Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics -
Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,2, language: English,
abstract: 1. Introduction In 1984, Michael Dell, a student from the
University of Texas has found his own company selling computers build
together from stock parts. With the philosophy of offering customers
customized PC's and selling these directly to them Dell's company became
the biggest PC seller in the United States in 2000.1 Since in 1996 Dell
started to market his business predominantly over the internet. With
this paper the author wants to analysis the main company homepage,
www.dell.com, from an effectiveness perspective. On the following pages
the reader will receive information about the business objective, Dell's
business models, the audience profile, the web evaluation and a
competitor analysis. At the end the findings will be summed up in an
overall assessment and a conclusion with a recommendation will be given.
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