goals and the goals with the true lost
result. Lofland and Lofland (1995) raw, that to possess the experience of the researcher can
be one of the bigger obstacles, executing the research, as it has at the potential one to
influence the research result. The researcher - the consumer of products of the Apple and the
services and avoid the research that is under the influence of his experience, the amplest
precautions are discussed and are executed. According to the White one (2002), the chapter
of methodology of research often rather is described to be the philosophy of the based
researcher about which it will execute the research. There is nothing corrects or cheats
philosophy, but this is the responsibility of the researcher to choose corresponding methods
to do the true result, instead of the lost facts somewhere during research.
The researcher took additional measures to the usage of methods of a gate of a series for that
an influence of item of the researcher could be until reduced the maximum degree. This
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research will be the quality research since the data that are collected - to understand, that a
human element not in the scientific goal and does not imply any principal quantitative
analysis. Also, as the complete data not precisely can be measured, as it implies human
emotions, this research remains quality research as quantitative that implies more than the
strict calculation where the received results this is exact accountable and result of research.
(Bryman and Bell, 2008). Research also would employ inductive attempt as obtained data
would not remain confirm and would change rather animatedly in contrast to logical attempt
employed for the scientific investigation where data remain that the similar, responses cant
be diverse.

3.3.

DATA COLLECTION METHODS:

1. PRIMARY DATA:
QUESTIONNAIRES:
The questionnaires are one of frequent methods and of ordinary used ones to muster
primary. Also easily and quickly to collect it the data as the researcher does not have by
executed the time for interviewee every participant of research. The research should do is to
furnish some questions to the participants and all, that they should do - replies them. Took it
data are reliable and pertinent to a research theme (Saunders and. 2007)
The sharp questionnaires were sent by the electronic letters in a format of the document of a
word, just as a communication of the magazine of the surveymonkey.com ordered those that
were convenient to do it online. In the questionnaires to the participants gave a choice of a
choice of the corresponding response for all these 10 questions. Also to them informed, that
they - liberates the addition of additional commentary if they want has which these will give
the better comprehension of their situation

SECONDARY DATA:
Secondary data is the data compiled by the researcher from the formerly organised
researches on the current topic. Data compilation can be made by journal articles, books,
newspapers and the Internet etc.
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3.4

SAMPLING:
The researcher in the present study has employed the quantitative method and used the
survey as an Instrument for the data collection. It isnt applied for anybody to interact with
whole populace to compile research data. The researcher has asked questions from around
79 people and attained the important information for the research. Later on the organisation
of survey researcher has matched the data, analysed and produced the outcomes of research.
Researcher has assisted findings with graphical demonstration. Such consequences facilitate
the investigator to comprehend major purpose and goal of the study
Its necessary for achieving results of my research to use the various accepted strategic
thoughts. With this purpose researcher has used methods of surveying for actual research of
data. In the surveying method researcher has asked the questions from different people and
produced the results after the analysis of those answers. For analysing the answers,
researcher has asked questions from people with the perspective of their own selected
organization, Apple Corporation.

3.5

INSTRUMENT AND PROCEDURE:

For the gathering of primary data researcher have chosen the survey method and this survey
method is composed on the group of questions regarding the subject topic. Researcher has
organized and formulated these questions on a paper before the conduction of research so
that it could be easy for researcher to understand the answers of respondents. Researcher had
asked these questions on different places from different ethnic people.
Researcher has used the point scale for the marking of answers of some questions composed
on multiple choice questions and marked from 1 to 5. The best answer gained 1 st position
and the answer not in favour has acquired 5 th position. Researcher has analysed these
findings and compare the prospects of different people and then has produced the results.
Researcher has then presented these results for the other researchers. Researcher has
presented results in both the graphical and theoretical modes. For graphical mode researcher
has used the charts and graphs which are the easiest means of understanding the prospect.

