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"Principles of Marketing" 17th Edition Kotler
1. Define marketing and marketing process
1. Marketing: Create customer value and customer fit
learning target
Define marketing and outline the main steps of the marketing process
An extended model of the marketing process
Understand the needs and desires of the market and customers
Create value for customers and build customer relationships
Research customers and markets
This is the knowledge point that I need to understand urgently and learn in actual combat.
Manage marketing information and customer data
Learn to apply data analysis on the platform and read reports
Design a customer value-oriented marketing strategy
Choose the customers you want to serve:
market segmentation
Car mobile phone charging bracket
This current supply chain is the best, prioritize analysis
Mobile phone charger, data cable
Mobile phone tablet holder
Voice night light
Choose your target market
Car mobile phone charging bracket
Mobile phone charger, data cable
Mobile phone tablet holder
Develop a value proposition:
Differentiation
position
Build an integrated marketing plan that delivers superior value
product and service design
Build a strong brand
Pricing
Create real value
channel
Manage demand and supply chain
Promotion
Communicate value proposition
4P
Build profitable relationships and create customer delight
customer relationship management
Build lasting relationships with selected customers
partnership management
Build strong relationships with marketing partners
Obtain value from customers to create profits and customer equity
Create satisfied, loyal customers
Capture customer lifetime value
Increase market share and customer share
other
利用市场营销技术
管理全球市场
确保环境和社会责任
Explain the importance of understanding the market and customers, and master five core market concepts
Master the key elements of customer-oriented marketing strategy and discuss the marketing management orientation that guides marketing strategy.
Discuss customer relationship management and explain strategies for creating value for customers and obtaining customer returns
Describe the key trends and forces driving change in marketing in the relationship era
1.1 What is marketing
definition
Marketing is: attracting customer investment and managing valuable customer relationships
In short: Marketing is satisfying customers at a certain level of profit
Any business that provides food and clothing is not a good business.
Therefore, you must do a profitable business
Complete definition: The process by which an enterprise creates value for customers and establishes a solid customer relationship with them in order to obtain benefits in return.
Dual purpose:
Attract customers by promising excellent value
Retain and grow existing customers by creating satisfaction
Goal: Promise customers high value to attract customers, and satisfy customers to retain existing customers
process
Understand the market and customer needs and desires
Design a customer value-oriented marketing strategy
Build an integrated marketing plan that delivers superior value
Build profitable relationships and create customer delight
Get value from customers
Obtain value from customers to create profits and customer equity
1.2 Understand the market and customer needs
needs, wants and needs
Need: a state in which people feel lacking
Physiological needs
social needs
personal needs
They are an inherent part of what makes us human
Desires: are manifestations of human needs and are influenced by culture and personality.
Demand: When supported by purchasing power, desire is converted into demand
market offering
product
tangible product
Serve
Activities or benefits for sale
Basically intangible and does not involve transfer of ownership, such as banking, air travel, accommodation, etc.
experience
Such as people, places, organizations, information and ideas, etc.
Customer value and customer satisfaction
Customers form expectations about the value and satisfaction that various market offerings will deliver and make purchasing decisions accordingly
Satisfied customers make repeat purchases and tell others about their great experiences
Like the current sharing economy
Or short videos sharing your own experience fall into this category.
The experience of bringing goods by experts is also
Unsatisfied customers complain and disparage the product to others and buy from competitors instead.
The impact of negative reviews
Problems with the product itself
Malicious competition from competitors, etc.
exchange and relationships
exchange
It is the act of offering something in exchange for getting a desired item from another person.
relation
Build strong and valuable customer relationships
market
A collection of actual buyers and potential buyers of a product or service
marketing
It is managing the market to build valuable (profitable) customer relationships
1.3 Design customer value-oriented marketing strategies and plans
Design a customer value-oriented marketing strategy
Marketing Management
definition
The art and science of selecting target markets and building valuable relationships with them
Related concepts
Select target customers [market]
market segmentation
Divide the market into customer segments
Targeted market
Choose the market segment you will follow and decide who you will serve
Choose a value proposition
A brand's value proposition is the set of benefits or values it promises to deliver to customers to satisfy their needs.
Marketing management orientation
Five marketing management concepts
production concept
Consumers will favor products that are readily available and affordable
. Therefore, managers should strive to improve production or distribution efficiency.
product concept
Consumers will prefer products with the highest quality, performance levels and innovative features.
Marketing strategies often emphasize continuous product improvement.
Selling ideas
Without massive promotion and merchandising, customers will not buy enough of the product
Suitable for non-asked products --- those products that consumers would not actively think of purchasing under normal circumstances, such as insurance or blood donation.
marketing concept
The key to achieving organizational goals is to understand the wants and needs of target customers better than competitors and to satisfy customers.
social marketing concept
Questioning pure marketing concepts that ignore possible conflicts between consumers' short-term desires and their long-term welfare
three elements of balance
company profit
consumer desire
social interests
Develop integrated marketing plans and programs
1.4 Manage customer relationships and obtain customer value
Attracting customers and managing customer relationships
customer relationship management
definition
The entire process of establishing and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction
The foundation of relationship building: customer value and satisfaction
customer perceived value
The difference between the total benefits and the total costs to customers of owning or using a market offering compared with other competing products
Customer Satisfaction
Comparison of customer's perceived effectiveness of the product with customer expectations
Not satisfied
Product performance is lower than expected
satisfy
Product performance meets expectations
Very satisfied or surprised
Product performance exceeds expectations
Customer Relationship Levels and Tools
Companies with many low-margin customers will pursue building basic relationships with them
Companies with fewer but high-margin customers want to build strong relationships with key customers.
Customer engagement and modern digital and social media
Tools for building customer relationships in the digital age
Websites, online ads, videos, mobile ads and applications, blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other important online communities and social media
customer engagement marketing
Cultivate direct and ongoing customer engagement in shaping brand conversations, brand experiences and brand communities.
consumer generated marketing
Such as the current Douyin
It is a form of customer engagement marketing that emphasizes that consumers play an increasingly important role in shaping their own and others' brand experiences.
partnership management
Work closely with others inside and outside the company to create and deliver more value to customers.
supply chain
The process from raw materials to parts and components, and then to providing finished products to final customers is like a long path.
supply chain management
Through supply chain management, strengthen the connection between yourself and various partners in the supply chain.
Get customer value
Build and maintain customer loyalty
Good customer relationship management produces customer delight. In turn, happy customers stay loyal and positively tell others about the company and its products.
forward propagation
customer lifetime value
Customer delight creates an emotional connection between the customer and the brand, not just a rational preference. It’s this connection that keeps customers coming back again and again.
Increase customer share
To increase customer share, companies find ways to provide diversified products and services to existing customers, or use cross-selling and value-added selling to market more products and services to existing customers.
Provide diverse offerings
Leverage cross/value-added selling to market additional offerings
Customer rights
definition
The discounted sum of the lifetime value of a business’s current and potential customers
Build the right relationships with the right customers
Companies should manage customer interests carefully and treat customers as assets that need to be managed to maximize them.
1.5 New changes in the marketing field
The Digital Age: Online, Mobile and Social Media Marketing
The rapid development of digital technology has completely changed the way we live.
How we communicate, share information, entertain and shop
social media marketing
instant marketing
Engage customers in the moment
Marketers can instantly engage customers by connecting their brands to important hot topics, real-life events, personal encounters, or other important happenings in consumers' lives.
mobile marketing
The fastest growing digital marketing platform.
smart phone
Carry
always online
precise positioning
Highly personal
Ideal digital marketing tool
Interact with consumers anytime, anywhere throughout the buying process.
changing economic environment
challenge
While adjusting the brand value proposition to adapt to the current economic environment, it is also necessary to strengthen long-term brand equity.
Instead of rushing to lower prices in uncertain economic times, try to maintain price levels while explaining why your brand is worth the price.
The Growth of Nonprofit Marketing
rapid globalization
Managers around the world are increasingly accustomed to looking at their industries, competitors, and market opportunities from a global rather than a local perspective.
Sustainable marketing---take on more social responsibilities
The social responsibility and environmental protection movements will place even more stringent demands on companies in the future.
2. Corporate strategy and marketing strategy: Collaborate to build customer fit, value and relationships
learning target
Explain corporate-level strategic planning and its four steps
Discuss how to design a business portfolio and develop a growth strategy
Explain the role of marketing in strategic planning and how to work with partners to create and deliver customer value
Describe the components and influencing factors of customer value-oriented marketing strategies and mixes
List the functions of marketing management (including elements of marketing planning) and discuss the importance of measuring and managing return on marketing investment
2.1 Company-wide strategic planning: clarifying the role of marketing
steps of strategic planning
Define company mission
Set company goals
Plan business portfolio
company level
Plan marketing and other functional strategies
Business unit, product and market levels
Determine market-oriented mission
The mission statement should be market-oriented, defined in terms of the basic needs of the customers it seeks to satisfy.
Example
We are an online social network
We connect people around the world and help them share the important moments in their lives
Starbucks
We sell coffee and snacks
We sell the "Starbucks Experience", enriching life through an extraordinary cup of coffee, a person, and a time
A company's mission shouldn't focus too much on sales or profits --- profits are simply the reward for creating value for customers. Instead, the mission should emphasize the customer and the customer experience the company strives to create
Determine company goals
A company must translate its ambitious mission into specific support goals for each level of management. Every manager should have corresponding goals and responsibilities for achieving them.
2.2 Planning business portfolio
definition
A collection of all the company's businesses and products
The best business portfolio is often the result of the best match of a company's strengths and weaknesses with opportunities in the environment
Most large companies have complex portfolios of businesses and brands
two steps
Companies must analyze their current business portfolio and decide which businesses should receive more support and which should invest less or no more.
analyze and decide
Steps in Business Portfolio Analysis
It is the primary task in strategic planning whereby managers evaluate the various businesses and products that make up the company.
A manager's first step is to identify the key businesses that make up the company, the so-called strategic business units (SBUs)
When designing a business plan, it's wise to add and support products and services that align with the company's core philosophy and competitive advantages.
Boston Consulting Group Law
The company classifies all its strategic business units based on a growth-share matrix.
Celebrities
Substantial investment is required to support its rapid development
Eventually their growth will slow down and they turn into cash cow businesses and products
cash cattle
These successful strategic business units require less capital investment to maintain their market share
Question type
Managers need to consider which problem businesses should be supported and transformed into stars, and which ones should be eliminated.
Thin dogs
They may be able to generate enough cash to be self-sufficient, but they are unlikely to contribute significant cash to the company.
Companies should take decisive measures against thin dogs and problem businesses.
You can give up a business and divert resources to other uses by selling or eliminating it.
matrix method
Problems:
Focus on classifying existing business and not considering future business planning
solution:
More and more companies are handing over strategic planning responsibilities to cross-functional teams composed of department managers who are closer to the market.
It must develop a growth-lean strategy to build its future business portfolio
To compete more effectively, meet stakeholder needs and attract talent, companies need to continue to grow.
Growth is like oxygen for a company
Growth energizes the company with energy and excitement, allowing everyone to see real opportunities for growth.
Product/Market Expansion Matrix
market penetration
Capture more sales from current customers without changing their original products
Improve marketing mix
Adjust product design
advertise
Pricing
Channel strategy
4P
Market Development
Find and develop new customer segments for current products
product development
Provide improved or completely new products to existing markets
Diversification
Start or acquire a business outside of current products and markets
Streamlining strategy
There are many reasons why a business may want to abandon certain products or markets
When companies find that their brands or businesses are unprofitable or no longer fit into their overall strategy, they must carefully adjust, harvest or divest them.
Managers should focus on promising growth opportunities rather than expending their energy in a vain attempt to salvage an already weakened business.
2.3 Marketing Plan: Collaborate to build customer relationships
Main functional departments
marketing
finance
Accounting
purchase
operations
Information system
human Resources
other
Must work closely together to achieve strategic goals
The important role of marketing
First of all, marketing provides a guiding philosophy---the marketing concept, that is, the company's strategy should revolve around establishing valuable customer relationships with key customer groups.
Second, marketing informs strategic planners by helping to identify attractive market opportunities and evaluate a company's potential to exploit these opportunities.
Finally, within an individual business unit, marketing designs marketing strategies to achieve its goals
Customer value is the most critical part of a marketer's secret to success
Partnership management must also occur. They must work closely with partners in other departments of the company to form an effective value chain to serve customers
Collaborate with other departments in the company
Each department of a company can be considered a link in the company's value chain. That is, each department performs value-creating activities to design, produce, market, deliver, and support the company's products
A company's value chain is only as good as its weakest link. Success depends on how well each department adds customer value and how well the company coordinates its efforts.
For example
Products that meet customer expectations sold at highly competitive prices
Purchase at low cost
purchase
Provide timely and accurate information on store merchandise sales
information technology staff
Efficient, low-cost fulfillment and delivery
operation department
Cooperate with other enterprises within the marketing system
Enterprises need to go beyond their own value chain and expand their horizons to the value chain composed of suppliers, dealers and final customers.
supplier
dealer
final customer
McDonald's
To create “the best places and ways to eat for our customers”
Today, more and more companies are working closely with other members of the supply chain - suppliers, distributors and end customers - to improve the performance of the customer value delivery network.
2.4 Marketing strategy and marketing mix
marketing analysis
SWOT
Marketing Plan
marketing execution
Marketing department organization
marketing control
Customer value-oriented marketing strategy
market segmentation
geography
Demographics
psychology
behavioral factors
Group consumers into targeted services and segment markets into unique groups of buyers
Market segments
Consists of consumers who have similar responses to a given marketing effort
Target market selection
Involves evaluating the attractiveness of various market segments and selecting one or a few of them to serve.
Companies should target market segments where they can profit from creating maximum customer value and maintain a competitive advantage over the long term.
A company with limited resources may serve only one or a few specialized market segments or niche markets.
Strive to "go where competitors don't go"
The essence of gap marketing
A well-defined brand attracts a focused community of customers through meaningful brand relationships
Our mission is clear, to provide you with great search results without invading your privacy
Most companies enter new markets by serving one market segment and, once successful, expand into additional market segments.
Differentiation
After a company has selected a target market, it must decide how to differentiate its offerings, that is, what position it wants to occupy in the target market.
position
Product positioning is the position of your product in the minds of consumers compared with competitors.
Relative to competitors' products, try to make your products occupy a clear, unique and ideal position in the minds of target customers
clear
unique
ideal
2 ways to provide greater value to customers
lower price
more benefits
Effective positioning starts with differentiation
Once a company has chosen its ideal positioning, it must take strong steps to convey and communicate this positioning to its target customers. The company's overall marketing plan should fully support the established positioning strategy
Develop an integrated marketing mix
product
type
quality
design
feature
Brand name
Package
Serve
The portfolio of products and services a company offers to its target market
acceptability
The extent to which the product exceeds customer expectations
The form is satisfaction, creating customer pleasure
Pricing
Price
Discount
allowance
Payment period
credit terms
Refers to the amount of currency that customers must pay to obtain the product.
Affordability
The extent to which customers are willing and able to pay the product price
channel
channel
cover area
type
Place
stock
transportation
logistics
Including various activities that a company uses to make its products reach target consumers
accessibility
How convenient it is for customers to purchase products
Promotion
advertise
personal selling
sales promotion
public relationship
Activities to communicate product value to target customers and persuade them to purchase
Awareness
The extent to which customers understand product features, are persuaded to use it, and are reminded to repurchase
2.5 Managing marketing campaigns and return on marketing investment
Manage marketing activities
Four Marketing Management Functions
analyze
SWOT analysis
Advantage(s)
The internal capabilities, resources, and positive environmental factors that help the company serve its target customers and achieve its goals
Weakness(W)
Includes internal limitations and negative environmental factors that harm the company's performance
Opportunity (O)
Favorable factors or trends in the external environment that a company can exploit to its advantage.
Threat (T)
Adverse external factors or trends that challenge the company's performance.
plan
Develop a strategic plan
Develop marketing plan
Marketing planning involves deciding on marketing strategies that will help the company achieve its overall strategic goals
content
Overview
Provide a brief summary of the main goals and recommendations of the plan to facilitate management's evaluation of the plan and help senior managers discover the key points of the plan as quickly as possible. The overview should be followed by a table of contents
Current Marketing Environment
Describe the target market and the company's position within it, including information on markets, product preferences, competition, and distribution. This section includes:
Market description
Define the market and major market segments, and then evaluate customer needs and other factors in the marketing environment that may influence customer purchasing behavior
product reviews
Display sales, prices and gross profits of major products in the product line
competitive evaluation
Identify the company's main competitors and evaluate their market positioning and strategies for product quality, pricing, distribution and promotion
Channel evaluation
Evaluate recent sales trends and other developments in major distribution channels
Threats and Opportunities Analysis
Evaluate the main threats and opportunities that a product may face, helping management anticipate important positive or negative developments that may have an impact on the company and its strategy.
goals and issues
State the marketing objectives that the company will achieve during the planning period and discuss key issues that may affect achievement of the objectives
For example, if the goal is to gain 15% market share, this section examines how to achieve this goal.
marketing strategy
Briefly describe the overall marketing thinking logic used by the business unit to achieve marketing goals, as well as the individual circumstances of the target market, positioning and marketing expense levels. Marketing strategy sets out the specific strategies for each element of the marketing mix and explains how each strategy addresses the threats, opportunities and key issues that have been identified in the plan.
action plan
Clearly explain how your marketing strategy translates into an action plan, answering the following questions:
do what?
When to do it?
Who is responsible for this?
How much does that cost?
implement
Execution and organization
implement
In order to achieve the company's strategic marketing goals, the process of converting marketing plans into marketing actions
Many managers believe that "doing things right" (execution) is as important or even more important than "doing the right things" (strategy)
organize
The company must establish a marketing organization that implements marketing strategies and plans
CMO
Defend the interests of customers and be a "Chief Customer Officer"
Modern marketing department division
functional organization
geographic organization
product management organization
Large companies that produce many different products and sell them to different geographic regions and customer segments typically use some combination of functional, geographic, product, and market organizational forms.
More and more companies are shifting their focus from brand management to customer management - from focusing solely on product or brand profitability to focusing on managing customer value and customer rights.
control
Evaluate the results of marketing strategies and plans and take corrective actions to ensure the achievement of established goals.
Set specific marketing goals
Measure its market performance and find the reasons for the gap between expected and actual performance
Management takes corrective actions to close the gap between goals and performance.
Measuring and managing return on marketing investment
Marketing managers must ensure that their marketing dollars are spent appropriately
Marketing Return on Investment (ROI)
An important method of measuring marketing performance is to use the net return on marketing investment to the cost of marketing investment.
Marketing dashboards provide the detailed measurement data marketers need to evaluate and adjust their marketing strategies.
Customer-centric metrics measure marketing impact
Get customers
retain customers
customer lifetime value
Customer rights
The effectiveness of each marketing program should be measured by whether it loses customer engagement, ultimately promotes purchasing behavior and increases revenue.
2. Understand the market and customer value
3. Analyze the marketing environment
learning target
Describe the environmental factors that affect a company's customer service capabilities
Explain how changes in demographics and economic conditions affect marketing decisions
Identify key trends in the natural and technological environment
Explain key changes in the political and cultural environment
Discuss how companies should respond to changes in the marketing environment
Only those companies that understand the environment well and adapt to the environment in a timely manner can prosper, otherwise they will struggle to survive
The company’s marketing environment
Consisting of all external actors and forces that influence a marketing manager’s ability to build and maintain strong relationships with their target customers
Marketers have two special specialties
market research
marketing intelligence
3.1 Micro-environment and macro-environment
microenvironment
By closely related organizations or individuals that affect the company's customer service capabilities
enterprise
Other teams within the company
top management
financial department
R & D department
Purchasing department
operation department
Accounting department
supplier
Suppliers are an important part of the company's entire customer value delivery system. They provide companies with a variety of resources needed to produce products and services.
Marketing must focus on supply stability and cost
short term impact on sales
In the long run, it will undermine customer satisfaction
Rising supply costs can force prices up and reduce a company's sales
Most companies today understand the importance of treating their suppliers well and establishing partnerships with them to jointly create and deliver customer value.
These suppliers Huang Cunfu-Structure-Shenzhen Luoke Supply Chain Department can be regarded as an extension of Toyota
Achieve cost targets and quality standards
Auto suppliers name Toyota 'most perfect' customer
marketing agency
Marketing intermediary
Help companies promote, sell and deliver products to end buyers
Reseller
Distribution channel businesses that help companies find customers and sell to them
physical distribution company
Help companies store and ship merchandise
Marketing service agency
Marketing research company
advertising agency
media company
Marketing consulting firm
Help companies select appropriate target markets and promote products
financial intermediary
bank
loan company
insurance company
Helping companies raise capital or protect against risks associated with transactions
To create satisfying customer relationships, companies must not just optimize their own performance; they must work closely with marketing intermediaries to optimize the performance of the entire value delivery system.
How important it is to treat intermediaries as partners, rather than just distributors selling their products.
customer
Customers are the most important actors in a company's microenvironment.
The purpose of the entire value delivery network is to serve target customers and build strong relationships with them
competitor
For a business to be successful, it must provide customers with higher value and satisfaction than its competitors.
Therefore, marketers cannot just adapt to the needs of target consumers, they must also gain strategic advantage by establishing a stronger positioning in the minds of consumers than their competitors.
