scholarly journals Organization-economic mechanism for financial ensuring of marketing activities of small engineering enterprises

Author(s):  
Nestor Shpak ◽  
Tamara Kyrylych

The article outlines the features of marketing activity of small engineering enterprises (SEE), the usefulness of their union for joint financing their marketing activity is substantiated. It is argued that the best form of marketing efforts integration and cooperation is an association as a contractual organization that does not interfere in the function of its members but only consolidates marketing activity. Based on this study, the organization and economical mechanism of creation and functioning of SEE Marketing Association is proposed and the financial terms of cooperation between SEE and consulting firms are investigated to ensure fair and favorable agreements on the ammount of membership fees for enterprises – the members of SEE Marketing Association.  The features and directions of the use of membership fees are studies and the benefits of the creation of such associations are shown. It was established that the activity of the SSE Marketing Association will focus on consolidating marketing efforts and professional mutual assistance of its members to meet the marketing interests, improving marketing activities, market research, protection of marketing interests of association members, forecasting market situations, finding new sales channels and organizing activities in them, selecting the most appropriate sales channels, effective solutions to the problem of planning the distribution of products between sales channels of members of the Association, development of proposals concerning elimination of undisciplined intermediaries.

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Nestor Shpak ◽  
Tamara Kyrylych

Abstract The article outlines the features of marketing activity of small engineering enterprises (SEE), the usefulness of their union for joint financing their marketing activity is substantiated. It is argued that the best form of marketing efforts integration and cooperation is an association as a contractual organization that does not interfere in the function of its members, but only consolidates marketing activity. Based on this study, the organization and economical mechanism of creation and functioning of SEE Marketing Association is proposed and the financial terms of cooperation between SEE and consulting firms are investigated to ensure fair and favorable agreements on the amount of membership fees for enterprises – the members of SEE Marketing Association. The features and directions of the use of membership fees are studies and the benefits of the creation of such associations are shown. It was established that the activity of the SSE Marketing Association will focus on consolidating marketing efforts and professional mutual assistance of its members to meet the marketing interests, improving marketing activities, market research, protection of marketing interests of association members, forecasting market situations, finding new sales channels and organizing activities in them, selecting the most appropriate sales channels, effective solutions to the problem of planning the distribution of products between sales channels of members of the Association, development of proposals concerning elimination of undisciplined intermediaries.


Author(s):  
S. Shupyk

The components of marketing management are systematized and definitions of th econcept of marketing management in the Ukrainian and foreign scientific literature are generalized. The components of marketing management at three levels of the organization a structure represented. The components of the marketing management process are presented: the mission of the enter prise; establishment of marketing objectives; collection, analysis and processing ofi nformation for the purpose of analyzing market opportunities (4C: company, context, client, competitors); identification of strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats enterprise; development of marketing strategy; realization of marketing strategy; periodic monitoring of marketing efforts and making necessary changes; development of strategic marketing programs for specific situations, assessment of marketing performance and staff motivation. Most marketing professionals consider managing a marketing process at three levels of organizational structure: on a corporate, business unit and functional and core activities –analysis, planning, implementation, and control. The process of marketing management is to implement functions, each of which is a set of analytical and appraisal tasks and strategic, tactical planning. When introducing marketing in to the enterprise management system, it is necessary to ensure the creation of marketing services with such functions as, studying markets, determining the market capacity, identifying buyers requirements for the product, ensuring product competitiveness, organizing product promotion on the market, for ming supply chain for high value added products, the processing of by-products and waste products. In order to ensure the high performance of the marketing unit at the enterprise it is expedient to form close relationships with other management departments and orient the management system to meet the needs of consumers in quality, price and other consumer properties. Features of the environment of functioning of domestic producers of poultry meat characterized by a high level of monopolization, increased uncertainty as factors of the internal and external environment of the supply chain, stable dynamics of growth in production volumes are considered. This situation is conditioned by the peculiarity of meat poultry farming, where the peculiarity of the technological process determines the rapid return on invested capital and the high investment attractiveness of the industry, which resulted in the construction of innovative poultry farms, mostly of a vertically integrated type. It was established that the basis for the creation of specialized divisions in the field of marketing were sales and supply departments, which in previous years functioned at these enter prises and performed a wide range of functions, including analytical ones. The basic requirements, which are presented to the structure of management of marketing activity are systematized: flexibility, efficiency, optimality, efficiency, reliability, stability. The structure of management of marketing activities of thee nterpriseis, in the most general form, the subordination of managerial links between objects and management entities, which characterizes the information communications of units that have hierarchical subordination and are endowed with certa in rights and responsibilities. In order to improve the management process of marketing activities of meat poultry enterprises, the flexible orientation of the final results of their activities to the requirements of consumers, approaches to assess the effectiveness of marketing activities areproposed. Effectiveness of the management process of the enterprise should be conducted on the basis of assessment of the factors of market orientation of the highest level of management of the enterprise, market orientation of staff, the establishment of interaction between staff and senior management, the level of openness of the external environment of the management system.The main factors restraining the management of the company in full implementation of the principles of the modern marketing concept are systematized, namely: a narrow unde rstanding of the essence of marketing, monopolization of the market, the lack of qualified specialists in the field of marketing, lack of financing of marketing activities. Key words: marketing management, marketing activity management system, marketing structure, meat poultry enterprises.


