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section 03 CRN 10091
Tuesday and Thursday 12:45 pm - 02:10 pm
room Main 310

Steve Bailey
Matt Barbalato
Nick Beardi
Matt Brehm
Steve Bryant
Brian D'Angelo
Meghan Dougherty
Tim Huebsch
Erica Kane
Jessica Kane
Pat Leipold

A.J. Long
Billy Lorenzo
Nelson Misso III
Jordan Morrison
Karri Parker
Mike Pollak
Melissa Rashko
Nick Tagliaferro
Mat Urbanski
David Wantuck
Kristin Watt
Mario Williams





Report Topics

last updated: October 13

 

section 03 CRN 10091
Tuesday and Thursday 12:45 pm - 02:10 pm
room Main 310

Name
Company, Department
Job title, boss job title
Problem or Decision

Question
Data Source model report
Steve Ba
eBay, Finance
BAD Officer, CFO
How to best utilize the company's assets

Is it too risky to try to make money off our float?
Stocks Game
65% of online adults use social networking sites
Matt Ba
SiriusXM, Marketing
Logo designer, ?
update the logo to make it more attractive to customers of all ages

which logo? which customers are underrepresented?
Alexa
?
Nick B
Muziic, R&D
R & D Director, CEO
How to compete with other music media sites and how to make Muziic as successful as a site like Pandora.

Who are our customers, that is, who visits our web site?
Alexa
?
Matt Br
Pandora, avertisement and design
advertisement, owner
the design for the name Pandora is a little bland

Can you change the logo so it is more eye catching?
Alexa, Hoovers define "eye-catching" for purposes of your questionnaire
Steve Br
Twitpaper, Marketing
?
Increase web site traffic through a distinct logo.

Which of these x new logos increases our target audience the most? Alexa
?
Brian
Clicker, Marketing
?
traffic to our web site is too low

Which of the 4 new logos will most increase site traffic by our target customers?
Alexa ?
Meghan
Twitter, International marketing
International Marketing Advisor, International marketing CEO
How can we make twitter more popular within the foreign countries in which we already have some participation from?

What does our web traffic tell us about our foreign vs domestic users?
Alexa, Hoovers
?
Tim
MySpace, IT
Web Server analyst, Vice President of Marketing
We're fading rapidly.

What has happened to our web traffic and user demographics recently?
Alexa, Hoovers ?
Erica
YouTube, Marketing
Sales Promotion Manager, Market Research Manager
How can we keep our company one of the leading companies throughout the world.

How can we keep our company's name identifiable by redesigning the logo?
Alexa?
The Contribution of the North American Cruise Industry to the U.S. Economy in 2006
Jessica
Spotify, Marketing marketing design manager, marketing communication specialist
advertise and hype up our company so that people become aware of our product and all it has to offer

Which of these four logos draws the most traffic to our web site by our target customers?
Alexa The Contribution of the North American Cruise Industry to the U.S. Economy in 2006
Pat
Indaba Music, Marketing
Image Designer, Web Designer a new logo for the company that is fresh and related to the company and its mission

Which of these x logos draws the most traffic to our web site by our current and target customers? Alexa
Digital Music in 2007: A Brave New World
A.J.
Facebook, Marketing
marketing management assistant, director of Marketing narrow the decision from four different logos to one logo for the new logo

Which of these x logos draws the most traffic to our web site by our current and target customers? Alexa, Hoovers The Contribution of the North American Cruise Industry to the U.S. Economy in 2006
Billy
TubeRadio.fm, Marketing logo designer, supervisor
Is there more ways we can promote our logo?

Compared to our current logo, do any of these other logos draw  more traffic to our web site by our current and target customers? Alexa
?
Nelson
Coca - Cola, Operations
Production Manager, Operations Senior Manager
making supply = demand. With minimal to no wasted costs to maximize profits.

How to control our supply chain so that the supply of raw materials meets the demand of our distributors?
Beer game
?
Jordan
Quixey, Marketing Logo designer, marketing supervisor  old, unflashy logo

Which new logo better attracts new customers to our product?
Alexa ?
Karri
Skype, Marketing
?
Design new ads?

How can we get more people to use skype on a more regular basis?
Alexa ?
Mike
Yelp.com, Marketing
Design Manager, Marketing Director
Yelp.com has now expand into several more countries and they want their logo to reflect the new countries they are in.

Which of these new logos increases our target foreign traffic the most?
Alexa The Flexibility Of Working Time Arrangements For Women and Men
Melissa
GoAnimate, Human Resources
salary specialist, Legal Supervisor


How much do musicians make from their recorded music and how that has changed since the advent of social media?
IRS data
?
Nick T
Newgrounds, Marketing
logo designer, ?
design a new logo

Which logo attracts more of the customers we want?
Alexa
The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America Is a Myth
Mat
Beachionary, not on Alexa - use a competitor instead, Marketing and Advertising
Marketing Manager, Marketing Director
our website has not gotten the expected amount of hits

How well are our brand values promoted by our logo compared to our competitors' logos?
Alexa
?
David
MiniClip, Strategy Department
Game Developer, boss of the Strategy Department
How can we keep our viewers interested/attracted?

