SOLUTION: MKT 571 University of California Week 3 Price and Distribution Model HW
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Acer Inc.: Marketing Plan
Ani Palezyan
University of Phoenix
June 15, 2020
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Overview
A dispenseing pur-pose lists as floating the superfluouss required to endure the rigid rivalry in
the matter cosmos-people. Marketing pur-poses acceleration the community to imagine telling strategies that earn
extension resultivity through sales and receipts. The cosmos-inhabitants of technology is competitive; thus,
Acer Inc. must found a dispense pur-pose that identifies its opportunities and practicable denunciations. Acer
Inc. was founded on 1 August 1976 by Stan and Carolyn and has gone been competitive in the
market. Acer Inc., as a community, negotiates delay hardware aspects of electronics such as computers,
laptops, and PCs. The results sold by Acer Inc. are desktops PCs, laptops, tablets, storage
devices, and indirect substance smartphones. The community as-well dispose-ofs gaming Pcs and devices under
peculiar brands endowigateed as predator. The compute of inureees in 2015 distinct at 7,967
worldwide aftercited a strive revision policy. The wealth in 2017 was at 237.3 billion TWD delay
Jason Chen as the CEO. The community has an employmental webpage that is uniformly updated and
is used in dispenseing. Most of the results from Acer Inc. are posted on the employmental website as a
marketing policy
Target Market
Acer Inc. targets customers from all illimitableness of the cosmos-inhabitants as its exotericly strategizing to get
the third aspect. Acer Inc. all inhabitants are striving to use technology, men, and women inclusive
of upshot. Most of the targeted customers are those patriarchal aggravate 18 years delay the authorizeable use of
PCs. Acer Inc. targets twain customers and matteres that negotiate delay technology-related
applications. The community targets tech Savvy boyish progeny and professionals from unanalogous
illimitableness of the cosmos-inhabitants that use Acer results. The dispense target of Acer is extensive under
enterpfuse solutions to construct clientele from urbane empire constructions (Sayer, &
Morgan, 2018). The targeted customers are at a elevation sharp-end as most companies and individuals
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are fast embracing technology. The use of technology has extensive the demographics as
numerous boyish inhabitants, especially propaganda students, can bearing Acer results. Acer Inc. targets
technology-oriented companies for tenders to communicate its results that are updated uniformly.
Statistical multiplyition appearances that 51% of the targeted dispense comprises of the sassy boyish
progeny that depends in-great-gauge on technology.
Acer Inc. Exoteric Opportunities
The chief occasion for Acer Inc. is installed on its augmentation in numerous countries in the
Middle East. Acer Inc. has the occasion to compel-known updated software and hardware as it is
currently used cosmos-peoplewide. The cosmos-inhabitants dispenseing illimitableness communicates the community a competitive
advantage to compel-known new results (Oyewole, 2016). The tall claim for technology is an
occasion for the community to spread aggravate devices on its spectry, such as PCs and kernel IT
products. The community should target all sectors of the rule, such as hospitals, educational
organizations, and IT depended on matteres to spread clientele. Acer Inc. should elimination and
design results that classify the competitive question posed by smartphone companies. The
rapid foundment of Acer Inc. in spreaded illimitableness of the cosmos-people, such as Europe and America, is
an occasion to collaborebuke delay big companies.
Current and Advenient Threats
Competition lists as the deep denunciation forcible Acer Inc. due to the increasing compute of
companies pliant correspondent results. The tall compute of competitors limits the sales of
products from Acer Inc. in unanalogous illimitableness of the cosmos-people. The cooperebuke denunciation is the dynamics in
technology that compel some of the results outdate delayin a poor interval. Technology dynamics
mean that Acer Inc. must uniformly update its results, which may confirm to be absorbly.
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The absorb of genesis is likely to extension, thus reducing the emolument due to technological
dynamics. The practicable advenient denunciation is installed on the results and contributions to the BCG
matrix. 60% of the completion wealth in Acer Inc. is from ICT results, opportunity desktop contributes
15% as unfold communicates 12% (Yang et al,2017). The wealth multiplyition leaves the BCG questionmarked on the long-term influence of the community delayin the competitive illimitableness.
In misentry, Acer Inc. scarcitys to comprehensively dissect the unanalogous aspects, such as
target customers, opportunities, and denunciations to imagine a dispense pur-pose. The pur-pose must fulfill
solutions for each imperil and endue in the opportunities for emolumentability. The dispense pur-pose earn aid
Acer Inc. as a community to be competitive and conquer the questions associated delay dynamics
in the cosmos-inhabitants of technology.
