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• MKT 498 Entire Course (New Syllabus)
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• MKT 498 Week 1 Purpose and Value of Integrated
  Marketing Communications
• MKT 498 Week 2 Product and Market Identification
• MKT 498 Week 2 Trends in Marketing Communications
• MKT 498 Week 3 Competitive and Segmentation
  Analysis Presentation
• MKT 498 Week 3 Advertising Tools in IMC Plans
• MKT 498 Week 4 Analysis of Marketing
  Communication Tools Paper
• MKT 498 Week 5 Marketing Communications Plan
  Executive Summary

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• MKT 498 Final Exam Guide
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• Complete the Final Examination (50 questions in
  True/False, Multiple Choice, and Multiple Select
  format).
• Multiple Choice and Multiple Select
  Questions
• 1 The foundation of an IMC plan includes
  which of the following elements? (Check all that
  apply)
• 2 A system of partnerships and alliances
  that a firm creates to source, augment, and
  deliver its offerings is called ________.

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• MKT 498 Week 1 DQ 1
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• What is integrated marketing?
• What is the value of integrated marketing in
  todays business environment?
• How is integrated marketing different from
  traditional marketing?

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• MKT 498 Week 1 DQ 2
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• What are the "non-quantifiable" tools in
  marketing? How can these tools be evaluated? What
  is the value of using these tools? How can you
  justify the use of non-quantifiable tools for
  creating a marketing strategy for a marketing
  plan?

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• MKT 498 Week 1 DQ 3
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• What are the different types of tools available
  for businesses to conduct marketing analyses? How
  are the outcomes different? How are the different
  tools for marketing analyses important in
  developing an integrated marketing communication?
  Provide an example.

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• MKT 498 Week 1 Individual Assignment Purpose and
  Value of Integrated Marketing Paper (New)
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• MKT 498 Week 1 Individual Assignment Purpose and
  Value

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• MKT 498 Week 1 Individual Assignment Purpose and
  Value of Integrated Marketing Paper
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• Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you
  describe the purpose and value of integrated
  marketing. (2 points)
• In your paper, investigate an existing company
  and determine if the company has an integrated
  marketing campaign for one of the products or
  services they sell. Address the following in your
  paper

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• MKT 498 Week 1 Purpose and Value of Integrated
  Marketing Communications
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• MKT 498 Week 1 Purpose and Value of Integrated
  Marketing Communications
• Select a product or service from a company with
  which you are familiar.
• Write a 1,050- to 1,200-word paper in which you
• ? Analyze the purpose and value of an integrated
  marketing communications (IMC) plan.

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• MKT 498 Week 2 DQ 1
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• Why is it important to have a unique competitive
  advantage (often called a unique selling
  proposition, or USP)? Is a competitive advantage
  perceived or real?

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• MKT 498 Week 2 DQ 2
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• What is a target market? How do you segment a
  market to identify a target market? What is the
  value of identifying the optimal target market
  for a product or service?

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• MKT 498 Week 2 DQ 3
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• How does demographic and geographic data
  collection differ from psychographic and life
  cycle data collection? What is the value of each?
  Provide examples.

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• MKT 498 Week 2 DQ 4
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• What assessment tools might a business use to
  determine what your competition is doing? How do
  you collect data on the competition? Provide
  examples.

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• MKT 498 Week 2 DQ 5
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• What is the value and purpose of a marketing
  positioning statement? How does the assessment
  affect the development of the marketing position?
  How often should the marketing position change or
  be reviewed? Does it depend on the type of
  business or customer? Provide examples.

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• MKT 498 Week 2 DQ 6
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• Why is product life cycle important? What changes
  should occur in advertising, sales, and promotion
  at the various stages of the product life cycle?
  Provide examples.

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• MKT 498 Week 2 Individual Assignment Marketing
  Analysis Tools Table
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• Complete the Marketing Analysis Tools Table which
  is posted in the Course Materials Forum. This
  table lists the various tools that are used by
  marketers to analyze product positioning,
  competitive positioning, customer perceptions,
  and distribution-channel analysis. Fill in the
  blanks with the appropriate information that
  describes the tool and that then compares the
  strengths and weaknesses of using each tool to
  create a marketing strategy.

