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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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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One 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
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Trap-Ease America: The Big Cheese of Mousetraps Synopsis A group of investors has purchased from an inventor the U.S. rights to sell a patented‚ innovative mousetrap. The group has hired Martha House to manage the company that includes assuming responsibility for sales and marketing. Trap-Ease America has targeted the trap to housewives‚ whom it believes will be attracted to the safety and cleanliness that its trap offers. The trap lures the mouse into a square tube in which it finds itself
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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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TUTORIAL 2 Trap-Ease America: The Big Cheese of Mousetraps If a man [can] ... make a better mousetrap than his neighbor ... the world will make a beaten path to his door. As Martha House‚ president of Trap-Ease America‚ contemplated the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson framed on the wall of her Costa Mesa‚ California office‚ she wondered whether Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap - Trap-Ease - but the world didn’t seem all that excited. IF YOU BUILD A
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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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COMPANY CASE: TRAP-EASE AMERICA: THE BIG CHEESE OF MOUSE TRAPS. Question No. 01: Martha and the Trap-Ease America investors believe they face 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? Answer: Once in-a-lifetime opportunity‚ specifically in the case of selling a product can be best availed by: Developing effective strategic plans Setting unique
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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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Swot Analysis of Trap-Ease Executive Summary: Trap-Ease America has the patent to a revolutionary new mouse trap. Trap-Ease America expected the revolutionary mouse trap to sell like hot cakes unfortunately things have not progressed as predicted so far. A few major problems can be identified with the overall business strategy of Trap-Ease America. First of all‚ the President of the company happens to be the only sales person as well for the product. Secondly‚ there seems to be a wrong selection
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