Thad works for a small company as its marketing director. The company is creating a new product to introduce to the market for solar external paint. Thad researches competitors’ products and market trends in the eco paint market. Then he creates a comparative pricing analysis and conducts focus groups to understand potential customers’ expectations and decide on the name and desired colors. After working with the product manager on adding a few additional color possibilities, Thad begins to create a strategy and message for the marketplace.
Which area of the marketing mix should Thad focus on for this product?
A. The entire marketing mix
B. The place or distribution of the paint
C. The target market message

Tony prince is the project manager for the recreation and wellness intranet project. team members include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; patrick, a network specialist; nancy, a business analyst; and bonnie, another programmer/analyst. other people are supporting the project from other departments, including yusaff from human resources and cassandra from finance. assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and charged to work on project activities. recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete the project in six months for under $200,000.task 2identify at least eight milestones for the recreation and wellness intranet project. write a short paper describing each milestone using the smart criteria. discuss how determining these milestones might add activities or tasks to the gantt chart. remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must have tasks that will lead to completing the milestone.