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¶ … marketing plan for a new software application. The software works by gathering purchase information from consumers via their credit and debit card purchases, and then generating a list of anticipated future purchases. This will then be used by our company to sell targeted ads to these consumers. The software works in a manner that is actually quite similar to the way that websites like Amazon, Booking.com, Facebook and Trip Advisor track search queries and deliver an output of purchase "suggestions." The difference in this case is that instead of cookies online, the software tracks credit and debit card purchases, through agreements with banks and credit card companies. However, it shares with adware a similar function, with similar ethical dilemma and low level of desirability for the consumer (Spiegel, 2013).
Senior management is interested in the product, but wants to get a better sense of the market for it, and how it will be marketed, before proceeding. This is because the product has significant issues with respect to consumer privacy. To a point, consumers are willing to cede their privacy in order to acquire debit and credit cards, and would likely allow banks to sell their information. However, there could be considerable public backlash as the software...
There are also legal issues that may arise, depending on how the data gathering works (Pearson, 2009).
The marketing plan will not have the objective of resolving the ethical issues surrounding the project. Nor will the marketing plan have the objective of making a case for the product. The marketing department is entirely neutral on the idea, so the marketing plan is strictly exploratory and intended to provide information to senior management to support their decision-making.
There are several different components to the marketing plan. One is the definition of the market. There are a number of potential markets for a product that can successfully increase product sales (Read & Arabee, 2011). There will be an analysis of whether this product is better suited for B2C business or B2B business for example. Once that decision has been made, there will be an analysis of the optimal distribution channel. This is a product that could be successful either online or off, so there is some important analysis to be made here.
From there, the target market will need to be identified. This is a critical component of the plan…
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Pearson, S. (2009). Taking account of privacy when designing cloud computing services. Labs HP . Retrieved November 1, 2013 from http://www.gtsi.com/files/6713/6355/4960/HP_Lab.pdf
Read, M. & Arabee, Z. (2011). Increase product sales of electronic companies by using IT applications in creating an effective e-marketing plan in social virtual worlds. Symposium on Information & Computer Sciences. Retrieved November 1, 2013 from http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/115/1/ICS2011_16.pdf
Spiegel, Y. (2013). Commercial software, adware and consumer privacy. Tel Aviv University. Retrieved November 1, 2013 from http://y2007.recanati.tau.ac.il/~spiegel/papers/adware.pdf
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