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1. 1
Marketing for Results:
How to Compete and Win in the
Global Marketplace
• Philip Kotler, Ph.D
• Kellogg School of
Management
• Northwestern University
• Estonian Conferences
• Tallinn, Estonia
• May 28, 2007
Two Challenges Facing
Your Company
1. Will your company be able to defend your market against the
invasion of foreign global brands?
2. Can your company develop strong local, national, regional or global
brands?
2. 2
Can Your Company
Defend the Domestic Market?
• Foreign competitors will not only go after the high end market. They will
target the middle and eventually the low end.
• The main defense for your company will be developing stronger skills in
innovation, differentiation, branding, and service. In a word, MARKETING!
• The issue is that your company is cutting its expenses when it should be
strengthening its marketing and sales resources.
But Your Businesses Needs
A Better Understanding of Marketing
• Focus first on your customers, second on your employees, third on your partners,
and fourth on your competitors.
• Don’t think of marketing to being the same as advertising and selling.
• Don’t over-spend on advertising. The quality of your advertising is more important
than its quantity.
• Use market research to guide your strategy.
• Focus on a part of the market where you can deliver superior value through
differentiation and relevance.
• Avoid lowering your price to defend your market share. It is better to increase
benefits.
3. 3
The Strategic Trajectory
for a Country
• Low cost, average quality domestic products.
• Low cost, good quality domestic products.
• High-end products made for other companies.
• Branded products (regional).
• Branded products (global).
• Branded dominant brands (global).
Outline of Seminar
1. Improving Marketing’s Role and Relationships in the
Company
2. Finding New Opportunities
3. Finding New Ways to Communicate
4. Using New Technologies and Measuring Results
4. 4
1. Improving Marketing’s Role and
Relationships in the Company
Job Positions in Today’s
Marketing Organization
• Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
• Marketing Vice President
• Brand managers
• Category managers
• Market segment managers
• Distribution channel managers
• Pricing managers
• Marketing communication managers
• Database managers
• Direct marketers
• Internet managers
• Marketing public relations manager
• Global, regional and local marketing managers
• Marketing analysts
• Marketing researchers
• Marketing intelligence gatherers
5. 5
Holistic Marketing
Winning Through
Stakeholder Value Creation - 1
• Jim Collins in Good to Great defined “great” companies by
identifying the top financial performers and their characteristics.
• Jag Sheth* and his coauthors defined “great” companies by
identifying the most humanistic companies (asking people which
companies they “loved”) and which companies treated well their five
stakeholder groups: SPICE = society, partners, investors,
community, and employees.
• The Firms of Endearment were:
– amazon, Best Buy, BMW, CarMax, Caterpillar, Commerce Bank, Container
Store, Costco, eBay, Google, Harley-Davidson, Honda, IDEO, IKEA, JetBlue
Johnson&Johnson, Jordan's Furniture, LLBean, New Balance, Patagonia,
Progressive Insurance, REI, Southwest, Starbucks, Timberland, Toyota, Trader
Joe's, UPS, Wegmans, Whole Foods.
• Sheth was surprised that these companies financially outperformed
the outstanding performance of Collins’ companies.
Source: Raj Sisodia, David B. Wolfe, and Jag Sheth, Firms of Endearment: How World-Class
Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose (Wharton School Publishing, 2007)
6. 6
Winning Through
Stakeholder Value Creation - 2
• These Firms of Endearment shared the following characteristics:
– They align the interests of all stakeholder groups
– Their executive salaries are relatively modest
– They operate an open door policy to reach top management
– Their employee compensation and benefits are high for the category; their
employee training is longer; and their employee turnover is lower
– They hire people who are passionate about customers
– They view suppliers as true partners who collaborate in improving productivity
and quality and lowering costs
– They believe that their corporate culture is their greatest asset and primary
source of competitive advantage.
– Their marketing costs are much lower than their peers while customer
satisfaction and retention is much higher.
• Their marketing is about:
– Triggering great word of mouth rather than heavy brand advertising (Google and
Starbucks did no advertising)
– They do not rely on frequent sales or heavy promotion
• Sheth, et al, offers this as a 21st century paradigm for marketing as opposed
to the traditional 20th century paradigm which they characterize as
aggressive and manipulative.
