School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

MARKETING INFORMATION SERVICES

INLS 237 - Spring 1999 - 9:30 - 10:45 am Mondays and Wednesdays


What's New?

Syllabus

Assignments
Resources
Discussion
Board
Evelyn's
Notes

Tentative Schedule

January ...   February ...   March ...   April ...   May

Session and Date
Topic
Notes and Due Dates
January 12
No class. Complete first ungraded assignment. Fill out Student Information Form and Course Preference form.  
1. January 19 Introductions.
Review preliminary plans.
First assignment due.
Course preferences due.
2. January 24 Non-Profit and Public Marketing
Discussion of Resources
Chapter 1 of text.
3. January 26 No class. Unexpected storm. Customer-Oriented Marketing Chapter 2 of text.
4. January 31 Customer-Oriented Marketing Chapter 2 (again).
5. February 2 Strategic Marketing Chapter 3 of text.
Top of page
6. February 7 Market Segmentation
Speaker: Scott Brown
Chapter 5 of text.
7. February 9 Consumer Behavior Chapter 4 of text.
8. February 14 Market Research and Competitive Intelligence
Speaker: John Macmullen
Chapter 7 of text.
9. February 16 Career Fair
Market Positioning
Chapter 6 of text.
10. February 21 Case Study Amazon, Microsoft, Internet Public Library
11. February 23 The Marketing Mix; Measuring Demand
Guest Speaker: Kristen Roland, EPA
Chapter 12 of text.
12. February 28 Determining the "Offer" Chapter 13 of text.
13. March 1 Social Marketing
Marketing Self-Help
chapter 14 of text
Top of page
14. March 6 Working with the Private Sector
Partnerships
Chapter 10 of text.
15. March 8 Case Analysis (Tentative)  
March 11-19
 
Spring Break! Enjoy!
 
 
16. March 20 Product/Service Life Cycle
Developing New Offerings
Chapter 15 of text.
17. March 22 Pricing -- Based on Cost, Demand, or Competition Chapter 16 of text.
18. March 27 Marketing Channels
Time and Place Utilities
Chapter 17 of text.
Group C Leading Class
19. March 29 Promotion I
Messages and Feedback
Changing Attitudes and Behaviors
Chapter 18 of text.
Group A Leading Class.
20. April 3 Promotion II
Advertising and Direct Mail
Chapter 19 of text.
Group B Leading Class.
Top of page

April 5

No class today. Catch-up time.
 
21. April 10 Case Study: Xerox: Book-in-Time Read the case
22. April 12 Promotion III
Public Realtions
Chapter 20
23. April 17 Speaker: David MacDonald, Director of Communications, SILS  
24. April 19 Promotion IV: Direct Sales and Personal Influence Chapter 21.
25. April 24 Evaluating the Marketing Effort
Presentations
Chapter 22
Claire & Gerry
26. April 26 Review Time
Fund-Raising or Volunteers Presentations
KT and Peter
Jay and Autumn
Pavla
Top of page
27. May 1 Looking Forward - Looking Back
Presentations
Jenny Simpson
Rebecca and Paul
28. May 3 Last class
Class Evaluation
 

If you have questions or suggestions, please contact Evelyn Daniel

Rev. 2/22/2000.