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This presentation talks about Place decision of marketing strategy. It presents fundamentals of Distribution Channels or Marketing Channels, functions of intermediaries, types and levels of channels, and channel management.
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This presentation talks about Place decision of marketing strategy. It presents fundamentals of Distribution Channels or Marketing Channels, functions of intermediaries, types and levels of channels, and channel management.
POSITIONING
COMPONENTS OF POSITIONING
MARKET POSITIONING MAP
5 EASY STEPS FOR BRAND POSITIONING
REAL EXAMPLES OF MARKET POSITIONING MAP
TYPES OF MARKET POSITIONING
PRODUCT POSITIONING PROCESS
APPROCHAES TO POSITIONING STRATEGY
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Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning (STP)RitikaSingh267
STP -
1. Segmentation - Market segmentation is the process of
dividing a target market into smaller, more
defined categories.
It segments customers and audiences into
groups that share similar characteristics
such as demographics, interests, needs, or
location.
2. basis of segmentation - a) Demographics b) Geographic c) Psychographic d) Behavioral e) Benefit segmentation.
3. Advantages of segmentation - Helps distinguish one customer group from another within a given market.
Facilitates proper choice of target market.
Facilitates effective tapping of the market.
Helps divide the markets and conquer them.
Helps crystallize the needs of the target buyers.
Makes the marketing effort more efficient and economic.
4. Examples -
5. Effective market segmentation - Measurability (In terms of size and purchasing power)
Accessibility (Reached and served through suitable means of distribution of promotion)
Substantiality (Large and profitable)
Differentiability (Clearly distinguishable)
Action ability (To be effective makers of segmentation should be compatible with the manpower, financial and managerial resources)
6. Targeting - Targeting is a strategy that breaks a large market into smaller
segments to concentrate on a specific group of customers
within that audience.
Instead to trying to reach an entire market, a brand uses target
marketing to put their energy into connecting within a
specific, defined group within that market.
7. Targeting strategy - Undifferentiated Strategy
Concentrated Strategy
Differentiated Strategy
Micro – marketing Strategy
8. Mckinsey matrix
9. Positioning - Positioning refers to the place that a brand occupies in the minds of the customers and how it is distinguished from the products of the competitors and different from the concept of brand awareness.
10. Why positioning? - To create a distinct place of product & service or corporate in the minds of customer.
To provide a competitive edge to a product or an attempt to convey attractiveness of the product to the target market.
To give the target market reason of buying our product/service and then formulation of all strategies according to the customer perception.
11. Strategies of positioning
12. Final steps of framework - Symbolic positioning
Functional positioning
Experiential positioning
13. example of coca cola vs pepsi
A vertical marketing system (VMS) is one in which the main members of a distribution channel - producer, wholesaler, and retailer work together as a unified group in order to meet consumer needs.
Horizontal Marketing System is a merger of firms on the same level in order to pursue marketing opportunities.
By working together, companies can combine their capital, production capabilities, or marketing resources to accomplish more than any one company could alone.
Setting Product Strategy
What is a Product?
Components of the Market Offering
Durability and Tangibility
Use
Consumer Goods Classification
The Product Hierarchy (using life insurance example)
Product Systems and Mixes
Product Line Analysis
Packaging , labeling warranties
Packaging Objectives
Functions of Labels
A product can be anything that can be offered to the market to satisfy a want or a need.
This article describes the Five Product Levels of Philip Kotler, including examples and a template. After reading you will understand the basics of this powerful product marketing tool. In this article you can also download a free Five Product Levels template.
POSITIONING
COMPONENTS OF POSITIONING
MARKET POSITIONING MAP
5 EASY STEPS FOR BRAND POSITIONING
REAL EXAMPLES OF MARKET POSITIONING MAP
TYPES OF MARKET POSITIONING
PRODUCT POSITIONING PROCESS
APPROCHAES TO POSITIONING STRATEGY
A tool in Marketing Communication that manifest immediate purchase with the help of impulsive buying decision. learn about various methods of sales promotion and key techniques.
Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning (STP)RitikaSingh267
STP -
1. Segmentation - Market segmentation is the process of
dividing a target market into smaller, more
defined categories.
It segments customers and audiences into
groups that share similar characteristics
such as demographics, interests, needs, or
location.
2. basis of segmentation - a) Demographics b) Geographic c) Psychographic d) Behavioral e) Benefit segmentation.
3. Advantages of segmentation - Helps distinguish one customer group from another within a given market.
Facilitates proper choice of target market.
Facilitates effective tapping of the market.
Helps divide the markets and conquer them.
Helps crystallize the needs of the target buyers.
Makes the marketing effort more efficient and economic.
4. Examples -
5. Effective market segmentation - Measurability (In terms of size and purchasing power)
Accessibility (Reached and served through suitable means of distribution of promotion)
Substantiality (Large and profitable)
Differentiability (Clearly distinguishable)
Action ability (To be effective makers of segmentation should be compatible with the manpower, financial and managerial resources)
6. Targeting - Targeting is a strategy that breaks a large market into smaller
segments to concentrate on a specific group of customers
within that audience.
Instead to trying to reach an entire market, a brand uses target
marketing to put their energy into connecting within a
specific, defined group within that market.
7. Targeting strategy - Undifferentiated Strategy
Concentrated Strategy
Differentiated Strategy
Micro – marketing Strategy
8. Mckinsey matrix
9. Positioning - Positioning refers to the place that a brand occupies in the minds of the customers and how it is distinguished from the products of the competitors and different from the concept of brand awareness.
10. Why positioning? - To create a distinct place of product & service or corporate in the minds of customer.
To provide a competitive edge to a product or an attempt to convey attractiveness of the product to the target market.
To give the target market reason of buying our product/service and then formulation of all strategies according to the customer perception.
11. Strategies of positioning
12. Final steps of framework - Symbolic positioning
Functional positioning
Experiential positioning
13. example of coca cola vs pepsi
A vertical marketing system (VMS) is one in which the main members of a distribution channel - producer, wholesaler, and retailer work together as a unified group in order to meet consumer needs.
Horizontal Marketing System is a merger of firms on the same level in order to pursue marketing opportunities.
By working together, companies can combine their capital, production capabilities, or marketing resources to accomplish more than any one company could alone.
Setting Product Strategy
What is a Product?
Components of the Market Offering
Durability and Tangibility
Use
Consumer Goods Classification
The Product Hierarchy (using life insurance example)
Product Systems and Mixes
Product Line Analysis
Packaging , labeling warranties
Packaging Objectives
Functions of Labels
A product can be anything that can be offered to the market to satisfy a want or a need.
This article describes the Five Product Levels of Philip Kotler, including examples and a template. After reading you will understand the basics of this powerful product marketing tool. In this article you can also download a free Five Product Levels template.
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2. Index
1) Marketing
2) Market Research & Information System
3) Target Marketing & Market Targeting
4) Product & Services
5) Product Positioning
6) Product Life Cycle
7) Product Line & Product Mix
8) Developing New Product
9) Brand Management
10) Branding, Packaging and Labeling
11) Pricing & Price planning
3. 1. Marketing
There is only one valid definition of business purpose – “to create customer”
“The performance of business activities that directs the flow of goods and services from the
producer to consumer or user.”
“Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion
and distribution of ideas, goods and services to create exchange that satisfy individual
and organizational objectives.”
Marketing Concept :
Market or customer orientation
Formulation of company goals
Integration and unification of
company operations
Marketing
Identify Market place needs
Develop Market offer
Co-ordinate Production &
finance personnel
Provide Customer satisfaction
Achieve Organizational Goals
4. Elements of Marketing:
Needs, wants and demands
Products
Value, cost and satisfaction
Exchange, transaction and relationship
Market
Marketers
Objectives of Marketing :
To plan and develop the product on the basis of known customer demand.
