Relevance and Skill-Building: A difficult and much-needed skill in Global Marketing is the ability to discover and to think about consumers' and organizations' needs in different cultures, to interpret those needs into products, and to market those products in ways which are meaningful to their target markets. This investigation asks you to put yourself in the place of the foreign consumer, encountering your product for the first time.
1. Find/buy a product which you cannot identify; write down your first impressions of what you think the product is made of and what it is used for. (Bring it to class for discussion.).
2. What cues are there on the product? If it is packaged, what information can you find? If it is not packaged, did the store signs give you any information? What information would you want as a consumer?
3. Describe what section of the store your product is placed in, i.e.: describe what products were near it. (If you cannot recognize these products, describe what they look like).