Groupon ranks among the largest social, mobile, global e-commerce companies and is revolutionizing the way merchants market products and services. Groupon customers find incredible deals at up to 50% savings. What began as a daily deal coupon sent to your email has evolved into a powerful marketing machine. Praised for their cutting edge innovations, the company continues to grow with the goal of world e-commerce dominance.…
The organization that I have chosen to do my SWOT analysis on is the New Orleans Saints football team. They are among the most successful teams of this decade but not ranked very high as far as most lucrative organizations in the National Football League. They are currently ranked 23rd among the 30 active teams in the national football league. The organization was formed and became a professional football team in 1967. The team got its nickname due to its founding being on All Saints Day on November 1, 1967. The team initially one of the weaker franchises in the league. It didn’t win many games and struggled to sell out games. They have won one Super Bowl title, 5 Division Championships, and made only 9 playoff appearances in its 46 year existence. The ultimate goal of this organization is to win football games and generate revenue by selling tickets and merchandise.…
This analysis of Old National Bank starts with a brief SWOT Analysis and then takes a look at the current deposit marketshare of Vanderburgh County in Indiana.…
Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a national department store retail that sells mainly clothing and shoes. When the company was built in 1924, it is only known for wholesaler of ladies coats and outerwear.…
Focus on research and development (R&D), helps Hershey to gauge the emerging market for healthier snacks options.…
Groupon is an internet website company focused on generating revenue by utilizing relationships with merchants to provide consumers with discounts on select items. The goal of the discounted vouchers is to drive additional consumer store traffic and generate revenue for merchants which are shared with Groupon via a predetermined contractual percentage. Groupon generates visibility and exposure with email and social networking to increase consumer spending at specific merchants. Groupon has many features from personalization of product offerings to specific demographics and target segments. In addition, a more defined value proposition allowing merchants an opportunity to showcase their own product offerings on the Groupon website. Groupon stands behind every discount voucher sold and distributed. If the consumer is not 100% satisfied the company will provide a refund or financial credit for a future Groupon opportunity. Groupon began with a focus on major city markets and increasing email subscriptions to provide the required visibility to aggressively sell the discounted vouchers.…
Groupon’s business model is based around offering mass discounts on certain products and services to subscribed customers from merchants that have signed up with them. The strategy used combines economies of networking and economies of scale. (Mordoekataus, 2011) Groupon has demonstrated vast growth in terms of reporting revenue of $713.4 million in 2010, reaching over 83 million subscribers while advertising the products and services of 56,781 merchants. (Mordoekataus, 2011) In terms of strengths, Groupon is able to offer consumers large discounts as well as allowing for the new discovery of products and services. Local merchants signed up with…
Let’s face it, people all over the world love beauty. Holy wood is obsessed with it. Like many women in America and all over the world, we want to look our best, we want to look and feel beautiful. Women and some men want the gift of youth and beauty and will go to great lengths to attain it. After pondering about what I was going to write my SWOT analysis on, I decided to go for what I know best: Beauty Products! I decided to conduct a SWOT analysis on Ulta Salons and Cosmetics. The acronym, SWOT stands for strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats of a particular company.…
Strong Brand Recognition: The biggest advantage that Groupon still enjoys is the first mover advantage. They were the first ones to explore the market space and designed a group purchasing model with the use of Internet. This helped them to have a strong brand recognition and gave them the time to expand their subscriber and merchant base over the period of years. Currently Groupon is available in 45 countries around the world and in all the 50 states in US with 10,000 Employees, ___ Subscribers and ___ Merchants.…
Although ADP (Automatic Data Processing) is one of the leading providers of business outsourcing solutions, it has weaknesses that negatively affect the company. One significant aspect of ADP is that the company has clients in many foreign countries, but less than only 20% of ADP’s revenues come from other regions of the world. The company has been majorly focusing on customers’ needs here in the US, keeping their clients up to date with the current laws and regulations (their HR department) and making payroll processing convenient. What they lack, though, is a diversified geographic. It’s important to concentrate on the US operations, but other countries have specific issues that may need to be handled differently. If ADP wants to expand and take full advantage of their services, they ought to pay more attention to their geographic diversification.…
- Oral Expression—“The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand” (www.onetcenter.org).…
In this task, in result to a National Health Care Association being concerned about the shortage of nurses, I have a sample of 50 nurses degree of satisfaction in relation to work, pay and opportunities for promotion. This sample showed their degree of satisfaction on a scale from 0 to 100 from nurses from 3 different types of hospitals: Private, Veterans Administration and University. I have analysed this data to create results to better understand the current degree of job satisfaction amongst nurses and what hospitals have the best and worst job satisfaction in regard to each sector. I can then use my findings to gain a clear understanding of what the National Health Care Association can do to prevent a shortage of nurses for the future.…
India's largest engineering and Construction Company. Offering services to Power, Infrastructure, Cement, Oil, Natural Gas, Food, Chemical and Petrochemical industries. L&T made the world’s largest underground metro rail network at Rajiv Chowk in Newdelhi…
Strengths are brand recognition, early mover advantage as well as large capital from Pepsi Co. Employing umbrella-branding strategy, Pepsi Co introduced the Lay to the Chinese market as a specific chip brand. In 1993, when there were no chip companies in China, Lay’s grew large and stable customer sizes as an early mover into the industry. Pepsi had enormous money to develop in the Chinese market, which was another advantage.…
On the other hand, customer-centric organization is defined as organization that is operated based on customer's point of view (Mifflin, H. 2010). Unlike product-centric organizations, these companies would come up with strategies to convince and attracts customers to buy their products rather than focusing only on developing new products (Mifflin, H. 2010). A customer-centric organization develops products and services their customers according to their need and wants (Mifflin, H. 2010).…