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Die Niceshops GmbH ist ein E-Commerce-Unternehmen aus der Steiermark, welches in Österreich auch als das steirische Amazon bekannt ist. Die Niceshops betreibt international über 450 Onlineshops für Dritte, und führt eine Handvoll komplett eigenständig mit eigenen Marken (z.B. Geero, pool.shop oder JAKE). Täglich werden über 20.000 Pakete abgewickelt und versandt, die Exportquote beträgt dabei ca. 80%.
Durch den geplanten Börsengang versucht die Niceshops, sich zu diversifizieren um sich somit für potenzielle Investoren attraktiver zu gestallten. Ziel dieser Diversifizierung ist es, mit der neu aufgestellten Datenkraft GmbH ein Kernkompetenzzentrum für Logistik SaaS-Lösungen aufzubauen und Softwareprodukte für Unternehmen zu entwickeln und zu vertreiben. Der Niceshops kommt dabei die jahrelange Erfahrung bei der Einzelsendungsabwicklung von Paketen zugute. Dieses breite Knowhow soll ausgebaut und durch die Entwicklung von SaaS-Lösungen monetarisiert werden.
Derzeit besteht noch kein Neukundenakquise-Konzept für den Bereich SaaS-Lösungen in der Logistik. Dieses ist jedoch zwingend notwendig, um dem Erfolg des Diversifizierungsprozesses zu gewährleisten. Diese Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich daher mit den theoretischen Grundlagen des B2B Vertriebs von SaaS-Lösungen, den Anforderungen an Dienstleistungsunternehmen, der Auswahl der passenden Vertriebsstrategie, der Erstellung eines Neukundenakquise-Konzepts inklusive Vertriebsbudget, Maßnahmen und Erfolgskontrollen sowie Handlungsempfehlungen. Der theoretische Teil wird durch 15 Einzelexplorationen von potenziellen Kunden abgerundet.
Market Entry Concept for the US Beauty & Personal Care Market on the Example of Luxury Cosmetics Ltd
(2022)
The theoretical and practical aspects of the internationalisation of small companies and the market entrance into the American Beauty and Personal Care industry are presented in this thesis. This thesis aims to create a market entry concept for Luxury Cosmetics Ltd, a Croatian beauty company based in the coastal city of Rijeka. The company hopes to grow its operations outside of Europe using the sugar paste brand called Cleopatra Professional. As a result, the concept focuses on the beauty and personal care industry in the United States and the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises. Additionally, the aim of the thesis is to select the most appropriate market entry mode and communication activities that accompany the entry mode. To acquire further information, a secondary and primary research were conducted based on the literature. In the primary research, eight experts in the field of internationalisation and seven experts in the field of communication participated in the study. The market entry concept is based on the literature and findings of the primary and secondary market research. It follows the phases that are established in strategic marketing and provides recommendations on the chosen market entry mode and the communication activities. The findings in this thesis show that the most appropriate market entry mode would be direct export in form of distributors.
The past two years have shown the importance of online retail for companies worldwide. Alongside the trend towards increasing online shopping activities, the importance of online advertising also rose drastically. Therefore, the competition in the field of online advertising experienced a tremendous upswing. Thus, companies need to improve the efficiency of their online advertising measures and specifically tailor them towards the target audience. The so-called full funnel advertising is a popular tool to reach potential customers along all steps of their customer journey and to specifically target and retarget the right audiences. As Cosmeterie lacks such an advertising concept at the moment, the aim of this master thesis is to develop a full funnel social media advertising concept for Cosmeterie in the UK. Therefore, the first part of this thesis will focus on the theoretical background of the cosmetics market and social media advertising in general. For this purpose, the characteristics of the cosmetics market and its target group are discussed in detail. Moreover, social media advertising is described with regards to its goals, characteristics and current trends in the cosmetics industry. Additionally, several social media advertising platforms are reviewed, as well as the targeting and advertising possibilities on the individual platforms. Following, the use of the marketing funnel in social media advertising is elaborated. As a result, a general valid social media advertising concept will be developed, based on the results of the literary research. Within the practical part, a SWOT analysis, a social media advertising audit and a target group analysis is conducted. To find out how to best address potential customers, a quantitative survey amongst them has been carried out. As a result, the afore gained insights are bundled and a full funnel social media advertising concept is developed for Cosmeterie in the UK including measures of action, budget, timetable and controlling. The implementation of the advertising concept should support Cosmeterie in reaching their company objectives of increasing the retargeting audience in the UK as well as the number of active customers.