Who are our users?
Alexa
Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
Kristin
Chicisimo, Marketing
marketing advisor / manager, strategy market manager, president / owner
how to advertise and/or promote the social media company better

Which advertising or logo options will bring the most use and business into the company by our target audience?
Alexa - only 13% of users are from U.S.
Women and Health Care: A National Profile. change colors from green to red (pink) and women to fashionistas.
Mario
ReverbNation - Advertising
Designer, ?
How to come up with a logo that best sells the product and draws people's attention to the site.

Which logo best draws our target customers to the site?
Alexa
?


Company information

The information on this table will be on the October 13 test.

value proposition: what does the company give the customers; what does it get?

how does the company make money? Ad = advertising; Sb = subscriptions; %% = share of something; $$ = selling something; VC = Venture Capital Funding

StatShow

a free website worth, value calculator and traffic estimator tool. Using mathematical and statistical methods we can estimate websites' value, advertisement earnings by market niche/category, traffic such as visitors and pageviews and much more.

The Attention Economy

an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems.

Who Owns the Social Customer?
CRM Magazine, June 2009

Embracing its full potential means embracing transparency, and engagement among transparent individuals—whether they’re employees, vendors, suppliers, customers, or prospects—involves far more complexity than the engagement you may have grown accustomed to.

Why Google, Facebook and Apple love customer profiles so much
by Reint Jan Holterman
iMedia, August 8th, 2011

Why companies like Facebook, Google but also Apple and Microsoft consider customer profiles as the (new) pots of gold

Privacy and Consumer Profiling

Profiling is the recording and classification of behaviors. This occurs through aggregating information from online and offline purchase data, supermarket savings cards, white pages, surveys, sweepstakes and contest entries, financial records, property records, U.S. Census records, motor vehicle data, automatic number information, credit card transactions, phone records (Customer Proprietary Network Information or "CPNI"), credit records, product warranty cards, the sale of magazine and catalog subscriptions, and public records. Profiling has sparked an entire industry euphemistically labeled "Customer Relations Management" (CRM) or "Personalization."

Companies collect information derived from a number of resources to build comprehensive profiles on individuals in order to sell products and to sell dossiers on behavior. This is often done without notice or extending a choice to the individual to opt-out of the dossier building. These dossiers may be used by marketers for target advertising, and they may be sold to government for law enforcement purposes. Companies also "enhance" dossiers that they already own by combining or "overlaying" information from other databases.



domain name company name logo
slogan industry
(service)
size of company, preferably marketcap, annual income, annual profit number of employees (and date)snapshot of customers' demographics (web site visitors)how does the company make money?
value proposition

what the company gives (and the customer gets)
value proposition

what the customer gives (and the company gets)
names of competitors

eBay
eBay Inc.

Come to think of it
Internet auctions
$41.95 billion net income (2010)
17,700 (2010)
55-64, some college, from home. (and female)
ad

?
the opportunity to buy and sell goods online
?
Amazon, Google, Yahoo!

SiriusXM Sirius XM Radio Inc.

?
satellite radio
$43.1 million income
1,479
?
?
over 135 radio stations from all over the nation
?
Clear channel communication inc., Cumulus media, Westwood one.

Muziic Muziic, LLC

Free on-demand music, internet radio and more!
YT video
?
2
18-24, slightly more males; 17% from U.S., 22% Bangladesh, 11% India ?
YouTube without the ads
?
Pandora Radio, Spotify, TubeRadio.fm

Pandora Pandora Media, Inc.

to put the music genome project directly in your hands
Internet radio
$138 million sales (2010)
295 (2011)
females, some college, 18-34, at school and work, no children.
sb; ad
free internet radio revenue stream
Spotify, Slacker radio, last.fm

Twitpaper Twitpaper.com

100% free themes
product: social media accessories
?
?
females, 18-24, from home
"sponsorships and advertising" on privacy page
enjoyable experience

users to be themselves and be creative in establishing a style

express ones personality and show it off
looking at the possible advertisements
Twitterbackgroundgallery.com
Dockerydesign.com
Twitterbackgrounds.org

Clicker ?

internet television guide
TV streaming
$11 million venture funding
32
18-24, no children, at school
ads
television online for free
?
Yidio, TVLinks, and TVDeck

Twitter Twitter, Inc.

‘What are you doing right now?”
Social Media

201-500


Millions of people, organizations, and businesses use it to discover and share new information each and everyday.

AOL Inc., Facebook, Inc, Google Inc.

MySpace Myspace, Inc.

