ABSTRACT
Along with the increasing development of Computer Network Technology, the
modern distance education now is growing rapidly around the world. Though education
can not be fully industrialized under the strict education policy taken by the government,
those none-degree education programs of remote education still could be managed by
market operation as an exception. At present, the marketing research on modern
distance education is still in the primary stage both at home and abroad. In order to
promote instructional and extricate themselves from the fund-short embarrassment,
quite a lot of modern remote education organizations have already start to increase the
market share in current education area by means of marketing methods. However,
influenced by a number of factors such as the traditional educational ideas, the
promotion and acceptance of Modern Distance Education market are relatively in a slow
speed in china.
This article derived from the point of remote education marketization is to enable
organization to satisfy social development, meanwhile top management can put more
focus on defining the strategy of sales marketing under the guidance of market-lead
concept in order to full utilize existing resource. It’ll lead to the realization of efficiency
maximization in the education resource optimization to build high efficiency of remote
education model which enable more people enjoy the convenience and fun from it.
This article use SWOT methodology to study the market situation of modern
remote education and conduct further analysis on market segmentation to define target
customer and its market position and through traditional 4P sales theory to study
product, pricing, channel, promotion etc sales strategy upon its market characteristic.
Through theory analysis, it show that remote education marketing strategy is the
reflection of marketing rule and education rule, it will provide us scientific standard
operation procedure and the way of thinking.
Base on the sales and marketing theory and take the example of Shanghai remote
education group, the article focus on the introduction of the group company how to
implement product strategy and describe the strategy from product brand, product
category and service standpoint by using Porter analyze model and conduct business
forecast for group company by using GM(1,1) model base on the number of recruit
students from Shanghai Television University in last 5 years. Proper marketing strategy