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Unit six Computers as Tools for Marketing

BEFORE READING

  1. Do you have a PC?

  2. Are you good at it?

  3. Why is it so important to be a good PC user nowadays?

VOCABULARY

4. Try to guess the meaning of the following words. Use the dictionary if you need.

assess v

slide ruler

pretest v

predict / forecast v

software

hardware

5. Match the Russian expressions with the English ones:

1.marketing field a) аппаратное обеспечение

2.to analyze data b) долгосрочный

3.hardware c) анализировать данные

4.consumer goods d) реклама

5.long-term e) область маркетинга

6.advertising f) потребительские товары

GRAMMAR FOCUS WORD BUILDING

6. Translate the following words paying attention to the suffixes and prefixes:

Collector - collection; simulation - simulate; assessment; effectiveness - effectively; miner - mining; forecast – forecasting; unfortunately

READING

7. Read the following text and put its paragraphs into a logical order: Computers as Tools For Marketing

1.Some US companies in specific marketing areas of consumer goods, forest products, mining products and capital equipment plan for the future up to 50 years by forecasting trends in possible and probable long-term marketing conditions.

2.Computer programs are now available for collecting, assessing and analyzing data and even projecting or predicting the future based upon current trends. Some programs have been developed that can simulate potential market conditions so that marketers can pretest strategies. These are mostly experimental but within a very short time they will be as commonly available as the PCs are today.

3.With the use of telephone modems, connected to PCs and computer printers and data base marketers today can assess information about any market, segment of a market, even a specific buyer anywhere in the world right from their own office.

4.Computer software is now available to write data collecting questionnaires, job interview forms, analyze advertising effectiveness, sales and marketing management, create graphs and charts for analysis of market trends.

5.Since 1975 the personal computer (PC) has changed the world of business. In the past, the slide ruler, adding machine, the telegraph, the telephone, the hand calculator and the airplane each greatly affected the way business is done. Today the computer has begun to affect the marketing field greatly.

8. Look through the text again. Make up a plan of it.

9. Agree or disagree using the expressions:

For agreement: For disagreement:

I fully agree with you But that’s not the point

That’s my way of looking at it Not in the least!

I’m afraid I can’t agree with you

1. PCs affect the market greatly.

2. Computers help to predict the future only.

3. Computer software is available to do many operations.

4. No firm can operate without computers.

5. Highly qualified managers can work on computers.

10. Complete the following sentences:

1. Any newcomer should fill a) strategies using some computer programs

2. With the use of telephones b) to do a lot of operations

3. Computers can forecast c) marketers can assess information about

. any market

4. PCs are available d) predict the current trends in marketing

5. Marketers can analyze e) in the questionnaire.

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