Students are presented with 10 buyer personas for a hotel chain. Their task is to identify which of the buyer personas are most suitable to be the target market for the chain to pursue? Students also discussed the value of by personas versus traditional target market profiles.
Which Buyer Persona Should We Pursue? Review the Teaching Activity
In this mini case study, students assess Burger King’s strategy to grow its market share in their home market in 2023 and beyond. The firm undertook an aggressive marketing program across multiple marketing mix elements, and started to look at product-based (rather than firm-based) differentiation as the key to their growth success.
Growing Market Share: Burger King Case Study Review the Teaching Activity
This case study examines Bud Light’s trans influencer campaign from April 2023. It covers all the key points and highlights multiple marketing lessons, including brand management and adopting to DEI issues.
Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney Case Study Review the Teaching Activity
In April 2023, superstore Bed Bath & Beyond filed for bankruptcy, following several years of misalignments to the changing environment. Many factors contributed to their demise – but was poor marketing mainly to blame?
Bed Bath & Beyond Case Study Review the Teaching Activity
This is another classic case study, when Pepsi tried to create a breakfast market for cola. This activity is structured in two teaching formats and can be run as a role-play exercise or as a case study discussion.
Pepsi AM Breakfast Soda: Classic Case Study Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity we are going back to 2009 when Tropicana underwent a significant packaging redesign that did not go as planned. Although this occurred a number of years ago, it is a “classic” case study that all marketing students and practitioners should be aware of. It is especially useful for understanding the importance of packaging, branding, and what drives customer loyalty and repeat (habitual) purchases.
Tropicana’s Packaging Case Study Review the Teaching Activity
In this task students explore the gap between the consumer’s actual and desired states and its role in triggering need/problem recognition. A series of 8 print ads are used and the exercise also provides introductory information and also touches on low and high purchase involvement.
Desired vs Actual States Review the Teaching Activity
Students will analyze 10 print or billboard ads – considering attention, central messaging, perception, target audience, brand positioning fit, and likely sales impact. A great exercise for students to start thinking like analytical marketers, rather than passive consumers.
Analyzing Advertising Effectiveness Review the Teaching Activity
This activity is all about drilling down on consumer needs to explore the range of underlying motivations for behavior. Students are presented with a series of consumer statements and their task is to look beyond the top-level and to dig deeper into a fuller set of motivations and needs.
Digging Deeper with Consumer Motivation Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity, students need to segment consumers – based on their comments, attitudes, and behaviors – using demographic, psychographic, and behavioral segmentation bases, to construct three different segmentation structures. Then they need to determine which segmentation structure is the best from a marketing perspective.
Using Different Bases for Market Segmentation Review the Teaching Activity