해외 복수 시장 진출 기업의 제품 매출 이륙 시점 예측 모형에 관한 연구 (An Exploratory Study on Forecasting Sales Take-off Timing for Products in Multiple Markets)
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- Asia Marketing Journal
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- 제10권2호
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- pp.1-29
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- 2008
본 연구는 해외 여러 시장에서 제품을 판매하는 글로벌 기업의 입장에서 복수 시장에서 발생하는 제품 수준의 매출 이륙 시점을 예측할 수 있는 모형을 제시하였다. 이 모형을 이용하여 복수 시장 정보, 제품 속성 정보, 가격 정보, 매출 정보 중 매출 이륙 시점 예측에 유용한 설명 변수들을 규명하기 위해 국내 전자 업체가 2년 5개월간 10개국 시장에 판매한 90종류의 PDP TV, LCD TV들 월별 매출 자료들을 대상으로 실증 분석을 하였다. 분석 결과, 매출 이륙 시점 예측에 유용한 변수들을 다음과 같이 파악할 수 있었다. 첫째, 대상 제품이 표적 시장에 진출하기 이전에 진출한 타 시장에서의 매출 자료를 표적 시장에서의 대상 제품 매출 이륙 시점 예측에 이용하는 것이 가장 중요함을 실증 분석을 통해 알 수 있었다. 특히, 매출 이륙 시점 예측에 동일 제품의 타 시장 혁신 계수를 이용하는 것이 유용한 반면, 동일 제품의 타 시장 모방 계수는 예측력에 도움을 주지 못함을 알 수 있었다. 둘째, 타 제품의 표적 시장 확산 정보는 예상과 달리 대상 제품의 표적 시장에서의 매출 이륙 시점 예측에 기여하는 바는 낮음을 알 수 있었다. 셋째, 일반적 인식처럼 가격과 제품의 속성도 이륙시점의 발생 시기에 영향을 미치는 것을 알 수 있었다. 하지만 제품의 자체 가격 정보 보다 시장 평균 가격 대비 대상 제품 가격 비율이 매출 이륙 시점 예측에 보다 효과적임을 알 수 있었다. 마지막으로, 전기 누적 매출량 역시 PLC 중 초기 시점을 예측하는 상황임에도 불구하고 제품 수준의 매출 이륙 시점 예측에 중요한 변수임을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 제시한 매출 이륙 시점 예측 모형은 평균치에 근거한 일반적 예측과 비교해 볼 때 높은 예측력을 보여 주었다. 본 연구에서 제시한 예측 모형을 이용할 경우 특히 예측 시점이 2기일 때 가장 높음을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구 결과가 기여하는 바를 보면 첫째, 기존 확산모형과 달리 본 연구에서는 제품의 매출 초기 시점인 매출 이륙 시점을 측정하고, 예측하는 모형을 제시하였다. 둘째, 본 연구는 글로벌 시장에서 적용 가능한 제품 수준의 매출 이륙 시점을 예측하였다. 셋째, 본 연구는 처음으로 매출 이륙 시점 예측력을 예측 시점 별로 분석하여 모형의 예측력을 이해하는 데 새로운 접근법을 제시하였다.
At the initial stage of Internet advertising, banner advertising came into fashion. As the Internet developed into a central part of daily lives and the competition in the on-line advertising market was getting fierce, there was not enough space for banner advertising, which rushed to portal sites only. All these factors was responsible for an upsurge in advertising prices. Consequently, the high-cost and low-efficiency problems with banner advertising were raised, which led to an emergence of keyword advertising as a new type of Internet advertising to replace its predecessor. In the beginning of 2000s, when Internet advertising came to be activated, display advertisement including banner advertising dominated the Net. However, display advertising showed signs of gradual decline, and registered minus growth in the year 2009, whereas keyword advertising showed rapid growth and started to outdo display advertising as of the year 2005. Keyword advertising refers to the advertising technique that exposes relevant advertisements on the top of research sites when one searches for a keyword. Instead of exposing advertisements to unspecified individuals like banner advertising, keyword advertising, or targeted advertising technique, shows advertisements only when customers search for a desired keyword so that only highly prospective customers are given a chance to see them. In this context, it is also referred to as search advertising. It is regarded as more aggressive advertising with a high hit rate than previous advertising in that, instead of the seller discovering customers and running an advertisement for them like TV, radios or banner advertising, it exposes advertisements to visiting customers. Keyword advertising makes it possible for a company to seek publicity on line simply by making use of a single word and to achieve a maximum of efficiency at a minimum cost. The strong point of keyword advertising is that customers are allowed to directly contact the products in question through its more efficient advertising when compared to the advertisements of mass media such as TV and radio, etc. The weak point of keyword advertising is that a company should have its advertisement registered on each and every portal site and finds it hard to exercise substantial supervision over its advertisement, there being a possibility of its advertising expenses exceeding its profits. Keyword advertising severs as the most appropriate methods of advertising for the sales and publicity of small and medium enterprises which are in need of a maximum of advertising effect at a low advertising cost. At present, keyword advertising is divided into CPC advertising and CPM advertising. The former is known as the most efficient technique, which is also referred to as advertising based on the meter rate system; A company is supposed to pay for the number of clicks on a searched keyword which users have searched. This is representatively adopted by Overture, Google's Adwords, Naver's Clickchoice, and Daum's Clicks, etc. CPM advertising is dependent upon the flat rate payment system, making a company pay for its advertisement on the basis of the number of exposure, not on the basis of the number of clicks. This method fixes a price for advertisement on the basis of 1,000-time exposure, and is mainly adopted by Naver's Timechoice, Daum's Speciallink, and Nate's Speedup, etc, At present, the CPC method is most frequently adopted. The weak point of the CPC method is that advertising cost can rise through constant clicks from the same IP. If a company makes good use of strategies for maximizing the strong points of