To increase profits and goodwill of company.
To organize, direct and control all marketing activities.
To inform the customers and society about the markets.
To enable the successful distribution.
To supply necessary information for marketing decisions.
5. 2. Market research
Gathering Recording Analyzing Processing Interpreting
Marketing research involves gathering, recording, analyzing, processing and interpreting
the information to help the management to understand the environment, identify the
problems and opportunities and develop the course of actions to achieve marketing
objectives.
Objectives of Marketing Research :
Knowing the customer’s taste for new product.
Increase demand for products.
Knowing the reason for lesser sale.
Find out public interest, habits and changes in them.
Knowing pricing policy
6. Defining the problem well and setting the objective.
Conducting situation analysis.
Conducting an informal investigation.
Planning & conducting a formal investigation.
Analyzing & Interpreting data (explaining clearly).
Marketing Research process :
7. Marketing Information System
Information are needed for taking the decisions. It helps manager to take the decision.
Marketing information system is an organized set of procedures, information handling
routines and reporting techniques designed to provide the information required for
making marketing decisions.
Sources of marketing information :
Executive experience
Internal reports
Marketing research
Marketing models
Sources of information for marketing information system:
Informal source: customer, magazine, friends, tradeshow, sales people etc.
Formal source: received in a planned and systematic way.
8. 3. Target Marketing
“Developing different marketing strategies to satisfy different customer needs is known as
Target Marketing.”
Target marketing means to concentrate on marketing distinctly i.e. to target marketing
the products to specific groups rather than to the whole market.
3 alternatives a firm has for defining and satisfying a target market :
Mass marketing.
Market segmentation.
Multiple segmentation.
Target Marketing
Mass marketing
Firm tries to reach a wide
range of consumers with
basic marketing plan.
These consumers are
assumed to have a desire
for similar goods or
service attributes.
Market segmentation
Firm concentrates on one
group of consumers with
different needs and uses.
Firm attracts this single
group by a marketing
plan.
Multi segmentation
Firm concentrates on 2 or
more group of consumers
each having different
needs and uses.
Firm attracts each group
by each marketing plan
distinct from other.
9. Market Targeting
It is the process of formulating market coverage policies.
The firm has to evaluate the various segments of the market and their structural
attractiveness and then decide how many and which ones to target.
Market targeting process :
Step 1) Evaluating market segment
Step 2) Selecting Target Market-
a. Limited coverage market targeting-
Single segment concentration : only a single segment of the market is selected as target.
Selective specialization : Targeting many segments for the products.
Product specialization : targeting all markets for one product.
Market specialization : targeting one market for many products.
b. Full coverage market targeting-
Mass Marketing (undifferentiated marketing)
Multi segmentation (differentiated marketing)
10. 4. Product and services
Any firm that market products or services has 2 aims to achieve i.e. customer satisfaction and
profit maximization.
Product
Product is anything that satisfies a need and can be offered in an exchange. A product can
be good, service, idea.
“Product is a set of tangible and intangible attributes including packaging, color, price,
quality and brand, plus the services and reputation of the seller.”
“Anything the purchaser gets in exchange of his money to satisfy his needs.”
Services
A service is any act or performance that one party can offer to another that is essentially
intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything.
It has 4 characteristics:
1. Intangibility 2. Perishability 3. Inseparability 4. Variability
11. 5. Product Positioning
it is the final step in Market targeting.
“Positioning is the process of distinguishing a brand from its competitors so that it becomes
the preferred brand in the defined market segment.”
“Positioning is what you do to the mind of customer i.e. position of product in the mind of
the prospect.”
“Positioning is the act of designing the company’s offer and image so that it occupies a
distinct and valued place in the target customer’s mind.”
Product positioning depends on how well we differentiate our product from others in a better
way. Product Differentiation
4 ways to differentiate
Better offering
Newer offering
Faster offering
Cheaper offering
Strategies for differentiation
Customer intimacy
Product leadership
Operational excellence-
12. Positioning procedure
Identifying the
competitors.
