Southwest Airlines was started over 38 years ago as a small Texas airline and has grown to become one of the largest airlines in the United States because it differentiates itself as the most successful low-fare‚ high frequency‚ point-to-point carrier. Since 1987 Southwest has consistently led the entire airline industry with the lowest ratio of complaints per passenger boarded. What does Southwest do differently that no one else in airlines does? It keeps things simple and consistent‚ which drives
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fundamental facts in marketing is that every product has a target audience. Rarely are there products that cross all age‚ gender‚ social background‚ ethnic group‚ etc.‚ in their appeal. Although not impossible‚ if there ever were such products‚ they are extremely few and far between. Why is it important to understand that each product has a specific target audience? Because‚ without identifying the target audience‚ one is unable to utilize the marketing mix to build a successful marketing strategy. According
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P’s involved in marketing mix? Ans- Just like the marketing mix of a product the service marketing mix comprises of Product‚ Price‚ Place and Promotion. How ever as a service is not tangible the marketing mix for a service has three additional elements: People‚ Process and Physical Evidence. People- People are an essential ingredient in service provision; recruiting and training the right staff is required to create a competitive advantage. Customers make judgments about service provision and
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Marketing mix for competitive advantage: Introduction: The main intention of market research is to analyze the demand of customers. In fact‚ consumers are so close with the market research and product development to their integration into the 4 Ps--that people might even be called: The fifth "P" of marketing. The four P’s of effective marketing mix strategy was developed by McCarthy. Focusing upon customers‚ company could take right decision for the customers‚ according to the right place and
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The Marketing Mix Marketers‚ in order to bring out desired responses from their target markets‚ use a number of tools that form a marketing mix. Marketing mix is defined as the set of marketing tools that an organization uses to follow its marketing objectives in the target market. McCarthy has classified these tools as the 4Ps of marketing which are product‚ price‚ place and promotion. (McGraw-Hill/Irwin‚ 2002) The 4Ps are the ideas to take into account while marketing a product. They constitute
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Corporate Strategy Southwest Airlines faced many barriers to entry from the fierce competition of other airlines in the industry. Though competition was fierce‚ Southwest Airlines managed to succeed by doing things differently. Their mission was to provide affordable air travel to those who would not normally fly. Contradictory to the rest of the airline industry‚ Southwest maintained a profit while keeping its fares low. Southwest was unique to the industry in two ways. They focused on the short
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The airlines industry has historically been one of the most unprofitable industries. The reason can be explained when incorporating Michael Porter’s famous Five Forces Model. The threat of competition is Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas‚ Texas‚ with its largest focus city at Las Vegas ’ McCarran International Airport. It is the largest airline in the United States by number of passengers carried domestically per year and (as of December 31‚ 2007)
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The marketing elements center around four distinct functions‚ sometimes called the Four Ps: product‚ place‚ price‚ and promotion. These combinations of marketing elements are used in a selling a product. These functions are considered in planning a marketing strategy‚ and any one of these Ps enhanced‚ deducted‚ or changed in some degree in order to create the strategy‚ this are necessary to be efficiently and effectively to sell a product. The combination of the four controllable variables of Product
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Abstract In this paper I will define what a good marketing mix requires and describe how a company uses this process to market their product. I have chosen Anytime Fitness as my company to do my paper on. Anytime Fitness is a unique style of fitness club that is in a very competitive market place. Their marketing mix focuses on all of the four P’s to attract customers. They locate small neighborhood clubs close to where people live and work. They are a no frills workout center that offers weights
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Marketing Mix What is the Marketing Mix? Professor E Jerome McCarthy first used the term Marketing Mix in the 1960’s. He suggested that it contained 4 elements‚ which are now commonly referred to as the 4 P’s‚ which are used to describe the position of a product in a marketplace. They are the variables that marketing managers can control in order to best satisfy a customer in a target market. The 4 P’s are: 1. Product The product is the physical product or service that it is offered to the
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