Blockbuster Inc: A Strategy and Competitive Analysis April 27‚ 2007 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Blockbuster History 4 Competition and the State of the Rental Industry 5 The Strategy to Remain Competitive 6 Economic Factors 10 Supply Chain Strategy 11 Sales‚ Service and Promotion Strategy 13 Conclusion 16 Appendix 17 Exhibit 1 Blockbuster SWOT Analysis 17 Exhibit 2 17 Blockbuster Video Facts 17 Hollywood Video Facts 17 Netflix Facts
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Business Model? Blockbuster was established in 1985 with the firms objective of renting and selling videos. Before information technology really influenced the world’s business‚ Blockbuster’s business model‚ like most businesses‚ was a traditional model. Blockbuster Headquarters Physical Store Consumer The simple business model consumers visit their nearest Blockbuster store to hire videos over a period of time e.g. 2 nights or a week‚ then return the hired videos to the Blockbuster store and hire
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from a feeling of a personal connection with the characters. Although Hollywood blockbuster movies are still extremely popular people are beginning to see a lack of personalization in the story lines. Watching a true and honest video solely based on real aspects of life would be more enjoyable. Visually seeing life play out in a realistic and factual way would give a better idea of the truth values of life. Blockbuster films that are even based off a true story can put an unusual twist on facts.
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Iran-Contra: Crossing That Line "I think everyone knew we were walking a very thin line."(Owen) Not many Americans know the truth that lies behind the Iran-Contra scandals. Most would be surprised to know about the deception of our leaders. Still today‚ some truth of Iran-Contra lies hidden in the conscience of the people who organized it‚ aided it‚ and went through with it. It started with good intentions‚ but soon was corrupted. Some may argue that we must do what we can to smother the flame
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Randolph in 1997‚ and is headquartered in Los Gatos‚ California. The company started its online DVD rental business by launching Netflix.com‚ offering pay-per-DVD rental services by delivering DVDs via mail. As the company prospered during late 1999‚ Netflix replaced its pay-per-DVD revenue model with a fixed monthly fee system that allowed customers to rent up to 4 DVDs per month with no due dates or late fees. In February 2000‚ it launched a new plan‚ where‚ with a monthly fee of $19.95 instead of
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The 1980s was a period of when the scandal‚ in which what was known as the Iran Contra Affair‚ had occurred. The situation of the Iran Contra Affair took place during President Ronald Reagan’s second term of administration. In addition‚ the Iran Contra Affair besides the US‚ involved two other countries: Iran and Nicaragua. (Infoplease.com). Over in Iran‚ there were "seven American hostages being held in Lebanon"(Wikipedia.com). Meanwhile‚ there was also a war going on between Iraq and Iran in
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Netflix is a subscription based video rental company and has become the frontrunner in the video rental industry since it was founded in 1997 and the launching their online segment in 1999. The industry as a whole has only a few competitors with a handful dominating the market (Netflix‚ Red Box‚ Cable TV - Video on Demand and Pay-Per-View). By 2010 Netflix had evolved into the world’s largest subscription service for DVD rentals by mail and streaming both movies and TV episodes over the internet;
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Miss Representation (NETFLIX) Miss representation had the objective for women and young girls to be aware that looks is not everything and that women can be in power; that men are not the only ones that can be a leader. The media tells the viewers and readers the standers of what a women should be like and people will not accept anything less than the ideal image of beauty. However‚ women are the reason for this misunderstanding by how they act and what they wear‚ and by what other women celebrities
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Blockbuster Exhibitions: A Case Study The contemporary blockbuster exhibit‚ which emerged in the museum world in the late twentieth century‚ has become increasingly popular among museums in the past few decades. Defined by Albert Elsen as a “large-scale loan exhibition which people who normally don’t go to museums will stand in line for hours to see‚” these exhibits produce mass interest and wide-ranging excitement. In my paper I tackle the issue of the blockbuster exhibit and debate the
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CASE STUDY: NETFLIX ADJUSTMENTS TO THE BUSINESS MODEL 1st : no penalty fee for late return. At first‚ they allowed the client to rent a certain number of movies per month. They changed later to an unlimited number and 3 movies at the same time. 2nd: implementation of the recommendation system (the subscribers could rate each movie and leave comments). Negotiation with big studios in order to reduce the unitary price per movie in exchange for a fee based on the number of rentals. 3rd: Improvements
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