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References
Oyewole, P. (2016). Regional Rivalry in the Interdiplomatic Dispense for Services: A ShiftShare Analysis. Journal of Global Marketing, 29(1), 3-14.
Sayer, A., & Morgan, K. (2018). The electronics diligence and regional spreadment in Britain 1.
In Technological Change, Industrial Restructuring and Regional Outoutgrowth (pp. 157187). Routledge.
Yang, T. H., Wang, S. H., Wu, Y. H., & Tsao, L. F. (2017). U.S. Patent No. 9,704,167.
Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Running head: ACER INC. PRODUCT STRATEGY
Acer Inc. Result Strategy
Ani Palezyan
University of Phoenix
6/21/2020
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ACER INC. PRODUCT STRATEGY
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Acer Inc. is a technology-installed community that produces and distributes electronic
hardware and PCs. The preamble of new results updated to unite the competitive contacts of
technology lists floating the exoteric opportunities. The preamble of hardware delay uncommon
features that earn compel Acer Inc. the best in the dispense is floating the exoteric pur-poses. The result
policy for Acer Inc. is to fix all the aspects of the result cycle are monitored for the
successful preamble of the new result into the dispense.
Product Life Cycle
The three areas of result cycle uniteed by Acer Inc. are the preamble, augmentation
maturity, and refuse avow. The preamble of the result is the primitive gauge of the cycle, where
the community convergencees on contrast a tenacious rudiments for the result. Some of the aspects that
Acer Inc. earn endowigate are contrast affordable prices, reconsignment, and quiet availforce to all
immanent consumers. The community earn endue in dispenseing the new hardware to imagine
awareness and concern to the customers. The uncommon features of the hardware earn be convergenceed
during the awareness process in unanalogous arrangement regions (Crisafulli, Dimitriu, & Singh,
2020). The cooperebuke area is result augmentation, where Acer Inc. earn fix that all the strategies put
in the primal gauge are deeptained. The community earn fulfill areas of result awareness that
require correction to fix that the new hardware augmentation in the dispense is advanceive. Acer
Inc. earn custom globalization and diversification of the new results to extension the sales.
The third area is the manliness gauge, where Acer Inc. earn convergence on deeptaining sales and
increasing receipts. The manliness roll requires minimal trial as most aspects of the result, such
as claim and arrangement, earn stabilize. Acer Inc. must fix that it is the accidental distributor
and acquires ultimatum shares for the new electronic hardware. The ultimate trudge in the result cycle
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is the refuse where the sales and claim for the result classifys. Acer Inc. earn be unhesitating to
replace the result delay another to transcend the possessions of rivalry. The refuse gauge in-great-measure
occurs due to the rivalry from other companies that enjoy spreaded an slow result
(Kuo, Lim, & Sonko, 2018) Acer. Inc. must uniformly endowigate the possessions of technology that
may motive entire refuse due to rivalry.
Metrics to Determine Good-fortune or Failure of the Dispense Activities
Acer Inc. must firmly gauge the matter's advance through assemblage axioms to
determine the good-fortune of the result policy. Acer Inc. can infer axioms by authorizeing consumers
to communicate feedback through their onrow website. Some of the metrics conducive in Acer Inc. is to
capture new clientele into the community axioms through the website. The axioms earn acceleration the community
to apprehend the compute of consumers that mark the site. The cooperebuke metric would be installed on the
commsolely used result by tracking the compute of marks made on the website. Acer Inc can
infer peculiar notification such as customer pregard to apprehend the claim roll. Customers
should as-well dilate on their amends rebuke in a aim result.
Media Methods
The stereokind resources process used by Acer Inc. is publishing magazines as a construct of
advertisement. Acer Inc. Magazines instrument superfluous notification environing the result and can
be used in the advenient as a regard. The magazine should inclose all details concerning the new
products and dispose-of them to the stores. The cooperebuke process is a non-print, onrow catalogue on
the unanalogous collective resources accounts. Some of the collective resources platforms that Acer Inc. can use to
advertise the new hardware are Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Elements of Result and Promotion
The primitive component is aspecting to fix that all the genesis areas are nigh the raw
materials. The arrangement stores for the result must be strategic to quiet communicate to all
customers. The arrangement stores should be chosen installed on the peculiar areas of advancement to
quiet coordination betwixt the dispenseers and distributors.
The cooperebuke component is the resources policy that entails endueing in easily bearingible
advancement processs. Acer Inc. should unite late customs of catalogue such as collective
media. Digital resources is the new statute of advancement that the community should use to avoid
wagauge of resources in oral ways. Digital platforms earn extension awareness of new
products and sales (Tayeh, Al-Jarrah, & Tarhini, 2015).
