Goodwill customer types
The three types of customers that were mentioned in the video are the early adopter, late adopter, and critical mass. Early adopter is people who represent a true opinion leaders because they set examples by their decision on what to purchase. They are the well-respected customers who willing to make the first purchase of a new product. At Goodwill, early-adopter look for latest trends at the Goodwill boutiques. Before early adopter make a purchase, it is important that they need to understand the benefits and seek out references from other satisfied consumers. (Clark, 2003) The next type of customer is the late adopter.
Late adopter is people who make purchases later in the cycle. They are very skeptical about the new products and wait till the early adopter moved on to the new products because they make a purchase. Typically waiting for the price decreases and become the universally accepted solution. They are very little on opinion leadership because they are they most concerned with the price, need customer support, and trust the mass media for purchasing information. (Clark, 2003) At Goodwill, late adopter looks for fashionable items at lower prices. Lastly, the critical mass. Critical mass is people who waited for the price to reach the bottom before the purchasing. They would purchase items that the other groups would consider obsolete. (Clark, 2003)
Value offered
Goodwill’s value proposition is “used merchandise at deeply discounted prices.” (Pearson, 2013) It is the same for all customer groups because the clothes and merchandises are being donated to Goodwill and are sold international. Goodwill has retail stores all over the nation and the items online are auctioned through eBay and Amazon fo...
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...isplaying the items accordingly, providing an exceptional customer service is what drives the business. If the merchandises are not being sold, Goodwill would move it to another location and eventually to their outlet stores. (Pearson, 2013) With these practices, Goodwill was able to generate $3.53 billion in retail sales in 2012. (Goodwill, 2012)
Impact on Goodwill’s Marketing strategies and tactics
Goodwill’s recognized the consumer behavior principles affect its marketing mix by keeping up with the latest trends and rotate the items throughout their stores to maximize customer penetration. Goodwill adapt to changes by allowing technology to intervene with their business to target ecommerce on a global market. Despite of some negative customers’ perception on thrift store that will never change, Goodwill proved to overcome that obstacles and continue to prosper.
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