Small companies can adopt high-return strategies that large companies cannot implement
public
definition
Any group that has an actual or potential interest in or influence on the organization's ability to achieve its objectives
Classification
financial public
Affect the company's financing ability
bank
investment company
shareholder
media public
The media and the public control news, reports and public opinion
TV station
newspaper
Magazine
blog
Other social media
government public
Management must consider government requirements
Always consult an attorney to understand government regulations on product safety, advertising truthfulness, etc.
civil society public
A company's marketing decisions may be affected by
consumer organizations
environmental protection groups
ethnic minority groups
Other civil organizations
doubts
internal public
staff
manager
volunteer
Member of the board
If a company feels good about its own company, its positive attitude will be transmitted to the external public
general public
Companies need to consider general public attitudes towards their products and actions
local public
The local public includes residents and community organizations near the company's business premises. A company's image in the mind of the general public affects people's purchasing decisions
The job of a marketing manager
Create customer value
Create customer satisfaction
Build relationships with customers
Macro environment
Main factors in the macro environment
population
economy
nature
technology
politics
culture
3.2 Demographic and economic environment
Demographic environment
Demographics
A study of a population based on population size, density, geographic location, age, gender, race, occupation, and a number of other statistics
Changes in the age structure of the population
The three largest groups
baby boomers
There was a baby boom in the United States after World War II
Generation X
The “baby boom” is followed by a “baby boom”
Millennials
Millennials have one common characteristic. They love and frequently use computers and are comfortable using digital and Internet technologies.
They prefer to seek opportunities to formulate their own brand experiences and share them with others.
A marketer from AT&T believes that the universal truths for the millennial generation are: transparency, authenticity, directness and versatility.
Generation Z
Millennials are followed by Generation Z, young people born after 2000
They are more passionate about and adept at digital technologies than Millennials
Companies in nearly every industry are marketing products and services to Generation Z
It is increasingly difficult to hold today's children for long periods of time; their attention spans are limited.
It’s important to make things fun, so what’s more fun than getting kids new to designing products?
Marketing to different generations
Each group has their own beliefs and behavioral characteristics.
The Changing American Family
More and more people are getting divorced or breaking up, choosing not to get married, getting married late, or not having children after marriage.
The number of professional girls is also growing rapidly
geographical migration of population
This is an era of national and international migration of the master population
A recent study estimated that 24% of working people do some or all of their work from home
From network-connected computers, printers and copiers to shared spaces in meeting rooms and breakout areas
A more educated, white-collar, and professional population
Growing population diversity
The ethnic and racial structure of each country is very different.
As the U.S. population becomes increasingly diverse, successful marketers will continue to diversify their marketing programs to take advantage of the opportunities presented by these fast-growing market segments
economic environment
For the market, purchasing power is as important as population
economic environment
Made up of various factors that influence consumer purchasing power and spending patterns
more value
The right mix of fair prices and quality products and services
People want grocery retailers to offer high-value products
Expect more, spend less
The lowest price this season, happiness, sunshine, money saving, free shipping every day
While paying attention to income levels, you should also pay attention to income distribution.
Over the past few decades, the rich have gotten richer, the middle class has shrunk, and the poor have gotten poorer.
This distribution of income creates a highly stratified market.
Enterprises may not necessarily be eliminated when the economy is in recession, and they may not be able to develop when the economy is booming. Only with a high degree of vigilance can we take advantage of changes in the economic environment.
3.3 Natural and technological environment
natural environment
Refers to the physical and natural environment that marketers need to invest in or that are affected by marketing activities.
Marketers should be aware of key trends in the natural environment
shortage of raw materials
Worsening pollution problem
The government has stepped up its intervention in natural resource management
Support environmental sustainability
Committed to creating a world economy that the planet can sustain indefinitely
There is a connection between a good ecological environment and a healthy economy, and environmentally responsible behavior can also enable business development
More and more companies are making environmental sustainability part of their core mission
technical environment
Now is perhaps the most dramatic force shaping our destiny.
Technology has not only created miracles such as antibiotics and the Internet, but also created terrifying things such as atomic bombs and chemical weapons.
Characteristics of the technical environment
New technologies bring exciting opportunities for marketers
The technological environment changes rapidly
New technologies create new markets and opportunities
As products and technologies become more complex, the public often worries about their safety
3.4 Political, social and cultural environment
political and social environment
Political Environment
Made up of laws, government agencies, and pressure groups that influence or restrict various organizations and individuals in a given society
laws regulating business
Even the most radical advocates of free market economics equate that the economic system can only work best under certain regulations.
Well-designed regulations can encourage competition and ensure a fair market for products and services.
Marketers must strive to keep up with changes in various regulations and their interpretations
The need for government legislation
Protect the company's interests
Protect consumers from unfair business practices
Protect the interests of society from disorderly business activities
New laws and their enforcement agencies continue to be added
Growing emphasis on ethical and socially responsible activities
Constrained by social norms and professional ethics
socially responsible behavior
Smart companies encourage their managers not only to comply with laws and regulations but also to "do the right thing"
cause related marketing
To fulfill their social responsibilities and build a more positive image, many companies are now associating themselves with meaningful causes.
Example: Don’t text while driving
No text message is worth risking your life. can wait
Some companies establish a career-related mission when they are founded. Guided by concepts such as "value-led enterprise", their mission is to make the world a better place
The goal of providing affordable glasses to the masses
We believe everyone has the right to see
By linking the purchase of a company's products or services to raising funds for a worthy cause or charity, a company can "grow better by doing good," and Warby Parker places equal emphasis on "doing good" and "growing well."
Glasses are one of the world's most effective tools for alleviating poverty
cultural environment
It consists of institutions and other forces that influence society's basic values, cognitions, preferences, and behaviors.
People grow up in a specific society and gradually form their own basic beliefs and values.
cultural characteristics
Consistency of cultural values
People in a given society hold a variety of beliefs and values, but their core beliefs and values are highly consistent
Changes in subcultural values
Reflection of the main cultural values of society
view of oneself
There are great differences between people in their attitudes towards themselves and others
People use products, brands and services as a means of self-expression and buy products that match their self-view
perceptions of others
People's attitudes toward and interactions with others are constantly changing
Consumers are increasingly building networks of friends, fans and followers and participating in brand communities to learn about and purchase products, and to form and share brand experiences. So it’s crucial for brands to make sure they are participating in these networks.
Perspectives on the organization
Attitudes toward companies, government agencies, industry associations, universities, and other organizations vary.
Generally speaking, people want to work for important organizations and expect them to fulfill their responsibilities to society.
Organizations need to find new ways to earn the trust of consumers and employees.
views on society
People have different attitudes towards the society in which they live. Patriots defend it, reformers hope to transform it, and dissatisfied people want to escape it.
Marketers making appeals to patriotism and strong national sentiment must be extremely careful.
view of nature
People also have very different attitudes towards the natural world - some people feel dominated by nature, some believe that we should live in harmony with nature, and still others try to control nature.
Made and sold sustainably.
view of the universe
People also have different views on the origin of the universe and humanity's place in it.
People abandoned materialism and competing ambitions to move into higher social classes and began to pursue more enduring values—family, community, earth, faith—and a clearer sense of right and wrong.
3.5 Coping with the marketing environment
There are three types of companies
cause something to happen
Wait and see what happens
Bewildered as to what happened
Marketing managers are not always able to influence environmental factors. In many cases, it can only pay attention to the environment and react to it.
Don't try to retaliate
The really good idea is to defuse the bomb before it explodes. Preemptive strike, seeking agreement and negotiation are more sensible methods.
4. Manage marketing information and obtain customer insights
learning target
Explain the importance of information in gaining market and customer insights
Define a marketing information system and discuss its components
Briefly describe the various steps in the marketing research process
Explain how companies analyze and use marketing information
Discusses the special circumstances, as well as public policy and ethical issues facing marketing researchers.
market elements
customer
competitor
product
marketing plan
Quotes
The LEGO Group
First, the LEGO Group must rebuild customer relationships
In addition to traditional research methods and data analysis, the LEGO Group uses innovative immersive research methods to understand the profound motivations for people to buy and play with LEGO toys.
Today’s children are easily bored and, in today’s rapidly changing environment, they are exposed to a richer range of themes, people and technologies
Another customer insight gained from ethnographic research is that children no longer perceive a clear distinction between digital and tangible toys.
The LEGO Group and its customers are also closely connected with the times.
The story of the LEGO Group inspires us that great products and marketing programs start with great customer information.
4.1 Marketing information and customer insights
Preface
To create value and build profitable relationships with them, marketers must first gain fresh, in-depth insights about customers' needs and wants.
Pinterest's research uncovered important customer insights: Many people don't just exchange information and pictures like on Twitter or Facebook, they need a way to collect, organize and share their interests and passions online.
Although customer insights and market insights are important for building customer value and customer relationships, obtaining these insights is not easy.
Customer needs and purchasing motivations are often not obvious—often even consumers themselves cannot tell exactly what they need and why they want to buy it.
To gain quality customer insights, marketers must effectively manage marketing messages from various channels.
Marketing information and big data
Big Data
Refers to the large amounts of complex data generated by today's sophisticated information generation, collection, storage and analysis technologies
Companies that effectively leverage big data gain rich, timely customer insights
Marketers don't need more information, they need better information. They need to make better use of the information they already have
Manage marketing information
The real value of marketing research and marketing information lies in how it is used - in the customer insights it provides
Customer Insights Team
Their job is to build actionable insights from marketing messages and work with marketing decision makers to apply those insights.
Responsible for delivering brand, business and consumer focused insights
The decisions we drive ultimately lead to sustained growth for the business
Everything we do has an important impact on corporate profitability
Marketing Information System (MIS)
Consists of people and processes that evaluate information needs, develop the information needed, and help decision makers use the information to gain and substantiate reliable customer and market insights.
First, it interacts with these information users to evaluate information needs
It then interacts with the marketing environment to obtain the required information through the company's internal databases, marketing intelligence collection, and marketing research activities.
Finally, it helps users analyze and use information to build customer insights, make marketing decisions and manage customer relationships
4.2 Evaluate information needs and develop data
Evaluate marketing information needs
A good marketing information system will strike a balance between what information users want and what they actually need and can get.
Too much information is just as harmful as not enough information
Marketing information systems must monitor the marketing environment to provide decision makers with the information they need to better understand customers and make marketing decisions.
Companies must judge whether the value of the insights gained from the additional information is worth the cost, but value and cost are often difficult to evaluate.
Develop marketing messages
Channels for marketers to obtain the information they need
Internal Information
Internal database
Electronic information about consumers and markets collected from internal company data sources
marketing intelligence
competitive marketing intelligence
Refers to the systematic collection and analysis of publicly available information about consumers, competitors, and market trends.
Good marketing intelligence can help marketers gain insights into how consumers talk about and connect with brands.
marketing adjustments
Companies also need to actively monitor the actions of competitors
Companies use competitive marketing intelligence to gain early insights into competitors' actions and strategies and quickly formulate competitive countermeasures.
Most competitor intelligence can be gathered from employees within a company—managers, engineers and scientists, purchasing agents, salespeople, etc.
Intelligence warfare is never one-sided
Businesses should attempt to conduct their own marketing intelligence investigations to uncover vulnerabilities that pose a potential risk of information leakage.
4.3 Marketing research
In addition to marketing intelligence information about general consumers, competitors, and market dynamics, marketers often need to conduct formal research to provide consumer and market insights for specific marketing situations and decisions.
marketing research
Systematically design, collect, analyze and report information on specific marketing issues facing the organization
Marketing research process
Determine the problem and research objectives
Defining the problem and research objectives is often the most difficult step in the entire research process
A statement of the problem and research objectives will guide the entire research process
Marketing research purpose
exploratory research
The goal is to gather preliminary information, identify the problem, and formulate a hypothesis
descriptive survey
Objectives describe a situation, such as the market potential of a product or the demographic characteristics and attitudes of buyers.
causal research
The goal is to test hypotheses about causation
Develop a research plan for gathering information
The research plan should list the sources of data and indicate specific research methods, contact methods, sampling plans, and means of collecting data.
Execute research plan---collect and analyze data
Secondary data
Refers to existing information collected for other purposes
Secondary data provides a good starting point for research and helps to determine research questions and objectives.
Raw data
Refers to information collected specifically for a specific current goal
collection plan
Research methods
Observation
Collect primary data by observing relevant people, behaviors and situations
A large number of companies now use ethnographic research
This research method assigns trained researchers to observe and interact with customers in their natural state.
Observation and ethnographic research methods can often reveal details that cannot be captured using traditional survey questionnaires or focus group interviews.
It opens a window into customers’ subconscious behaviors and needs and emotions that cannot be articulated.
Survey
It is the most common method for collecting primary data and is most suitable for collecting descriptive data. Companies wishing to understand people's perceptions, attitudes, preferences, or purchasing behavior often discover this information by asking consumers directly.
Experimental Method
The observation method is most suitable for exploratory research, the survey method is most suitable for descriptive research, and the experimental method is most suitable for collecting information that reflects cause-and-effect relationships.
Select paired experimental groups and, on the premise of controlling irrelevant factors, give them different treatments to examine the differences in the responses of subjects between different groups.
Contact method
send by post
Mailed questionnaires are not flexible enough
Telephone
The best way to gather information quickly
Personnel interviews
personal interview
Can be done at home or office, on the street, in a shopping mall
group interview
Focus group interviews involve inviting potential consumers to form small groups, led by a trained moderator, to discuss a product, service or organization.
The aim is to "turn the challenges and difficulties of motherhood into growth opportunities for the brand"
network
Network card marketing research
Internet surveys, NIC group discussions, experiments, NIC focus group interviews and brand community monitoring, etc.
High speed and low cost
NIC Focus Group
It is the most important web-based qualitative research method.
Track online behavior and social interaction with target market selection
Information about what consumers are doing on the growing Internet
What are they searching for?
What website to visit
How to shop
and what to buy
It’s a gold mine for marketers
behavior lock
Marketers use online data to target ads and products to specific consumers.
social lockdown
Mining consumers’ online social connections and conversations from social networking sites.
Recent developments in web analytics and target market selection take web listening one step further – from behavioral targeting to social targeting
sampling plan
sampling unit
Marketing researchers often draw conclusions about the population of consumers based on studies of small samples.
sample
Is selected from the whole and can represent a part of the whole
Determining the ideal sample involves three decisions
Who is surveyed (sampling unit)?
How many people are surveyed (sampling size)?
How is the sample selected (sampling process)?
sampling size
Sampling procedure
Research tools
Questionnaire
Open questions can reflect more information than closed questions
Open-ended questions are especially useful in exploratory research because researchers are trying to discover what people are thinking, rather than how many people think that way. Closed questions, on the other hand, are easier to interpret and count.
instrument
Although survey questionnaires are the most commonly used research tool, researchers also often use instruments to observe consumer behavior.
Execute research plan
You must watch out for the following mistakes
Error in contacting the respondent
Respondent refuses access or provides biased data
The interviewer made a mistake or acted opportunistically
Interpret and report research results
Researchers should not try to stump managers with numbers and complicated statistical techniques, but should clearly and concisely present the main findings and insights that will be useful for managers in making important decisions.
Useful findings and insights are showcased
Marketers have a better understanding of the problems and decisions they face
If it is found that it can be explained in different ways, discussions between researchers and managers will help find the best explanation
Therefore, managers and researchers must work closely together when interpreting research results, and both parties should take responsibility for the research process and corresponding decisions.
4.4 Analyze and use marketing information
Information obtained from internal databases, marketing intelligence and marketing research often requires further analysis.
customer relationship management
customer relationship management system
Manage all customer details and carefully manage customer touchpoints to maximize customer loyalty.
Big data and marketing analysis
Marketers must sift through vast amounts of data to identify the “gems”—data that generate customer insights.
This is essentially the process of finding big insights from big data.
The right data is better than a lot of data
Marketing analytics consists of analytical tools, technologies and processes that allow marketers to mine meaningful patterns in big data to gain customer insights and judge marketing performance.
Kraft has a wealth of valuable marketing data derived from years of customer interactions and its social media monitoring center called The Mirror.
We should first focus on “R” (relationship)---it is the core of CRM
Distribution and use of marketing information
Marketing information has no value if it is not used to make better marketing decisions.
Many companies use intranets and internal CRM systems to speed up this process. This system allows users to easily obtain research information and intelligence, customer transaction information, reports, public work documents and other content.
4.5 Other marketing information issues
Marketing research for small businesses and nonprofits
Quality marketing insights can also be gained by observing customers around them or informal surveys of small samples
International marketing research
Good secondary data is hard to find
International marketing researchers often must collect primary data
Public Policy and Ethics in Marketing Research
Two major public policy and ethical issues in marketing research are:
Infringement of consumer privacy
Many consumers have a positive attitude toward marketing research and believe it is useful.
However, some people hate or even distrust marketing research
Don't want to be disturbed
Worry about personal information being created in a database
Use technology to discover your own secrets
Being spied on, their information eavesdropped on, and their purchases manipulated.
The key questions are:
Is there a reasonable line between controversial and acceptable customer data collection practices?
Abuse of research results
Survey research is a powerful tool of persuasion; companies often disclose research results as evidence or language in their advertising and promotions
Case
Campbell Soup Company: Pay attention to what you eat
Adhere to customer-centricity
Consumers’ “Mind Readers”
The emotionless spoon was deleted
Increased sales also mean consumers receive greater value through a better shopping experience.
Deep dive marketing research
Qualitative research methods used in anthropology and other social sciences to conduct up-close and personal research.
Try insights that even consumers themselves don’t know
But for those who enjoy cooking, it is an essential ingredient in soups, sauces and stews
Campbell Soup's primary goal is to enhance customers' food experience
5. Consumer market and consumer purchasing behavior
learning target
Define the consumer market and build a simple model of consumer purchasing behavior
Point out the four main factors that influence consumer purchasing behavior
List and define the major types of buying decision behavior and the steps in the buying decision process
Describe the new product adoption and diffusion process
summary
The purpose of marketing is to influence consumers’ thoughts and behaviors
Quotes
Harley-Davidson: Selling Freedom, Independence, Power and Authenticity
Start, let's run
But they are really affordable and made of steel
It provides customers with self-expression, lifestyle, passion and dreams
it is an experience
consumer buying behavior
Refers to the purchasing behavior of consumers - individuals or families who purchase product packages and services for personal consumption.
Final consumers make up the consumer market
5.1 Consumer Behavior Model
Consumers make purchasing decisions every day, and purchasing decisions are the focus of marketers' efforts to influence
buyer behavior model
environment
marketing incentives
product
Pricing
channel
Promotion
other
economy
technology
society
culture
buyer black box
Buyer Characteristics
buyer decision process
Buyer reaction
Buying attitudes and preferences
purchase behaviour:
what buyers buy
when to buy
where to buy
How much to buy
Brand and Company Engagement Behavior
stimulus into response
First, the buyer's characteristics influence his perception and response to stimuli
Features include various
culture
society
personal
psychological factors
Secondly, the buyer’s decision-making process itself affects buyer behavior
Decision-making process
Confirm requirements
collect information
Evaluation plan
purchasing decision
Post-purchase behavior
5.2 Factors affecting consumer behavior
cultural factors
culture
It is the most fundamental reason for personal desires and behaviors
Human behavior is mostly acquired through learning
Children grow up in society, learning and establishing basic values, cognitions, preferences and behaviors from family and other important institutions.
american kids
achievement and success
action and participation
efficiency and practice
Enterprising
effort
material enjoyment
individualism
free
humanitarian
Youthful vitality, fitness and health, etc.
Marketers are always trying to detect cultural changes to uncover potential demand for new products.
subculture
Every culture contains smaller subcultures.
subculture
They are groups of people who share a common value system due to the same life experiences and backgrounds.
Classification
nationality
religion
Race
area
Many subcultures form important market segments, and marketers often design and develop marketing plans based on their needs
Hispanic consumers
Represents a large and rapidly growing market
african american consumers
Getting richer and smarter
Asian American consumers
is the most affluent and relatively well-educated market segment in the United States
overall market strategy
Include multiracial themes and cross-cultural perspectives in their mainstream marketing
Social class
Social class structure exists in almost every society.
Social class
It is a stable and orderly component of a society that has the same values, interests and behaviors.
Social class is not caused by a single factor, such as income, but is the result of a combination of position, income, education, wealth, and various other variables
Position
income
educate
wealth
various other variables
social factors
reference group
Groups and social networks
Individual behavior is influenced by many small groups
The group to which an individual belongs and is directly influenced is called the member group
The impact of word-of-mouth
Have a great impact on consumer purchasing behavior
For brands that are easily influenced by reference groups, marketers should figure out how to find opinion leaders who belong to a reference group.
online social network
is an online communication community where people communicate or exchange information and opinions
family
Family members also have a strong influence on buyer behavior
Couples’ level of involvement at different purchase stages varies significantly across product categories
Children have an important influence on family purchasing decisions
social roles and status
Role
It is the content of activities that people are expected to perform in a group. Each role represents a certain social status and reflects the comprehensive evaluation of society.
personal reason
Profession
An individual's occupation affects the products and services he purchases
A company may even specialize in offering products to a certain occupational group
Age and life cycle
People change products and services throughout their lives
Their taste in food, clothing, furniture, entertainment, etc. is often closely related to their age.
Purchases are also affected by household life cycle stage
Nielsen’s PRIZM Life Stage Group System
The system divides U.S. households into 66 different life stage segments
Life stage group classification
struggling single
Tend to be politically liberal, like listening to music and enjoying nightlife
middle-aged successful people
young talent
family struggling to make ends meet
Wealthy empty nest family
conservative class
economic status
Personal financial status will affect product selection
Marketers of goods that are highly influenced by income pay more attention to trends in personal income, savings, and interest rates.
In the frugal period following the recession, most companies took steps to redesign products and services, change positioning and adjust prices.
lifestyle
It is a way of life for individuals to express their psychology.
It needs to measure consumers’ AIO dimensions
Activity
Work
Hobby
Shopping
sports
Social activities
interest
food
clothing
family
Entertainment etc.
View
About self
Social Issues
Business
Products, etc.
Marketers look for lifestyle segments and satisfy the needs of specific segments through special products or marketing efforts.
