MARKETING STRATEGY The field of marketing strategy considers the total marketing environment and its impacts on a company or product or service. The emphasis is on "an in depth understanding of the market environment‚ particularly the competitors and customers." A given firm may offer numerous products or services to a marketplace‚ spanning numerous and sometimes wholly unrelated industries. Accordingly‚ a plan is required in order to effectively manage such products. Evidently‚ a company needs
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Case Analysis: Virgin Mobile USA: Pricing for the Very First Time April 14‚ 2012 History As part of the Sprint prepaid brands‚ Virgin Mobile USA is a mobile phone service that offers Android-powered smartphones and pre-paid web access phone service. Virgin Mobile-branded phones are widely available in over 40‚000 stores nationwide‚ including Target‚ Walmart‚ Best Buy and Radioshack. Virgin Mobile USA’s service is based on a non-contract basis‚ offering a freedom of service to their customers
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Managing Marketing Programs Pricing Strategies- Mobile Phone Industry By Parvez Rangwalla Email-ID:pryprv@gmail.com Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research‚ Bangalore. 2 Topics Covered:Topic Page No 1. History and growth of mobile phone industry in India 3 2. Current scenario of Mobile phone industry 4 3. Marketing strategies of Major players- Nokia and Samsung 7 4. Pricing Strategies in Mobile Phone Industry 12 5. Current trend in mobile industry 17 6. Future of mobile industry
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PGDM (Batch:2012-14/ Term-III) MARKETING MANAGEMENT-II (C-303) Session 1‚ 2&3 T- Course Overview; Introduction to Strategy Development Framework; (Finalization of C- What is our Business? (Hard Copy) groups) R- 1.Strategy as simple rules –HBR Article (Soft Copy) 2. Environmental and Internal Analysis (West et al.) Ch-3‚ pp-65-89 AR- What is Strategy? - HBR Article (Soft Copy) Session 4&5 T- Understanding Business and Marketing Objectives C- 1.Carolina Lunker Sauce (Hard Copy) 2. Glaxosmithkline:
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289 CASE EXAMPLE The Virgin Group Aidan McQuade Introduction The Virgin Group is one of the UK’s largest private companies. The group included‚ in 2006‚ 63 businesses as diverse as airlines‚ health clubs‚ music stores and trains. The group included Virgin Galactic‚ which promised to take paying passengers into sub-orbital space. The personal image and personality of the founder‚ Richard Branson‚ were highly bound up with those of the company. Branson’s taste for publicity has led him to
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on a survey of the Virgin Group’s sustainability report that summarize the Virgin companies’ sustainability strategy‚ evaluating the sustainability report based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) principle‚ to comment performance indicators and making recommendations‚ which can improve the sustainability report. Virgin Group’s Corporate responsibility and sustainable development report 2010 emphasizes the range of corporate responsibility and sustainability issues the Virgin companies face operating
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1) Executive Summary: Zain (formerly known as Fastlink)‚ was established in 1994‚ to launch mobile services in Jordan. Zain quickly became the foremost telecom company in the country‚ owning over twenty six outlets strategically located around the Kingdom. It also relies on indirect outlets by providing logistical support to dealers‚ thus its brand is visible all over‚ building momentum and strength‚ and becoming one of the first recognizable brands nationally. The Jordanian telecommunications
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I. Native advertising on mobile Mobile advertising is taking off because people spend more time on mobile platforms‚ however‚ native mobile ads — for example‚ Twitter’s sponsored tweets — are currently outperforming other mobile advertising formats and creating strong engagement with site visitors. In this chapter‚ we would define the native advertising on mobile‚ the main types of native mobile ads and also the future of native advertising on mobile. In the first chapter‚ the native advertising
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the nationwide mobile phone services industry are Verizon‚ AT&T‚ Sprint‚ and T-Mobile. Each one of these companies has a marketing team who is working to increase revenues for their business. The best way to do this is to expand their total market share and get mobile users to transfer and use their service. The article‚ “T-Mobile‚ In ‘Disrupt-and-Attack’ Mode‚ Makes ‘Smart’ Move‚” by Craig Galbraith describes how T-Mobile has recently made a big move by using an attack strategy on its competitors
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How formalized is the organization? Provide examples of formal rules and procedures‚ and indicate whether they are always followed. In an organization‚ formalization refers to the extent to which employee behavior is steered by rules and regulations that govern the organization and the degree to which these rules and regulations are standardized within the organization. It is usually an essential part of large organizations in order to ensure that their complex structures are working effectively
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