...Applied Strategic Marketing Report 2013-2014 "The Benefits and Challenges of Multichannel Attribution in Marketing Analytics" by Alan K H Hsu 00849147 Word count: 4990 A report submitted in partial requirements of the MSc in Strategic Marketing degree 1 24th August 2014 Table of Contents Executive summary .................................................................................................. 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 2 Literature review ....................................................................................................... 4 The emergence and influence of Big Data ............................................................. 4 Attribution theory .................................................................................................... 6 Last-click attribution modelling ............................................................................... 7 MCAM .................................................................................................................. 10 Discussion .............................................................................................................. 14 Benefits: clearer channels interactions ................................................................. 14 Benefits: better marketing decision and effective budget allocation ..................... 15 Benefits: stay justified...
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...ANALYSIS IN INTERNET AND ONLINE INDUSTRY: THE FUTURE OF ONLINE SHOPPING COMPETITION SYSTEMS. 5/6/2015 Group Global Strategic Analysis Project for MGMT 471 Role of the Global Corporation Executive Summary Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States.[12] Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, Blue-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone — and is a major provider of cloud computing services. Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand Amazon Basics. Amazon has separate retail websites for United States, United Kingdom & Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico. Amazon also offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products.[13] In 2011, it had professed an intention to launch its websites in Poland[14] and Sweden.[15] Names of All Group Members Awes Alrefae 8993 Yaman Naqawa 8282 Ahmad Alazmi 11608 Mohammed Alghoul Amazon.com: Global Strategic Analysis in internet and online industry: The Future of online shopping Competition Systems...
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...Proposal for an Online Expansion of Company A By: QRT2 E-Business (V2 GRADUATE-0413) Introduction: Company A is a brand name of SKG, Inc. It is a small start-up family-owned company in Houston, Texas, founded in January 2013. Company A owns myquiltedbags.com website which was registered to conduct online retail business. The website is under construction and is yet to be launched. The projected date for its launch is September 1, 2013. The owners are starting this business with small budget. This is going to be 100% online retail business. Products: A handbag is an important and useful woman’s accessory which she uses to carry her essentials. It is also used express her style and make a statement. Company A will sell niche and premier brand of cotton quilted handbags which are pretty, attractive and appealing. It intends to sell different styles of cotton quilted handbags and accessories in different colors from wallets up to travel handbags. Initially it would like to launch 22 different styles of handbags and accessories. It intends to launch new collections every few months on-line. All the styles of handbags and accessories will be designed in-house. All the products will be made in China. Viability of Cotton Quilted Handbags in an Online Environment: According to Global Industry Analysts, Inc. (GIA) report, dated July 15, 2012, “the US market for Handbags is projected to reach UA$9.0 billion by 2015. Though the recent bout of worldwide financial...
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...Company under study: GOOGLE, INC (Text pages 712-715) Where Headquartered (city/state): Mountain View, Ca Part I: Comprehensive Case Analysis – Developing HR Business Partner Competencies in this Case Analysis 1.0 Background on your Company (Type the Company’s background in 3 paragraphs.). Tip: See the “about us” or company information portion of the company’s website or other source. Keep track of all your sources. They are to be included in Section 10 of this report. The creation of goggle’s company starts in 1996 between two smart students of Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They first try to understand the importance of web pages for people. Their aim was to find the best and faster way to connect people with all information. The company was founded in September 1998, they offer results from a huge amount of Web pages. The results are based on a proprietary algorithm. Google’s technology for ranking Web pages is called PageRank http://www.hoovers.com/company/Google_Inc/hsrfri-1-1njht4-1njfaq.html The company growth gradually because of the index of the Websites and other online content that they made it accessible through their search engine to everybody who has access to internet. The company offers different types of useful search. Today, Google operates the leading Internet search engine, by offering very precise search results from actually billions of Web pages. The company is generating its revenue by selling online advertising. ...
