L5: Products, Services and Brands Flashcards
What are the original 4 p’s of the marketing micx (McCarthy 1960)?
Price
Product
Place
Promotion
What are the 4 C’s (Lauterborn’s 1990)?
Cost’
Consumer
Convenience
Communication
What is customer perceived value?
How a firm’s offering is perceived by a customer. Based on their needs, values, psycjology, behavior as well as functional and economic factors
Psychological
- Feeling of luxury
- Appeals to sense of style
Functional
- Performance
- Comfort
Economic
- Retain market value
What is cocreation?
Cocreation is the process of the organization creating value for the customer, together with the customer.
What is a product?
anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that migjt satisfy a want or need
What are the three levels of a product?
- Core product –> level that provides the perceived/real core benefit or service
- Actual product –> features and capabilities offered in a product, quality and durability, design and product styling, packaging and brand name
- Augmented product –> Support aspects of a product, including customer service, warranty, delivery & credit, personnel, installation and after sales support
The value of the product increases with each step
What are the different consumer product types?
- Convenience
- Shopping
- Specialty
- Unsought
What are the characteristics of a convenioence product?
- Frequent purchase
- low customer involvement
- low price
- Widespread distribution
- Mass promotion
–> toothpaste, magazines
What are the characteristics of a shopping product?
- Less frequant purchase
- much planning + shopping effort
- Higher price
- Selective distribution
- Advertising and personal selling by both the producer and resellers
–> televisions, clothing
What are the characteristics of a specialty product?
- Strong brand preference and loyalty
- low price sensitivity
- High price
- Exclusive distribution
- More carefully targeted promotion by both producers and resellers
–> luxury goods - Rolex watches, crystals
What are the characteristics of an unsought product?
- Little product awareness
- price varies
- Distribution varies
- aggressive advertising and personal selling by the producer and resellers
–> Life insurance, blood donations
What are services?
A service is an intangible product involving a deed, a performance or an effort that cannot physically be possessed.
What are the characteristics of services?
- Intangibility
- Inseperability of production and consumption
- Perishability
- Heterogenity
What are the charcteristics of intangibility?
Intangibility = the ability to touch or hold
- Difficult to evaluate before purchase
- No physical possession
- Challenging to advertise the real value
- Pricing can vary
- Service process can be copied
What are the characteristics of inseperability of production and consumption?
o Separating production and consumption - as services are immaterial, consumption cannot be separated from production
o No mass production
o Other customers often interact
o Difficult to replicate