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ANALYSIS
HOMERUN.COM: BREAKING INTO A SATURATED MARKET
1. Marketing Strategy
a. Socialization
Advantage: Social interaction on multiple platforms such as Facebook,
twitter and other social media sites, the company has become more
popular. Also, other people tend to trust those products recommended by
b. Technology
Advantage: developing and employing technologies enable the company to
personalize their products, to cope up with the changing world, and to
facilitate globalization.
Disadvantage: technologies are costly or expensive to the part of the
company.
Diversification will pave the way for job security and economic growth.
Disadvantage: Global diversification requires large amount of capital,
time, effort and entrepreneurial skills.
2. Customer Retention
a. Service
Advantage: Running a business with a good service (customer) helps the
company build customer loyalty. Customers also are frequent patrons to
businesses that place a high value on training their staffs to emphasize
customer service.
Disadvantage: A Customer-focused business operate solely on customers
needs and wants which affects the creativity of the company and they
may resist coming up with ideas to improve products or create new
products, so they begin to lack innovation. In addition, customers' needs
are ever-changing, which means the company needs to have the
resources, such as financing, staffing and time, to constantly keep up
with customer demands.
Operations Management
a. Decentralized Communication.
Advantage: By implementing decentralize communication inside the
HomeRun, skilled employees can share their thoughts and ideas. Giving
them opportunities for those who have skills and experience. It may
broaden the new idea, way of thinking and imaginary ability of the
company.
Disadvantage: If this happens, ideas overload is the result. Lack of focus
to the idea that might help the company in achieving their goals and
objectives.
advantage.
Disadvantage: due to change of plans, adaptation may take time and the
possibility of affecting the operations may be high in effect to the
adjustments implemented.
FINDINGS
The purpose of the analysis is to assess the operations management,
marketing strategy and customer retention of HomeRun. In accomplishing that
goal, it is necessary to reach some prerequisites and to understand the factors
that affect the management of the entity as whole and the plans and actions
that should be taken. In analyzing the possible courses of action available, the
group findings are as follows:
technological
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market
diversification.
help them position and maintain their business not only in the short run but
even in the long run.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Among the possible courses of actions available which were being formulated
by the group, Homerun, as a group buying business must consider the third
factor which is enhancing operation management. Enhancing operation
management focuses on the internal factors that affect the companys business
operation.
proper management of their labor force will address the problems arising from
miscommunication and wok inefficiency. Furthermore, cooperation and
adaption made by the top management will help them effective in achieving
their short term objectives as well as their long their goals. Also, the issues
that affect marketing strategies and customer retention will rely on the internal
factors especially in the formulation process of the business.
HOMERUN.COM:
BREAKING INTO A
SATURATED MARKET
( A CASE ANALYSIS)
Jagg A. Dela Cruz
Mira Carmela Fadullon
Clyde M. Cabotaje
Jemelle T. Cariaga
Junjie B. Palma