Asana Arizona: Strategic Marketing Planning and Consumer Behavior
Description
Asana Arizona is a concept created by Arizona State University students Halie Blauser and Stephen Argentati to sell handmade jewelry. They were inspired to start making jewelry in their free time, and were interested to see if they could create a profitable small business. Their first priority was to create a strategic marketing plan, to examine the current external/internal environment and find marketplace opportunities. As a part of this they performed research to determine which fashion styles would be the best target demographic to market their products to, and found that consumers who identified as "Bohemian", "Hipster", and "Punk" were the best target demographics. They also found that a majority of college students do not care whether or not a product is handmade or locally made, and primarily just care about price. Online social media pages were created for Asana Arizona on Instagram, Etsy, and Facebook, and a Facebook ads were created and boosted towards the target fashion styles.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2016-12
Agent
- Co-author: Argentati, Stephen
- Co-author: Blauser, Halie
- Thesis director: Eaton, Kathryn
- Committee member: Schlacter, John
- Contributor (ctb): Department of Management and Entrepreneurship
- Contributor (ctb): Department of Marketing
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College