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BMIS – NOV 2019 – L1 – Q3c – Marketing Functions

Explain five functions performed by the marketing department that enable an organization to gain competitive advantage.

The marketing department performs several functions that enables an organization to gain competitive advantage.

Required: Explain FIVE (5) of these functions. (5 marks)

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BMIS – May 2020 – L1 – Q2b – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Match products to their probable stages in the product life cycle.

A typical product life cycle has four main phases: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.

Required:
Twelve products are listed below. Match these products to the stage they have probably reached in their life cycle, by filling in the following table.

Products:

  • Online music downloads
  • SMS messaging
  • (Hand-written) postcards
  • Personal identity cards using ‘iris-based’ technology
  • Folding screen mobile phones
  • Credit cards
  • Personal computers
  • Fifth generation (5G) mobile telephones
  • Cheque books
  • Typewriters
  • Smart cards (in banking)
  • E–Conferencing

Table:

Introduction Growth Maturity Decline

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BMIS – May 2020 – L1 – Q2a – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Calculate the price elasticity of demand and explain factors affecting it.

You are the Accounts Officer of Seafarers Cafe, a company that sells cocoa drink to a wide range of consumers. The company sells a cup of cocoa drink for GH¢2.00, which yielded a sales output of 10 million cups for the year ending 2017. As part of a promotional package to celebrate its silver jubilee, the company reduced its price to GH¢1.50, which increased its total sales output to 15 million cups for the year ending 2018.

Required:
i) Calculate the Café’s price elasticity of demand. (4 marks)
ii) Explain SIX (6) factors that might have determined the company’s price elasticity of demand. (10 marks)

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BMIS – May 2019 – L1 – Q6b – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Outline and comment on the phases of a product life cycle.

Traditionally, products go through a four-stage cycle. As a product goes through the phases, the priorities for performance objectives change.

Required:
Outline and comment on the phases of a product life cycle. (10 marks)

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BMIS – May 2019 – L1 – Q4 – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Explain the role of relationship marketing, customer care, and customer service in increasing sales revenue.

Brand Marketing Concepts Ltd (BMC) has for five years employed traditional methods of advertising and promotional messages to directly increase sales. The Accounts Officer in his year-end financial report has observed that sales revenue for two of the four products marketed by BMC have seen neither increase nor decrease for the past two years.

Required:
a) What roles can relationship marketing, customer care, and customer service play in increasing sales revenue for the two products marketed by BMC? (15 marks)

b) State FIVE (5) basic principles to be applied to develop customer relationship. (5 marks)

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BMIS – Nov 2017 – L1 – Q6b – Finance, R&D, and marketing strategies

Describe situations that would compel an organization to reconsider its marketing efforts.

b) Identify and describe FIVE situations which would compel an organization to give serious consideration to its marketing efforts.
(10 marks)

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BMIS – Nov 2017 – L1 – Q6a – Finance, R&D, and marketing strategies

Explain the marketing concept, marketing mix, and marketing research in business strategy.

a) Explain the following:
i) Marketing Concept
ii) Marketing Mix
iii) Marketing Research
(10 marks)

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BMIS – Jul 2023 – L1 – Q2a & Q2b – The external environment, Finance | R&D and marketing strategies

Elaborates on demand-side and supply-side market failures and outlines the benefits of positioning in an organization.

a) During the period between September and December 2022, there was a situation of constant price level changes in Ghana. Observers and experts of Economics attributed the situation to market failures which can be demand-side market failure or supply-side market failure.

Required:
Elaborate on the two types of failures stated above.
(5 marks)

b) Positioning is an activity business organisations use to create a mental image of their products in the minds of their target markets.

Required:
Outline FIVE (5) benefits associated with positioning in an organisation.
(5 marks)

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BMIS – Dec 2023 – L1 – Q5b – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Explains five elements of the 7 Ps of the marketing mix that businesses can use to gain competitive advantage.

Marketing experts have suggested that businesses, particularly service organizations that desire to have efficient and effective performance and gain competitive advantage, should adopt and apply all the 7 Ps of the marketing mix.

Required:

Explain FIVE (5) of these Ps.

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BMIS – Aug 2022 – L1 – Q4a – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Differentiates between penetration pricing and skimming pricing strategies and outlines the circumstances for their use.

Penetration pricing and Skimming pricing are the two main pricing strategies used by business organisations.

Required:

i) Differentiate between these two pricing strategies.
(4 marks)

ii) Outline THREE (3) circumstances for which each of these pricing strategies will be appropriate for use by a manufacturing company.
(6 marks)

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BMIS – NOV 2019 – L1 – Q3c – Marketing Functions

Explain five functions performed by the marketing department that enable an organization to gain competitive advantage.

