The 2014 Winter Olympics were set to be hosted in Sochi, Russia, with roughly 10 major global sponsors endorsing the highly anticipated events. The Olympics, being truly global events, attract major players like Procter&Gamble, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, General Electric… However, as the Olympics neared, these global companies were facing immense pressure from the media, their consumers, […]
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Drawing in the Customer
Have you ever wondered how that cute pair of jeans showed up on your Facebook profile? Or the handbag you looked at earlier in the day? The answer is behavioral marketing. In today’s world, marketers can use consumer behavior to make a detailed, focused marketing campaign for each user. This is done by using your […]
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Global Market Intelligence
What is Market Intelligence? Market intelligence is the gathering and analyzing of information relevant to a company’s external environment, and is often part of a company’s strategic planning function, specifically for the purpose of accurate and confident decision making in determining market opportunities This insight can be useful for developing market strategies for how to […]
Simply stated, global branding is using the same name, as well as all other aspects such as marketing, of a product or service throughout multiple countries. The overall strategy of the brand should be similar to that in its home country and in every other country afterward. Some of the aspects that would stay the […]
The Power Distance Index, created by Geert Hofstede, is designed to measure “. . . the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions (like the family) accept and expect that power is distributed unequally.” Essentially, it measures inequality in a community and can be used to analyze consumer behavior based on […]