Lecture 1: Microeconomics and Biz Strategy References: Pindyck&Rubinfeld. Chap.1 What are the firm’s important functions and strategies ? 1. Selling need to know consumers purchasing behavior for example‚ what if the price increases: price elasticity of demand marketing/product positioning strategies Topics 3-5 lectures 2. Production Supply function/producers output decision how to produce? Firms output decision: Short run vs LR For example‚ should the firm continue producing
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Market segmentation in the European airport sector Category of segmentation Loyalty of segmentation Creating a loyal consumer depends upon having an understanding of the factors that influence purchasing behaviour. Ballini (1993) maintains that the loyalty exhibited by consumers towards an airport can be divided into four distinct categories‚ i) loyalists‚ ii) defectors‚ iii) mercenaries‚ iv) hostages. According to Ballini (1993) denied that loyalists is represent the most important group of consumers
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Toyota Target Market Analysis With the sluggish economy‚ successfully marketing new automobiles has become extremely important. Each manufacturer has to identify and target a market segment. We were able to identify and analyze the target markets of Toyota‚ Buick‚ Kia‚ and Dodge. Toyota’s recent marketing targets women for several of their models. This is evident by viewing some of their recent television commercials. For example‚ the Toyota Prius “Harmony” commercial is geared toward women
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QUESTION AND ANSWER ON MARKET SEGMENTATION Salim Brommer is the Marketing Director of Ashkol Furniture Supplies‚ a medium-sized company which specializes in manufacturing office furniture. The company makes its products in India‚ so benefiting from relatively low labour costs. However‚ it has recently experienced intense competition from suppliers who have even lower cost bases. Salim has decided that his company will benefit if he focuses on those customers who can provide higher profit margins
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managers and employees as they both work together and need to be aware of certain pieces of information that are related to either their business or job role as a whole. An example of verbal information is a store manager giving instruction to a grocery staff as to how to arrange promotion stocks on the shelves. This is a practical example of verbal information because the staff initially did not know how to go about the arrangement but he obtained it from the face to face interaction with the store manager
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Target Market A target market is a specific‚ well-defined segment of consumers that a company plans to target with its products‚ services and marketing activities. Target marketing orients all of the various components of the marketing function toward a single group‚ maximizing the appeal of brands to specific markets. The term "target audience" is a bit narrower; it refers specifically to the group of consumers targeted by advertisements. Outside of the context of business‚ target audience can
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already occurred. This type of research explains the relationship between the independent constrants. QN2) Explain the various types of Consumer and Business to Business (B2B) market research. Consumer research focus on consumer attitudes ‚ their behavior and their preferences in a market based economy. Types of consumer market research: i)Advertising andpromotion research: To gauge customer responses to the promotional measures undertaken by the company as well as the effectiveness of each measure
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Contents Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………………………………...4 Introduction………………………………………….……………………………………………...4 Segmentation of newspaper market in the UK………………………………...…….…5 1. Profile Segmentation Criteria………………………………………………………………………….….5 2. Behavioral Criteria………………………………………………………………………………………….….5 3. Psychographic Segmentation Criteria…………………………………………………………….…..6 The Times……………………………………………………………………………………….…….6 Recommendation…………………………………………………………………….…………...7 Appendix……………………………………………………………………………………………
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4. Market segmentation strategies 4.1 Market segments of passenger motor vehicles Passenger Motor Vehicles can be segmented in various ways according to five major segmentation variables including geographical‚ demographical‚ psychological‚ benefit and behaviourial. The traditional way of segment the car industry is shown below: Mini (e.g. Nissan Micra‚ Seat Marbella) Small (e.g. Fiat Uno‚ Opel Corsa‚ VW Polo‚ Rover Metro) Medium (e.g. Fiat Tipo‚ VW Golf‚ Rover 200) Large (e.g. BMW 3 series
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The importance of understanding consumer behaviour and profiling target market for effective communication strategy It is of an utmost importance that any company that deals with consumers as their main resources for profit to recognize who their buyers are. Although it is not possible for marketers to completely grasp the very essence of each target market and categorize them in proper groups‚ one cannot deny that there are certain patterns which a similar group of consumers follow up to some extent
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