Wicked Campers Case Study

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SHEKINAH KENDI KIRIMI
BUSINESS TRANSCRIPT
20/10/2014
In this modern world, it’s not enough to have a great product, be the best in the industry or have a good idea but instead to market. The purpose of marketing is to sell more to your clients and prospects. That’s the purpose of marketing. To sell.
However, some companies fail to understand this concept, and is the main purpose of their business resulting in failure both financially and socially. For example, Wicked Campers is undoubtedly the most controversial campervans hire company in Australia. Based in Brisbane, Queensland, Wicked campers is an Australian campervan rental company which also has numerous outlets in New Zealand, North America, South America and South Africa.
Wicked have …show more content…

The product being sold is affordable campervans for hire. The campervans will look like this IMAGE, Also features like, free coupons, hotel deals and attraction park deals will be included with the product to reach customer satisfaction.

The place of the product, will be located in major cities across Australia like Sydney and Brisbane where the warehouse containing the campervans will also include test drives, one night hotel for arrive/departing customers, lounge and hall of fame illustrating journeys taken by the customers.

Wicked Campers price will stay lower that competitors, however a nationwide base price will be established for each vehicle unless sales or promotions arise. Also an introduction to a small increase of overall products price every quarter will be introduced to gain a greater profit margin.

The promotion of the product will be through social media especially Instagram and also through the use of Billboards to advertise to my target market. Promotion will be adjusted according to seasonality in the market, for example Christmas or Coasties specials that are targeted to graduating year 12 students. To increase promotion, Wicked will be sponsoring major concerts to get their brand recognise and give back to the …show more content…

The advertisements for billboards and Social media will be the exact same style and design.
For the advertisements, I still wanted to incorporate the original graffiti, hipster art style, but instead of using offensive language and artworks, the advertisements will be represented as a gallery for local artists. Basically, Wicked will be scouting of for the best upcoming young artist in the nation, and broadcasting their artworks all over social media and on billboards in major cities.
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
A crisis can be defined as an extraordinary event, disclosure, or set of circumstances that threatens, or is perceived to threaten, the welfare of one or more staff, customers and stakeholders, or the integrity, objectives and reputation of the organisation. Crisis management is the application of strategies designed to help an organization deal with a sudden and significant negative event. (Janes, T 2010)
There are three main elements that are common to a crisis:
- A threat to the organization
- The element of surprise
- Short decision time.
Unlike risk management which involves planning for events that may or may not occur in the future, Crisis management involves dealing with threats before during and after they have

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