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Product Placement
Putting brands throughout the world
✔Visual ✔Audible ✔Use ✔Integrated: The most effective ✔Virtual placements
Types of Product Placement
Permanence
Placement is forever
✔Occurs in many settings ✔Helps create value ✔About satisfying the customer's needs and wants ✔Entails an exchange ✔Requires the 4 P's ✔Can be performed by individuals and organizations
What is marketing?
Marketing
The activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, capturing, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large
✔Product ✔Price ✔Place ✔Promotion
Marketing Mix, or 4 P's
Product
"Creating" value
Price
"Capturing" value
Place
"Delivering" the value proposition
Promotion
"Communicating" the value proposition
Value
The fundamental purpose of marketing: what you get for what you give
CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
A business philosophy and set of strategies, programs, and systems that focuses on identifying and building loyalty among the firm's most valued customers
✔Expands global presence ✔Pervasive across market channel members ✔Enriches society ✔Can be entrepreneurial
Why is marketing important?
Marketing Strategy
Identifies a firm's target market, related marking mix (4 P's), and the bases on which the firm plans to build a sustainable competitive advantage
✔Customer Excellence ✔Operational Excellence ✔Product Excellence ✔Locational Excellence
How to deliver sustainable competitive advantage
1) Define the business mission 2) SWOT analysis 3) Identify opportunities (Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning) 4) Implement marketing mix 5) Evaluate performance
The marketing plan
Marketing Myopia
Defining a business in terms of goods and services rather in terms of the benefits that customers seek
✔Company Capabilities ✔Competition (competitive intelligence) ✔Corporate Partners
Micro Environment
✔Culture ✔Demographics ✔Social Issues/Trends ✔Technological advances ✔Economic situation ✔Political/regulatory environment
Macro Environment
✔Need Recognition ✔Info Search ✔Alternative Evaluation ✔Purchase ✔Post Purchase
The Consumer Decision Process
✔Psychological Needs ✔Functional Needs
Need Recognition
✔Internal Information Search ✔External Information Search
Search for Information
✔Performance Risk ✔Financial Risk ✔Psychological Risk ✔Social Risk ✔Physiological Risk
Actual vs. Perceived Risk
✔Universal (Can be bought anywhere) ✔Retrieval (Everywhere that can be thought of) ✔Evoked (of retrieval sets, the group that you consider)
Evaluation of Alternatives: Attribute Sets
The act of buying
Purchase and Consumption
✔Customer Satisfaction ✔Cognitive Dissonance ✔Customer Loyalty ✔Undesirable Consumer Behavior
Postpurchase
✔Marketing Mix ✔Psychological Factors ✔Social Factors ✔Situational Factors
Factors influencing the consumer decision process
Involvement
Consumer's interest in a product or service
✔Extended Problem Solving ✔Limited Problem Solving ✔Impulse Buying ✔Habitual Decision Making
4 main types of buying process
✔Manufacturers and Service Providers ✔Resellers ✔Institutions ✔Government
B2B Organizations
Need Recognition
B2B Process: Step 1
Product Specifications
B2B: Step 2
RFP Process
B2B: Step 3
Proposal Analysis, Vendor Negotiation and Selection
B2B: Step 4
Order Specification
B2B: Step 5
Vendor Analysis
B2B: Step 6
✔Organization Culture ✔Buying Situation ✔The Buying Center
Factors Affecting the Buying Process
✔Initiator ✔Gatekeeper ✔User ✔Buyer ✔Decider ✔Influencer
Components of the Buying Center
✔Autocratic ✔Democratic ✔Consultative ✔Consensus
Organizational Buying Culture
Reflects the set of values, traditions, and customs that guide its employees' behavior
Organizational Culture
✔New Buy (never been bought) ✔Straight Rebuy (additional units of previous purchase) ✔Modified Rebuy (similar to previous purchase)
Buying Situations
Globalization
Creation of a global culture, a global economy, and erasing borders
✔GATT ✔IMF ✔WTO ✔World Bank Group
Organizations Involved in World Trade
✔Quota (max limit) ✔Tariffs ✔Exchange control ✔Trade agreement
Government Actions
✔EU ✔NAFTA ✔CAFTA
Trade Agreements
✔Power Distance ✔Uncertainty Avoidance ✔Individualism ✔Masculinity ✔Time Orientation
Sociocultural factors (Hofestede's Dimensions)
✔Strong Dollar: hurts us when we try to export, it is much easier for us to import goods ✔Weak Dollar: helps us when we export, but it is harder to import goods
Strong Dollar vs Weak Dollar
✔Target Market: STP ✔The Global Marketing Mix (4 P's)
Choosing a Global Marketing Strategy
