BlueLinx Holdings NYSE: BXC is a Fortune 1000 company based in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the largest building products wholesaler in the country. History The distribution division of Georgia-Pacific Corporation began operations in 1954 with 13 warehouses utilized for the storage and distribution of Georgia-Pacific plywood. Over the next 40 years, the division quickly grew to over 130 warehouses nationwide, offering a wide range of products. In 1994, to build a better, more centralized distribution platform, the division consolidated its warehouses and created two large sales and operations centers in Denver, CO and Atlanta, GA. BlueLinx Today - A New Company is Born In May of 2004, Cerberus Capital Management, along with a team of senior leaders from the division, purchased the assets of the distribution division from Georgia-Pacific, forming the company you know today – BlueLinx Corporation. One year later, the proud new owners successfully led BlueLinx through an initial public offering to become a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Today, BlueLinx with over 2,000 employees, 60+ company-owned locations, 50+ reloads and a fleet of over 600 trucks and over 1,000 trailers, services all major metropolitan areas in the contiguous 48 states. BlueLinx sells to over 11,500 customers operating 25,000 locations across the United States, Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean Islands.
As an independent distributor, BlueLinx has expanded its product offering to include more than 10,000 products and 70,000 SKUs. Select from a broad array of the most well-respected brands in the industry.

The UK telecom should have detailed plan for their strategic moves in the market and be able to provide good customer services to the customers like by having discounted flights and value promotion to keep the competitive advantage at stable mode within its competitors and will need to focus more on the core competencies that allow business to practically and wisely design suitable airline operations within the bracket of their marketing network services in a market standard-based perspective.

The need to be goal oriented and must not stop to rejuvenate and change their marketing plan strategies from time to time in order to re-invent the performance process upon the upgrading of rules and regulations for segmentation of the market leading to stable market sales and profit (Doganis 2001). UK telecom need to segment customers using value-based and needs-based approaches and must be proactive in pursuing initiatives that respond to the needs of their customers and also provide high rate of return also, the need to pursue an organizational design allowing value-based segmentation to satisfy every customer (Cited from, Elliot, 1990 p. 28). The dynamism of telecom industry makes it a challenge for any one player to respond to various market innovations as possible. UK telecom will have to continue their efforts to build complete and integrated market strategy planning and decision support software solution combining the major revenue and cost drivers and the proficiency coupled with a strong knowledge based service offering as it can be essential to any idea of expansion of services.

The need for UK telecom to strengthen whatever opportunity that can be found in airline industry through engaging into established process of valuing its marketing strategies and a detailed planning structure helping promote better strategic moves and be able to provide good customer services to the customers like by having discount promotion to keep the competitive advantage at stable mode within competitors and will need to focus more on the core competencies that allow sustainable market operations through online market and communication, UK telecom long-term strategy is to improve its profitability to create substantial shareholder value and to maintain its position and to continue to grow and diversify the business into new markets and maintain flexible, diversified market network for investing better customer service initiatives within the business. Furthermore, in marketing instance there can be the adaptation of useful segments like the feature mobile segmentation, the involvement of mobile packages through the presence of internet media as a form of customer segmentation, the developing of strategy in UK telecom, there is critical need for business leaders to assess market structures available within the industry

DEVELOPING THE RESEARCH PLAN

The second step of the marketing research process calls for determining the information needed, developing a plan for gathering it efficiently, and presenting the plan to marketing management. The plan outlines sources of secondary data and spells out the specific research approaches, contact methods, sampling plans, and instruments that researchers will use to gather primary data.

A marketing researcher can gather secondary data, primary data, or both. Primary data consists of information collected for the specific purpose at hand. Secondary data consists of information that already exists somewhere, having been collected for another purpose. Sources of secondary data include internal sources such as profit and loss statements, balance sheets, sales figures, and inventory records; and external sources such as government publications, periodicals, books, and commercial data. Primary data collection requires more extensive research, more time, and more money. Secondary sources can sometimes provide information that is not directly available or would be too expensive to collect.

Secondary data also present problems. The needed information may not exist. Researchers can rarely obtain all the data they need from secondary sources. The researcher must evaluate secondary information carefully to make certain of its relevance (fits research project needs), accuracy (reliably collected and reported), currency (up to date enough for current decisions), and impartiality (objectively collected and reported). Researchers must also understand how secondary sources define basic terms and concepts, as different sources often use the same terms but mean slightly different things, or they attempt to measure the same thing but go about it in different ways. Either way, the result can be that statistics found in secondary sources may not be as accurate or as relevant as they appear on the surface.

RESEARCH APPROACHES

Observational research is the gathering of primary data by observing relevant people, actions, and situations. Observational research can be used to obtain information that people are unwilling or unable to provide. In some cases, observation may be the only way to obtain the needed information.