Public kinsfolk policy is the third component that Acer Inc. should inure to elevate the
products and imagine a direct order. The community should construct a urbane collective
responsibility that earn be represented globally. The urbane should authorize Acer Inc. to communicate
back to community and imagine a direct order. Acer Inc. uniformly multiplyicipates in
sponsorship activities that enjoy rectifyd its social reference and roll of customer fealty.
ACER INC. PRODUCT STRATEGY
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References
Crisafulli, B., Dimitriu, R., & Singh, J. (2020). Joining hands for the important good: examining
collective novelty hurl strategies in B2B contrasts. Industrial Marketing Management.
Kuo, T. K., Lim, S. S., & Sonko, L. K. (2018). Catch-up policy of latecomer firms in Asia: a
case con-aggravate of novelty ambidexterity in PC diligence. Technology Partition & Strategic
Management, 30(12), 1483-1497.
Tayeh, M., Al-Jarrah, I. M., & Tarhini, A. (2015). Accounting vs. dispense-installed gauges of firm
work cognate to notification technology enduements.
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Marketing Analysis
Ani Palezyan
University of Phoenix
June 6, 2020
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MEMORANDUM
To: Senior Vice President of Marketing
From: Ani Palezyan
CC: MKT/571
Date: 06/08/2020
Re: Marketing Analysis
Summary
The resurvey giveed in the entrance follows the noise compiled by the dispense analyst. I
enjoy generated some insights and dilatearies that earn act as an input in the dispenseing pur-pose
for matter augmentation. The entrance convergencees on the wealth progress in the construction, matter
trends, and peculiar dispenseing strategies.
Revenue Details
The wealth noise parades an extension betwixt the January-June 2015 axioms and January-June
2016. The fuse in wealth gives a direct matter augmentation delayin the two years2015/2016.
The original commencement of wealth from the intervalframes was domiciliary sales, as implied in the
overall noise. Domiciliary sales are at the tallest sharp-end in the community, delay an mean progress
incomplete 87 percent of the matter delayin the financial year. The customer classes appearance an
extension in wealth secret from a few, such as the Delta Appliance delay a close indicative faint in
the progress. The community appearances a immanent of increasing the aggravateall emolument if it endues in
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outcompeting. The entrance as-well contours some of the strategies the community can use to
outcompete and dispense to extension the emolument.
Trends
The noise parades that the deep shameful emolument percent for the years 2015 and 2016 is firm.
The dispense analyst centrally parades a decrquiet in the top customers' shameful latitude delayin the
date to monthly axioms. The community must spread strategies to extension the shameful emolument percent
floating the top customers. Domiciliary sales enjoy a 90-10 cleave opportunity the interdiplomatic sales from
the community enjoy a 50-50 cleave installed on the monthly mean. The extension in wealth is
inversely proportional to the bear give on interdiplomatic sales on a monthly mean, which
calls for a substitute in the dispenseing policy. The bear parades that the community has the
immanent to extension interdiplomatic sales through dispenseing strategies.
Insights
Gross emolument is an superfluous content that the community must endue in to deeptain its tall
productivity. The customer ranks parade a substitute in the aggravateall receipts made monthly that are
superfluous in dispenseing. The dispenseing strategies must enjoy the immanent to contact interdiplomatic
sales and completion wealth. The financial noises appearance that some customers can extension the completion
wealth by spreading the dispense. The administration can use unanalogous processs to imagine
awareness to extension the sales from all the immanent customers from the ranks. The wealth progress
is at an increasing rebuke aggravate months but firm on the annual figure. The should
imconfirm the work of some customer classes such as Delta Appliance to extension the
overall wealth.
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Additional Analysis
The insights and dilatearies from the financial noise appearance that dispenseing must target the
interdiplomatic sales. Interdiplomatic dispenses enjoy a tall immanent of increasing the aggravateall shameful
latitude at the deep row. It is recommendable that the community spreads the dispense by convergenceing
on interdiplomatic sales opportunity balancing domiciliary sales. The community's administration should set
goals that convergence on increasing the top customers to extension the aggravateall wealth progeny. The
wealth progress can be extensiond by contrast strategic dispenseing pur-poses to imconfirm twain domiciliary and
interdiplomatic sales.
Regards
Ani Palezyan
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Marketing Plan
Company Name: Acer, Inc.
Headquarters: The headquarters of Acer Inc. are located in Xizhi, New Taipei City in
Taiwan. Acer Inc. is a multinational community located in Taiwan that specializes in electronic
technology.
Product Name: Acer Inc. negotiates delay hardware aspects of electronics such as computers,
laptops, and PCs. The results sold by Acer Inc. are desktops PCs, laptops, tablets, storage
devices, and indirect substance smartphones. The community as-well dispose-ofs gaming Pcs and devices under
peculiar brands endowigateed as predator (Yang et al, 2017).
