Narahari Silwal
01/16/2015
A1.
Our fitness is located in Cockeysville, Maryland, and provides fitness services to people of all age, level, and expertise. The main purpose of “Our Fitness” is to promote healthy lifestyles by providing knowledge on nutrition and exercising habits. “Our Fitness” is well known for it’s excellent services and aims to extend the business by providing two additional services. First, we will start fitness classes for people above 55 years old. These fitness classes are conducted to provide a comfortable environment for people above 55 to promote exercising habits and healthy lifestyles. Second, our fitness center will have our own restaurant next to the fitness center specifically designed for the members. Our fitness center’s restaurant will provide low fat, low calorie, and high protein and fiber food specially designed for promoting healthy eating habits. Strategically, Our fitness’s primary market target will consist of people over 55 and mostly retirees. Our secondary target market includes college and high school students.
a. Three ways that determined these products and/or services would be the most feasible and potentially profitable for the company to add are:
1. Placement
2. Trends
3. IS the profit margin large enough to make money but small enough for your “target audience” to afford?
Placement
Placement or location is one of the most important factors in attracting and retaining customers. Everybody prefers easier and more convenient way to purchase products or services. Therefore, “Our Fitness” uses the placement approach to connect the products and services with the customer by making services and products more convenient and more accessible to the customers. Our fitness is located in the business area as well as densely populated residential area with three different universities and one community college. On the other hand, there are only two fitness centers in the area with very
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