Survey research is the approach best suited for gathering descriptive information. A company that wants to know about people's knowledge, attitudes, preferences, or buying behavior can often find out by asking them directly. Survey research is the most widely used method for primary data collection, and it is often the only method used in a research study. The major advantage of survey research is its flexibility. It can be used to obtain many different kinds of information in many different marketing situations. In the early and mid-1980s, some cola companies created a taste test against their competitors. This is an example of survey research. Participants were allowed to taste different cola brands without knowing which was which. The participant then decided which brand was preferred.

Whereas observation is best suited for exploratory research and surveys for descriptive research, experimental research is best suited for gathering causal information. Experiments involve selecting matched groups of subjects, giving them different treatments, controlling unrelated factors, and checking for differences in group responses. Thus, experimental research tries to explain cause-and-effect relationships.

RESEARCH CONTACT METHODS

Research may be collected by mail, telephone, e-mail, fax, or personal interview. Mail questionnaires can be used to collect large amounts of information at a low cost per respondent. Respondents may give more honest answers to more personal questions on a mail questionnaire than to an unknown interviewer in person or over the phone. However, mail questionnaires lack flexibility in that they require simply worded questions. They can also take a long time to complete, and the response rate—the number of people returning completed questionnaires—is often very low.

Telephone interviewing is the best method for gathering information quickly, and it provides greater flexibility than mail questionnaires. Interviewers can explain questions that are not understood. Telephone interviewing also allows greater sample control. Response rates tend to be higher than with mail questionnaires. But telephone interviewing also has its drawbacks. The cost per respondent is higher than with mail questionnaires, people may regard a phone call as more of an inconvenience or an intrusion, and they may not want to discuss personal questions with an interviewer. In the latter part of the 1990s, laws were also passed to guard against the invasion of privacy. If a person wishes to be taken off a solicitation or interview list, companies can be sued if they persist in calling.

Personal interviewing consists of inviting several people to talk with a trained interviewer about a company's products or services. The interviewer needs objectivity, knowledge of the subject and industry, and some understanding of group and consumer behavior. Personal interviewing is quite flexible and can be used to collect large amounts of information. Trained interviewers can hold a respondent's attention for a long time and can explain difficult questions. They can guide interviews, explore issues, and probe as the situation requires. The main drawbacks of personal interviewing are costs and sampling problems. Personal interviews may cost three to four times as much as telephone interviews.
 
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BlueLinx Holdings NYSE: BXC is a Fortune 1000 company based in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the largest building products wholesaler in the country. History The distribution division of Georgia-Pacific Corporation began operations in 1954 with 13 warehouses utilized for the storage and distribution of Georgia-Pacific plywood. Over the next 40 years, the division quickly grew to over 130 warehouses nationwide, offering a wide range of products. In 1994, to build a better, more centralized distribution platform, the division consolidated its warehouses and created two large sales and operations centers in Denver, CO and Atlanta, GA. BlueLinx Today - A New Company is Born In May of 2004, Cerberus Capital Management, along with a team of senior leaders from the division, purchased the assets of the distribution division from Georgia-Pacific, forming the company you know today – BlueLinx Corporation. One year later, the proud new owners successfully led BlueLinx through an initial public offering to become a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Today, BlueLinx with over 2,000 employees, 60+ company-owned locations, 50+ reloads and a fleet of over 600 trucks and over 1,000 trailers, services all major metropolitan areas in the contiguous 48 states. BlueLinx sells to over 11,500 customers operating 25,000 locations across the United States, Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean Islands.
As an independent distributor, BlueLinx has expanded its product offering to include more than 10,000 products and 70,000 SKUs. Select from a broad array of the most well-respected brands in the industry.

The UK telecom should have detailed plan for their strategic moves in the market and be able to provide good customer services to the customers like by having discounted flights and value promotion to keep the competitive advantage at stable mode within its competitors and will need to focus more on the core competencies that allow business to practically and wisely design suitable airline operations within the bracket of their marketing network services in a market standard-based perspective.

The need to be goal oriented and must not stop to rejuvenate and change their marketing plan strategies from time to time in order to re-invent the performance process upon the upgrading of rules and regulations for segmentation of the market leading to stable market sales and profit (Doganis 2001). UK telecom need to segment customers using value-based and needs-based approaches and must be proactive in pursuing initiatives that respond to the needs of their customers and also provide high rate of return also, the need to pursue an organizational design allowing value-based segmentation to satisfy every customer (Cited from, Elliot, 1990 p. 28). The dynamism of telecom industry makes it a challenge for any one player to respond to various market innovations as possible. UK telecom will have to continue their efforts to build complete and integrated market strategy planning and decision support software solution combining the major revenue and cost drivers and the proficiency coupled with a strong knowledge based service offering as it can be essential to any idea of expansion of services.

