This website was the first online service provided for buyers to shop for cars online so that they do not have to deal with the problems and hassles that arises that traditional buyers would usually deal with when they are at the dealership. Some of the cost and benefits to consumers of the Autobytel system at the time of the case were that they were hassle free compared to going into the dealership, they were good for beginnings, they offer financing and loyalty programs. This is good for beginner buyers because they are able to look at car pictures for every make and model with the specifications and pricing information. After they figure out what car they are looking for, they receive more information about the car they selected. They are also able to customize their car with possible features the car model offers.
Potential customers can range from the individual or business looking for a new vehicle to those that need to maintain what they currently own. Big Drive should focus on satisfying the needs of both potential customers in order to continue to be profitable. Individuals or businesses in the market for a new car may have more disposable personal income available so may be more likely to invest in something new rather than service their current vehicle. This allows Big Drive to increase their profits associated with sales of new vehicles. For those individuals with less opportunity to spend any personal income they may have, Big Drive needs to attract the potential customer for parts to their vehicle or for such services or products such as motor oil, coolant, or tires.
To see these benefits, the focus needs to remain on benefiting the community at large and meeting the needs of each individual location. Crime can be reduced within the store by helping provide for the community and offering opportunities to help people work their way off the streets. Consumer spending can be increased by meeting the demands of the area while helping those who cannot afford to spend money on the goods the company sells. Any company would be wise to remember that quite often it is the poor who succeed later in life and become a company’s biggest investors. A focus on those in need is something that helps a company’s reputation for years to come, boosting profits in both the poorest neighborhoods and the wealthiest.
CASE-STUDY #3 1) What is the value proposition to the customer of Web-based Shopping? How does it compare to the other innovations in customer service that Ives mentions at the end of the case? Value proposition to the customers shopping on the web. A) The first and foremost is the convenience of the home. This value proposition actually leads into savings of time and money in terms of gas.
One small act of kindness can go a long way and does not require that much effort. The downtown streets of Las Vegas are full of homeless men, women, children who are or not disabled or mental. Communities fall short in addressing this issue by ignoring it but reality is, this cannot go on being ignored. By addressing the community leaders in hopes of helping the homeless there needs to be resources available for them to have access
Selling products online will make it easier for Innocent to reach to wide range of customers. Another challenge that Innocent could face is being able to keep its current employees because during recession Innocent might struggle to pay wages so they might think of paying minimum wages. This may makes employees to leave the jobs and look for better jobs with higher wages. So it is essential for Innocent to provide as fair wages as they can to keep their existing employees. During recession Innocent would mostly want to survive.
However, it took longer time to go to work since he just needed 40 minutes to drive to work but he needed more or less two hours to go to work by Caltrain. He complained about the inconvenience with his colleagues and he found that his colleagues also had the same problems. Some of his colleagues chose to pool car, which means people drive to work with other strangers who work nearby and share the gas price. And they said that as gas prices increased, their wages were not increased as fast as gas prices. As a result, the increasing of gas prices bring inconvenience to people’s lives.
I wish the officer that pulled me over wouldn’t had followed me so long it scared me a lot and made me nervous driving. The reason why I have changed is to make my life a lot easier and much cheaper it gets expensive trying to pay for a ticket pay car insurance and payments on a vehicle all at the same time while not being able to use your car except to go to and from school. Also to and from my job it makes it kind of hard to pay all of that knowing I’m not allowed to do much with my vehicle as in going to friends house or going out to eat or
When those agreements are initiated it is not necessarily a bad law to break in my eyes because it at the end of the day keeps people employed and is helping the economy. However it is still illegal and the court has the right and the power based upon certain facts and evidence to make the decision if the companies were breaking the antitrust laws. The other thing that the car dealers would do in the past would do is called customer allocation, meaning the two companies or sometimes three companies would all get together and do what they called customer allocation so that all companies could benefit and stay in business. They would say if a customer is willing to spend a certain amount of money on a vehicle then they would send the people this dealership A, if the consumer was willing to spend less then what the agreement was set between companies than they would be referred to dealership B. The government instituted laws to prevent this from happening and protecting the consumers allowing them to
“Irrational exuberance in the housing market led many people to buy houses they couldn't afford, because everyone thought housing prices could only go up.” (useconomy.com). During 2006, housing prices started to decline. Many people took out loans with very little money down, and they had to foreclose on the house because if they sold it, they would not get enough money back. With the foreclosing rate increasing, many banks began to freak out because they were going to face huge losses. Around August of 2007, banks become afraid to loan money out due to the fact that they did not want to suffer from losing money yet again.