Personality and self-concept
Everyone’s buying behavior is influenced by their unique personality
personality
Refers to the unique psychological characteristics that distinguish a person or group of people from other people or groups
Description of consumer personality
confidence
superior
good at socializing
Autonomy
Defensive
Adaptability
Enterprising
brand personality
sincere
simple
honest
healthy
Cheerful
excited
brave
firm
creativity
Fashion
ability
reliable
wisdom
success
Mature
upscale
charming
strong
Suitable for outdoor use
strong
self-concept (self-image)
The basic premise of self-concept is that the products people own determine and reflect who they are
That is, "what we consume is what we consume"
We must first understand the relationship between consumers’ self-concept and their possessions
Therefore, the brand will attract people with the same personality traits
MINI car
Attracting people who are "adventurous, distinctive, broad-minded, creative, passionate about technology and young at heart", like this brand of car.
psychological factors
motivation
When a need is strong enough, it becomes a motivation. Motivation is also a need that prompts people to seek satisfaction
Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory
Physiological needs
hunger
thirsty
security needs
Safety
Protect
social needs
sense of belonging
like
respect needs
self-esteem
Approval
status
self-actualization needs
self development
self-actualization
Sigmund Freud postulated that people do not understand the true psychological motivations that underlie their behavior. His theory is that individual purchasing decisions are influenced by subconscious motives. Even buyers themselves are not fully aware of these motives.
Why is it that while one person spends a lot of money and energy to satisfy his or her personal security needs, another person struggles to gain the respect of others?
Perception
five senses perception
Vision
hearing
sense of smell
touch
Taste
Perception is the process by which people gather, organize, and interpret information to form a meaningful worldview.
Due to the existence of three cognitive processes: selective attention, selective distortion and selective memory, people may have different perceptions of the same stimulus.
focus on
People cannot pay attention to all stimulating information. People often ignore most of the information they are exposed to - meaning marketers need to work extra hard to capture consumers' attention.
misinterpret
It shows that people tend to understand information in a way that suits their own wishes
People also forget most of the things they are exposed to, often remembering only information that fits their attitudes and beliefs.
memory
Selective memory means that consumers are likely to only remember the advantages of their favorite brands and ignore the advantages of competing brands.
Unconsciously influenced by marketing messages due to subliminal advertising
Consumers fear they will be manipulated by subliminal messages
study
People always learn by doing
study
Refers to changes in personal behavior caused by experience
Learning occurs through the interplay of drives, stimuli, inducements, responses, and reinforcement
drive
is a strong internal stimulus that inspires action
Motivation that inspires action
inducement
are the weak stimuli that determine when, where and how people respond
stimulus that determines response
The practical implications of learning theory for marketers are that they can associate products with strong drives, use motivational inducements, and provide positive reinforcement to create demand for the product.
beliefs and attitudes
People form beliefs and attitudes through practice and learning, which in turn affect people's purchasing behavior.
belief
It is a specific view held by an individual on things
Beliefs may be based on realistic knowledge, concepts, or beliefs, and may contain emotional factors.
If there are some erroneous beliefs that are holding back purchasing behavior, marketers need to develop campaigns to correct them
manner
It is a person's relatively stable evaluation, feeling and preference for things or ideas.
People's attitudes concern religion, politics, clothing, music, food, and anything else.
Attitudes cause people to like or dislike something and behave toward or distant from it
Once attitudes are formed, they are difficult to change.
People's attitudes form a fixed pattern, and changing attitudes requires adjusting many other related factors.
Therefore, a company should fit its products into existing attitudes
Summary: Consumer choices are influenced by the interplay of cultural, social, personal and psychological factors
5.3 Purchasing decision-making behavior and purchasing decision-making process
Types of purchasing decision behavior
complex buying behavior
High involvement
high price
High risk
Not often purchased
High self-expression
Not familiar with the product
This buyer will go through a learning process:
First generate belief in the product
Then gradually form an attitude
Make purchasing decisions after careful consideration
Need to understand product attributes and their relative importance
It is necessary to seek support from store sales staff and buyers’ friends to influence buyers’ final choice of brand.
Reduce dysfunctional buying behavior
High involvement
high price
High risk
low frequency
High self-expression
There is not much difference between brands
Buyers may make a purchase decision quickly because the brands are not very different after shopping around.
The main concern of buyers is
price
Ease of purchase
To combat this sense of dissonance, marketers should focus on post-purchase communications that provide evidence and support that make consumers feel good about their brand choices.
Habitual buying behavior
Occurs when consumer involvement is low and brand differentiation is subtle.
for example
salt
Consumers have low involvement in most low-cost, frequently purchased products.
In this case, consumer behavior does not go through the usual "belief-attitude-behavior" pattern.
This buying process involves the formation of brand beliefs through passive learning, followed by purchasing behavior, which may or may not be evaluated afterwards.
Brand Marketers of products with low differentiation and low involvement often use price and promotion to stimulate purchase of the product.
Seeking variety in purchasing behavior
Consumers adopt diversity-seeking purchasing behavior under conditions of low involvement and high brand differentiation.
In this case, consumers often switch brands
The marketing strategies of leading brands in the market differ from those of smaller brands.
Leading brand
Takes up prime shelf space
Replenish shelf merchandise
Run reminder ads frequently
small brand
low price
discount
Discount
free sample
Advertisements that promote trying new things
purchasing decision process
Confirm need
The purchasing process starts with the buyer confirming a certain problem or need, that is, confirming the need
Needs may be caused by internal/external stimuli
Search Information
When consumers are interested in a product, they may search for more information.
Consumers can obtain information from the following channels
personal source
family
friend
Neighbor
acquaintance
commercial sources
advertise
salesperson
Dealer website
mobile website
Package
exhibition
public source
mass media
consumer review organization
web search
Source of experience
Product operation
examine
use
Generally, most of the product information consumers get comes from commercial channels
The most effective sources of information are personal sources
Marketers should carefully identify consumers' various sources of information, analyze and evaluate their relative importance.
Evaluate alternatives
How consumers process information and choose brands
Marketers should study the actual process by which buyers evaluate branding options.
By knowing how consumers evaluate products, marketers can take steps to influence their choices.
purchasing decision
During the evaluation and selection stage, consumers rank brands and form purchase intentions.
Generally, a consumer's purchasing decision will be to purchase their favorite brand, but there are two factors that influence their purchasing intention and final purchasing decision.
other people's attitudes
unexpected environmental factors
Post-purchase behavior
What factors determine buyer satisfaction?
The answer depends on the relationship between consumer expectations and the perceived performance of the product.
Product did not meet expectations
disappointment
Product meets expectations
satisfy
Product exceeds expectations
Happy
However, nearly all important purchases create cognitive dissonance
Therefore, consumers will feel more or less psychologically unbalanced every time they make a purchase.
Why is customer satisfaction so important?
Customer satisfaction is the key to building profitable customer relationships, attracting and retaining customers, and gaining customer lifetime value.
Many marketers are not just content with meeting customer expectations; they aim to delight them
Negative reviews of a company and its products can quickly damage consumers' impressions of the company and its products.
Dissatisfied customers rarely complain. Most dissatisfied customers do not proactively report their problems to the company
5.4 New product purchase decision-making process
New product
Refers to new products, services or concepts in the eyes of potential consumers.
adoption process
Defined as “the psychological process from when an individual first learns about an innovation to its final adoption”
Adoption is an individual’s decision to become a regular user of a product
Five Stages of the Adoption Process
cognition
Consumers are aware of new products but lack relevant information
interest
Consumers looking for relevant information about new products
evaluate
Consumers consider whether to try the new product
try out
Consumers try a new product in small quantities to improve their evaluation of the new product's value
use
The consumer decides to use the new product fully or regularly
Individual differences in innovative spirit
innovator
adventurous
early adopters
They care about whether others respect them. They are opinion leaders in certain fields and adopt new ideas early, but they are cautious.
early majority
More cautious, even though they are not leaders, adopt new ideas earlier than the general public
late majority
Often skeptical, they wait until most people have tried it before accepting the innovation.
laggard
Bound by tradition, they tend to take a skeptical view and only adopt innovations after they have become a tradition
The impact of product features on adoption rates
relative advantage
The extent to which innovative products are superior to existing products
Matching degree
The extent to which an innovative product aligns with the values and experiences of potential consumers
Complexity
How easy it is to understand and use innovative products
degree of divisibility
The extent to which an innovative product can be tried on smaller units or costs
Communicability
The extent to which people can observe or describe the benefits to others after using the innovative product
6. Organizational Market and Organizational Buyer Behavior
learning target
Define organizational markets and explain the difference between organizational markets and consumer markets
Identify the major factors influencing organizational buyer behavior
List and define the steps in an organization's buying decision process
Compare institutional and government markets and explain how institutional and government buyers make purchasing decisions
Quotes
IBM: The world’s most valuable B2B brand
Solving customer problems has always been at the core of IBM's strategy, culture and success
Under the guidance of this new strategic core of "customer solutions"
The company has always focused on working closely with customers and constantly adjusting itself to meet customer needs.
Smart Business: Foresight
Always customer-centric mission, and implement it into working closely with customers to jointly discover solutions
Work with clients to understand their pain points, discover solutions, and sell IBM systems and services that solve their problems
He wants to convince you that IBM can run your business --- your entire business -- better than you can, and let you focus on strategy and marketing.
organizational buyer behavior
Refers to the behavior of some organizations purchasing products and services in order to sell, lease or supply other organizations for use in production
Organize the buying process
Organizational buyers first decide what products and services they need, then search for, evaluate and select alternative suppliers and brands.
6.1 Organizing the market
Overview
The organizational market is huge. In fact, the sales volume and number of product items involved in the organizational market are much larger than those in the consumer market.
Organizational markets are similar to consumer markets to some extent
Market structure and demand
Demand in many organizational markets is rigid and more volatile
Price changes have little impact on aggregate demand for many industrial products, especially in the short term.
Enterprise needs are derived needs
It ultimately comes from people's demand for consumer products
To increase sales, B2B marketers sometimes market their products directly to end consumers.
Purchase Unit Features
The more complex the purchasing decision, the more people are involved in the decision-making process
Companies must have well-trained marketing and sales personnel to deal with these professional and savvy buyers.
Decision Types and Decision Processes
In the organizational buying process, buyers and sellers often rely on each other
They often provide products and services customized to a customer's special needs
In the long run, satisfying buyers should be more about meeting the current needs of customers and establishing partnerships with customers to help them solve the problems they face, thereby maintaining sales to customers and creating customer value. Take, for example, the cocoa and chocolate division of agriculture and food giant Cargill.
Cargill doesn't just sell products, it helps customers succeed using those products
The relationship between customers and suppliers has shifted from outright confrontation to close cooperation
In fact, many companies are implementing supplier development, systematically establishing and developing a network of supplier partners to ensure the timely availability of appropriate and reliable products and raw materials for manufacturing products or for resale to others.
6.2 Organizational buyer behavior
organizational buyer behavior model
environment
marketing incentives
product
Pricing
channel
Promotion
other stimuli
economy
technology
politics
culture
compete
buyer organization
Purchasing Center
purchasing decision process
Interpersonal and personal factors (organizational influence)
Buyer reaction
Product or service selection
supplier option
Order amount
Delivery terms and times
Terms of Service
Payment
Buying behavior consists of two main parts
Purchasing Center
Made up of everyone involved in purchasing decisions
purchasing decision process
Main types of purchasing situations
Three Main Types of Organizational Buying
Repurchase directly
Refers to the step-by-step repetition of past purchasing decisions, usually completed by the purchasing department on a routine basis.
adjusted rebuy
Refers to the buyer's wish to adjust product requirements, prices, trading conditions or suppliers.
A company that first purchases a product or service faces a new purchase situation
At this time, the higher the cost or the greater the risk, the more decision-making participants there will be and the greater the workload of collecting information.
Only the company that can provide the most complete system to meet customers' needs and solve their problems will win sales.
This kind of system selling is called selling solutions
Often a key strategy for companies to win and retain customers
Key players in the buying process
Purchasing Center
The decision-making unit of the buyer’s organization
user
Organization members who will use the product or service
influencer
Often helps determine the specific requirements of a product and provides the information needed to evaluate alternatives. Technicians are particularly important influencers
buyers
Have formal authority to select suppliers and propose purchasing conditions
decision maker
Have formal or informal authority to select or approve final suppliers
gatekeeper
Control the flow of information to others in the purchasing center
Key factors influencing organizational buyers
envirnmental factor
economy
Terms of supply
technology
Remediation/Control
compete
Culture and Customs
organizational factors
Target
strategy
process
organizational structure
system
interpersonal factors
Influence
Professional qualifications
authority
dynamic
Evaluating these interpersonal factors and group dynamics is often difficult
Interpersonal factors are often very subtle.
Everyone involved in corporate purchasing decisions has personal motivations, perceptions, and preferences.
personal reason
Age/education level
motivation
work position
personality
Preference
buying style
different buying styles
Some people are technical
Other buyers are natural negotiators, adept at provoking competition among sellers to obtain the best deal terms.
6.3 Organizing the buyer decision-making process
Organize the buyer decision-making process
question confirmed
is the result of internal or external stimulation
The purchasing process begins when someone in the company recognizes that a problem or need has arisen that can be solved or satisfied by purchasing a specific product or service
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Basic need description
Describe the characteristics and qualities of the desired product item
They may rank the importance of a product's reliability, durability, price, and other attributes.
Savvy organizational marketers can help buyers identify specific needs and provide detailed information on the value of different product features.
Product Description
Buyers will develop a product description regarding the technical performance of the product item, which often requires a team of engineers to help conduct a value analysis
Product value analysis is a way to reduce costs
Sellers can also use value analysis as a useful tool for finding new customers.
By showing buyers better ways to make products, outside sellers can convert direct repurchases into new purchases, creating the opportunity for new business.
Find suppliers
Buyers start looking for suppliers to discover the best candidates
Salespeople should pay attention to companies that are looking for suppliers and try to get them to consider their company
Consultation plan
In the proposal inquiry stage, the buyer invites some qualified suppliers to submit proposals.
Request each alternative supplier to provide a more detailed written proposal or make a formal presentation
Select supplier
Members of the purchasing center carefully evaluate the options and select one or several suppliers.
During supplier selection, purchasing centers often list the characteristics of an ideal supplier and their relative importance.
Many buyers prefer multiple sources of supply, prompting long-term price and performance comparisons among several suppliers.
Ordering Procedure Instructions
The buyer begins by preparing a description of the ordering procedure, which includes placing an order with the selected supplier and outlining conditions such as technical requirements, required quantity, delivery time, return policy, and warranty.
Repeat supply when the buyer needs it at an agreed price
They transfer responsibility for ordering inventory to suppliers
Buyers share sales and inventory information directly with a small number of key suppliers. Suppliers control inventory and automatically replenish supplies when needed.
Supplier Responsibilities for Managed Inventory
Performance Evaluation
Buyers evaluate supplier performance
Suppliers need to monitor the factors that buyers use to evaluate performance to ensure that they are achieving expected levels of satisfaction
Every organization has its own way of buying and often has unique requirements for various buying situations.
Customer relationships have a significant impact on organizational purchasing, and different customer relationships may bring about different purchasing types and different purchasing processes.
Sellers must manage customer relationships beyond a single purchase.
6.4 Use digital and social media marketing to attract organizational buyers
E-Procurement and Online Shopping
Advances in information technology have dramatically changed the B2B buying process.
Online purchasing, often referred to as e-procurement, has grown rapidly in recent years
Electronic procurement methods
Conduct a reverse auction
Post your own procurement requirements online and invite suppliers to bid.
Engage in online trade exchanges and facilitate the transaction process centrally
Build your own company procurement website, specializing in e-procurement
Create external network links to key suppliers
Inter-organizational digital and social media marketing
From websites, blogs, mobile apps, electronic real-time communications and proprietary networks to mainstream social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google and Twitter - engage your organization's customers and manage customer relationships anytime, anywhere.
Digital and social media marketing across organizations isn’t just growing, it’s exploding
Digital and social media marketing are quickly becoming the new space for engaging organizations’ customers
Digital and social media create better customer engagement and engagement than traditional media and sales methods
And more broadly tell the charming brand story and maintain close ties between the company and all walks of life, and establish a good image that is not outdated and accessible.
6.5 Institutional and government markets
institutional market
Includes schools, hospitals, clinics, prisons and other institutions that provide products and services to the people in their care.
The size of the institutional market is huge
Many institutional markets are characterized by low budgets and sponsorship solicitations.
Many marketers create separate segments to meet the characteristics and needs of institutional buyers.
government market
There are numerous opportunities available for companies of all sizes.
In most countries, the government is the primary purchaser of products and services.
Government organizations often require suppliers to participate in competitive bidding and then select the company with the lowest bid
Governments offer incentives to suppliers for superior quality or timely performance of contracts.
Non-economic standards play an increasingly important role in government procurement
Many companies that sell products and services to governments do not have a marketing orientation for various reasons.
The three major federal agencies that serve as procurement agents for other agencies of the government
General Services Administration
Defense Logistics Agency
Department of Veterans Affairs
Case
Procter & Gamble: Treat corporate customers like strategic partners
Develop client's business
CBD is not a “sale,” it is P&G’s unique approach to achieving our growth by working as “strategic partners” (rather than just suppliers) with the companies that ultimately sell our products to consumers.
I have everything I need at all times
Allowing it to leverage the power of its team structure better than its competitors, creating a real competitive advantage
Competitive Advantage
Carefully designed to achieve four important goals
Four goals
collaborative strategy
Create profitable opportunities for P&G and its customers through collaboration in strategy development
create needs
Generate profitable sales for P&G and its customers through consumer value and shopper satisfaction
Optimize supply
Maximizing supply chain efficiency brings P&G into focus to optimize cost and responsiveness.
empowering organizations
Build the ability to maximize your business by creating often breakthrough capacity
Honesty and open and transparent dealings also help build long-term customer relationships.
At P&G, collaboration is usually a two-way street - P&G gives and customers give back
It is better to give than to receive
This unique P&G approach allows us to pursue growth by working with our customers as "strategic partners" to focus on mutually beneficial business development opportunities.
The company knows that the company will only be successful if its customers are successful
3. Design customer value-oriented marketing strategy and marketing mix
7. Customer value-oriented marketing strategy: Create value for target customers
learning target
Clearly define the main steps in designing a customer value-oriented marketing strategy: market segmentation, target market selection and positioning
List and discuss the important basis for segmenting consumer markets and organizational markets
Explain how companies identify attractive market segments and choose target market strategies
Discuss how a company can differentiate and position its products so that it has the strongest competitive advantage in the market.
Quotes
Dunkin' Donuts: Targeting the average consumer
Dunkin' Donuts fans think Starbucks is trendy and pretentious
Positioning is obviously more popular and more attractive to ordinary people
has been providing simple food at affordable prices to working-class customers
However, as it gradually becomes more upscale, Dunkin' Donuts is careful not to alienate its original customer base.
Dunkin' Donuts' customers are primarily middle-income blue-collar and white-collar workers and include a variety of age groups and ethnicities.
Dunkin' Donuts is a top brand that meets and exceeds customer expectations in terms of taste, quality and customer service.
We are committed to providing Americans a high-value experience with quality coffee, baked goods, and drinks in a friendly environment
It doesn’t have to be fancy, as long as it actually meets the daily needs of Dunkin’ Donuts tribe members.
Starbucks fans think Dunkin' Donuts is too bland and uncreative.
Clearly positioned as a high-style third place
In addition to homes and offices, featuring uniquely designed comfortable sofas, eclectic music, Wi-Fi and artistic wall designs
Starbucks focuses more on higher-income, more specialized groups.
A company must identify the segment of the market in which it can compete most profitably by providing the best service.
7.1 Marketing strategy
market segmentation
Refers to the division of a market into smaller customer groups that have different needs, characteristics, or behaviors and require different marketing strategies or mixes.
Target market selection
Refers to evaluating the attractiveness of each market segment and selecting one or several market segments to enter.
Differentiation
Refers to making the company's market offerings unique, thereby creating unique and superior value for customers.
position
Refers to the market offering occupying a clear, unique and desirable position in the minds of target customers.
7.2 Market segmentation
Segment consumer market
Main variables
geography
Country, region, state, county, city, neighborhood, population density (urban, suburban, rural), climate
Geographic segmentation
Refers to dividing the market into different geographical areas
Small business formats specifically designed to meet the needs of densely populated urban communities
Offering in-store pickup and selling medicines
Better catering to the local market and making the retail giant look smaller and more approachable
population
Age, life cycle stage, gender, income, occupation, education, religion, ethnicity, generation
population segmentation
Segment the market into groups based on demographic factors such as age, gender, family size, life cycle stage, income, occupation, education, religion, ethnicity, and generation.
Age and life cycle stage
Consumer needs and wants change as they age
gender
Gender segmentation has long been used to segment markets for clothing, cosmetics, toiletries, and magazines
income
Marketers of products and services such as automobiles, clothing, cosmetics, financial management, and travel have been
psychology
lifestyle, personality
psychographic segmentation
Divide buyers into different groups based on social class, lifestyle or personality characteristics
Behavior
Timing, benefits, user profile, frequency of use, loyalty
behavioral segmentation
Segment buyers into different groups based on their knowledge, attitudes, usage, or reactions to the product.
opportunity
Marketers can segment markets based on when buyers generate purchase intent, actual purchase action, or use of the purchased product.
Opportunity segmentation
Helps companies determine the purpose of their products
Benefit
One of the effective forms of market segmentation is to divide consumers into different groups based on the different benefits they hope to obtain from the product.
Interest segmentation
It is required to discover what main benefits people want to seek from a certain product, and to divide different interest groups accordingly and clearly identify the main brands that deliver different benefits.
Fitbit makes health and fitness tracking devices aimed at buyers in three primary interest segments
daily fitness
Active fitness
Fitness for athletic performance
User profile
Marketers can segment consumers into different groups based on usage
Not used yet
Former user
potential users
first time user
Frequent users
usage frequency
few users
common user
large number of users
loyalty
The market can also be segmented based on consumer loyalty
Companies should start by understanding their loyal customers and learn a lot by analyzing loyalty patterns in the market.