✔Strategy or Objectives ✔Segmentation Methods
STP Process: Segmentation
✔Evaluate Segment Attractiveness ✔Select Target Market
STP Process: Targeting
✔Identify and Develop Positioning Strategy
STP Process: Positioning
✔Geographic ✔Demographic ✔Psychographic ✔Benefits ✔Behavioral (Loyalty)
Segmentation Methods
✔Identifiable ✔Substantial ✔Reachable ✔Responsive ✔Profitable
Segment Attractiveness
✔Undifferentiated or Mass Marketing: everyone ✔Differentiated: several market segments with different offerings for each ✔Concentrated: single, primary target market ✔One-to-one (Micro) Marketing: Personalized for an individual
Segmentation Targeting Strategies
Positioning
The place that the product occupies in a consumer's mind relative to competing products (Tied to competitive advantage)
Repositioning
You as the brand are trying to change the position
Decision Making
Collecting, recording, analyzing, and interpreting data
✔Define the objectives and research needs ✔Designing the research ✔Data collection process ✔Analyzing data and developing insights ✔Action plan and implementation
Marketing Research Process
✔External Secondary Data (Syndicated, Scanner and Panel Research) ✔Internal Secondary Data (Data Mining) ✔Qualitative and Quantitative Data ✔Ethnographic Research ✔Survey Research ✔Questionnaire Design ✔Web Surveying ✔Experimental Research
Types of Data
Product
Everything favorable/unfavorable that a person receives in an exchange (Tangible Good/Service/Idea)
✔Breadth (number of product lines) ✔Depth (number of categories within a product line)
Product Assortments and Product Line Decisions
Brand
A name, logo, or symbol that evokes in customers a perception of added value for which they will pay a premium price
✔A desired level of quality ✔Psychological rewards from ownership ✔A means of distinguishing one brand from another
What does branding offer?
✔Brand Name ✔Logo and Symbols ✔URLs/Domain Names ✔Characters ✔Slogans ✔Jingles/Singles
Components of a Brand
✔Brand Awareness (who all knows about it) ✔Brand Equity (value) ✔Brand Associations (mental links) ✔Brand Personality (characteristics) ✔Brand Loyalty (degree of consumer attachment)
How do we know how good a brand is?
✔Protect the product ✔Market the product ✔Provide convenience to distributors and consumers
Roles of Packaging
The package that the consumer uses (Toothpaste tube)
Primary Package
The wrapper or exterior carton
Secondary Package
Provides information the consumer needs for his or her purchase decision and consumption of the product
Labeling
✔Changing customer needs ✔Market saturation ✔Managing Risk through Diversity ✔Fashion Cycles ✔Improving Business Relationships
Why to create new products and add value
Diffusion of Innovation
The process by which the use of an innovation - whether a product, a service, or a process - spreads throughout a market group, over time and across various categories of adopters
✔Compatibility ✔Observability ✔Trialibilaity ✔Relative Advantage
Factors Affecting Product Diffusion
1. Idea Generation 2. Concept Testing 3. Product Development (Alpha and Beta testing) 4. Market Testing (premarket and test marketing) 5. Product Launch 6. Evaluation of Results
How Firms Develop New Products
✔Internal Research and Development ✔R&D Consortia ✔Licensing ✔Brainstorming ✔Outsourcing ✔Competitor's products ✔Customer input
Sources of ideas
✔Intro Phase ✔Growth Phase ✔Maturity Phase ✔Decline Phase
PLC (Product Life Cycle)
Service
Intangible offering that involves a deed
✔Heterogeneous ✔Perishable ✔Inseparable ✔Intangible
Factors differentiating services from goods
✔Core Service (basic benefit being bought) ✔Supplementary Service (support the core service)
The Service Offering
✔Search Quality ✔Experience Quality ✔Credence Quality
When are services assessed?
✔People Processing ✔Possession Processing ✔Mental Stimulus Planning ✔Information Processing
Service as a process
✔Reliability ✔Responsiveness ✔Assurance ✔Empathy ✔Tangibles
Building Blocks of Service Quality
Zone of Tolerance
Refers to the area between customers' expectations regarding their desired service and the minimum level of acceptable service
✔Understanding Customer Expectations ✔Understanding Customers ✔Evaluating Service Quality
Knowledge Gap
The difference between the standards that are set and the services that are provided
Delivery Gap
Setting service standards for quality
Standards Gap
The Difference between the actual service provided and the service that the firm's promotion program promises
Communications Gap
✔Empowering Employees ✔Reduce Delivery Gaps ✔Use of Technology
How to increase service recovery?