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• MKT 498 Week 2 Individual Assignment week 2
  Competitive Advantage and Objectives
  Analysis(New)
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• MKT 498 Week 2 Individual Assignment week 2
  Competitive Advantage and Objectives Analysis

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• MKT 498 Week 2 Product and Market Identification
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• MKT 498 Week 2 Product and Market Identification
• Prepare for the Marketing Communications Plan
  Executive Summary due in Week 5, by addressing
  the following
• ? Discuss the product or service each team member
  wrote about in their individual Week 1 Purpose
  and Value of Integrated Marketing Communications
  assignment.
• ? Select one of these products or services to use
  in the upcoming team assignments.

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• MKT 498 Week 2 Trends in Marketing Communications
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• MKT 498 Week 2 Trends in Marketing Communications
• Write a 1,050- to 1,200-word paper in which you
• ? Select and assess three trends in marketing
  communications.
• ? Provide specific examples of each trend with
  evidence of marketing communications that reflect
  the trend. Insert screen shots, photos, etc. as
  proof.

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• MKT 498 Week 3 Advertising Tools in IMC Plans
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• MKT 498 Week 3 Advertising Tools in IMC Plans
• Write a 1,200- to 1,450-word paper using the
  company that you selected for the Week 1
  assignment in which you
• ? Identify three advertising tools that the
  company uses.
• ? Examine each tool and the target market it
  tries to reach with the tools.
• ? Evaluate the effectiveness of each tool and its
  reach to the intended target market.
• ? Suggest changes to each tool to increase its
  effectiveness.

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• MKT 498 Week 3 Competitive and Segmentation
  Analysis Presentation
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• MKT 498 Week 3 Competitive and Segmentation
  Analysis Presentation
• Create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint
  presentation with speaker notes that shows a
  competitive advantage analysis in which the
  following points are addressed
• ? Evaluate the key attributes of the selected
  product or service chosen in the Week 2 Learning
  Team assignment and discuss which segmentation
  variable is addressed by the attribute.

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• MKT 498 Week 3 DQ 1
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• What are some of the current trends influencing
  the effectiveness of advertising? What effect
  does emerging technology have on advertising?
  What are the changes in consumer behavior that
  are being affected?

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• MKT 498 Week 3 DQ 2
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• Identify a current and innovative advertising
  campaign you have observed recently. What are the
  characteristics of the campaign? Why is it
  innovative?

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• MKT 498 Week 3 DQ 3
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• What is CPM? Why is CPM important? What are some
  of the differences between total cost of CPM
  and advertisement versus the CPM rate?

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• MKT 498 Week 3 DQ 4
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• Why is important for a business to consider
  alternative marketing tactics when developing an
  integrated marketing communication (IMC)
  campaign? What are some of the strengths of each
  type of communication? Provide examples. How do
  the types of communication vary by product
  category?

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• MKT 498 Week 3 DQ 5
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• What is the difference between quantifiable and
  non-quantifiable outcomes in marketing? Provide
  an example. How do these outcomes affect the
  post-evaluation of branding and positioning
  strategies with regards to an IMC plan? How does
  a marketing plan justify the non-quantifiable
  tools in its strategy?

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• MKT 498 week 3 Integrated Marketing Communication
  Target Market Paper (New)
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• MKT 498 week 3 Integrated Marketing Communication
  Target Market Paper

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• MKT 498 Week 3 Team Assignment Target Market and
  Competitive Advantage Paper
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• Select the product or service from the Integrated
  Marketing Discussion in Week Two.
• Write a 1,600- to 2,000-word paper for which you
  first research the current customer base, buyer
  behavior, demographics, psychographics,
  lifestyle, geographic area, benefit segmentation,
  and user segmentation for the product or service
  your team is studying.

