Digital Marketing Analysis Report: McDelivery E-Environment Strategies

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of McDelivery's digital marketing strategies. It begins with an executive summary outlining the report's objectives, which include analyzing McDelivery's e-environment, identifying its online customers, and evaluating its use of paid, owned, and earned media. The report delves into McDelivery's company overview and its INFFECTA analysis, examining its reach, activate, convert, and engage strategies. A customer analysis follows, segmenting customers demographically, psychographically, and behaviorally. The report then conducts a SWOT analysis of McDelivery's online marketing strategies, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It recommends alternative digital media marketing strategies, including strengthening the RACE model, and suggests enhancements for paid, owned, and earned media approaches. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of enhancing McDelivery's online presence to gain a competitive advantage in the market.

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Executive summary
The purpose of this report is to analyze the E-Environment for the chosen company that
McDelivery, food service delivery of McDonalds. It identifies and classifies the existing online
customers for the chosen company. It determines the paid media, owned media and earned media
that are used the company. It classifies the company online customers into demographic,
psychographic and Behaviorist customers. It determines the SWOT analysis of the company, and
uses the RACE model to enhance its digital media marketing policies and techniques. Further the
report recommends the alternate digital media marketing strategies. It recommends the strategies
of paid media, owned media and earned media and compares it with the strategies of the
company. Lastly it concludes that the company by enhancing its online presence can increase
competitive advantage.

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Table of Contents
1. Analysis of E-environment of McDelivery.................................................................................3
1.1 Company overview................................................................................................................3
1.2 Company’s infecta analysis...................................................................................................4
2.0. Online customer analysis..........................................................................................................6
2.1. Demographic analysis...........................................................................................................6
2.2 Psychographic analysis..........................................................................................................6
2.3 Behavioral analysis:...............................................................................................................6
3.0 Strengths and weakness of online marketing strategies of McDelivery....................................7
3.1. strengths-opportunity:...........................................................................................................7
3.2. weakness-opportunity...........................................................................................................7
3.3. Strengths-threats...................................................................................................................7
3.4 Weakness-threats...................................................................................................................8
4.0. Recommendations.....................................................................................................................8
4.1. Alternative digital media marketing.....................................................................................8
4.1.1. Strengthening RACE model..............................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References:....................................................................................................................................13
Appendices....................................................................................................................................15

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1. Analysis of E-environment of McDelivery
1.1 Company overview
McDelivery was started in the year 1993. It offers delivery service which is available
24/7 hours. McDelivery is an America fast food company; there are more than 35,000 restaurants
in around 100 countries. McDelivery was started in Singapore in the year 2005, it has 59
restaurants at various locations in Singapore, it is called as “Hubs’’ (McDelivery 2016). The
company implements various strategies to differ them from its competitor firms. The company is
highly dedicated in offering quality foods, services with clean environment and values. To
ensure customer satisfaction the company takes necessary steps to offer good experiences for the
customers. It uses the strategy of play and win as a support to its three legged stool approach
(McDelivery 2016).
1.2 Company’s infecta analysis
1.2.1 Reach: McDelivery is active on various social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
It uses the SEO tools to increase its social media reach. The company is using Facebook to reach
their message to the target audience. They use colorful images and description of their food items
in their home page to reach the target audience.

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Figure 1: Facebook page of McDonalds showing number of likes
Source: Facebook
Figure 2: followers and tweets in Twitter by McDonalds

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Source: Twitter
Figure 3: Screenshot of their Facebook ads
Source: Facebook

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Figure 4: Percentage of people ordering from McDonalds in Singapore
Source: Statistacharts
1.2.2: Activate: In order to achieve success in digital media marketing the company reached to
its audience using the social media, influence the viewers, earns their trust and credibility of the
business and this helps the company to activate its audience to reach their goals. The social
media performance enhances the call to action (Crawford 2015). The company promotes their
brand by enhancing its content on the website. The company uses truly irresistible contents; it
provides info graphic presentation of the details and the food items. (McDelivery,
M.A.L.C.O.L.M., 2016).

