product mix
(noun)
the number of different categories and lines of goods or services offered by a company
Examples of product mix in the following topics:
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A Brief Definition
- Promotion – how the producer communicates the value of its products – is one of the market mix elements.
- Promotion – how the producer communicates the value of its products – is one of the market mix elements.
- There are five elements an organization may choose to include in its promotional mix or promotional plan.
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The Marketing Mix
- The marketing mix is used to reach a target market and is often referred to as the "four Ps" of marketing: product, price, promotion, and place.
- The marketing mix is often crucial when determining a product or brand's offer, and is often associated with the four P's: price, product, promotion, and place.
- The marketer must also consider the product mix.
- Marketers can expand the current product mix by increasing a certain product line's depth or by increasing the number of product lines.
- Marketers should consider how to position the product, how to exploit the brand, how to exploit the company's resources, and how to configure the product mix so that each product complements others.
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Socialism and Planned Economies
- Socialism is characterized by social ownership of the means of production.
- A planned economy is a type of economy consisting of a mixture of public ownership of the means of production and the coordination of production and distribution through state planning.
- Economic planning in socialism takes a different form than economic planning in capitalist mixed economies.
- In socialism, planning refers to production of use-value directly (planning of production), while in capitalist mixed economies, planning refers to the design of capital accumulation in order to stabilize or increase the efficiency of its process.
- While many socialists advocate for economic planning as an eventual substitute for the market for factors of production, others define economic planning as being based on worker-self management, with production being carried out to directly satisfy human needs.
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The Benefits of Mixed Economies
- A mixed economy allows private participation in production while ensuring that society is protected from the full swings of the market.
- A mixed economy permits private participation in production, which in return allows healthy competition that can result in profit.
- The elements of a mixed economy have been demonstrated to include a variety of freedoms:
- They provide tax-funded, subsidized, or state-owned factors of production, infrastructure, and services:
- Outline the characteristics of a mixed economy that help to maintain a stable economy
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Mixed Economies
- It consisted of a three core policy initiative: protecting industry through high tariffs (1861–1932), government investment in infrastructure through internal improvements, and a national bank to promote the growth of productive enterprises.
- While there is not one single definition for a mixed economy, the definitions always involve a degree of private economic freedom mixed with a degree of government regulation of markets.
- Economies ranging from the United States to Cuba have been termed mixed economies.
- Restrictions are sometimes placed on private mail systems by mixed economy governments.
- Outline the plan behind and what governments provide in a mixed economy
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A Brief Description
- Promotion is one of the marketing mix elements, including personal selling, advertising, sales promotion, direct marketing, and publicity.
- There are five components to a promotional or marketing mix (sometimes known as the Five P's).
- A promotional mix specifies how much attention to pay to each of the five subcategories, and how much money to budget for each.
- Let's focus specifically on the promotion element of the marketing mix.
- These methods are used to increase the sales of a given product.
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The Promotion Mix
- There are five (sometimes six) main aspects of a promotional mix: Advertising, Personal selling, Sales promotion, Public relations, and Direct marketing.
- There are five (sometimes six) main aspects of a promotional mix .
- Examples: Coupons, sweepstakes, contests, product samples, rebates, tie-ins, self-liquidating premiums, trade shows, trade-ins, and exhibitions.
- Corporate image may be considered as a sixth aspect of promotion mix.
- New Media is also sometimes considered an element of the promotion mix.
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The Disadvantages of Mixed Economies
- The disadvantages of mixed economies can be understood through examining criticisms of social democracy.
- One disadvantage of mixed economies is that they tend to lean more toward government control and less toward individual freedoms.
- In addition, unsuccessful regulations may paralyze features of production.
- Another negative is that the government decides the amount of tax on products, which leads to people complaining about high taxes and their unwillingness to pay them.
- Examine the criticisms of social democracy as a vessel to understanding the disadvantages of mixed economies.
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The Promotion Mix
- A promotional mix is the term used to describe a business's total marketing communications program.
- A promotional mix is the term used to describe a business's total marketing communications program.
- The five main aspects of a promotional mix are: Advertising - Presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor.
- Corporate image Corporate image may also be considered as the sixth aspect of promotion mix.
- Break down the promotional mix into advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, and PR
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Promotion Objectives
- Promotion is to present information to consumers to increase demand and to differentiate a product.
- There is the physical form of product promotion and the digital form, both of which require clear and concise textual information about the product being advertised.
- Promotion is one of the five market mix elements: personal selling, advertising, sales promotion , direct marketing, and publicity.
- There are different ways to promote a product in different media.
- This is to increase the sales of a given product.