Jupiter Communications an Entrepreneur Developed Kibu.com as an Online Fashion Magazine for Magazine

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Jupiter Communications
An entrepreneur developed Kibu.com as an online fashion magazine for girls between the ages of 13 and 18. The messages from Kibu's advertisers were tailored for and intriguing to a teenage audience. Revenue came from companies that sponsored various channels and features on the site, such as the Fashion Channel. Kibu had a loyalty program, the kPoints xChange, which gave site visitors an incentive to communicate with the site and its sponsors. Each time they did, they earned points that could be exchanged for merchandise such as CDs, movie tickets, or beaded jewelry. Visitors who filled out surveys could win one of the 10,000 Kibu Boxes. Box recipients got still more points if they went to the Box Channel and filled out forms telling one to three of the participating companies how they liked the products inside. By September 2000, however, the site closed, and its founders returned the remaining start-up capital to investors.
-Refer to Jupiter Communications. The developer of Kibu and his investors created the first company to offer both content and chat rooms aimed at girls between the ages of 13 and 18. They hoped this would give them a ____________.

• A) first-mover advantage
• B) market aggregation
• C) comparative promotional point
• D) differential benefit
• E) synergistic benefit

Understand and apply the concept of manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE).

Understand the basic strategies companies can adopt for competitive advantage.

Identify the primary and support activities in a firm's value chain.

Grasp the impact of technology on business operations and competitive strategies.

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Definitions:

Memory-Enhancement

Techniques or strategies intended to improve or augment one's ability to remember information.

Subliminal Priming

A psychological phenomenon where stimuli are presented below the threshold of conscious perception to influence thoughts, feelings, or actions.

Conscious Awareness

The mental state of being fully present and aware of one's thoughts, emotions, and surroundings.

Absolute Thresholds

Refers to the minimum intensity of a stimulus that one can detect 50% of the time, a concept used in sensory and perception psychology.