3.6

CONCLUSION:
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Literature presented above deliberates the numerous techniques and procedures those the
investigator has employed as to attain the research objectives. Moreover, the researcher has
debated regarding the compilation of data and data examination techniques. This is than
shadowed by sample techniques employed to select contributors for questionnaires and
compilation of primary data. Finally researcher has demonstrated the ethical issues along
with limitation those he had to happenstance in the course of research organisation.

CHAPTER 4
FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS

4.1

INTRODUCTION:
It is indispensable to the researcher to furnish the brief summary of a bottom of the
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organization that is under the research as it will give clearer picture of the organization to
the readers and will increase their process thinks about to connect the communication
between the business and a research theme. As this research concentrates on the strategy of
marketing of consideration of the Apple from the standpoint of customers, the researcher
furnished some bottom of the organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3

FINDINGS
For any study to have a basis essentially, that it amasses pertinent data. These data are
collected from primary ones just as sources secondary. The data that were taken secondary
sources already were discussed in the literary chapter of the magazine earlier. This chapter
embodies primary data that were taken by the sharp questionnaire to the various consumers.
The questionnaire sent to 100 consumers in a various party of the Great Britain of which 79
responses were taken intervening time while the preservation could not be received to the
time restriction just as doing not have tendency of certain ones of clients to involve in study.
In questionnaire to clients gave too to freedom to do extra commentaries if it is demanded.
Reactions of clients are document and were untaken in graphic demonstration.
The based theory everywhere was executed on the data that musters, the analysis and the
representation process for those personal representations of the researcher did not influence
the research result. The biographical details of participating ones were not opened secure
their info in view the ethical problems of research. Researcher would guarantee too, that
data were taken for current research exclusively are employed for good of the study just and
not transferred for commercial usage.
..........................

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4.4

REACTION OF CONTRIBUTORS:
The questionnaire was comprised on 10 questions those were intended at the
accomplishment of goals of study project so intention of study could be accomplished and
understanding information from clients prospect can be achieved. Given below are
reactions attained from contributors of study those were reported in terms beside graphical
demonstration.

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Questions 1:
1) Are you acquainted with Apple Inc.?
Answer
a. Yes
b. No
Participants who responded
Participants who chose not respond

Respons

Response

e%
93.6%
6.3%

number
74
5
79
0

From the response it has been clear that the majority of the population is familiar with the
Apple Corporation. Around 93.6% of the respondents were in the favour of the corporation
while rest of the people replied against the question

Question 2:
2) Do you utilise the products manufactured by Apple Inc.?
Respons
Answer

Response %

a. Yes
b. No
Participants who responded
Participants who chose not respond

e
number
9
70
79
0

11.39%
88.6%

By dint of the huge price of the products of the corporations, only 11.39% of the
respondents replied in the favour of the question while the rest of the 88.6 per cent of the
respondents replied against the question. It has been cleared from the response that the
products of the corporation are reliable but are not in the access of everybody.
Question 3:
3) Are you persuaded with the method Apple markets
its goods?
Answer

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Respons

Respons

e%

a. Yes
51.89%
b. No
48.10%
Participants who responded
Participants who chose not to respond

number
41
38
79
0

Next question has been asked regarding the fame of the products of the Apple Corporation.
Half per cent of the respondents replied in the favour of the question while the rest of the
48.10% of the respondents replied against the question. It has been cleared from the research
that the products of the corporation easily convinced the consumers in the market and the
goodwill of the corporation also puts some influence in the fame of the products
manufactured by the corporation.

Question 4:
4) Do you deliberate that Apples advertising is 100% precise almost its
products?
Answer

Response %

a. Yes
b. No
Participants who responded
Participants who chose not to respond

77.21%
22.78%

Response
number
61
18
79
0

Participants of the research replied in the favour of the question asked regarding the
correctness of the marketing strategy of the corporation for its products as a majority.
77.21% of the respondents replied that they consider that the marketing strategy of the
corporation for its product is right as per the need of the market whereas the rest of the
respondents replied that the marketing strategy of the corporation is not good. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . ..

