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
- next question
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
Pricing Parameters
Price Floors (Cover Costs) Price Range (Competition) Price Ceiling (Customer's ability and willingness to pay)
6 How to price your product (not important)
- Develop Pricing objectives
- estimate demand
- Pricing Strategies
- Evaluate the pricing Environment
- Costs
- Pricing Tactics
6 Pricing Objectives
- Sales/ Market Share
- PROFIT!!
- Competitive Effect
- Customer Needs
- Image Enhancement
- Flexibilityy of Price
law of demand
As price increases, customers buy more and inverse
Price Elasticity of Demand
% change in unit sales resulting from a % change in price
Elasticity
% change in Q/ % Change in P
3 external influences on elasticity
Market Time Period
Neccesity or Luxury
Prices/ Availability of Other Products
Pricing stragegies
- Value Pricing/ Everyday Low Price (Walmart)
- Heavy Regular Promotion (Pizza hut coupons)
- New Product Strategies
- Premium Pricing And Skimming (new iPhone)
- Penetration Pricing (Low price to encourage purchase)
- Trial Pricing (Low for a little amount of time)
4 Pricing Environment
The Economy
Competition
Consuer Trends
International Influences
3 Costs
Fixed, Variable, Total (Fixed + Variable)
Ease of Collection
Nearest Dollar, Vending machineces
Two Part Pricing
Annual Fee plus usage (costco)
Odd-Even Pricing
19.95
Price Bundling
Selling 2 or more products together to lower customer costs
Payments
Monthly lease (cars)
Product Line
Several Price pints in product line (kindles)
Captive Product Pricing
One very-low priced item to profit on 2nd higher margin item
Loss-Leader
Sell a product at loss to generate foot traffic
trading up
For $50 more, better item
Lies Cutting price
When Biz is good, price cut will capture greater market share
When biz is bad, price cut stimulates sales
(WRONG)
4 pyramid of corp social responsibilty
- Foundation-Economic
- Legal- Obey the low
- Ethical: Obligation to do what is right, fair
- Philanthropic: Being a good corp system
A couple ethical issues
Failure to close defects
Fraud
Misrepresentation (walmart buying cheap from China)
Triple Bottom Line
People
Planet
profit
Texas instruments
Ethics Quick Test
Distribution
Getting goods from producer to user
Right Place at right price, time, and quantity
3 channel functions
Sorting (organizing) Breaking Bulk (down to individual items) Maintaining Inventories
Channels and competition
Can you find channels being ignored
Most important source of Power with Channels
Shared INformation
Direct Channel
Producer -> Consumer
Indirect Channel
Intermediate between p-> C
Multi Channel
Direct and Indirect channels
Intensive Disturibution
As many places as possible for awareness
Selective Distribution
Choose stores wisely where you will make profit
Exclusive Distribution
Geographical area, certain areas where there is enough foot traffic to stay open
How to work with a channel and not
Pay for shelf spaces
Cooperative advertisting
3 Channel Imperatives
1. Design Channel "The market Back" (need of target market) 2. Try to leverage as competitive advantage 3. Channel Innovation -Best way to reach customers
Push vs Pull
Move products through channel by convincing channel members to offer them =Push, rebates
“ Creating Customer desire for products= Pull ex coupons
promotion
BE CONSITENT IN POSITIONING
3 Promotion Objectives
- Designed for well defined target market
- Measurable
- Cover a specific Time period
Corporate vs product
Build awareness, establish good will vs features/ benefits, where to find
Personal selling
2 way conversation btwn buyer and seller to influence purchasing decision
Direct Marketing
Communication to generate a measurable response (order, information request, store visit)
5 promotion techniques (PROMO MIX)
- Advertising
- Public relations
- Sales promotion
- Personal Selling
- Direct Marketing
3 mass appeals
advertising
PR
Sales promotion
2 personal selling/ direct marketing
Personal selling
direct marketing
3 A’s promotion can be used for
- Create brand AWARENESS
- Build favorable brand ATTITUDES
- Encourage Brand ACTION
strategy
what hopes to achieve
Implementation
exact steps to achieve stratefy
Scheduling Marketing Activities
- Identify activities
- TIme Required
- Which priced others.
- Proper sequence and timing
- Assign responsibilty
Internal marketing
making staff aware of customer needs
Evaluation
Did we achieve strategy objectives?
Control
Benchamrks to asses how well plan accomplished goals
3 formal controls
- Input Controls- Prior to implementation
- Process controls- During and commitment to plan
- output controls- Standards to compare