What are the main obstacles to connecting
marketing throughout your organization?
Marketing does not have a clear strategy platform to
convey to the rest of the organization
7
Lack of support from upper management6
Lack of innovation in finding new ways to better connect
marketing
5
Unable to communicate a clear, consistent message to the
entire organization
4
Lack of trust and credibility with the rest of the organization3
Shortage of good talent in the marketing group2
Too few resources to deliver against objectives1
Rank
Source: Spencer Stuart
7. 7
If You Are Appointed CMO, You Want Your
Office To Be Located Next To:
1. CEO office
2. CFO office
3. CTO office
4. CIO office
5. VPS office
What is a CMO Expected to Do?
1. Monitor the evolving consumer landscape, represent the voice of the
customer (VOC), and champion the development of a strong customer-
orientation to build customer loyalty/retention.
2. Gather customer insights to help develop new products and services
for achieving growth objectives.
3. Be the steward of the corporate brand and branding practice.
4. Upgrade marketing technology and skills in the company.
5. Measure and account for marketing financial performance and contain
media and other service costs.
6. Bring insight into the corporate portfolio and synergies.
8. 8
Some Statements by CMOs
• What surprised Carter Cast most when he became CMO was “that I
would interact so much with functions outside of marketing. I didn’t
realize it is a holistic assignment. Then I realized I really had to
understand things like product supply, cost break-evens and
accounting.” CMO and later CEO of WalMart.com, Carter Cast
• “You want to be connecting at the very senior levels of the
organization, and you also want to be connecting in with the
engineers and scientists who are doing a lot of the work on the front
lines… You have to figure out how pull all those instruments
together in a way that’s delivering great marketing accountability and
engaging marketing programs.” Yahoo CMO Cammie Dunaway
Successful Steps for a New CMO
1. Define your roles, responsibilities, goals, and vision with the CEO.
Define expectations, resources, and time periods.
2. Educate your peers and learn about their functions.
3. Proactively collaborate with the other functions.
4. Develop a strong marketing team that will gain respect.
5. Actively pursue accountability.
6. Engage in two-way communication of your plans and their plans.
9. 9
Questions for the Marketing VP
• Is the marketing department too large or too small? Too centralized or too
decentralized?
• Is the department performing some activities that can be reduced or
eliminated?
• Is the department not performing some activities that are needed?
• Should in-sourced activities be out-sourced?
• Should out-sourced activities be in-sourced?
• Does the department lack some fundamental skills?
• Should marketing be organized by skills, product groups, market segments,
channels, geography, etc?
Sales Precedes Marketing
• In the beginning there was sales.
• Marketing appeared later to help sales people:
– By using marketing research to size and segment the market
– By using communications to build the brand and develop
collateral materials
– By finding leads through direct marketing and trade shows
• Marketing was originally located in the sales department.
• Then marketing grew as a separate department responsible for
the marketing plan (4Ps) and brand-building.
10. 10
Differences in Mindset and Style
• Marketing
• Profit oriented
• Data oriented
• Analytical
• Likes planning
• Team-oriented
• MBA educated
• Focused on whole market and
market segments
• Sales
• Volume oriented
• Action oriented
• Intuitive
• Prefers doing
• Individualistic
• Undergraduate and “street
smart”
• Focused on each customer
Perceptions of Each Other
Sales believes that marketing
doesn’t listen or understand
the complexities of the sales
process
Marketing complains about the lack of
feedback from sales
Market Information
“Corporate messages and
generic sales collateral aren’t
helpful in closing orders.
Leads aren’t qualified
“Salespeople ignore corporate branding
and positioning standards.” Underutilize
leads.
Messaging
Sales feel indispensable,
views marketers as ivory
tower strategists who don’t
really understand customers
or the pressures of selling in a
difficult environment
Marketing feels under-appreciated, views
sales as self-serving and short sighted
Strategy Setting
Sales Perception of
Marketing
Marketing Perception of
Sales
Key Task
11. 11
Hypothesis:
The integration of sales and marketing tends to progress through four distinct
stages or levels of complexity.
Identify the Existing Level of Relationship
Undefined Defined Aligned Integrated
Customer
The product needs to be co-designed with the customer.
