Market Analysis and Segmentation Strategies for Businesses
Supply and Demand: Meeting Market Needs
Meeting market demand for goods and services
Market Research Domain
Market dominance and utilizing well-known market movements.
Geographical Domain
- National – Peru
- National Urban – Juliaca
- National Rural – Taraco
- Department – Puno/Sierra
- District – Coast
- Mountain City
- Zone
- District
Demographic Domain
Knowing the Interests of a Family
- Number of family members
- Area of the city where they live
- Number of people working
- Highest level of schooling of the household head
Knowing the
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Strategic Business Decisions: Location and Size
Location and Business Size
To carry out its activities, the company needs to make two strategic decisions:
1. Location: This depends on the type of business and affects costs and demand.
2. Dimension: This involves choosing the size or production capacity of the company.
Both decisions depend on the expected demand or the expected demand in the potential population to acquire the product.
Location Factors
Circumstances are advised to install a certain
Macroeconomics: Consumption, Investment, and Economic Growth
Overall Functioning of the Economy
The macroeconomic objectives are to achieve economic growth, ensure full employment, and maintain price stability. GDP growth leads to improved living standards. However, during crises, companies face challenges selling goods and services, leading to reduced production and hiring. This, in turn, increases unemployment and decreases citizen income.
Influential Factors
Several factors influence a country’s economic progress:
- Internal Market Forces: Changes in population,
Understanding Interest Rates, Inflation, and Cash Flow
Theme I: Interest Rates and Inflation
Interest: The price to pay for foreign capital available for a certain period.
Interest rate: The percentage of invested capital that is paid for using it in a given unit of time (usually one year).
Types of Interest Rates
- Lending Rate: The percentage that banking institutions, according to market conditions and provisions of the central bank, charge for different types of credit services to users. These are active because they are resources for the bank.
- Deposit
Marxist Economic Theory: Capital, Labor, and Value
Capital Accumulation and Its Consequences
The capitalist invests surplus in the means of production and wages, thus becoming a new capital. Therefore, it increases the existing capital: capital accumulation occurs. This leads to capital concentration and centralization, causing capitalism to fall into a vicious circle. For Marx, competition in production is due to the lowest price. The lowest price results from high work performance, and he resolves to use more powerful machines and more sophisticated
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Basic Functions of the Market Economy
In a society like ours, the Public Sector is assigned the following functions:
- Fiscal: The state is the only entity that can impose taxes and decide where to spend what is collected. Establishing and collecting taxes is a fundamental function of the state.
- Regulatory: Legislative behavioral rules in the form of laws, prohibitions, etc., are regulated. Examples include minimum wage, labor legislation, and pollution control.
- Redistribution: Compensating for the unequal