Dell's Marketing Strategy

Company Overview

Dell is among the world's leading computer manufacturers that has transformed and diversified into variety of business segments over the years. Products range from Dell PowerEdge servers, Power Vault, Dell EMC storage systems as well as PowerConnect switches for corporate clients. For individuals and professional customers products range from Dell Precision workstations, OptiPlex desktops, Dimension desktops, Inspiron and Latitude notebooks. Apart from these core products, the company also offer products and services range including printers, projectors, Axim handhelds, and other accessories. More recently, the company has announced intentions to explore LCD television/computer monitors as well as digital music players (Annual Report 2004).

Spanning over 20 years, the company has always been associated with designing, manufacturing and customizing products and services to satisfy a diversified range of customers including individual customers to corporate and retailing businesses. The company's philosophy to deal with customers one-on-one has become a management model for other companies. Having gained the market leadership position in computer products and services, Dell's team have always been careful in sustaining its marketing strategy of providing standard-based computing solutions (Official Website 2004).

Today Dell is the third largest computer manufacturer in the world. On January 2004 Dell reports net revenue approximately $41,444 millions and 46000 employees (Annual report 2004).

Marketing Environment

Dell's strategy is global. It realizes that being closer to the customers is essential in carrying out its marketing strategies as well as in enabling it to build customer base. First by establishi...

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...ds IT products and services create a difficult need/requirement profile that would be challenging for Dell. As more and more consumers in developing regions like China, Brazil, France, and India grow to appreciate computerized environment, they also have complex needs. This way Dell would have a difficult time to incorporate a pervasive marketing strategy. Instead, it should maintain differential but integrative marketing strategy so that the company has a niche in each of the markets in which it manufactures products.

Furthermore, Dell has also to keep in mind that some of its marketing campaigns would be difficult to carry out due to government regulations and local industry close economy. For this reason, Dell need to re-evaluate its strategic locations that has these limitations by shifting to regions with more liberal trade policies (Kraemer and Dedrick 2004).