In Store Promotion of Miss Sixty

One of my must-see stores when I go to Pacific Centre is the Miss Sixty.  Despite of their trendy and special design, I found their in store promotion very impressive as well.  Miss Sixty targets at at constant pursuit of innovation, change, personality of the city groups of women.   However, according to my observation, most of the customer attracted to Miss Sixty store are Asian girls (at least in the branch store of Pacific Centre). I seldom see any white women looking around in the store.  I think the owner of the store also noticed that their major advocates are young, trendy Asian girls and most of the shop assisstant in the store are Asian girls (they don’t hire guys).  The store staffs are all young and pretty and they are wearing their own brand. There were many times I decide to try on the clothes because I saw them look good on the store staffs.  In addition, they are always enthusiastic about helping customers out and I think they do know fashion because they can always help you find what suits you well and give sincere feedbacks (well, always positive ).  I would say their personal selling strategy is very effective.  Most of my friends love Miss Sixty and we always talk about how awesome this brand is, although I haven’t heard them through any public commercials.  That’s the best of personal sales: it creates good word of mouth which spread no slower than the public media while save the company plenty of money on advertising.

Diffusion of Innovation Theory- Plants vs Zombies

Plants vs Zombies is a PC game produced by PopCap Games in 2009. It used to be my favorite game in the summer and I literally stayed at home for whole days playing that.  I would say as an innovation, it is in the stage of Late Majority since it is very well-known before and  kind of substituted by new games.  In terms of the product life cycle, I would say it is in the Declining stage due to its declining sales volume. 

Similar to Angry Birds, the producer did a great job in accelerating the rate of adoption of Plants vs Zombies when it was first issued.  This game is designed for for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X system. In terms of its compatibility, it is very compatible to the environment since it can be easily played on computers, iPhone and i-touch.  Also the game is low in complexity so that it is fun for a wide range of age group.  I used to play with my brother who’s 10 years younger than me and both of us found it awesome.  On the other hand, it is not too simple to play because it actually demands for strategy to play that well.  My friend even commented that Plants vs. Zombies must has something to do with Transportation and Logistics. In addition to the challenges, it is an endless game that you can never finish.  The demo of the game is available on line and customers can download its demo and try it wherever they want.  The relative advantage of the game is its creative design, I would say.    The idea of Plants fighting with zombies is just funny. The plants you use to defence your yard are cute and pretty.  On the other hand the zombies are kind of scary, which makes the game exciting. However I think they could have done better in terms of product diversification.  Since the game is well-known, I think the cute plants could be ideal cartoon characters to be on T-shirts and some other products.  They could even make a cartoon movie out of it. 

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An awsome commercial of Discovery

Here I attached a commercial of the Discovery Channel.  The title of the commercial is called “the world is just awesome”. The commercial is made of different impressive scenes from discovery.   They have astronauts on a space walk, the great white shark jumping out of water, man standing with a tornado behind him, man holding a giant spider in the forest.  Every one of them was excited and joyful. the background music with the lyrics ” I love…” is just awesome.  The commercial actually mad me feel like the world is so wonderful and amazing.  It incentives me to explore the world.  This commercial is beyond nice; it is informative, meaningful, cheerful, and funny.  It cheered up my vision and my mind, making me feel like to go for an adventure myself, or at least start to getting to know more about the world through Discovery.  Also, it gives an excellent short description of what Discovery is about and how amazingly fun it is. Here is the commercial, enjoy!

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