The Fashion Channel: Case Write-Up Decision to Be Made The management team for The Fashion Channel (TFC) must decide which customer segment(s) or “cluster” they should target in their new marketing strategy and how they should position TFC to ultimately increase company revenue. When deciding their marketing strategy‚ TFC must consider how they can increase their share of the market (ratings) versus the increasingly competitive fashion programming on CNN and Lifetime‚ and if they can maintain
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Oral Communication July 2008 Definition Oral communication skills are a set of abilities enabling individuals to become confident and competent speakers/communicators by the time they graduate. Rather than thinking of oral communication skills as the ability for a student to make a speech‚ it is important to consider both informal and formal uses of communication within a situation. Rationale Oral communication skills equip students to effectively comprehend‚ critique‚ and analyze information
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The Fashion Channel is a well known cable television network dedicated to fashion only. CEO Jared Thomas founded the network in 1996 and had seen constant growth in sales‚ revenue and profit since its beginning. Thomas understands that in order to stay aggressive the company needs to strengthen its competitive position. Thus‚ Thomas hired Dana Wheeler‚ an expert in marketing. Dana needs to prove that her recommendations of spending more than $60 million in national and affiliate advertising‚ promotion
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The Fashion Channel Case Analysis Ruoyu Wen Marketing Fundamentals Prof. Joan Crooker Summer 2015 The Fashion Channel Case Analysis The Fashion Channel was founded in 1996 by two entrepreneurs. It was a successful cable TV network. It was the leader of fashion channels. However‚ at present‚ it faced other channels’ challenge like CNN and Lifetime. The founder and CEO Jared Thomas wanted to make some change to keep the channel’s lead position. The senior vice president of marketing Dana Wheeler had
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MM1 CASE STUDY SUMMARY THE FASHION CHANNEL-Introduction 1. The Fashion Channel (TFC) is a cable TV network 2. It was founded in the year 1996. 3. Jared Thomas is the CEO. 4. Experienced constant revenue and profit growth above the industry average. 5. Almost 80mn U.S. households subscribed to cable and satellite TV. 6. In the beginning of 2006‚ the company started facing stiff competition from other networks. 7. In July 2006‚ Dana Wheeler was appointed as VP of TFC. PROBLEMS: TFC was facing
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Assignment 1: The Fashion Channel 1) If TFC were on a BCG matrix they would fall into the category of a star. They have high market share and high business growth rate. They are the leaders in the fashion niche and should generate large amounts of revenue but need to continue to invest in their channel to ensure it stays profitable. 2) TFC is currently facing 4 critical challenges: Who to market to? Should TFC segment their target market into the four clusters of Fashionistas‚ Planners and
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Course: Marketing Management MBA 752 Case: The Fashion Channel The Fashion Channel should choose scenario 3 as the strategy of market segmentation with the goal of increasing its industry standing. They should do this for the following reasons: 1) to make maximal profit in expected advertising revenues and return on investment‚ 2) to capture significant piece of market share in the chosen target market‚ and 3) to increase their Cost Per Thousand Impressions (CPM) on advertising revenue.
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is Fashionistas and market data is a research study on customer satisfaction with cable networks if I were Dana Wheeler. The goal is building on the momentum TFC had created to date and stave off any competitors trying to make inroads. For the channel that needs to obtain competitiveness advantage‚ it is important to attract Fashionistas including highly valued demographic groups and increase customer satisfaction of the segment. 2. Consider 3 primary options presented. Discuss the pros and
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Five Contexts of Communication The assigned textbook for University of the People course English 1103 is Business Communication for Success‚ published by Saylor Books. One of the key components discussed in the first chapter were five different types of communication contexts. These five contexts explore the process by which communication happens and the core purposes behind it. Intrapersonal Communication‚ the first context discussed‚ can be described as the conversations we have with ourselves
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provider‚ a channel that is focused only on delivering high quality and do not intends to satisfies all. A positive by product of this approach would be higher customer retention which has higher monetary value than the casual viewer (acquiring a new costumer is estimated to cost about 5 time more than retaining one). Note that although scenario-2 as well delivers these values it incurs higher risk due to its aggressive and narrow market segmentation. Finally‚ although the channel is still
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