Due to increasing globalisation and the growing trade volume associated with it, many companies are forced to develop internationally and enter new markets. An international market entry can lead to the desired success of many companies. However, this is associated with risks and costs. Especially for small companies, this step is very daring and presents them with great challenges due to their lack of international experience. Therefore, it is crucial to plan an international market entry well and to develop a systematic market entry concept, which includes a detailed analysis and planning phase, as well as a subsequent implementation and control phase. In the context of this master thesis, a market entry of small and medium-sized enterprises into the clothing market, both in theory and practice, is examined. The aim is to develop a market entry concept for the FoF OG, which wants to enter the Israeli market with the clothing brand Bolao. After the most important findings for developing a market entry concept have been presented by means of extensive literature research, the practical part is based on a qualitative market analysis. For this purpose, 15 expert interviews were conducted with experienced people in the Israeli clothing industry, by companies that have already entered the Israeli market, and with representatives of Footvolley Israel. The experts confirmed the theoretical findings that for a small company like the FoF OG, with few financial and human resources, as well as a lack of access to the Israeli market, direct exporting via a local distributer is the most advisable market entry mode. In this context, it is relevant to find a trustworthy partner in the Israeli market on a long-term basis. In addition, due to increasing competition, it is important to enter the Israeli market as soon as possible in order to position Bolao right in the market and to increase the brand awareness in Israel. For this purpose, a partnership with a footvolley school should be established and a cooperation with local footvolley teams should be started. To achieve the company’s objectives, the branding of a footvolley arena, the translation of Bolao’s website into Hebrew and the targeting of potential customers via social media should be realised. Furthermore, it is a major goal to establish the Bolao Bonus programme on the Israeli market.
The nautical market in Croatia is in constant growth, for which the general reason is a well-developed coastline of more than 5.000 km in length. The waterway infrastructure is being challenged with many potential issues for the environment that comes with the larger presence of the vessels over the summer season period. During this period many accidents are occurring, mostly because of careless skippers, bad weather, or even a combination of both. Therefore, Sea Tow aims to launch the product Sea Spill, a service for cleaning and preventing water pollution from hazardous substances, on the Croatian market. Sea Tow would be the first on-water, towing and salvage private organisation, as a pioneer in providing such innovative service. In relation, this thesis develops the concept for the launch of the service Sea Spill, with a focus on communication within the B2B segment, and aiming for insurance companies as customers. The thesis has three main segments. The first segment is the theoretical part discussing the concept development on a strategic level. The second segment includes the secondary and primary market research approach and results. Finally, the third segment develops the product launch concept suggestion for Sea Spill, based on the previous two thesis segment results. The results of the research suggest that the market is ready for such a service and would be supported by the insurance companies. However, as the Croatian nautical market is small and WoM has great power, it is expected that the acceptance of the state service organizations such as SAR is necessary. The results also suggest that there is a potential in the education of the customers of insurers, as well as raising the environmental awareness. The information collected should be taken into account when developing the communication strategy.
As the elderly population is constantly growing, the functional decline of elderly people constitutes a major concern within the global health care industry. Especially the Republic of North Macedonia is struggling with one of the highest growth rates in Europe but lacks in the provision of appropriate public care services for older adults. Therefore, the Red Cross of the Republic of North Macedonia aims to close this gap by offering a novel Personal Emergency Response Service (PERS), providing rapid medical help in emergency situations. In relation to this, a new brand should be established, positioning the new service as market leader and, concomitantly, fostering an increased brand awareness within the local population. As a result, this thesis presents a brand building concept for the new PERS service brand, containing six main steps as follows: 1. Preliminary market research including the situation analysis and primary research illustrating the basis for further strategic considerations 2. Definition of brand identity and strategic brand values 3. Definition of strategic brand positioning including the development of a new positioning category as basis for the market leadership position 4. Implementation of brand positioning through the creation of brand name, brand logo, slogan as well as evaluation of relevant brand touchpoints 5. Derivation of integrated communication measures including the selection of instruments as well as recommendations for actions summarized within an integrated communication plan 6. Establishment of controlling instruments to measure the concept’s success. The concept has been established by theoretical brand management principles and has afterwards been complemented by results from qualitative primary research containing relevant expert inputs on the given topic. In summary, the brand building concept follows a low-cost and step-by-step approach, focusing on building the brand with trusted PR and word-of-mouth measures, implementing advertising only at a later stage. Furthermore, it puts an emphasis on the visual connection to the Red Cross brand to leverage from its positive image and trust towards the organization, which comes right after the most central customer need of feeling safe at all times – the most central criteria for the establishment of the PERS service brand.
Considering the next years, the traditional, European e-learning sector will be challenged by several influences, starting with innovative start-ups with new online training approaches to North American providers penetrating the European Market. bit media e-solutions as one of these strong e-learning players on European ground with more than 16 years of experience therefore currently is looking for future B2C market potentials within the field of emerging markets to finally distribute their product portfolio there. As bit media e-solutions does not own any standardized tool to systemically screen foreign markets concerning their long-term market potential, this master thesis provides the company such a reusable market selection model to screen emerging B2C markets. To proof the sustainable usefulness of the developed model, the author moreover provides bit media e-solutions a ranking of the three highest attractive emerging markets at the end, initially starting with the markets Albania, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Macedonia, Nigeria, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam. While the first part of the master thesis is focusing on the theoretical input for developing a market selection model, the core part is considered as the practical section, where a tailor-made model for bit media e-solutions is developed and applied. Moreover, and as an important prerequisite, potential criteria were internally defined and externally verified and weighted to reduce the subjectivity of the model. The final model consists of two stages and three steps, at end of every step inappropriate markets were knocked out. While emerging markets show high growth potential but also high risk uncertainty, the preliminary screening was executed by help of the checklist method with a focus on political and economic risks. The indept screening was carried out by using the scoring method as well as selected and weighted attractiveness, barriers and risk criteria. After this first phase the markets Indonesia, Macedonia and Vietnam showed the highest overall market potential for bit media e-solutions and therefore were visualized in a market portfolio analysis as final step. After the execution of expert interviews the market Indonesia is finally recommended as market with the highest market attractiveness, followed by Vietnam and Macedonia. The concluding chapter deals with concrete recommendations as well as a general critical reflection for bit media e-solutions as scientific base for their further business expansion strategy finally.
