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Old Oct 18, 2001 | 06:07 PM
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"How do external and internal environmental factors, consumer behavior and business behavior, competitive analysis, and segmenting and targeting affect a company's positioning?"

Try and write out 7 pages of explanation!

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Old Oct 18, 2001 | 06:09 PM
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First off..DOUBLE space!, then after the first page reiterate it on the second and so-on..

Good luck!!
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Old Oct 18, 2001 | 06:10 PM
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Old Oct 18, 2001 | 06:12 PM
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Originally posted by Mindcore
First off..DOUBLE space!, then after the first page reiterate it on the second and so-on..

Good luck!!
- double space covered
- Arial font set at 12
- margins are now at 1.4 on the side, and 1.2 on top/bottom



what else?
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Old Oct 18, 2001 | 06:13 PM
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How about graphs, pics, lots of quotes, and a bilography.
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Old Oct 18, 2001 | 06:29 PM
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Use of phrases such as

As previously stated...
To reiterate on that point...
Notwithstanding the foregoing an alternative view is...

These all allow you to say the same thing again or say the opposite to what you have just said. Great for bulking out.

Also go through and look for places where you have used simple words. Then try replacing them with 4 or 5 words that together mean the same as the simple word.....
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Old Oct 18, 2001 | 06:54 PM
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after looking through the text book briefly, i realized 7 pages of BS is not enough to explain everything...



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Old Oct 18, 2001 | 09:16 PM
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External environmental factors do include serious competition, weather and most definitely sales happens to come from external sources. Internal sources are vice-versa? Consumer behavior is a big criteria, the use of discounts and VIP styled factors do affect sales gradually.

Non-theleast, the products must be affordable across the range. Business behavior? Your competition and business rivals, never forget them because they are you happen to monopolize the market. Don't have a competitive analysis and the rest sounds like jargon to me. So ... How does that sound for a beginner business head?

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Old Oct 19, 2001 | 05:21 AM
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hmmm, im guessing thats a 1500 to 2000 wd essay. dont sweat it man, im doing consumer behaviour now for my mba, im doing the 11th subject in my 12 subject mba, one more baby and thats it, $14000 well spent , yeah right. i dont even need it.
i guess the first thing is to do some research......at least 8 references.
the next thing is to break the question down, "How do external and internal environmental factors, consumer behavior and business behavior, competitive analysis, and segmenting and targeting affect a company's positioning?"
look at what is involved with the internal and external environmental factors and there relationship to competition with businesses, a general and brief definition is fine,
next, consumer behaviour and business behaviour is huge so u need to find a concise definition in regards to positioning.
look at what is involved in competitive analysis and then give examples of segmenting and targeting theories. i like to use phrases like...." to illustrate this..." and then give a real world example, after all i see the mba as being a practical degree that i can relate to everyday affairs.
sorry i cant help u out more but i gotta do 2 more assignments myself.
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Old Oct 19, 2001 | 06:11 AM
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lots of adjectives adverbs and descriptive words.....a lot of filler you know....that will probably give you another 1/2 - 1 page of crap =)
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