Exam 3 Flashcards
Competitive advantage
Look at the competition and see what gives you a customer appreciated advantage over them
Differentation
Something that seperates you from the competition, makes the custoemr more loyal
Industrial customer knows differentation comes with a cost
Intrapersonal
Communcaition with yourself
Interpersonal, Intragroup
Easiest to promote/with customers
Innovators/ early adopters
One or more person talking to each other with the same understanding
Interpersonal, Intergroup
The rest of the market
Different groups
Must dumb it down
Mass communications(ads)
Coms by technology
Communications process
- Message
- Selection of Delievery Vehicle
- Encoding the Message
- Transmission (Send message)
- Bias Stream (Anything that interferes with the ad)
- Recepient (target market)
- Decode the message
- Message
Feedback
- Most important
- Only way to know if the communication process message are the same
Promotion Mix
Adverstising
Entertaining the audience
Adverstising
Institution Ad
Talks about the company, not product
Popular in Europe
Advestising
Local Ads
Geographically localized Ad, Usually product specific and where to buy
Seeing ads in News day, Channel 12
Advestising
Nationals Ads
Ad seen by the whole country, product specific
Advestising
Global Ad
Both institution and product specific all over the world
Everyone knows the brand
Promotion Mix
Sales promotion
Anything that influence a customer to buy or rebuy a product
Coupon, smapling, tradeshow, sales, sweeptstate(Poll to win something)
Promotion mix
Event sponsorship
Some kind of activity is going on, sports event, traget market is high
superbowl, olympics
Promotion mix
Product placement
Take product into a Tv show or movie
Must pay for product placement, good guy only uses iphone
Promotion mix
Personal selling
sales people are looked down upon,
Puffing
Lying to get a sale
Promotion mix
Direct marketing
Take a list of target market
Limited access to list in other parts
Standardization
Keep what you got
Adaptation
Adapt to the culture
Capital goods
High sepense items that depreciate over its life time
No changes, only in language
tangible assets: Building, chairs, printing machine
Component parts
Manufacutred item that goes into someone’s product
no modify, Car parts
Raw materials
Nature items
Non manufactured item that goes into someone else’s product
No modify
Professional services
Needs modifications depends on situation
Products for resale: Distribution
Industrial- no modify
Consumer - lots of modify
Convenicence goods
Low risk item, no cost, no thought buying
modify/adaption to culture/translation
Distributed all over the place
Shopping goods
High cost item, more risk, must shop around to buy it
Modify depends on the item, furniture, airline tickets
Speciality goods
Easiest to market, unique product, demands supplies
No modification, consumer come to you, Luxury cars
unsought goods
Extremem difficult to market, need it but don’t want to buy
Cemetery block
Extended product
Anything over and above the “product” that makes it attractive for a purchase
Market other than the product
Eg. Brand reputation, support, finanicing, delivery
Factor influence adaptation
Country
1) Compulsory adaptation - national standards
2) Climate - weather/shelf life
3) local product usage - local taste/preference
Factors influence adaptation
Product characteristics
1) Safety standard - auto industry
2) Hygiene regulations - FDA/expirations date
3) Industry standard - ISO 9000/SA 8000
Factors influence adaptation
Company characteristics
Can they afford it/ is it worth the effort
Product positioning
How the customer views your product based on specific variables/attribute
variables such as price/quality/ benefit/ style
Global origin
Global consumer culture positioning
Coke, boeing, sony
Foregin origin
Foregin conusmer culture positioning, foregin product better than local
Fuji water, IKEA
Local origin
Local consumer culture
hershey
Research and development
Done in mulitple countries, closer to customers, local inputs and host govt.
Brand
recognizable name/term that differentiate from their competitions
generates brand loyalty