How
competitors
are perceived
and evaluated.
Determining
the competitors
position.
Analyzing
consumer
preferences.
Making the
positioning
decision.
Monitoring the
position.
Repositioning
This strategy involves altering and changing a brand’s position.
Shift in taste may leave a product behind or a successful new competitive product may
necessitate the creation of a new image for an old product, so repositioning is done.
13. 6. Product Life Cycle
It is a concept that attempts to describe a product’s sales, profit, customers, competitors
and marketing from its beginning until its removal from the market.
Product life cycle is the life of product in which it progress through various stages starting
from introduction in the market till death of the product.
Stages of product life cycle
Stage 1) Introductory phase
Stage of introducing the product in the market.
Heavy expenses of promotion and introduction.
Slow sales growth, Negligible profit.
Strategy – based on idea of building a dominant market position.
Stage 2) Growth phase
Sales grow at increased rate.
Most profitable stage.
Introductory phase
Growth phase
Maturity phase
Decline phase
Death phase
14.
15. Stage 3) Maturity phase
Stage of constant sale.
Slow down of sales growth because the product has been accepted by most potential buyers.
Profit stabilizes or ↓ because of increased expenses to defend the product in the market against
competition.
Strategies – 1) product modification 2) Market modification 3) Marketing mix modification.
Quality improvement ↑ brand users altering price, distribution,
Feature improvement ↑ usage rate per user promotion.
Style improvement
Stage 4) Decline stage
Stage of declining sales and profit.
Sales fall when- substitute enter the market
Consumer become uninterested.
Strategies : 1) ↓ number of products.
2) cutting back on their marketing programs
3) Reviving the product positioning, repackaging or remarketing it.
16. 7. Product line & Product mix strategies
Product management involves:
1. Product mix decision.
2. Product modification decision.
3. Product elimination decision.
4. New product decision.
5. Branding and packaging decision.
Product mix decision
Product mix is the full list of all products offered for sales by the company.
Product mix includes:
a. Product line
b. Product width
c. Product depth/length
d. Product item
17. Product line
The line of products(items) having same characteristics, customers or use.
Egg – godrej has many product lines as refrigerator line, soap line
Product width
Number of different product lines a
company offers.
Product depth/length
Number of product items in each
product line.
Product item
Specific model, brand or size of a
product that a company sells.
Eg : in the refrigerator line there are many
product items like diff. models on the
basis of features and capacity.
18. Major product line policies &
strategies
1. Expansion of product mix
2. Contraction of product mix
3. Alteration of existing products
4. Developing new use for existing
products
5. Trading up and trading down
6. Product differentiation & market
segmentation
Product line decisions
1. Product line length decisions
2. Product line stretching decisions.
3. Product line filling decisions.
a. Downward stretch
b. Upward stretch
c. Combined stretch
4. Product line filling decisions.
5. Product line modernization
decisions.
6. Product line featuring decisions.
Cannibalization
Situation when an organization’s new product experiences
increased sales mainly because of decreased sales of its
established product.
19. 8. Developing the new product
Every company needs a new product
development program. New products are
the future of a business.
Sources of new product
• Innovation
• Modification of existing products
• Acquisition of products of other firms
Why new products fail?
• Product problem
• Distribution & channel problem
• Promotional problem
• Pricing problem
• Timing problem
• Competition
Strategy for new product development
Deciding the objective of how to reach the customer.
To communicate and consult with R&D, it may lead in creating interest
among the different personnel (marketing, production, finance).
20. Idea generation
Idea screening
Concept development & testing.
Marketing strategy development
Business analysis
Product development
Test Marketing
Commercialization
New product planning & development process
21. 9. Brand Management
The process of creating a relationship or connection between a
company’s product and emotional perception of the customer
is called Brand Management.
Brand management includes managing the tangible and
intangible characteristics of brand.
Brand
It is a name, symbol, design or any other feature that identifies
one seller’s good as distinct from other sellers.
