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Pottery Barn & Sherwin-Williams

Co-Branding Campaign: Color Your Room

  • One of the biggest benefits of co-branding campaigns is the opportunity to expose your product or service to a brand-new audience. That՚s exactly what home furnishing store Pottery Barn and paint company Sherwin-Williams did when they partnered together back in 2013.
  • Together, the two brands created an exclusive product line of paints, and then added a new section of Pottery Barn՚s website that helped customers easily select paint colors to complement their furniture choices.
  • Customers could coordinate paint colors with picture-perfect Pottery Barn furniture for a mutually beneficial partnership – and style assistance for both brands customers to boot. “Paint Landing,” Pottery Barn՚s landing page for the partnership, contains helpful blog posts and how-to ideas for do-it-yourself painting and decorating.

Question 48 (11 of 12 Based on Passage)

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Explain any two methods of retaining customers.

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Customer orientation was mentioned to be the objective of most successful companies. A company who is customer oriented for its customer retention becomes a natural process and strategy. Higher rate of retention is possible, only if, the company pays attention to the following factors:

  • Customer service: Service plays a significant role in the customer՚s decision to stay with the product and the company. Research has shown bad experience on this account has enraged customers forcing them to abandon the company.
  • Continuously enhancing value: Continuous value enhancement through increasing customization also helps to enhance customer retention. This is greatly facilitated by co-opting customers in designing products and other elements of marketing mix.

Question 49 (12 of 12 Based on Passage)

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Differentiate verbal and non- verbal communication

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Differentiate Verbal and Non- Verbal Communication
S. no.Verbal CommunicationNon-Verbal Communication
1.Verbal communication uses oral or written wordsNon-verbal communication not uses any oral or written words
2.Verbal communication is of two types: Oral and writtenNon-verbal communication may be of various types like: visual, audio, audio-visual, silent etc.
3.Easy to understandDifficult to understand
4.Verbal communication is highly structuredNon-verbal communication lacks informal structure.

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