W8 - Products, Services and Brands Flashcards

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What is a product?

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Anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that might satisfy a want or need

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How is a high priced item distributed v a cheaper item?

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Exclusive and selective distribution in fewer outlets vs widespread distribution

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What is an industrial product?

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An industrial product is a product purchased by individuals and organisations for further processing or for use in conducting business

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What are three types of industrial products?

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  • Materials
  • Capital items
  • Supplies (convenience products of industrial field) and services
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What have marketers done to the concept of a product?

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They have widened it to include pretty much everything

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What kind of marketing is used to sell social ideas as products?

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Cause related marketing

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7
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What is the marketing process summarised into 5 steps?

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  1. Consumer need
  2. Product/ Solution
  3. Brand support
  4. Package accordingly
  5. Extra value information and augmentation
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What does a marketer aim to create?

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A unique value proposition to fulfil a need amongst a segment of consumers

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What the easiest way to create new products?

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Change the attributes such as material, size or shape

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What is the core of the total product concept?

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The fundamental benefit that responds to the customer’s key problem of an unsatisfied need or want; the key beenfit they want from the product

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What is the actual total product concept?

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Attributes that actually deliver the benefit that forms the core product; the attributes that fulfil the customers most basic expectations of a product

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How do the rings go out on the total product concept?

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  1. Core fundamental benefit
  2. Attributes that actually deliver the benefit
  3. unexpected benefits
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What is the augmented total product concept?

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Benefits that the buyer may not require as part of the basic fulfilment of their need; enables marketers to significantly differentiate offerings

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What is the role of product augmentation?

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To provide more value outside of the actual product, used for differentiation or to justify a price premium

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What are some examples of ways to augment a product?

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  • Warranties
  • Guarantees
  • Free shit
  • Follow ups
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15
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What is brand equity?

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The image that the brand takes up in a consumers mind

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16
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Why expand product lines?

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  • Brand equity
  • Grow revenue
  • Block competition
  • Variety
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What is a product line?

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A group of products that are closely related because they function in a similar manner are sold to the saem customer groups

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18
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What is product line length?

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Amount of products in the line

19
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How can a company expand it’s product line?

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  • Product line filling
  • Product line stretching
20
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What is product line filling?

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Adding more items within the present range to give more choices or to target specific segments

21
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What are the reasons for filling?

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Extra profit, excess capacity usage, blocking competitors

22
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What is product line stretching ?

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Expanding the product line into new categories or market segments that are either above or below the existing product range

23
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What is the aim of product line stretching?

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The strategy aims to reach new customer segments and can be upward or downward

24
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What is product mix depth?

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Variety sizes flavours etc

25
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What are services?

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A form of product that consist of activities or benefits offered for sale that are intangible and don’t result in ownership of anything

26
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What are the 4 unique characteristics of services?

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  • Intangible
  • Perishable
  • Inseparable
  • Variable
27
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What are the addition 3Ps for services?

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Process
People
Physical evidence

28
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What is the purpose of a brand?

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To identify and differentiate a product from its competitors. Brands turn products into stories

29
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What does a brand deliver?

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Brand identity, Brand imagery

30
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What does brand equity include?

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  • Brand identity
  • Brand awareness
  • Brand loyalty
31
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What are the benefits of strong brand equity?

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  • More customers
  • Price premium
  • Greater customer loyalty
  • Easier to expand
32
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What is brand licensing?

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Where companies licence a name or symbol to another for a fee (usually a royalty)

33
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What are manufacturer brands?

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Owned by producers and clearly identified with the product at the point of sale

34
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What are private label brands?

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Brands owned by resellers such as wholesales or retailers not identified with the manufacturer

35
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What are the 4 options that come to developing brands?

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  • Line extension
  • Brand extension
  • Multibrands
  • New brands
36
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What graph should you draw for brand extension?

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Product category against brand name and then existing and new under both

37
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What is a brand extension?

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Extends a current brand name to a new or modified product in a new category

38
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What are multibrands?

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Different brands in the same product category

39
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Why may a company make a new brand?

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Company might create a new brand to service a different market

40
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Why do companies sell experiences?

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They realised that customers begin buying more than just products and services, they are buying what those offers will do for them

41
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What is the importance of customer loyalty from selling experiences?

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Makes customers consider more than just price. They must augment the product to create this experience

42
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What are convenience products?

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Products and services that customers usually buy frequently and immediately and with a minimum of comparison and buying effort

43
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What are shopping products?

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Shopping products are less frequently, purchased consumer products and services that customers compare carefully on suitability quality price and style

44
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What are specialty products?

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Specialty products are consumer products and services, but unique characteristics, or brand identification, for which a significant group of buyers is willing to make a special purchase effort

45
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What are unsought products?

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Unsought products are consumer products that the consumer either does not know about or knows about, but does not normally think of buying