Highly loyal customers are a valuable asset for a company
Field testing the company's products in harsh environments
By studying their less loyal customers
Understand your own marketing weaknesses and take timely improvement measures
Use multiple segmentation criteria
Marketers rarely use one or a few variables for market segmentation
Segment organizational market
Such as customer operating characteristics, purchasing methods, environmental factors and personal characteristics of purchasing personnel, etc.
Segment international markets
Few companies have the resources or the inclination to operate in all or most countries around the world.
First, they can divide the international market into different regions through geographical segmentation.
Countries can also be segmented based on political and legal factors, such as the type and stability of government, receptivity to foreign companies, financial regulation, and the level of bureaucracy.
Using cross-market segmentation, even consumers located in different countries can form consumer segments with similar needs and purchasing behaviors.
Criteria for effective market segmentation
Measurability
Market segment size, purchasing power and underlying conditions can be measured
accessibility
The company can effectively influence and serve market segments
Large scale
The market segment must be large enough or profitable
Differentiation
Market segments should be conceptually easily distinguishable and respond differently to different marketing mix elements and initiatives.
Operability
Companies must be able to design effective marketing programs to attract and serve market segments
7.3 Target market selection
Evaluate market segments
Consider three types of factors
Market segment size and potential
Favor market segments with the right size and growth rate
Market segment structure and attractiveness
There are many strong and aggressive competitors, so it is not very attractive.
Company goals and resources
It was not aligned with the company's long-term goals, or the company lacked the skills and resources needed to succeed and was abandoned.
Choose your target market
After evaluating each market segment, the company must decide which segments to target.
Targeted market
Refers to a group of buyers with common needs or characteristics that a company decides to serve.
Target market selection levels
very extensive
undifferentiated marketing
Decide to ignore the differences in market segments and satisfy the entire market with one product and service
Many companies have found success by serving the needs of specialized market segments and niche markets, and mass market marketers often find it difficult to compete with these more focused companies.
very narrow
Micro marketing
Differentiated marketers and concentrated marketers adjust their products, services and marketing plans according to the needs of different market segments and filling markets.
Tailor product and marketing strategies to suit the preferences of specific individuals and specific regions
local marketing
Refers to adjusting brand and promotion strategies according to the needs and desires of local customer groups---city, neighborhood or even specific stores.
personal marketing
Extreme micro marketing is personal marketing
Align products and marketing strategies based on individual customer needs and preferences. Personal marketing is also called one-to-one marketing
Large planning customization
The company communicates one-on-one with a large number of customers and designs products, services and marketing programs tailored to individual needs.
between
differentiated marketing
Decide to target several market segments and design different products and services for each of them
The relationship between incremental sales and incremental costs must be carefully measured
Concentrated marketing
Instead of pursuing a small share of a large market, strive to occupy a large share of one or several smaller filling markets.
A gap-filling strategy allows small companies to focus their limited resources on serving niche markets that large companies view as unimportant or ignored.
Choose a target market strategy
Which strategy is best depends on the company's resources
when resources are limited
Concentrated marketing is the best choice
When a company introduces a new product, it may be more practical to launch only one model
In the mature stage of the product life cycle, differentiated marketing will be more meaningful
When competitors use differentiated marketing or concentrated marketing, it is tantamount to committing suicide for a company to adopt undifferentiated marketing.
Socially Responsible Target Market Selection
Smart target market selection allows a company to gain greater efficiency by focusing on the most profitable market segments it can best serve.
The digital age is even making children more vulnerable to marketing messages targeted at them
Children should not be completely allowed to use their own electronic devices
Use tailor-made brand information and products (services) to accurately market to each consumer. High precision and marketing can benefit both marketers and consumers, delivering the right brand message to the right customers
Marketers believe that using all this tight and personal information can better serve customers and companies
Therefore, in target marketing, the real question is not who to target, but how and why you choose your target market.
Don’t just consider the company’s own interests, but also consider the interests of target customers.
7.4 Differentiation and positioning
Companies must also define a value proposition
How to create differentiated value for the target market
What position do you hope to occupy in the target market?
Product Positioning
It is the way consumers define a product based on its important attributes - the position a company's products occupy in consumers' minds relative to competing products.
Product positioning is a complex combination of consumers' perceptions, impressions, and emotions about a product, which is formed by comparing it with competitors' products.
Location map
Use Concept Positioning Maps to Delineate Consumers' Brand Perceptions of a Company and its Competitors on Important Purchasing Dimensions
Choose a differentiation and positioning strategy
In many cases, two or more companies will pursue the same positioning in the same market segment, and they will not find a way to differentiate themselves from others.
Each company needs to build a unique set of benefits that differentiates its product or service and appeals to important groups in its market segment.
Brand positioning must meet the needs and preferences of carefully identified target markets
Differentiation and positioning involves three steps
Identify possible value differentiation and competitive advantages on which to build positioning
Choose appropriate competitive advantages and develop an overall positioning strategy
The company must then effectively communicate and convey the chosen positioning to the target market
Identify possible value differentiation and competitive advantages
To build profitable relationships with target markets, marketers must understand customer needs better than competitors and deliver more customer value
Only companies that can effectively differentiate and position themselves to deliver customer excellence to their target markets can achieve competitive advantage.
Companies can differentiate in many aspects such as products, services, channels, personnel or image.
Companies that engage in channel differentiation gain competitive advantage through channel coverage, expertise, and efficiency.
Hire and train employees better than your competitors
The secret to its outstanding customer service lies in its carefully selected and well-trained happy staff
Choose the right competitive advantage
How many points of difference should be promoted?
Many marketers believe that companies should focus on promoting only one benefit to their target market
Add more benefits to low prices to successfully differentiate yourself from Wal-Mart
Propaganda What are the differences?
Not all points of difference are meaningful or worth promoting, and not every point of difference can be effectively differentiated.
Select the dimension of the difference point
importance
This point of difference is extremely valuable to the target customer
unique
Competitors cannot provide it, or the company has a clear advantage over its competitors
Superiority
Superior compared to other methods of providing the same benefits to consumers
Communicability
This point of difference is suitable for communication and can be seen by buyers
Proprietary
Competitors can also easily imitate
Economy
Buyers can afford it
Profitability
Promoting this point of difference can bring profits to the company
Develop an overall positioning strategy
value proposition
The overall positioning of a brand, the combination of all the benefits on which the brand is differentiated and positioned
The value proposition directly answers the customer’s question
Why should I buy your brand?
Volvo’s value proposition: safety at its core
reliability
Spacious
Fashion
Priced above average
possible value proposition
White value proposition for success
It is the differentiation and positioning that enables the company to gain a competitive advantage.
High quality and good price
Refers to providing the highest grade of products and services while charging higher prices to compensate for higher costs.
Four Seasons Hotel
Rolex Watches
starbucks coffee
High quality, same price
Refers to the fact that a company can attack its competitors' premium-price positioning by introducing brands that offer the same quality at lower prices.
Same quality and low price
Could be a strong value proposition - everyone likes good value for money.
Lower quality, lower price
It means that products with not very good quality and low price can always find a certain living space in the market.
Pinduoduo
Ramada Hotel Chain
Lower quality and lower price means that the product meets consumers' lower performance or quality requirements at a lower price.
Costco warehouse store
ALDI
High quality and low price
One of the successful value propositions is the best service and the lowest price.
Offering more benefits often means increased costs, making the promise of delivering quality at “low prices” difficult to keep.
The light-colored square in the middle represents marginal value propositions
Dark squares represent failed value propositions
Develop a positioning statement
Company and brand positioning should be summarized as a positioning statement
positioning statement form
Our (brand) is a (concept of how to be different) for (target segment and its needs)
For example: For multitaskers who need help remembering things, Evernote is a digital content management application that helps you easily capture and record the moments in your daily life on your computer, phone, tablet and website and creativity.)
Placing the brand within a specific product category shows that it has commonalities with other products in that category. The superiority of the product just highlights its difference.
Communicate and deliver established positioning
Once the positioning is determined, the company must take effective measures to convey and communicate the established positioning to target customers.
All marketing mix strategies of the company must give strong support to the positioning strategy
The design of the marketing mix—products, pricing, channels, promotions—is arranging the tactical details of the positioning strategy.
Companies often find that it is much easier to come up with a good positioning strategy than to execute it
Case
Virgin America: Flying for the tech-savvy
Putting customers first and targeting the right customer segments
Target the right customers
One of Branson’s core values has long permeated Virgin America
Take care of your people first and the profits will follow
It targets young, savvy, influential consumers who are willing to pay a little more for airlines that care about them - the Silicon Valley faction.
Details win
Providing unique facilities in the aviation industry is a challenge for all corporate teachers.
An airline based in Silicon Valley
We prefer to think of ourselves as an idea incubator.
above the sky
8. Products, services and brands: build customer value
learning target
Define products and describe the main categories of products and services
Describe the decisions a company makes regarding individual products, product lines, and product mixes
Explain the four characteristics of services marketing and other marketing conditions required for services
Discussion Brand Strategy---Enterprise's decision-making on brand building and management
Quotes
GoPro: Be a hero
He believes that helping consumers tell stories and share emotions can be divided into four stages.
capture
creation
release
Approval
Inspiration: Success starts with understanding consumer needs and motivations
Dream, act. Capture with your GoPro. Capture and share your world
8.1 What is a product
product
Defined as anything offered to the market to attract attention, acquisition, use or consumption to satisfy a desire or need.
tangible product
such as cars, computers and mobile phones
A service, event, person, place, organization, idea, or a combination of the above
Service provided by
Activity
Benefit
satisfy
A form of product formed for sale that is intangible in nature, and the sale of services does not result in the transfer of ownership.
银行业务
酒店服务
航空运输
零售
电子通信
家居维修
Products, services and experiences
product
Such as: soap, toothpaste, salt
Serve
Physical examination, financial services
experience
disney
Create dreams and unforgettable memories for consumers
Nike
Shoes are not that important, what is important is how you feel wearing them
apple
Rather than just selling products, particularly successful Apple retail stores strive to create an engaging Apple brand experience.
Clean, simple and stylish style
Just build the beauty brand experience. [Sales] is a matter of course
Product and service levels
Product planners need to consider three levels of products and services
most basic level
core customer value
What are buyers really buying?
The core benefits or services that customers seek to solve problems
Women who buy lipstick are buying more than just the color of the lipstick.
In factories we make cosmetics
In the store we sell hope
When they buy an Apple iPad, they're not just buying a tablet. They're buying entertainment, self-expression, efficiency, and relationships with family and friends -- simply a personal mobile window to the world.
second level
Product planners must construct a physical product around the core benefits of the product.
feature
design
Package
quality level
brand name
Customers tend to view products as complex combinations of benefits that satisfy needs
在开发产品的时候,市场营销者必须首先识别,顾客希望从产品中寻求哪些核心顾客价值,然后设计实体产品,并且找到扩展的途径,以及创造顾客价值和最令人满意的顾客体验。
third level
Product planners also need to provide some additional services and benefits to customers in order to structure expanded products around core benefits and physical products.
After-sales service
guarantee
product support
Delivery and credit terms
Classification of products and services
consumer goods
It is a product purchased by the final consumer for personal consumption.
Classification
Convenience products
Optional items
Special product
non-desired items
Consumer product marketing issues
Industrial supplies
definition
Products purchased for further processing or business operations
The significant difference between consumer goods and industrial goods is the purpose for which they are purchased
blue cutting machine
Personal use
consumer goods
do gardening business
Industrial supplies
Classification
Materials and components
raw materials
agricultural products
wheat
cotton
livestock
fruit
vegetable
natural products
fish
wood
crude
iron ore
Processed materials and components
Constituent materials
steel
yarn
cement
metallic line
Components
small motor
tire
casting
Price and service are the main marketing factors, branding and advertising tend to be less important
capital projects
Industrial supplies that help buyers produce and operate
facility
building
factory
office
Fixed equipment
dynamo
drill press
mainframe computer system
elevator
Accessory equipment
Machines and tools that are easy to move
Hand Tools
dump truck
office equipment
computer
fax machine
desk
Auxiliary products and services
Auxiliary products
Operation aids
Lubricant
coal
Paper
pencil
Repair and maintenance products
paint
nail
broom
Serve
Maintenance and repair services
Hygiene and cleaning
computer repair
Equipment consulting services
law
management consulting
advertise
organizations, people, places and ideas
organize
Organizations often take actions to "market" themselves.
organizational marketing
Refers to activities that create, maintain, or change target consumers' attitudes and behaviors toward an organization
Both for-profit and non-profit organizations practice organizational marketing
Market yourself as a company that makes the world a better place with imaginative products and technologies
GE is building, empowering, changing and healing the world
personnel
People can also be viewed as products
personal marketing
Refers to activities that create, maintain, or change attitudes and behaviors toward specific people.
Place
Involves activities undertaken to create, maintain or change attitudes and behavior towards a particular place
concept
Ideas can also be marketed. In some sense, almost all marketing is the marketing of an idea.
social marketing
Applying traditional business marketing concepts and tools to encourage behavior that improves personal and social welfare.
8.2 Product and service decisions
Individual product and service decisions
three levels
individual product decisions
Product and service attributes
Developing a product or service first involves defining the benefits it provides. These benefits are often communicated through things like quality, features, and style and design.
quality
It is one of the main tools for marketers to conduct market positioning.
Quality has a direct impact on the performance of products and services and is therefore closely related to consumer value and consumer satisfaction.
quality definition
narrow sense
no defects
Define quality from the perspective of creating customer value and customer satisfaction
It is the performance provided by the characteristics of a product or service that enables it to meet the actual or potential needs of customers.
Total Quality Management (TQM)
All employees of the enterprise are required to work together to continuously improve the quality of products, services and business processes.
Two dimensions of product quality
quality level
Marketers must first select a level of quality that supports the product's positioning in the target market
Product quality means performance quality---the product's ability to perform its function
Companies often choose a quality level that meets the needs of the target market and is comparable to competitors' products.
consistency
High quality also means a high degree of quality consistency
Product quality means a high degree of consistency---free from defects and consistently delivering a given level of performance.
All businesses should strive for a high level of consistency.
feature
A product may have multiple characteristics
Features are a competitive tool that differentiates the company's products from those of its competitors.
Being the first to deliver valuable new features is one of the most effective ways to compete
style
design
Unique product style and design is another way to increase customer value
Excellent design can not only beautify the appearance of the product, but also improve the usefulness of the product.
Excellent design does not start from brainstorming new ideas and marketing models, but from customer observation and a deep understanding of customer needs.
brand
The most unique skill of a professional marketer is the ability to build and manage brands
brand
A name, term, mark, symbol, design, or a combination of the above that is used to identify the producer or seller of a product or service.
Consumers regard brands as an important part of products, and brand management can add value to products.
Consumers assign meaning to brands and develop brand relationships.
Brands bring multiple benefits to consumers
Brands also tell buyers about product quality and consistency—customers who frequently buy from the same brand know they are getting the same features, benefits, and quality with every purchase.
A brand name provides the basis for building a story about a product's unique qualities.
Package
Involves the design and production of containers and packaging materials for products
Function
Traditionally, contain and protect products
marketing tools
From attracting people’s attention to introducing products to making sales
important marketing space
Packaging may be the seller’s last and best opportunity to influence the buyer
Novel packaging can create a competitive advantage for companies and boost sales.
Poor packaging can cause headaches for customers and reduce sales for your business.
Labels and logos
Labeling ranges from small placards attached to products to complex graphics that form part of the packaging.
A variety of functions
Identify the role of a product or brand
Describe other aspects of the product
Help promote the brand, support its positioning, and connect with consumers.
Support the brand's positioning and increase the brand's personality charm
Stimulate consumers' strong emotions
Product support services
They are a small or major component of the enterprise's overall offerings.
Support services
It is an important part of the customer’s overall brand experience.
The first step in designing support services is to conduct regular customer surveys.
product line decisions
product line
It is a group of closely related products that function in a similar way, are sold to the same customer groups, are distributed through the same types of channels, or fall within a defined price range.
Determining product line length is the most important product line decision---the number of product items included in a certain product line
Managers need to analyze their product lines regularly to estimate sales and profits for each product line and to understand the contribution each product line makes to the overall performance of the line in which it belongs.
There are two ways a business can expand its product line
product line fill
Supplement some new product items within the existing product line
Reason for supplement
strive for higher profits
Please the dealer
Utilize excess production capacity
Become a leading enterprise with complete product lines
Fill a market gap to prevent competitors from entering
Product line extension
A company goes beyond its current scope to increase the length of its product line
extend downward
BMW MINI Cooper
extend upward
bmw rolls royce
Two-way extension
While BMW has stayed true to its premium positioning, it now has multiple brands and product lines that successfully appeal to a diverse group of people including the rich, the ultra-rich and those who want to be rich.
product mix decisions
Companies with several product lines need to make product mix decisions.
All product lines and product items sold by an enterprise constitute the product portfolio
The four product lines of Colgate’s product portfolio
oral care
personal care
home care
pet nutrition
Four dimensions of product mix
width
Refers to the number of different product lines operated by a company
length
Refers to the total number of product items included in the product line operated by the enterprise
depth
Refers to the number of models provided for each product in the product line
consistency
Refers to how closely different product lines are related to each other in terms of end use, production requirements, distribution channels, or other aspects.
product line decisions
product line
It is a group of closely related products that function in a similar way, are sold to the same customer groups, are distributed through the same types of channels, or fall within a defined price range.
The most important product line decision is determining product line length—the number of product items included in a product line.
Managers need to analyze their product lines regularly to estimate the sales and profits of each product line and understand the contribution of each product line to the overall performance of the product line in which it belongs
Businesses can expand their product lines in two ways:
product line fill
Some new product items within existing product lines
Reason for padding
strive for higher profits
Please the dealer
Utilize excess production capacity
Become a leading enterprise with complete product lines
or fill a market gap to prevent competitors from entering
Product line extension
If a company goes beyond its current scope to increase the length of its product line
Take BMW as an example
extend downward
MINI Cooper
extend upward
rolls royce
Two-way extension
While staying true to its premium positioning, it now has multiple brands and product lines that successfully appeal to the rich, the ultra-rich and those who want to be rich.
product mix decisions
Companies with several product lines need to make product mix decisions
All product lines and product items sold by an enterprise constitute the product portfolio
Colgate’s four product lines
oral care
personal care
home care
pet nutrition
four important dimensions
width
Refers to the number of different product lines operated by a company
length
Refers to the total number of product items included in the product line operated by the enterprise
depth
Refers to the number of models provided for each product in the product line
consistency
Refers to how closely different product lines are related to each other in terms of end use, production requirements, distribution channels, or other aspects
8.3 Service marketing
The nature and characteristics of the service
Marketing strategy for service companies
Like manufacturing companies, good service companies use marketing to establish a strong positioning in selected target markets
service profit chain
definition
Service business profits are tied to employee and customer satisfaction
Includes five connections
internal service quality
Excellent employee selection and training, a quality work environment, and strong support from employees who serve customers directly will result in
Satisfied and efficient service staff
More satisfied, loyal and hard-working employees, which will result in -
Higher service value
More effective and efficient customer value creation and service provision will bring -
Satisfied and loyal customers
Satisfied customers stay loyal, make repeat purchases, and recommend to other customers, which results in—
Healthy Services Profits and Growth
Excellent service enterprise performance
Marketing examples
Zappos: Take care of your employees and they'll take care of your customers
Our overall brand goal is
Best customer service and customer experience
Caring for customers starts with a deep, customer-centric culture
customer loyalty team
Ten core values
During the four-week customer service training period, anyone willing to take money and walk is not a good fit for Zappos culture
Zappos treats its employees as well as its customers
Work hard, play hard
Zappos creates a relaxed, fun-loving and close-knit family atmosphere. It provides free food and drinks, a lounge, and holds soft bullet gun battles and Oreo eating competitions.
If we handle our calls well, we have the opportunity to create emotional impact and lasting memories.
As the service profit chain theory illustrates, taking care of your customers starts with taking care of those who take care of the customers.
Service marketing also includes internal marketing and interactive marketing
internal marketing
This means that in order to achieve customer satisfaction, service companies must guide and motivate front-line employees who are in direct contact with customers and employees who provide support services to carry out teamwork.
Marketers must make everyone in the organization customer-centric
Ideally, ensure that employees themselves believe so strongly in the brand that they sincerely deliver the value promised by the brand to customers
Interactive Marketing
This means that service quality depends to a large extent on the effectiveness of the interaction between buyers and sellers during the service contact process.
Improve service differentiation, service quality and service productivity
Service variance management
Service differentiation
More capable and reliable frontline staff
Improve the hardware environment for delivering services
Reimagine service delivery processes
Service quality management
Service companies can differentiate by providing higher quality more consistently than their competitors.
To achieve 100% defect-free service. A performance standard of 98% sounds good for business.
Clever service recovery can turn angry customers into loyal customers
In fact, clever service recovery can sometimes win more customer purchases and customer loyalty than a service that goes well in the first place.
Service communication includes three main contents:
Sincere apology
Give a concise explanation of what happened
Finally, a coupon that can be used for your next ticket purchase is attached.
Service Productivity Management
Target
Train existing employees better or hire employees who will work harder or with better skills
Increase the quantity of services by sacrificing some quality
Finally, service providers can also leverage the power of technology.
However, companies should avoid excessive pursuit of productivity at the expense of quality
8.4 Brand Strategy: Building a Strong Brand
Brand equity and brand value
A brand is not a name or a symbol
It is a key element in the relationship between a company and its customers.
A brand expresses consumers' perceptions and feelings about a certain product and its performance - the meaning of the product or service in the minds of consumers.
Make products in factories, create brands in your mind
Strong brands have higher brand equity
brand equity
It is a differentiated effect, which refers to the consumer's reaction to the product and its marketing under the influence of the brand name.
