Huang Ge MGT401 Prof. Patton‚ Joseph 2/3/2015 Case 2 1. Describe Dropbox’s “Freemium Pricing strategy” to get users and revenue. What was this strategy? What did the company hope to accomplish with this strategy? Dropbox is a company providing remote-storage over the internet‚ cloud storage service as well. The “Freemium Pricing Strategy” is a popular pricing strategy which company provide client a basic service without paying a dime and premium services were paid. Dropbox offers 2GB cloud storage
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Sony Car Navigation System – Case Analysis. Car Navigation systems’ demand characterization in Japan‚ Europe and US. Car navigation systems (CNS) demand is mainly determined by different car driving environments and drivers preferences. Both factors vary across markets and determine CNS’s most valuable features for each market. In 1996‚ Japan was the world largest CNS market with sales of 850‚000 units. Several factors accounted for CNS strong popularity. First‚ a highly complicated Japanese road
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Branding Pricing and Distribution Presented to Presented by May 20‚ 2012 Abstract The company chosen and used for this paper is a mobile transport company that caters specifically to senior citizens. This particular paper will explain in detail domestic and global product branding strategy‚ optimum pricing strategy and a distribution channel analysis that identifies the wholesaler‚ distributor‚ and retailer relationships including e-Commerce. Discussions within the paper will also include
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Market position of Sony Ericsson According to a variety of estimations by research companies‚ Sony Ericsson takes up about 8 percent share on the global market of mobile terminals in 2007 and keeps growing. Speaking of its actual position‚ it is placed fourth‚ at that the gap separating it from Nokia is substantial‚ while Motorola’s market share has been slowly growing thin due to negative factors and weakness of the portfolio (learn more in Motorola – strategy and vision‚ product line for 2007)
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Case Analysis: Case of the Pricing Predicament I. Major Facts A. Scott is a salesman for Standard Machine B. Scott received a call from Joann‚ the purchasing agent at Occidental Aerospace C. Occidental is Standard’s largest and most loyal account D. Scott followed Standard’s fixed price policy and submitted a bid of $429K E. Joann informed him that two competitors submitted bids of “under 390K” and another bid of “a little over 400K” F. Scott needs to cut his bid by
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FRAM and SONY (Throughout the assignment I have referred to the staff mainly as salespeople and counter staff to correspond with the case study. Each quote or extract from academic journals are numbered and relate to the reference list at the back) Word count:1592 1)The sales manager’s (at FRAM oil filters) key objective is to provide his or her salespeople with the skills and traits that will push FRAM products through the distribution channels at a faster rate and larger scale‚ skills that
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I. Point of View We consider Ms. Bea Lim’s perspective‚ the Marketing Assistant of Prime Meat‚ Inc. as our point of view. She is the one envisioning on the pricing strategy formulation that would have a long-term beneficial effect to the company. II. Market Situation Analysis A. Opportunities-Threat Analysis 1. Opportunities Strategic Location - The location of Prime Meat‚ Inc. is Santo Tomas‚ the town next to the capital city. Large Market Potential - For tocino (89.312 metric tons per month)
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INTRODUCTION Value-based pricing is a method of pricing products in which companies first try to determine how much the products are worth to their customers. The goal is to avoid setting prices that are either too high for customers or lower than they would be willing to pay if they knew what kind of benefits they could get by using a product. In most firms prices are determined by intuition‚ opinions‚ rules of thumb‚ out-right dogma‚ top management’s higher wisdom‚ or internal power fights1
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Sony Corporation Business in New Asia Prof. Wiboon Meijuan Xu overview of Contents • Brief environmental analysis of the company’s current situation • Brief explanation of the decision(s) facing them • Brief recommendation of what they should do Overview of company • COMPANY: Sony‚ a company founded in 1946 with one of the most famous global brand names. • SONY’S DNA: A distinctive will and drive to generate new value • MAIN BUSINESSES: Sony operates primarily as a consumer electronics firm
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Marketing Management 33 (2004) 765 – 778 Towards value-based pricing—An integrative framework for decision making Andreas Hinterhuber* Falkstrasse 16‚ 6020 Innsbruck‚ Austria Received 1 April 2003; accepted 18 October 2003 Available online 23 December 2003 Abstract Despite a recent surge of interest‚ the subject of pricing in general and value-based pricing in particular has received little academic investigation. Yet‚ pricing has a huge impact on financial results‚ both in absolute terms
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