Teri Cowling 2/2/2012 TRAP-EASE AMERICA: THE BIG CHEESE OF MOUSE TRAPS 1. Martha and the trap-ease investors believe they face a once in a life time opportunity. With this being said I assume the investors are referring to their ability of growth and profit. Information needed to evaluate this opportunity would be that of their competitors. The investors should see what if any advantage they have in regards to price and product. Also if any competitor is really pushing the “humane”
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Trap-Ease America 1. Martha and the investors in Trap-Ease seem to face a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” What information do they need to evaluate this opportunity? What do you think the investor group would write as its “mission statement?” The information that is needed for Martha and her investors to evaluate their opportunity is setting attainable objectives and goals for their product. Their Mission statement would probably be “To help you control your pest problem with ease.”
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1. I feel Martha and the Trap-Ease America investors need to do some strategic planning- the process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization’s goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities. This would set the stage for the rest of the planning. I do not think Martha has done enough research into the market to really assess whether the demand for her product would be there. Martha needs to think about her marketing concept‚ which is a philosophy
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Case Study: Trap Ease America 1. First of all‚ Martha needs to investigate if there are other tools that are better and more efficient for trapping mice. In addition to this‚ Martha should evaluate other supplies and equipment in the market that are high in quality and are at a lower cost. If Martha concludes that her product‚ Trap-Ease America‚ is the most efficient and the supplies she uses are the best quality with a decent or lower cost‚ then she should take the opportunity. Next‚ the mission
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Has Martha identified the best target market for Trap-Ease? In other to ascertain whether Martha has identified the best target market for Trap-Ease we will look at what is a market and what does target markets involves. A market is the set of actual and possible buyers of a product or services and marketing involves the process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and values with each other. Before targeting a market
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April morning‚ Martha House‚ president of Trap-Ease‚ entered her office in Moncton‚ New Brunswick. She paused for a moment to contemplate the Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation that she had framed and hung near her desk: “If a man [can] make a better mousetrap than his neighbor … the world will make a beaten path to his door.” Perhaps‚ she mused‚ Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap—Trap-Ease—but the world didn’t seem all that excited about it. Martha had just returned
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TRAP-EASE AMERICA CASE QUESTIONS (Read Chapter 2) 10 POINTS 1. Has Martha identified the best target market for Trap Ease? What other market segments might the firm target? (2 points) Martha targeted women for her product and she feels that this is the best group to target because they don’t like mess or the danger of the traditional mousetraps. At first this may seem like a good marketing segment however‚ Martha could improve it. Women are too broad of a group so she should segment women into
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Trap-Ease America: the big cheese of mousetraps case Case Analysis: A group of investors had formed Trap-ease America in January after it had obtained worldwide rights to market the innovative mouse trap. The group then hired Martha to serve as president‚ and to develop and manage trap-ease America organizations. Even though the product is well designed‚ and is bringing a new idea to the market‚ by using a good trap to catch the mice‚ it didn’t bring much profit to the company. Even after winning
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Trap-Ease the Big Cheese of Mousetraps By Ahmad Nader Fasseeh to Prof. Ashraf Talaat For Marketing Class MIBA ESLSCA school of Business Alexandria Egypt Martha and the Trap-Ease investors believe they face a once in a lifetime opportunity. What information do they need to evaluate this opportunity? How do you think the group would write its mission statement? How would you write it? First of all there are four primary areas for assessment that should be considered. 1. People Behind
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Trap-Ease America Questions1)Martha and the Trap-Ease America investors believe they face a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What information do they need to evaluate thisopportunity? By saying they face a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity I assume that they are talkingabout the potential for profit and growth. However‚ from this case it doesn’t seem thatMartha‚ the president of Trap-Ease had done enough research into her market torealistically assess whether the demand for her product would be there
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