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The Marketing Plan, 4th Edition
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The Marketing Plan, 4th Edition

by William M. LUTHER
February 2011
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
5h 24m
English
AMACOM
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6 The Product/Service Plan

You have a choice of four different types of mousetraps to catch your customers. They are:

1. A better mousetrap

2. A disappearing-mouse mousetrap

3. A 36-inch mousetrap

4. A cheaper mousetrap

A better mousetrap is of higher quality than the competition. Examples are Haagen Dazs ice cream, Godiva chocolates, and Cross pens. A disappearing-mouse mousetrap is where you don’t have to see the dead mouse. You can now buy mousetraps where the mouse goes into a box, like a little hotel, and can’t get back out in the morning. Then you throw out the hotel. This type of mousetrap is not any more effective than the old kind, but is preferred because you don’t see the dead mouse. The definition of a disappearing-mouse mousetrap ...

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