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Challenges for Online Merchants

E-commerce has grown exponentially over the last several years but many consumers are still fearful of using this mode of shopping...

Scams from Africa

Many types of fraud seem to be increasing, one of these is the Nigerian scams that many people are so familiar with. This is a cas...

Merger Between K Mart and Sears

merger has yet to actually take place (though approval seems to have been obtained), many experts, needless to say, have many ques...

United States and Britain, Differences in Manufacturing

that "UK manufacturers productivity lags between 25 to 30 per cent behind US companies in the same sector" (Willmott, 2001; p. 3)....

North America's Teenage Consumers

points out that an ideal engine, in optimum condition could theoretically conceive 100 percent efficiency, but that real-world req...

XBox Users and Buyers

event organiser set up promotion for the X-box with games such as Crash Nitrocart as well as the Simpsons Hit and Miss, These were...

Research Proposal for Sri Lanka's Re Branding

Lanka and which is most likely to succeed. Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean and has a developing economy, the GDP is $...

2005 Big Markets Emerging

located all around the world. Garten (1998) identified ten: "Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Turkey, India, Indo...

Economy Trouble, Spending, and Debt

concern1. She points out, for example, that by measuring the ratio of consumer installment credit to disposable income (which, in ...

Overview of Consumer Price Index

inception of the CPI, it has been comprehensively revised on six different times to take into consideration updated samples and we...

Pepsi, Coke, and Innovative Product Production

in obesity among children in America. To meet this challenge, the company developed low-fat chips, in fact, PepsiCo was the first ...

Benefiting and Educating Consumers Through Advertising

seen) at the time. Nearly a quarter century later, Wechsler (2002) reports that "African-American physicians regard direct-...

Article Reviews on Consumer Confidence

feel secure about their future ability to make money, the confidence level goes up. Aeppel (2005) on the other hand looks at the d...

Overview of the Network Effect

The same arguments of compatibility and interaction can be seen today widely in the use of infomaion technology software and hardw...

McDonald's and Problems with Marketing

psychological approach, not selling the product, but a perception and image that is associated with the brand. Marketing a brand ...

Technology and Organizational Change

The authors have pointed out that the conventional research of the time had worked toward obtaining evaluations of other proposals...

Advertising and Consumer Behavior

confusions would occur for brands using a similar message strategy" (i.e., would consumers get mixed up as to who the advertiser r...

Concept of the Marketing Mix

with a successful business in London and had a major impact on the entertainment industry. The marketing was carefully manipulatio...

Ethics and Communication 2

subjects in the same e-mail the sender will only have a 50% chance that both e-mails will be dealt with. 4. The e-mail should hav...

Harley Davidson and 'Hogs' Marketing

Its sale or function keeps the organization alive and growing. In the case of Harley-Davidson, of course, the product indeed is a...

Classifications and Divisions of Hospitals

a serious or highly unusual medical problem, a hospital devoted to the care of patients with similar conditions may be preferred. ...

Business Position of Apple Corporation

the environment. There are two main markets, the i-pods and the computers. 2. The Economy The economy is important as this w...

Aviation and Marketing

But these days, for the most part, price tends to be the dominant factor when it comes to competition; price and loyalty through f...

Future Trends in Managed Care

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

Concepts of Economics

at .2 billion ("World," 2004). However, for the nation of Brazil the difference is equivalent to 13.4 billion (2004). Of course, w...

The European PHEC and the American DTC

advertising in the US Since the mid-1980s, the FDA has allowed DTC advertising in the US. Originally, a few DTC ads were allowed ...

Online Retailers, Social and Legal Issues

and regulation (Ramin Communications, 1998). Along these lines, privacy still continues to be a huge social issue when it comes to...

Medical and Consumer Company Johnson and Johnson

story that demonstrates how J&J put ethical theory into actual practice was the Tylenol story from the early 1980s. At tha...

Social Class Pressures and Working Parents

these things are, in fact, needed (Overcoming Consumerism). This then is what fuels consumerism and drives people to work harder ...

Gasoline Prices and the Economy

economy. Consumers have to cut back. They pay for the higher gas prices by not doing something else. For instance, a family that ...