Question 5:
5) Do you trust that Apple marketing strategy is misleading?
Answer

Response %
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Response
number

a. Yes
b. No
Participants who responded
Participants who chose not to respond

6.3%
93.7%

5
74
79
0

A minor volume of the respondents replied that the marketing strategy of the corporation is
misleading while the majority of the respondents replied that the marketing strategy of the
corporation is good and right and also it is not misleading the reality of the products. Around
6.3% of the respondents replied in the favour of the question while the rest of the 93.7% of
the respondents replied against the question by saying it good enough to capture the market.

Question 6:
6) How contented are you by means of Apple Products?
Answer

Response %

a. Very Comfortable
b. Comfortable
c. Neither
b. Not Comfortable
Participants who responded
Participants who chose not to respond

75.9%
12.7%
6.3%
5.1%

Response
number
60
10
5
4
79
0

75.9% of the respondents replied that they are comfortable with the products manufactured
by the corporation while the rest of the 12.7% of the respondents replied that they are just
satisfied. 6.3% of the respondents replied that they are not feeling comfort with the products
of the corporation while 5.1% of the respondents replied that they are strongly against the
question as per their past experience.
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Question 7:
7) Are Apple's marketing strategy the reason you would purchase its products?
Respons
Respons
Answer
e
e%
number
a. Yes
24.05%
19
b. No
75.94%
60
Participants who responded
79
Participants who chose not to respond
0

While answering the question regarding the reason for purchasing the products of the Apple
majority of the respondents replied that they are in the favour of the question with a ratio of
24.05%. While the rest of the 75.94% of the respondents replied against the question

Question 8:
8) Do you think that the products of the Apple
corporation are dull and dont have freedom to be
accustomed with rest of the branded products?
Respons

Answer

e%

a. Yes
78.48%
b. No
21.51%
Participants who responded
Participants who chose not to respond

Respons
e
number
62
17
79
0

The next question was asked regarding the liberty of the population regarding the utilisation
of the branded products most of the participants replied in the favour of the question while
the remaining 21.51% of the respondents replied against the question.

Question 9:
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9) Did you find the marketing strategy of Apple Inc. influential?

Answer

Response %

a. Yes
b. No
Participants who responded
Participants who chose not to respond

44.3%
55.7%

Response
number
35
44
79
0

Upcoming question was regarding the potential influence of the corporation regarding the
marketing strategy of the corporation. 44.3% of the respondents replied in the favour of the
question while the rest of the 55.7% of the respondents replied against the question. It shows
that the influence of the marketing strategy of the corporation is not too much on them.

Question 10:
10) Are you considering utilising the products of rest of the brands other than
Apple?
Answer

Respons
e%
87.34%
12.65%

a. Yes
b. No
Participants who responded
Participants who chose not to respond

Response number
69
10
79
0

Final query was regarding the utilisation of products manufactured by the Apple brand.
87.34% of the respondents replied in the favour of the question while the rest of the 12.65%
of the respondents replied against the question.

4.4

CONCLUSION:
Executed research presents that the mainstream of the populace has the extensive
information of Company and the products produced by the Apple Company. The people
mostly uses the products presented by the commercial corporation, but is some people that
did not use products nevertheless only because of the huge price of products. It mentioned
putting on the market the strategy of the Apple that it does by less emotional to the others
mark. This is rather clear of the primary one took data where the consumers seem divided
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on to its marketing countries.

According to a kernel of marketing notion in literary review Apple is evident in order not to
communicate in a condition efficiently with its consumers that construct at last an interval
between the business and its consumers. Received data was, that the commercial corporation
does a little in comparison of a lot of brands from the viewpoint of the marketing that does
far a lot more than it. It - principally because of the unique products of the Apple where it
seems, that it does not feel the need to sell its products as another.
The research furnishes the good association amongst the commercial corporation and the
buyer as of the trustworthiness of a produce and a faithfulness of the consumer. This loyalty
only was done, satisfactory of the wants of the buyer. The obtained data furnish the biggest
information about a research theme.

