Wednesday, February 23, 2011

EOC 7: Final- The Pitch

Marketing is the key to branding any products, with advertisements, and customer out reach a product can narrow down to a targeted audience." Demographic factors are the most popular bases for segmenting customer groups. One reason is that consumer needs, wants, and usage rates often vary closely with demographic variables." 6 Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy, Marketing An Introduction, Gary Armstrong, Philip Kotler Page 7 of 50. My assignment is attract my male consumers to buy a product that typically doesn't buy. Typical Male consumers do not like to shop. Even if they do, they use very little time shopping. My strategy to get the male consumers to buy the product, instead of the female consumers buying it for them. Why do I focus on men instead of women. "Family buying roles are changing. For example, 65 percent of men grocery shop regularly while women influence 50 percent of all new technology purchases."  5 Understand Consumer and Business Buyer Behavior, Marketing An Introduction, Gary Armstrong, Philip Kotler Page 18 of 59. I focused much more about food, witch typically brought by women. My product is yogurt name Yopalit Greek, women eat it loss weight for digesting solutions. The second reason is few company only try to market yogurt to for men. Yoplait one had advertisement a man eating his wife's yogurt.  Men can eat it gain weight. Lot of people that goes to gym use protein shakes, premade drinks to gym."Why drink it when you can eat it"  Product can stay the same with the taste, only different is protein. protein shake need lot of liquid to consume lot of protein. but with yogurt you can eat little and consume more protein.  These way  consumer don't have jug down lot of liquid before going to gym. Yogurt would be fast and easy way to consume yogurt.    

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

EOC Week 6: 9 Apps

3 Good Ideas

Database of student Portal (Student’s Haven)

Today most students turn in their though a student portal use of web. I been in ITT technical Institute, where they uses, even in my high school had web base student portal, where students, teacher, and even parents can go check on progress of a student. App should have ways to turn in student works. This would be universal database student portals, where any student can upload their homework to their schools for students.

Virtual Flash Drive (VF Drive)

App let the user accessible to upload or download any file type. Wireless connects to a computer from, and can also upload and download any file using your mobile phone. When you save copy on your phone. This app will let you download anything using your iphone.


Alarm Before Accidents

Walking while texting , playing games, calling. App with a alarm that let you know when you hit something. Alarm should off go according to traveling speed of the user.


Bad Apps
"I hate to be a party pooper, but let's face it: Crappy apps are becoming commonplace on the iPhone. "
(By JR Raphael , PCWorld    Aug 13, 2009 6:00 pm)

FatBurner2k

The app let you iphone be the gym. It start vibrating witch make you lose weight. why waist that money to buy the app, jogging and going to gym would be much better idea.

Kiss Me 

It is app that allow you kiss you cell phone in order to find out your kissing rate. The way I see it, people have the phone in sweaty pockets, some sit on it all day , and rub it against their face. last thing a person should put that on their pocket.

SimStapler

The real time equipment simulator, it let you staple thing virtually. I do not see the point of this app. Last time I stapled something, it wasn't that fun.

Best Apps

Angry Birds

A cartoon game, very addictive, fun play and worth spending that $.99 for most people. It let you use birds as weapons to defeat the green pigs. there is so many level for $.99.

Shazam

 "Faster tagging experience and cool new features including 30 sec previews, Tag Charts from 20 countries, Lyrics and Tag on startup! Shazam gives you instant satisfaction when you want to know what song is playing." (apple.com) Let record music that you don't know, and it will give you the song name. This app is very useful when you listening to new song, and you don't know what that song, with this app you record it and tag it. It will you links to YouTube video, lyrics, and iTunes download link for that song.

Pandora 

Sick listening to song from your iPod, start listening to songs over the internet radio. This app let you search your stations by artists, songs, and albums. The best part about is that it is free.  "Pandora on the iPhone is fully integrated with Pandora on the web. Enjoy all your existing stations - and create new ones right from your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad." apple.com. Pandora isn't just for iphone it is available in so many other mediums.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

EOC Week 5: Best and Worst Superbal Ads

Best Ad



Ad Volkswagen Passal : Young Vader

This caught my eye soon as I watched it. It starts with mysterious start war music, Then I was curious what the little Vader do next. Then he try to move things with his mind. I would it to pretty funny, and cute. Even if you do not know start wars you can relate some child play. Ad focus on key feature of the car, that you start the car with remote button, and it make it look like it's miracle. I found this idea to pretty unique in own way. Key elements for it success are the kid and star wars reference. Those key is what attracts the people to watch the ad. This ad to me achieved the sprit of super bowl ads, which is to be funny, to the point, and getting the message through. I think it's a success, because event like super bowl marketing champagne is very broad. This ad very simple but can reach to broad segment of people.


Worst Ad
<a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/video?vid=ff77380d-b67f-43cf-ad17-c4684d61f404" target="_new" title="">Hyundai: Relax</a>


Hyundai: Relax

the commercial contains a abstract images of part of the car. This is your typical car ad. To me I think super bowl is the black friday of marketing. Company is need to put their best efforts for their marketing campaigns. Many viewers watch the super bowl to watch the super bowl ads. companies should bring one of kind, creative, funny ads to the table. Most importantly it must get the message across. I think in this case, I see this kind of ad everyday. So there for I'm most likely to remember unique ad that has sense humor. I think ad itself is good. but this isn't a regular day, just being good isn't going cut customers wish list. I find it creative, but it does not give out anything for that ad to stand out.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Week 4 EOC: Business to Business Vs Consumer Market


                Consumer marketing goes for the regular customers. I count myself to be final buyer, include to consumer market. But companies are not just selling consumer to buy their products, they must also convince other business to buy their products and that business marketing. Although consumer marketing and business marking looks there, there are some variations. “Business markets differ in many ways from consumer markets. The main differences are in market structure and demand, the nature of the buying unit, and the types of decisions and the decision process involved” (Marketing: An Introduction for Education Management Corporation, 10th Edition, Gary Armstrong and Philip Kotle printed page 157.) Consumer marketing very broad and wage and focusing on large amounted of targeted audience. For example, company goes through various mediums to reach consumer by web, phone, and television. As compare to the business marketing tends to be direct and short marking compare to business. A person would expect that consumer market to bigger than business market, because it is more wage and board, focus for more audiences. But it is the other way around, business marketing is usually tends to be bigger than the consumer markets. “The business marketer normally deals with far fewer but far larger buyers than the consumer marketer do. Even in large business markets, a few buyers often account for most of the purchasing.” (Marketing: An Introduction for Education Management Corporation, 10th Edition, Gary Armstrong and Philip Kotle printed page 157.)  Business markets deals with supplier’s to make their products then the company sells to retailer. Banks takes investments from other businesses and then the banks invest and loan money they make more money that way.  Similarity for both marketing would be, there are both keys to having successful business. Business Marketing is more about marketing structure and demand, concerning profits. But if customer satisfactions are not made the retailers wouldn’t make any profits.  For business to find it’s balance marking structure, as well the customer satisfaction.