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Economics
Technology's Role
Product Differentiation in the Competitive Open Market of Today's Economy
Product differentiation is one of the most difficult things for a firm to achieve in a competitive, open market. In a market with a large number of potential product competitors, it is difficult to convey to the consumer what makes a particular product unique. The problem of product differentiation highlights the fact that it is not simply enough that a consumer wishes to buy more soda, for instance, to increase sales. Rather it is important that the potential consumer wishes to buy a specific company's soda, one's own particular brand of soda, and only that brand of soda. For consumers to demand a particular product, there must be a sense of 'specialness' conveyed to the product produced by one's own firm as opposed to other firms. This sense of specialness can be a uniqueness of cheapness, quality, or simply the sense of identity that is conveyed to the consumer by buying that particular product and that particular product alone, as opposed to others.
One of the problems of product differentiation is that differentiating a particular product can be very difficult to achieve because of incomplete customer information,...
However, the technological media of the Internet provides unprecedented access to a specificity of advertising through web pages and email. The presence of advertising on web pages can create associations within the consumer's minds between particular products and the information conveyed upon the website. The product's sense of specialness is thus communicated through associations between that product, an image, and other products.
Of course, specific products, now often have their own websites. These sites provide a dual function. First, they are an additional medium of advertising. But how to encourage consumers to click onto such advertising-based websites, one might ask? By providing other services upon the websites, from games to information, product differentiation is achieved and an increased sense of desirability is created for that product and that product alone.
On a more prosaic level, perhaps, such websites enable manufacturers to give information about their products to prospective customers, to inform their customer is safer, cheaper, and better equipped than apparently similar competitor brands.
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Works Cited
Sloman, John and Mark Sutcliffe. (2002). Economics for Business. New York: Prentice Hall.
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