breefashion&&marketing
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Price
The most important thing of this whole project of becoming of the production is the cost. The cost of making the corn nuts is around 3.46 dollars by the pound. for me to be able to get a professional to clean up my design of the bag will cost no more then around 80.00 dollars as well. The packaging will be cheaper then most because it is simple a plastic rapper so it is lighter then glass and easier to ship. To get my food packaged it will be around 8.5% of what it cost to make the snacks. labor will be the biggest concern it will be 38.5% of whatever the product makes.I am thinking of selling the snack at $4.00 at the bars I think that is a very reasonable price.
Disturbution
My distribution plan is to advertise
utilizing all available media outlets. I will use a small budget for
television, radio, and newsprint advertising. However I plan on launching a
large social media and web based advertising project. This will prove to be
more cost effective, and it will get the word out to a larger demographic. My
plan is to use QR codes on the packaging that will allow customers to scan them
and be taken directly to our web page. Our web page will have a list of our distributors,
and the ability for them to enter their zip code and find the closest
distributer to them. We will also give customers the ability to order online,
and have out product shipped directly to their front door, via Fed Ex, UPS, or
any USPS. We hope to boost this option by offering special pricing for online
and bulk orders; we are also looking at putting together special holiday and
personalized packages. 162 I estimate we will need a 10,000 square foot
distribution warehouse located adjacent to our production center. Short term
plan is to distribute all orders out of this location. Long term goal is to
have distribution centers in the west, central, and eastern parts of the US.
Again I do plan to use assorted Parcel carriers to fulfill home, and smaller
deliveries. For larger deliveries we are currently working on a shipping
contract with an OTR trucking company that specializes in the shipping and
warehousing of food products. We will work closely with this company to
distribute to larger grocery chains, while continuing to maintain our goal of
delivering a quality product on time, and at an affordable price.
Product
My product is a bar snack. A snack someone can enjoy while sitting down after a long day at work and have a tall bottle of beer. It is simply corn nuts seasoned with Mexican chili peppers. They will be placed in a decent size bag with my cartoon design of Philieas Fogg on the front and also his great adventure on how he came across this wonderful snack. The flavor will be called "tango with mexico" I chose this name because when thinking of the tango people think hot, which makes sense since my snake is made with chili. Also the name is interesting it catches peoples attention if the story and the cartoon don't catch someones eye the name defiantly will. I hate when I open a bag of chips and it is basically full of air. My packaging will have more portions of food then air. I hope once this product does well I will be able to make more snacks and even produce more Philieas Fogg products. I have a good stable product that I wish to make it big and expand my horizons on it.
Target Market Strategy
Obviously my
target market would be 21 years or older both men and females who enjoy the
bar. Now how do I attract them to buy my product? I am thinking I could ask the
bars I sell my product to, to advertise in their bars or in ads they put up. I also
can make my own website or even just an article online. That would be the best
way to do it to appeal to the younger people in that age group everyone is
online almost once a day so that can get my product out there for a low cost. Another
marketing way is word of the mouth have my product be really good to the point
where people tell others about it that’s free marketing it won’t cost anything.
These three ways or my basic market strategies they are very low cost or don’t cost
anything at all. But also they are doing what I need them to do get the word
out to my customers. I am going to start of slow and targeting just small bars
and work my way up to a bigger range of bars.
Situation/SWOT Anaylsis
I believe marketing is the most fun part of making a
product. It involves a lot communication with my customers and it helps me
share what I can bring to the marketplace in a creative way. Unlike most
elements of my product, marketing does not have any boundaries. I can be very creative
like for example by mapping out marketing plans and strategies. But before I begin
any marketing campaign I would put together a SWOT analysis of my product. This
basically stands for my products strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and
threats. The plan or foundation is my product and the services I will be offering,
along with my personal talents and abilities. “Setting the
right price is one of the marketer’s most difficult tasks. A host of factors
come into play. But finding and implementing the right price strategy is
critical to success.” If customers see that my product has features
that are different to the market, also offer great customer service, have lower
prices, this would help my product grow. Making sure that each of these things
are pointed out in my marketing pieces and speak about these strengths to both
current and potential customers. Weaknesses are those elements that keep me from
offering the same level of products or services as my competitors. That is
something that the people I would be selling to wouldn’t be interested in and
probably wouldn’t buy from me if I sound like the rest of the products I would
be competing with. Determining my product weaknesses will help me to improve my
products and services in the future. It wouldn’t be wise to point out my
weaknesses when presenting my product to my future and present customers.
Objective
My objective for my product is to first start off small. With the local bars out here create a bond with the owners and with the people who would be shipping my product. In chapter it says “the firm must be good at adapting its marketing strategies in the face of changing tastes, technologies, and competition as products pass through life-cycle stages.” This is what I plan on doing with my product I plan to be firm locally. Then I plan on taking my business nationwide. “The development of original products, product improvements, product modifications, and new brands through the firm’s own product-development efforts.” I plan on to start shipping my product out of state to other bars in the U.S. This will give me enough money to improve my snack. Maybe make different flavors, but them in bigger bags. It will all be a part of my new-product development. I will upgrade a lot and be able to network with different states and see how they enjoy the snack, and how their customers enjoy them. I am hoping it will be at hit and the bars will start coming to be for more of my snacks. I plan on being here in the next 2 years I would like it to grow.
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