Michael Jordan

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Marketing is the exchange that takes place between consumers and sellers to satisfy individual and organizational goals. Successful marketing is customer driven. It encompasses having the right product, at the right price and at the right time. The paper show that this is also the reason that Michael Jordan is a "superstar," instead of just another basketball player. It discusses Jordan's successful campaign with Nike Inc. and how his image affected American society.

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"In a culture with an inexhaustible passion to rank, to quantify, to compare and contrast everything, Michael Jordan has been the universal measuring device in appraising greatness. The overpowering magnificence of Jordan, the athlete and cultural phenomenon, has had a profound effect on global society. He didn't invent the fashions, just as he didn't invent the smile and the wink, but he combined all of them in such an engaging manner that the once-unsightly affectations became trendy, and his image became nearly as admirable as his unsurpassed skills."

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