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CHAPTER 5
DISCUSSION

5.1

DISCUSSION:
APPLES MARKETING STRATEGY:
The role of marketing in the development of a new product
The strategy of principal marketing of an apple was representation executed by the former
director Steve Jobs principal that left recently his position. It should do the representation
before the beginning again produces Apple. It furnishes its true showed products in the
warehouses where these, which products are sold, in contrast to the others mark that use
usually the models of board to bread. It gives of the to the users risks feeling the experience
of usage of its goods. Meanwhile, it attains to transfer important news on requirements of
customers. But Apple Inc. has just warehouses of a handful through GB that it does less
approachable to it are all the clietns. Therefore, they should be informed by the
announcements.

Scope of Marketing in Present Modern Period

It influenced putting on the market the strategy of the Apple that it does by less emotional to
the others brands. This is rather clear of the primary one took data where the consumers
seem divided on to its marketing countries. According to a kernel of marketing of concept of
a literary Apple of the magazine evidently not in a condition to communicate efficiently with
its consumers that construct at last an interval between the business and its consumers.
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Received data was, that the commercial corporation does a little in comparison of a lot of
brands from the viewpoint of the marketing that does far a lot more than it. It is principally
because of the unique products of the Apple where it seems, that it does not feel the need to
sell its products as another.
Important elements which an organization considers while developing marketing
strategy
The Apple places less efforts, that it should consider, how much exclusive its products, but it
resembles there is a clear distinction among the group of customers that know of its actions
of marketing while of others does not have any products of key and usage of the Apple only
because someone in their circle uses a product of the Apple, and they adored it. The majority
of population includes, only could be noticed prior to beginning of their commodities. It is
not putting on the market the strategy of health as needs change of consumers animatedly,
and they are prepare to attempt no other brands, if the y hold somewhat good to propose
than the products of Apple. It was vibrantly obvious from final query of Apple.

5.2

CONSIDERING CONSUMERs APPREHENSION:

Model of orientation of the customer and the rival in corporation in the literary assessment
that Apple should exploit the weakness of its clients but instead of this, it shows its weak
items to its competitor. It is evident fact, that the majority of participants of the data receipts
primary swellings that the products of the Apple is monotonous, and it is impossible to use
with the other products brand. It is very true particularly in a department of software where
there are a lot of performs those cant be executed on Apple. Like it is the Flash Player
doesnt influence portable computers of the Apple or iPhone while it influences products of
no other marks. Not it creates the picture of the Apple that and estimates flexibly of not
produce and the other accomplishment of brand.
The advantages of distribution of a resource of marketing mix and of planning supposed a
remarkable position as the businesses tried to increase loads by all the actions of marketing.
It not astonishment, in the view, these structures of marketing of heads are in the growing
pressure to support their organizations, their budgets to meet at the summit descending to
the under and partial horizons of growth of unemployment reach of organic sales with more
stretched, to distribute a material harvest on their marketing operations. With the smallest
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quantity of effects for the financial size of their projects, surpassing salesmen have the more
probable effort to maximize the dollar impression that they distribute for the programs by
the repeated products, the markets, the circuits, and demand customers, employing a much
and more complicated mixture of novel and historical media.
It creates to deny Apple in the opinion of consumers to do hesitating to buy the products of
the Apple as they receive the impression, that the Apple will never cooperate with does not
import that. It not the constructing the good reputation of the Apple. Because it could hold
exclusive goods, but isnt ready to be supple and to estimate rests brand. It presents, that
Apple doesnt try to hold healthy rivalry and creates the adverse picture for itself.
Current chapter analyses primary data of given ones is executed on the data that were taken
questionnaires. The quality complete data are described, using the analysis of the history and
using the based theory; for that personal representation of the researcher was, does not
influence on data. The amplest data are presented, using graphic representation to give the
better comprehension of the response of the contesters. Current chapter gives briefly a
bottom of Apple and exclusive stance in souk amidst the clients. More ample more various
the industries also are discussed, in View the fact, that the Apple competes in enough a lot of
them.

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CHAPTER 6
6.1.