It is a measure of a brand's ability to gain consumer preference and loyalty.
Brands win in the market
Not just because they deliver special benefits or reliable services, but because they create deep connections with customers.
For example
Nike
Represents vigorous sportsmanship, health and sense of achievement
It’s not the shoe itself that’s important, it’s where it takes you
Measuring brand advantage from four consumer perception dimensions
Differentiation
What makes the brand unique
Correlation
The extent to which consumers perceive a product to meet their needs
brand knowledge
Consumers’ knowledge of the brand
respect
The extent to which consumers care about and respect the brand
Brand Value
The financial value of a brand
A brand with high brand equity is a very valuable asset for a company
Positive brand equity stems from consumers’ feelings about the brand and its relevance
A strong brand provides a certain guarantee for companies to withstand fierce price competition and other competitive marketing actions.
A strong brand lays the foundation for a company to build a strong, profitable relationship with its customers.
The basic asset that constitutes brand equity is customer equity
The value of customer relationships created by brands
A strong brand is important, but what it really represents is profitable, loyal customers.
The correct focus of marketing should be to use brand management as the main marketing tool
Build a strong brand
Major brand strategic decisions
Brand Positioning
Attributes
Brand positioning through product attributes
Procter & Gamble
Help determine the appropriateness
Product attributes are the least desirable level of brand positioning
Benefit
Brands can better position themselves by associating their name with a benefit that customers desire.
fedex
Guaranteed timely delivery
Nike
performance
Walmart
save money
Connect and share
beliefs and values
The strongest brand positioning levels go beyond emphasizing product attributes or product benefits. They position themselves on strong beliefs and values, locking in customers on a deep emotional level.
When positioning a brand, marketers should establish a brand mission and a vision of what the brand must be and do.
A brand is a company's commitment to consistently deliver specific features, benefits, services and experiences to customers.
Brand name selection
choose
A good name can greatly contribute to the success of a product
First, a careful evaluation of the product and its benefits, target market, and proposed marketing strategy is required.
Name a brand
Partly science
part art
It is also a consideration of marketers’ intuition.
Several attributes of an ideal brand name
Should demonstrate the quality of the product and the benefits it brings
For example: sweet dreams, healthy eating
Should be easy to pronounce, recognize and remember
iPad
Tide
should be unique
Panera
Nest
Zapps
Should facilitate brand extension
Amazon
Should be easily translated into other languages
Microsoft's Bing
Should be able to register and receive legal protection
Protect
Once a brand name is chosen, it must be strictly protected
Companies often go to great lengths to protect their names and brand marks.
brand holding
National and store brands
national brand
has long dominated retail
To compete with store brands, national brands must improve their value propositions, especially to appeal to today's frugal consumers.
Fight back with more discounts and coupons
Store brand or private label
In recent years, more and more retailers and wholesalers have developed their own store brands or private labels
Store brands are of equal or better quality than national brands
Consumers are even willing to pay higher prices for store brands that are positioned together as gourmet or premium.
Licensed brands
Some companies license the use of names or symbols already established by other manufacturers, the names of famous people, or the names of characters from popular movies and books.
Brand licensing agreement earns company nearly $200 million a year
Cooperation brand
It means using the existing brands of different companies on the same product.
Brand development
brand development strategy
Product line extension
It is when a company applies an existing brand name to a new style, new color, new model, new ingredient or new flavor in an existing product category.
KFC
It is better for the product line to steal sales from competing brands rather than competing with other products of the company.
a
It is the use of an existing brand to launch new or improved products in a new product category
It well reflects the brand’s smart home mission.
Multiple brands
Companies often introduce new brands within the same product category.
Pepsi
Pepsi
Sierra Mist
mountain dew
Mirinda
IZZE
Multi-branding provides an effective way to establish different features to cater to different purchasing motivations, allowing companies to lock in more shelf space for distributors.
New brand
A business may decide that the power of an existing brand name is waning, necessitating the introduction of a new one.
Or, when a company enters a new product category and the existing brand names are not suitable, a new brand name can be adopted.
Brand management
Companies should manage their brands carefully
First, the brand’s positioning must be continuously communicated to customers
These advertising campaigns can help create brand name recognition, brand knowledge, and even brand preference.
A brand is a living entity that grows stronger or weaker over time and is made up of thousands of details.
For a company's brand positioning to be successful, it must involve its employees
Finally, companies need to regularly audit their brand’s strengths and weaknesses.
Case
Airbnb: Making your stay more authentic
Airbnb does not own physical hotel properties. It simply connects buyers and sellers and facilitates transactions.
2 million rooms---none alike
Rentals are private houses and apartments, usually located in residential communities, that can be rented by the day, week or month.
When guests arrive at the property of their choice, the host may greet them personally or may arrange for self-service check-in.
See the world like a local
Guests seek an experience that connects them to people and culture
Keep your promise
There is a home all over the world and a home in the heart
In your world, it’s not just your home that’s truly special, it’s your entire life
He concluded: "I think that many of the conflicts in the world occur between groups that don't understand each other."
9. Develop new products and manage product life cycle
learning target
Explain how companies find and develop new product ideas
List and define the various stages of the new product development process and the main issues that should be paid attention to in managing this process
Describe the various stages of the product life cycle and explain how marketing strategies change as the product life cycle changes.
Discuss two other product issues: social responsibility in product decisions and international marketing of products and services
Quotes
Samsung: Enriching customers’ lives through new product innovation
From imitation to leadership. In order to outsell Sony, Samsung decided it must first surpass it in innovation.
With energetic young designers and managers, new products are pouring out like water from the floodgates.
Sophisticated, bold and stylish products targeting high-end consumers
lifestyle art
surprise test
If it can still bring "surprise" to customers during the market test---make them say "wow", then it can be directly returned to the design studio for re-creation.
In addition to leading technology and stylish design, Samsung also always puts customers at the center of its innovation movement. Its primary innovation goal is to improve customer experience and bring real and meaningful changes to people's lives.
9.1 New product development strategy
Two ways to obtain new products
Get it directly
Purchase companies, patents or production licenses, etc.
New products development
New product development through the company's own R&D efforts.
New product
Newly developed products
Improved or adjusted products
New brand
Innovation can be very expensive and risky. New products face severe tests
Another project study showed that 96% of innovative products cannot recover their research and development costs.
It's possible the product itself is poorly designed
It is also possible that although the concept of the new product is good, the company’s estimate of the market size is too high.
Or the positioning is wrong, launched at the wrong time, priced too high, and the advertising is terrible.
Sometimes, it may also be because the new product development costs are higher than budgeted
Or a competitor's fierce counterattack exceeds expectations.
9.2 New product development process
In the process of seeking and developing new products, companies can still rely on luck, but must formulate a strong new product development plan and establish a systematic, customer-oriented new product development process.
idea generation
Systematically search for new product ideas
Source of idea
Internal idea sources
Using internal resources, companies can use formal R&D activities to find new product ideas.
A place to envision, explore and imagine the future, incubate new food and restaurant ideas, and bring them to life
AT&T has funded 75 TIP projects, ranging from enhanced customer service to new products.
Employees dedicate a day or week in the center of their daily work to developing new ideas
external idea sources
Companies can also use many external resources to obtain excellent new product ideas.
supplier
Businesses can be provided with new ideas, technologies and materials that can be used to develop new products.
competitor
It is also an important external resource. You can also buy a competitor's new product, take it apart to see how it works, analyze its sales, and decide whether you should launch your own new product.
consumer
Companies can analyze consumer questions and complaints to find new products that better solve consumer problems, or invite customers to share suggestions and ideas.
Crowdsourcing
More broadly, many companies are now establishing crowdsourced or open innovation programs for new product ideas.
Because one's important ideas are likely to come from kids playing football in school who happen to have better ideas.
The resulting ideas often exceed the company’s expectations
Brainstorm various possible sources.
Idea screening
It is a process of eliminating the bad and retaining the good, which means retaining good ideas as much as possible and getting rid of bad ideas.
Businesses only hope to further develop new and profitable products.
Product screening framework
Is it real?
Is there a real need and desire for this product, and will consumers buy it?
Is there a clear product concept?
Can this product meet market demand?
Can we win?
Will this product provide a lasting competitive advantage?
Does the company have the resources to successfully develop and market this product?
Is it worth doing?
That is, does this product conform to the company's long-term development strategy?
Will it generate enough potential profit?
Concept development and testing
An attractive product idea must become a valid product concept.
Product idea
It is an idea of a possible product that the company hopes to provide to the market.
product concept
It is a concept that is described in detail from the perspective of the consumer, using the language of the consumer.
Product image
Is the specific image of an actual or potential product perceived by consumers
concept development
Looking to the future, the marketer's task is to transform this new product into several product concepts, understand how attractive each product concept is to consumers, and select the best one.
concept test
It’s about testing these new product concepts with the right consumers.
For some concept tests, a text or picture description may suffice.
Marketing strategy formulation
That is to design a preliminary marketing strategy for bringing the electric vehicle to the market.
The marketing strategic plan consists of three parts
Describe target market
Plan’s value proposition
Projected sales volume and market share, as well as profit targets for the first few years
business analysis
Includes reviewing new product sales, cost, and profit plans to determine whether they meet the business's goals
In order to estimate sales, companies need to check past sales records of similar products and conduct market research
product development
The R&D department or engineering department converts product concepts into physical products.
This stage often requires a large amount of investment, and the effectiveness of its work will determine whether the product idea can be transformed into a technically and commercially viable product.
Developing a successful prototype can take days, weeks, months or even years.
Products need to undergo rigorous testing to ensure they can perform their functions safely and effectively, or that consumers will find their value. Companies can conduct product testing themselves or outsource it to professional testing companies.
New products must not only functionally meet established requirements, but also convey projected psychological characteristics.
marketing test
Marketing testing can help marketers understand in advance the specific situations that may occur when the product is officially launched to test the product and marketing plan
Marketing testing includes
Target market selection
product positioning strategy
Advertising Strategy
Distribution strategy
Pricing Strategy
brand strategy
packaging strategy
budget level
For products that are extensions of product lines or imitations of competitors' successful products, companies generally do not carry out marketing design.
Starbucks
We don’t think imperfection is acceptable, Starbucks’ chief digital officer said, “It’s just that we are more willing to innovate and accelerate marketization, making sure it is perfect in the process.”
commercialize
Bringing new products to market --- will face high costs.
launch new products
Determine time to market
Companies need to decide where to launch new products—in a city, a region, a national market, or an international market.
Manage new product development
method
Customer-centered new product development
Emphasis on finding new ways to solve customer problems while creating more satisfying customer experiences
Customer involvement has a positive impact on the new product development process and new product success
A product development philosophy designed for joy
Expand and streamline - first develop many customer-driven product ideas, and then streamline them to one or a few product ideas that best solve customer problems.
You can feel it, not just in your head, but gradually deep inside, becoming your instinct. We want to build it into our products
It starts with understanding customer needs and ends with solving customer problems.
Team-based new product development
In order to quickly enter the market for their products. Under this approach, various departments in the company work closely together in cross-functional teams, and various steps in the product development process can be carried out simultaneously, thereby saving time and improving efficiency.
The company mobilized some people from various departments to form a dedicated team, and they tracked the progress of the new product from beginning to end, instead of moving the new product from one department to another as before.
This team typically includes people from marketing, finance, design, manufacturing, legal, and even suppliers and customers.
There are some limitations. For example, it can sometimes create more tension and chaos within an organization than a sequential approach.
Product life cycles are getting shorter and shorter, and the rewards of rapid and flexible new product development far outweigh the risks.
Companies that combine a customer-centric and team-based approach to new product development can gain a strong competitive advantage in bringing marketable products to market quickly.
Systematic new product development
The new product development process should be holistic and systematic rather than fragmented and disorganized. Otherwise, few new product ideas will be generated, or even good ones will die.
You can also set up a reward program to reward those who contribute the best ideas
A systems approach to innovation management yields two favorable results.
First, it helps create an innovation-oriented corporate culture. It shows that top management supports, encourages and rewards innovation.
Secondly, it will generate a large number of new product ideas, among which some really good new product ideas may be found. Good new product ideas will be developed more systematically, promoting the success of more new products.
Successful new product development also requires company-wide commitment.
The overall culture of the organization encourages, supports and rewards innovation
Samsung
apple
3M
Procter & Gamble
Universal
9.3 Product life cycle strategy
product development period
A period when companies find new product ideas and conduct research and development.
introductory period
A period when new products are introduced to the market and sales grow slowly.
As soon as a new product is launched, the introductory period begins.
Companies often operate at a loss or have very low profits during the introductory period
A go-to-market strategy is only a carefully chosen first step in the overall marketing strategy of the product life cycle
growth period
A period when products are quickly accepted by the market and profits increase significantly.
If the new product meets market needs, it will enter the growth stage
Early adopters will buy the product, and other consumers may follow
At this stage, expanding sales spread promotional expenses, unit manufacturing costs decreased, and profits increased.
Strategies to maintain rapid market growth for as long as possible
Improve product quality and add new product features and styles
Enter new market segments or distribution channels
Shift some advertising appeals from building product awareness to persuading purchases
Reduce product prices when appropriate to attract more buyers
In the growth stage, companies face a trade-off between high market share and high profits.
mature stage
A period of slower sales growth as most potential buyers have already accepted and purchased the product
When a product's sales growth reaches a certain peak, it will slow down and enter a mature stage.
Some weaker competitors began to withdraw from the competition. Finally, there are only a few stable competitors left in the industry
Product managers shouldn’t just let things take their course or blindly protect their mature products – being good at offense is the best defense.
In market adjustment, companies should try their best to increase the consumption of existing products by finding new users and new market segments.
Go ahead and get in touch
Just do it, inspiration
Go ahead and explore
Companies may try to improve their products—changing product characteristics such as quality, features, style, packaging, or technology platforms—to retain current users or attract new customers.
Finally, companies can also try to improve the marketing mix---by adjusting one or several elements of the marketing mix to increase sales.
Businesses can offer new or improved services to consumers
Prices can also be lowered to attract new users or customers from competitors
You can also launch better advertising campaigns or adopt aggressive promotional activities---business discounts, vouchers, sweepstakes or contests, etc.
Enterprises can also enter new marketing channels to provide services to new users
Recession
A period of declining sales and profits
Sales of most product formats and brands eventually decline.
This decline may be slow
oatmeal
This decline may be rapid
gramophone record
Causes of recession
skill improved
Changing consumer tastes
Competition is increasing
The failure of one product can cause consumers to become suspicious of the company and its other products.
The bigger problem lies ahead. Continuing to operate declining products will delay the active search for substitutes, thereby unbalancing the product portfolio, reducing existing profits, and weakening the foundation for future development of the company.
For these reasons, companies must identify products in decline and decide whether to maintain, harvest, or abandon them.
The concept of product life cycle can be used to describe product category (fuel vehicles), product form (small SUV) or brand (Ford's Saturn)
The concept of product life cycle can also be applied using the so-called
style
a basic and unique way of expression
Residential
colonial
ranch style
traditional
Art
realistic
surreal
Abstract
Fashion
A style that is currently accepted or popular in a certain field.
Fashions tend to develop slowly, usually remain popular for a while, and then slowly decline.
upsurge
A brief period of high volume sales or rapid popularity of a product or brand driven by consumer enthusiasm.
Extract value while it's popular
A product's current position in the life cycle determines the optimal marketing strategy, which in turn affects the product's performance in subsequent stages.
Or jump over the obstacles that may delay consumer acceptance and quickly push the new product into the growth stage.
The essence of the product life cycle theory is that companies must continue to innovate, otherwise they will be in danger of being eliminated.
Marketing examples
Managing Mattel’s product life cycle: It’s no joke
In an industry buffeted by a barrage of hot new products, Mattel lagged behind in product development and was unable to adapt to rapid changes in toy trends and preferences.
Critics accuse Mattel of unimaginative designs, a conservative approach to innovation and an inability to keep the brand fresh and valuable with the times.
Managing the product life cycle is no joke. It’s about growth, prosperity, and even long-term survival.
Characteristics, objectives and marketing strategies for each stage of the product life cycle
9.4 Other issues with products and services
Product Decisions and Social Responsibility
Product decisions attract increasing public attention
should be considered
About product development and retirement
Patent Protection
Product quality and safety
Product warranty
Product reliability is the second largest legal issue plaguing companies
International product and service marketing
International marketers of products and services face special challenges
First, they must launch what products and services in which countries
They must then decide how much to maintain product standardization and how much to adapt products and services to world markets.
Case:
Bosch: Developing better products through research
Business is our secondary concern
Bosch philosophy
His approach of ignoring current technology and starting research entirely from scratch is unusual in product development strategies.
Changing the way Bosch
speaker
901 Series Direct/Reflective Loudspeaker Systems
earphone
Bosch's QuietComfort series of products are widely used in a variety of consumer products and have set the benchmark in the noise-canceling headphone industry.
vehicle suspension
That is to produce a product that is better than any racing car while also providing the most comfortable ride experience for its occupants.
What is the potential size of the market? We really don't know, we just know that we have technology that is so different and so good that people want it.
10. Pricing: Understand and obtain customer value
learning target
Answering “What is Price?” How important is price in today’s rapidly changing environment?
Discuss the importance of customer value perception when setting prices
Discuss the importance of company goals versus product costs when setting prices
Identify and define other internal and external factors that influence a company's pricing decisions
Quotes
Amazon vs. Walmart: A price war for online supremacy
Walmart
Dominate offline retail with its price-driven "save money and live a better life"
2/3 of Americans live within 5 miles of a Walmart store and are likely to offer 30-minute delivery
Amazon
Amazon appears to have an advantage on most non-price factors.
Its distribution network, built specifically for online shopping, enables faster and more convenient home delivery - including same-day and Sunday delivery within the same market.
Amazon has more online product categories than Wal-Mart, and the online and mobile shopping wizard is now moving into groceries, which now account for 56% of Wal-Mart's sales.
Self-realization
Low prices still matter.
Pinduoduo’s success is the best case
Therefore, within the e-commerce framework I open, this must be an important goal (must be under the condition of ensuring high quality of the product)
But achieving online supremacy involves more than launching and winning online price wars. It also requires delivering low prices and ample selection, convenience, and the best shopping experience that Amazon has achieved nearly perfect a long time ago.
low price
More options
Convenience
Best shopping experience
The Internet’s price comparison ability is enhanced
There are many platforms in China, and it is easy to compare prices. Therefore, when setting prices, each platform needs to be fully inspected and compared.
Businesses should sell value, not price
10.1 What is price
definition
The total amount of money charged for a product or service
broad sense
Price is the value a customer pays for the benefit of obtaining, owning, or using a product or service.
for a long time
Price together is an important factor in purchasing decisions.
In recent decades, non-price factors have received increasing attention. Even so, price consistency is one of the most important factors that determine a company's market share and profitability.
Pricing
It is the only element in the marketing mix that is directly related to revenue; other marketing mix elements represent immediate costs.
It is also one of the most flexible marketing elements
Wise managers view pricing as an important tool in creating and capturing customer value.
A small percentage increase in price can significantly increase profits.
More importantly, as part of a company's overall value proposition, price plays a key role in creating customer value and building customer relationships.
When it comes to price, smart marketers don't fear and avoid it, but make good use of it.
10.2 Main pricing strategies
The company's price falls between two price levels
too low to be profitable
Too high to have any demand
between
Key factors to consider when it comes to price
internal and external factors
Customer perception of product value sets price ceiling
Competitor strategies and prices
The company’s overall marketing strategy and marketing mix
Market and demand characteristics
Three Main Pricing Strategies
Customer value-based pricing
definition
Using customers' value perceptions as the key to pricing means that marketers cannot design products and marketing programs first and then set prices. Before formulating a marketing plan, marketers should consider all marketing mix variables, including pricing.
Key: You cannot design products and solutions first and then price. Price before deciding on the solution.
Although cost is an important factor that must be considered when setting prices, cost-based pricing is typically product-oriented.
value-based pricing
Evaluate customer needs and value perceptions
Set prices that match customer perceived value
Determine target cost
Design products to deliver ideal value at target costs
It’s important to remember that “good value” does not equal “low price”
Example
Patek Philippe watches
It’s not actually expensive, but it’s a great value
Many Patek Philippe models are devoutly sought after by admirers
More important is the psychological and emotional value of owning a Patek Philippe watch
Consumers use precisely these perceived values to evaluate the price of a product
An old Russian proverb says
There are two kinds of fools in every market
Priced too high
The company's sales will fall
Priced too low
Although the product sells well, the profit earned is less than what could be achieved by pricing at perceived value
value-based pricing approach
high value pricing
Providing the right mix of quality products and services at fair prices
High-value pricing involves redesigning an existing brand to offer higher quality at a given price or the same quality at a lower price
An important form of high-value pricing in retail is known as "everyday low prices"
On the contrary, high-low pricing means that you usually charge higher prices, but often selectively promote certain products at temporary low prices.
value added pricing
Instead of lowering prices to meet competition, they differentiate their products or services by adding value-enhancing attributes and services, thereby maintaining above-average prices.
cost-based pricing
definition
Refers to setting prices based on the costs of producing, distributing and selling products, plus a target rate of return.
cost-based pricing
Design excellent products
Determine product cost
Determine product price based on cost
Convince buyers of the product's value
Cost sets the bottom line for company pricing
Increase profits through small profits but quick turnover
There are also companies, such as Apple, BMW and Steinway, that deliberately use higher costs to charge higher prices and profits
cost type
fixed cost
Costs that do not change with changes in production or sales volume
Variable costs
Refers to costs that vary directly with production levels
total cost
It is the sum of fixed costs and variable costs under a certain level of production.
Managers set prices that at least cover total production costs at a given level of production
Costs at different production levels
To price wisely, managers must know the company's cost profile at different levels of production.
