Marketing Midterm 2 Flashcards
What is a product?
Good or service (most are a combination)
Good
Tangible object
Service
Intangible Offering
Product Layers
Core Product: (Benefits we Get)
Actual Product: (Features, Packaging, Brand quality)
Augmented Product: (Things to entice us: Warranty, repair service, installation)
3 types of new products
Continuous innovations
Dynamically Continuous innovations
Discontinuos innovations
Continuos Innovations
Little Disruptive Influence Ex: New flavor of chips
Dynamically Continuous Innovations
Some disruption but don’t alter existing buying patterns (Electric toothbrush to manual toothbrush)
Discontinuos innovations
Fundamental changes in buying behavior
Ex: Cars
8 (3) P’s of service Marketing
Physical Evidence (Appearance) Process (way service is created and delivered) Productivity g output with quality(balancin
4 Charachteristics of a service
Intangebile, Perishable, Variable (performed differently from time to time), Inseperable (tied to provider)
Gap analysis
Difference btwn expectation of serivice and what actually
3-new service
If labor intensive, Providers are part of the expwerience and innovation
May require customer s prescence
No tangible product to carry brand name
2 Service innovations
New elements improving or existing
continuos innovation
(purple cow)
Diffusion
Manner/Speed which consumer adopt new products
4- Categories of adopters
- Innovators: young risk takers (2.5%)
- Early adopters: heavy media users (3.5%)
- Early majority: Middle class (34%)
- Late majority: Older less educated (34%)
- Laggards: traditionalists (16%)
Product life cycle
Introduction
Growth (Peak profit)
Maturity
Decline
3 Strategies for elongating product lifestyle
Modify
Find New customers
Find new issues
Value Migration
Making: Good
Better
Best Version
Brand
Name , logo, core value to set you apart
-Your offer of value and promise to customer
6 Charachteristics of a good brand
- Communicated distinctive value
- Is “relevant “ to the customer
- Resonates w/customer
- Sustained over time- long term
- Reinforce intended positioning
- Easily Understood by customers and employees
3 levels of brand loyalty
Brand recognition
Brand Preference
Brand insistence
5 Entrepreneurial Branding process
- Conduct brand analysis
- Ridght fit of core strengths and customer needs - Determine Brand positioning
- Unique Desired benefits - Select Brand Name & Identity
- Brand communications strategy (Consistent Message)
- Select Branding Strategy
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Cooperate Branding
Branded house: Ex: Fedex, fedex prime
Individual Branding
House of Brands: Different product under one umbrella (Tide, Folgers, P&G)
Hybrid Branding
Subbranding: Coke, Cherry coke, Sprite
Brand Equity
Added Value beyond features and Benefits
Highlight product difference and charge premium (DISNEY)
Fan Equity
Intensity of Customer Preference
Brand decline
Brand Preservation vs building
Taking customer for granted
Competition blind spot
Loss of objectivity
Brand Awareness
Consumer knows enough about a product to associate with brand
2 ways to grow revenue
Increase Prices
Increase items sold
4 key issues of price
Costs
Demand
Customer Value
Competitor’s Prices
Cost Value Relationship equation
Value= Benefits/ Costs
Assimilation Effect
“close” pricing suggests that products are similar
Contrast effects
Disparate Pricing may encourage purchase of higher priced products (Burgers are 2/$8 but for $2 more you could get steak)
Price and promotion
Does price cover advertising
Is any promotional pricing planned
Channel
Paying Sellers