Marketing must formulate a superior value proposition for the target market
and develop materials to support sales at every stage of the selling process.
Sales must help the customer with the following questions:
Why should I take action now?
What do you do better than my other alternatives?
What is the value to me of those advantages?
Why should these claims be believed?
The Product, Marketing, Sales Flow
13. 13
Eight Ways to Improve
Marketing/Sales Alignment
1. Hold regularly scheduled meetings between marketing and sales.
2. Make it easier for marketing and sales people to communicate with
each other.
3. Arrange for more joint work assignments and job rotation between
marketing and sales people.
4. Appoint a liason person from marketing to live with the sales force
and help marketers understand sales problems better.
5. Locate the marketing and sales people in the same building or
location to maximize their encounters.
6. Set shared revenue objectives and reward systems.
7. Define more carefully the steps in the marketing/sales funnel.
8. Improve sales force feedback.
2. Finding New Opportunities
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Marketing Helps in the
New Product Development Process
• Identify trends and derive new product ideas
• Identify new segments
• Refine the concept
– Microsoft
• Review the product specifications and test them with buyers
– Philips and “Sense and Sensibility”
• Do test marketing in the early launch phase and revise plans
Three Innovation Models
• Whirlpool Corporation launched an effort in 2000 to stimulate greater
innovation. The company trained 400 employees from a wide variety of
functions in a new process of “ideation.” Since the initiative began,
Whirlpool has gone from a handful of product introductions per year to
dozens, including the highly successful Gladiator line of appliances,
workbenches, and storage systems for the garage.
• Shell, in 1996, authorized a team of its employees to allocate $20
million to rule-breaking ideas originating anywhere in the company.
Any employee can make a 10-minute pitch followed by 15-minute Q&A.
Greenlight ideas get an average of $100,000 and up to $600,000. 4
teams out of 12 received 6 month funding for next stage development.
Of Shell’s 5 largest growth initiatives in 1999, 4 started this way.
• Samsung Electronics established the Value Innovation Program (VIP)
Center in 1998. Core cross-functional team members come together to
discuss their strategic projects. In 2003, the center completed eighty
projects. Samsung runs an annual Value Innovation conference and
awards are given for the best cases.
15. 15
Eight Ways to Get Ideas
From Customers
1. Observe how your customers are using your product.
2. Ask your customers about their problems with your products.
3. Ask your customers about their dream products.
4. Use a customer advisory board to comment on your company’s
ideas.
5. Use websites for new ideas.
6. Form a brand community of enthusiasts who discuss your product.
7. Encourage or challenge your customers to change or improve your
product.
8. Let the users manufacture all the content.
Differentiation: One Answer
• Many categories are becoming commoditized.
• Yet Ted Levitt said that “anything can be differentiated.”
– Chicken (Purdue), bricks (Acme), coffee (Starbucks), cement (Cemex),
vodka (Absolut)
• Jack Trout, in his Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer
Competition, describes many ways to differentiate.
• Differentiation can be psychological as well as functional (Marlboro
cigarettes).
– P&G’s Folger’s Instant Coffee: Flaked Crystals
– Frank Perdue’s Chicken: Yellow Flesh
– Alberto-Culver’s Natural Silk Shampoo: Silk
16. 16
Decomposing End User Value
Jagdish Sheth, Singapore Marketer, 2002
Using Blue Ocean Strategy
• Leave the red ocean of intense competition and capture a blue ocean of uncontested market
space.
• The key is value innovation.
– This differs from value creation which might be incremental or technological innovation which
leads to a Philips’ CD-I that could do too much and is difficult to understand.
– The goal is to find find a way to increase buyer value while reducing costs. It breaks the
value-cost tradeoff. Example: Cirque du Soleil.
– The value innovation amounts to a new strategy that affects the entire system of a
company’s activities.
• Start with a strategy canvas. The horizontal axis captures the range of factors the industry
competes on and invests in. The vertical axis captures the offering level that buyers receive
across all the key competing factors (high to low).
– The wine industry has two groups: premium wines and budget wines. The value curves are
of the two are different. The problem is that most premium wines are similar in their value
curves and most budget wines are similar in their value curves.
