of personal selling is the development‚ organisation and completion of a sale in a market exchange based transaction. The company’s heavy reliance on online sales differentiates it from the traditional market leaders and reduces costs. Interactive marketing provides marketers with opportunities for much greater interaction and individualization through well-designed Web sites as well as online ads and promotions. Interactivitiy one of the key characteristics of personal selling. Personal selling
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PROBLEM STATEMENT Kodak is the photo film market leader since 1994 but the company is loosing share‚ in the past five years in United States has decrease from 76% to 70%‚ the main reason is the growing share of brands with lower prices. In January of 1994 Kodak is analyzing if launching a lower price product is the best alternative to stop loosing share. DIAGNOSIS As said before Kodak is loosing market share and looks like if the company doesn’t do something the tendency is going to be the same
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uncollectible accounts. You can get these from reviews of literatures. You have to cite the references.) Direct selling is a type of sales channel where products are marketed directly to customers‚ eliminating the need for middlemen – wholesalers‚ advertisers and retailers. Direct selling can be conducted one-on-one‚ in group or party format‚ or online. At Avon‚ the “direct” part of direct selling also
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Grace Zimmerman Case: Eastman Kodak Kodak as a brand had a Unit market share of 70% in a market of 670 million film rolls produced annually. I assume that Kodak Ektar accounted for 30% of the 70%‚ which equals to 21% of the whole market share‚ also equals to 140.7 million sales. The revenue can be calculated by multiplying this sales number by retail price‚ which is $600.79 million. Given the gross margin of 70%‚ the cost of each roll‚ $1.28‚ can be calculated. Kodak Royal Gold‚ which was designed
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Assignment # 3: A New Strategy for Kodak BUS599 Strategic Management 1. Establish five (5) key objectives for Eastman Kodak that encompasses the operational‚ financial‚ human resource aspects of the business. Next‚ argue that each of the established objectives is essential to the success of the company within the Cloud service industry. Kodak is one of the many companies that has succumbed to a disruptive technology some call the digital divide. They recently
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In year 1994‚ KODAK had important strategic decisions to make in order to ensure that a bright future is waiting for KODAK. At that time‚ although Kodak was dominating the consumer photographic film market‚ it had been facing a 6% decline in market share over a five year period. The reasons for KODAK’s market share loss could be examined in two major parts; supply effect and demand effect. SUPPLY EFFECT DEMAND EFFECT -Attractive
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Q2: How would you evaluate Kodak’s attempts to enter the digital business to date? Kodak was aware of the opportunities in the digital market as early as 1980s and allocated resources into the digital business‚ but the inconsistency of leadership strategies and resistance at the management level made it difficult to embrace opportunities in the digital market and stood out amid rigorous competitions. Kodak spent massive amount of research into exploring digital technologies since 1983‚ after Sony
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Kodak’s current position in digital imaging is focused on three areas: 1. Image capture (digital cameras) – cameras are still not boosting profits‚ but Kodak has secured 15% of the market‚ and have boosted advertising spending towards s more integrated marketing effort 2. Services (online photo manipulation) - spent significant dollars on R&D developing software 3. Image output (digital kiosks‚ inkjet printers‚ paper and inks) – network of 19‚000 kiosks at retail stores are highly profitable
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CASE STUDY REPORT 1 Case Study On Kodak‚ What Went Wrong? Patricia A. Webster Oklahoma Wesleyan University CASE STUDY REPORT 2 Introduction This case study will analyze what areas of failure caused Eastman Kodak to continue to have continued underperformance and misalignment within the company’s operations. There were four serious counts of corporate failure on the park of Kodak’s strategic planning and decision making. The analysis
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travelling with his products on a horse-drawn carriage from one town to another to sell his goods. But until today it has evolved from this uncoordinated selling on weekly markets to a very complex process including different activities to finally close the sale. This essay is prepared to have a closer look on even those changes in the history of selling and to explain the evolution by considering historic and contemporary sales methods and attitudes. With the end of mercantilism‚ by the middle of
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