Marketing Strategies For Scooby Tours

Segmentation of Scooby Tours

Discuss about the Concept of Marketing Mix and Its Elements.

The report is based on the case study of Scooby tours that came into existence in the year 2017 December. The company is operating its current operations in Queen Street, Auckland CBD. Scooby Tours provide the offers to the customers for a day tour from Auckland to the movie set of Hobbiton via Waitomo Caves and Great Lake Taupo. The report includes the marketing strategies that the company should develop in order to achieve the market objective of the company and to improve the business performance.

It is a process of dividing a broad consumer or business market into the sub-group of the customers. The segmentation is divided into the demographic, geographic, psychographic and behavioral (Hanlon, 2018). Segmentation of the Scooby Tours are discussed below: –

• Demographic: -. Scooby tour provides day tour packages to the adult, children, teenagers and the youth who mainly visit the Auckland or staying in the city. The company doesn’t divide the market on the basis of gender as they offer their services to both male and female irrespective of education and religion. The company also segment the family size who visits the place.
• Psychographic: – There are many people who believe in lifestyles and interest. Scooby tours segment those customers who have interest in tours, value it and believe that taking a tour is the part of their lifestyle.
• Geographic: – Scooby tours segment both the international and the domestic areas as they provide this service to every tourist who visits the place.
• Behavioural: – Scooby tours believes that most of the people who travel a lot know about the tour packages that they can take for visiting the place. The company segment all the customers who are aware of the tour packages and respond to the service that is provided by the company.

A target market is a market to which the company is willing to sell its products and services. It includes the targeted set of the customers for whom it directs its marketing efforts (Hanssens, Pauwels, Srinivasan, Vanhuele & Yildirim, 2014). Considering the fact that the company is not able to grab the attention of the domestic customers it is decided that the company should target the specific segment which helps the company to attract more and more customers.

The company should target the demographic segment which helps the company to enhance their business performance in Auckland. The demographic segment includes many elements like age, race, religion, gender, family size, income, and education. Scooby tour mainly targets the youth who are in the 20s, both male and female. This target segment will be effective as most of the youth people are educated enough about the day tours that are offered by the company.

The positioning refers to as the place that the brand occupies in the mind of the customers (Khan, 2014). Along with this how the company is differentiated from its competitors. The Scooby tour is the new business due to which maximum numbers of people are not aware of the company. Therefore, the positioning of the company can’t be stated.

Marketing mix refers to the set of the controllable, tactical marketing tool that a company makes use to produce the desired response from its target market (Kotler, 2015). Scooby tour found that most of the customers come from the market of China and Australia. Moreover, according to the ratio of domestic to international passengers for the first four months of the operations was 1:2.

Target Market

The objective of the company is to increase its domestic market customer number by 20% for the next summer season against the customer’s number during the first 3 month operations.

An action plan is a detailed plan that outlines the actions that are required to reach one or more goals. Below given is the action plan for the Scooby tours that helps the company in deciding the steps that are essential to take for achieving the goals and objectives. Moreover, this action plan is linked to the marketing mix strategies of the company.

• The company is willing to add more places and activities in the tour of the Auckland which will attract the customers.
• Scooby tours appoint the tourist guides who can speak in regional languages which will make them feel valued and personalized.
• The population of the Auckland is multicultural so according to their demands and need, customization is effective.
• The tour company can arrange the lunch facility in other restaurants which helps in reducing the price of the tour.

• Reduce the prices of the services for the domestic customers as this will help in attracting the maximum people.
• The company can initiate tie-ups from different tour companies who provide packages to the visitors for the full journey.

• Scooby Tours initiate the tie-ups with hotels and travelers so that the customers can get the easy availability of the services.
• Scooby tours can launch their mobile apps so that the customers can book the tour packages from the mobile app.

• Advertisement: – This is one of the effective ways through which the company can promote its service (Helm & Gritsch, 2014). In the market of Auckland, it is essential for the Scooby tours to perform the activity of advertisement.

1. Print media: – Scooby tours should print their advertisement on magazine, newspaper, and on pamphlets.
2. Television: – Scooby tours can involve the popular TV actor in promoting the service on Television.
3. Hoardings: – Company can post the hoardings on prime and tourist locations where they can grab the attention of people.

• Online media: – The Scooby tours should generate the awareness about the services through online media (Baker, 2014). The company can promote the services with the use of social media platforms which include Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and many others which will help to enhance customer satisfaction.
• Sales promotion: – Scooby tours can generate the awareness through the sales promotion. The sales promotion is one of the effective ways through which the company can attract the customers of Auckland. The company needs to provide some coupons and discount to the customers to promote the products.

Product: – The strategies of the service of the company will satisfy the needs of customers. The company can provide convenience to the customers by providing the people who speak in regional languages. The company can make different customize packages for which there is need of the action plan which states that it will take approx. 5 months in achieving the strategies with the help of task and actions.

Price: – Company needs to perform the tie-ups with service and lunch providers so that who can offer those services at low prices. The action plan reflects person designation that will perform the task of research and forming tie-ups to satisfy customers. It will probably take 3 months to perform the tie-ups for decreasing the price of products.

Place: – The Company needs to conduct research for tours and hotels so that company can perform tie-ups. Along with the mobile app of the company will enhance the customers from the domestic market. This is one of the effective ways to enhance the place of services. The action plan reflects the same strategy and the steps that the company will take in 8 months.

Promotion: – The action plan reflects the different places majorly which are used by the company to promote their products to achieve the strategies from by them. The company is willing to promote their products through advertisement, online media and sales promotion. It will take 5 months to achieve the objective of the promotion of the company.

Budget is the financial plan for a specific period of time and this budget is prepared for the estimation of the expenses and revenue over a specific period of time (Miller, 2018). It is recommended to the Scooby tours to include 4 important expenditures in the budget which is discussed below: –

The four items that are discussed in the budget are very important considering the objective of the company to increase 20% number of employees. The marketing cost is very important as the company should know the estimation of the amount of cost that they are spending on generating the awareness in the market. Rent and Salaries are two expenditures which are mainly bear by every small business in the current situation. Every company estimates the amount they have to spend on rent and personnel for achieving the objective of the company. Lastly, capital expenditure is important as it maintains or increases the scope of organization future activities because the past expenditure affects the current activities.

The four performance indicators that could be used to assess the marketing performance of the Scooby tours are: –

• Customer retention: – Company can assess the customer retention as this is the effective way to analyze the marketing performance (Katsikeas, Morgan, Leonidou & Hult, 2016). The customers who are loyal to the company reflect the retention of customers in Scooby tours.
• Increase in sales and revenue: – The evaluation of the rise in the sales and revenue of the company reflects the marketing performance of the company. The rise of the revenue and sales reflect the effective marketing performance and vice versa.
• Customer satisfaction: – The customer’s satisfaction is used to assess the marketing performance of the Scooby tours as it is essential for the company to satisfy the needs of the customers.
• Returns on Advertising spend: – ROAS is a tool that is used to major the profit earned by the company through advertisement. This tool evaluates the effectiveness of marketing campaign (Goulart, 2016). The company will get a better perspective on the best direction for optimizing unprofitable advertising.

Conclusion

In the end, it can be concluded that the Scooby Tours there are numerous strategies which will help the company to achieve the objective of increasing the number of customers by 20%. These strategies are recommended to the company after considering the current operations of the company. Along with this, the action plan states that it will take time to accomplish the objective of the company. This is also assessed that the company needs to spend a huge amount of implementing the strategy.

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