1. MARKETING MIX Marketing services is Marketing People. When a customer signs an underwater IRM contract‚ he is buying a service to be performed. In the end‚ he will be the owner of a tangible product‚ Inspection Report‚ but the quality and cost‚ as well as the suitability of that report as a solution to his problem depend largely on the services rendered by the contractor. The buyer’s best evidence of the quality and competitive superiority of the service he will buy is the impression he gets
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case study‚ eBay should acquire Kruse. The eBay case is about the first CEO of eBay‚ Meg Whitman and potential cultural impact of Kruse purchase on two groups: the user community and the eBay associates‚ especially the management team. Meg Whitman was hired by the founder of eBay‚ Pierre Omidyar in March 1998 at a time when the company was still very young and experiencing a fast paced growth. It was the intention of Omidyar to hire someone who would be instrumental in helping eBay thrive during
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forced to comply with the living wage law. One of Walmart’s key success factors is the ability to manage their wealth in order to continue to offer customers such low prices. If the company was faced with raising employee wages everywhere‚ product costs could rise and potentially further reduce their revenue. Even more recently‚ the National Labor Regulations Board filed a complaint that stated Walmart illegally fired or discipline over 60 employees in 14 states for participating in protests and
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share product in micro chip was threaten by Chinese manufacturer. New low-cost competitors: Chinese manufacturer Samsung didn’t know yet how to respond to Chinese invasion: Low-cost‚ differentiation or both? Collaborative ANALYSES EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 6F Threat of new entrants (High) High economic of scale High product differentiation High capital requirements Low switching costs Easy access to distribution channels Threat of substitutes (Low) There
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the report starts with PESTEL analysis to how macro environments impacts on eBay. It found that globalisation‚ consumer buying patterns and increase of the number of internet shoppers have positive impacts on eBay. However‚ e-commerce tax would impact on eBay negatively due to may impact on the price of services. The report shows the Porter’s five forces whether the industry has a high barrier entry. It found that eBay is on strong competitive position. Finally‚ the report explains where the industry
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from the area. Business Level Strategy: Use cost leadership strategy. This strategy is an integrated set of actions taken to produce goods or services with features that are acceptable to customers at the lowest cost‚ relative to those of competitors. By using this strategy‚ it targets a broad customer segment which concentrate how to lower their cost compared to others competitors. Related to the case‚ Datin Timah used the basic ingredients with low cost consist of cucumber‚ fried ikan bilis and hard
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answer the following questions: 1.Till 2005‚ eBay EachNet was the leader in the Chinese e-commerce market‚ controlling more than half of it. But eBay EachNet soon lost its market leadership position to Taobao.com (Taobao). In this context‚ analyze the reasons that can be attributed to Taobao’s edge over eBay. 2.a. To enable people to trade with each other‚ Pierre Omidyar created a marketplace in September 1995 which was later called eBay. By mid 1997‚ eBay received one million page hits per week with
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in Crisis Signs of a crisis; declining performance measures e.g mkt share‚ roce‚ margins‚ revenues‚ profits‚ increasing costs‚ staff exodus Sources of a crisis Defects in management/ Poor management/neglecting key tasks Failure to change with changing environment Over-expansion Corruption Lack of resources Too much debt Poor strategy Failure to control costs/high costs Saturated mkts Poor integration High competition (unanticipated)/competitive forces Political change Change in tastes
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analysis of eBay Company : eBay Inc. Introduction eBay is an international online marketplace with a global customer base of 233 million. It is a multibillion business operating in 37 countries. There are millions of items listed on eBay‚ including antiques‚ toys‚ books‚ computers‚ sports and electronics‚ amongst many others. In this assignment‚ I will perform a SWOT analysis of the company‚ then I will outline the strategies pursued by eBay. Company background (sources : ebay – wikipedia)
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SERVICES What services does eBay provide? 1.1- THE ONLINE AUCTION MARKETPLACE Hailed as “The Customer Marketplace” by the Harvard Business Review authors‚ eBay provides an online auction platform for individual buyers and sellers‚ small businesses and larger corporations to get connected‚ trade and interact with each other. When Pierre Omidyar originally founded eBay in 1995‚ he was merely helping his wife sell her old Pez dispensers by connecting her to potential buyers. eBay remains true to providing
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