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is marketing really making customer fool

Created by : aditi gupta, MBA/PGDM student, pimr,ips  | 05 14 2010 08:46:04 +0000
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No aditi its not about fooling but influencing them to buy the product. Marketing is an art of selling an product, many follow different strategy but at he end of the day everyone wants to sell their product.......   

So marketing is not fooling the customer but telling what they need......
By Sunita Mohapatra, Product/Brand Manager, Tata Motors  05 15 2010 07:49:11 +0000
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not all.... customers are quite smart ,they can differetiate between good and bad product & they choose the best one
By Nikhil Sanjeev Panadare, MCA student, KKWIEER  | 05 19 2010 14:57:08 +0000
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Yes Marketing is exagerating a particular brand's product, but in the reality its not happenning.
By Chockalingam.S , Sr. Executive HR ,, Mechcicadd Engineering (P) Ltd  | 05 19 2010 14:37:07 +0000
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I would have loved to answer no, but that would be absolute theoretical... In the current scenario of oneupmanship by our marketers, they are forced to loose the context and oversell the values/benefits derived from the product/services.

Thus customer in the end get swamped by the marketing and may feel cheated... 
By Amit Prakash Singh, CEO/MD/Director, Plansportz  | 05 19 2010 10:31:15 +0000
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No aditi.. Its not about fooling but somewhat it does...
By KInjal Sheth, Business Content Developer, Nilkanth Concast Pvt. Ltd.  | 05 19 2010 06:44:12 +0000
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Sunita, allow me to suggest:  "inform and facilitate weighment" could be preferred over trying to "INFLUENCE"
By Ravindra Sharma, Managing Consultant, CHEF-India  | 05 19 2010 06:42:51 +0000
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marketing is not making really customers fool but yes somewhat it does..
By Rubel Seth, Freelancer, Telecom/ISP  | 05 16 2010 11:09:39 +0000
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i go with rajapandian sir the marketing shows the minor changes which we dream to see.
By BHARAT KUMAR ANYAW, Construction-Construction Management, SARVODAYA GROUP  | 05 15 2010 14:34:38 +0000
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Visum-ineptio !!! Marketing just helps people see what they think they are going to see. Its really we who fool ourselves. We expect to see certain things in a product, marketing does that for. they show what we expect to see, to sell the product.
By Rajapandian , Business Development Manager, Grene Studio  | 05 15 2010 12:28:20 +0000
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ya it helps the customer to know the full thing about the given product...........
By PRATEEK , B.Tech/B.E. student, skyline instute of engineering & technology  | 05 15 2010 09:23:56 +0000
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yes marketing means not only sale the product but give the perfect service to the custumar &
By vivek , Accounts Executive/Accountant, jml  | 05 15 2010 09:06:26 +0000
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It is not about to sell the product, Marketing is only to let people know about the product and its uses and then let people to decide to have it or not? Its almost convincing about your product and influencing people still I say 50 -  50 making fool of customer.
By Shakil A. Hashmi, Sales Manager, DELMON CO. LTD.  | 05 15 2010 08:24:50 +0000
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It is about 50 - 50 not 100% making fool to customer, as the things get materialize and customer get convinced for buying the product.
By Shakil A. Hashmi, Sales Manager, DELMON CO. LTD.  | 05 15 2010 08:18:44 +0000
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the sayings like marketing is selling a comb to a bald meas making fool to customer and making profit
By aditi gupta, MBA/PGDM student, pimr,ips  | 05 14 2010 08:46:04 +0000
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ya completely agree.
By Mohan , Area Sales Manager, Thomson Reuters  | 06 08 2010 05:14:17 +0000
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in my opinion marktng is not to make fool of somebody but to influence the coustomer to get impressed over the product or services.It's a brain game to invoke the greedy nature of the human
By J.Vinoth , Sr. Associate , M/s. Muthumani Doraisami & Co.  | 05 20 2010 11:56:33 +0000
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Marketing is not making the customers fools..It's influencing ppl to buy the goods,atracting them.

