marketing

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Packaging

• Traditionally packaging refers to the functions/processes such as cleaning, drying, preserving  and materials employed to:
  1. contain,
  2. handle,
  3. protect,
  4. and/or transport a product
• In modern days packaging now does more than just the utilitarian functions mention above
• It plays such important roles as:
• Attracting the attention of potential customers
• Make the product […]
  

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Promotion

• Organizations come up with promotional strategies to communicate with customers or clients
• Promotional strategy- the choice of a target market and formulation of the most appropriate promotion mix to influence it.
• Promotion refers to the organisational function concerned with the advancement of a product, idea, or point of view through publicity […]
  

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Packaging

• To advertise is to describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance
• Advertising involves the use of various media to relay promotion messages
• It is non-personal and directed towards large  numbers of people (mass communication)
• It uses media […]
  

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Choice of Media in Advertising

• An important factor in advertising is choosing the right media
• Media refers to the communication channel through which data or information flows
• Media includes every broadcasting and narrow-casting medium such as:
• newspapers,
• magazines,
• TV, radio,
• billboards,
• direct mail,
• telephone,
• fax,
• and internet.
• Several factors have to be […]
  

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Introduction to markets

• A market is an actual or nominal place where buyers and sellers interact directly or through intermediaries to trade goods, services, instruments, contracts in exchange for money or other mediums of value
• Markets can be physical or infrastructural buildings that can actual be observed in the real world for […]