Marketing Management
Marketing Management
Products, Services, and Brands:
Building Customer Value
What is a Product?
Whatever is offered for “sale” in a marketing exchange
Can be tangible goods (Laptop), services (Airlines), ideas
(Don’t smoke), places (Monal ), persons.
Products, Services, and Experiences
Market offerings, pure tangible goods, pure services,
experiences
What is a Product ?
What is a Product ?
Definitions
Product
 Anything offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use,
or consumption that might satisfy a need or want.
Service
 Any activity or benefit that one party can offer to another
that is essentially intangible and does not result in
ownership of anything.
Tangible
Produced Then Sold
Intangible
Sold Then Produced and/
or Consumed Same Time
Can Store and Transport
Produced Separate
From Consumer
Perishable
Often Produced In
Consumer's Presence
Goods Services
Levels of Products
Brand
Name
Quality
Level
Packaging
Design
Features
Delivery
& Credit
Installation
Warranty
After-
Sale
Service
Core
Benefit or
Service
Actual
Product
Core
Product
Augmented
Product
Product Classifications
 Consumer products
 Industrial products
Product Classifications
A Product..
 Anything tangible or intangible that, through the exchange
process, satisfies consumer or business customer needs.
 Products can be:
 physical goods,
 services,
 ideas,
 people, or
 places
Classification of Products
How Long the Products Will Last
Durable Goods
Provide Long-Term Benefits
(cars, furniture, appliances)
Nondurable Goods
Provide Short-Term Benefits
(newspapers, food)
Low
Involvement
Decisions
High
Involvement
Decisions
Product Classifications
Consumer Products
 Convenience
Shopping
Specialty
Unsought
 Frequent purchases bought
with minimal buying effort
and little comparison
shopping
 Low price
 Widespread distribution
 Mass promotion by producer
Types of
Types of
Consumer
Consumer
Products
Products
Convenience
 Shopping
Specialty
Unsought
 Less frequent purchases
requiring more shopping
effort and price, quality, and
style comparisons.
 Higher than convenience
good pricing
 Selective distribution in fewer
outlets
 Advertising and personal
selling by producer and
reseller
Types of
Types of
Consumer
Consumer
Products
Products
Convenience
Shopping
 Specialty
Unsought
 Strong brand preference and
loyalty, requires special
purchase effort, little brand
comparisons, and low price
sensitivity
 High price
 Exclusive distribution
 Carefully targeted promotion
by producers and resellers
Types of
Types of
Consumer
Consumer
Products
Products
Convenience
Shopping
Specialty
 Unsought
 Little product awareness and
knowledge (or if aware,
sometimes negative interest)
 Pricing varies
 Distribution varies
 Aggressive advertising
and personal selling by
producers and resellers
Types of
Types of
Consumer
Consumer
Products
Products
Industrial products
 Materials and parts
 Capital items
 Supplies and services
 Organizations
 Persons
 Places
 Ideas
Thank You
Q & A
Individual Product Decisions
Product Attributes
Branding
Packaging
Labeling
Product Support Services
Developing a Product or Service Involves Defining the Benefits
Developing a Product or Service Involves Defining the Benefits
that it Will Offer
that it Will Offer
Product Attributes
Quality
Quality Features
Features
Design
Design
Product Attribute
Decisions
Product Quality
Product Features
Product Style
& Design
Ability of a Product to Perform Its
Functions; Includes Level &
Consistency
Help to Differentiate the Product from
Those of the Competition
Process of Designing a Product’s Style
& Function
Product
Product
Quality
Quality
Ability of a Product to Perform Its
Functions; Includes Level & Consistency
Product
Product
Features
Features
Help to Differentiate the Product from
Those of the Competition
Product
Product
Design
Design
Process of Designing a Product’s Style &
Design
Branding
Brand
A name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination of these,
intended to identify the goods or services of one seller or group
of sellers and to differentiate them from those competitors
What is a Brand?
It’s who you are...and what you stand for.
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P &E
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A rts & A ntiques
S C IE NC E
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Why?
Because...A Strong Brand is the Heart and “Sole/Soul” of an
Organization!
What Branding Is?
 A clear identity in the consumer's mind
 Who you are: Product/service
 What you stand for: Values/promise
 A set of associations and feelings
To Brand or Not to Brand?
Why Incur the Cost & Efforts to Brand?
Brand Name Selection
Good Brand Names:
 Suggest something about the product or its benefits
 Are easy to say, recognize and remember
 Are distinctive
 Are extendable
 Translate well into other languages
 Can be registered and legally protected
Packaging
 Activity of designing and producing the container or wrapper for
Activity of designing and producing the container or wrapper for
a product.
a product.
 Packaging used to just contain and protect the product.
Packaging used to just contain and protect the product.
 Activity of designing and producing the container or wrapper for
Activity of designing and producing the container or wrapper for
a product.
a product.
 Packaging used to just contain and protect the product
Packaging used to just contain and protect the product
Labeling
Printed information appearing on or with the package.
Performs several functions:
 Identifies product or brand
 Describes several things about the product
 Promotes the product through attractive graphics.
Product - Support Services
Companies should design its support services to profitably
meet the needs of target customers and gain competitive
advantage.
How?
How?
Step 1
Step 1. Survey customers to assess the value of current
. Survey customers to assess the value of current
services and to obtain ideas for new services.
services and to obtain ideas for new services.
Step 2.
Step 2. Assess costs of providing desired services.
Assess costs of providing desired services.
Step 3.
Step 3. Develop a package of services to delight customers and
Develop a package of services to delight customers and
yield profits to the company.
yield profits to the company.
Thank You
Q & A

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