Role Of Marketing In Ghana

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the role of marketing in my country GHANA Marketing has acquired an important place for the economic development of Ghana. It has also become a necessity for attaining the object of social welfare. As a result of it, marketing is considered to be the most important activity in a business enterprise while at the early stage of development its considered to be the last activity. For convenience, the importance Role of marketing in Ghana are as follows: i) Delivery of standard of living to the society: A society is a mixture of diverse people with diverse tastes and preferences. Modern marketing always aims for customer satisfaction. So, main liability of marketing is to produce goods and services for the society according to their needs and…show more content…
Through effective marketing the companies can reduce their distribution costs to a great extent. Decrease in cost of distribution directly affects the prices of products because the cost of distribution is an important part of the total price of the product. iii) Increasing employment opportunities: Marketing comprises of advertising, sales, distribution, branding and many more activities. So the development of marketing automatically gives rise to a need for people to work in several areas of marketing. Thus the employment opportunities are born. Also successful operation marketing activities requires the services of different enterprises and organisation such as wholesalers, retailers, transportation, storage, finance, insurance and advertising. These services provide employment to a number of people. iv) Protection against business slump: Business slump cause unemployment, slackness in the success of business and great loss to economy. Marketing helps in protecting society against all these problems. v) Increase in national…show more content…
Selling a sub-par product or service. If you are going to create and sell a product or service that you know is lacking, you better not be marketing as the best thing since sliced bread. Be honest that it is very basic and not for experienced professionals. Or better yet, create something more worthwhile. 2. Refusing to respond to and correct customer complaints. One of the worst things a business that relies on word of mouth referrals can do is ignore unhappy customers. If you receive a complaint about a service you rendered, you should respond to it promptly and seek a resolution as quickly as possible. It is not only being the “right” thing to do, but you have a chance to turn a negative experience into a positive one and that may lead to a second chance with that customer. 3. Contacting people without their consent. Just because I email you with a question or collaboration opportunity does not give you permission to add me to your newsletter email list. Make sure you are only contacting those that have opted-in to receive information from you. If you add email addresses to your lists without consent, you are spamming. "Unethical behaviour is really the result of other behaviours that blind us from seeing what is really happening," O'Brien
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