keyword advertising and complementing its weak points, it is highly likely to turn its visitors into prospective customers. Accordingly, an advertiser should make an analysis of customers' behavior and approach them in a variety of ways, trying hard to find out what they want. With this in mind, her or she has to put multiple keywords into use when running for ads. When he or she first runs an ad, he or she should first give priority to which keyword to select. The advertiser should consider how many individuals using a search engine will click the keyword in question and how much money he or she has to pay for the advertisement. As the popular keywords that the users of search engines are frequently using are expensive in terms of a unit cost per click, the advertisers without much money for advertising at the initial phrase should pay attention to detailed keywords suitable to their budget. Detailed keywords are also referred to as peripheral keywords or extension keywords, which can be called a combination of major keywords. Most keywords are in the form of texts. The biggest strong point of text-based advertising is that it looks like search results, causing little antipathy to it. But it fails to attract much attention because of the fact that most keyword advertising is in the form of texts. Image-embedded advertising is easy to notice due to images, but it is exposed on the lower part of a web page and regarded as an advertisement, which leads to a low click through rate. However, its strong point is that its prices are lower than those of text-based advertising. If a company owns a logo or a product that is easy enough for people to recognize, the company is well advised to make good use of image-embedded advertising so as to attract Internet users' attention. Advertisers should make an analysis of their logos and examine customers' responses based on the events of sites in question and the composition of products as a vehicle for monitoring their behavior in detail. Besides, keyword advertising allows them to analyze the advertising effects of exposed keywords through the analysis of logos. The logo analysis refers to a close analysis of the current situation of a site by making an analysis of information about visitors on the basis of the analysis of the number of visitors and page view, and that of cookie values. It is in the log files generated through each Web server that a user's IP, used pages, the time when he or she uses it, and cookie values are stored. The log files contain a huge amount of data. As it is almost impossible to make a direct analysis of these log files, one is supposed to make an analysis of them by using solutions for a log analysis. The generic information that can be extracted from tools for each logo analysis includes the number of viewing the total pages, the number of average page view per day, the number of basic page view, the number of page view per visit, the total number of hits, the number of average hits per day, the number of hits per visit, the number of visits, the number of average visits per day, the net number of visitors, average visitors per day, one-time visitors, visitors who have come more than twice, and average using hours, etc. These sites are deemed to be useful for utilizing data for the analysis of the situation and current status of rival companies as well as benchmarking. As keyword advertising exposes advertisements exclusively on search-result pages, competition among advertisers attempting to preoccupy popular keywords is very fierce. Some portal sites keep on giving priority to the existing advertisers, whereas others provide chances to purchase keywords in question to all the advertisers after the advertising contract is over. If an advertiser tries to rely on keywords sensitive to seasons and timeliness in case of sites providing priority to the established advertisers, he or she may as well make a purchase of a vacant place for advertising lest he or she should miss appropriate timing for advertising. However, Naver doesn't provide priority to the existing advertisers as far as all the keyword advertisements are concerned. In this case, one can preoccupy keywords if he or she enters into a contract after confirming the contract period for advertising. This study is designed to take a look at marketing for keyword advertising and to present effective strategies for keyword advertising marketing. At present, the Korean CPC advertising market is virtually monopolized by Overture. Its strong points are that Overture is based on the CPC charging model and that advertisements are registered on the top of the most representative portal sites in Korea. These advantages serve as the most appropriate medium for small and medium enterprises to use. However, the CPC method of Overture has its weak points, too. That is, the CPC method is not the only perfect advertising model among the search advertisements in the on-line market. So it is absolutely necessary that small and medium enterprises including independent shopping malls should complement the weaknesses of the CPC method and make good use of strategies for maximizing its strengths so as to increase their sales and to create a point of contact with customers.