Case study on sports connection plc 1. Introduction There are five different Sports Connection clubs in the Liverpool. In order to attract more customers, these clubs provide variable offers and frequently change their strategy to the customers at every month. For these reasons, as the chain of the health club operating, the sport connection plc recently evaluates the effects of various elements of their marketing strategy and gives four questions to answer. According to the Sports connection clubs, there are rough two market strategies. One of them is Referral Programme, which means company will award the new member who bringing other new members. Another one called deadline effect. It is quite different with Referral Programme, …show more content…
12.93050 F-statistic 2.618890 Durbin-Watson stat 2.366349 Prob(F-statistic) 0.055203 Table 1: the coefficients of variables and inner relation 3. Time effect: As can be seen in the table below, the total data is calculated on the right most side. It is quite easily to find that whether 2009 or 2010, the largest number of the total sales is in the January. And sale of the June is the smallest. Without other effect factors, the most influential reason is weather and New Year resolution. And New Year resolution will be discussed in the fourth part. Sales (New Members) Anfield Everton Kensington Speke Wavertree Jan-09 487 365 348 235 311 1746 February 419 289 297 229 246 1480 March 480 292 307 247 285 1611 April 409 336 375 229 275 1624 May 332 350 291 240 212 1425 June 311 283 284 234 228 1340 July 291 268 346 300 267 1472 August 280 313 334 219 228 1374 September 389 329 389 208 221 1536 October 363 280 285 212 136 1276 November 358 278 310 210 205 1361 December 408 271 295 214 187 1375 Jan-10 498 302 439 204 241 1684 February 392 201 277 204 233 1307 March 455 203 331 321 255 1565 April 340 270 331 289 225 1455 May 350 282 360 264 268 1524 June 325 210 213 233 183 1164 July 388 272 219 178 161 1218 August
Thank you for the opportunity to assess your sales data in order to provide recommendations for increasing your sales. The analysis and recommendations below are based on the data you provided, which covers a period from May 2004 through June 2006. The analysis below is based on this data alone. Therefore, our recommendations should be tempered by your knowledge of business realities and your market. Please let us know if we can answer any questions concerning the analysis or the recommendations provided.
These firstly include Boosting the customer experiences. The company has wanted to create a simpler, faster, smarter and a safer experience possible, for its customers. This is then followed by being able to provide intuitive mobile experiences. This is by being able to be first to market these interactions across to the marketplace. Building new, compelling and unique sports products, is another factor of the strategy utilised by the company for its marketing. Finally, they want to be known by their customers for being fun, fast and fair. This is enabled by engaging and entertaining customers with their brand, and experiences (Williams,
Greaves provided five years and two months of annual sales data. Using Stat Tools, the following analysis were run: Moving Average, Exponential Smoothing Simple, Exponential Smoothing Holt’s, and Exponential Smoothing Winter’s. Following a comparison on the average on all models, the Exponential Smoothing Winter’s was found to be the most suitable model for the case. A graph
This article continues to explain that once a sports marketer creates a product and advertises it on a small scale, “Sports marketers get ahead by gradually representing bigger, more important and more prestigious sports teams, companies, associations, and athletes.” In other words, sports marketers need to have a plan of action to promote their product on a larger scale over time. Also, sports marketers spend much of their planning on the aspect of promotion. Mihai verifies that the category of promotion serves to prove that the product is desirable through advertising, sales, sponsorship and public relations. If a sports marketer follows these planning steps, his/her work will lead to a successful product with a large margin of profit.
The third table is to outline some of the activities we might find at each stage of the marketing process; this is brief summary of the importance of the different stages.
Consumers are powerful in this industry. Because there were many clubs for consumers to chose. So the consumers would choose the club which meets their need such as low price, convenient location, and specific services and so on. Consumers were more like the payment style of “pay-as-you-go”. They did not want to bind themselves in a long-term contract but rather pay per visits. Consumers had more flexible choice in this way. So clubs did not make a lot of money from enrollment. They must think about how to improve the quality of services and provide diverse services to meet different needs from consumers. The consumers have power in the pay style, the price, and the service contents in this industry. These factors will greatly impact the development of Bally.