The relationship between production capacity and cost
Production experience and cost function
As production experience accumulates, average costs continue to decrease. This phenomenon is called the experience curve, or learning curve.
Texas Instruments sets low prices for its calculators to increase sales; as it gains more experience, costs will fall;
The company can then further reduce the selling price
cost plus pricing
definition
It is the ultimate simple pricing method, which means adding a standard markup to the product cost.
Is cost-plus pricing effective?
Generally ineffective. Any pricing method that ignores demand and competitor prices is unlikely to achieve the optimal price
Break-even analysis and target profit pricing
definition
Businesses try to find a price that allows them to break even, or achieve a desired return target based on the cost of manufacturing and marketing the product.
competition-based pricing
definition
Involves setting prices based on competitors' strategies, costs, prices, and products and services.
Consumers often judge the value of a product based on its competitive price
When evaluating competitors' pricing strategies, companies should consider the following questions:
First, whose products or services provide more customer value than those of the company’s competitors?
Consumers perceive high value and charge high prices
Consumers perceive low value and charge low prices
Change consumers’ value perception to make them believe in price
Secondly, how strong are the competitors the company currently faces? What is their pricing strategy?
competitor
High pricing
small scale
Lower prices to drive weaker competitors out of the market
competitor
High pricing
Large scale
Target unmet market gaps and provide value-added products at higher prices
Importantly, the goal is not necessarily to have a price equal to or lower than that of competitors.
Instead, the goal is to set prices based on the relative value created relative to competing synonyms.
If a company can create higher value for customers, it is natural to charge higher prices.
10.3 Other internal and external department factors affecting pricing decisions
Internal factors
The company’s overall marketing strategy
Finding the magic price-value balance can be difficult, and pricing strategies often require adapting to changes in the pricing environment.
marketing objectives
Pricing plays an important role in the company's process of achieving goals at different levels.
Pricing decisions should be coordinated with product design, distribution, and promotion decisions to form a consistent and effective overall marketing plan.
Companies often position products based on price and then design other marketing mix strategies. At this time, price is a key factor in product positioning, determining the product's market, competition and design.
target costing
It first determines an ideal selling price based on customer perceived value, and then determines costs with the goal of matching the price.
Other companies put less emphasis on price and use other marketing mix tools to establish non-price positioning. In many cases, the best strategy is not to charge the lowest price, but to enhance customers' perceived value through differentiated marketing.
sales team
other organizational factors
Managers must determine who within the organization will determine prices.
in small company
decided by top management
in big companies
Responsible for by branch manager or product manager
In industries where pricing is a key element (e.g. airlines, steel, rail, oil)
Companies often set up special pricing departments to set the best prices, or help other departments set prices.
external factors
Market and demand characteristics
Understanding customers’ perceived value and how it affects the price they are willing to pay is the first step to effective pricing
Pricing in different market types
under perfect competition
Sellers don’t spend much time on marketing strategies
In case of monopolistic competition
Sellers strive to develop differentiated offerings and prices for different market segments, using branding, advertising, and personal selling to differentiate their offerings from those of competitors.
In the case of oligopolistic competition
Since there are fewer sellers in the market, each seller is highly alert and responsive to competitors' pricing strategies.
In the battle for users, price has become the main competitive weapon.
In the case of complete monopoly
There is only one seller in the market.
Analyze price-demand relationships
The higher the price, the lower the quantity demanded
price elasticity of demand
Marketers also need to understand the price elasticity of demand
That is, the response of demand to price changes.
If the price changes slightly
Causes almost no change in demand, we say demand is inelastic
If demand changes greatly, demand is said to be elastic.
Economic conditions
Economic conditions have a strong impact on corporate pricing strategies
Economic factors such as prosperity or recession, inflation, and interest rates influence pricing decisions because they affect both consumers' perceptions of a product's price and value and the cost of manufacturing the product.
Once a company cuts prices, it will be difficult to restore prices to their original levels when the economy recovers.
They weigh the price paid versus the value received
Other environmental factors
middleman
government
Public opinion
Quotes
Whole Foods: Finding the Right Price-Value Equation
Whole Foods decided to stick to its core strategy of premium market positioning. At the same time, it has also cleverly adjusted its value proposition to adapt to the new situation to better meet the needs of customers with increased awareness of thrift.
It began to downplay the gourmet ingredients in its positioning and instead emphasized the health value of the food it provided.
The usual in-store cannibal prices also provide value --- if the emphasis is on quality food, price isn't everything.
Value means getting more benefits for the same amount of money. Such conversations help shift the customer's focus from price back to value.
"What matters is value" emphasizes the inseparability of value and interests
We think modern, trendy, technology-oriented stores -- very different from the Whole Foods stores you're used to seeing -- are more attractive to a particular generation.
But it's not just a price race. We will begin a new race at the top to provide our customers with better food, higher standards, a richer experience, and a higher level of transparency and accountability in the marketplace.
Marketers must consider the overall marketing strategy and marketing mix strategy when setting prices.
Case
Trader Joe's: Affordable Food—A Special Fix to the Price-Value Equation
Trader Joe's seems to have cracked the customer value code by offering the perfect equation of benefits and price
improve benefits
Trader Joe's is not really a gourmet food store, nor is it a discount food store. It's actually kind of like a mixture of the two
Comes up with its own unique price-value proposition for food - calling it "cheap good food"
Its innovative price-value proposition has earned it an almost cult following from loyal customers who love what they can get from Trader Joe's at the right price.
Describing itself as an "island paradise" where you can discover "value, adventure and delicious treasures" every day
Joe's seems to have the magic power to excite customers
Lower the price
Low prices are particularly consistent with consumer interests
It is the carefully crafted non-price factors that support the overall price-value strategy
Finally, this frugal retailer never advertises, offers coupons, discount cards, or special promotions of any kind.
Recommend your favorite Trader Joe’s supermarket store
additional income
In addition to high-quality and unique products, friendly staff, innovative store design, all these factors come together to create a synergistic effect.
You can feel sincerity --- this is the key to word-of-mouth effect. Trader Joe's proves that even when you get to the other elements of the experience, the people are still the most important.
At the heart of the matter is value and price—what you gain and what you lose.
11. Pricing strategy: other issues
learning target
Describe key new product pricing strategies
Describe how a company should price its product portfolio to maximize profits
Discuss how companies adjust prices to suit different customers and circumstances
Discuss key issues in initiating and responding to price changes
Understand the social and legal issues that influence pricing decisions
Quotes
Apple: Premium but worth it
Apple's pricing is significantly higher than its competitors
Apple's vision is to always provide innovative design and a superior user experience, which makes price take a back seat in the minds of customers who crave Apple products.
It has the highest price and can capture market-leading share.
They create “life is good” experiences
Apple has always had a talent for adapting technology to perfectly meet the needs of its customers in a way that puts them first.
Customers regard Apple as the undisputed fashion pioneer and trendsetter.
One of the most convincing examples of Apple's ability to command premium prices is the Apple Watch.
Whether at home or abroad, Apple's premium strategy may continue to be effective. “Apple’s dominance will be difficult to surpass”
11.1 New Product Pricing Strategy
market skimming pricing
When many companies bring their invented new products to the market, they set a very high initial price and "skim" the profits layer by layer in the market.
Through smart use of high-price strategies, Apple monopolizes 92% of the total profits in the smartphone market
Market skimming pricing is desirable only under certain conditions
First, the quality and image of the product must support its high pricing, and there must be enough buyers willing to purchase at the high price
Secondly, the cost of small batch production will not be so high that it offsets the benefits of high prices.
Finally, competitors cannot easily enter the market and lower prices
market penetration pricing
They set a low initial price and aim to penetrate the market quickly and deeply - attracting a large number of buyers in a short period of time and winning a high market share. High sales volume can lower costs, allowing companies to lower prices even further.
For this low-price strategy to be effective, some conditions must be met
first
The market must be highly price sensitive so that low prices generate greater sales and market share
Secondly
The cost of producing and distributing a product must decrease as sales volume increases
at last
Low prices must help exclude competitors, and a firm that practices penetration pricing must maintain its low-price positioning. Otherwise, the price advantage is only temporary.
11.2 Product Mix Pricing Strategy
Product line pricing
Quicken
Beginner's Edition
Deluxe Edition
Excellent Edition
Home & Business Edition
Alternative product pricing
personal computer
processor
harddisk
memory system
software
Service plan.
Ancillary product pricing
main products
shaver
electronic game console
printer
Consumables
Set a higher profit margin
By-product pricing
Waste brine = salt solution from the cheese production process
Melting ice on the road
package pricing
Fast food restaurant packs burgers, fries and soft drinks
11.3 Price adjustment strategy
Discounts and perks pricing
Discount
Cash Discount
Price concessions for buyers who pay promptly
Feature Discount/Trade Discount
Price discounts provided by sellers to channel members who perform specific functions (e.g. promotion, warehousing, recordkeeping, etc.)
Seasonal discounts
A price discount offered to customers who purchase out-of-season products or services
allowance
Trade-in allowance
A price reduction offered to customers who return an item when purchasing a new product
Applicable durable goods: automobiles
Promotional Allowance
Compensation or price concessions provided in return for a dealer's participation in advertising and promotions.
market segment pricing
The company adjusts its base prices based on different customers, products and sales locations.
A company sells a product or service at two or more prices, and the price difference is not based on cost
Location-based pricing means charging different prices depending on where the product is sold, even if the cost of providing the product is the same.
High Speed Rail Station
Ordinary ticket
business ticket
theater
Charge different prices for different locations
For a segment pricing strategy to be effective, several conditions must be met
First, the market must be segmentable, and different market segments must have different levels of demand.
Furthermore, the cost of market segmentation and differential marketing cannot exceed the additional revenue gained from differential pricing.
Most importantly, segment pricing should reflect true differences in consumer-perceived value.
Customers who pay high prices must feel that the extra money they pay is worth it
Companies must also be careful not to neglect customers who pay low prices
psychological pricing
Prices not only have economic significance but also psychological power.
For example, consumers generally perceive higher-priced products as having higher quality
Another aspect of psychological pricing is reference prices
That is, the price that buyers think of when considering a specific product.
For example: The supermarket displays its private label raisin winners priced at $1.29 next to Quaker Oats priced at $3.79
In most purchasing situations, consumers do not have sufficient skills or information to judge whether the price they pay is reasonable.
Even small price differences can show product differences
Prices ending in 9 or 0.99 often mean a bargain
Although the actual price difference is small, the psychological impact of this pricing strategy is significant
The number 8 is round and smooth, giving a conveying effect, while the number 7 is angular, creating a sense of disharmony.
Promotional pricing
Prices will be temporarily set below normal prices or even below cost to create excitement and eagerness among buyers.
pricing form
The company may simply offer a discount on regular prices to increase sales and reduce inventory
Or use special event pricing in specific seasons to attract more customers.
Some manufacturers provide services such as low-interest loans, long-term quality guarantees or free repairs to lower the psychological "price" of customers.
This practice is popular in the automotive industry.
Promotional pricing helps drive customers to make purchasing decisions as quickly as possible
Geographic pricing
FOB origin pricing
Products are shipped free of charge on a shipping carrier (FOB), and from that moment on, the goods and responsibility are placed on the buyer, who pays shipping costs from the factory to the destination.
Uniform delivery pricing
Contrary to FOB, the company charges a uniform price and shipping fee to all customers, regardless of distance.
Regional pricing
It is between FOB origin pricing and unified delivery pricing.
Companies divide the market into two or more regions. A uniform shipping fee is charged to all customers in the same area; the more yuan the area, the higher the price.
basis point pricing
A specific city is selected as the "base point" and all customers are charged the cost of shipping from that base city to the customer's location, regardless of the city to which the item is actually shipped.
Reduced freight pricing
That is, the seller bears part or all of the actual shipping costs in order to obtain the desired business.
This is because if more business can be obtained, average costs will fall and the profits will exceed the additional costs.
Reduced freight pricing is suitable for market penetration and increasingly competitive markets
dynamic pricing
Fixed price policy---sets a uniform price for all buyers
dynamic pricing
That is, continuously adjusting prices to adapt to the needs of individual consumers and the characteristics of the purchasing situation.
Dynamic pricing is particularly common online, and the Internet brings us back to the era of floating pricing
Companies must tread the fine line between sensible dynamic pricing and damaging dynamic pricing
Astute shoppers take advantage of ongoing price competition among sellers
international pricing
Apple carefully selects mature market segments in developed countries and affluent consumer bases in emerging economies, using skimming pricing to launch premium smartphones with sophisticated designs and full features.
Low-income consumers also want functional and emotional products
International pricing presents special issues and complexities
11.4 Price changes
After formulating the price structure and strategy, the company must also decide when to proactively initiate price changes, or when and how to respond to price changes initiated by competitors.
Initiate price changes
Sometimes, it is necessary for the company to proactively initiate price reductions or price increases
Initiate price reduction
Several situations in which companies reduce prices
Overcapacity
Faced with fierce price competition or a sluggish economy, market demand declines
Dominate the market through cost leadership
In this case, the company either starts out with lower costs than its competitors;
Or they hope to gain greater market share and sales through price cuts, thereby further reducing costs.
Initiate price increase
Successful price increases can increase profits to a large extent.
If the price increases by 1%, the profit will increase by 33%
An important factor that promotes price increases is the increase in costs. Rising costs squeeze profit margins, causing companies to pass the increased costs on to consumers.
Another reason for price increases is excessive demand, or a combination of both.
Solve the problem of increased costs or excessive demand without raising prices
Companies can consider more efficient ways to produce or distribute products
Can unbundle its products, remove some attributes, packages or services, and price each component separately
Or simplify products, introduce low-end costs, and replace cheaper parts or ingredients instead of blindly raising prices.
buyer response to price changes
Competitors' reaction to price changes
How do companies anticipate competitors' likely reactions?
It may be thought that the company is trying to grab a larger market share
Or think that the company is currently in a bad situation and are trying to boost sales
Or think that the company wants to lower prices across the industry to increase aggregate demand.
Respond to price changes
Customers don't always understand price changes in a simple way.
Raising prices usually reduces sales
It also has a positive meaning
For example, Rolex will think that the watch is more unique or the craftsmanship is more sophisticated; on the other hand, they will think it is greedy.
Several issues that companies need to consider
Why do competitors change prices?
Is its price change temporary or permanent?
If the company does not take countermeasures, how will its market share and profits be affected?
Will other competitors respond?
Four ways for companies to respond
First, if the company believes that the market is highly price sensitive, competitors will take away a large amount of its market share by lowering prices.
Another option is to keep the price the same but increase the perceived value of the product or service.
Furthermore, the company can improve product quality and raise prices to move its brand into a higher-end positioning. Only high prices supported by high quality can guarantee a company higher profit margins.
Finally, the company can launch a low-priced combat brand, that is, add a lower-priced product item to the product line, or launch an additional low-priced combat brand.
11.5 Public policy and pricing
While price competition is a core element of a free economy, companies generally cannot set prices as they please.
Pricing within the channel level
Federal government laws on price fixing stipulate that sellers cannot negotiate with competitors when setting prices, otherwise they will be suspected of price collusion.
The law prohibits the use of predatory pricing - selling below cost in order to punish competitors by driving them out of the market or to achieve higher long-term profits.
Depends on the pricer's intent, but intent is difficult to judge or prove.
Pricing at different channel levels
Price discrimination may also be used in good faith to "counter competition," but these differential pricing must be temporary, local, and defensive rather than offensive.
The law also prohibits retail price maintenance, meaning manufacturers cannot require dealers to charge special retail prices for their products.
Deceptive pricing occurs when a company sets prices or price discounts that may mislead consumers or that are not actually available to consumers.
This kind of false price comparison is very common in the retail industry
Warning to businesses: Don’t advertise price cuts unless the price is truly lower than usual retail prices
Don't advertise "factory" or wholesale prices unless that's the case, and don't advertise reference prices for defective products.
Treating customers fairly and ensuring they fully understand prices and pricing conditions is important to building close and lasting customer relationships.
Case
Lululemon: pampering customers with premium prices
Wearing Lululemon clothing
These Lululemon fans have one thing in common: they all pay a premium for their clothing -- and do so willingly
Philosophy: We love sweating and we want the world to know it. Breathing deeply, drinking water and being outdoors are three things we must do.
Riding the wind and waves
Sub-brand "Luon" - a sweat-absorbent and cotton-soft material, quickly became the company's signature fabric.
In addition to developing fabrics to enhance the experience of yoga, Lululemon also attaches great importance to fashion.
Price is not the target
As the brand's popularity skyrocketed, Lululemon quickly became a fixture of status and cultural capital in America's most affluent regions.
Do one thing you're afraid of every day
Show people that you are spiritual and healthy
Premium is a quintessential sign of identity branding
The unsold inventory is only sold through 10 outlets or the company's website at low discounts, with the words "No Returns, No Exchanges" written in clear fonts.
Expensive---but worth it
Are Lululemon products really worth that much money?
For most apparel products, quality perception comes from personal preference.
They will staunchly tell you that Lululemon products fit, feel better, last longer and look better than any other product in the competition.
In addition to the highest perceived product quality, Lulu devotees also favor the Lululemon shopping experience.
The store design immediately feels warm, welcoming, eclectic and approachable.
Yoga is precisely a movement or practice rooted in the philosophy of avoiding all forms of self-indulgence.
12. Marketing channels: delivering customer value
learning target
Explain why companies use marketing channels and discuss the main functions of channels
Discuss how channel members interact and organize to function as a channel
Determine the main channel options available to your business
Discuss the characteristics and importance of marketing logistics and integrated supply chain management
sequence
The third marketing mix tool
channel
Companies rarely create value for customers and build profitable customer relationships on their own.
Instead, most companies are just one link in a larger supply chain and marketing channel
The success of a company depends not only on its own performance, but also on whether the entire marketing channel is more advantageous than its competitors.
This chapter mainly discusses two types of channel intermediaries
Retailer
wholesaler
Quotes
Uber: revolutionizing urban transportation channels
Because of convenience and relaxation
Once you can deliver a vehicle to a customer in 5 minutes, you can deliver a lot of other things in 5 minutes.
An excellent channel strategy not only contributes greatly to customer value, but also creates competitive advantages for the company and its channel partners. Companies cannot deliver customer value alone.
Instead, they must work closely with other companies in the value delivery network
12.1 Supply chain and value delivery network
Also build relationships with key suppliers and distributors in the company's supply chain
supply chain
Upstream collaborators
Enterprises that supply raw materials, parts, information, capital and expertise needed to produce products or services.
Downstream collaborators
But marketers generally pay more attention to the downstream part of the supply chain---customer-facing marketing channels, or distribution channels.
Retailer
wholesaler
demand chain perspective
It looks at the problem from the perspective of market perception and reaction. Under this concept, market planning begins with the needs of target customers, and companies respond to these needs by organizing resources and action chains based on the goal of creating customer value.
A business demand chain perspective
Procurement---Production---Consumption
value delivery network
Composed of the enterprise itself, suppliers, distributors and final customers, these members become "partners" with each other and work together to improve the performance of the entire system.
For example
PepsiCo makes premium beverages.
Marketing and Sales
finance
operations
supplier
Kellogg's
Walmart
Advertising company
Other marketing services companies
The entire network must work closely together to jointly create customer value and establish the product line's positioning as "Pepsi: Live in the Moment"
This chapter focuses on marketing channels—the downstream part of the value delivery system
Mainly discuss the four main issues of marketing channels
What is the nature of a marketing channel and why is it so important?
How should channel companies interact and organize their operations?
What are the main issues companies face when designing and managing channels?
What role does physical distribution and supply chain management play in attracting and satisfying customers?
The nature and importance of marketing channels
These businesses strive to establish marketing channels, or distribution channels, that are composed of a series of independent organizations
It is precisely because of the assistance of these organizations that the company's products or services can be smoothly supplied to consumers or used by business users.
Distribution channel decisions often involve entering into long-term contracts with other companies
Therefore, managers must carefully design channels, taking into account not only the current sales environment, but also future environmental trends.
How channel members add value
Manufacturers use middlemen because the latter are more efficient in supplying products to the target market
Therefore, middlemen play an important role in coordinating supply and demand.
Marketing channel members perform a number of key functions, some of which assist in closing deals
information
Collect and disseminate information about customers, producers and other actors and major influences in the marketing environment needed to plan and facilitate transactions
Promotion
Develop and disseminate persuasive communications messages
connect
Find and communicate with potential buyers
match
Forming offerings based on buyer needs, including activities such as production, classification, assembly, and packaging.
negotiation
Form an agreement on price and other conditions to effect transfer of ownership or use rights
physical distribution
transport and store goods
Financing
Obtain and use funds to reimburse the costs of channel work
Exposures
Take the risks of channel work
Number of channel levels
Channel level definition
Each level of marketing intermediary that does something to bring the product and its ownership closer to the consumer represents a channel level
direct marketing channels
No layers of middlemen; manufacturers sell products directly to consumers
Amway Corporation
government employee insurance
indirect marketing channels
Contains one or more marketing intermediaries
From a manufacturer's perspective, more channel levels mean weaker channel control and a more complex channel structure. Moreover, all organizations in the channel are connected by several "flows". The existence of these "flows" makes changes very complex even if there are only one or a few levels of channels.
12.2 Channel behavior and organization
Channel behavior, channel conflict
Distribution channels are complex behavioral systems
channel behavior
A marketing channel is made up of companies that become collaborators because of a common interest
channel conflict
Different opinions on goals, roles, and rewards often lead to channel conflicts
horizontal conflict
Occurs between companies at the same channel level
vertical conflict
This kind of conflict occurs between enterprises at different channel levels in the same channel. This kind of conflict is more common in reality.
The conflict between McDonald's and its franchisees may represent a zero-sum conflict between the channel partners' respective interests.
vertical marketing system
traditional distribution channels
Made up of one or more independent manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers.
vertical marketing system
Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers in the system act as a unified system
Corporate vertical marketing system
A series of steps from production to distribution are integrated under single ownership, with collaboration and conflict management accomplished through regular organizational channels.
