What are the main new trends in Marketing? Please explain!!!! this is long question!?
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Multi-Level marketing started probably in the 1960's.  The  best known multilevel is Amway, known more recently as Quickstar.  Today, there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of multilevel marketing organizations, from sales of soap to Real Estate Agency.\n\nMultilevel marketing involves a member representing one or more manufacturer's products, hopefully either with an exclusive marketing agreement or with a better price than can be found elsewhere.\n\nThe multilevel marketer makes money two ways: direct sales and through signing up other multilevel marketers.  Sometimes the new member pays an initiation fee to join, and the signing member (usually called the sponsor) gets a portion of this initiation fee.  Sometimes a member pays a membership fee (monthly, annually, etc.) and the sponsoring member gets a portion of that fee.\n\nCommissions and bonuses are paid upon the some portion (less than or equal to 100%) of the total volume of sales that occurs in the organization of those people that the sponsor signed up (called his DOWNLINE.)\n\nOK, so why do people want to do this?\n\n1 - Low cost of entry vs. starting a traditional business.  Normally a member can get going in the business for a few hundreds of dollars, either in initiation or membership fees, or in purchasing product which is to be resold.\n\n2 - The best reason to be in a multilevel marketing system is that it can produce recurring income (called residual income.)  Residual income occurs not because of a member's efforts, but on the efforts of those below him in his organization.  Just like the CEO of General Electric is paid when he is on vacation, the MLM member is paid when not working, because his organization is working on his behalf.\n\nIn order to get residual income of $500 per month from a stock investment, I would generally need $100,000 or more invested (at 6%, I would be able to draw $500 a month on the investment, without touching the principal.)  In a multilevel marketing organization, a member often can get to the $500 per month in residual income within a few months to a year.\n\nSo, with a minimal investment in money, and a large investment in time and effort, a business with a good residual income can be built in short order.\n\nWant to see a MLM offering?  Go to: http://www.myvemma.com/mjf
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I don't understand this question... if you're looking for hot trends, pom-poms and argyle are in, but if you mean more generally, like what do people buy, then look to the powerful sneezers (celebrities, fashion and media icons and etc.).  For more on powerful sneezers, check out Seth Godin (www.ideavirus.com)
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The world is becoming one global market place.People from all around the world watch MTV, sip coco cola and wear levis jeans.The originally culturally diverse world is becoming increasingly unified in it's tastes and wants.\n\nHence advertising is becoming one unified message on the international front.Agencies are conveying one common message and building the brand on one unified message all around the globe.
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The best way to move into new markets to find markets that are adjacent to the market you are already in. Don't try to stretch to completely new markets - it is too expensive. \n\nFind customers within your existing business who fit in both your current and adjacent markets and ask them how they learn about new products/services in their other market (what they read, what sites to they visit, what keywords to they use on Google, etc).  All this will help you find sources of media that best target these buyers.\n\nThen I would try to get PR before advertising. It is often less expensive and more effective.  If you have never used PR (Public relations) before, I have a suggestion. My friend opened up a business in a new market. To get local newspaper coverage, he went to the newspaper and asked which local PR specialists the newspaper liked to work with. Then he hired their recommendation to get him ink in the local paper. It worked like a charm.
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You can write to companies, but I'm not sure if I am understanding this correctly. If you want cool topics, you can look into Target having it's own "designer" branded foods/clothes etc...and competing with Walmart. You can look at how KMART plans to re-enter the world of business with SEARS -  for topic ideas think of competitive markets and come up with a fun idea....does packaging or price play a bigger role in brand recognition etc...
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Today is the generation of information technology.To have information of your surroundings and keep pace with the world you need to have up-to date information. not only a Business men needs to kept informed about the changes of rules and trend in given market , you should have even students to kept well informed about the new sub branches of the Fields they are studying so that they can decide more accurately the Carrier they want to choose .Not only information tells you to carry umbrella today or not the information of how to make a good dish in TV show can make you mouth watering when you find nice colored dish made by your wife witch she watched on TV. Not only TV gives you news it can tell your grand parents the new developments in medical science so that they can have little more hope and chance to live more comfortably. I think i have given you quite a bit of information.
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There are really two.\n\nFirst, the most recent, popular trend has been development of AJAX applications.  These are Asynchronous JavaScript and XML pages.  To put it simply, no reloading of pages to see new content.  A user can search for products inline with the rest of the site without having to wait for page reloading.\n\nSecond, the up and coming trend is going to be the semantic web.  There's already talk of the Web 3.0 online.  This will lead to more meaningful searches and better organization of aggregated content.  I'd provide references, but there's far too many to decide.  Do some searching on AJAX or Web 3.0 or check out w3c.org for plenty of information on both.
