Aldican's Product Strategy & Customer Feedback

This assignment examines Aldican's online marketing strategy, emphasizing the importance of product development based on customer feedback and implementing effective e-commerce practices. It encourages analyzing customer engagement metrics, incorporating online surveys for valuable insights, and leveraging word-of-mouth marketing to enhance brand loyalty. The goal is to evaluate Aldican's current strategies and propose recommendations for improvement, considering industry trends and best practices.

INTERNET
MARKETING

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
P1 ....................................................................................................................................................1
P2.....................................................................................................................................................2
P3.....................................................................................................................................................2
P4.....................................................................................................................................................3
P5.....................................................................................................................................................4
P6.....................................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Internet marketing, or online marketing, refers to advertising and marketing efforts that
use the Web and email to drive direct sales via electronic commerce, in addition to sales leads
from Web sites or emails. Internet marketing and online advertising efforts are typically used in
conjunction with traditional types of advertising such as radio, television, newspapers and
magazines. I am going to prepare a report for the attention of the management team for two
contrasting organisations Aldi and Easyjet. In this report I will be introducing the unit of internet
marketing, define what internet marketing is about and the role of internet marketing. Also I will
provide a section on which ways internet marketing is used (Benson, M. and Barclay, I., 2006).
This report will also include information on how customers can benefit from the online services
and the online business itself. Procedure: In order to produce the report successfully. These will
help me to check how well both businesses are operating online and how they promote their
online business. The Role of Internet Marketing
P1
The function of marketing is to operate en generate profit and also attract and keep
customers. Marketing exist wherever goods and services are bought and sold. Nowadays, in the
modern world, marketing is very important! Internet marketing is a continuation of the old
marketing practices (Bruce and Ho, 2009).
Product
With internet marketing you sell your product in a different way. Nowadays is Aldi
able to create an attractive page for each product, add information and videos/photos.
Aldi wants to sell their products without a sales man when they offer products online.
So the information must be very clear and complete (Charlesworth, A., 2009).
- Price
When Aldi offers products on their website they can use the same pricing strategies as
if they offer their flights in the shop. I think that this part of the marketing mix will
not have much influence upon internet marketing (Currie, 2004).
- Place
The place where the products are offered to the customer normally in shops, with
Internet Marketing you only need a webpage, all potential customers can entry this
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site. This means that people have the possibility to buy a flight at their own home;
they do not need a shop or intermediate (Eid, 2005).
- Promotion
Promotion will differ a little bit through internet marketing. Because with a lot of
shops you will make promotion by means of nice flyers and offers. For people who
buy their flight online, they need to be attracted via other methods. For example,
Aldican put a banner on a website (Currie, 2004).
P2
It is very important for a company to have a group of loyal customers with whom the
company has built a good relationship with, it is more profitable to keep customers then to
acquire new ones. The leaders of the current market will look on the internet to keep themselves
up-to-date on the new product/market platform because the Internet is the fastest and biggest way
to that type of research (Bruce and Ho, 2009).
Product development means that a business can gather new information about products
and post it online. Market development means that a business can faster reach global popularity
because of the low advertisement costs compared to the pre-internet time. When a business
decides to use the internet to achieve objectives, the objectives still have to be specific,
measurable, realistic and time-related (SMART). Some examples are: increasing customer
retention by 15% or achieving a top-ten ranking in market penetration in a specific country
(Mathur and Evans, 2013).
Customers can have advantages and disadvantages of dynamic pricing. When there are
many products in stock and the businesses doesn’t sell well, prices will be of influence of that
and will go down. When there is much demand to the product and there are not many products in
stock the price will go up. When you would like to buy tickets to go for Rome, it could be the
tickets are quite cheap but if the Pope dies the next day. All the tickets for Rome will go up
because many people than want to go to Rome to be at the funeral (Gay, Charlesworth and Esen,
2007).
P3
There are many benefits to the different aspects of internet marketing with the main
points being that it should be easy for customers to use as well as not taking up much of the
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customers time. It is extremely important for companies to meet the standards and expectations
of customers as, even though the competition with brick organizations or physical shops is low,
they still have to compete against them. There is then the addition of all the other online stores
on the vast internet meaning the competition is increased. There is only really one main benefit
of responsive transactions which is to save customer time (Roberts and Zahay, 2012).
This is because the main objective for companies is to keep customers interactive with
the website and to be happy with the speed of service which can't really be achieved if the
transaction process is slow and not up to a good standard. An additional benefit of this sign up
system is that, like the example link above with the company of Aldi the email address of the
customer needs to be given. This gives the company an opportunity, with the customer's consent,
to be able to email and inform them of new goods and what promotional offers they can have
which forms an additional type of promotional marketing for the company (Fritz, 2013). 24/7
Accessibility: is one of the major reasons for a company to go online. For Aldi to go online it
will mean that more customers can get to their stores at their own time. “Your store is open, 24
