Marketing and Sales Questions

Plagiarism is when you copy someone's work and try to pass it off as your own. Plagiarism can be a violation of copyright laws and can be considered cheating, resulting in you getting a failing grade or even being kicked out of school.

Productivity is a result of the way that a business operates – the result of the way that its people, business processes, different functional units and suppliers come together to meet the needs and wants of its customers.

Productivity is the combination of intelligent planning and focused efforts and hence, it is a combination of Efficiency and Effectiveness.

Efficiency :

Efficiency is an internal measure of performance for companies that shows how well the company converts inputs into outputs. The more the ratio of outputs to inputs approaches 100 percent, the better the efficiency of the process will be. In simple terms, it is “doing things right” and comes from proper harnessing of time, cost and efforts.

Effectiveness :

Organizational effectiveness is an external measure of performance and indicates how well an organization fulfills the demands of various organizational stakeholders. Simply put, it is “doing the right things."

Protect the consumer from the seller who cheat to sell his product.

The FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection stops unfair, deceptive and fraudulent business practices by collecting complaints and conducting investigations, suing companies and people that break the law, developing rules to maintain a fair marketplace, and educating consumers and businesses about their rights and responsibilities.

All those activities which have been planned out by the marketing department must be tried out in the market several times in order to be able to conclude if such activities are worthwhile or not. Such activities may be repeated several times over a period say six months or a year in order to be able to decide whether to stick to them or replace them with other better alternatives. Monitoring and controlling the marketing activities entails keeping proper records of the various activities and tracking them time and again particularly when it comes to the media, when to promote the product, cost factor, reach or the number of persons towards whom the promotions have been targeted, responses generated, sales generation and return on sales

A marketing mix and a promotional mix does have some differences, both being highly crucial for the success of a business. Marketing is very essential for the growth and continuity of business operations. It helps in creating new customers and retaining the existing ones to keep the business ongoing. Marketing focuses on all the elements of the marketing mix viz product, price, place and promotion while promotion focuses more on the customer- how to reach a product to its customers and how to sell it to them ultimately

Online marketing is the exchange of products and services between the buyers and sellers on the internet.It is also known as e-marketing or internet marketing or online advertising. It may take the form of : 

a.B2C where the products are sold directly to the customers. 

b.B2B where trading networks or auction sites maybe used to reach out to the new customers and serve the existing one

c.C2C where one customer may further sell the product to another customer.

Examples of online marketing may include banner ads, blogs, social network advertisement.

Office salaries expense would not come under a selling expense.