CONCLUSION:
The organized spectacles of research those put on the market the strategy of the organization
about the perspective of the British consumer. The study covers a theme with the eminent
description of all the aspects of a theme. Prepare also completely concentrated in the
accomplishment of the necessary goals confirmed by the researcher before the research
conductivity.
Research that it seemed, that now in this point of view of consumers of a position of the
market about the marketing strategy seems divided. Received data that it seemed, that puts
on the market the strategy is more important for the business than for the customer to
receive the news on a product of the business. Manu of consumer to which does not seem to
be under the influence of country of marketing of the Apple was more fascinated with its
products in comparison to rests.

The advantages of distribution of a resource of marketing mix and of planning supposed a

remarkable position as the businesses tried to increase loads by all the actions of marketing.
It not astonishment, in the view, these structures of marketing of heads are in the growing
pressure to support their organizations, their budgets to meet at the summit descending to
the under and partial horizons of growth of unemployment reach of organic sales with more
stretched, to distribute a material harvest on their marketing operations. With the smallest
quantity of effects for the financial size of their projects, surpassing salesmen have the more
probable effort to maximize the dollar impression that they distribute for the programs by
the repeated products, the markets, the circuits, and demand customers, using the more
complex mixture of new and traditional media.
According to the research have first the nature and the occasions of marketing of a scream
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corporation multinational commercial or same foreigner - a lot in the world of current

matters. The research spectacles that as the organization develop its marketing strategy and
what are vital aspects and the eminent elements that which need to be considered the
direction of the organization, developing putting on the market the strategy of the
organization. The research shows it why the consumers are important for the organization.
Prepare also spectacles that all the types of strategy of marketing should be according to
needs person and an era. The research spectacles that appropriate the participation of the
consumer during the development of strategy of marketing should be furnished for that it
could take putting advantage on the market the strategy of corporation so as the consumer
could be gratified.
.......................................................
6.2.

RECOMMENDATION:
o The markets particularly for the customer goods became extremely dynamic with by which
it changes. Any research that carry in the future for a similar theme of research should
estimate first a position of the behaviour of market and study of the consumer in comparison
of the time when the bear of research. The researcher should allow more time for such
research, as this is the rather huge sector to study. The researcher should take the discussion
to so many participants the more as possible for such research that it will help with the
reception of exact results.
o With the Jobs of Stephen that do not work with the Apple more they possible times should
include the consumer that knows of a changeable behaviour in all. The apple should always
work little did more bite on his price as it is dear calm in the Great Britain in comparison of
the other countries.

Also it should always sell his product more than before the

consideration of presence of the market. It should estimate the software of other businesses
and should lose an attribute to be monotonous of his software.
o The Apple should do duly the research about the changeable needs of the consumer and that
they think about his marketing country. They should try and should more participate with
the customers that do not use their products to find the reason to do that there always is
some interval that holds separately the in several industries of an on one hand huge gain in
the market. The apple should become more flexible from the viewpoint of the cooperation
with the other businesses for the development of the software of progress.
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Survey on the marketing strategies of

Apple Inc.

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am from University of Sunderland and I am conducting a survey for my final thesis in
Marketing.
I am curious to find out the consumers prospect regarding the marketing strategies of Apple
Inc. I am conducting this research only for the research purpose. I will use this informations
only for analysing the prospects and producing results.
All information will be treated as confidential and results will be produce in the form of
aggregate data only.

Thank you for your time and help.

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Appendix 1
QUESTIONNAIRE

Name (Optional):

Gender:

Marital Status: Single

Age Group:

Male

20 years & less

21-26 years

27-35 years

36-50 years

50 years & above

Female
Married

Are you familiar with Apple Company?

Do you use any of the Apples Products?

Are you convinced with the way Apple markets its products?

Do you think that Apples marketing is 100% correct about its products?

Do you believe that Apples marketing strategy is misleading?

10 Do you believe that Apples products are monotonous and do not have the liberty to be used
with other brand products?
11 Do you find Apple's marketing strategy to be influential?
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12 Are you considering using products of other brands other than that of Apple?
13 Do you expect the bright future for the Apples product?
14 Do you think the marketing strategy of the corporation is good enough to retain customer?

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