hrs. a day, 7 days a week. Further, your customers are worldwide in reach, and can shop
anytime that they want to” (Trusov, Bucklin and Pauwels, 2009). This is the benefit that internet
marketing provides to Aldi because their customers can shop online at any giving time. As Aldi
is both online and offline they do not worry about after hours shopping as their customers can
shop anytime on their website. With the company’s presence online their customers will not be
disappointed as they can always shop at any time of the day without leaving the comfort of their
house.
P4
Internet marketing has many opportunities that will benefit a business for example it can
help businesses to reach a wider audience, to reduce overhead cost of the business and to expand
the company.
Target Market and Broadband user Personalities
What is the target market? The target market is basically the audience and the business that will
do anything to attract their target market to the business (Hsia, Chen and Chen, 2009). In the
target market there are different types of customer that prefer different types of products for
example:
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Demographic segmentation
Age, Gender, Price, Lifestyle and cultures
Puma’s main target market is the youth for example teenagers and early adults, this target market
is spread all around the world, being satisfied with Puma’s products. Puma’s Target Market are
both gender male and female and also they target to different cultured, sporty people and
lifestyles people live around the world (Miletsky, 2009).
P5
Internet marketing has offered Aldi more efficiency, effectiveness and successfulness as
with internet marketing supply chain efficiencies have been offered as buying and selling has
become more smoother, faster and can substantially save on costs and get their product to the
markets more quickly.
Internet Marketing has allowed Aldi to procure online with this they can purchase the materials
instantly making the process of their production of finished goods quicker which offers them the
efficiency of time saving. Also internet marketing has offered Aldi customer power as they have
a wide range of choice in buying materials which has made them efficient in cost saving as they
can procure form cheaper suppliers and be in contact with new suppliers which they wouldn’t
have reached offline (Benson and Barclay, 2006). These efficiencies have made Aldi effective as
they know produce goods quicker and effectively sell them online for private customers to buy.
Also with internet marketing Aldimore successful as they gain immediate cash sales before
delivering the product so no credit is delivered whereas with internet and online choice they can
be given credit from their suppliers making them effective in improving cash flow.
Efficiency:
Aldi is efficient when it comes to promotion, as they always offer promotions of products, which
encourages people to buy products. Aldi also is efficient with promotion, as they send out
promotional e-mails offering you products, that they think you will like based on your previous
purchases (Blumentritt, 2006).
Effectiveness:
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Aldi uses promotion effectively because when they offer new promotions there is more
opportunity to gain sales. This is because when Aldi send through personalised promotional e-
mails, then customers may see products that they like and then go forward to purchase them.
Success:
Aldi uses promotion in order to increase profits, as they can offer products to existing customers,
which may encourage them to buy them. Aldi web analytics to see what products are most
popular and then try to promote those products even further, to gain more customers (Dennis,
2002).
P6
In this task I have been asked to explain the challenges of globalization facing a selected
business when using the internet as a marketing tool. The business I have chosen is Aldi
Globalization is a core of economic globalization, including the mutual links between the
countries in various regions of ethnic politics, culture, science and technology, military, security,
ideology, lifestyle, values and other multi-level, multi-field impact, constraints diverse concepts.
Challenges of globalisation (El-Ansary, 2006.).
Disintermediation
The internet offers the chance to use a direct channel of supply to clients or customers, wherever
they are. This process, called disintermediation, is the tendency to cut out the middle man, like
the suppliers to factory to distributor and finally sent to the customers. This creates obvious
efficiencies and savings, but at the danger of destabilising many older traditional channels that
might still be valuable sources of revenue to the business (Miletsky, 2009).
Payment security
Consumers are often concerned about payment security with transaction via the internet. There
are frequent stories about attacks by hackers, ‘identity theft’ and so on – all of which leave us
feeling vulnerable. The internet offers the chance to use a direct channel of supply to clients
/customers this process is known as disinter-mediation and is the tendency in order to cut out the
middle man.
Customers are often concerned about purchasing products from the internet customers and often
have stories of hacking and scammers and therefore reluctant to give credit or debit card details
online it is a organisations responsibility to inform customers how payments are taken and to
reassure potential customers that it is safe purchasing products online with that business.
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Meeting Customer Expectation
The internet continues to expand customer expectations and this is a challenge to all online
businesses. The 24/7 availability and convenience of the internet has been reinforced with
increased personalisation and price transparency. More importantly customers are starting to
expect higher levels of reliability, responsiveness, convenience and speed in terms of the time
taken in visiting the website and delivery of items once the order has been placed (Charlesworth,
2009).
Merchandise is becoming available in mass customization as it enables customers to enter
personal measurements/requirements online before ordering or the ability to configure their
machine such as a computer before they order it. The challenge for online marketers is to
anticipate and understand what customers’ expectation will be within the market context in
which the organisation operates in.
CONCLUSION
Business can easily check the top seller products/services through the internet. This is
done by checking what the customers are viewing and buying. There is also the rating check that
will enable the business to examine whether the customers are interested in a certain
product/service or not. Aldi can check which products are more preferable by checking the
feedback and the rating of the products. If customers are interested in the products, Aldican work
towards improving the products and adding more varieties or flavours of that product because
customers will increase their interests toward the product.
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