{"id":85,"date":"2018-04-20T05:26:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T04:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/kanton\/?p=85"},"modified":"2018-04-24T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:40:06","slug":"development-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/kanton\/2018\/04\/20\/development-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Development Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">This is a million pounds profits business, its revenue could be up to 1 million pounds in 3 years.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 433px\" width=\"479\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\" width=\"461\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Expected registrations and user conversion rates<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-120\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/kanton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2018\/04\/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/kanton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2018\/04\/2.png 463w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/kanton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2018\/04\/2-300x74.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Profit and Loss Projection (3 Years)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/kanton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2018\/04\/4-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/kanton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2018\/04\/4-2.png 463w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/kanton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2018\/04\/4-2-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Start-up Stage<br \/>\n1. Financing Strategies<\/h3>\n<p>In start-up stage, the project needs fund for application development, platform maintain, overhead, employment cost,\u00a0<span class=\"basic-word\">marketing campaign, etc. As there is not enough revenue to cover the operating cost at this stage, the project needs seeking seeds capital to start the business. In this stage, our targeting market is the UK<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>2. Profit Model<\/h4>\n<p>In the early stage, charging subscription fee is not a good idea. In this stage, the users are few, even you charge for them, you can get little revenue. What&#8217;s more, the subscription fee will enhance the joining threshold which would cause loss of users. Consequently, all services should be free in the early stage.Advertising would not be allowed at this stage because too much advertising will do damage to the user experience.<\/p>\n<p>As the service fee,\u00a0 the transaction fee in &#8221; carrot and stick&#8221; model will be charged at this stage as well. The rate is 0.4%.<\/p>\n<p>The online store is allowed at this stage as well. Healthy eating and drinkings related\u00a0merchants, as well as wearable device manufactures, are welcomed to join in. We will charge them\u00a0 for 8% commission of trading volume.<\/p>\n<h4>3. Market strategies<\/h4>\n<h6>Digital marketing \u00a0strategy<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Social media will be an effective tool for \u201cCarrot\u201d to communicate with customers and promote the application to the public. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are three platforms used to implement social media marketing, including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter where the marketing team can post some brilliant video\/pictures\/articles which can disseminate the application well. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furthermore, it also recommends implementing social media advertisements. Instagram allows business to put photo advertisements and video advertisements, so we can put attractive photos or videos that can be recommended to Instagram users. they can push messages and brand\u2019s stories to the wider range of social media users according to customer behavior online. It will be efficient to reach our target audiences and communicate with them.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Growth Stage<\/h3>\n<h4>1.Profits Model<\/h4>\n<p>The business is expected to get profits in the third year. The main revenue comes from the commission of online shopping and transaction fee.<\/p>\n<p>With more and more users join this application the business value is gradually increasing. In this stage, we should make full use of data collected from users&#8217; devices. The data could include\u00a0<span class=\"tran\">intensity<\/span>, <span class=\"tran\">time<\/span> <span class=\"tran\">and<\/span> <span class=\"tran highlight\">frequency<\/span>\u00a0of sports, the sleep condition, etc. Based on these data, to some extent, we could know users&#8217; partial health condition. And then recommend personality drinks and foods for them to improve their health.<\/p>\n<p>App open screen and self-owned community media can accept commercial advertisements. Sponsors&#8217; brand is also allowed to promote in matches sponsored by these companies.<\/p>\n<h4>2. Marketing Strategy<\/h4>\n<h6><strong>O2O Cooperation<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Spots brand companies have a strong motivation to link their business to fitness\u00a0application. It is a new channel to promote their clothes, shoes\u00a0and wearable devices. We could cooperate with these companies. They could sponsor the sports match in reality. The reward will be offered by them and in order to broadcast\u00a0their matches on fitness application. People will have good customer experience in the match which will also raise our brand image. .<\/p>\n<p>We could also cooperate with gyms, we could\u00a0introduce coaches online and open offline courses. The users could get discounts or enjoy better services in the physical gyms.<\/p>\n<p>Cooperation of online and offline resources is a double-win marketing strategy.\u00a0This will further enhance fans\u2019 viscosity and complete a virtuous cycle.<\/p>\n<h6>Advertising<\/h6>\n<p>Social media will still be an effective tool in this stage, and more users participation will enlarge this effect. But at the same time, with increasing cash flow, we could also advertise on\u00a0the billboard, video websites, etc.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Financing strategy<\/h3>\n<p>We should seek VC at this stage to expand our business to the whole UK and then all over the world. Although we will get more revenue at this stage, it is not enough to support expanding plan in the first three years, as a result, more fund is in demand in this stage. We have to compete with other similar application. We need to catch the market quickly to build customer<em>\u00a0<\/em>stickiness to create\u00a0barriers to entry this market because its business model is easy to copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a million pounds profits business, its revenue could be up to 1 million pounds in 3 years. Expected registrations and user conversion rates Profit and Loss Projection (3 Years) &nbsp; Start-up Stage 1. 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