com to compete in the general consumer online auction market against eBay in China. After four years of an intensive and expensive battle‚ eBay withdrew from China completely. In about 200 words‚ describe the advantages Alibaba.com might have had over eBay in this new market‚ and then describe the advantages eBay might have had over Alibaba.com. Be sure to discuss lock-in effects where appropriate. Alibaba has advantages over eBay. Alibaba is already well known in their country. Alibaba’s Fees were
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History of eBay It all began in September 1995 when Pierre Omidyar a software developer for Apple computers decided to sell his broken laser pointer. He created originally called ‘‘AuctionWeb‘‘ site which was created on the very same server as his page devoted to research about the ebola virus. It came as a surprise when he found out that his broken laser pointer was sold for more than 14 dollars. He decided to contact the winning bidder asking why would he buy a broken thing for this amount of
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1. Why has eBay struggled in Japan‚ China and other Asia markets? eBay is an online auction service whose business model is ideally suited to the Web. EBay stores no inventory and ships no products. Instead‚ it derives its revenue from the movement of information‚ an ideal task for the Internet. EBay has taken its model to numerous foreign markets and been successful‚ particularly in England‚ France‚ and Germany‚ however‚ eBay has failed to achieve the same success in the Asian markets. There
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Millions of buyers and sellers have made eBay Inc. the world’s largest and most popular Internet site for individuals and businesses to exchange goods. By 1999 eBay had 5.6 million registered users and listed over 3.1 million items for sale; by 2004 there were an estimated 65 million registered users from 150 countries‚ 971 million items for sale‚ and gross merchandise sales hit $15billion. eBay owns local sites in 19 countries‚ has stakes in another eight foreign nations‚ and provides users with
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also exist‚ division to division‚ office to office. In this part of this group assignment I will describe the organizational culture of one of the most famous internet companies in the world‚ which is also the largest marketplace in the internet – EBay. Many articles and books have been written in recent years about culture in organizations‚ usually referred to as "Corporate Culture." The dictionary defines culture as "the act of developing intellectual and moral faculties‚ especially through
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surveys show that barely 20% of adult Indians own a watch and about 90% of them own a single watch. So as to sustain and strive in this scenario‚ a company has to market itself well. Among those marketing strategy applied by the companies‚ one is STP (segmentation‚ targeting‚ positioning) ANALYSIS. Here‚ STP analysis is done for a company which has got the highest market share in the watch market of India and it is TITAN. As the world’s sixth largest manufacturer brand of watches‚ the company’s product
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STP implementation by Android (OS) What is an Android? * Android in an open source ‚ Linux based mobile operating system * The good thing android being open source is the speed of development and community contributions to the advancement of the operating system * Android market has more than 5‚00‚000 apps The Android story STP-a three step process I. Segmentation: Segmentation involves finding out different segments of consumers with different needs exist. Keeping in view the
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Marketing – Brief discussion about STP. Market Segmentation: A market is divided into smaller segments based on distinct needs‚ characteristics or behaviors of the consumers. The divided markets most probably require separate products or marketing strategies. A market segment consists of consumers who respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing efforts. For example: In the bed market‚ consumers who want biggest‚ most comfortable bed regardless of price make up a segment whereas consumers
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eBay Case Threshold resources • Offices and facilities • IT server platforms and appropriate software • Personnel with in-depth IT knowledge • All other appropriate personnel • Sufficient customers and suppliers Threshold competences Unique resources • Being the first • Web 2.0 management skills • Electronic platform management skills • Leading technology expert • Active community of users • eBay brand • Partnering on the internet • Biggest electronic exchange platform SWOT analyse:
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VODAFONE STP ANALYSIS STP Segmentation: Vodafone segments its target users by Income‚ Age‚ Service usage‚ Nature of customer‚ life of the service and geographical condition. Income Age: Vodafone segments its end users by segmenting them into “youth” and “adults”. It further categorizes these as college going kids‚ those that have just entered the corporate world and older adults. Service Usage: Vodafone segments its target consumers /users by the kind of service they are looking for. They
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