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...MICROSOFT AND THE INTERNET: HOW TO RESPOND TO THE RISE OF GOOGLE? Microsoft started investing in the market for internet search and internet advertising in 2003. Despite some interesting technological and marketing moves, however, the company was still a distant third to Google 5 years later and was losing money. In the early 2009, Microsoft’s executives were wondering which bold strategic moves could be made to change this situation. How the Microsoft adventure began At the end of 2008, Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates in 1975, was a giant with revenues of $60 billion and operating cash flow of $22 billion. A large part of Microsoft’s success had come from operating systems for personal computers. Operating systems were the core software that coordinated a computer’s activities. In the early 1980s, Microsoft was chosen by IBM to develop the MS-DOS and to tailor it to IBM needs. Bill Gates, who believed that many other companies might also adopt the same system, sold IBM the rights to use the software for $80,000 but insisted that Microsoft kept the copyrights on MS-DOS. This worked beyond expectations as the many competitors -for instance, Compaq or Dell- who imitated the IBM PC adopted MS-DOS as well, paying Microsoft licence fees of $15 per machine. By the early 1990s, Microsoft had over 90% of the operating system business, Apple gathering most of the rest. Armies of developers were also developing hundreds of software applications that ran on MS-DOS. Microsoft’s dominance...
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...Table of Content 1. Executive Summary…………………………………………………………………………P.1 2. The Challenge………………………………………………………………………………..P.2 3. Situation Analysis……………………………………………………………………………P.3 3.1 PEST Analysis……………………………………………………………………………P.4 3.2 SWOT……………………………………………………………………………………..P.5 4. Market segmentation………………………………………………………………………P.6 5. Market Positioning………………………………………………………………………….P.8 6. Alternative Marketing Strategy…………………………………………………………….P.9 7. Product……………………………………………………………………………………P.10 8. Price…………………………………………………………………………………………P.10 9. Place (Distribution)………………………………………………………………………P.11 10. Promotion………………………………………………………………………………P.11 11. Short & Long Term Projections……………………………………………………….P.18 12. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………….P.19 13. References……………………………………………………………………………….P.20 1. Executive Summary Improve brand awareness of Lee Jeans to Hong Kong young adults with a digital marketing plan that sustains to half year is the target of this project. Digital media is the best way to promote Lee Jeans products to our target customers, not only the result is measurable for evaluation to improve the marketing strategy in the future, but also the budget is controllable and not so costly as traditional medias. There are 2 stages of marketing events: Phrase 1: build up new customers database thru a photo taking competition for collecting primary and secondary data. Phrase 2: customer engagement thru Facebook platform, invite the...
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...Molson Canada: Social Media Marketing K603 Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………………... I. Key Issues……………………………………………………………………... II. Analysis………………………………………………………………………. III. Alternatives & Recommendation……………………………………………. IV. Implementation……………………………………………………………… 2 3 4 7 9 References………………………………………………………………………... 16 1 Executive Summary Molson Canada has been facing negative reactions their recent social media marketing initiative, Cold Shots Campus Challenge. Parties claimed that this Facebook contest promoted irresponsible drinking behaviours among university students. As a result, Molson pulled the contest one week before the scheduled deadline. Now, Molson must evaluate the use of social media, specifically Facebook, in its marketing strategy. The available alternatives are to revamp the Facebook initiative, to focus on static webpages or to focus on traditional marketing strategies. The recommendation is to revamp the Facebook initiative over a period of three months with ongoing monitors and checkpoints. The projected cost of this recommendation is $75,500 initially, with recurrent annual costs of $36,000 per year. The advantage of this recommendation is that it can be easily expanded to include other types of social media, such as micro blogging, video sharing, photo sharing and online forums if the response to this project is positive. 2 I. Key Issues Molson Canada faces four key issues moving forward from November 2007. The...
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...throughout the world using the Internet. People now can have a conversation online which also called as interactive dialogue whether it is through social networks, blogs, forums, or media sharing websites with anyone and on any subject, allowing them to share their experiences and valuable information (Celina, 2012).Social media has provided us with a world with no boundaries and has allowed small companies to dream to reach global market (Lin, 2012). As of now, there is no single renowned definition of social media. However, of the many definitions that exist, According to the (Peter & Mike, 2011), social media is the set of web-based broadcast...
