Saturday, April 24, 2010
Week 13 Writing Journal
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Week 12 Writing Journal
I have learned a lot of information about McDonald’s within my research. Firstly, in fact, in China, I only know few new flavors McDonald’s has created but not exactly whole flavors what they looks like. However, after I research about McDonald’s menu, I found out there are many tastes that the menu only in China, such as red bean pie, Filet-O-Fish Burger, and Crispy Chicken Wings. Secondly, I have learned that McDonald’s did a lot of good marketing strategy to Chinese consumers, such as drive through and the store opens 24-hr services, and cutting price of meal as a promotion. Lastly, I have understood that the reason McDonald’s standing in the leading place of fast food industry, such as founded focus group to find out Chinese tasting behavior and perform new niches which is 24-hr delivery service.
2. What can you say to your readers that they may not already know and that you would be expected to support with facts, statistics, examples, or expert opinions?
I would say that my readers probably do not know well about China’s McDonald’s marketing strategy before they read my article. Also, I expected after they read the research, they would become excited to taste McDonald’s new flavors in China. However, I also expected them to understand how McDonald’s performs their marketing strategy under the pressure of many competitors such as KFC, Burger King, Pizza Hut, and Domino’s Pizza.
3. Summarize and respond to at least three of the texts in your bibliography. How will you use each of these in your webtext?
Hume, S. (2010). The road to china. February 16, 2010. Retrieved from: BuyerZone: http://www.buyerzone.com/professional_services/franchises/rbic-road-to-china.html
- In this article, it mentioned about the detail of McDonald’s marketing strategy in China, such as focusing on 5 P’s (people, products, place, price, promotion). Also, it has talked about that McDonald’s intends to open more and more new outlets in the mainland and increases the sales force to make more profit. I will use it to describe the detail new flavors name of China’s menu. Also, this article is like a overview of McDonald’s in China, thus, there are many sentences I can quote in my research, such as McDonald’s open more outlets, the main new flavors in China, and how McDonald’s sees China as a big market.
Lomax, A. (April 7, 2010). McDonald’s seeks a chinese fortune. April 14, 2010. Retrieved from: The Motley Fool: http://www.fool.com/investing/international/2010/04/07/mcdonalds-seeks-a-chinese-fortune.aspx
- In this article, the main point is obviously in the title: McDonald’s seeks a Chinese fortune. The author stated that McDonald’s gains more profit in Asian region year by year and tries to raise the number of outlets in the mainland. Also, it showed a graph to indicate the growing sales among Asia region, the United States, and Europe region. This graph is useful to me to support the reason McDonald’s choose China as a future marketplace star.
McDonald’s cuts prices in china to promote sales. (February 10, 2009). March 7, 2010. Retrieved from: ChinaRetailNews.com: http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2009/02/10/2242-mcdonalds-cuts-prices-in-china-to-promote-sales/
- This article is talking about McDonald’s has started cut price of its meals since 2009. The reasons they cuts price are raise the sales and compete to other opponents. I would use it to mention about McDonald’s marketing promotion and how well it performs. Also, there is one good place I also can put in, which is competitor part with KFC. Due to KFC owns highly competitive ability against with McDonald’s, McDonald’s treats its marketing strategy seriously.
4. What other new sources do you need to find to help you fully answer your questions? What information will you look for? Where do you expect to find it?
I think the new sources I need to find out is report the McDonald’s original menu in the United States. The reason I decided to do it is because I hope my readers can compare the original menu with new menu in China. My readers will clearly understand what different McDonald’s has changed. Also, I would find the information of the United States original menu from McDonald’s website. Moreover, I just jump out an idea which I might research how McDonald’s targets new consumer groups (healthy concern consumer & Kids) to increase the sales. The information would be found in McDonald’s website as well.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Week 11 Writing Journal
Outline:
Working Outline for: McDonald’s Marketing Strategy in China
Research Question: How Does McDonald’s Strategy of Marketing Deal with Consumer Taste in China?
Working Thesis: McDonald’s adjust their products to create new flavors for Chinese consumer and marketing it well.
Purpose: I hope after my audience read my article, they would understand how well McDonald’s performs their new marketing strategy in China
Audience: McDonald’s faithful consumer who are Chinese related and who are living in China.
I. Introduce the topic- McDonald’s marketing strategy in China and basic view of McDonald’s.
McDonald's is a worldwide leading fast-food restaurant today. Especially in Asia, McDonald's has a huge market share within China. It has used almost same marketing strategy as the United States in China, but it has expended the marketing strategy to fix the local consumer’s eating behavior.
