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 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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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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Trap-Ease America Questions1)Martha and the Trap-Ease America investors believe they face a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What information do they need to evaluate thisopportunity? By saying they face a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity I assume that they are talkingabout the potential for profit and growth. However‚ from this case it doesn’t seem thatMartha‚ the president of Trap-Ease had done enough research into her market torealistically assess whether the demand for her product would be there
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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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product produces by the company. Currently‚ Trap-Ease has only manufactured one product that is the mousetrap‚ which is also known as the Trap-Ease mousetrap. This mousetrap is designed to allow customers to enjoy the means of dealing with mouse problem efficiently. Customers can be at ease by avoiding the safety and cleanliness problems created by the traditional spring-loaded traps or poison. One of the main materials for Trap-Ease mousetrap is plastic. The trap is a square‚ plastic tube measuring about
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Trap Ease Case 1) A once in a lifetime opportunity to me symbolizes‚ that if the company doesn’t get their marketing/sales strategy correct‚ within a specific time period‚ all their hope for the product to be outstanding‚ diminishes‚ because new products can surface that are similar and create competition for them. I feel as though Martha didn’t assess her target market’s needs and wants. I feel as though Martha exhibited marketing myopia‚ in which they focused on the (actual) product rather
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Teri Cowling 2/2/2012 TRAP-EASE AMERICA: THE BIG CHEESE OF MOUSE TRAPS 1. Martha and the trap-ease investors believe they face a once in a life time opportunity. With this being said I assume the investors are referring to their ability of growth and profit. Information needed to evaluate this opportunity would be that of their competitors. The investors should see what if any advantage they have in regards to price and product. Also if any competitor is really pushing the “humane”
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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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2) Has Martha identified the best target market for Trap-Ease? What other market segments might the firm target? Martha has targeted women for her product. She feels that women are the best group to target because they don’t like the mess or the risks created by traditional mouse traps. But what Martha doesn’t know about is woman is a large segment that is too wide to be targeted properly. In the society‚ woman population is shrinking rapidly causing market that Martha is targeting is shrinking
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