A place for friends
was social networking; now more social entertainment
$10 million profit on $550 million revenues (2010)
200
younger males, some college, at home or school
ad
a place to make a profile about themselves
a profile about themselves and information as to what their likes and dislikes are
Buzz Media, Facebook, and YouTube

YouTube YouTube, LLC, a subsidiary of Google

Broadcast Yourself
video hosting $ < 50M revenue
100-250 (2011);

650 (Mar 2011)
similar to the general internet population
ad to share and discover videos over the internet for free. gives attention and time to the company.
Apple, Hulu, Netflix (Metacafe, Vimeo, Viddler, Break, Revver, Flixya)

Spotify ?

A world of music
music streaming
€183 million venture funding

€50 million (est.) revenue (2010)
300
men under 35, graduate school, no children, at work
ad, sb/mon 4.99 (unlimited) or 9.99(premium)
whatever music they want, when they want, wherever they want
The customers spread the word.
Pandora, iTunes

Indaba Music Indaba Media LLC

Welcome to the music creation marketplace music and technology $210,000
2 (2005) males, 18-34, in college, no children ?

sb
for musicians to display their music as well as compete in competitions, critique other artists The consumer gives views to the page, allowing higher charges for sponsors. eJamming, Faneebo, Bojam, Equal dreams, Minimum noise Via VentureBeatProfiles

Facebook Facebook, Inc.

Helps you connect and share with the people in your life
social networking
$4.27 billion income (2011)
1,815 employees (Sept 2011)
even with the current of the Internet for all ages except for those people in the 65 and up bracket (24% from U.S.)
? ability to communicate with people that they know and love all around the world or that they have lost contact with over the years.
The customers spread the word
Myspace, Twitter

TubeRadio.fm ?

Youtube for music
product: music player for YouTube videos

between 1-5
males 18-24, have children, are graduate school educated and browse this site from work.
$$ for albums at Amazon or 7Digital
find, listen to, and build playlists of songs, official music videos, live performances, bootlegs, rare recordings for free and with nothing to install
?
Pandora Radio, Spotify, Muziic

Coca - Cola The Coca-Cola Company

Life Begins Here (2011) product: carbonated beverages $35 billion sales (2010)
139,600
n/a - website visitors not important
?
?
?
Pepsi

Quixey Quixey


dedicated search $4.2 million start-up venture funding
4-10
?
?
search engine for applications for any kind of phone
?
Mimvi, Octopart, Duck Duck Go, and Directed Edge

Skype ?

for doing things together, whenever you’re apart.
voice over internet protocol, instant messaging
$740 million revenue (2009)
500 (2010)
similar to the general Internet population -- but more older, educated
?
?
?
AOL, Google Talk, Windows Live, Yahoo!

why not trad telephone companies?

Yelp Yelp! Inc.

Real People. Real Reviews.
local business search and reviews
$57 million revenue (2010) 750 (2010)
Age- 18 to 34 -42%, 35 to 49 -33%, 50 plus- 19%
Education- No college- 35%, College grad- 45%, Grad school- 20%
Income- 0-30k- 14%, 30-60k - 22%, 60- 100k - 28%, 100k plus - 36%
ad
connect people with great local businesses.
customers give their attention and hits? (click on ads?)
CitySearch,
UrbanSpoon,
InsiderPages,
CityGrid Media

Animoto
Animoto Productions

Turn your photos and videos into pure amazing
animated slide-show generating
venture funding: $30 million

< $1 million revenue
11-50
Some college, female / children, at home with income from 60-100 K, caucasion,  ages 35-64 more toward 45-54
sb; $$ - videos to MSM (mainstream media)
tools to make music videos from images that are important, special and personal
?

Slide, RockYou, Photobucket, Inc., SAMP2, SAMP2, Stupeflix, muvee

Newgrounds Newgrounds

Everything, by Everyone
computer gaming
< $10 million
11
males,  18-24, no college education and browse this site from home.
google adsense
online games
word of mouth
Armor games, Miniclip, Addictinggames

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MiniClip MiniClip LTD, MIniClip SA

Play Online Games
entertainment
$25.8 million
30
18-24, have children, no college education and browse this site from school.
sponsorship; ad
online games
feedback from the gamers / customers
for improvements
Addictinggames.com, games.co.id, clubpenguin.com

Chicisimo CHiCiSiMO

“What are you wearing?”  Real fashion on real people
consumer web community for online fashion industry ?
4
Italy 21%
Spain 19%
US 18%;

females 25-34, no children, graduate school educated, from school
ad
a community  sharing, inspiring, discovering new looks and brands, and deciding what to wear tomorrow
the input from the community
chicochuc.com, chictopia.com, styleforum.net, thechicfashionista.com, lookbook.com

ReverbNation ?

The best tools for musicians and the best music for everyone else.
?
< $10 million revenue < 25 ?
ad; Fair Share??
get publicity and share their music
shares their profile through other social networks, which draws the attention for others to view the company’s website.
Stereofame
SoundClick.com
Sonicbids
Purevolume
OurStage
LIME.com
GarageBand.com
Dragonica Project
CD Baby
Band Camp
















modified: October 2011
by Douglas Anderson
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