“Marketing strategies can have a broad impact on the business in terms of instilling a marketing orientation among all those in the firm: the way of thinking or philosophy of the whole organization. However, marketing strategies can alternatively be seen as dealing only with the development of competitive advantages directly associated with the marketing function such as customer loyalty and distribution channel control. In the latter case, the domain is sometimes even further restricted by sole attention to the various element of the marketing mix rather than the more general issues of customer and channel relationships. There are two key
Immigration reforms have recently been the victim of multiple debates regarding the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election. Many politicians have already shared their viewpoints and opinions with the public, however, the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump remains as one of the most prominent figures discussing the issue. Multiple interviews and articles throughout the media have maintained the nation’s focus on Donald Trump’s ideas regarding immigration reforms, and each statement he makes stirs a large amount of controversy, along with resentment or approval. Regardless of the public’s outlook on Donald Trump, his plan for an immigration reform retains little sense and will destroy the economy.
AHC is a health club known for its excellent health facilities which benefit their members with a wide range of exercises as well as facilities such as their café and beauty salon. However, the owner, Andy has come to realise that if his business ever were to expand, it couldn’t satisfy everyone and cater to each individual’s needs. AHC has many opportunities for further development and becoming an even more established health club with a wider target market but its competitors (other health clubs) pose as a threat towards them in pricing and facilities.
The life of Edgar Allan Poe is not a pleasing story to be told. Ever since he was a little boy, he had a tragic life that would only get worse. When he was around three years old, his father left and his mother passed away from tuberculosis. Poe was later taken in by a couple. From there on he went to school, was in the army, got married, and worked very hard to get his stories published. He and his wife traveled a lot in order to sell his stories to papers. Because nobody would see his stories the way he does, he drowned his sorrows in alcohol. He and his family starved greatly because of his unemployment, which caused his family to become ill. His wife passed, which only made things worse. He then began to lose his temper, which resulted
The United Kingdom (UK) law for recruitment is a key area that makes it necessary for every organisation to follow it. It is important that every organisation, irrespective of which field it is in, follow the laws in order to make the right kind of recruitment process. Similarly, JD Sports needs to comply with the UK laws when recruiting an individual. To begin with, JD Sports should not discriminate between men and women. Under the Equality Act 2006, both the genders should be equal chance at opportunities, and this also includes the transgender people, as it will eliminate discrimination and harassment (Gatewood, Feild, & Barrick, 2010). The Race Relations Act 1976 states clearly that there should be no discrimination on the bases of colour, race, and nationality, ethnic or national origin. JD Sports must make certain that it is not creating any kind of discrimination in this aspect. Lastly, JD Sports have to take into consideration the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 in order to make certain that they are giving fair chance of being employed to a disabled person, whether the individual
This case study explores different marketing techniques utilized by Prince sports. Research is conducted by utilizing marketing concepts retrieved from various publications as well as Prince sports website. Evolution in technology, joint ventures and adoption of different marketing techniques proved to be successful for Prince sports. There was an evolution of marketing all together at the height of Prince sports success with the introduction and adoption of social media in the marketplace. Prince sports ability to adapt and make changes based on consumer feedback
Of course I had dreams of playing professional sport like every other young male in the world but, a wise man spoke to me and he asked me how much my favorite basketball player makes on average, I did the research and Lebron James makes over 300 million dollars annually. Younger me got that information and as expected I held strong on my dreams of being a professional athlete until he showed me 0.0015% of Americans make it into the NBA.”Out of every 10,000 kids playing basketball in high school only 3 will make it to the pros. Note, this doesn’t mean they’re going to stay in the pros more than 5 seconds. This doesn’t mean they’re going to get a sneaker deal and be in a Pepsi commercial This simply means they’ll get drafted.” (Odds of Playing).
This case study will analyze marketing principle and vision in the context of Prince Sports,
The report will discuss the affiliation between UEFA and marketing specialists Television Event and Media Marketing (TEAM). The writer will show that this association was fundamental to the emergence of the UCL and discuss the strategies developed by TEAM to ensure the competition was seen as a credible and visible brand.