BEH Data: Case Analysis

BEH has been in business for more than 10 years, but it is only in the past five years that it has been successful at marketing its product profitably. Until that time, much of the company's resources were put into developing the products and in start-up costs. Now, the company has firmly established itself as a leader in the area of configuration management, and it is seeking to build a strong image based on that dominance.

Promotion at this level of the industry relies less on traditional media, such as television, and more on print ads in trade journals and presence at trade shows for developers. In this way, the company is able to reach the computer professionals that it seeks as well as demonstrate that it is a dominant force in the market. The company uses four

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ftware development process if they believe that the investment will pay for itself. BEH can justify this pricing through success stories that it places through its public relations agency in the various journals read by the professionals in the field. In addition, the company has cultivated strong customer references. Customer references are important because they represent the actual experiences of others in the same market, but also because customers want to be assured that they have made the right decision. Customers who have chosen BEH in the past want BEH to succeed so that their own decision making process will be validated. In this way, BEH has built on the need of customers to reinforce their own decisions, and to do so to BEH's benefit. Additional competitors in this market may require that BEH change its pricing strategy in the long-term, but currently, BEH is the company and the standard against which other companies must measure their performance. How to build market share for instant coffee? This was the problem faced by Taster's Choice, an instant coffee which has been around for a number of years but which is viewed essentially as a commodity by its consumers. Customers who purchase instant coffee are int
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