Categories
Global Marketing

What to Look Out For: 5 Traits of a Professional Project Manager

Your business requires finding the right project manager for critical success. A project manager generally handles your project from the beginning to the end, also ensuring the project is done on time, successful and on budget. So when you have a large project or a project you cannot handle personally, they are the key to […]

Categories
Global Marketing

The Global Branding Power of Vans: Taking SoCal Surf-Culture Worldwide through Celebrity Endorsements

By: Natalie Filice, Katie Kirk, & McKenna McVicker The classic and immediately identifiable Vans “Old Skool” sneaker has proved to be a universal fashion staple for the past several years. Regardless of age, style, or social status, Vans has successfully transcended their brand from a solely surfer shoe, to an essential item that is found […]

Categories
Global Marketing

Value Pricing: When ‘Cost Plus’ is Irrelevant

Setting a price tag to an intangible tech product is a challenge for most companies. While it is easy to set price levels for manufactured goods just by calculating raw material, manufacturing, and logistic costs; it is far more complex to come up with a price in SaaS business models. One needs to think long […]

Categories
Global Marketing

An Introduction to Dumping

US Congress defines dumping as an unfair trade practice, where imports sold in the US market is priced with less than 8% profit margin over the production cost. While it is not illegal to dump prices on a global scale (WTO is not regulating the prices), it is often an unwanted scenario and countries put […]

Categories
Global Marketing

What is Differential Pricing?

It’s a well known fact that females get higher quotes on car repairs, compared to males. According to one study; women get almost 10% higher prices than men, when they are uninformed about the market price for a specific repair. This everyday price discrimination actually has a place in Marketing, and it’s called Differential Pricing […]