Brands are “What the consumers buy.”
Products are “What the company makes.”
Brand is accumulation of emotional and functional
associations.
Brand is a promise that the product will perform as per
customer’s expectation.
Important concepts of
Brand Management
1. Brand Name
2. Brand attributes
3. Brand positioning
4. Brand identity
5. Brand image
6. Brand identity v/s Brand
image
7. Brand personality
8. Brand loyalty
9. Brand association
10. Brand equity
11. Brand extension
22. 1. Brand name: Brand name is the name, term, sign, symbol or design or a combination of
them which differentiate one product from another.
2. Brand attributes: Brand attributes are a bundle of features that highlight the physical and
personality aspects of the brand. Brand attributes helps in creating brand identity.
Ex: Relevancy, Consistency, Sustainable, Inspirational, Credibility, Appealing.
3. Brand positioning: Brand positioning refers to target the customer’s reason to buy your
brand in preference to others.
4. Brand identity: Brand identity is the noticeable elements of a brand (logo, trademark
color, symbol etc.) that differentiate and identify a brand in target customer’s mind.
It establish and immediate connection between company & customer.
5. Brand image: It is the current views of customer about a brand. Brand image is the
overall impression in consumer’s mind that is formed from all associations of the product.
6. Brand Personality: Brand personality is the way brand speaks and behaves. When brand
identity or brand image is expressed in terms of human traits/characteristics then it is
called Brand personality.
23. 7. Brand loyalty: Brand loyalty is the extent to which consumer constantly buys the product
of same brand. It is a scenario where the consumer fears to purchase and consume
another brand which he doesn’t trust.
8. Brand Associations: Brand associations are images & symbols associated with a brand.
Ex: Nokia sound, Britannia sound (ting ting ta ding)
Microsoft – Bill Gates
9. Brand promise: Brand promise is What you say to customer and What is to be delivered.
If brand promise is not delivered, business will not survive
10. Brand equity: Brand equity is the value & strength of the brand that decides its worth
“It is a phrase in marketing industry which describes the value of having a well known
brand name.”
11. Brand extension: Brand extension is the use of established brand name in new product
category. The existing brand that gives rise to a brand extension is referred to as Parent
Brand.
24. 10. Branding, Packaging & Labeling
Branding
Brand Mark : That part of brand that can be recognized but cannot be vocalized such as
design or symbol or color.
Trade Character : it is a brand mark that is personified. (Nirma Girl)
Trade Mark : Trade mark is a brand name, brand mark, or trade character or combination
of them that is given legal protection.
TM denotes unregistered trademark, a mark used to promote.
SM denotes unregistered service mark.
® denotes registered trademark.
Patents : are public documents offering certain rights, privileges, titles. No other can market
such kind of patented protected product without the permission of inventor during the
patent period.
Copy Right: when patent is applied for books then called copy right.
25. Packaging
Packaging is the activity of product planning which involves designing and producing
the container or wrapper for a product.
Packing is wrapping a commodity or bundling it in a way suitable for transporting, storing
and handling.
Labeling
Label is the part of product which carries information about the product and the seller. A
label contains product’s brand name, manufacturer name, company logo, ingredients,
promotional message and instructions to use.
26. 11. Pricing & Price Planning
Price represents the value of good or service for both seller and buyer.
Price is the only element of the marketing mix which generate revenue otherwise all the
elements have cost.
Pricing objectives
Survival
Profit
Return on investment
Market share
Cash flow
Status quo
Product quality
27. Pricing of new product
Penetration pricing
Meet the competition pricing
Price skimming
Penetration pricing
Here the marketer set a low initial price in order to penetrate the market quickly and
deeply. It creates instant acceptance in the market.
Meet the competition pricing
It means the marketer will enter the market with the new product priced the same or
approximately same as those of the competitors
Price skimming approach
A skimming price is the high price put on a new product so that it can generate high
initial profits especially if the new product has no competition. The initial high price may
create an image of high quality and prestige