marketing mix

... The Marketing Mix A Market is the coming together of buyers and sellers exchanging their goods for money. For innocent the buyers would be the customers and the sellers would be the workers at the shops or supermarkets. In innocents case the goods would be mainly refreshments like smoothies, but also others such as veg pots, thickies etc. Marketing is where companies try to maximise their sales and profits by satisfying the consumers' needs and wants and turning them into profit. The marketing mix is also known as the 4 P's. These are: Product Price Place Promotion. Product Market segmentation Market segmentation can be split up in many ways, for example Age and Sex, Geographical area and Occupation and Income. Here is an example of this; Classification Who is included A Higher Management, administrative and professional B Middle management, administrative or professional C1 Supervisory or clerical, junior management C2 /skilled manual workers D Semi-skilled and Unskilled manual workers E State pensioners, students, casual workers, Unemployment For supermarkets the market segmentation is the way in

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