How ever, when it comes to promoting those brands, the company's website is mainly naming them, showing no further specifications or giving a full description of the product. Meanwhile, the exclusive brand website provides full description of it products, giving suggestions and even allowing you to choose certain aspects such as color, size etc. However, Cycles Lambert's site provides the correct information for you to get a general background, to see with what you may associate your product with, and even gives details about how and where you can buy it from. It is more than obvious that the manufacturer and the distributor stress different aspects of the product. The first one intends to present the whole product specifications, giving ample descriptions, giving suggestion etc. The distributor on the other hand limits itself to presenting the most important characteristics, maybe underlying some other similar products, or why not, even offering ideas which may help the buyer in deciding which the best alternative is for him/her from the entire shop. To put it simply, while the manufacturer describes one product, the distributor describes products from many manufacturers. That is, while the first may tend to exaggerate the characteristics of the product, the distributor will be more objective, giving short, comprehensive explanation about what that product is and what that product does.
Q4. If you were a bicycle retailer, and Cycles Lambert customer, what do you think would help to push more business to your store? Why?
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