Example: Through vertical integration, Luxottica controls approximately 60% to 80% of the U.S. eyewear market
Contractual vertical marketing system
It consists of enterprises at different levels of production and distribution that are linked together through contracts to achieve greater economies of scale or sales than operating alone. Channel members form contracts to coordinate actions and manage conflicts.
concessionaire
It is the most common contractual relationship. In this system, channel members are called franchisees.
Three types of concessions
Manufacturer-led retailer franchise system
For example: Ford Motor Company and its independent franchised dealers
Manufacturer-led wholesaler franchise system
Coca-Cola franchised bottlers (wholesalers) in the market purchase Coca-Cola concentrate and sell the finished product after bottling to local retailers.
Retail franchise system led by service companies
Such as: Burger King and its nearly 12,100 franchise stores worldwide
Managed vertical marketing system
Leadership in a system is not established by ownership or contract, but is earned by one or a few dominant channel members through their size and power
like:
General Electric
Procter & Gamble
Kraft
horizontal marketing system
In this system, two or more companies at the same level join forces to seize new marketing opportunities.
Through cooperation, these companies can combine the advantages of financial, production capacity and marketing resources to achieve goals that cannot be achieved by individual companies.
For example: Wal-Mart cooperates with McDonald's to open "quick-service" restaurants in Wal-Mart stores.
hybrid marketing system
Convergence marketing occurs when a company establishes two or more marketing channels to reach one or more consumer segments.
Today, almost all large businesses and most small businesses distribute through multiple channels.
The evolution of channel organizations
Changes in technology and the rapid development of direct channels, especially online marketing, have had a profound impact on the characteristics and design of marketing channels.
One of the key trends is “disintermediation,” a term that delivers a clear message and important results.
Disintermediation means that manufacturing or service companies abandon middlemen and face final consumers directly, or replace traditional channel intermediaries with new channel intermediaries.
To remain competitive, product and service providers must develop new channel opportunities such as the Internet and other direct channels.
Volvo itself and its channel partners benefit from the sales growth achieved through direct marketing.
12.3 Channel design decisions
In smaller markets, businesses can sell directly to retail volumes;
In larger markets, businesses may need to sell through distributors.
For best results, companies should conduct channel research and decision-making with purpose.
Marketing channel design
Required to analyze consumer needs, develop channel objectives, identify key channel alternatives and evaluate these alternatives
Marketing channel design
Analyze consumer needs
The first step in marketing channel design is to find out what target customers want to gain from the channel
Provide the fastest delivery
The widest range of product types
The most comprehensive service
Wegmans prides itself on its wide and deep selection, clean stores, very high service levels, and well-trained and friendly staff.
Therefore, it is important to balance not only customer needs with the feasibility and associated costs of providing the service, but also with customer needs and price preferences.
Set channel goals
Companies should set channel goals based on the target customer service levels determined in the previous step.
For each market segment, companies should minimize the total channel cost while meeting customer service needs.
Finally, environmental factors such as the economic situation and legal constraints may also affect the design of channel objectives.
Determine alternative channel options
Types of middlemen
Enterprises should identify the types of channel members who can assume their channel functions
Number of marketing intermediaries
Companies must also determine the number of channel members at each channel level
There are three strategies to choose from
intensive distribution
Daily necessities
Manufacturers of convenience goods and common raw materials often use intensive distribution
Under this strategy, they ask as many retail stores as possible to stock their products so that their products are available wherever and whenever consumers need them.
exclusive distribution
Luxury
In contrast, some manufacturers intentionally limit the number of middlemen. The extreme form of this practice is exclusive distribution
Manufacturers who adopt this approach grant exclusive rights to only a small number of dealers, restricting them to selling products in a specific area.
This exclusive distribution strategy not only strengthens Breitling's brand positioning, but also obtains strong sales support and customer service from dealers.
selective distribution
Between intensive distribution and exclusive distribution
In this approach, the manufacturer uses more than one, but not all, dealers willing to sell the company's products.
Assess key distribution channels
Assume that the company has identified several feasible channel solutions and hopes to select the one that best meets its long-term goals. Each option should then be evaluated according to the criteria of economy, controllability and adaptability.
Economy
How much investment is required and what return will it bring?
Controllability
Businesses tend to retain as much control as possible
Adaptability
Enterprises also need to consider adaptability criteria. Enterprises hope to be able to flexibly adjust channel strategies according to changes in the environment.
Design international distribution channels
Therefore, international marketers face a wider range of channel choices. Designing effective and efficient channel systems for different countries and different markets within the same country is a huge challenge.
12.4 Channel management decisions
Companies are required to select, manage and motivate each channel member, and regularly evaluate their performance.
Select channel members
Even for already successful brands, it is not easy to obtain and maintain desirable distribution channels, especially when dealing with powerful retailers.
Companies should identify the qualities that make a good middleman, evaluating each member's years in the business, other product lines they distribute, track record of growth and profitability, willingness to collaborate, and reputation.
Manage and motivate channel members
They form long-term partnerships with channel members through effective partnership management, thereby establishing a value delivery system that can meet the needs of both enterprises and marketing partners.
Marketing examples
Work with channel partners to create value for customers
Today's successful companies know that they cannot create value for customers alone. Instead, they must create effective value delivery systems made up of suppliers, manufacturers and distributors who work together as a team.
toyota
Such reliable supplier relationships mean Toyota can rely on suppliers for help
improve quality
cut costs
Develop new products quickly
L'Oreal
L'Oréal is the world's largest cosmetics maker, with 23 global brands ranging from Maybelline and Kiehl's to Lancôme and Ledecan.
L'Oréal's dense supplier network - which supplies everything from polymers and oils, to aerosol cans and packaging, to production equipment and office supplies - is key to its success.
Completely respect their business, culture, growth, and people who work for them. Every relationship is built on dialogue and working together.
L'Oréal's pursuit is not only to help suppliers meet their own expectations, but also to help them achieve growth through opportunities to enhance innovation and competitiveness.
Being respected also means being respected by our suppliers.
Amazon-Procter & Gamble
Amazon calls this kind of cooperation vendor flexibility --- it will revolutionize the way we buy low-price, low-interest daily necessities.
The flexible partnership between Amazon and P&G is in line with the interests and goals of both companies.
Channel Partner Relationship Management System (PRM)
Just like using customer relationship management (CRM) software systems to assist in important customer relationship management
Enterprises can now leverage partnership management (PRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software to recruit, train, organize, manage, motivate and evaluate the company's relationships with channel partners.
Evaluate channel members
Enterprises should recognize and reward intermediaries who have excellent performance and add value to customers
Intermediaries with poor performance should be assisted and replaced when necessary.
Companies should remain highly sensitive to the needs of channel partners
Public policy and distribution decisions
When a seller only allows a unique retailer to sell its product, this strategy is called exclusive distribution
When a seller requires a dealer not to sell a competitor's product, the strategy is called exclusive distribution
Exclusive distribution often includes exclusive territory agreements
Sometimes manufacturers with strong brands will stipulate that only if the dealer underwrites some or all of the products in the entire product line, the products will be sold to dealers. This strategy is called full-line forcing.
Finally, manufacturers are free to choose dealers, but their right to terminate contracts with dealers is restricted by law.
If the dealer refuses to cooperate, the manufacturer has no right to remove the dealer.
12.5 Marketing Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Businesses must determine the best way to warehouse, load, unload, and ship products or services to provide consumers with the ideal assortment at the right time and place.
Logistics efficiency has an important impact on customer satisfaction and business costs
Characteristics and Importance of Marketing Logistics
Marketing Logistics (also known as Physical Distribution)
Involves planning, implementing, and controlling the physical flow of products, services, and other related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption in order to satisfy consumer needs and earn a profit.
In short, the right product is delivered to the right consumer at the right time and place
This idea starts from the market and extends backwards to factories and even supply sources.
This idea involves the entire supply chain management
Manage raw materials, final products and related information that flow between suppliers, enterprises, intermediaries and final consumers and involve value-added in upstream and downstream channels
Logistics managers are tasked with coordinating the actions of suppliers, purchasing agents, marketers, channel members and consumers. These activities involve forecasting, information systems, purchasing, production planning, order processing, inventory, warehousing, and transportation planning
For four reasons, companies are paying more and more attention to logistics
Improved logistics can provide consumers with better services and lower prices, thereby gaining a strong competitive advantage
For both businesses and customers, improvements in logistics can lead to significant cost savings.
Reducing logistics costs by only a small amount means huge savings
The proliferation of product types also objectively requires improvements in logistics management.
Logistics, more than any other marketing function, significantly affects the environment and corporate efforts to achieve environmental sustainability.
sustainable supply chain
Things like transportation, warehousing and packaging – all have significant environmental impacts and account for a large proportion of logistics costs.
Establishing a green supply chain is not only responsible for environmental protection, but also profitable
Logistics system goals
profit maximization
Marketing logistics goals
Should provide a given level of customer service at the lowest cost
First, companies must analyze the importance of various distribution services to consumers,
Then develop desired service levels for each segment.
The correct goal is to maximize profits, not sales. Therefore, companies must weigh the benefits and costs of providing a higher level of service.
Some businesses offer fewer services and charge lower prices than their competitors
While other businesses offer more services but charge higher prices to make up for the higher costs
Main logistics functions
warehousing
Production and consumption cycles are difficult to perfectly match, so most businesses must store products for sale.
The reserve function overcomes the differences in quantity and time between production and demand, ensuring that products are available in time when consumers intend to purchase them.
Businesses must decide on the number, type and location of warehouses. A business may take the form of a storage warehouse or distribution center.
delivery center
It is used for distribution of goods rather than warehousing. Distribution centers are large, highly automated warehouses that receive goods from various factories and suppliers, accept orders and efficiently supply the corresponding goods, and ultimately deliver the goods to customers as quickly as possible.
For example: Amazon operates more than 100 distribution centers called: Fulfillment Centers
Computers and scanners read the order information and instruct lift trucks, electric lift trucks or robots to assemble the goods, then transport them to a loading dock and issue an invoice.
For example: To make its distribution centers more efficient, Amazon recently acquired robot maker Kiva Systems
Inventory management
Inventory management also affects customer satisfaction
Managers must maintain a precise balance, with neither too little nor too much inventory.
Therefore, when conducting channel management, companies must weigh the cost of holding large inventories against sales and profits.
Many companies have greatly reduced inventory levels and related costs through just-in-time logistics systems
In this system, manufacturers and retailers stock only small quantities of parts or goods, often lasting just a few days.
Through radio frequency identification technology (RFID), also known as "smart tags"
Embed or place smart chips on products or packaging ranging from flowers to razors to tires
“Smart” products can make the entire supply chain—which typically accounts for 75% of a product’s cost—intelligent and automated
Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Kraft, IBM, and HP have all invested a lot of resources in the comprehensive application of radio frequency identification technology.
transportation
The choice of transportation company affects the pricing of the product, the efficiency of delivery and the condition of the goods when they arrive, which in turn affects consumer satisfaction.
There are five main modes of transportation that can be selected
truck
railway
water transport
pipeline
air transport
network
Delivery models for digital products
Logistics information management
Companies use information to manage supply chains
Channel partners often connect with each other to share information in order to make better joint logistics decisions.
Integrated logistics management
The idea is that providing better customer service and reducing distribution costs requires teamwork within the business and among member organizations across all marketing channels.
Cross-functional team collaboration within the enterprise
Since distribution activities involve the trade-off of multiple factors, the decisions of different functional departments must be coordinated with each other to achieve the best overall logistics performance.
The goal of integrated supply chain management is to coordinate all logistics decisions of the enterprise.
Establish logistics partnerships
Purina staff collaborated with Wal-Mart personnel to find ways to reduce costs in the distribution system.
Others collaborate on joint projects.
Third Party Logistics
For UPS, logistics is the most powerful force in creating competitive advantage today.
A UPS ad sums it up: We love logistics. Let UPS take care of your worries, and you will fall in love with logistics.
Businesses typically use third-party logistics services for the following reasons:
First, because getting products to market is a logistics provider's main job, they can often do it more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Logistics outsourcing can generally save companies 15% to 30% of costs.
Second, logistics outsourcing allows companies to liberate themselves from boring logistics work and focus more on core business
Third, integrated logistics companies have a better understanding of the increasingly complex logistics environment.
Case
Apple Pay: Becoming the Mainstream of Mobile Payments
not very new
Employ new technology to make it better than previous products
Overcome negative consumer perceptions
Credit and debit card account numbers are only stored locally on the device, not on Apple servers. This makes Apple Pay and even credit cards safer and more private.
If convenience is the most attractive thing to consumers, then any payment behavior that is more cumbersome than simply swiping a credit card will not be favored by consumers.
Expand outlets that accept mobile payments
Lack of consumer demand is the biggest issue holding back retailers from embracing mobile payments.
First, although Apple's market penetration far exceeds that of its competitors and continues to grow at a rate of one million users per week. But digital wallets make up a small portion of the total.
Moreover, the complexity of the payments industry requires Apple and other companies to focus on developing a system. Changes in consumer payment behavior are inevitable
13. Retail and wholesale
learning target
Explain the role of retailers in distribution channels and describe the main types of retailers
Describe the retailer's major marketing decisions
Discuss the future development trends of retail
Explain the main types of wholesalers and their marketing decisions
Quotes
Walmart: The world’s largest retailer and largest company
Huge and almost unimaginable.
It's the world's largest retailer and it's the world's largest business
That's more than the combined sales of competitors Costco, Target, Macy's, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney and Kohl's.
What's the secret to such brilliant success?
First of all, Wal-Mart has long and persistently adhered to its value proposition of low prices. For Wal-Mart consumers, low prices mean "save money and live a better life."
If we work together, we can lower the cost of living for everyone...and we'll show the world what it means to save money and live a better life.
How does Walmart achieve profitability with such low prices?
Walmart is a lean distribution machine with the lowest cost structure in the industry
It's low costs that allow the retail giant to stay profitable while sticking to low prices
Low prices attract more shoppers, generate more sales, and make the business more efficient, allowing it to lower prices even further.
Wal-Mart's low prices benefit from its
Outstanding operational management
The huge fully automated distribution center efficiently supplies major stores.
precise information technology
It uses information technology systems that would make even the U.S. Department of Defense jealous, providing managers around the world with instant sales and operational information.
Rigorous procurement
Try every means to drive down suppliers' prices through bulk purchases.
Don't expect a greeter or a friendly attitude. Just be prepared to cut the price
Challenges from online giant Amazon and now-hot discount stores.
To sustain growth, Walmart is aggressively losing faster-growing new product and service lines, including organic foods, store brands, in-store health clinics and consumer financial services.
Walmart continues to explore opportunities for geographic expansion.
But it will never abandon its core value proposition - low prices
At the end of the day, Walmart is a discount retailer
First, we analyze the characteristics and importance of retailing, the main types of store-based and storeless retailers, the decisions made by retailers, and the future development trends of retailing.
13.1 Retail sales
retail
Includes all activities that include selling products or services directly to end consumers for personal or non-commercial purposes.
Retail: connecting brands and consumers
patron marketing
Focus on the entire marketing process—from product and brand development to logistics, promotions and transactions—ultimately turning patrons into buyers at the point of sale.
Procter & Gamble calls it 'First Moment of Truth'
The decision is made in those critical 3 to 7 seconds when a customer considers whether to purchase the product on the shelf.
More and more consumers today are omnichannel shoppers
They do not see a big difference between in-store and online shopping, and they tend to use multiple channels for retail shopping.
Retailer type
Quantity of services provided
Three levels of service
self service
Self-service retailer service desks target consumers who complete the "find-compare-select" process themselves in order to save time and money.
They provide more services, resulting in higher operating costs. These costs are passed on to consumers through higher prices
Limited service
full service
product line
specialty store
The number of product lines operated is limited, but the product lines have a wide variety of designs and colors.
retail store
Increasing need to focus on specific products and market segments
department store
Operate a broader product line
supermarket
It is the retail store most frequently visited by consumers.
convenience store
They are small stores that sell convenience goods with fast turnover and short product lines.
Category killer
giant specialty store
service retailer
Includes hotels and motels, banks, airlines, etc.
relative price
The vast majority of retailers charge regular prices and provide standard quality products and services.
Others offer higher quality products and services at higher prices.
discount store
Save time and money. every day
Convenience and low prices never go out of style.
discount retailer
Filling the void of selling large quantities of products at super low prices.
Such as: Pinduoduo
three main types
independent discount retailer
It may be independently owned or operated by the business, or it may be a division of a larger retail business.
factory outlet store
Retail stores owned by manufacturers or operated by businesses such as Levi's and others—sometimes clustered together to form factory outlet malls and value retail centers. Factory direct shopping malls are developing high-end
Warehouse membership store
For example, Costco and Sam's Club operate in large, simple, warehouse-like buildings with almost no unnecessary decoration.
Marketing examples
Costco: Product planning capabilities unmatched by competitors
Costco and Sam's Club are warehouse retailers that offer a wide but limited selection of products, including manufacturer brands and private labels, at very low prices to shoppers who pay upfront for an annual membership fee.
Price is an important part of the equation
Emphasize the high value created by low markup rates.
The products it offers and the sense of urgency it creates in the shopping experience
The ever-changing types of "treasures" and extremely favorable prices attract people to come back again and again and rush to buy.
So in the warehouse club retail world, Costco, not Wal-Mart, is winning.
Ultimately, retail is the art of selling the right product at the right time and place at the right price, which sounds rather boring.
Never be boring. That's our trick.
Retailer Organization Management
Four Main Types of Retail Organizations
subtopic
corporate chain store
voluntary chain
retailers cooperative organization
franchise organization
13.2 Retailer Marketing Decisions
Market segmentation, target market selection, differentiation and positioning decisions
First, retailers must segment their markets and define their target markets, and then decide how to differentiate and position themselves within these target markets.
High-quality outdoor products you can buy with confidence
In-N-Out successfully avoids confrontation with McDonald's through clever positioning
Its average single-store sales are twice the industry average.
Product portfolio and service decisions
Retailers must decide on three main product variables
product portfolio
Retailers should differentiate themselves while meeting the expectations of target market consumers.
two strategies
Offer a highly targeted product portfolio to differentiate
LaneBryant sells plus size clothing
Brookstone chain sells all kinds of unusual gadgets
Offer products that competitors do not have, such as developing private labels or obtaining exclusive distribution rights for national brands.
Kohl's acquires exclusive distribution rights for famous brands, including Wang Weiwei's brand Simple Weiwei
Service portfolio
A service package can also help retailers differentiate themselves from rivals.
Home Depot offers a variety of services to DIY customers, from "Introduction to Basics" classes to exclusive credit card processing
store atmosphere
Store atmosphere is another important element in a retailer’s arsenal. Retailers want to create a unique store experience that meets the requirements of their target market and promotes customer purchases
Restoration Hardware, a high-end furniture retailer: I have been working in the retail industry for almost 40 years, and I have never heard a customer say they want to live in a retail store, until now.
Everything from the layout and lighting to the music and even the smells are carefully designed to help enhance the consumer shopping experience, which in turn will make consumers open their wallets and shop.
For example, retailers carefully choose store logos and interior colors:
Black means maturity, orange reminds people of fairness and affordability, white suggests simplicity and purity (think Apple store), and blue conveys trust and reliability.
Bloomingdale's uses different scents in different merchandise sections:
Use the mild prickly heat powder scent in the baby products section
Adopt coconut flavor in swimwear section
The tights area has a light clove scent
pricing decisions
Requirements meet
Target market and positioning
Product and service portfolio
competition
Some compete through products and services rather than price
We adopt a pricing strategy of low prices every day and set stable and low prices, but rarely reduce prices or discounts.
economic factors
Which pricing strategy is optimal depends on the retailer's marketing strategy and competitors' pricing methods
promotion decisions
Promotional Tools for Retailers
advertise
personal selling
sales promotion
public relationship
direct marketing
Digital promotions allow retailers to deliver targeted messages to each customer
Channel decision
Three key factors for a retailer's success are
Place
Place
Place
It is very important for retailers to choose a location in an area that is consistent with their positioning and close to their target market.
For example: Apple places its retail stores in high-end malls and fashionable shopping areas
Instead, Trader Joe's opened stores in low-rent, remote locations to keep costs low and support its "affordable gourmet" positioning
shopping center
A group of retail businesses that are planned, developed, owned and managed as a whole.
Regional shopping malls are the largest and most attractive shopping malls in the region, including 40 to 200 stores
The vast majority of shopping malls are neighborhood malls or small shopping malls
Super shopping mall is a newer form of shopping mall
In contrast, a lifestyle center is a smaller, open-air mall containing high-end retail stores located in a convenient area.
Lifestyle - Super Mall
Make yourself more social and popular. In short, today's shopping malls are more like places for leisure than just places for shopping.
13.3 Retail Trends and Developments
Customer demographics, lifestyles and shopping patterns are changing rapidly, while retail technology is also evolving at a rapid pace.
Tightening of consumer spending
Tightening consumer spending means times are tough for most retailers.
Now, despite often improving circumstances, consumers continue to save money and many retailers are adding new value content to their positioning.
Discounts have become an expectation rather than a surprise. Take a trip to a shopping mall near you and you'll see that this statement is true.
Retailers should be committed to long-term positioning strategies to establish higher customer value
New retail formats and shortening retail life cycles
Product life cycle is shorter
The most significant retail trend today is the rapid development of online retail through websites, mobile applications and social media, including both pure e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers.
I love the enthusiasm generated by the pop-up store concept
limited time promotion
Up to 70% off designer clothing
Limited time sale to clear out new events. Flash sales add excitement and urgency to a purchase.
