Some of the more notable key success factors include the quality of the products, the ability to create customer trust and loyalty, the ability to create operational efficiency and keep costs at a level as low as possible.
2.6 Critical Issues
South Beach Transport would be faced with a multitude of challenges, all of which have to be faced in order to create company success. At a more specific level, there are two critical issues, both depending on the quality of the managerial model. The first critical issue revolves around the need to efficiently manage the teams, to deliver high quality services and to ensure operational efficiency, customer satisfaction and organizational results. On the other hand, the second critical issue is represented by the need to promote the company; to position it within the industry so that the potential clients become aware of its existence; to raise demand for its services. This second critical issue would be completed with the aid of a complex marketing strategy.
3. Marketing Strategy
The marketing strategy represents a way of conducting operations, a business model even, through which the economic agent attains its financial objectives through the satisfaction of the needs and wants of the customer base (Quick MBA, 2010). Similar to the situation analysis, the marketing strategy is composed from a wide array of elements, each with its own relevance for the company, the market, the customers and so on. In the case of South Beach Transport, emphasis is placed on the mission, the marketing objective, the financial objectives, the target markets, the positioning of the firm, the marketing strategies, the marketing program and the marketing research.
3.1 Mission
South Beach Transport hopes to become the preferred transportation company for people and firms in need of flatbed transportation. In attaining this objective, we will focus on the full satisfaction of the needs and wants of our customers, on the creation of a favorable environment for our people and on the provision of responsibility and support of our community.
3.2 Marketing Objective
At a general level, the marketing objective is that of raising consumer awareness of the company and generating demand for its services. At a more specific level, the marketing program would be constructed in a manner to attract customers and generate sustainable revenues. These sustainable revenues would support the company in reaching its growth objective, namely the growth of its fleet from an initial of five trucks to a future fleet size of 50 trucks. The company has set out to attain this objective in five years.
3.3 Financial Objectives
South Beach Transport aims to increase the size of its capitals by 10 per cent for each of the first five years of operations. After this period, the financial goals would be reevaluated. If the company will have reached a comfortable size and the growth process is halted, the size of the capital would stabilize. If on the other hand, more growth is desired, the size of the capital would also increase.
In terms of the financial results, these would also be expected to increase by an annual 10 per cent. The company's managerial team wishes to cap the costs so that they do not increase in the same rhythm as the results, yet this would be rather difficult to attain throughout the organization's expansion period. In time however, stability would be attained and the organization would come to register more stable profits.
3.4 Target Markets
South Beach Transport targets those specific customer segments which reveal transportation needs that have to be served quickly and efficiently. Also, the targeted consumer markets transport merchandise which is resistant, rather than sensitive.
In this order of ideas, the following consumer sectors are identified as the cores of the target market:
Construction companies
Landscaping companies
Farming agencies
Hope Depot and other such distribution centers
Retailers of heavy equipments
Any other vendors of items which can be transported with the flatbeds -- namely those large size items that are resistant to weather conditions (Van Loo and Koppejan, 2008).
3.5 Positioning
Throughout the positioning strategy, emphasis would be placed on the provision of information regarding the company and the services, as well as the high quality of the services. These items would however occupy a restricted share in the overall positioning strategy, which would be created around the promotion of South Beach Transport as the only local flatbed company in South Florida. Additionally, focus would fall on the company's ability to deliver overnight within a 500-mile radius.
3.6 Strategies
The marketing strategy to be implemented by South Beach Transport is one of leadership and product differentiation. This strategic combination of approaches is based on the fact that South Beach Transport would be a leader in local flatbed transportation services, and it would differentiate itself from other companies with the aid of the unique service delivered...
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