Attitude change strategy: When considering the attitude change strategy for a brand or product, on the one hand, for the market leaders that already have positive attitudes, the goal is to reinforce the positive attitudes. On the other hand, for the competitors the aim is to change the market leader’s consumer attitudes. For example, Apple, in the smartphone market, is the market leader for several years, the brand already has significant brand loyalty and positive consumer attitudes worldwide. Now we look at its main competitor Samsung, who has introduced the Note and Galaxy series in recent years. The goal for Samsung, of course, is to change the attitudes of Apple’s customers in order to replace Apple’s market leader position. In order to achieve this goal, Samsung has positioned its smartphones as better and more innovative and implying that Apple is losing market share. In this case, Samsung, as the major competitor of Apple, by using the attitude strategy of changing beliefs about Apple, to claim that Samsung’s smartphones are better than Apple’s in order to change consumer’s attitude towards Apple. In addition, Samsung is good at building relationship with an admired group, for example, Samsung planned a famous selfie moment at the Oscars as a part of its sponsorship for the Oscars with ABC. Tricomponent attitude model: The cognititive component: the first of the tricomponet attitude model consists of a person’s cognition, that is the knoweledge and
Business Strategy Cornering saturated market Our first business strategy is for huge companies to gain a good position in current market. We are targeting to be in fortune 500 companies that buy or merge other companies in the same domain. With this mission we will be dominate the market Product Quality Differentiation Making yourself unique from your competitor is the key requirement of our business success.
Apple expanded into the consumer electronics industry after it succeeded in the personal computer industry. Some of its products are: Mac computers, iPods and iTunes, iPhones, iPad and the apple store. Of course, all those products were developed based on consumer’s needs and wants. In addition to its innovative products, Apple’s pricing method has also contributed to its success. Apple products are priced high with respect to competitors and this provides Apple with a prestige image and also creates value for targeted customers where Apple promises to offer the best convenient products to its specific segmented consumers.
Abstract The purpose of this assignment is to critically analyze the context of Apple’s new product, ‘The Apple Watch’ and prepare a Marketing Feasibility Study in order to assess the viability of introducing in the new product range into the UAE market place. Data Introduction Apple Inc. is an American multi-billion dollar corporation that internationally produces computer software, cellular devices and consumer electronic products. Items such as the iPod, the iPhone, the Macintosh desktop computers and the iPad are easily recognizable by society.
In this fast-paced industry, Samsung Electronics Company (SEC) has done a remarkable job in turning the company around and reaching a top-of-mind brand awareness over the past few years. The Samsung brand identity and values were poorly regarded up until the early 90s. The brand was positioned as a low-end electronics company that was mainly manufacturing consumer televisions and VCRs. Samsung was not able to compete with the industry’s leaders (i.e. Sony) in the global market. A positive change was needed to reinvent the company’s culture and brand position at that time.
Samsung implements the strategy of “ Red Ocean;” which shows that a firm gains competitive advantage by venture into the current market and constructing on the weaknesses of other competitors in the field of similar products. Thus, Samsung“floods the market with many products” which are made by other companies within short duration of time ( Travos,2002). It seems that Samsung made these new products through developing many of manufacturing products of its Smartphones. However, such attitude is considered to be as a massive cost advantage over other firms that make such product. Samsung has improved its “competition position internationally through developing its present competitive strategies” , through depending on the other manufacturers`
Porters Five Forces Analysis: Samsung Electronics Introduction Samsung Electronics focuses in three specific areas; Consumer Electronics, IT & Mobile Communications and Device Solution. Porter’s Five Forces model has been used to analyse Samsung Electronics competitive position within the global market they operate in. By using this model, an evaluation of their current position will highlight which of the five forces are “affecting the intensity of competition in an industry and its profitability level” (Jurevicius, 2013). Nevertheless, when conducting analysis on an international company such as this, studying of market trends is already carried out thoroughly to ensure that they are fully aware of that market, in order to achieve success and maintain within it. With this in mind, it would be considered that Samsung Electronics would have a relatively good competitive advantage against other rival companies.
2. Analysis of the Marketing Environment Social Forces I. Demographics Samsung phone target audience are age, income and occupation. It is because for age, there might some phone design and functions that does not suit them especially for elderly & children use. However, technology is now advanced, even elderly age more than 50 years old uses smartphone for their own benefits such as health apps and etc. For income, not all people have the ability to purchase better functions and design yet expensive smartphone.
Sunday, January 31st, 2016 Internal Assessment Research question: At what extent was Apple´s innovative Apple Watch marketing strategy successful when launching the device? In recent years, cutting edge technology has been the gap through which society had maintained daily basic activities, businesses such as Apple Inc., in the attempt maintain ahead and wider the advantage over potential competitors, seek the innovative development as an important key to better meet the needs and wants of their customers in the future, this factor represents the arise of new chambers in the market as a new opportunity of growth where a proper marketing strategy that involves a correct manage of price and the product features, enabled a beneficial introductory
This report will be based on targeting customers groups and marketing mix based on Apple. I will explain in what way and why groups of customers are targeted for selected products in Apple. I will explain the particular group of consumers which Apple would be targeting their products at. Apple is an American world-wide technology corporation that sell up-to-date technology to its customers.
The paragraph above shows data of a comparison between Apple and Samsung. Apple retail was increasing over Samsung in the smartphone market. Samsung used to rule the mobile market until Apple started its iPhone series. Even now Samsung is trying to give a head to head competition with its new Note series. But Apple being Apple, think different (Apple's tagline) and released iPhone X to blow out every other phone from the market.
Process Strategies The process strategies, for such a large manufacturing company, would need to be varied. The production process type would be determined by the product life cycle stage at that time (Thayer 2004).Product life cycles for items such as smartphones and tablets do not generally follow the standard life cycle stages. The maturity stage can be interrupted by discontinuation or irrelevance of a technology, which recommences the cycle (Giachetti & Marchi 2010). Incidentally, during the product life cycle of these items, a cyclic improvement of both process and product is required to stay in contact with market changes.
• Change: Samsung always comes up with new products and innovative services in order to fulfill their customers’ needs and demands. • Integrity: Samsung makes sure that ethics are followed at each and every level and thus stay faithful and give respect to its stakeholders (Globart, 2012). • Co-prosperity: For a business to prosper, it is very much needed that auxiliaries, employers and others too, must be given opportunities to flourish. Samsung strongly believes in it and move ahead by taking everyone together. They are fulfilling their responsibilities towards society and environment as well by being a responsible corporate citizen (Annual Report, 2013).
English 102 Essay 2 Jalal Bou Kanaan Outline “The Apple and Samsung showdown” I. Introduction: General Background information + Thesis: “what makes those companies not alike are the phones they release through the years, but are they that different?” II. “example of two leading rival companies in the field of smart phones” A. Information about the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 B. Information about the Apple iPhone 6 Plus III.
Sensitive market to these kinds of products are commercial line and offices those has to get technological interface to attain day to day tasks. Samsung has contributed in so many innovative products to make users life easy such as tablets, mini laptops, and televisions to provide with the wide range of technology for personal use. Samsung is known for its colors and picture quality in the
Introduction “Companies today are rushing headlong to become more digital… This often results in piecemeal initiatives or misguided efforts…[regarding their use of social media platforms]” (Dorner and Edelman, 2015:1) In a society where social media has a profound impact on businesses we ask ourselves just how effective can it be? And if not effective, what are the negative impacts?