Cross Selling 7#
In this model, services or products from a formerly excluded industry are added to the offerings, thus leveraging existing key skills and resources. In retail especially, companies can easily provide additional products and offerings that are not linked to the main industry on which they were previously focused. Thus, additional revenue can be generated with relatively few changes to the existing infrastructure and assets, since more potential customer needs are met.
Examples: Iconic Cases
How they do it: American Airlines core revenue comes from selling plane tickets but it uses cross-selling tactics to increase their revenue per seat. Examples for these are e.g. in-flight shopping, offer of ancilliary travel service such as rental cars or hotels.
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How they do it: Flyeralarm starting with flyers, added various other products to its portfolio, all having in common to be able to be individualized with a company’s brand / name.
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How they do it: Lufthansa offers its clients inflight shopping and a webshop to buy aviation related and non-related products during their time in the plane or from their home. This allows Lufthansa to increase the revenue from their customers with non-flight related products as they can target a customer group which typically has significant purchasing power.
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How they do it: Aldi combines the selling of groceries with weekly changing non-food offers. The attractive non-food offers attract a lot of customers to their store including those who might wouldn’t shop their otherwise.
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How they do it: Although IKEA’s core offering is cheaply priced furniture its physical stores offer a lot of other products related to home and living. In addition, IKEA stores usually have both a restaurant as well as a supermarket with Northern European products.
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Below, the top industries for the pattern "Cross Selling" are displayed, in order to get insights into how this pattern is applied across different industries. We've collected data from 5 firms using this pattern.
Top Industries
27% of firms using pattern
19% of firms using pattern
5% of firms using pattern
All Industries
Below, the pattern "Cross Selling" is analyzed based on co-occurrence, in order to get insights into how this business model pattern is applied in combination with other patterns within the firms we studied.
Top Co-Occurrences
5 pattern co-occurrences
5 pattern co-occurrences
3 pattern co-occurrences