08. E-Commerce Marketing Mix – Collaboration
E-Commerce Marketing Mix – Collaboration
• Code: 166145-01
• Course: Electronic Commerce Marketing
• Period: Autumn 2011
• 01. E-Commerce Waves • 02. E-Commerce Marketing
• 03. E-Commerce Environments
• 04. E-Commerce Consumer Behaviors • 05. E-Commerce Marketing Researches • 06. E-Commerce Marketing Goal
• 07. Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning
• 08. E-Commerce Marketing Mix – Collaboration
• 09. E-Commerce Marketing Mix – Contentware • 10. E-Commerce Marketing Mix – Commitment • 11. E-Commerce Marketing Mix – Communication • 12. E-Commerce Marketing Mix – Channel
• 13. Website Establishment
• 14. Integrated Marketing Strategy • 15. Internet Society and Law
• Code: 166145-01
• Course: Electronic Commerce Marketing
• Period: Autumn 2011
• Professor: Sangwon Lee, Ph.D.
08. E-Commerce Marketing Mix – Collaboration
• Collaboration
• A method to deal with others or join together for mutual benefits among subjects on the network
• Importance
• A customer on the internet is a partner. • New related concepts appear.
• Symbiotic marketing, linkage marketing, affiliate marketing, relationship marketing, …
• There could be a collaboration with even a competitor. • Cf. Coopetition = cooperation but competition
• Ex. Covisint: an alliance company by GM, Ford, Chrysler, … for co-procurement
• Types of Collaboration • B2C collaboration • B2B collaboration • C2C collaboration B2C B2B C2C
• B2C Collaboration
• Reciprocal actions between a company and a customer
• A company provides a customer with customized information. • A customer provides a company with his/her information.
• Importance of B2C Collaboration
• Maintaining prolonged customer relationship
• Increasing efficiency of customer acquisition • Ex. Lifetime value
• Increasing customer participation
• Decreasing cost of contentware production or marketing • Ex. Prosumer (= producer + consumer)
• An Example of B2C Collaboration
• Dongyang Magic Corp. at www.magicmall.co.kr
• An Example of B2C Collaboration
• Coolsavings at www.coolsavings.com
• B2C Collaboration Management
• B2C collaboration starts from understanding customers and providing them with contentwares that they need.
• Methods of B2C Collaboration Management • Personalization of contentware
• Real-time recommendation of productions/services • Campaign management
• Methods of B2C Collaboration Management • Personalization of contentware
• Providing what a customer likes and uses on the first page view. • It needs information about a customer.
• Real competitive power comes from learning relationship between a company and a customer.
• Methods of B2C Collaboration Management • Personalization of contentware
• Process of learning relationship Process of Learning Relationship
Stage 1 • Understanding needs and tastes of a customer by interactions and feedbacks
Stage 2
• Satisfying a customer by personalization of
product/service
• Maintaining information of a customer
Stage 3 • Learning needs of a customer by continuous interactions with a customer.
• Methods of B2C Collaboration Management • Personalization of contentware
• Methods of contentware personalization • Rule-based filtering
• Collaborative filtering • Learning agent
• Methods of B2C Collaboration Management
• Real-time recommendation of productions/services
• Recommending product/service that a customer prefer to a customer in real time.
• Methods of B2C Collaboration Management
• Real-time recommendation of productions/services • Methods of real-time recommendation
• Rule-based filtering • Collaborative filtering
• Methods of B2C Collaboration Management
• Real-time recommendation of productions/services
• An example of collaborative filtering at www.amazon.com
• Methods of B2C Collaboration Management • Campaign management
• Planning/fulfilling/managing a marketing campaign for a customer.
• B2B Collaboration
• Reciprocal actions between companies
• A company exchanges information with other companies.
• Importance of B2B Collaboration • Sharing resources and risks
• Easy to approach and secure a market by cooperation • Create a new value by synergy effect
• Phenomena of B2B Collaboration
• Lively partnership among different industries as well as the same ones
• Sharing customers as well as transferring techniques • Partnership even with a competitor
• An Example of B2B Collaboration
• Shinmoorim Co. at www.moorim.co.kr • Hansol Co. at www.papermall.co.kr
• B2B Collaboration Management • Commission-based programs • Bounty/flat-fee referral programs • Click-through programs
• Cost-per-thousand impression programs • Customer sharing programs
• Banner sharing
• Effects of B2B Collaboration
• Increasing marketing efficiency • Decreasing cost
• Making synergy effect
• C2C Collaboration
• Reciprocal actions between customers
• A customer exchanges information with other customers.
• Importance of C2C Collaboration
• It improves profits or creating values by use of C2C collaboration • Establishing virtual communities
• Establishing peer-to-peer environment
• It improves a customer’s fondness for a company. • Virtual culture plays a role of exit barrier.
• C2C Collaboration Management • Virtual community
• Establishing virtual consumer communities • Establishing virtual company communities • Peer-to-peer (P2P)
• Sharing information
• Supporting virtual communities
Virtual Communities Examples
Virtual
Consumer Communities
Locations Seoul, New York, Paris, …
Demographics Parents, Children, …
Themes Politics, Music, …
Virtual
Company Communities
Vertical Industries Agriculture, Bio, …
Functions Procurement, Logistics, Marketing, …
Locations Seoul, Iksan, …
• An Example of C2C Collaboration
• Grugru P2P at www.guruguru.co.kr