| Short Selling | | Working‚ Dynamics and Opinions | FIM – Spring 2011 Authored by: Muhammad Fahad Raza & Muneeb Shahid Short Selling Working‚ Dynamics and Opinions Contents What is Short Selling? 2 History 2 Working 2 Dynamics 3 Factors Influencing the Short Selling Process 3 Pure Intuition 3 Market Correction 3 Inside Information 3 Advantages of Short Selling 4 Disadvantages of Short Selling 4 Short Selling in US 5 Short Selling in Pakistan (ISE) 6 What is Short
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account for the success of IKEA? IKEA’s success was attributed to a number of core competency factors such as its strong brand image‚ having a well-defined target market‚ its cost cutting corporate culture which led to flat-packaging of its products‚ developing good working relationships with its suppliers‚ creating a “partnership” relationship with consumers and proper understanding of its consumers’ behavior. IKEA was able to deliver superior
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Direct selling is the marketing and selling of products directly to consumers away from a fixed retail location. Peddling is the oldest form of direct selling. Modern direct selling includes sales made through the party plan‚ one-on-one demonstrations‚ and other personal contact arrangements as well as internet sales. A textbook definition is: "The direct personal presentation‚ demonstration‚ and sale of products and services to consumers‚ usually in their homes or at their jobs." Advantages/Benefits
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Question 1 Personal Selling Process My personal selling process consists of the following nine steps: 1. Prospecting 2. Pre-approach 3. Approach 4. Presentation 5. Trial Close 6. Objections 7. Meeting objections 8. The Close 9. Follow up and Service Step 1: Prospecting Prospecting‚ involves the Money‚ Authority‚ Desire (M.A.D) approach. Firstly I analysed my prospective clients to ensure that they had the money‚ authority and desire to purchase the products I was selling. Upon analysis I
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Personal selling occurs where an individual salesperson sells a product‚ service or solution to a client. Salespeople match the benefits of their offering to the specific needs of a client. Today‚ personal selling involves the development of longstanding client relationships. In comparison to other marketing communications tools such as advertising‚ personal selling tends to: • Use fewer resources‚ pricing is often negotiated. • Products tend to be fairly complex (e.g. financial services or new
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of your product/service offerings. Q2 *How do we need to do first*? First‚ you need to form yourselves into group of 5. Select someone in your team to be the team leader. Inform your tutor who is in your team. Q3 What exactly are we selling? You will represent one of the many hotels in Singapore. As you may be aware‚ many of the large hotels have function rooms and exhibition halls which they market to potential exhibitors or companies holding seminars or workshops. Your team is the
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parties respect the agreements between the MNCs and the government. This will help IKEA ensure the healthy business environment. However‚ In Poland after the fall of communist government make the political situation changed drastically. That has bad impact to relationship between the supplier and IKEA such as the supplier tried to raise price. Economic factors The economic crisis is the good economic factor for IKEA when the US dollar the importing cost of raw materials from Sweden was getting more
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The IKEA storeThe IKEA store is large. It has to be in order to offer a wide and deep range of products that people can take home immediately and enjoy the same day. As well as to inspire people in realistic room settings and real-life homes. | | Making the IKEA product range come to lifeThe IKEA store is where the IKEA range is sold. It is also where the range comes to life. Visitors are encouraged to take their time and get comfortable with IKEA home furnishing solutions and products in realistic
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Swedish Furniture Giant IKEA Case Study The points of the Porter’s Diamond are described as four broad attributes. And these attributes promote or impede the creation of competitive advantage. These attributes are: •Factor conditions --a nation’s position in factors of production such as skilled labor or the infrastructure necessary to compete in a given industry. •Demand conditions --the nature of home demand for the industry’s product or service. •Relating and supporting industries
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Assignment Background IKEA is a Swedish company founded in 1943. It is an international retail chain store with 160 stores located in 30 countries. IKEA’s business philosophy is to offer a wide range of home furnishings with good design and function at prices that as many people as possible will be able to afford. The IKEA store in Hong Kong is one of the franchise stores in the Asia Pacific region‚ having started business in 1975. Since then‚ IKEA has become the leader in the home furnishing
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