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Alliance marketing is joining two or more organizations on the purpose of sharing marketing strategy, promoting concepts, services or products.[1] Basically, alliance marketing can imply to any business as long as it finds an organization that has a mutual goal.[2]

Alliance Marketing is similar to Joint Venture Marketing.[3] Except it does not always involve the creation of a new company or brand in the right to sell its product or service.[4]

Alliance marketing is also used where a group of companies often in new technology areas come together to sell the technology concept.[5] An alliance will always have a common theme which all stakeholders can benefit from.[6] Stakeholders stands for are groups of individuals within whom the organisation has interacts and has interdependency.[7]

History

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Alliance marketing is built for controlling organisation's marketing cost.[8] Distinctive from coexisting marketing, which is based on the game,[4] alliance marketing is based on strategic perspective considering organisation marketing operation, from the interior to exterior resources.[9] Exterior resources can be, for example, organisation's public relation, environmental resources, supplier, political environment.[10]

The role of alliance marketing is to provide the organisation a way to promote its product while producing, advertising and making pricing strategy.[11] The earliest alliance marketing is in the form of marketing economic union, price alliance and service alliance.[12]

Types of alliance

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Alliances of non-competitive businesses.

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This is alliance form when two or more organisation join together to offer end-to-end service to the same customer.[13] For example, auto-repair business joins together to serve the customer.[14]

Destination alliances

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This is where tourism industry organisation merge marketing resources to promote their location or destination to tourism.[15] For example, the tourism industry in South Pacific where individual organisation have weak marketing resources, corporate to promote eco-tourism.[16]

Technology alliances

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This is a form to advertise new devices or concept, and to join resources and marketing power together.[17] The alliance used to avoid failure to compete with alternative technology and ensure they have the chance to research and develop the technology.[18]

Alliances to expand into new markets

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It is useful when an organisation requires a huge investment of resources and to develop new distribution channels. For example, organisation establish an international market needs an alliance to a local company to enter the new foreign market.[19]

Domestic expansion

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This forms of alliance help the organisation expand domestically by having more resources and marketing power.[20] For example, the alliance between Pepsi and Starbucks create a bigger distribution network for ready-to-drink beverage, which gives revenue to both organisations without direct competition.[21] Another example can be an alliance by the Japanese company between Sony and Ericsson corporation to sell mobile phones together.[22]

Why use alliance marketing

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  1. Gain access to different customer by combining the marketing resources, which include targeting consumers together.[23]
  2. Gain specialist knowledge and marketing methods.[24]
  3. Reduce cost by sharing resources[25]
  4. Share idea and responsibility.[26]
  5. Gain access to new market, for example, entering a new market in another country.[27]

Marketing economic alliance

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Marketing economic alliance is a union that aims to units and organise marketing elite from a different region. To condense internet resources, organisation resources and personal resources all together, consequently, alliance marketing.[28]

Marketing economic alliance is in forms of combining industry or regional marketing method with resources and regional advantages. It is combining marketing knowledge, marketing examples, marketing practice, marketing idea together.[29]

Marketing alliance is the outcome of marketing economic alliance, it helps to better adapt to changing market environment, raise marketing power.[citation needed]

References

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  13. ^ Valliani, A., Kapur, A., Joseph, D. and Rakhit, A. (2008). Network for alliance marketing. US7324962 B1.
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  24. ^ Bicen, Pelin; Hunt, Shelby D. (2012). "Alliance market orientation, new product development, and resource advantage theory". Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing. 27 (7): 592–600. doi:10.1108/08858621211257365.
  25. ^ Swaminathan, Vanitha; Moorman, Christine (2009). "Marketing Alliances, Firm Networks, and Firm Value Creation". Journal of Marketing. 73 (5): 52–69. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.176.3547. doi:10.1509/jmkg.73.5.52. S2CID 2839729.
  26. ^ Cumiskey, Kevin J.; Frankwick, Gary L.; Carlson, Brad D. (2011). "A Framework for Understanding New Product Alliance Success". Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice. 19: 7–26. doi:10.2753/mtp1069-6679190101. S2CID 167632380.
  27. ^ Donaldson, B. and O'Toole, T. (2002). Strategic market relationships. New York: Wiley.[page needed]
  28. ^ Lee, Hyunchul; Kim, Dukyong; Seo, Minkyo (2013). "Market valuation of marketing alliances in East Asia: Korean evidence". Journal of Business Research. 66 (12): 2492–9. doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.05.040.
  29. ^ Bucklin, Louis P.; Sengupta, Sanjit (1993). "Organizing Successful Co-Marketing Alliances". Journal of Marketing. 57 (2): 32–46. doi:10.2307/1252025. JSTOR 1252025.
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