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...and managing new product lines. L'Oreal should integrate social media from inception to market launch and integrate it within their Marketing strategy. They should use tools and platforms like Google Analytics, Youtube, Pinterest in process of devising push and pull strategies to then solve their overarching challenges of line extensions. Social media should also be continually use to optimize marketing strategy based on consumer feedback. Statement of Problem/Opportunities/Objective: L'Oreal was faced with analyzing the market trends in hair coloring segment, possible course of response from L'Oreal and social media integration for better marketing strategy. The overarching issue L'Oreal was facing was to understand how can they integrate social media into their marketing strategy for the new hair color product. The problem was further divided into following categories: Challenge #1- Trend or Fad?: The marketing team's first challenge was to understand how to use social media to identify upcoming trends, decide if it is a trend or fad and how can they differentiate their product that can be relevant for the trend identified. • Pull Strategy: How can they use Social Media Learning as an active strategy to pull information from consumers. They knew that hundreds and thousands of consumers are talking about the product online...
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...Mobile Marketing: Current Issues and Future Trends Course Title and Year: BA Marketing, Year 4 Subject: Online Marketing Skills CA/Project Title: “Mobile Marketing - Current Issues and Future Trends” Supervising Lecturers: Ms. Amanda Freeman Submission Date: 22/02/2013 Student Name: Laura Flanagan Student Number: 20040930 Table of Contents 1.1 Introduction 4 1.2 Defining Mobile Marketing 4 2.1 Types of Mobile Marketing Communications 4 3.1 Brief Overview of the Mobile Marketing Industry 9 3.2 Mobile Marketing Implications for Marketers 10 4.2 Future Trends 13 Conclusion 13 Appendix 14 References 15 “Mobile Marketing – Current Issues and Future Trends” 1.1 Introduction This report intends to explicate the fundamental nature of mobile marketing communications and elucidate its significance for today’s marketers. Furthermore, the report will also focus on what key trends mobile marketing is likely to face in the future. 1.2 Defining Mobile Marketing Firstly, mobile marketing is pertinent to all of the “activities undertaken to communicate with customers through the use of mobile devices” such as the dissemination of promotional offers and information on product and services, (De Pelsmacker, Geuens and Van den Bergh, 2007). Hence, mobile marketing employs mobile devices as the primary communication platform for promoting products and/or services to customers...
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...CASE ANALYSIS MARKETING EXCELLENCE: GOOGLE Submitted by: MARIA REINA PERLAS MBA 504 MARKETING MANAGEMENT DR. P. SEBHATU March 27, 2014 I. IDENTIFICATION: A. Maintaining company identity How can Google maintain a solid company identity/brand identity with its wide array of products and services? B. Breaking out of the search engine mold. Google started as a search engine company, and they were known for it. How can this initial identity interfere with them branching out to other business endeavors and how can they break out of this narrow identity into a broader, bigger and more diverse company? C. Maintaining their reputation for innovation and reliability. How can they maintain their reputation for being an innovative and reliable maker of desktop and mobile products in spite of being heavily branched out? II. ANALYSIS: It was discussed in the article that Google started as a search engine company with the general reputation of being the “ good guys” in the business field. However, with its growth and its branching out to other product lines that are more or less relevant to Internet use, Google most likely encountered issues with maintaining its profile as a company with strong business ethics in the face of continuous opportunities to expand. Google has always tried to exercise its tenet of being a company for the people. But this is rather hard to imagine for a large, global company who seems to be as profit-driven as any...
