Understanding Marketing and Customer Relationships
***Please see and follow atttached grading guide carefully! Please include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Please format in APA 6th ed. with a heading for each of the three bullet points. Textbook title is below. Reading is Ch 1.***
Purpose of Assignment
Understanding marketing as a multi-step process relying on building successful customer relationships is essential to helping organizations grow and achieve their goals. This assignment defines marketing, the customer value proposition, and creating mutually beneficial relationships between the organization and target, as well as applies these concepts to the student to create a personal brand.
Assignment Steps
Resources: Week 1 textbook reading, Week 1 video, American Marketing Association Website
Scenario: You have just graduated from the University of Phoenix with your Bachelor’s Degree. You have decided either to seek a promotion at your current work, explore new career opportunities, or open your own business and are using your marketing knowledge to position yourself for career growth.
Develop a 1,050-word response to the following using the scenario above:
Provide a definition of marketing from the American Marketing Association. Define the customer value proposition. Discuss the differences between the marketing process and advertising, the goals of creating a strong customer value proposition, and the unique relationship that exists between company and customer.
Use your workplace, a company you would like to work for, or an entrepreneurial vision and apply the concepts of the customer value proposition and relationship marketing to their operations. Introduce who the company, or business idea is and what they do. Provide examples demonstrating how the company uses these concepts successfully. Are there any ways they can improve in these areas? How?
Determine how your own personal brand links to the organization’s customer value proposition. Discuss ways you can integrate a customer value proposition and use relationship marketing to position yourself the best. Please share examples to illustrate your thoughts and reasoning.
Cite a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources with at least one coming from the textbook, the Week 1 video, or the University Library.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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Understanding Marketing and Customer Relationships
Introduction
Marketing is an essential component of customer relationships management. Organizations carry out marketing activities to promote their goods or services and also market research. Most of the marketing activities focus on creating brand awareness and enhancing customer loyalty. Some marketing activities like advertising focus on meeting short-term goals like making single sales.
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