Trap-Ease America: The Big Cheese of Mousetraps 1. Martha and the Trap-Ease America investors believe they face a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What information do they need to evaluate this opportunity? The information they need to evaluate this opportunity is their market share compare to the whole mousetrap market. They can also scope down and use the following information: -Check whether their marking plan is efficient and effective. -Check with retailer and distributors whether sales
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Business and Economics Graduate Program ADVANCED MARKETING MANAGEMENT‚ MKT.500 Case Study one: Trap-Ease America: The Big Cheese Of Mousetraps Presented To: Dr. Ziad Haddad Presented By: Shady Habboub Fall Semester 2009-2010 1- The Mission Statement of Trap-Ease America: “We want to free your homes from mice. Fathers: you can protect your families easily and safely. Trap-Ease America is your state of the art solution” 2- The opportunities that arise in the environment
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TUTORIAL 2 Trap-Ease America: The Big Cheese of Mousetraps If a man [can] ... make a better mousetrap than his neighbor ... the world will make a beaten path to his door. As Martha House‚ president of Trap-Ease America‚ contemplated the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson framed on the wall of her Costa Mesa‚ California office‚ she wondered whether Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap - Trap-Ease - but the world didn’t seem all that excited. IF YOU BUILD A
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Trap-Ease America: The Big Cheese of Mousetraps Synopsis A group of investors has purchased from an inventor the U.S. rights to sell a patented‚ innovative mousetrap. The group has hired Martha House to manage the company that includes assuming responsibility for sales and marketing. Trap-Ease America has targeted the trap to housewives‚ whom it believes will be attracted to the safety and cleanliness that its trap offers. The trap lures the mouse into a square tube in which it finds itself
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Company Case: Trap-Ease America: he big cheese of mousetrap. 1) I think the group is going to write the following "mission statement": We produce a trap that you could use safer and easier than the traditional one‚ with no risk of catching your fingers while loading it. I would have written the mission statement in a very similar way. However‚ I would have included the fact that your children are not in danger with the new trap as they are with the traditional one to show the disadvantages of the
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product produces by the company. Currently‚ Trap-Ease has only manufactured one product that is the mousetrap‚ which is also known as the Trap-Ease mousetrap. This mousetrap is designed to allow customers to enjoy the means of dealing with mouse problem efficiently. Customers can be at ease by avoiding the safety and cleanliness problems created by the traditional spring-loaded traps or poison. One of the main materials for Trap-Ease mousetrap is plastic. The trap is a square‚ plastic tube measuring about
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Alicia Foote Activity 1.5 – Case Study: Trap-Ease America BSAB/MGMT 311: Principles of Marketing March 30‚ 2014 Introduction To succeed in today’s competitive marketplace‚ companies must be customer centered. They must win customers from competitors and then keep and grow them by delivering greater value. A company’s success is no longer merely determined by the product it offers‚ as today things are much more complicated due to the sheer number of companies
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Trap-Ease America: the big cheese of mousetraps case Case Analysis: A group of investors had formed Trap-ease America in January after it had obtained worldwide rights to market the innovative mouse trap. The group then hired Martha to serve as president‚ and to develop and manage trap-ease America organizations. Even though the product is well designed‚ and is bringing a new idea to the market‚ by using a good trap to catch the mice‚ it didn’t bring much profit to the company. Even after winning
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1. I feel Martha and the Trap-Ease America investors need to do some strategic planning- the process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization’s goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities. This would set the stage for the rest of the planning. I do not think Martha has done enough research into the market to really assess whether the demand for her product would be there. Martha needs to think about her marketing concept‚ which is a philosophy
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