June 2021
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
35h 33m
English
To design a marketing-channel system, marketers analyze customer needs and wants, establish channel objectives and constraints, and identify and evaluate major channel alternatives. After a company has chosen a channel system, it must select, train, motivate, and evaluate intermediaries for each channel. It must also modify channel design and arrangements over time, including the possibility of expansion into international markets.
Marketers should state their channel objectives in terms of the customers they aim to reach, the service output levels they want to provide, and the associated cost and support levels. Under competitive conditions, channel members should arrange their functional ...
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