• The challenge is to find a new value curve to escape from the red ocean. Use the four action
framework:
– What factors to eliminate? (cost goes down)
– What factors to reduce well below the industry’s standard? (cost goes down)
– What factors to raise well above the industry’s standard? (differentiation goes up)
– What new factors to add that the industry has never offered? (differentiation goes up)
Source: W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, Blue Ocean Strategy (Harvard Business
School, 2005).
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Source: Blue Ocean Strategy
Creating Cirque du Soleil
Create
Theme
Refined environment
Multiple productions
Artistic music and dance
Reduce
Fun and humor
Thrill and danger
Raise
Unique venue
Eliminate
Star performers
Animal shows
Aisle concession sales
Multiple show arenas
Source: Blue Ocean Strategy, p. 36.
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Three Characteristics of a
Good “Blue Ocean” Strategy
• You will succeed with focus, divergence, and a
compelling tagline.
– Without focus, cost is too high.
– Without divergence, me too.
– Without a tagline, no start.
Source: Blue Ocean Strategy
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Creating Yellow Tail
Create
Easy drinking
Ease of selection
Fun and adventure
Reduce
Wine complexity
Wine range
Vineyard prestige
Raise
Price versus budget wines
Retail store involvement
Eliminate
Esoteric terminology
Aging qualities
Above-the-line marketing
Source: Blue Ocean Strategy, p. 35.
Reconstruct Market Boundaries Through
a Six Paths Framework - 1
1. Look across alternative industries
• NetJets (neither commercial or plane ownership)
• NTT’s DoCoMo (phone and easy Internet)
• Home Depot (products and craft advice)
2. Look across strategic groups within industries
• Curves (health club or home exercise)
• Walkman (boom box or transistor radio)
• Toyota Lexus (a Mercedes at Cadillac prices)
• Ralph Lauren (high fashion or no fashion)
• Champion Enterprises (pre-fabs vs. on-site developers)
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Source: Blue Ocean Strategy
Six Paths Framework - 2
3. Look across the chain of buyers
– Change from conventional target user: purchasers, users,
influencers
– Nova Nordisk (focused on insulin users rather than doctor)
– Bloomberg (focused on users rather than IT industry)
– Canon (small copiers for homes, not companies)
4. Look across complementary product and
service offerings
– NABI (Hungarian bus company brought down long term costs)
– Barnes & Noble book stores
– Zeneca’s Salick cancer centers (combine all treatments in one
place)
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Six Path Framework - 3
5. Look across functional or emotional appeals to
buyers
• Swatch (from function to emotion)
• Body Shop (from emotion to function)
• QB House (Asian barbershop…from emotion to function)
• Cemex (selling a dream instead of cement)
6. Look across time
• Study trends that are decisive to your business, irreversible, and
have a clear trajectory.
• Apple (creating iTunes observing peer illegal file sharing)
• Cisco (solving problem of slow data rates and incompatible
computer networks).
Capturing Non-Customers
• Callaway Golf noticed that many country club members have not
taken up golf because the game looked too difficult. Callaway
invented Big Bertha, a golf club with a large head making it easier to
hit the ball. They converted many non-customers.
• Pret a Manger, a British fast-food chain, noticed that professionals
went to restaurants for lunch. Some were dissatisfied with the slow
service and wanted healthier food, or decided to bring lunch from
home. Pret offered restaurant-quality sandwiches made fresh every
day from the finest ingredients and the food is available even faster
than in fast food restaurants.
• JCDecaux noticed that billboards can’t carry enough information in
their ads. So the company arranged with municipalities to build and
maintain “street furniture” that would carry ads.
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Factors Discouraging Imitators
• The incumbents ridicule the innovation (CNN…how could it succeed
without a star)
• The incumbents would invalidate their own business model if they
imitated (Body Shop)
• High cost of change (Southwest Airlines cannot be cheaply imitated)
• Patents or legal permits
• High volume of the innovation leads to rapid cost advantages (Wal-
Mart)
• Brand buzz stays with the pioneer (Quicken)
Cereals for breakfast market
Cereal varieties
New category
STREETS
The case of Cereal Bars
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Baby dolls market
Doll varieties
New categoryTeenager
The case of Barbie
Other Examples of Lateral Marketing
• Kinder Surprise = candy + toy.
