Market offer / Marketing mix Flashcards
7 P’s
Product
Price
Place / Distirbution
Promotion
Process
People
Physical Evidence
Basic model of product has three layers
Core product
Actual product
Augmented product
Core product is
The product itself
Actual product is
- Features
- Quality
- Styling
- Package
Augmented product is
- Installation
- Delivery
- Guarantee
- Brand
- Service
Why strong brands are important
- Company value
- Barriers to competition
- High profits
- Base for brand extensions
- Quality certification
- Trust
Four stages of the Product lifecycle
Introduction
Growth
Maturity
Decline
Strategic objectives in markets
Build (High growth rate, low-high market share)
Hold (low growth rate, high market share)
Harvest (High-low growth rate, low market share)
Divest (High-low growth rate, low market share)
Product strategiesfor growth, Existing markets + existing products =
Market penetration
Product strategiesfor growth, Existing markets + new products =
Product development
Product strategiesfor growth, New markets + existing products =
Market development
Product strategiesfor growth, New markets + new products =
Diversification
Three pricing methods
Cost-oriented (B2B)
Competitor-oriented (based on competitors)
Market-oriented (based on customers)
Cost-oriented pricing
- What does it cost to produce and sell?
- Full-cost or Direct-cost
- Minimum price
Competitor-oriented pricing
- Price set due to the influential competitors’ prices
- Going-rate (Most similar to perfect competition) or Competitive bidding
Market-oriented pricing
- Marketing strategy – New prods, in line with positioning. Old prods, in line with strategy
- Customer value – Trade off Analysis / Experimentation / Econ Value to the Customer
- Price-quality relationships – Relation ship between price and quality
- Product line pricing – Price in line with other products in the company’s prod line
- Negotiating margins
- Political factors – In line with public interest
- Costs
- Effects on supply-chain – Profits in all parts of a chain
- Competition – Many levels of competition
- Explicability – Can the price setting be explained
Price strategies for product launch: High price + high promotion =
Rapid skimming
Price strategies for product launch: High price + low promotion =
Slow skimming
Price strategies for product launch: Low price + high promotion =
Rapid penetration
Price strategies for product launch: Low price + low promotion =
Slow penetration
Conditions for charging a high or low price
High price:
* Product provide high value
* Customers have high ability to pay
* Lack of competition
* Excess demand
Low price:
* Only alternative
* Market penetration or domination
* Experiece curve effects / low costs
* Make money later
* Make money else where
Functions of channel intermediaries (retailers, wholesalers)
- Reconciling the needs of producers and consumers
- Improving efficiency
- Improving accessibility
- Providing specialist services
Distribution channels for consumer goods
Producer
Agent
Wholesaler
Retailer
Consumer
Distribution channels for B-2-B
Producer
Agent
Distributor
Bussiness customer