Development of an international internal communication concept with a focus on social intranets
(2017)
Today, companies steadily try to consider latest trends affecting the business and industry in order to grow and make profits. Unfortunately, they often forget to keep an eye on trends regarding internal communication. Often it is also the main area for which companies want to save expenses, albeit internal communication is very important to make employees communicate and collaborate. Furthermore, it is a central business function that is needed to get things done by indirectly influencing the company’s external image and reputation. Accordingly, it is essential to carry out research and develop an international internal communication concept for a company’s positive change. Having said that, the present master thesis deals with the elaboration of internal communication by outlining its significance and possibilities. As a wide range of instruments is already offered, it is vital for companies to know which communication instruments and tools can be applied for which purpose, and, additionally, to provide what internal stakeholders require. Even for an international active company the right choice of its communication activities can determine its long-term success, because this affects the way employees from different locations work together. In this context, new media and new technologies become more and more important to ensure a state-of-the-art working environment that turns into a more digital and social place. As a result, the thesis focuses on social intranets as collaborative internal communication tools. These platforms allow businesses to increase interaction and productivity by promoting efficient two-way communication. They support to redesign communication structure, reduce unnecessary correspondence and provide everything from one-source in real-time. However, various differences in terms of culture, language, etc. influence and determine a company’s internal communication. Although the requirements from company and user end may vary a lot, the main research results show that the commissioning company’s internal stakeholders are open for change and willing to use a social intranet to improve its situation. Thus, the primary dots are connected by developing an international internal communication concept with a focus on social intranets for RECOM. It provides an explanation as to how the company can achieve its communication goals making corporate life easier.
New products are pushing on the market within a very short period of time, which is also known as the fast fashion phenomenon, but long lead-times contrast the short life cycle of products. For retailers, it is getting more difficult to make predictions about new trends and forecast the demand of new fashion products, due to the shortening of the product lifecycle and also the fast changing customers buying behavior. Therefore, it is crucial for retailers in the fast living fashion industry to develop a forecasting model for predicting the demand of new fashion products. That is, why L&S AG is aiming for a forecasting model, which can be applied in the future for making better product decisions. The main purpose of this master thesis is the suggestion of an appropriate forecasting technique and the development of an online questionnaire, which provides the necessary data to implement a demand forecasting model. First, an extensive literature research about the most important aspects of the fashion retail industry, the customers buying behavior, forecasting in general and demand forecasting in the fashion retail industry is performed. Within a primary research insights are gained about the customers buying behavior, online survey methods as well as forecasting techniques. Expert interviews helped to define the questions for the online survey. To be able to suggest an appropriate forecasting technique for demand forecasting, a value-benefit analysis is performed to evaluate different forecasting methods. According to the findings from the literature research and the primary market research, the author suggests a combination of two forecasting techniques, a regression analysis and an appearance rating, to implement a concrete forecasting model. Using the presented online questionnaire for data collection and the forecasting model based on the suggested forecasting methods offers L&S AG the possibility to reach the defined company goals.
Companies have to continuously focus on innovation in order to survive. Especially in the software industry it is important to do so due to rapid technological change and shorter product life cycles. To guarantee the success of an innovation, a structured innovation process is needed. In addition, it is recommended to integrate marketing from the beginning in order to ensure that customer and market orientation are being considered and incorporated throughout the entire innovation process. The aim of this master thesis is to elaborate a marketing-oriented software innovation process. Therefore, the theoretical part deals with the structure of an innovation process and how marketing can contribute to the different phases of an innovation process. The structure of an innovation process needs to be able to respond to company-specific factors. This is the reason why four process approaches are valid for the software industry. These are the spiral model, the Stage-Gate process, the V-Model, and the waterfall model. Currently, the marketing department of AVL´s business unit Advanced Simulation Technologies (AST) is solely involved at the end of the innovation process by creating marketing material for the promotion of the software release. To discover how the AST marketing department can support the different phases of an innovation process from the idea generation to the software release, 15 individual explorations with employees from international software companies are carried out. These interviewees also provide insights into their organization’s innovation process. The outcome of these explorations serves as a basis for an internal focus group in which selected AST employees are asked to share their opinion about how the AST marketing department could be integrated in the different phases of the innovation process. As a next step, a marketing-oriented innovation process must be defined for AST. Therefore, it is discovered which of the four mentioned innovation processes is most likely to integrate marketing from the beginning and to fulfill further process criteria. As a result, a recommended innovation process as well as marketing tasks for the different phases of the selected process are introduced.