II. McDonald’s history
A. McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc & How Kroc had founded McDonald’s (place, time…etc.)
On April 15, 1955, McDonald's Corporation founder, Ray Kroc, created his first McDonald’s restaurant in Des Plaines, IL. After Kroc had founded McDonald’s he built a logo which success to appeal to the people a brand name McDonald’s. According to the page name 1955 of McDonald's (2010), “the attention getting red and white tiled building with the Golden Arches was designed by architect Stanley Meston in 1953”.
III. McDonald’s marketing strategy in China
A. Research and Develop New Flavors to Appeal to Chinese Consumer
(after this paragraph, there is one attachment shows the detail of McDonald’s new menu in China)
McDonald’s has researched local consumer eating behavior first and then decide to change the menu. According to Hume (2010), he stated that in addition to provide core menu which included Big Macs, McChicken, and Egg McMuffins in China, they has changed a little bit of menu in local city to fix the consumer preference. There is one information Hume (2010) provided, “In Hong Kong, the traditional Filet-O-Fish sandwich is the top seller. In Shanghai, McDonald's Spicy Chicken Filet Burger sells best, and a Spicy Filet-O-Fish recently was added” (p. 1).
B. Founded Focus Group to Study the Chinese Consumer
C. Chinese View McDonald’s as a Western Restaurant
D. More and More Competitors in China (after this paragraph, there is one big KFC’s image showed in the webtext with the audio presentation)
IV. McDonald’s become famous in China
A. The people know the brand, who can easily recognize the brand
The people most easily recognize McDonald’s and even the age from five to seventy. According to Griffith (2008), “Two decades ago, McDonald's was largely unknown here, except as a symbol of the decadent west. But a capitalist revolution has swept through the People's Republic. And today mainland China, still officially Communist, is home to 800 McDonald's restaurants — with 200 more in Hong Kong”. It represents that McDonald’s has grew very fast within two decades and has big market share in China.
B. McDonald’s Promotion and Growing Sales in China & Perceives Potential Marketplace in China
McDonald’s has created two niches in China: drive through and locations open all night. Niche means a special region demand from customers for supply special goods or services. The two niches perform successfully and let McDonald’s become the restaurant leading place in China (The Associated Press, 2007). There is one example talked about McDonald’s did the drive through service excellent while the Beijing Olympic Games in August 2008, “it has 770 units in China now (the first opened in 1990) and intends to have at least 1,000—and 50% of new stores with drive-thru windows—when the Beijing Olympic Games begin in August 2008” (Hume, 2010). As a result, drive through and locations open all night are two successful niches.
C. New Future Marketing Strategy in China
V. Conclusion- restate the topic and the research information
Conclusion for my outline:
The thesis, audience, and purpose are still relevant to the content of my webtext. I think they are good to go. However, probably I would add one last paragraph for my conclusion in the future 2000 webtext.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Week 10 Writing Journal
In my slideshow, I would develop a new topic for my webtext. Especially I plan to extend my third paragraph (McDonald’s Research and Develop New Flavors to Appeal to Chinese Consumer) into a new paragraph. The heading sentence would be: The New Flavors Only in China. My main point of this paragraph is to introduce more detail about McDonald’s new menu in China. For example, I will provide the picture of Chicken McNuggets with chili garlic sauce, Crispy Chicken Wings (McWings), seasonal Chinese New Year meal, Premium Grilled Thigh Fillet Burger, Hot and Spicy Grilled Thigh Fillet Burger, Shake Shake Fries, Double Filet-O-Fish Burger, and pineapple, taro (a kind of sweet potato), chocolate, banana and red soy bean pies. If the slideshow’s space is enough, I would analyze each new flavors separately and explain why these flavors can appeal to Chinese consumer and make McDonald’s got good profit in China. Moreover, I think this topic is well-suited to an audio/visual presentation because I can easy to visualize the exactly images of those McDonald’s new menu for Chinese consumer. My audience would understand and picture what I am talking about McDonald’s new menu in China. Thus, I decided to use this topic to make my project more interesting.
For visualization:
1. http://www.mcdonalds.com.cn/images/mclub/coupon_list.jpg
For this one slide, I would state my heading sentence first and talk about McDonald’s new flavors of China (give the new flavors’ name). The purpose of this image is to give a general idea of McDonald’s menu in China.
2. http://www.mcdonalds.com.tw/newsroom/download/news/485a3f0cd5e28.jpg
This one is to show the image of Chicken McNuggets with chili garlic sauce.