But current scenario is that most of the companies are making customers fools....There should be a strong filtration....
By Shanmugasundaram , CEO/MD/Director, Safnnite Solutions India Pvt.Ltd  | 05 20 2010 11:32:02 +0000
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Marketing is not fooling the customer but providing the information to the customer & creating an urge for him to buy that product / services. And today's customer is well educated & hard to fool so if you want to sell your product / service be smart & think through "Customer's POV"
By Pankaj , Freelancer, Management & Strategy Consulting  | 05 19 2010 15:36:29 +0000
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A marketing is a marketing is a marketing is a marketing. If you like you get hooked to , if not then marketer is not forcing you. Is he forcing you? Its your choice. Eveyone has opened his shop to sell his wares and he has full rights to market a right product in a right and legal way. There is no question of fooling. Teaching is not fooling, convincing is not fooling, persuation is not fooling, awareness is not fooling, repetition is not fooling, using various medium is not fooling, roping in celebrities is not fooling, giving press statements or publicity is not fooling, door to door canvassing is not fooling, so on and so forth.
By Prabhakar Srivastava, Principal Consultant, Future Next Consultants  | 05 19 2010 11:44:52 +0000
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No not at all..if somebody is doing this,he/she is making a fool of themselves!!
By Ankur Pathak, Executive-Marketing/BD, Ghodawat Energy Pvt. Ltd.  | 05 19 2010 10:20:55 +0000
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Its not fooling , its just a way of convincing the customer with our product features and telling them how it is different from others,thats all.
By Sidram K.K, Office Administration, HR, Marketing Financial Products, Accounting, JN Medical College  | 05 19 2010 09:06:22 +0000
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Yes the amateurs and overconfident forever think so thanks to Myopic vision. 
By Ravindra Sharma, Managing Consultant, CHEF-India  | 05 19 2010 06:38:50 +0000
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yes mam marketing makes one understands the real picture of products and what consumer want ..
By puneet , Manager Admin  | 05 17 2010 17:25:54 +0000
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no,marketing is not about fooling as its the statergy of selling any product keeping in mind the need and neccesity of the people and today actually people are so influenced with marketing that they feel that good company comes up with diff marketing statergies......and actually sometimes it do wonders...
By neeta menon anand, Freelancer, Advertising/PR/MR/Events  | 05 16 2010 16:16:45 +0000
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No, ways of marketing are not making customers fool but the way the customer accepts the strategy of promotion and tries to fulfill his needs makes some people that he has been fooled but for some it is win win situation.
By Vishal Jindal, Head - Operations, Globe Automobiles Pvt Ltd  | 05 16 2010 15:40:59 +0000
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Marketing is essential for selling a product. If the intension of marketing a product to make fool, than it will work as a minor trick but in long run, the product it self will vanish. It will indirectly help in marketing of branded products. Therefore, the marketing ethics does not allow for fooling others.
By Santosh Kumar Mohanty, Civil Engineer-Municipal, Sambalpur University  | 05 16 2010 15:25:03 +0000
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marketing makes the customer buy what he dosen't want too.
By BHARAT KUMAR ANYAW, Construction-Construction Management, SARVODAYA GROUP  | 05 16 2010 09:35:43 +0000
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Ms. Aditi, are u a fool ? getting influenced by marketing when u buy some thing ? I hope and wish u are not a fool, if not a genius. 

This is not to annoy u, but to keep the message clear.

Regards

KAMESH
By Tata V.S. Kameswara Rao, Proprietor, Deals-on-Wheels  | 05 16 2010 08:04:09 +0000
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True marketing is influencing a customer but it should be with ehics and without flouting the rules so that it would be win win situation for both the seller and the buyer.
By Pugaleanthi , Lawyer/Attorney, S.P.Associates  | 05 15 2010 16:58:25 +0000
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True it is influencing a customer but it would be fair to follow ethics so that it should be win win situation for both the seller and the buyer.

 
By Pugaleanthi , Lawyer/Attorney, S.P.Associates  | 05 15 2010 16:54:08 +0000
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Marketing not makes customers full but if customers full the marketers benefited by them.


By Hemant V. Gore, Freelance Software Developer  | 05 15 2010 15:32:29 +0000
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Tool that Prompt the buyer to buy our product is called the marketing. It could be any thing that prompt buyer to buy the product such as colour feature, utility or ots requirement etc,. but which are things has to be highlight is defined by the marketing strategy. For example Maruti highlighting that swift completed that its second year it shows that satisfaction of the users, though this maruti have physical presence and appearance but they highlighted emotion and attitude linked with product which is more understandable and experienced by customer. Hence they build relationship.

 
By HEMANT VERMA, Marketing and Branding, NAVNEET PUBLICATION INDIA LTD.  | 05 15 2010 11:25:08 +0000
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No, Merkting means knowing customers needs and wants and fulfilling by your product.
By Girish Nama, Freelancer, IT Products  | 05 15 2010 09:13:49 +0000
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Hai, Aditi. I dont agree with this statement. Marketing is motivating for the sale to happen.
By sudheer potti, Location Incharge, L & T finance  | 05 15 2010 08:25:10 +0000
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No i do not agree with aditi here. Marketing also is a concept of selling the right product to the right person according to his needs. "It is a choice for the Bald man to buy a comb for his spouse."
By Krunal Kothari, BDO, GLOBAL EXIM  | 05 15 2010 08:21:44 +0000
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