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new ways ?\n\nYeah its combination of traditional distribution system incorporating Direct marketing, viral marketing, relationship marketing, wellness marketing etc.
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Consumers demand for products that give convenience and quality at the lowest cost.  These are very subjective criteria, in a competitive market, suppliers are pressured to give better products to outsell the existing top brands.  Product awareness and reach is now not enough to sustain market supremacy specially because through the internet one can easily find the latest product offerings every now and then.  To compete, suppliers have to continually innovate either the product itself or to improve the process of making it and delivering it to the customer. \n\nIt's a tough market nowadays!
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The Internet is changing marketing, and will continue to. But it's quite a leap to go from there to "marketing jobs are becoming obsolete."\n\nThe question of whether human interaction is required isn't really relevant. Whether there is or isn't human interaction once someone is on the site, someone had to do the thinking about value proposition, target audience, positioning, etc., and then do some sort of campaign to get that person to the site in the first place. \n\nSome good paying marketing jobs? Brand manager for any national brand would be an obvious place to start. There are also opportunities for people with specialized expertise in web marketing. \n\nYanno, people said the web was going to mean the death of printing as an industry, yet more pages are printed every year. \n\nThe concepts and theory of marketing are here to stay, and aren't changing much. The execution and tactics of marketing are undergoing revolutionary change. Be on top of those trends, and you'll find your way to one of those high-paying jobs. \n\nGood luck,\nRex
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Today there is soo much clutter, and its getting harder and harder to break through it (as an advertiser). Basically you need to target your advertistement so it stands out to the people who you want to be your audience - i.e. grab their attention.\n\nNotice how posters of good looking scantily clad women attracts male attention ;)
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Sorry friend but your generation is being assimulated by mine.\n\nVery few new stuff seems to be prominent. Lots of stuff from 80s and earlier.\n\nWe just don't want to give you a voice.
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The whole industry is going through some big changes right now so what's hot is pretty hard to pick. My list would be:\n\n1. Web programming with Python, PHP, Ruby. Java and ASP.NET are good web frameworks, but the 4GL languages are so much faster to develop in and seem to be the core of most new web 2.0 sites.\n\n2. IT infrastructure consolidation using commodity hardware, open source software, and virtualization using VMware, XEN, etc.\n\n3. Web Services-based middleware. Yahoo, Amazon, Google, etc. are exposing business services via web services that all generating all kinds of new business models. Mashups are leveraging UI and backend API interfaces to create new web applications like Zillow, etc.\n\n4. Business Process Modeling is getting a new breath of life as the Java application servers and .NET framwork mature and there's a demand for good business analysts who can document business processes using UML, BPMN, or BPEL.\n\n5. Mobile device applications is still a hot area, but very challenging due to the short lifespan of the equipement and myriad of connection protocols: EDGE, EV-DO, UMTS, etc.\n\n6. VOIP using the Asterix open source PBX. Later versions with SIP support for CTI is really going to be cool and there's a big demand for cost savings to rip out old phone systems and go to wireless.\n\n7. Jonathan Schwartz pointed out that more money will be spent on storage than on software for the next couple years. How companies deal with rapidly increasing amounts of data is going to generate demand for database and storage infrastructure skills.\n\n8. Software as a service. Even the big players are starting to realize that selling software as a right-to-use license is a dead-end and the future is in the monthly service charge model.\n\nBasically, people looking to get into the I.T. field should steer clear of commoditized areas like application programming, customer support, embedded systems, etc. \n\nHope that helps!
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They are targeting consumers in the 30-50 year old range. We are the baby-boomers, the money-makers, the spenders. They want music that we can relate to, which is by no means the "now stuff" as you put it. It is a smart marketing strategy that works. Products that appeal more to teens do use "now stuff" music, such as cell phones and ipod commercials. They play what works to get the target's attention.
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There are many new technologies coming up in telecom sector regularly.\nCurrently High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Mobile TV, Video calls, media streaming seems to be the latest trends.
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Subscribe to Business 2.0 magazine -- they have lots of great articles on emerging market trends and gaps in the Web. Afterall, this is their focus. In their recent issue, they had a great feature on the next "disruptors" -- startups that can potentially become big.\n\nhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/\n\nYou can also learn a lot from Michael Arrington's Tech Crunch blog http://www.techcrunch.com/ -- he's a former VC but is now concentrating on writing about the tech sector
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Try here:\n\nhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/stories/2003/05/29/socialMarketing.html