3. http://www.hnemap.com/PublicWebUI/editor/uploadfile/2010-2-23/20102423102441.jpg
This one is to show the image of Crispy Chicken Wings (McWings).
4. Seasonal Chinese New Year meal
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/McDonald%27s_Chinese_New_Year_set_meal.jpg
5. Premium Grilled Thigh Fillet Burger
http://sns.changsha.cn/attachment/200910/27/142974_1256633494HoYD.jpg
6. Shake Shake Fries and Onion Ring.
http://www.mcdonalds.com.tw/newsroom/download/news/47258e835d529.jpg
7. Double Filet-O-Fish Burger.
8. Pineapple, Taro (a kind of sweet potato), Banana and Red Soy Bean Pies
http://www.gunaxin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/taro-pie.jpg
http://i3.dpfile.com/2009-04-10/1848663_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3491/3185287561_0c1cdcf535.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3491/3185287561_0c1cdcf535.jpg
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Week 8 Writing Journal
Overview
Hi, my name is DK Wang and I am going to talk about McDonald’s marketing strategy in China within my podcast. I will provide you some report data of McDonald’s growth sales and how this brand becomes the leading fast food restaurant in China. I hope after you listen to my explanation, you would understand how well McDonald’s performs their marketing strategy in China
Content
Firstly, my research question is how McDonald’s marketing strategy deals with Chinese consumer’s tasting behavior and figure out what kind of marketing strategy McDonald’s used to improve their sales and become a worldwide leading fast food restaurant.
I am here to inform you that "McDonald’s has adjusted their marketing strategy to create new flavors of the products." My example is China. Many newspapers stated that McDonald’s has a huge market share and still growing their market sales in China. "It has used almost same marketing strategy as the United States, but has expended the new plan to fix the local consumer’s eating behavior." I have gathered some sentences talk about McDonald’s has changed their menu a little bit different than the original menu in the United States, such as add new flavors like corn cup, Filet-O-Fish sandwich, and spicy chicken filet burger to local consumer.
Moreover, due to the mainland China vast in terrain, there are many different kinds of tasting behavior from place to place. Thus," McDonald’s primary research local consumer’s preference then founded a focus group studies to research more detail about Chinese eating behavior and custom." However, according to Hume (2010), McDonald’s is still working on the focus group to find out every local consumer’s tasting behavior and to achieve their final sales goal.
Secondly, I would report to you more detail about McDonald’s promotion and new strategy in China. "The new strategy such as drive through and locations open all night which have started since Beijing Olympic Games in August 2008." The growth sales data from Jie (2008) showed McDonald’s successfully promotes their products into entire China region and become the leading place of fast food restaurant.
Finally, according to McDonald’s Launches 24-hour Delivery Service in China (2009), "McDonalds recently performs one new marketing strategy which called 24-hour delivery service." It is a new plan of them and they will see how well it performs within one to two years.
Closing
"In conclusion, McDonald’s has a great conceptive view of the future worldwide situation. "They understand a tip that only try and perform new strategy in a new place would grow their sales. Moreover, they do their best to research the local consumer’s tasting behavior and founded the focus group to study more detail about Chinese culture. It is very good to us to recognize that they are a worldwide leading place fast food restaurant.
For more information to see McDonald’s, you can visit their website by typing McDonald’s on Google.
I would like to thank you for your patient to listen to my podcast and I hope you enjoy of this topic.
1. Offer a place where you think your podcast will fit into your Webtext:
I would put my podcast in the front of my Webtext, because I think my podcast likes an overview of my topic. It lets my audience easy to get a whole view of my topic and understand what I will going to mention next when they are reading my article.
2. Consider the differences and similarities between a "text" like a podcast and a printed essay. What do you think accounts for those differences?
In my point of view, I think the text in podcast might be more easy and informal. We probably have to use first person to mention my sentences due to it is my podcast and you will listen and understand my tone in my article. Also, it has to avoid long quote. In podcast, it is hard to say a quote or telling people this data is from whom or which page. However, my understanding of podcast is like a speech, which is relax and like conversation with my audience.
I would use ethos as my character in my first paragraph such as tell my audience what I am going to introduce or to explain in the following sentences. Logos: I would persuade my audience that McDonald’s is the worldwide leading fast food restaurant and continuously grow their sales in China. Pathos: it is my emotion appearance, I would use it as excited and encouraged. However, I hope this part I wrote the right thing, because I am not sure my understanding is right or not. I got the rhetorical information from http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/jgarret/3waypers.htm.