2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (No. 5) ◽  
pp. 230-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Fehér

Farm-sale, also known as direct sale, provides major opportunities to farmers in the future. This kind of sale is of increasing popularity in Europe, but farmers have to be familiar with the regulations concerning processing and sales. Mainly small and medium farmers prefer direct sale. In this activity, they must compete with an increasing number of hypermarkets, supermarkets and wholesale markets. When talking about direct sale, it means that farmers sell their products directly to customers. There are more options: (i) sale in their own shop, (ii) through a catalogue and (iii) delivery to restaurants and shops. It has to be mentioned that the development of special local products means the products representing a common local value and principally those that can be associated with a specific village due to their historical heritage or tradition. There is no standard or official definition for special local products that includes all the possible factors. Efforts of marketing and rural development experts are needed to identify and market these special products to the appropriate consumers. Meanwhile it has to be noticed that, mainly in Europe, the definition and the possibilities of product regulation concerning geographical origin, are clearly defined and well-known. However, the “protection of geographical origin” is not the same issue as “special local products” mentioned above. In a wider sense, these can be described from a marketing point of view as “local product, common product” that interconnect and integrate villages, people and approaches, but are not regulated and protected legally. These products mentioned above reach the consumer in relatively small quantities, through direct sale, and they are often attached to the services of rural tourism. The local products are also developed to ensure high quality products for the consumer or to attract tourists. People can be proud of them since they cannot be bought anywhere else. Advisers are also helping farmers choose the right sales channels to diversify their marketing activities.


Author(s):  
Jussi Puhakainen

The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate challenges and opportunities related to IT-enabled and assisted customerships. The chapter begins by defining the term digitization and illustrates what can be digitized and to what extent. Next we illustrate how IT (and digitization) can assist in various types of interactions or create new types of interactions. Digitization and interactions form a fulcrum for the rest of the chapter, which deals with IT-assisted and -enabled marketing activities and customerships. We will make a clear distinction between classical relationship marketing and IT-enabled techno-relationship marketing. Finally we focus on a single marketing activity, namely customer service.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Rita ◽  
Ricardo Filipe Ramos ◽  
Sérgio Moro ◽  
Marta Mealha ◽  
Lucian Radu

PurposeThis study aims to understand if an online dating app is considered an acceptable channel to conduct advertising activities and understand the differences between Generations X, Y and Z for such acceptance.Design/methodology/approachA total of 411 Tinder users’ reactions were obtained and analyzed using text mining to compute the sentiment score of each response, and a Kruskal–Wallis H test to verify if there are statistical differences between each generation.FindingsThe results showed positive acceptability toward the marketing campaign on Tinder, especially Z Generation. Nevertheless, the statistical analysis revealed that the differences between each generation are not statistically significant.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation relates to the fact that the participants, during the data collection, revealed their identification, perhaps leading to acquiescence bias. In addition, the study mainly covered the male population. A balanced sample would be positive to examine any possible differences between gender.Practical implicationsResults provide an essential indication for companies regarding their marketing activities conducted on Tinder to fully exploit the possibility of using Tinder as an alternative and valuable channel to conduct marketing activities.Originality/valueUp until now, no studies tried to understand the effect of a marketing activity online on an online dating app.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Rodney Turner ◽  
Laurence Lecoeuvre ◽  
Shankar Sankaran ◽  
Michael Er

