Thursday, October 18, 2012

Journal Topic 10: Consumer Preference and Utility - Skechers


Skechers is an athletic shoe company that started in 1992 and is one of the well-recognized shoe companies. They target on customer needs, choose the right style, and are used limited resources to provide customer good qualities of shoes. The company do market research to evaluate consumer needs by analyzes the process of customers. It promotes through personal selling, sales promotion (short term), public relations, and advertising, which contains all form of media. For example, their products are in magazines, TV shows, internet, and all other media. Skechers uses target market, which target people between ages of 12 and 24. In identifying market segments to target the right customers, it uses geographical, demographic, psychographic, and product needs. It also differentiates itself from other shoe companies by investing time that builds the brand that carries lifestyle and cool footwear. It also assures maximum distribution potential without overreaching its market.
There are a lot of products that have high utility and there are those that have really low utility for me. For example, I spent a lot of money on chocolate, because they are just way too delicious. Chocolate just makes my day happy. However, diamonds for me has a low utility. I don’t get the point of diamonds. They are shiny, but you can’t do anything with it. 

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