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...2012 ------------------------------------------------- Tutorial 1 * Overview Run through Unit Plan and Assignment question. * Introduction * Definition of Marketing * Importance of knowing the difference between objective, strategy and tool * Importance of Target Market process. * Importance of knowing Positioning. * The evolvement of Marketing Mix from 4Ps to 9Ps but syllabus covers the fundamental which is 4Ps. * Expectations * Tutor’s expectations. * Importance of attendance. * Those with less than 50% attendance will have to meet up with the lead lecturer and stand a chance to be barred from final exam. Tutorial 2 Lecture 1 – Introduction to Marketing ______________________________ 1. How does an organization create a customer? 2. (a) Identify the four types of utility and give an example of each. (b) Why is utility such an important feature of marketing? 3. (a) Define relationship marketing, and describe how it fits into the marketing concept. (b) Why is determining the lifetime value of a customer an important analysis for a company to take? Tutorial 3 Lecture 2 – Understanding Marketing Management _________________________________________ 1. What is the difference between a firm’s mission and its objectives? Why is it important that both are conveyed clearly to employees...
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...Challenges and how to overcome them Even during the most downtrodden of economic times and perhaps even more during those times, the dream of starting a new business venture burns brightly in many people’s minds. The advantages of having a small online business range from lower start-up costs than brick-and-mortar operations to more streamlined administration. But successfully running an online business is far from easy. The moment a business decides to enter the online world, the very first challenge is creating a reliable website. A good designer can accomplish this, but a high-quality website is more than just visual attraction; it should also function smoothly and be designed for carrying out business. So the first issue that we faced is lack of computer expertise. We needs to possess more than a basic knowledge of the Internet to do business online. Necessary skills include knowing how to set up a website for business purposes and how to market our business online. Instead of this, we had do observation or google searching and read for relevant article or teaching materials either technology resources or visitor engagement resources. Another issue is limitations of business types. Some types of businesses may not be suited for the Internet, particularly those products involve the use of the senses. For example, if the unique selling point of our product is its pleasant aroma. After we decides to selling snacks online we just realise that we are facing this problem. So we...
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...Online Expansion Marketing Plan for LIBAAS Boutique Iram Rashid- Mehmood Western Governors University Executive Summary LIBAAS is a retail clothing store specializing in unique clothing inspired from cultures of South Asia Subcontinents. This business offers both casual and formal wear as well as special occasion apparel made on order. It is run by the owner and her team of 4. Shabnam Khan has 14 years of corporate business work experience and has worked as a Client Service Manager for Global Relocation Company. She is well aware of demands of global customers and how to do business with them. She has a bachelor degree and design. Her team of 4 includes 2 well experienced tailors and 2 sales persons. LIBAAS is located in the heart of New York City and mainly serves the Tri State area (NY, NJ, CT). Its intent is to provide the community with unique South Asian traditional clothing they would normally purchase outside of U.S.A. LIBAAS was started with $40,000 funding and has been successfully achieving the sales and revenues goals for past 5 years. LIBAAS has now decided to take its business online and broaden the circle of its customers. It is planning to expand from Tri State area to national level. It will also provide products and services to international buyers. LIBAAS has full awareness of its competitors and has developed effective strategies of ecommerce solutions. Objectives: · Retain current customers and increase their loyalty · Expand...
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...Amazon.com Strategic Analysis Amazon.com is one of the world’s leading online retailers. Simply being online has been their main strategic focus from the beginning. Jeff Bezos created the company in 1994 from his garage in Bellevue, Washington. At that time books were the only product sold to customers. The company went public and started selling music and movies in 1997. Over the last 14 years the site has included many more products to the list of items that they sell such as apparel, electronics, DVD’s, toys, games, etc. This essay will discuss if Amazon.com is moving away from its core competency of being an online retailer and the competitive areas between Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. We will also address the uses of Amazon.com database; possible data management issues; the relationship among Amazon’s data, information, and knowledge. The essay will conclude by describing how the retailer uses e-business and e-commerce for B2B and B2C. Transition from Core Competency While Amazon.com remains the top retail provider amongst sales, the profit margins are not as high as investors want them to be (Rainer & Turban, 2008). Profits have fallen, and the operating margins are at 4.9 %, which is below Wal-Mart whose margin is 5.1 % (Rainer & Turban, 2008). Online shopping has become a more desired way amongst the consumer world. With the increasing business comes competition. As a result, Amazon is becoming more and more a part of the technology world. It would not be said...
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