week 4 Flashcards
4 eras of marketing
- production-oriented era
- sales-oriented era
- market-oriented era
- value-based era
what is a production-oriented era
Firms believed a good product will sell itself
what is a sales-oriented era
firms focus on sales
what is a market-oriented era
Firms focus on what customer wanted
what is a value-based era
maintains market orientation with additional focus on giving greater value than the competition
what is value for most customer
value is function of the benefit relative to the price paid
value equals to
benefit - price
benefit includes
- functional (the product does the job)
- psychological (nike shoes provide social status)
- economic (Walmart offering branded products at a low price)
price includes
- monetary ($,¥ )
- perceived risk
- inconvenience
what’s in the perceived risk
- performance risk
- financial risk
- social risk
- physiological risk
- psychological risk
the Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs (from down to top)
- physiological needs (hunger, thirst)
- safety needs (security, protection)
- social needs (sense of belonging, love)
- esteem needs (self-esteem, recognition, status)
- self-actualization needs (self-development and realization)
how to measure customer’s value
- internal engineering assessment
- indirect service question
- field value-in-used assessment
how to do internal engineering assessment
-evaluation based on lab tests
- alpha test/ computer simulation
what is indirect service question
- firms asking customers how they value satisfying a need for solving a problem
what is field value-in-use assestment
- customer and supplier joint value assessment
- investigate how much customer will pay for a new product given extra benefits