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Global and Domestic Marketing Decisions Of course, it's tempting to think of business decisions as occurring in a perfect economic bubble -- wouldn't it be nice to simply prepare a strategic SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis based on one's industry alone? Alas -- or fortunately, depending on one's perspective, however, no company exists within such a comfortable bubble in today's business environment. (SWOT Analysis, 2004) Today, companies must keep abreast of the profound technical, cultural, and ethical shifts that have occurred in today's business climate, reflecting the more forward-thinking yet bearish attitude climate of the 21st century, as opposed to the 1990s.

Technology

From a technological point-of-view, the Internet has changed global and domestic commerce. In particular, cultural industries such as the music industry have been impacted. No longer can music companies simply bank on the popularity of an individual artist. Nor can music and entertainment companies ignore the dangers of Internet piracy. Instead, they must make legal downloads affordable, exciting, profitable to the entertainer, and yet also attractive to the consumer.

To make use of the technology of the Internet, and to circumvent pirating and copyright infringements that will bankrupt individual artists (and ultimately the industry), international Virgin entertainment mogul Sir Richard Branson recently started a new music store, VirginDigital.com, selling music as streams of bits to be downloaded from the Internet. Virgin, a unit of the Virgin Group, became "the first major...

(Hansell, 2004)
Virgin is putting its biggest emphasis on its subscription service, rather than on selling songs one at time for 99 cents a track, like Apple or Microsoft, because it is "betting that new customers will join its Virgin Music Club for a $7.99 monthly fee to listen to an unlimited amount of music from Virgin's one-million-track library on their computers, and providing a premier fee option for subscribers who are willing to pay more to transfer the music to their iPods and M3P players. Virgin has done so to keep up not only with current music trends and intellectual property law but also in growing recognition that the line between entertainment and computer technology in consumer's minds and reality is increasingly becoming blurred across the world, and business must respond to these trends. (Hansell, 2004)

Culture

Now, we must pause for some words of wisdom from our sponsor...well, not really...but increasingly, the culture of web surfing, blogging, and the ubiquity of internet marketing has encouraged marketers to use the Internet as a way of purveying their goods. "Advertisers poured a record sum of money into the Internet last quarter, which may help explain why Web pages are starting to resemble Nascar jerseys." However the culture of online advertising is not a perfect marketing parallel with traditional advertising. Advertising and marketing segmentation in the Internet reflects a culture that is both more segmented, customized, and also more international…

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Berenson, Alex. (September 23, 2004) "Ex-Chief of Computer Associates Is Indicted on Fraud Charges." The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/23/business/23computer.html

Glassman, Mark. (September 26, 2004) "And Now, a Message From Our Sponsor." The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/media/040927MOSTWANTED.html

Hansell, Saul. (September 27, 2004) Music Sites Ask, 'Why Buy If You Can Rent?' The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/27/technology/27music.html

SWOT Analysis. (2004)
http://www.marketingteacher.com/Lessons/lesson_swot.htm
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