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Diffusion of innovations:
Groups of people who influence others buy, opinion leaders are ‘innovators’, ‘early adopters’ are local level influencers, ‘early/late adopters’, ‘Laggards’ longest time to adopt innovations.
Gilbert 2003, types of consumer loyalty
Hard core loyal’s, soft-core loyal’s (two or three), shifting loyal and switchers
Consumer misbehaviour-
Accessable consumer credit encouraging people to buy goods they cannot afford, impulse buying, compulsive buying, shoplifting
4 main methods used to segment markets:
demographic, geographic (or geo-demographic), psycographic and behavioural segmentation
Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning
after deciding on market segmentation strategy, retailers asses how to target those segments and establish it’s position
Demographics:
observable aspects: age, gender, occupation, income, ethnic group
Geo demographic segmentation:
e.g, affluent achievers, rising prosperity, financially stretched, urban adversity
Psychographic:
consumers lifestyle characteristics, personality and attitudes (more detail), as people in the same age group/region differ in lifestyles
Behavioural:
usage of a product (used for different purposes/loyal or infrequent), different benefits,
6 motivations for shopping:
1- seeking adventure, 2-socialising, 3- seeking gratification, 4- searching for ideas, 5- buying for others, 6-searching for value
Pen portrait:
customer profile with the details of a retailers target customers lifestyle, could include a range or be narrow, written or visual (containing customer choices) and shared with the retailers staff
Primary research vs. Secondary:
Conducted for a specific organisation vs. already been conducted (cheaper, check for this first and reliability)
Qualitative vs. Quantitative primary market research
Quantitative: survey/questionnaire statistical outcomes. Qualitative: verbal/written outputs
New product development cycle, develop concepts:
Idea generation > Screening and evaluation > Product development > Test marketing > Commercialisation > New products
Retrobranding:
offering products inspired by a previous era, sometimes updating it to fit new tastes
Narrow and deep vs. Broad and shallow
Relatively small number of product lines in high volume vs. a wide variety of product lines in limited quantities
Aaker 4 levels of brand awareness:
- being unaware, - recognition (if prompted), -brand recall, - top of the mind
Brand identity: (retailers do not have control over this)
Is managed by the sender in the form of messages transmitted via the marketing mix, which are subsequently received by consumers and interpreted as brand image
Brand equity:
Assets/profitability, as well as loyalty and recognition = TRUST familiar brands
Brand extensions:
Exploit the brand name onto new products by applying the same brand name to a new brand category = growth
Brand positioning:
aims to locate the brand in comparison with it’s competitors (perceptual/ positioning map)
Rebranding:
To remove negative connotations, change of brand names, lost recognition = OR just update
Product/service continumn:
not always a clear distinction between products and services, e.g. basic provisions - fitness trainer: most are IN-BETWEEN
Retail buyers:
Responsible for overseeing the selection of merchandise, selecting and negotiating with suppliers. B&M must communicate= more travels
Retail merchandisers:
Responsible for managing the processes that enable the products selected by the buying team to arrive on time/ right quantities. Management of the supply chain!
Buying and merchandising steps:
Planning, Selecting, Order, Monitor the progress