• Gas station stores = gas station + food.
• Cyber cafes = cafeteria + Internet.
• Walkman = audio + portable.
• Train + school = classes on the train.
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3. Finding New Ways to Communicate
Media Evolves
• Drum beats and smoke signals
• Face-to-face sales calls
• Writing
• Mail
• Telephone
• Radio
• TV
• Film
• Direct mail
• E-mail
• Website
• Banners and pop-ups
• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Webcasts
• Mobile marketing
• Social network sites
• Stimulated buzz
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Media Vehicles Abound
• Advertising
• Sponsorships
• Festivals
• Virtual communities (Second Life)
• Mobile marketing
• Company blogs and podcasts
• Product placement
• Street-level promotion
– Chrysler’s PT Landcruiser appeared in fashionable areas and college
tailgate parties.
– Piaggio: Models drove around Los Angeles on Vespa scooters and
chatted with customers in cafes and bars.
– Ford: Ford identified 120 people in six key markets and gave them a
Focus to drive for 6 months and promotional material.
– Vans builds skateboard parks at malls, sponsors Vans Triple Crown,
etc.
– Fake tourist carries Sony-Ericsson’s new camera phone and asked
people to take pictures of her in front of a landmark.
Product Placement is Growing
• Television and talk shows
• Video games
• Music
• Film
– The new James Bond film Casino Royale has placements for Ford
cars, Omega watches, Vaio laptops, Sony-Ericson Mobile Phones,
and New Holland Heavy equipment.
• Books
– The Bulgari Connection
– Men in Aprons (Electrolux)
– The Sweetest Taboo (mentions Ford Fiesta)
• Churches
– Church pastors can have a chance to win a free trip to London and
$1,000 if they mention to the congregation the new Disney film “The
Chronicles of Narna.”
– Chrysler is sponsoring a Pattie LaBelle gospel music tour through
African American megachurches to promote its new SUV.
– The megachurches are seen as consumer aggregators and pastors as
great connectors.
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Consider Mobile Marketing
• Everyone who steps outside will have their wallet and their cell
phone (76% Americans have a cell phone).
– In Sweden, you can phone to reserve a parking space in a designated city
space.
– In the U.K., Cadbury runs a sweepstakes using codes on candy wrappers. You
send a text message to see if you have won.
– You can get a coupon for Dunkin’ Donut on the phone and show it for a discount.
– Passing a dept store and phone rings about a sale of a cashmere sweater
– Shopping in a supermarket and product messages come to the shopper’s phone
• Companies are paying for placing banner ads on news, weather,
sports and other internet sites that users visit on their mobile phone.
– Unilever put I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter on mobile phones at a cost of
$75,000. The link took the phone owner to Fabio who spoke about the
product.
– There is still a feeling that the media is overexpensive, around $40 per
1000 exposures compared to $10 on the Internet.
Consumer-Generated Media (CGM)
• Direct customer feedback to company Web sites
• Online bulletin boards, chat rooms, forums, and discussions
• Person-to-person e-mail
• Blogs (personal Web logs/diaries)
• Moblogs (sites where users post or send digital images, photos,
video clips to others)
• Consumer opinions and reviews on Web sites (amazon, netflix,
zagat, planetfeedback, epinions)
• Podcasts (audio files that can be downloaded and played on various
devices)
• Webcasts (internet live presentations)
• Wikipedia (encyclopedia) and Flickr (photos)
• Instant messages
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Watch for Blogs
• Blogs are a modern version of a personal “soap box.” where one
can spread word-of-mouth. The more visits there are to your blog,
the more prominent you become as a brand. Your pronouncements
become more important and influential. Blogs have a “man-on-the-
street” credibility.
• There are also blogs runs by companies or company spokespeople.
• Blogs mean a loss of message control. The potential for brand
damage is high. Malcontent stories can spread on the Internet like
wildfire.
• Your company must monitor blogs for talk about your company and
your competitors. You need a specialist to do this.
Steps to Take Regarding Blogs
• Conduct Industry Analysis: Need to find out what a group of consumers
think about your latest widget or market trends? Check out blog sites for the
specialists following your industry. (Technorati.com, Blogwise.com).
