1. Summarize brand influencers and describe how they affect the consumer decision-making process. Include examples of these influences.
2. Discuss how marketers have applied the diffusion of innovation model to their marketing communications for the brand.
3. Discuss the brand's marketing and communication strategy as it relates to ethics and the principles of conscious capitalism. Would you consider the brand's messaging ethical? Does the brand implement principles of conscious capitalism? Could the brand potentially improve its messaging by focusing more on either of these? Why?
4. Using your evaluation of the internal and external factors that affect consumer buying behavior and your knowledge of the consumer decision-making process, summarize how the brand's target consumers make the decision to buy the product.(C. 5.2)
5. Make two or three recommendations for marketing and communication strategies the brand could employ to increase sales and profits for the target market. Justify your recommendations with specific reasons, facts, and examples from your research

Answer all questions in regards to Apple and specifically their new iPhone.