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Figure 5: Screenshot of Mcdelivery website
Description: The website provides details of the meals and items available with info
graphics and proper details.
Source: McDonalds.com.au
1.2.3: Convert: Social Media like Twitter and Facebook is used by McDelivery to promote its
brand. The post shared by the company, its updates and comments are used by the business to
turn the leads into conversion. The reactions and positive interaction with the audience
contributes to conversion. Social Media like Instagram and Facebook is used by McDelivery to
promote its latest product, price and promotion. The company provides coupons, The coupons
contains special offers such as FREE McEgg, Chicken Mcgrill and other costs at a less cost, E

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vouchers, special offers, free online delivery and other promotional techniques to promote its
brand. It also offers promo codes and coupon codes to the customers to enjoy their meal at low
costs with exciting free items. It also provides offers like “buy 1 burger and get one burger free”
in Singapore (Mcdonalds.com.au. 2019).
1.2.4: Engage: The company post poll, takes surveys, reviews , responses and comments to the
post on the social media with the audience and this helps the company to engage with the
customers (Dessart et al. 2014).
Figure 6: Responses and comments posted on social media

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Description: It shows the engagement of the company with the potential customer and
acknowledging their needs and requirements.
Source: Twitter
1.2.5
Paid Owned Earned
R- Reach Advertising, Banner
ads, Google
AdWords
Websites,
Blog Content
Media relation,
Blogs, Influencer
relations
A-Activate Upload videos,
banners
Content that adds
value to the
conversion
Upload influencers-
(YouTube
subscribers, Facebook
followers and fans of
McDonalds) (Lovett
and Staelin, 2016).
C-conversion Designing forms,
wording of button,
links , images
Interesting statistics,
series of micro sites,
blogs
Subscription, social
events, links food
videos, articles.
E-Engagement Creating communities
and developing
engagement
Email list of potential
customers
Communicating
personal ideas and
personal interests.

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2.0. Online customer analysis
2.1. Demographic analysis
McDelivery uses the demographic strategy for segmentation; the age is the parameter for
demographic analysis. McDelivery targets mainly the children’s and the youth generation. The
fast food family restaurant also targets the families with children (Lovett and Staelin, 2016).
McDelivery targets the college students and young adults (Hammedi et al. 2015). Meal kit
delivery is offered to the working professionals. It mainly focuses on the men as they tend to
order online. The low and middle income group earners are targeted by McDelivery (Dessart et
al. 2014)..
2.2 Psychographic analysis
It targets the resigned people, the strugglers and the mainstreamers. It focuses on the
cross cultural consumer characterization (Jargon 2013). It targets the cross cultural consumers,
the strugglers. It targets the customers who are lovers of fast food. They have adopted strategies
according to the lifestyle and convenience of the consumers, analyzing these facts they come up
with new food items (Jargon 2013).
2.3 Behavioral analysis:
The customers majorly order snack wraps, the meal pack, chicken nuggets and variety of
burgers offered by the customers. The customers prefer cheap food and they are willing to spend
$5 on hamburger. They weekly spend around $10 for fast foods (Ryan 2016). The customers
prefer paying online, the website app for ordering is their own website that is Mc delivery
(Crawford, 2015).
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3.0 Strengths and weakness of online marketing strategies of McDelivery
3.1. strengths-opportunity:
There is an increasing trend of food delivery systems in the economy; therefore the
company can make the maximum use of its advantaged technology in the organization to
improve its service delivery and enhance its connections and build long term relationship with
the loyal customers. The company offers 24/7 hours delivery to the customers. Since there is an
increase in the demand at about 50% for food delivery service in Singapore. There is an increase
in the demand for food delivery service, it can leverage its strengths such as strong market share,
financial strength and leverage on for the maximum opportunity (Kilgour, Sasser and Larke
2015). The company can utilize its brand image for exploiting the opportunity in the market
trend. Moreover, there is an increased opportunity in the market to increase sustainability of
McDelivery, the company can take advantage of the opportunity as it offered its foods
maintaining strict food standards, and this can influence sustainability of the organization.
3.2. weakness-opportunity
The menu of McDelivery is quite complex and it is considered to be unhealthy by many
people as it contains high fat content. Hence, this weakness needs to be reduced by the business
organization as this can impact the brand. The company serves food that contains high fat and
calorie food items; this can impact the brand image and reputation of the company. However the
company maintains strict standard for preparing the food items, it also needs to manage the fat
and calorie content in the food items as it can be healthy for the customers (Leeflang et al. 2014).
3.3. Strengths-threats
There are increasing concern and demands for healthy food options coupled with
continued concerns of the obesity level and fat. For example, they can come out with more