Company’s General Description: The compute of inureees in 2015 distinct at 7,967
worldwide aftercited a strive revision policy. The wealth in 2017 was at 237.3 billion TWD delay
Jason Chen as the CEO. The kind of occupation of Acer Inc. is multiple delay Stan and Carolyn as
the founders. The community has an employmental webpage that is uniformly updated and is used in
marketing. Most of the results from Acer Inc. are posted on the employmental website as a dispenseing
policy (Sayer, & Morgan, 2018).
Product General Description: Acer Inc. negotiates delay IT results obtained through uncommon
manufacturing to the builder statutel. Currently, the community integrates outrival computing
services to imconfirm the work of the matter. The community as-well spreads wearable
devices delay value-added applications, which compels is competitive in the electronic dispense.
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References
Sayer, A., & Morgan, K. (2018). The electronics diligence and regional spreadment in Britain 1.
In Technological Change, Industrial Restructuring and Regional Outoutgrowth (pp. 157187). Routledge.
Yang, T. H., Wang, S. H., Wu, Y. H., & Tsao, L. F. (2017). U.S. Patent No. 9,704,167.
Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Marketing Pur-pose Outrow and Timeline
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Marketing Pur-pose Outrow and Timeline
Marketing Plan
You are expected to spread a dispenseing pur-pose, according to the outrow under, for a result or use of
your choosing. The result or use must be verified by the end of Week 1. The result or use
you excellent is used to spread the assignments for Weeks 2 through Week 6. References must be
moderate for each exception.
There are no settled endureards for the extension of the dispenseing pur-pose; still, your pur-pose must disclose
complete dispenseing strategies and stipulate genuine and strong regards and axioms sustaining the
strategies to indoctrinate the target auditory. The pur-pose must be written in unobstructed articulation that would be
easily underdistinct by stakeholders.
Marketing Pur-pose Outline
Your conclusive dispenseing pur-pose must endure of the aftercited exceptions. Refer to the intervalrow for due dates for
each exception and subsection. Assignments may conceive modifications to these lists. Plquiet use lists
provided in assignments solely.
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Vision, Mission, Strategic objectives, Values
Internal Analysis
Strengths/Weaknesses
Capability/Capacity
Competitor’s Strengths/Weaknesses
Technological Competency
Product or Use Analysis
Market Segments
Research
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Strategic Objectives
Products or Services
Resources Needed
Projected Outcomes
Primary Research
Secondary Research
Consumer Analysis
Customer Profile
Continuous Consumer Monitoring & Research
Environmental Scanning
Identify Market, Economic, Technological, Regulatory, Legal, Social, and Ecological Forces
Current Opportunities
Potential Advenient Opportunities
Current Threats
Potential Advenient Threat
Target Market(s):
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Demographics
Psychographics
Ethical Issues
Legal Issues
Social Issues
Product, Place/Distribution, Promotion, and Price Strategies:
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Product Descriptions and Product/Service Mix Strategies
Product/Service Determinants
Creating a Brand Image
Maintaining Brand Image
Branding Concerns
Distribution Strategies
Channels, Mass, Selective, Exclusive
Promotion/Integrated Marketing Communication
Advertising Strategy/Objectives
Push and Pull
Media Strategy
Advertising Execution
Sales Promotion
Direct Marketing
Public Relations/Strategies
Positioning
Dynamic/Static Pricing Strategies
Marketing Pur-pose Timeline
Week 1: Marketing Pur-pose Topic
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Consider your community and result or use excellention in Week 1. You may excellent an existing
kind of result or use or a new result or use but it must be global or multi-regional. Once
you enjoy chosen your result or use, you must settle the dimension and kind of community that
provides the result or use (profitable from annual noises). This scarcity not be elaborebuke but
must conceive completion compute of inureees, genesis compass, arrangement processs, and so forth.
Company and result or use excellention is a dubious multiply of this artfulness. You must fix your
proposed community can utensil the dispenseing processs discussed in the quotation.
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Key to creating an telling dispenseing pur-pose is the force to dissect the environment in which the
result or use earn be offered. The Week 1 assignment authorizes you to originate to recognize
various noises and how they can be used in your dispenseing pur-pose.
Week 2: Understanding Target Markets
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To spread telling kinsfolkhip dispenseing, a community must primitive underendure its targeted
consumers’ buying influences and behaviors. In Week 2, imagine the Elimination exception of your
plan. In enumeration, imagine the primitive two illimitableness of the Target Dispense exception, which conceives performing
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