lecture 3 Flashcards
Defining Marketing
An organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders
Ultimate goal of marketing:
Facilitate Value Exchange through superior customer experience
what is Insight in regard to customers
Understanding Customers to Create Value
Understanding Customers to Create Value - Insight
what are the components s
– Who are the Customers?
– What do Customers Value?
what are Solutions in regard to customers
Delivering Value to Customers
Delivering Value to Customers - Solutions
what questions are asked
– How do we Create Value for Customers?
– How do we Communicate Value to Customers?
– How do we Leverage value provided to Customers?
what is The Evolution towards Customer Centricity
selling orientation to customer orientation
what is in selling orientation
production
product
selling
what is in customer orientation
market
experimental (customer centric)
what is production
affordability&availability
what is product
quality&innovation
what is selling
promotion&hardselling
what is marketing
customer satisfaction and relationships
what is experiential (customer centric)
long-term value to both customer and society. Superior customer experience
what is Theproduction concept
Consumers will favor products that are available and highly
affordable. Focusoneconomiesof scaleandcosts
what is Theproductconcept
Consumers favor products that offer the mostin quality,
performance, and innovative features
what is Theselling concept
Consumers will not buy unless it undertakes a large-scale
selling and promotional effort (“Sell What you Make”)
Selling Orientation can lead to what
Myopia
Sellers pay more attention to the specific products they offer than to what
the benefits and experiences produced by the products
Sellers pay more attention to the specific products they offer than to the benefits and experiences produced by the products give an example
– The great railroads lost out to the exploding trucking industry
– They forgot that their business was solving transportation problems, not running railroads
what is Thecustomerorientation
Determining the needs and wants of target customers and delivering customer satisfactions more effectively and efficiently than the competitors
Customers are the paths towhat
sales and profits
what is the STP Process
Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning
what is segmenting
Discover groups and needs in a marketplace
what is targeting
Target the groups you can provide superior solutions for
what is positioning
Make target groups recognize your superior offer
What is a Market? What is Segmentation?
The set of actual and potential buyers of a product
These people share a need or want that can be satisfied through exchange
Why Segment Markets
market segmentation leads to more precise customer insights leads to more accurate solution leads to improved resource allocation leads to better marketing results
give the segmentation short term applications
Salesforceallocation/callplanning Channelassignment Communicationprogram Pricing Today’scompetitorsandthefirm’scurrentrelativeadvantagetothecustomer
give the long term applications of segmentation
Longer term applications:
• Emerging needs
• New and evolving market segments to serve
• Planning for segment development/growth
• Not in kind competition/threats (satisfying customer needs in different ways)
• Lead user identification and management
• Market driving (vs. customer focused)
Segmentation Criteria: Bases
demograohic variable, geographic variable, psychographics variable, behaviouristic variables
what is demograohic segmentation ,
age, gender, race, ethnicity, occupation, fam size, religion, social class, etc
what is geographic segmentation
region, urban suburban rural, city size, etc
wat is psycographic segemtation
personality attributes, motives, lifesytle
what is behaviouristic segmentation
volume usage, end use, benefit expectations, brand loyalty, price sensititivutt
what is the Targeting Continuum
mass at top
cutomized at bottom
what is mass marketing
Undifferentiated strategy
No segments and single marketing mix
what is Differentiated marketing
Large segmentswith specific marketing mixes
what is Concentrated(niche)marketing
One segment of a market with specialized marketing mix
what is Micromarketing-Customization
Customized marketing to individuals
what is Product Positioning
Refers to the place an offering occupies in the consumers’ minds on important attributes relative to competitive products
Clarify the value proposition that addressesthetargetsegment’s needin a superior way.
what is Product Differentiation:
Making your actual product different than competing products
Why is Positioning Important?
If you can figure out how to stand out in the crowd, you will have a better handle on your future profitability.
what are 2 ways to Positioning the Product
Establish Category Membership
establish; points of parity (POP) or points of difference (POD)
Some Generic Positioning Options include what
unique (onlysuppluer offering true, 4 colour packaging)
superior (relative to competition, we deliver 20% more on time delivery)
equal but cheaper (commodity) strategy (we will meet or meat any competitor’s price)
mainstream vs niche strategy (target all vs target select few)
Six Positioning Approaches suggested by Reis and Trout:
TheOpenHolePosition (dary free) TheNewCategory (new) TheNumber-twoBrand (pepsi) TheSpecialist (starbucks) TheChannelBrand )amazon) TheGenderBrand (secret)
how do Perceptual Maps Help in Positioning
A powerful tool to display the location of the brands in the minds of consumers to enable a manager to see how consumers perceive competing products or brands relative to its own and then take marketing actions
– Identify the important attributes for a product class
– Judgments of existing brands with respect to these important attributes
Once identified the positioning –optimize what
4Ps
Once identified the positioning –optimize 4p’s explain
Designing marketing strategies
– Product(packaging,customerservice,warrantiessize) – Place-Location(distribution)
– Pricing
– Promotion
– advertising(message+media),publicrelations,sales promotions)
Identifying direct and indirect competitors & their potential reactions
Key Takeaways
Marketing focuses on customers relationships – generating customer insights and delivering customer solutions for superior customer experience
Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning is a key business process with meaningful benefits for firms
Segmentation should be done based on 4 bases
Target segments that are most meaningful and profitable
Consistent and clear positioning, emphasizing points-of-parity and points-of-difference from competition