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Project Topic:
ADVERTISING AND MARKETING PERFORMANCE OF GSM COMPANIES IN PORT HARCOURT METROPOLIS
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the Study
Every organization must recognize that the success of any manufactured product or service rendered depends on its level of acceptance in the market. The ever increasing product diversity and competition on the market of goods and services has dictated the pace of growth in the number of advertisements. Despite their admittedly diminished effectiveness over the recent years, advertisements remain the favoured method of sales promotion.
To endear a product to the consumer, many organizations employ different effective marketing tools and promotional strategies to enhance product acceptance. For a product to be accepted by the public therefore, the marketing mix must be available – product, price, place and promotion. This means that for a product to be successful, it needs the right price, the correct strategies and the right promotional activities. Alide (2002) sees advertising as a concept which can be defined as a form of communication through the media about product, services, ideas, personalities or organizations, paid for by an identified sponsor. Bovee and Arens (2005) gave a more widely accepted definition of advertising as the non-personal communication of information, usually paid for any usually persuasive in nature about products (goods and services) or ideas by an identified sponsor through various media. It is an exciting, dynamic, and challenging enterprise. Its often a persuasive communication in that it tries to persuade the reader, the listener or the viewer to take to the sponsor’s own point of view and also to take some appropriate action. It is not personal or face to face communication, rather it is directed to a group of people.
Advertising is also controlled, identifiable information and persuasion by means of mass communication media. Defined by Wrignt and Zeight (2002). Gillran Dyer says that in its simplest sense, the word “advertising” means drawing attention to something or notifying or informing somebody of something. On the other hand, GSM stands for Global System for Mobile Communications. In Nigeria, GSM means Telecom explosion. The GSM revolution began in August 2001 and changed the face of Information and Communications Technology in Nigeria. Since the GSM launch, mobile telephony has rapidly become the most popular method of voice communication in Nigeria. Growth has been so rapid that Nigeria has been rightly described in various for a as ‘one of the fastest growing GSM markets in the world”.
Indeed these developments have been truly explosive: according to statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), compared with just about 450,000 working lines from NITEL in 2001, by August 2004, the GSM operators had recorded over seven million subscribers. Expectations are that the figure should rise to nine million by the end of 2004, due to massive expansion programmes launched by the operators. As a result of this various Handset or mobile phones are now available in the country with different size, face, colour, facilities and cost.
One of the tools that are available to manufacturers to crate awareness as well as create product image in the minds of buyers and potential users is advertising. The influence of advertising in the action consumer takes concerning a particular product lies in the frequency of exposure to the message and the usefulness of the product to the indentified needs of the would-be users. Generally speaking, the role of advertising is to inform both loyal and potential consumers of the benefit, function, and/or the price of the product; to persuade consumers to buy the said product; and to remind those who are already using the product of the existence of the product in the market. Writing on the information function of advertising, Daiwan (2009) agrees that the primary role of advertising is ‘to inform potential buyers of the problem-solving utility of a firm’s market offering, with the objective of developing consumer preferences for a particular product’.
The concept of consumer preference comes even alive in the Nigerian telecommunications industry which has been described has the “largest and fastest growing in Africa and among the 10 fastest growing telecom markets in the world” (Nwachukwu, 2013).B Analysis of the sector showed that operators of the global system for mobile telecommunication (GSM) sector have a huge overall control of the telecoms market, 118,470,236 active connections were recorded as at the end of September 2013 from 113, 195, 95 as at December 2012. The MTN Nigeria, Glo Mobile (Globacom), Etisalat Wireless and Airtel Nigeria in that other rule the market. With this scenario, it is clear that the various network providers would strive to outdo one another by attempting to position their services ahead of others so as to become the biggest network with the largest subscribers. According to Kotler (2001), promotion is designed to stimulate the market, the trade, and the organization’s own sales force. To this end, the research intended to x-ray the impact of advertising on the marketing Performance of GSM companies in Port Harcourt.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
In any competitive marking environment such as ours, a marketing department/ term is often faced with the problems of how to determine the measure of demand for its products in a given market segment, how to determine the factors responsible for the variations in the demand pattern.
Many GSM service providers are faced with the problem of not only identifying suitable strategies to bet their competitors but also how to determine the strength of the contributions of various components of the promotional mix variables especially advertisement to achieve the purpose of stimulating demand of their product brand. This has equally led to high budgetary allocation by the GSM service providers as they understand that Nigerians are among the top users of mobile phone based on the population. However, the study is to appraise the impact of advertising and Marketing performance of GSM companies in Port Harcourt.
1.3 Purpose of the Study
The study seeks to examine the advertising and Marketing performance of GSM companies in Port Harcourt. The specific objectives are as follows:
1. To examine the association between Media and Marketing performance of GSM companies in Port Harcourt.
2. To examine the association between Word of Mouth and Marketing performance of GSM companies in Port Harcourt
1.4 Research Questions
Here, certain questions are raised; the provision of answers to them will be controlling the idea of the research work. The questions pertain the crux of the matter and are statements of major problems to be encountered as the progress is made on the work. The questions, which are interdependent, include the following ones:
- To what extent does Advertising Media affect marketing performance of GSM companies in Port Harcourt?
2. To what extent does word of Mouth affects marketing performance of GSM companies in Port Harcourt?
1.5 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF ADVERTISING AND MARKETING PERFORMANCE OF GSM COMPANIES IN PORT HARCOURT
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