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the marketing practices adopted by contractors in project-based industries to win new business and maintain relationships with existing clients. Design/methodology/approach The authors interviewed eight such contractors, and used activity theory as a lens to analyze the results. The authors investigated project marketing activities at four stages of the project contract life cycle, and against four enablers of collaboration. Findings The authors have identified that the service-dominant logic pervades project marketing. Through the project contract life cycle the marketing activity starts with a strategic focus, becomes tactical, then operational and returns to strategic. Project marketing involves executive managers, marketing, client or account managers and project managers. Project managers have a key responsibility for project marketing. The four enablers of collaboration, relationships, communication, going-with and trust, support each other and the entire project marketing activity. Research limitations/implications As a contribution to theory, the authors have identified the practices adopted by contractors in project-based industries to market their competencies to clients to win new work and maintain relationships with existing clients. The authors have identified practices throughout the contract life cycle, and practices to develop collaboration. The next step will be to explain these practices in terms of traditional marketing theory. Practical implications The results provide guidelines to contractors in project-based industries who wish to improve their marketing activity to achieve sustainable performance. Industry may also find it useful to train or coach their project managers to be conscious of their marketing role. Originality/value Previous work has been conceptual in nature and has speculated on the nature of the project marketing performed by contractors to win new projects, and set it against marketing done by the project. This research has empirically investigated the actual marketing practices adopted by project contracting organizations, shown how it varies through the project life cycle and shown how responsibility passes from senior management to the account team and then to project managers. It has also investigated the application of the four enablers of collaboration: relationships, communication, going-with and trust.


1990 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 30-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim J. Hughes

Financial services companies are in a unique position to measure the performance of their marketing activities. Marketing is still relatively new in this sector and marketers need to support their case with figures. A case study of how a Building Society sold an investment bond is given to demonstrate how sales can be measured through different channels. The sales channels were: branches, direct mail, newspaper advertising and telesales. Examples of pro formas are given to demonstrate what information can be gained with the benefit of forward planning. Some information may be needed on a daily basis while more detailed information may be weekly or monthly. Every method by which sales can be measured and attributed to advertising should be examined for every campaign. TV advertising is sometimes difficult to quantify. However, with a regional branch network often sales results can be judged, and an example of a method of calculating this is given.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Mahamudul Hasan

This study aims to investigate the importance and effect of marketing activities in the garments industry of Bangladesh. The researchers have used a structured questionnaire to collect data from seventy garments companies of Dhaka city. Descriptive statistics, one sample t test and regression analysis have been subsequently used to analyze the data. The analysis shows that product planning, pricing, promotion, distribution, market research and marketing planningrelated activities are important for the garments business. The regression analysis shows that importance given to pricing and importance given to promotion have significant positive relationship with the overall performance of the garments business.


2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 6-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. R. Berest

The attempt to analyze and show the important role of Lviv printers and to describe their role in the development of Galician society has been made in the article. This attempt has been made on the basis of documents, the principle of historicism, scientific and objective approach. The importance and problematic of the comprehensive study of the oldest history of the creation, formation and development of Lviv printers’ professional co-operation of mutual assistance has been highlighted, and the history and activities of this organization in stages have been described. In general, trade unions emerged as an independent united self-defense organizations and they were formed in the form of workers’ associations and mutual assistance funds. During the first half of the nineteenth century the crystallization of the activities of trade unions happened under the influence of various measures, hold by the administrations, the police and the authorities. This contributed to the further unification of labor and the creation of all-city union of printers in Lviv. It is quite logical that the basis of their actions was their desire to achieve and get the working solidarity, mutual support and assistance. The activities of the trade union were regulated by the statutes. First of all, the purpose of the establishment and operation of the organization was socio-economic, cultural and educational ones. Those purposes were approved by the relevant state authorities and, thus, prevented trade unions from participating in political life.The short period of the 1860-1880s can be considered to be a separate stage in the process of the formation of the mass trade union movement in Galicia. Together with the trade unions of printers, settlers, brokers, masons, carpenters, builders, tanneries, metal workers, doctors, pharmacists, tradesmen, postmen, civil servants, lawyers and many others united and became active partners of the region.The problem, which has been investigated in the article, has a valuable scientific significance as it allows to solve one of the most important issues: to get the historical understanding of activities of Lviv trade union organizations, which have not been thoroughly studied yet.


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