Telling Tales: how to sell an electric car in a petrol market The story of the G-Wiz Keith Johnston, October 2011 Table of Contents Gentlemen, start your motors P2 October 2011 P4 How it all started P5 A new approach to car retailing P9 Right people, right places P13 A remarkable community P16 Spreading the word P17 The power of storytelling P25 Accolades P28 Introducing the concept of Verbal Identity P31 Taking the high – and highly visible – ground P34 Polarising opinion P36 The bully
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Group 16 Innovation in Product Submission #2 Anant Jain B15131 Ankit Goel B15132 Anshul Jain B15134 2015 1. Introduction Innovation is refinement in a product, process, method, or a part thereof. Innovation has become a buzz-word in recent years, with increasing relevance of ‘innovation-centred business models’, and ‘innovation-led-entrepreneurism’. In fact, the success stories of Industrial America, technological Silicon Valley, American financial market, etc., are tales
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CHAPTER 1 Marketing: Managing profitable customer relationships Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. The goal of marketing is to attract new customers, to grow current customers by delivering satisfaction and to provide goods and services at profit. Marketing specialists must satisfy their customers’ need in a socially responsible and ethical manner The marketing process 1. Understand the marketplace and customer needs and wants Humans have 3 needs * Physical
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Global Adventures of Colgate Palmolive Today there are many firms whose products are widely known and are available in many countries all over the world, but international marketing is not a simple activity that can be successfully applied by very firm. First, to achieve success in international marketing activities, a company should consider economic, social and cultural facts about the countries which the firm plans to expand its activities to. These facts are extremely important because they
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This booklet is one of a series by Life². Our booklets explore important topics and ideas, and provide practical suggestions on ways you can improve your life. Life² helps people to live well - to live happy and wise lives in the modern world. We aim to provide you with ideas, information and tools to help you get more out of life, see things more clearly and live with greater wisdom. We offer lectures, courses, publications and consultancy – on topics from ‘our place in the universe’
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9-502-040 OCTOBER 5, 2001 DOUGLAS B. HOLT Mountain Dew: Selecting New Creative Standing at the front of a PepsiCo conference room, Bill Bruce gestured enthusiastically, pointing to the sketches at his side. Bruce, a copywriter and Executive Creative Director, headed up the creative team on the Mountain Dew account for PepsiCo’s advertising agency, BBDO New York. In fact, it was Bruce who devised the famous “Do the Dew” campaign that had catapulted Mountain Dew to the number three position
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Today’s Ford embraces all of Henry Ford’s beliefs into its current corporate strategy. Ford is known for building the everyday man’s car focusing on reliability and quality. Ford is now a leader in innovation in the automobile industry right next to BMW. Energy efficient efforts, future safety features and technology advancements are all what makes Ford, Ford; however, the cars are not all that have made Ford into the global enterprise it is today. Its’ constant effort into driving community through
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Professor Roger Palmer, Head of the School of Management, Henley Business School, UK The globalization of companies is the involvement of customers, producers, suppliers, and other stakeholders in the global marketing process. Global marketing therefore reflects the trend of firms selling products and services across many countries. Drawing on an incomparable breadth of international examples, Svend Hollensen not only demonstrates how global marketing works, but also how it relates to real
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General Knowledge Take Off Time: 20 min 6. As per the third Annual Quality of Life Index study conducted recently, this is the most livable city in the world. We are talking about…. a. Copenhagen b. Tokyo c. London d. Zurich 7. The present President of ASSOCHAM is… a. Kumaramangalam Birla b. Sajjan Jindal c. K.V. Kamath d. Swati Piramal 8. Animal Planet is the name of the channel that belong to… a. BBC b. CNN c. Discovery Communications d. Star 9. Which
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