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One-click Flooring Communication Plan MKT/571 April 19th, 2010 Nancy Johnson One-click Flooring Communication Plan The success of One-click’s marketing strategy through Europe will heavily rely on communication efforts with its local and foreign markets. Strict financial planning will be crucial to ensure One-click does not exhaust all its resources. Differen

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According to this week’s reading marketing deals with identifying and meeting human and social needs (Keller and Kotler, 2006). In a diverse industry many companies produce products that are similar but what set them apart from their competitors are the marketing schemes that each company practice. When a company use a good marketing strategy that strategy in return helps the company advance pass

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Introduction As the globalisation intensifying, the world is becoming a single market place for many Multinational Corporations (MNCs). This forces many domestic firms to reassess their positions. Restricting themselves to domestic trade will mean that they may be eventually “crowded out” by the more powerful and aggressive MNCs. Therefore, the need to expand internationally becomes fundamental