The marketing department performs several functions that enables an organization to gain competitive advantage.

Required: Explain FIVE (5) of these functions. (5 marks)

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BMIS – May 2020 – L1 – Q2b – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Match products to their probable stages in the product life cycle.

A typical product life cycle has four main phases: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.

Required:
Twelve products are listed below. Match these products to the stage they have probably reached in their life cycle, by filling in the following table.

Products:

  • Online music downloads
  • SMS messaging
  • (Hand-written) postcards
  • Personal identity cards using ‘iris-based’ technology
  • Folding screen mobile phones
  • Credit cards
  • Personal computers
  • Fifth generation (5G) mobile telephones
  • Cheque books
  • Typewriters
  • Smart cards (in banking)
  • E–Conferencing

Table:

Introduction Growth Maturity Decline

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BMIS – May 2020 – L1 – Q2a – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Calculate the price elasticity of demand and explain factors affecting it.

You are the Accounts Officer of Seafarers Cafe, a company that sells cocoa drink to a wide range of consumers. The company sells a cup of cocoa drink for GH¢2.00, which yielded a sales output of 10 million cups for the year ending 2017. As part of a promotional package to celebrate its silver jubilee, the company reduced its price to GH¢1.50, which increased its total sales output to 15 million cups for the year ending 2018.

Required:
i) Calculate the Café’s price elasticity of demand. (4 marks)
ii) Explain SIX (6) factors that might have determined the company’s price elasticity of demand. (10 marks)

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BMIS – May 2019 – L1 – Q6b – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Outline and comment on the phases of a product life cycle.

Traditionally, products go through a four-stage cycle. As a product goes through the phases, the priorities for performance objectives change.

Required:
Outline and comment on the phases of a product life cycle. (10 marks)

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BMIS – May 2019 – L1 – Q4 – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Explain the role of relationship marketing, customer care, and customer service in increasing sales revenue.

Brand Marketing Concepts Ltd (BMC) has for five years employed traditional methods of advertising and promotional messages to directly increase sales. The Accounts Officer in his year-end financial report has observed that sales revenue for two of the four products marketed by BMC have seen neither increase nor decrease for the past two years.

Required:
a) What roles can relationship marketing, customer care, and customer service play in increasing sales revenue for the two products marketed by BMC? (15 marks)

b) State FIVE (5) basic principles to be applied to develop customer relationship. (5 marks)

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BMIS – Nov 2017 – L1 – Q6b – Finance, R&D, and marketing strategies

Describe situations that would compel an organization to reconsider its marketing efforts.

b) Identify and describe FIVE situations which would compel an organization to give serious consideration to its marketing efforts.
(10 marks)

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BMIS – Nov 2017 – L1 – Q6a – Finance, R&D, and marketing strategies

Explain the marketing concept, marketing mix, and marketing research in business strategy.

a) Explain the following:
i) Marketing Concept
ii) Marketing Mix
iii) Marketing Research
(10 marks)

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BMIS – Jul 2023 – L1 – Q2a & Q2b – The external environment, Finance | R&D and marketing strategies

Elaborates on demand-side and supply-side market failures and outlines the benefits of positioning in an organization.

a) During the period between September and December 2022, there was a situation of constant price level changes in Ghana. Observers and experts of Economics attributed the situation to market failures which can be demand-side market failure or supply-side market failure.

Required:
Elaborate on the two types of failures stated above.
(5 marks)

b) Positioning is an activity business organisations use to create a mental image of their products in the minds of their target markets.

Required:
Outline FIVE (5) benefits associated with positioning in an organisation.
(5 marks)

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BMIS – Dec 2023 – L1 – Q5b – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Explains five elements of the 7 Ps of the marketing mix that businesses can use to gain competitive advantage.

Marketing experts have suggested that businesses, particularly service organizations that desire to have efficient and effective performance and gain competitive advantage, should adopt and apply all the 7 Ps of the marketing mix.

Required:

Explain FIVE (5) of these Ps.

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BMIS – Aug 2022 – L1 – Q4a – Finance, R&D and marketing strategies

Differentiates between penetration pricing and skimming pricing strategies and outlines the circumstances for their use.

Penetration pricing and Skimming pricing are the two main pricing strategies used by business organisations.

Required:

i) Differentiate between these two pricing strategies.
(4 marks)

ii) Outline THREE (3) circumstances for which each of these pricing strategies will be appropriate for use by a manufacturing company.
(6 marks)

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