Case study: Southwest Airlines 1. Southwest Airlines has been a highly successful undertaking. This is due in part to the marketing objectives it has set for itself. Its main objective was to create brand awareness/preference‚ customer value and be a market share leader. The next step was to come up with a marketing mix strategy of price‚ place‚ product and promotion to achieve its objective. Southwest cut out many amenities in order to differentiate itself from its competitors. Its main objectives
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Southwest Airline’s Strategies: Southwest Airline’s successful strategy consists of three complementary qualities which are focus‚ divergence and compelling tagline. This short-haul airline believes that by focusing on friendly service‚ speed and frequent point-to-point departures‚ its low pricing is able to compete against car transportation. While other competitors try to delight customers by investing in meals‚ airport lounges and seating selections‚ Southwest chooses to eliminate or reduces
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Part IV. The global marketing mix 2. Global pricing strategy 1 Cheap and cheaper… 2 Expensive and more expensive… 3 1. Basic pricing concepts Introduction Price: the amount charged to customers/consumers in exchange for goods or services Market price: the price that prevails in the market for a particular good at a specific time 3 key elements of market price: supply‚ demand and time Eg: hotel prices – peak season during summer – higher prices driven by the demand (more
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Southwest has made an organization out of providing low-fare‚ short haul routes between city pairs. It has concentrated specifically on offering low-fares on all of its flights by maintaining its no frills attitude and high frequency of flights. This has afforded Southwest Airlines with the lowest cost structure in the industry. Southwest has created a niche for itself by flying a network of flights between smaller U.S. cities that average just one hour apart. This has differentiated them from
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2. Dynamic Ticket Pricing Overview (p. ) 3. Braves Opportunity (p. ) 4. Marketing Objective and Strategy (p. ) 5. Expanding Dynamic Ticket Pricing in Turner Field (p. ) 6. Educating Fans on Dynamic Ticket Pricing (p. ) 7. Tactics (p. ) 8. Budget (p. ) 9. Conclusion (p. ) 10. Appendix (p. ) Executive Summary The number of Major League Baseball teams utilizing dynamic ticket pricing (DTP) has grown significantly
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How Buddhism Has Changed Albert Einstein once said‚ “Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God‚ avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual‚ and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things‚ natural and spiritual‚ as a meaningful unity.” I though this quote was an interesting beginning into seeing how this ancient religion changed over the course of its existence
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Southwest History 1966: Rollin King marched into Herb Kelleher’s law office with a plan to start a low-cost/low-fare airline that would shuttle passengers between San Antonio‚ Dallas‚ and Houston. Thought of this idea because businessmen were complaining about the commute. 1967: Kelleher filed papers to incorporate the new airline and submitted an application to the Texas Aeronautics Commission for the new company to serve Dallas‚ Houston‚ and San Antonio. ------4 year legal and regulatory
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More notes about domestic TP There are no cash flows associated with transfer pricing. In a decentralized firm‚ transfer prices generally play two important roles: 1. Allocate profits between different tax jurisdictions for taxation purposes 2. Coordinate economic activity within the firm Firms can choose to use different transfer prices for taxes and financial/internal reporting. The use of transfer prices allows central management to generate individual profit figures for different divisions
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Southwest started its service in 1971. It becomes famous by using its pricing strategy of cheap fares backed by seriously controlling costs. The central business of Southwest is the short-haul domestic route. The airplanes of Southwest are always on time which make the customers very delighted. Southwest Airlines¡¯ used market penetration pricing strategy with low-fare‚ no frills‚ low cost service on relatively short flights. Moreover‚ it also provides benefits to customers such as simple scheduling
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Course Outline MBA 2011-13 Management of Pricing Elective Subject‚ Credit 2 20 Hours Course Coordinators: Ranajoy Bhattachrayya‚ Pinaki Dasgupta & Biswajit Nag (both for Delhi & Kolkata) (I) Objective The objective of this course is to bring both theoretical as well as actual practices in decision making process for pricing of goods or services. Pricing has moved up to the top priority in management decision making especially during the time of changing economic environment
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