One April morning‚ Martha House‚ president of Trap-Ease‚ entered her office in Moncton‚ New Brunswick. She paused for a moment to contemplate the Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation that she had framed and hung near her desk: “If a man [can] make a better mousetrap than his neighbor … the world will make a beaten path to his door.” Perhaps‚ she mused‚ Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap—Trap-Ease—but the world didn’t seem all that excited about it. Martha had just
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2) Has Martha identified the best target market for Trap-Ease? What other market segments might the firm target? Martha has targeted women for her product. She feels that women are the best group to target because they don’t like the mess or the risks created by traditional mouse traps. But what Martha doesn’t know about is woman is a large segment that is too wide to be targeted properly. In the society‚ woman population is shrinking rapidly causing market that Martha is targeting is shrinking
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product produces by the company. Currently‚ Trap-Ease has only manufactured one product that is the mousetrap‚ which is also known as the Trap-Ease mousetrap. This mousetrap is designed to allow customers to enjoy the means of dealing with mouse problem efficiently. Customers can be at ease by avoiding the safety and cleanliness problems created by the traditional spring-loaded traps or poison. One of the main materials for Trap-Ease mousetrap is plastic. The trap is a square‚ plastic tube measuring about
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TRAP-EASE AMERICA CASE QUESTIONS (Read Chapter 2) 10 POINTS 1. Has Martha identified the best target market for Trap Ease? What other market segments might the firm target? (2 points) Martha targeted women for her product and she feels that this is the best group to target because they don’t like mess or the danger of the traditional mousetraps. At first this may seem like a good marketing segment however‚ Martha could improve it. Women are too broad of a group so she should segment women into
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Trap-Ease the Big Cheese of Mousetraps By Ahmad Nader Fasseeh to Prof. Ashraf Talaat For Marketing Class MIBA ESLSCA school of Business Alexandria Egypt Martha and the Trap-Ease investors believe they face a once in a lifetime opportunity. What information do they need to evaluate this opportunity? How do you think the group would write its mission statement? How would you write it? First of all there are four primary areas for assessment that should be considered. 1. People Behind
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Trap-Ease America Questions1)Martha and the Trap-Ease America investors believe they face a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What information do they need to evaluate thisopportunity? By saying they face a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity I assume that they are talkingabout the potential for profit and growth. However‚ from this case it doesn’t seem thatMartha‚ the president of Trap-Ease had done enough research into her market torealistically assess whether the demand for her product would be there
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“The Rat Trap” Literary Analysis Plot Summary: “The Rat Trap” by Selma Lagerlöf describes the life of a man who sells rat traps. The-rat trap peddler realizes that the whole world is a rat-trap. He falls into life’s rat-trap‚ starting when he stays at an old man’s house and succumbs to the temptation of stealing the man’s money. He avoids the town and wanders through the woods to escape being caught by the police. The rat-trap peddler stays at a furnace‚ where the ironmaster talks to him‚ thinking
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Swot Analysis of Trap-Ease Executive Summary: Trap-Ease America has the patent to a revolutionary new mouse trap. Trap-Ease America expected the revolutionary mouse trap to sell like hot cakes unfortunately things have not progressed as predicted so far. A few major problems can be identified with the overall business strategy of Trap-Ease America. First of all‚ the President of the company happens to be the only sales person as well for the product. Secondly‚ there seems to be a wrong selection
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Trap Ease Case 1) A once in a lifetime opportunity to me symbolizes‚ that if the company doesn’t get their marketing/sales strategy correct‚ within a specific time period‚ all their hope for the product to be outstanding‚ diminishes‚ because new products can surface that are similar and create competition for them. I feel as though Martha didn’t assess her target market’s needs and wants. I feel as though Martha exhibited marketing myopia‚ in which they focused on the (actual) product rather
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No Longer At Ease Chinua Achebe ------------------------------------------------- Themes‚ Motifs‚ and Symbols Themes The Corruptibility of Civil Servants One of Chinua Achebe’s main socio-political criticisms in No Longer At Easeis that of corruption in Nigeria. From the moment the book begins the main character‚ Obi Okonkwo‚ is confronted with the issue of bribery. From the moment he arrives at customs to the point at where he gives in to taking bribes himself‚ the voice of Achebe lingers
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