The Change Influences in The Marketplace


•Technology–E.g. Social media, mobile computing, security and cloud computing are all important technologies in your business.But if you neglect training, innovation and measuring ROI you're wasting your time and money and not operating as optimally as you can.

•Globalization– Globalization is the process of rapid integration of countries and happening through greater foreign trade and foreign investment. There are 4 simple steps a company must establish to start global marketing. First, a company needs to achieve domestic dominance. Second, a company must have a home focus with exporting. Third, marketing to global markets must be mixed with overseas organizations. Changing the marketing strategy to become a polycentric strategy is the best way to adapt to the needs of all the potential customers throughout the world. Fourth, the value of the product must be on demand in a global market.  Global marketing is unpredictable and marketers must be aware of different opportunities and be willing to adapt and create new products for global demands.

•Deregulation– Market deregulation occurs when a market is controlled and stable enough to operate in a competitive and unregulated environment. The airline industry is an example of government deregulation that occurred in the 1970s, when the government relaxed control over how airlines operate. One effect of market deregulation is more competitive pricing. Examples of newly deregulated industries are the utility and telecommunications markets. Market deregulation has now made utility companies such as electricity providers and phone companies compete for business and offer better pricing.

•Privatization–  The term "privatization" describes a shift in the ownership of assets or the provision of services from the government or public sector to the private sector. Increased efficiency of public companies in value delivery and earning profit.

•Customization– Ability to ‘personalise’service or production as demanded by customers. Customers want more customized, personalized products and services, but companies struggle to cost-effectively deliver them. Improving communication and coordination between operations and sales and marketing is one critical path to profitable customization.

•Disintermediation– Disintermediation in digital marketing services is a concept where in effort is made to establish a direct contact between the producer or the supplier and the end user or the consumer. This is done by eliminating the middlemen or the affiliates. ‘No’to intermediaries; e.g. online dot-coms(eBay, Amazon, Yahoo)


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