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Global e-commerce models for brand management

Global e-commerce models for brand management

I think there are two feasible models for brand management of cross-border e-commerce. First E-Commerce Model The first way, if you have enough capital today and the brand line is complete, you can officially export the goods to the target market, enter a third-party warehouse (the warehouse company will have a matching logistics company), set …

E-commerce model for small and medium-sized enterprises

E-commerce model for small and medium-sized enterprises

E-commerce model for small and medium-sized enterprises In this digital Internet era, It is critical to identify what kind of e-commerce model can small, medium-sized enterprises and the world’s invisible champions use to help enterprises transform through online marketing, build their own brands, and sell products to the world. The operation path of traditional brand …

7 Reasons behind Amazon entry in hand-made market

7 Reasons behind Amazon entry in hand-made market

Why Amazon Enters the Hand-made Market to Grab Etsy’s Business? The aggressive giant Amazon stepped into Etsy’s hand-made niche market and launched Amazon Handmaid’s new service focusing on hand-designed products. But Amazon’s ambitions may be far more than that. Creating a market designed for crafts is just Amazon’s first step to attract more “in-house creators”. …

Lean Startup – Uses of Lean Entrepreneurial Cycle

Lean Startup - Uses of Lean Entrepreneurial Cycle

Lean Startup – Uses of Lean Entrepreneurial Cycle Have you heard of Lean Startup? Nowadays, the entrepreneurial cycle is changing rapidly, and speed determines success or failure. In the past, Pakistan’s manufacturing industry’s high capital expenditures to build factories to reduce production capacity and cost has become narrower under the threat of the red supply …

Digital Indicators on Amazon to Determine Market Demand

Digital Indicators on Amazon to Determine Market Demand

In the previous article, we used keyword tools to test the potential of Amazon products. Here, we will teach you to observe the digital indicators on Amazon to determine whether your product has market demand? There are two numbers on Amazon that are very important, one is the number of comments, the other is Best …

7 Ways to test market potential of a brand

7 Ways to test market potential of a brand

7 Ways to test market potential of a brand An international brand with the spirit of locality can bring different touches to foreign consumers and make your brand market visible internationally. As an operator in Pakistan, based on your familiarity and intuition with the market, you may be able to easily judge whether a product …

International Services Marketing Exercise Answers

International Services Marketing Exercise Answers

Q:  What are the reasons for Servcorp’s success in international markets?  To what extent has Servcorp been able (a) to standardize, and (b) to customize its service offering worldwide? In international markets Servcorp has obviously developed both a mix of standardization (office layouts, facilities available, the way each client is treated) and customization (local staff …

Services Classification in International Markets

Services Classification in International Markets

A useful typology of service firms in international markets is provided in Figure.  It distinguishes and gives examples of different types of service firms operating internationally with reference to two main qualifying dimensions: their respective degree of intangibility, and the respective degree of face-to-face client contact required or necessitated. Each of the four cells illustrated …

Ways to Expand Services in International Markets

Ways to Expand Services in International Markets

As with domestic market expansion, several options are available.  These include: Embedding services in some physical storage medium as a form of support which may be self-delivered (in the form of computer software, videos or international calls) Satellite and telecommunications for example) or delivered in person by an on-site representative of the service organization. Using …

Factors that drive an organization to serve in international markets

Factors that drive an organization to serve in international markets

Understanding the nature of international services first Services now account for approximately 30% of total trade world-wide. There are a few factors that drive an organization to serve in international markets.  While the mix and proportion of export services varies from one country to another. International Service Categories The main categories include; Professional services (including, …

Define Emotional Labor, Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity

Define Emotional Labor, Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity

Emotional Labor Emotional labor concerns the management of emotions by service personnel so that customers will only see desirable expressions.  An example would be a front desk manager of a hotel retaining a calm and professional appearance even when being abused by an irate guest. Role Conflict Role conflict is where service employees must manage …

How Service Management Trinity can help improve the customer service

How Service Management Trinity can help improve the customer service

Defining Services Management Trinity Whilst the power of conceptualizing the management functions as a Service Management Trinity should be evident, achieving this integration in practice may still be problematic. Unlike manufacturing in which each management function can be considered as interlocking yet separate, a service organization can be thought of as a ‘factory in the …

Using Tierney Model to improve customer service functions

Using Tierney Model to improve customer service functions

Use of three dimensions of Tierney Model The Price, Arnould and Tierney model for classifying and managing service encounters is a useful example. It uses three dimensions to describe the encounter: Encounter duration Affective content Spatial proximity For an organization that is considering how to improve its customer service function, whether to go ‘hi-tech’ or …

Medium is the Message Case Solution

Medium is the Message Case Solution

Case Synopsis This case (Medium is the message) illustrates the face-to-face nature of services along with its managerial implications.  Fly Away Travel is known for providing stimulating holidays, and also for their personal attention and care.  It is this high level of customer service that differentiates it from other travel providers.  To combat geography and …

An Effective Customer Service Organization Strategy

An Effective Customer Service Organization Strategy

Defining Customer Service Customer service is now a function that is built into the very fabric of the total service delivery and designing system. Customer service involves task-oriented activities, other than proactive selling, that involve interactions with customers in person, by telecommunications or by mail. Two main criteria of designing and performing a service function. …

Scuba Jamboree Case Solution

Scuba Jamboree Case Solution

What might have been some of the implications for Scuba Jamboree of the fact that 70% of the local diving industry was controlled by foreign operators, and the challenge for Thai dive specialists to become more competitive? A: In the dive business, accreditation by a professional organization (like PADI) is essential.  This was lacking in …

Promoting Services Review Exercise Answers

Promoting Services Review Exercise Answers

Distinguish between the internal and external role of public relations in promoting services. The internal or personnel-focused role of public relations includes culture and morale building trust and confidence building recognition and reward loyalty building serving to enhance productivity creating a climate or ambience conducive to optimum service delivery, customer comfort and satisfaction The external …

Role of Marketing Communication Mix in Promoting Services

Role of Marketing Communication Mix in Promoting Services

Role of Marketing Communication Mix in Promoting Services Service marketers usually have access to numerous forms of marketing communication. The challenge is to select the most appropriate (mix) and weave them together into a coherent, integrated program that is both effective and cost-efficient.  Elements of Marketing Communication Mix The main elements of the mix that …

5 Factors which differentiate Goods from Services

5 Factors which differentiate Goods from Services

5 Factors which differentiate Goods from Services Most of the factors which differentiate goods from services create distinctive marketing implications for service communication strategies. For example: The intangible nature of services means that Advertising is often necessary to communicate standing and reputation and, thereby, to build trust and confidence; to put a personal ‘face’ and …

Services Marketing Mini Case Solutions

Services Marketing Mini Case Solutions

Marketing Case 1: City Sightseeing Tours – A Communication Challenge Researchers are expected to discern that there is indeed a central role to be played by MC in this marketing case situation – for the purposes of. (a) making people aware of the new service, and (b) differentiating the service from the competing alternative.  This …

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