Pertains to a customer's perception of the benefits he or she received compared with the costs
Distributive fairness
1. Company Objectives 2. Customers 3. Costs 4. Competition 5. Channel Members
The Five C's of Pricing
✔Profit Orientation ✔Sales Orientation ✔Competitor Orientation ✔Customer Orientation
Company Objectives
✔Demand increases as price decreases ✔Demand ✔Supply ✔Demand Curves and Pricing ✔Price Elasticity of Demand
Customers
✔Availability of Substitutes (Substitution Effect) ✔Price Relative to purchasing power (Cross-Price Elasticity) ✔Product durability ✔A product's other uses ✔Rate of inflation
Factors Influencing Price Elasticity of Demand
✔Variable Costs ✔Fixed Costs ✔Total Cost
Cost
✔Monopoly ✔Monopolistic Competition ✔Oligopoly ✔Pure Competition
Competition
✔Manufacturers, retailers, and wholesalers can have different perspectives on pricing strategies
Channel Members
✔Demand ✔Cost ✔Profit ✔Competition
Methods used to set prices
✔Price Fixing (Vertical and Horizontal) ✔Price Discrimination ✔Predatory Pricing ✔Bait & Switch (Deceptive)
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Pricing
Supply Chain
✔Connected chain of business entities ✔Internal/External ✔Can be a Competitive Advantage ✔Supports the logistics function
✔Lower inventory and costs ✔Greater flexibility ✔Improved customer service ✔Higher revenues ✔Increased profitability
Benefits of Supply Chain Management (Effective Supply Chain Management)
Marketing Channel
When the good is finished, to the point of consumption
Logistics Channel
Point of origin to point of consumption
Direct Marketing Channel
No intermediaries between the buyer and the seller
Indirect Marketing Channel
One or more intermediaries work with manufacturers to provide goods and services to customers
✔Reward ✔Coercive ✔Referent ✔Expertise ✔Information ✔Legitimate
Types of Power
Push Marketing Channel
Merchandise is allocated to stores based on forecast, good for steady demand items
Pull Marketing Channel
The amount of merchandise sent to the store is determined based on sales data captured by POS terminals, better when demand is uncertain
✔Cycle time ✔Quality of communications ✔Easily analyzed and used
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange/Exchange)
Vendor-Managed Inventory
An approach for improving supply chain efficiency in which the manufacturer is responsible for maintaining the retailer's inventory levels in each of its stores
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment
CPFR
To keep inventory levels as low as possible while maintaining an adequate supply of goods to meet customer demand
Goal of Inventory Control
RFID (Radio frequency identification) tags
Computer chips that automatically transmit to a special scanner all the information about a container's contents or individual products
Cross-docking
Prepared palette for a specific store/retailer
JIT Systems
Get the inventory just in time to make the product
QR (Quick Response)
Getting goods in time to sell
Retailing
Selling, renting, and providing products and services to the final consumer for personal, family, or household use
✔Choosing retailing partners ✔Identifying types of retailers ✔Developing a retail strategy ✔Managing a a multichannel strategy
Factors for establishing a relationship with retailers
✔Customer Expectations ✔Channel Member Characteristics ✔Distribution Intensity (Intensive and Extensive)
Choosing Retail Partners
✔Food Retailers ✔General Merchandise Retailers ✔Services Retailers
Types of Retailers
How people act in stores
Paco Underhill "American Shopper"
Grocery Store Secrets
Bigger shopping carts, create a mirage, meandering walkways and displays, half aisles for noncommittal, sensory environment, most expensive items at eye level, free food
Science of Spending
How customer's act: Shopping gets you high, you move predictably, you can't resist shiny things
Scrambled Merchandising
Offering several unrelated product lines in a single store
Place
Convenience is a key ingredient to success (4 P's)
✔Choosing a community ✔Choosing a site
The proper location
IMC (Integrated Marketing Communications)
Communicate value to target market
Advertising Schedules
Continuos, flighting, and pulsing
✔Sex ✔Convenience ✔Profit ✔Fear ✔Humor
Advertising appeals
✔Deeper and Broader Selection ✔Personalization ✔Expand Marketing Presence
Benefits of the Internet and Multichannel Retailing
✔Integrated CRM ✔Brand Image ✔Pricing ✔Supply Chain
Effective Multichannel Retailing
Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action
AIDA Model
Personal Selling
Two-way flow of communication between a buyer and a seller: ✔Face-to-face ✔Video teleconferencing ✔Telephone ✔Over the internet
Direct Marketing
Marketing that communicates directly with target customers: ✔Mail ✔Email ✔Mobile marketing
Online Marketing
✔Websites ✔Blogs ✔Social Media
✔Inform ✔Persuade ✔Remind
Push Strategy
Ex: Nike - Just Do It
Unique Selling Proposition
Generate excitement
Sales Promotions
✔Educate ✔Provide advice ✔Save time ✔Simplify buying ✔Provide sales support
Value Added by Personal Selling
✔Recruit ✔Evaluate ✔Structure ✔Train ✔Motivate
Managing the sales force
✔Reliability ✔Responsiveness ✔Assurance ✔Empath ✔Tangibles
Five Service Quality Dimensions

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