Chapter 7: Marketing Function Flashcards
Strategic planning
- Vision
- Mission
- Formulating marketing strategy
Marketing strategy: Brand Image
- Identify overall market scope(environmental planning)
- Determine the USP
- Determine the marketing budget
Implementing marketing strategy
- Market the product/service using marketing mix
- Evaluate the strategy and implementation
Marketing strategic importance
- Marekting helps retain customers because it reminds them about the business’s product/services
- Marketing helps build the brand image so the business can continue to use this brand to remind the customers of the business
- Creates a marketing buzz
- Marketing allows business to communicate with customers and listen to feedack
Factors to consider during Marketing
- Social
- Political
- Economical
- Technological
- Cultural
- Legal
Three approaches to marketing
- Spending more energy marketing the brand than the individual products
- Spenidng more time marketing the individual products than the brand as a whole
- Spending equal efforts on the brand and the individual products
Five step approach to marketing strategy
- Environmental scanning
- Define the target market and USP
- Define the marketing budget
- Implement the strategy
- Evaluate and correct
Step 1
Step 1: Identify the market scope via environmental scan
- External factors: Industry, customers, competitors
- Internal factors: SWOT, Resource based analysis, Value chain analysis, USP(eight business functions)
Step 1
Industry Analysis
The assessment of the market/sector that the business operates in using PESTLE
Step 1
Competitor Analysis
- The business must assess the competitor’s strengths and weaknesses in order to know the effect they have on the business
- Porter’s Six forces
Step 1: Competitor analysis
Market Mapping
The position that the competitors are in in the market are plotted on a map tto help the business determine their position in relation to the competitors
Step 1
Customer Analysis
- Business must keep in mind power of the buyer
- Must look at current and potential buyers to know where needs are not met
- Analysis will help business identify market segmentations
- LSM groupings
Step 1
Purpose of LSM groupings
- Understand the different market segmentations
- To understand how different groups spend their money to satisfy wants and needs
- Group customers with similar spending habits
Step 2: USP
- Identifying what the customer needs are and why the customer would buy the business’s product/service over a competitor’s, identifying the USP:
- Cost
- Brand indentity
- Quality
- Incorporation of technology in use of product/service
Step 3
Step 3: Determining the marketing budget
- The business should view marketing as an investment that wil reap long-term rewards
- The type of marketing/advertisement used will vary in cost
Step 4
Step 4: Fully implement marketing strategy
- Ensure 7 Ps of marketing are aimed at the consumer
7 Ps of marketing
- Product
- Place
- Promotion
- Price
- People
- Physical Evidence
- Process
Product
Types of products
- Convinience goods: Customers have very little loyalty and make purchase as quickly and easily as possible
- Speciality goods: Customers will spend a lot of time deciding which brand to buy from as these products are expensive and technical
- Select goods: Customer only makes purchase after considering price, quality and brand of different competitors
Product
Product life cycle
Where a product is in the lifecycle will influence how it is marketed
* Development
* Introduction
* Growth
* Maturity
* Decline/withdrawal
Product
Packaging
- Packaging may help with storage and protecting the item
- Helps identify manufacturer by displaying trade and brand
- Provides consumer with valuable information on ingredients and contents of the product
- Helps target different market segments through varying size or design
Price
Factors to consider when determining price
- The price’s of competitors
- The willingness of the buyer to pay that price
- The sensitivity of the consumer to price changes based of the type of product
- The avaliability, price and quality of substitute products
Price.
Pricing strategies
- Market penetration pricing: Business prices the product really low to attract buyers then increases it once there’s loyalty
- Leader pricing: Business’s reduce the price of one product to attract the purchase of more products
- Promotional pricing: Discounts or price increases that are related to a specific event
- Bulk discounts: Discounts offered to a customer who buys large quantities of the product
- Prestige pricing: Business charges more for a product to create certain expectation or status with the product
- Cost plus pricing: How much is costs to make product is considered n markup is added to price
- Price skimming: product enters market at high price and later reduces
Place
Ways manufacturer can get product to consumer
- Sell directly to consumer
- Sell to retailer who sells to consumer
- Sell to wholesaler who sells to retailer to break the bulk, who then sells to consumer
- Use intermediaries
Place
Types of retail distribution
- Intensively distributed: When a manufacturer sells to as many retailers as possible, usually convinience goods
- Selectively distributed: When certain products are only available at certain stores
- Exclusively distributed: When expensive or technical products are only sold in specific stores that specialise in the selling of these products