• Take Advantage of Targeted Advertising Opportunities: Identify
bloggers who cover important topics in your area and find out what they
charge for ads. Marketers can change ads to match the day-to-day
changes in their industry.
• Encourage Employees to Blog: Technical experts can discuss the latest
goings on in R&D, while your C-level discusses the future of your business.
Your brand can gain quick credibility by offering the chance to have
conversations with executives or experts. Adds a human touch.
• Create a Corporate Blog: Your brand’s blog can broadcast messages to
your external consumers, partners and industry-watchers. The difference is
that dialogue via blog is quick and specific. Users come back because they
are genuinely interested in the content, while brands have a portal for
sharing the latest news as it happens.
• Make the Blog Authentic, Personal and Compelling. The live individual
behind it should be responsive to comments and inquiries. New entries
must be posted daily.
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What is Podcasting?
• Podcasting originated with the IPOD which would carry
music files.
• Podcasting is the making of an audio file (or video file or
photo) which can be distributed in different ways:
– Download from a source such as National Public
Radio
– Sent from one person to another by email
• The file can be loaded on an IPOD and listened to at any
time or place.
• The IPOD is a storage and playing medium. It is like the
TIVO that stores whole programs and movies.
Advice about Podcasting
Q: Why should marketers consider doing a corporate podcast?
Wehr: Podcasts let you build a one-on-one relationship by connecting with
listeners and putting out a message that has an emotional aspect to it.
Listeners hear a voice and associate that voice with your company, which is
a great way to get them coming back again and again.
Q: How do you select the right “voice” for your podcast?
Wehr: Particularly in the b-to-b market, it’s important for listeners to hear your
message from upper-level management.
Q: How often should marketers create new podcasts, and how long
should they be?
Wehr: The podcasts have to be frequent enough to maintain an audience.
This usually means a one-off podcast is going to provide very little value. As
for length, we concluded that 15-minute podcastsmake sense. The average
commute is 30 minutes, so if you can stay in the 15- to 20-minute range,
you’re good.
Q: How should marketers use e-mail to promote their podcasts?
Wehr: You can pull out quotes or information that’s contained in the podcast
and put it into your normal e-mail communications. With each new podcast,
you should be doing a summary [of the podcast] and placing it on your site
so search engines can pick it up. You should also refer to previous
podcasts in current podcasts.
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Social Networks
• Social networks consist of people registering on a
website such as MySpace or Facebook and describing
themselves and connecting with others.
• These social networks do not allow direct marketing to
individuals in the social network.
• YouTube is an example of people making and sharing
videos with others. Some youtubers have become very
popular. Advertisers worry that consumers prefer
watching YouTube videos to their more expensive TV
programs.
Commercial Live Webcasts
• A company can offer information or advice on a
company-sponsored webcast, and also answer
questions.
• Advertise the time of the webcast, its length, and its cost
(if any). Follow up after the webcast with prospects.
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What is WOM and Buzz?
• WOM is word-of-mouth.
– WOM is increasing naturally with the Internet and the cell-phone.
– WOM is more trusted than advertising.
– WOM is very powerful (iPod, Harley Davidson),
• Buzz is about trying to increase WOM. There are different types of buzz:
– Buzz marketing is meant to generate publicity, excitement and some information about the
product.
• Richard Branson’s nearly naked descent via crane into Times Square to
promote Virgin’s mobile phone service.
– Viral marketing aims to manufacture a marketing message—typically online and in a tangible
format such as email—that can spread among consumers quickly and exponentially.
– Shill (or stealth) marketing involves people paid to promote a product/service in different
public places without revealing their relationship with the company.
• Sony Ericsson hired actors to walk around and ask people to take photos of
them.
– Genuine word-of-mouth occurs when people talk about products on their own to friends and
acquaintances.
• BzzAgent is partly contrived, partly genuine. Women are best at Bzz.
Word of Mouth Matters
• The automobile manufacturer Mercedes is the most popular brand worldwide. 60 %
of Mercedes owners recommend the brand to others. They are followed by BMW and
Toyota at 53%.