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• MKT 498 Week 4 Analysis of Marketing
  Communication Tools Paper
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• MKT 498 Week 4 Analysis of Marketing
  Communication Tools Paper
• Write a 1,050-word paper in which you include the
  following
• ? Discuss at least three marketing communication
  tools currently used to market the product or
  service selected in the Week 2 Learning Team
  assignment.

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• MKT 498 Week 4 DQ 1
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• What is the relationship between a target market
  and selecting a distribution channel? How do the
  changes in the target market affect the design of
  the distribution channel? Provide an example.

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• MKT 498 Week 4 DQ 2
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• What decisions go into selecting a distribution
  channel? What decisions go into selecting new
  distribution channels? What is the difference
  between a vertical and a horizontal distribution
  channel? Provide an example.

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• MKT 498 Week 4 DQ 3
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• What effect has e-commerce had on traditional
  brick-and-mortar business? Provide at least two
  examples and explain the effects. How can a
  business determine what proportion of the budget
  should be allocated for e-commerce? How has
  e-commerce globalized the small business?

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• MKT 498 Week 4 DQ 4
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• What is a value-added network? What are the
  advantages and disadvantages of selecting
  value-added networks? How does the distribution
  change with the different stages of the product
  life cycle?

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• MKT 498 Week 4 Individual Assignment Alternative
  Marketing Options Paper
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• Use the product or service that your Learning
  Team selected in the Integrated Marketing
  Discussion in Week Two.
• Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you
  identify one marketing option from each category
  below which would be realistic for the product or
  service examined. The categories are
  advertising, personal selling, public relations,
  and promotions. Rank your four marketing options
  from 1 to 4, with 1 being the best alternative
  and 4 being the least effective alternative, in
  your estimation.

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• MKT 498 Week 4 Integrated Marketing Communication
  Positioning Strategies Paper (New)
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• MKT 498 Week 4 Integrated Marketing Communication
  Positioning Strategies Paper

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• MKT 498 Week 4 Team Assignment Marketing
  Communication Paper (New)
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• MKT 498 Week 4 Team Assignment Marketing
  Communication Paper

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• MKT 498 Week 4 Team Assignment Marketing Position
  Statement Presentation
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• Utilize the research from your Learning Teams
  Target Market and Competitive Advantage Analysis
  in Week Three.
• Create a 12-slide Microsoft PowerPoint
  presentation in which you develop and justify a
  Marketing Position Statement for the selected
  product or service.
• Your cover slide will be Slide 1, your Marketing
  Position Statement will be Slide 2, and your
  references slide will be Slide 12, with 9
  intermediate slides providing your justification
  for that Marketing Position Statement. (0.5 point
  for Marketing Position Statement)

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• MKT 498 Week 5 Assignment Communication Channels
  Paper (New)
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• MKT 498 Week 5 Assignment Communication Channels
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• MKT 498 Week 5 Digital Communications
  Presentation
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• MKT 498 Week 5 Digital Communications
  Presentation
• Research the digital communications tools used by
  the company you chose in Week 1 or Week 3.
• Prepare a 15- to 20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint
  presentation with speakers notes in which you
• ? Provide an overview of the company.
• ? Discuss its use of digital communications to
  address target markets and provide an example by
  embedding a url link into the Microsoft
  PowerPoint slide.

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• MKT 498 Week 5 Marketing Communications Plan
  Executive Summary
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• MKT 498 Week 5 Marketing Communications Plan
  Executive Summary
• For your final Learning Team assignment, complete
  a Marketing Communications Plan Executive Summary
  (you must know what an Executive Summary is)
  using the information from the Learning Team
  assignments in Weeks 2-4
• ? Product and Target Market Identification Paper

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• MKT 498 Week 5 Team Assignment Integrated
  Marketing Communication Plan (New)
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• MKT 498 Week 5 Team Assignment Integrated
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• MKT 498 Week 5 Team Assignment Integrated
  Marketing Communications (IMC) Plan Paper
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• Refer to the University Material Integrated
  Marketing Communications (IMC) Plan and
  Presentation located on the student website.
• Week 5 Team Assignment
• I thought the breakdown could be as follows
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• 1. Executive Summary and Introduction

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