The need for UK telecom to strengthen whatever opportunity that can be found in airline industry through engaging into established process of valuing its marketing strategies and a detailed planning structure helping promote better strategic moves and be able to provide good customer services to the customers like by having discount promotion to keep the competitive advantage at stable mode within competitors and will need to focus more on the core competencies that allow sustainable market operations through online market and communication, UK telecom long-term strategy is to improve its profitability to create substantial shareholder value and to maintain its position and to continue to grow and diversify the business into new markets and maintain flexible, diversified market network for investing better customer service initiatives within the business. Furthermore, in marketing instance there can be the adaptation of useful segments like the feature mobile segmentation, the involvement of mobile packages through the presence of internet media as a form of customer segmentation, the developing of strategy in UK telecom, there is critical need for business leaders to assess market structures available within the industry

DEVELOPING THE RESEARCH PLAN

The second step of the marketing research process calls for determining the information needed, developing a plan for gathering it efficiently, and presenting the plan to marketing management. The plan outlines sources of secondary data and spells out the specific research approaches, contact methods, sampling plans, and instruments that researchers will use to gather primary data.

A marketing researcher can gather secondary data, primary data, or both. Primary data consists of information collected for the specific purpose at hand. Secondary data consists of information that already exists somewhere, having been collected for another purpose. Sources of secondary data include internal sources such as profit and loss statements, balance sheets, sales figures, and inventory records; and external sources such as government publications, periodicals, books, and commercial data. Primary data collection requires more extensive research, more time, and more money. Secondary sources can sometimes provide information that is not directly available or would be too expensive to collect.

Secondary data also present problems. The needed information may not exist. Researchers can rarely obtain all the data they need from secondary sources. The researcher must evaluate secondary information carefully to make certain of its relevance (fits research project needs), accuracy (reliably collected and reported), currency (up to date enough for current decisions), and impartiality (objectively collected and reported). Researchers must also understand how secondary sources define basic terms and concepts, as different sources often use the same terms but mean slightly different things, or they attempt to measure the same thing but go about it in different ways. Either way, the result can be that statistics found in secondary sources may not be as accurate or as relevant as they appear on the surface.

RESEARCH APPROACHES

Observational research is the gathering of primary data by observing relevant people, actions, and situations. Observational research can be used to obtain information that people are unwilling or unable to provide. In some cases, observation may be the only way to obtain the needed information.

Survey research is the approach best suited for gathering descriptive information. A company that wants to know about people's knowledge, attitudes, preferences, or buying behavior can often find out by asking them directly. Survey research is the most widely used method for primary data collection, and it is often the only method used in a research study. The major advantage of survey research is its flexibility. It can be used to obtain many different kinds of information in many different marketing situations. In the early and mid-1980s, some cola companies created a taste test against their competitors. This is an example of survey research. Participants were allowed to taste different cola brands without knowing which was which. The participant then decided which brand was preferred.

Whereas observation is best suited for exploratory research and surveys for descriptive research, experimental research is best suited for gathering causal information. Experiments involve selecting matched groups of subjects, giving them different treatments, controlling unrelated factors, and checking for differences in group responses. Thus, experimental research tries to explain cause-and-effect relationships.

RESEARCH CONTACT METHODS

Research may be collected by mail, telephone, e-mail, fax, or personal interview. Mail questionnaires can be used to collect large amounts of information at a low cost per respondent. Respondents may give more honest answers to more personal questions on a mail questionnaire than to an unknown interviewer in person or over the phone. However, mail questionnaires lack flexibility in that they require simply worded questions. They can also take a long time to complete, and the response rate—the number of people returning completed questionnaires—is often very low.

Telephone interviewing is the best method for gathering information quickly, and it provides greater flexibility than mail questionnaires. Interviewers can explain questions that are not understood. Telephone interviewing also allows greater sample control. Response rates tend to be higher than with mail questionnaires. But telephone interviewing also has its drawbacks. The cost per respondent is higher than with mail questionnaires, people may regard a phone call as more of an inconvenience or an intrusion, and they may not want to discuss personal questions with an interviewer. In the latter part of the 1990s, laws were also passed to guard against the invasion of privacy. If a person wishes to be taken off a solicitation or interview list, companies can be sued if they persist in calling.

Personal interviewing consists of inviting several people to talk with a trained interviewer about a company's products or services. The interviewer needs objectivity, knowledge of the subject and industry, and some understanding of group and consumer behavior. Personal interviewing is quite flexible and can be used to collect large amounts of information. Trained interviewers can hold a respondent's attention for a long time and can explain difficult questions. They can guide interviews, explore issues, and probe as the situation requires. The main drawbacks of personal interviewing are costs and sampling problems. Personal interviews may cost three to four times as much as telephone interviews.

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