• The higher the satisfaction of your Fan Community, the higher the potential for chain
reactions in word-of-mouth advertising. The clearest proof that your brand is
attractive is when your customers risk their own reputations in order to recommend
your brand.
• Fred Reichheld says that the willingness to recommend to a friend is the single most
reliable measure of brand equity. The net promoter score (the number of people
willing to recommend your brand minus those who are not willing to do so) provides
an accurate predictor of your company’s growth prospects.
• Word-of-mouse is more powerful than word-of-mouth because it reaches so many
more people.
One lone professor found a flaw in Intel’s new chip and complained and soon Intel was
receiving 25,000 calls a day.
– Pete got mad because he bought a hybrid Honda that listed 45 miles per gallon. He only got
35 miles per gallon. He complained to Honda but was not answered. He went on a talk show
and the press picked it up. Soon he became a scourge to Honda.
– One self-appointed movie reviewer can damn a new picture that a company spent $10
million to market. (“A guy living in a basement can bring the studios to their knees.”
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Creating Buzz
• Distinguish three types of diffusers
– Mavens: they are an expert on a topic. You listen to them
closely. Their motivation is to inform or explain.
– Connectors: they know a lot of people. They are social
glue. They may mention things to many others but are not
seen as experts
– Salespeople: they are persuasive and help create an
epidemic of interest
From Malcolm Gladwell, Tipping Point
• Get trendsetters in any given community to carry your
message:
– Physically (being seen with the brand)
– Verbally (bringing the brand up in conversation)
– Virtually (via the Internet)
The Professionalization of Buzz
• P&G’s Tremor
– Tremor has identified 200,000 of the most influential teen connectors.
– They are sent sample products and can talk about them to fellow
students if they find the products are quite good.
• BZZAgent.com
– David Balter wrote Grapevine. He started BzzAgent.com and
recruits agents of teens, senior citizens, and other groups.
– Bzz only accepts good products to submit to buzz.
– An agent receives a list of campaigns and chooses campaigns
they are comfortable with.
– They receive the product and a tipsheet on how to use WOM if
they like the product and will talk about it.
– They write a report on every incident when they mentioned the
product and they get points which turn into rewards.
– They are asked to report negative things as well as good things
about the product.
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Factors Determining the
Effectiveness of Buzz
Type of product
Exciting products (books, movies, records)
Innovative products (Palms)
Personal experience products (hotels, cars)
Complex products (software, med’l devices)
Expensive products (computers)
Observable products (clothes, jewelry)
In general, high involvement and conversational products.
Type of audience
Certain ethnic groups depend more on word-of-mouth
(Hispanics)
Younger people talk more about products than older people.
Immigrants rely more on word-of-mouth.
Customer connectivity
The more the connectedness, the more the effectiveness of buzz
4. Using New Technologies and
Measuring Results
• Direct marketing and predictive
analytics
• Marketing metrics
• Marketing models
• Sales automation and marketing
automation systems
• Marketing dashboards
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Needed: Metrics for Measuring Different
Marketing Expenditure Categories
• Mail campaigns
• Telemarketing campaigns
• Sales promotions
• Managed events
• Trade shows
• Sponsorships
• TV ad campaigns
• Corporate image campaigns
• Subscription campaigns
• Customer win-back campaigns
• New product launch campaigns
Major Metrics
Sales Metrics
• Sales growth
• Market share
• Sales from new products
Customer Readiness to Buy Metrics
• Awareness
• Preference
• Purchase intention
• Trial rate
• Repurchase rate
Customer Metrics
• Customer complaints
• Customer satisfaction
• Customer sacrifice
• Number of promoters to detractors
• Customer acquisition costs
• New customer gains
• Customer loses
• Customer churn
• Retention rate
• Customer lifetime value
• Customer equity
• Customer profitability
• Return on customer
Brand Metrics
• Brand strength (perceived relative brand value)
• Brand equity
*Compiled by Philip Kotler from various sources
Distribution Metrics
• Number of outlets
• Share in shops handling
• Weighted distribution
• Distribution gains
• Average stocks volume (value)
• Stocks cover in days
• Out of stock frequency
• Share of shelf
• Average sales per point of sale
Communication Metrics
