Event Positioning Bachelor Paper I Submitted by: Juraj Melicher Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. THE INDUSTRY OVERVIEW 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 HISTORY ORIGINS THE BIRTH OF THE INDUSTRY TRENDS WHAT IS THE EVENT? TYPES OF EVENTS 2.5.1 Size 2.5.2 Form or content 2 2 2 3 4 5 7 9 3. THE CONCEPT OF POSITIONING 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 STRATEGIC PLANNING THE AGE OF SAMENESS EVENT VS. PRODUCT POSITIONING‚ THE KEY TO BE FOCUSED AND DIFFERENTIATED THE MOST COMMON STRATEGIC APPROACHES TOWARD POSITIONING
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Product differentiation is a marketing strategy that creates differences from other competiting products by focusing on its unique characteristics and features. The organizations target one market segment or the entire market by using this strategy. (Cravens‚ p110) The coca cola company has introduced Coke Zero as new product and focused to make it different from other products. The company has introduced Coke Zero to compete Pepsi Max and has become the most successful product in the history of
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technology to make some of the best shoes (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker‚ 2009). The issue that is discussed later in this paper would be of how Adidas had positioned its product in the market. 2.0 Segmentation‚ Targeting and Positioning The process of segmentation‚ targeting and positioning is shown figure 1 below. Segmentation is defined as dividing the market into distinct group of buyers that possess different needs‚ characteristics or behaviour that might need separate products or marketing mixes to
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POSITIONING STRATEGIES Positioning refers to creating a favourable image in the mind of the customers so that they perceive the product or a service to be better than that of its competitors. It is also occupying the mind‚ heart‚ body and wallet space of customers in the selected target market segment through differential advantage higher than rivals in an irreplaceable way by converting differential advantage into sustainable differential advantage. Positioning is not so much what a product
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This strategy is developing new IT features to differentiate products and services. It also use IT features to reduce the differentiation advantage of competitors and to focus products and services at selected market niches. In 1971‚ FedEx began to offer overnight package delivery by air. At that time‚ Fred Smith found that U.S. Postal Service and United Parcel Service (UPS) also taking several days to deliver packages. Therefore‚ Smith started the overnight delivery and he charges higher prices
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Product Positioning "Product positioning" is a marketing technique intended to present products in the best possible light to different target audiences. The method is related to "market segmentation" in that an early step in major marketing campaigns is to discover the core market most likely to buy a product—or the bulk of the product. Once segmentation has defined this group ("active seniors‚" "affluent professional working women‚" "teens") the positioning of the product consists of creating
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Strategic Positioning is defined as doing different activities than your competitors or doing the same activities differently. This is the way your company becomes a superior performer in the industry. Many people describe their positioning based on their customer base. For example‚ Burger King focuses on young adult males as their target customer. There strategy and positioning is directed to satisfy this sector of the market. Wendy’s on the other hand has a different positioning. They base
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Strategic positioning Strategic positioning is the positioning of an organization (unit) in the future‚ while taking into account the volatile environment‚ plus the systematic recognition of that positioning. The strategic positioning of an organization includes the planning of the desired future position of the organization. On the basis of present and foreseeable progress‚ and the making of plans to realize that positioning. The strategic positioning method is devised from the business world
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1.0 Introduction Position is the place of a product(s) or brand that occupies in consumers’ minds relative to competing offerings. Positioning is the process of developing a specific marketing mix to influence current and potential customers’ overall perception of a brand‚ product line or organisation. Positioning assumes that consumers compare products based on important features. (Robert and Heath 2012‚ 629) 2.0 Segmentation Profile Hotel 81 considers all four major variables of geographic
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Chapter 4 TUTORIAL FOR POSITIONING ANALYSIS Concept There are three broad concepts associated with this tutorial: Differentiation‚ Positioning‚ and Mapping. Differentiation is the creation of tangible or intangible differences on one or two key dimensions between a focal product and its main competitors. Positioning refers to the set of strategies organizations develop and implement to ensure that these differences occupy a distinct and important position in the minds of customers. Thus‚ Kentucky
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