Entrep marketing Mix Flashcards
It is the foundation model for businesses centered around product price place and promotion. These are set of marketing tools that the firm uses to pursue its marketing objectives in the target market.
Marketing Mix
Why is marketing mix important?
It provides a road map for your business objectives
It keeps you on track while keeping your target market in the forefront of your mind
It will help make sure the business is marketing the right product to the right people at the right price and time
7 p’s of marketing mix
- Product
- Place
- Price
- Promotion
- Physical evidence
- People
- Process
This is what a seller must sell and what a buyer must buy dissatisfy the needs of customers
Product
Goods versus services
Goods are something you can see and touch which makes them tangible
Services are those provided for you and you cannot necessarily see or touch which makes them intangible
According to cravens hills and woodruff _______ is anything that is potentially valued by a target market for the benefits or satisfactions it provides including objects services organizations places people and ideas
Product
Product has the _____ which drive a customer to purchase the product. It is something more than a physical product. This is because a product encompasses several social and psychological attributes in other intangible factors which provide satisfaction to the consumer.
want satisfying attributes
It is the amount of time a product goes from being introduced into the market until it’s taken off the shelves there are four stages
Product life cycle
- Introduction
- Growth
- Maturity
- Decline
In this stage the product is being released into the market marketing and promotion are at high in the company often invest the most in promoting the product and getting it into the hands of consumers cost or generally very high and there is typically little competition the principal goals of this stage are to build demand for the product and get it into the hands of consumers aiming to attain growing popularity.
Introduction stage
In this stage consumers are already taking to the product and increasingly buying it. The product concept is proven and is becoming more popular and sales are increasing. As a result of the product growing the market itself tends to expand
Growth
When a product reaches maturity it sales tend to slow or even stop signaling a largely saturated market this point sales can even start to drop pricing at this stage content to get competitive signaling margin shrinking as prices begin falling due to the weight of outside pressures like competition or lower demand marketing at this point is targeted at fending of competition and companies will often develop new or altered products to reach different market segments in this stage saturation is reached sales volume is very successful.
Maturity stage
In this stage product sales drop significantly and consumer behavior changes as there is less demand for the product the companies product loses more and more market share and competition tends to cause sales to deteriorate
Decline stage
Why is product the most important in the 7 p’s of marketing?
Product is regarded as an asset of an organization and referred to as the backbone of marketing mix hence utmost care should be taken to handle product decisions a bad product not only generates bad name for the firm but also negatively affects the price set for the product discourages the channel members and reduces the believability of the promotional measures
It refers to the value that is put for a product it depends on cost of production segment targeted ability of the market to pay supply and demand
Price
Why is pricing an important element of marketing mix
While product place and promotion affects cost price is the only element that affects revenues and thus a business profits.
price can lead to a firm survival or demise
It is a model or method used to establish the best price for a product or service it helps the company choose prices to maximize profits while considering consumer and market demand
Pricing strategy
What are the three types of pricing strategy
- Demand-based pricing
- Cost-plus pricing
- Competitive pricing
Also known as customer based pricing is any pricing method that uses consumer demand-based on perceived value-as the central element
Demand-based pricing
6 Types of Deman-based Pricing
- Price skimming
- Price discrimination
- Psychological pricing
- Bundle pricing
- penetration pricing
- Value-based pricing
Uprising strategy in which the producers sets a high introductory price to attract buyers with a strong desire for the product in the resources to buy it and then gradually reduces the price to attract the next and subsequent layers of the market it involves setting a high price before other competitors come into the market often used for new
Price skimming
The practice of charging a different price for the same good or service. 3 types
Price discrimination
a. First degree - perfect price discrimination; flexible depending on current market demands
b. Second degree - charging diff price for diff quantities
c. Third degree - charging diff price to diff consumer grps