• Spontaneous (unaided) brand awareness Top of
mind brand awareness
• Prompted (aided) brand awareness
• Spontaneous (unaided) advertising awareness
• Prompted (aided) advertising awareness
• Effective reach
• Effective frequency
• Gross rating points (GRP)
• Response rate
Sales force metrics
• Quality of lead stream
• Average lead to proposal
• Average close ratio
• Cost per inquiry
• Cost per lead
• Cost per sale
• Cost per sales dollar
Price and Profitability Metrics
• Price sensitivity
• Average price change
• Contribution margin
• ROI
• DCF
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Comments on Some Metrics
• Market share
• Customer satisfaction
• Customer sacrifice
• Number of promoters to detractors
• Retention rate
• Customer lifetime value
• Customer equity
• Return on customer
• Brand strength (perceived relative brand value)
• Brand equity
• ROI
• DCF
Brand
familiarity
Purchase
consideration
Purchase
intention
Media
effectiveness
Marcom
Adjacent
category
awareness
Purchase
Brand beliefs
and perception
PR
Message
effectiveness
In-store
activity
Pricing
Promotion
Revenue
Margin
Use and
satisfaction
Reviews
Brand
familiarity
Purchase
consideration
Purchase
intention
Purchase
Build Models of How Your Market
Works and Use New Tools
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Marketing Decision Models
and Marketing Mix Response Models
• BRANDAID
• CALLPLAN
• DETAILER
• MEDIAC
• PROMOTER
• ADCAD
• See Gary Lillien and Philip Kotler, Marketing Models
(Prentice-Hall).
SALES AUTOMATION
• The objective is to empower the salesperson to be an informed
salesperson who virtually has the whole company’s knowledge at
his command and can provide total sales quality.
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Marketing Automation
• Selecting names for a direct mail campaign
• Deciding who should receive loans or credit extensions
• Allocating product lines to shelf space
• Selecting media
• Customizing letters to individual customers
• Targeting coupons and samples
• Pricing airline seats and hotel reservations
Marketing Dashboards
• Tools dashboard
• Processes dashboard
• Performance dashboard
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Exploit the Internet!
• Create a web site that brilliantly communicates about your
history, products, brands, beliefs and values (BMW).
• Create a site that consults on a category (Colgate on dental
problems).
• Create a site that consults on the individual customer’s profile
(Elizabeth Arden) and sells customized products (Acumin
vitamins).
• Run focus groups with prospects, customers and dealers or
send questionnaires.
• Send ads or information to prospects who show an interest.
• Send free samples of new products (freesample.com).
• Send coupons of new products (coolsavings.com).
• Invite customers to send e-mails about problems, ideas, etc.
• Use the Internet to research your competitors.
• Facilitate internal communications among employees on a
private intranet.
• Use the Internet to improve purchasing, recruiting, and training.
• Use the Internet to compare sellers’ prices and to purchase
materials by posting the company’s terms.
Technology-Enabled Marketing: Examples
• Royal Bank of Canada
– Decision to purchase CRM
• Halifax Bank
– Teller suggests financial products
• Capital One
– A credit card for everyone, but with different interest rates, credit lines, and cash
advances.
• Tesco supermarkets
– Tesco has identified 5,000 customer “needs” segments. It sends out some
300,000 variations of any given offer with redemption rates of 90%. It has
formed clubs such as Baby Club, A World of Wine Club, My Time Club
• Kraft
– Kraft has the names of 110 million customers and 20 thousand facts for each
household. Kraft launched print magazine, Food & Family, that is delivered to
the homes of 2.1 million Kraft customers in 32 versions tailored to 32 segments.
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Take-Aways
• Marketing skills must be enhanced in the organization.
• Marketing’s scope must be more holistic.
• Opportunities always exist and can be found by market segmentation,
differentiation, branding, co-development with customers, blue ocean
thinking and lateral marketing.
• Traditional media must be supplemented by newer media such as
mobile phones, blogs, podcasts, webcasts, social networks, and buzz
marketing.
• Marketing technologies such as marketing models, sales automation,
marketing automation, and marketing dashboards can increase
marketing productivity.
• Senior management is putting pressure on marketing to deliver more
accountability through better campaign and financial metrics.
“It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent, but the
ones most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin