Tencent is a compant that has no supplier, no
marketing middlemen. Tencent uses the way of self-promotion and allows users to
produce psychological dependence on their products. This strategic started from
Tecent’s inception. Only in this way, company’s products can meet their target
users directly and reduce costs. At the same time, it improves the company's
competitiveness.
The company’s target market is consumers and directly
to all the Chinese. No matter they are students or worker; overseas Chinese or
they are living in China. Tencent makes appropriate changes according to the
requirements people on the Internet. Until now, Tencent has variety of products
based on users’ needs. For example: from the beginning, Tencent only had the
chatting tool. Step by step, they develop the aspects on entertainment,
e-commerce, searching tool, music, video, client application software and other
types of services. The ways to change lead to Tencent’s success in the online
world. Furthermore, Tencent has becomes a public media. The news Tencent
provides has become the only source for part of the online users. And Shenzhen
government offered great help for Tencent since it established. Tencent itself
also form a culture called Q culture.
Population impact on Tencent- China has the largest population
in the world. The population is over 1.4 billion. Tencent has a great impact on
people’s study, work and lives, the main reason is its instant messenger—QQ. Therefore,
Tencent’s target consumer group has large span on age, start from the 10
year-old elementary school student, to the 80 years old elder people. The news I
read one week ago on TV, it shows that some Chinese community encourages elder
people to learn how to use QQ to contact with their children. Most of the young
generation work away from home and the only chance they can go back to their
hometown is spring festival. QQ is the popular tool that they can contact with
family. With the expansion of the products, the age structure of their
consumption will also change in the future.
Economic impact on Tencent- Nowadays, China is
developing with the high speed. In 2012, Chinese GDP growths at the speed of
7.8. People’s per capita income rise substantially, and people’s purchase power
grows at the meanwhile. With the world financial crisis had impact on China in
2008, the network products decreased at the same time. However, due to the mass
users, financial crisis didn’t bring a huge harm on Tencent’s operation.
Competitive impacts on Tencent- Chines network hasn’t mature when Tencent established. For this reason, Tencent step-by-step development and change, and slowly accumulated a large number of users. Tencent has penetrated the market prior to other competitors. Just like Facebook is so popular in western countries, log in QQ and contact with friends and colleagues become Chinese daily life. Chinese government blocks Facebook and Twitter in China. I can’t open Facebook’s website or create an account. And that means Tencent lost two major competitors. Since I was an elementary school student, I used QQ to contact with my classmates, it won’t cause you money, unlike dialing the phone. When I grow up, there are more and more chatting tools came up. I would like to download them and tried. Such as Fetion, MSN, and Sina. I stop using them and keep on using QQ for the reason that the other products are not as common as QQ. I can’t chat with my friend if they don’t download the software. The second reason is that those products are simplification. On the other hand, Tencent has diversity of products that connect together. I can play games with my friends; share my music or video with them. More than that, we can have a conference with specific group of people; ask for help with people all over the world. Tencent makes my life easier and faster. So when I came to America, I still use QQ to connect my Chinese friends who live in China or America. I own a Facebook account right after I came here, but I seldom upload pictures on it. Facebook is only a tool I can contact with my foreign friends. As I know, most of the young generation who came to U.S has at least one QQ account number. And we get more used to using QQ as a way we connect each other.

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