Lectures 4-6 Flashcards

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what is a market

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a group of customers with heterogeneous needs and wants.

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2
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Target market

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a particular group of consumers at which a product or service is aimed.

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3
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Target marketing is based on three premises

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  1. Individual buyers can be identified
  2. Sellers understand the needs of buyers
  3. Sellers meet the needs of target buyers
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4
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Market segments

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Subgroups within the total market that are relatively similar in regard to certain characteristics

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5
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Mass marketing

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A mass marketer sees buyers as having common wants, needs and demands.
A single product offering is created, communicated and delivered to meet the needs of most people in the market

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One-to-one marketing

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seeks to appeal to each customer by providing aunique, customised offering that will meet their individual needs

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When choosing target markets, the organisation will generally consider three factors

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  1. Its own resources
  2. Market demand
  3. competition
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Small organisations with limited financial resources frequently adopt one of the following specialised approaches to target marketing

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  1. Product specialisation
  2. Market specialisation
  3. Product-market specialisation
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9
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The target marketing process 3 stages

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  1. Segmentation
  2. Targeting
  3. positioning
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Market segmentation 2 steps

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  1. define market segments
  2. Profiling the market segments
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Identify segmentation variables (4)

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geographic
demographic
psychographic
behavioural

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12
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Effective segmentation criteria (5)

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Measurability
Accessibility
Substantiality
Practicability
Stability

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13
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Market targeting involves…

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a systematic examination of the range of possible market segments, their potential sales volume and revenues

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14
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Evaluate potential segments through analysis of…

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Sales potential
Competitive situation
Cost structure

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15
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Positioning

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how the customers distinguish the organisation, its products and its brands from competitors when they are selecting from among the available alternatives

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Market positioning

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the way in which target segments perceive an organisations offering in relation to competing offerings

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17
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Company positioning

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a positioning strategy designed to create a single market perception of the organisation in relation to competitors
e.g Apple vs Microsoft

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Brand positioning

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a positioning strategy designed to create a market perception of a particular brand, usually based on product attributes
e.g.Lexus vs Toyota

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Some commonly used positioning variables include:

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Attributes
use/application
Product user
Price and quality
Product class

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20
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The marketing mix for each segment should:

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Be consistent with the desired positioning
Be internally consistent
Be sustainable in the long term

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21
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Product

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a good, service or idea offered to the market for exchange

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Total product concept

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Describes the core product, expected product, augmented product and potential product in order to analyse how the product creates value for the customer

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Core product

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the fundamental benefits of product

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Expected product

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attributes that actually deliver benefits

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Augmented product

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benefits buyer may not require as part of basic fulfilmentof needs

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Potential product

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all possibilities that could become part of the expected or augmented product

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Shopping products

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moderate to high engagement decision making, with the purchases decision based on features, quality and price

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Convenience products

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inexpensive, frequently purchased, products bought with low engagement decision making

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Specialty products

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highly desired products with unique characteristics that consumers will make considerable effort to obtain

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Unsought products

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purchased to meet a sudden, unexpected need

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The typical stages a product progresses through during its life cycle

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○ New Product Development:
○ Introduction
○ Maturity
○ Decline

32
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Product line extensions

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new products that are closely related to existing products ina the product line

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Brand

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A collection of symbols intended to create an image in the customers mind that differentiates a product from competitors’ products

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○ Brand image

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■ The set of beliefs that a customer has regarding a particular brand

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○ Brand equity

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■ Added value that a brand gives a product

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○ Brand loyalty:

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Customers highly favourable attitudes and purchasing behaviourtowards a brand

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Brand metrics

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Value of brand in terms of brand assets, stock price analysis, replacement cost, brand attributes, and brand loyalty

38
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○ Compulsory label information can include:

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Brand name and logo
Product name
Ingredients list
Use by date or date of packaging
Bar code

39
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Igor Ansoff9s product-market growth strategy:

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Market Penetration
Product Development
Market Development:
Diversification

40
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○ Price is directly related to profitability (equation)

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Profit = (price x sales volume) - total costs

41
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○ Determining pricing objectives

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should be
specific,
measurable,
actionable,
reasonable
timetabled

42
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○ Return on investment (ROI)

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The profit required to justify investment in a particular product orproject

43
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Pricing objectives tend to focus on various combinations of the following issues:

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profitability
long‐term prosperity
market share
positioning
what the customer is prepared to pay

44
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○ Pricing can be based upon

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Costs
Demand
Competition

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➢Cost-based pricing

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a percentage or dollar amount is added to thecost of a product in order to determine its selling price

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Fixed costs

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Costs that are constant regardless of the amount of products being sold
e.g. cost of factories

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Variable costs

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Costs a company incurs to sell additional products e.g.delivery costs

48
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○ Break-even analysis

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An analysis designed to estimate the volume of unit sales required tocover total costs

49
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○ Break-even point

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■ The quantity at which total revenue = total costs

50
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Margins

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The effect on costs and revenue when an organisation produces and sells one more unit of product

51
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○ Demand curve

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A plot of how much people will buy things based on a products price

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Economies of scale

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As the amount of units produced increases, thecost to produce each unit decreases

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Low‐cost production

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Often based on country of origin

54
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○ Penetration pricing

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setting a low price in order to gain rapid market share and turnover for a new product

55
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○ Price skimming

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Charging the highest price that customers who most desire the product are willing to pay, and then lowering the price to bring in larger numbers of buyers

56
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○ Pricing includes areas subject to legal restrictions:

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essential services
misleading and deceptive conduct
price collusion
price discrimination
comparability and clarity of pricing