Damn Heels and the 4P's

From the case study, analyze Coleman’s service to create the 4Ps of her marketing method. Specify the salient information that you used to recognize the 4P’s of Coleman’s organisation. Next, debate the basic virtues intrinsic in Coleman’s marketing choices surrounding the 4P’s of her service. Justify your actions. From the situation, define the main ways in which the 4P’s of marketing can assist the marketing intern offer suggestions to her supervisor for the new item launch.

Supply particular examples that show the relationship between of the 4Ps and the new item launch. Coleman could not make any marketing choices and release a product without considering the 5Cs (consumers, company, context, collaborators, rivals), the STP (division, targeting & & placing); and obviously the 4Ps (product, rate, promo, and place) (Iacobucci, 2014). For this case study we will concentrate more on the 4Ps and how it associates with Coleman’s organisation method. According to the textbook, the 4P’s are item, rate, promotion, and location (Iacobucci, 2014).

. As an avid traveler, Coleman believed that she and all women desired to go out on the town wearing heels, because it of course adds sex appeal. However, after we’ve parade around in those “Damn Heels” for hours (I always say trying to be cute. lol), it would be nice to slip into something more comfortable. This is where the idea of the “foldable flats” came from. The added pouch that unfurls into a larger bag to carry the heels is an added bonus. After research she discovered the going price was around US$25. So, she decided to sell them for less at $20, which made it more affordable for consumers and easier purchase transaction for retailers.

Marketing and promoting the product in a restaurant, downtown Toronto, and in the city was a great idea, because those are high traffic area where consumers travelled. According to the text, the entire key or strategy of any Marketer (including Coleman’s) is to identify their customer needs and wants then try to formulate attractive solutions. It also states that in promotion, Coleman would have to find out “what she could tell her customers or do for them to entice them to purchase” (Iacobucci, 2014). The results of her marketing survey helped her determine what consumers wanted, how much they were willing to pay for what they wanted, how convenient should it be, how important was style and other things like reusability. Marketing her product in Toronto was also a great idea, because there were no other competitors there.

As the case study stated, throughout Coleman’s entrepreneurial venture, she learned a great deal. Not only about marketing, but also design, manufacturing overseas, analyzing cost, and evaluating her target market. All of these things are very important was which the 4Ps of marketing are important to launch a product, but I think the marketing survey Coleman design was the biggest hit. As the text stated, she will always be a step ahead of her competition if she simply think about her customers and put them first (Iacobucci, 2014).

Reference:

Iacobucci, D. (2014) MM4: Marketing Management, 4ed, Cengage Learning, Mason, HO: South-Western Cengage Learning http://x2.xanedu.com/course_packs/453396/article/a9navpoint-1/htmlid/null