This convergence between consumers, products, prices, and retailers is called retail concentration
The rise of giant retailers
With superior information systems and purchasing capabilities, these retail giants can provide better product selection, high-quality services and strong price advantages.
This puts them in an advantageous position when negotiating deals with manufacturers
Growth in direct, online, mobile and social media retail
Direct response and digital marketing are currently the fastest growing forms of marketing
Online retail sales in the U.S. grew 14% last year
Starbucks has the most Twitter followers
Many shoppers now use brick-and-mortar stores as showrooms, examining products there and then buying them online using their computers or mobile devices, sometimes even in-store—a process known as “showrooming.”
For brick-and-mortar retailers, the key is how to convert showroom patrons into real buyers
Omni-channel retail requirements
Online retailers including Amazon are expanding by opening showrooms, pop-up stores and other face-to-face encounters with shoppers
Omni-channel is a fact of life for all retailers, whether they are committed to it or not.
Macy’s Chief Omni-Channel Officer Says: Our goal is to provide the best shopping experience for our shopper, no matter how he chooses to interact with us: mobile, computer, store, or all
Increasingly important retail technology
Retail technology has become an extremely important competitive tool.
Innovative retailers are using advanced information technology and software systems to improve forecasting, control inventory costs, interact electronically with suppliers, transfer information between stores, and complete in-store merchandising.
They use sophisticated, complex systems to complete checkout scanning, RFID inventory tracking, merchandise processing, information sharing and consumer interaction.
Many other advanced technologies are finding their way into retailer showrooms. One of these is beacon technology, a Bluetooth connection that enables customers to greet and interact with them as they shop in nearby stores via their smartphones.
Make its in-store shopping experience more personalized
Although it is currently difficult and expensive to apply virtual reality technology, it clearly has great potential in the future.
Green retail
Green retail helps companies increase profits and reduce costs
Kohl's department store's environmentally friendly buildings not only attract customers and protect the environment, but also reduce the company's operating costs.
Global expansion of major retailers
Retailers with unique styles and strong brand positioning are increasingly expanding into other countries
To enter the global market, retailers must fully understand and meet the needs of local markets.
13.4 Wholesale
wholesale
All activities involving the sale of products and services to purchasers for resale or commercial use. We can call those companies whose main personnel wholesale activities are wholesalers
Wholesalers mostly purchase goods from manufacturers and then sell mainly to retailers, industrial consumers and other wholesalers.
Many important large wholesalers are rarely known to end consumers.
For example, McKesson Corporation is a giant diversified health care provider and the nation's leading pharmaceutical company. Health and Beauty, Home Healthcare.
Why would a manufacturer use wholesalers instead of selling directly to retailers or consumers? Simply put, wholesalers perform one or more of the following channel functions to add value.
sales and promotions
Wholesaler salespeople can assist manufacturers in reaching many small customers at low cost. Wholesalers have closer ties with buyers and are more trusted by buyers than manufacturers who are further away.
Purchasing and product category management
Wholesalers can select products and build product portfolios according to customer needs, thereby greatly reducing the customer's workload
Divide into zeros
Wholesalers buy products by the truckload, break them into parts, and pack large packages into small packages to save customers money.
warehousing
Wholesalers maintain inventory, thereby reducing inventory costs and risks for suppliers and customers
transportation
Wholesalers are closer to customers than manufacturers and therefore can deliver goods to buyers faster
Financing
Wholesalers finance customers by extending credit and suppliers by ordering early and paying on time
take risks
The wholesaler holds title to the merchandise and bears the costs of theft, damage, consumption and obsolescence
market information
Wholesalers provide information about competitors, new products, and price changes to suppliers and customers
Management services and advice
Wholesalers often help retailers train salespeople, improve store layout and furnishings, and establish accounting and inventory control systems.
Main types of wholesalers
independent wholesaler
A business that is independently owned and has ownership rights in the products it distributes. In different industries, they are called brokers, distributors or factory supply wholesalers. Such wholesalers include full-service wholesalers and limited-service wholesalers.
Full Service Wholesaler
wholesale merchant
industrial distributor
limited service wholesaler
Cash and Carry Wholesaler
truck wholesaler
drop shipping wholesaler
shelf wholesaler
production cooperative
mail order wholesaler
broker
The main function is to bring buyers and sellers together and assist in negotiating transactions. Commissions are paid by the party that employs them, they do not keep inventory, and they participate in financing and risk sharing. Examples include food brokers, real estate agents, insurance brokers and securities brokers.
agent
Represent a buyer or seller longer than a broker. Divided into several different types.
Manufacturer's agent
sales agent
Purchasing agent
commission merchant
Branches and offices of manufacturers and retailers
Sales branches and offices
Purchasing Department
wholesaler marketing decisions
Wholesalers face increasing competitive pressure, more demanding customers, emerging technologies, and more direct buying programs from large industrial, institutional and retail purchasers.
wholesale marketing strategy
Market segmentation and target market selection
Like retailers, wholesalers must segment their markets, define their target markets, and differentiate and position effectively—they cannot serve every customer.
Differentiation and positioning
sales team
Product and service portfolio
Offer only those product categories that are more profitable.
Which services are most important, which should be cut back, and which should be retained but for which customers are charged a fee. The key is to discover the service packages that your target customers rate highest.
wholesale pricing
Wholesalers usually price by adding a standard percentage to the cost of the goods - for example 20%
Promotion
Instead of using the sales team to complete important account development, sales and service.
They need to develop an overall promotional strategy and make better use of supplier promotional materials and programs.
Distribution
Finally, distribution (site selection) is very important - wholesalers must choose their locations, facilities and website carefully.
Development trends of wholesale industry
They realize that their only reason for existing is to add value by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their entire marketing channel.
Wholesalers will continue to add services to retailers—retail pricing, joint advertising, marketing and management information reporting, accounting services, online transactions, and more.
Case
Bass Pro Shops: Creating a natural theme park for people who hate shopping
They crave the great outdoors but hate crowds and shopping
fill the market gap
First, each store ensures that its product categories are as broad as the Mississippi River
Catalog sales have become the mainstay of the company's business
nature theme park
Visitors can take the nation's tallest free-standing glass elevator to the Observation Deck, a breathtaking cantilevered glass-floor observation deck at the top of the pyramid.
Half the size – lots of fun
Visitor: I feel like I'm in a museum and an aquarium
It’s an experience, it’s creating memories, it’s time spent with family and friends, it’s fun.
14. Attract consumers and communicate customer value: integrated marketing communication strategy
learning target
Define promotional mix tools for communicating customer value
Discussion The changing marketing communication environment and the need for integrated marketing communications
Briefly describe the communication process and the steps for effective marketing communications
Explain the approach to developing a promotion budget and the factors that influence promotion mix design
Logic of this chapter
First introduce various promotional combination tools
Then, examine the rapidly changing communications environment and the need for integrated marketing communications
Finally, the steps for developing marketing communications and the process of developing a promotional budget are discussed.
Quotes
Snickers: When you're hungry, you're not yourself
When you are hungry, you are not yourself
This new creative core breathes new life into positioning in an attractive and smart way
14.1 Promotional mix (marketing communication mix)
advertise
Any form of impersonal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods or services funded by a specific advertiser
sales promotion
Short-term incentives to encourage the purchase or sale of products and services
personal selling
The company's sales staff introduce and display products for the purpose of achieving sales and establishing customer relationships.
public relationship
Establish good relationships with the company's various publics by obtaining favorable publicity, establishing a positive corporate image, and handling or responding to adverse rumors, incidents, and incidents
direct marketing
Connect directly with carefully identified individual consumers and consumer communities to obtain immediate feedback and cultivate lasting customer relationships.
14.2 Integrated marketing communications
New marketing communication model
First, consumers are changing
Secondly, marketing strategies are changing
Finally, huge advances in communications technology have dramatically changed the way companies and customers communicate
They can easily skip commercial breaks during the show
Spending on digital media is rising rapidly
Marketing examples
It’s not advertising, it’s content marketing
Brands need to continuously provide fresh content on both traditional and digital platforms
Many advertisers and marketers now like to position themselves more broadly as content marketing managers, responsible for creating, inspiring, sharing and presenting marketing content – both their own and that created by consumers and others.
Just like the current Douyin and live broadcasts
New media classification (POES)
paid media
Promotional channels that marketers pay to use, including traditional media (such as TV, radio, print or outdoor advertising), online and digital media (paid search advertising, web and social media display advertising, mobile advertising or email marketing)
Owned media
Promotional channels owned and managed by the company itself, including company website, blog, official social media accounts, brand community, sales personnel, promotional activities, etc.
Such as Douyin account, live broadcast account
earned media
Public relations media channels, such as television, newspapers, blogs, video websites, etc., do not require direct payment or control by marketers, but they add corresponding content because viewers, readers or users are interested.
share media
Media that circulates among consumers. Examples include social media, blogs, mobile media, virtual channels, and traditional consumer word-of-mouth.
Positive reviews and user feedback
The new “content marketing” movement is very different from the old “advertising” movement
It’s no longer just about carefully crafted and precisely targeted ads to occupy media space.
Today’s marketing communicators must be marketing content strategists, creatives, connectors, and analysts.
The need for integrated marketing communications
Marketers now tend to use a richer media mix and communication tools
Consumers do not differentiate between information sources as marketers do
If the messages conveyed by different channels conflict with each other, it may lead to confusion in corporate image, brand positioning and customer relations.
Serious challenges
It gives marketers a wealth of new tools to better understand and engage customers
But on the other hand, it makes overall marketing communications more complex and granular
integrated marketing communications
Guided by this philosophy, the company carefully integrates various communication channels to spread a consistent, clear and persuasive message about the organization and its brand
Combining the core strengths of television media with wide advertising and the more precise, interactive and engaging strengths of digital media
It is a good innovation to have a dedicated person responsible for coordinating various marketing activities to form a unified company image.
14.3 Develop effective marketing communications
Communication Process Overview
Companies need to answer not only “how do we reach customers” but also “how do we get customers to reach us”
In order to communicate effectively, marketers also need to understand how communication works.
elements in the communication process
sender
coding
information
media
decoding
receiver
reaction
feedback
noise
Messages are best expressed in words and symbols familiar to the recipient
To communicate effectively, marketing communicators understand consumers’ social experiences
The sender must know the audience he or she hopes to reach and the response they want to receive.
They must be concerned with encoding the message and thinking about how it will be decoded by the target audience.
Receive information from consumers and respond promptly and appropriately.
Steps to Effective Marketing Communications
Identify your target audience
They should be current or potential buyers, people making purchasing decisions, or people influencing purchasing decisions
Determine communication goals
Once the target audience is identified, marketers must decide the desired response
buyer preparation stage
know
learn
favorite
Preference
convince
Buy
In the end, some target customers were convinced but were not yet eager to make a purchase decision. Communicators must guide these potential consumers to take final purchasing action
To help hesitant consumers overcome decision-making barriers, General Mills offers buyers special promotional prices (coupons, in-store discounts and special offers) and supports products with positive reviews from other customers on the company's website and social media sites
Two great weapons
price
Good reviews
design information
Ideally information should be able to
attract attention
develop interest
stimulate desire
promote action
AIDA framework
When marketing communicators organize messages
Must decide what to say (message content)
Marketers must come up with the right appeal or theme to generate the desired response.
There are three categories of appeals
rational appeal
Relate to the audience's self-interests and demonstrate the expected benefits of the product to the cause
Such as: information describing the quality, economy, value or performance of the product
emotional appeal
Designed to evoke negative or positive emotions and thereby stimulate purchase
About Brands Telling Stories in Advertising Often Stir Emotional Resonance with Consumers
moral appeal
Help your audience understand what is “right” and “appropriate”
How to say it (information structure)
How to deal with three information structure problems
First, should the conclusion be given directly, or should the audience make their own judgment?
Research shows that in many cases, advertisers are better off asking questions and letting buyers draw their own conclusions
Second, should a strong argument be made at the beginning or at the end?
Starting with a strong argument can draw strong attention, but can lead to an anticlimactic outcome.
Third, should we provide a one-sided argument (mentioning only the advantages of the product) or a two-sided argument (promoting the advantages of the product while also acknowledging its shortcomings)?
Typically, one-sided arguments are more effective in sales presentations, unless the recipient of the message is highly educated or may have heard contrary opinions.
information form
Marketing communicators also need to determine a format for their messages that will appeal to the target market
Communicators must carefully plan every detail from start to finish.
Marketing communicators must also focus on texture, structure, smell, color, size and shape.
Choose communication channels and media
Communication channel classification
interpersonal communication channels
Two or more people communicate directly with each other
May be independent expert advice and recommendations to buyers
word of mouth impact
Communicate as target buyers talk to neighbors, friends, family members, and co-workers
Interpersonal influence is especially important for expensive, risky, or high-visibility products
Do you buy on Amazon because of recommendations from the platform, or do you give up on buying because of bad reviews?
buzz marketing
Refers to developing opinion leaders and motivating them to spread information about products and services to others in their community
This is the product, if you believe in it, say what you really think. BzzAgent will never allow the publication of exaggerated, false or untrue information
non-interpersonal communication channels
Channels for information dissemination without human contact or feedback, including major media, atmosphere, and events
major media
print media
newspaper
Magazine
Direct mail
Radio and television media
broadcast
television
display media
Billboard
logo
poster
Internet media
Company website
atmosphere
An environment designed to create and reinforce buyers' propensity to purchase a product
event
Communicate messages to target audiences through planned events
Select information source
Information from reliable sources is often more convincing
professional
Celebrity endorsements
Collect feedback
Leverage its advantages to create customer satisfaction in-store
14.4 Develop total promotional budget and mix
Develop a total promotional budget
One of the toughest marketing decisions a company faces is how much to spend on promotions
Four Common Ways to Create a Promotional Budget
act within one's capabilities
Develop a promotional budget based on what the company can afford
They subtract operating expenses and capital expenses from their total revenue and then use a portion of the remaining funds for advertising
Unfortunately, this approach to budgeting completely ignores the impact of promotions on sales performance
Living within your means sometimes leads to overspending on promotions, but more often it leads to underspending on promotions
percentage of sales method
Budget promotions as a specific percentage of current or expected sales.
Or, budget as a percentage of the unit’s selling price.
The sales ratio method has certain advantages. It is easy to operate and helps managers think about the relationship between unit promotion expenditure, sales price and profit
It mistakenly views sales customers as the cause rather than the result of the promotion
This approach is based on the availability of funds rather than market opportunities. It could prevent increased investment in promotions to reverse declining sales.
This method does not provide any basis for choosing a specific ratio
competitive parity law
Develop promotional budgets on par with competitors
Two viewpoints support this approach
First, competitors’ budgets represent the collective wisdom of the industry
Second, matching promotional expenses with competitors can help avoid promotional wars.
Unfortunately, neither view is reliable, and there is no basis to suggest that competitors can set promotional expenses any better than the company itself.
target task method
The most logical method is the goal-task method
The company develops its promotional budget based on its promotional goals and the tasks it intends to accomplish.
To adopt this budgeting method, you must
Identify specific promotional goals
Determine the promotional tasks that need to be completed to achieve these goals
Estimate the cost of completing these tasks. The sum of these costs is the planned promotion budget
The advantage of the goal-task approach is that it forces management to clarify the relationship between promotional expenses and promotional results.
Build promotional mix
Characteristics of various promotional tools
advertise
Advertising can deliver information to a geographically dispersed audience, and the average cost per exposure is low, allowing advertisers to repeat the message many times.
Advertising has a very strong expressive power - it uses sight, sound and color to express products artistically and dramatically.
On the one hand, advertising can be used to build a long-term image (e.g. Coca-Cola advertising)
Advertising, on the other hand, can stimulate short-term sales increases (e.g. department store chain Kohl's advertising weekend specials)
personal selling
Personal selling is the most effective tool at certain stages of the buying process, especially in establishing the buyer's preferences and convincing them to take purchasing action.
Building a sales team requires a longer-term investment than creating an ad—ads can be launched and stopped at any time, but the size of the sales force is difficult to change quickly.
American companies spend three times more on personal selling than advertising
sales promotion
Sales promotion includes a variety of tools—coupons, discounts, add-on-price, and others—all of which are unique in their own way.
Promotions encourage “buy now”
public relationship
Well-planned public relations can be very effective and cost-effective when used in conjunction with other promotional mix elements.
Direct response and digital marketing
Direct response and digital marketing come in many forms
Direct mail
Table of contents
Telemarketing
internet marketing
four characteristics
Direct marketing is non-public
Information is usually directed to a specific individual
Direct marketing is immediate and customized
Information can be prepared very quickly and tailored to specific customers
promotional mix strategy
push promotion
Promote products to end consumers through distribution channels
B2B marketers prefer a push strategy, investing more in personal selling, followed by sales promotion, advertising and public relations.
pull promotion
Manufacturers focus their marketing efforts (mainly advertising and consumer promotions) on end consumers to guide them to purchase products
B2C companies typically employ pull strategies more frequently
Invest more money in advertising
This is followed by sales promotion, personal selling and public relations.
Integrate promotional mix
After developing a promotional budget and building a promotional mix, the company must take steps to ensure that all marketing elements in the promotional mix are perfectly integrated.
To effectively integrate the promotional mix, all functions of the enterprise must work together to plan communications efforts.
Social Responsibility of Marketing Communications
Advertising and sales promotion
Companies must avoid false or deceptive advertising
Sellers must avoid shoddy advertising and false promises to attract buyers.
The company's trading promotions are also strictly regulated
personal selling
The company's sales staff must abide by the principle of "fair competition"
Case
Volvo Trucks: Integrated marketing communications like never before
Get people around the world talking about commercial trucks
consumer approach
So Forsman & Bodenfors chose to use social media to launch a marketing campaign called "Field Test"
Engage the masses with “field testing”
The synergy of integrated marketing communications
Follow the pattern set by the previous 6 side videos
15. Advertising and public relations
learning target
Explain the role of advertising in sales promotion
Describe the primary decisions when launching an advertising campaign
Determine the role of public relations in the promotional mix
Explain how businesses use public relations to communicate with the public
Good advertising is really important
Quotes
GEICO: Grow from nobody to big name with great advertising
Warren Buffett bought the company and generously told marketers that "money was no object" in developing the business, so "things have grown by leaps and bounds."
Advertisement - Highlights the convenience and savings advantages of GEICO's direct-to-customer sales system
You can save 15% or more on your car insurance in just 15 minutes
You are forever young. That's what you do
If you want to save money on your car insurance, come to GEICO, that's how you do it
You can also skip this ad because it's over. Just 15 minutes can save you 15% or more on your car insurance.
GEICO has been investing heavily in advertising and content marketing, spending nearly twice as much as other insurance companies in the media tested.
A company must do more than just create customer value; it must communicate these values clearly and persuasively to its target consumers.
15.1 Advertising
advertise
Dating back to the earliest days of recorded human history, archaeologists have unearthed markers in countries across the Mediterranean that indicate different events and products for sale.
When the marketing management department develops advertising plans, it needs to make four important decisions
Determine advertising goals
communication goals
sales target
Prepare advertising budget
Live within your means
sales ratio method
competitive parity law
goal-task approach
Develop advertising strategy
Advertising creativity
creative strategy
creative execution
media decisions
Scope, frequency, effectiveness and participation Primary media types Specific media vehicles Media time periods
Evaluate Advertising Campaigns
communication effect
Sales and profit impact
advertising return
15.2 Key Advertising Decisions
Determine advertising goals
The first step in developing an advertising plan is to determine your advertising goals.
These goals should be determined based on established target markets, positioning and marketing mix decisions, clarifying the status and role of advertising in the overall marketing plan.
advertising objectives
It is a specific communication task set for a specific target audience within a certain period of time.
Possible advertising targets
inform advertising
Mainly used during the introduction period of new products, the goal is to establish basic needs
persuasive advertising
Its goal is to establish selective demand
For us, comparative advertising has worked well in the past, it's something we think is reliable and something our fans love to see
reminder ads
It is important during the product maturity stage, it helps maintain customer relationships and keeps consumers remembering the product.
The purpose of advertising is to help consumers make purchasing decisions that are beneficial to the business
Prepare advertising budget
New products often require larger advertising budgets to build awareness and gain consumer trial
While mature brands typically require a budget relative to a percentage of sales
Companies that are able to maintain or even increase advertising spending while competitors cut back on advertising ultimately gain a competitive advantage.
Develop advertising strategy
Advertising strategy consists of two main aspects
Advertising creativity
media decisions
Today, it is more common to co-create brand content and information through interactions between brands and consumers, and between consumers.
The goal is to create and manage branded content across all media, whether you buy it, own it, earn it or share it.
Conceive advertising messages and brand content
Break through the siege
Advertisers can also use traditional media to instill cookie-cutter advertising ideas into passive consumers.
Today, just to get and hold attention, advertising creative must also have better rules, be more imaginative, and be more entertaining and emotionally relevant to consumers.
Integrating advertising and entertainment
To break through the reset, many marketers are exploring a model where advertising and entertainment blend into one another, called “Madison and Grapevine.”
The integration of advertising and entertainment usually takes two forms
Advertising and entertainment
The purpose of advertising entertainment is to make the ad itself so entertaining or useful that people want to see it
Advertisers are also creating new advertising formats that look less like ads and more like short films or shows.
You are more beautiful than you think
brand integration
Make the brand an inviolable part of other forms of entertainment or content
most common form
product placement
Embed brand as prop in other programs
Product placement may even be written into the script of a movie or TV series to make it seamless.
native advertising
Sponsored content, also known as sponsored content, is a form of brand integration that refers to advertising or other brand-generated online content but appears "native" to the website or social media on which it is presented.
Native advertising is an increasingly popular form of branded content
We believe advertising should no longer interrupt programs that people are interested in, but should become the source of their interest.
Information and content strategy
The first step in effective advertising creativity is to develop a creative strategy - deciding what message to communicate to customers
Therefore, formulating effective creative strategies starts with confirming the interests of customers. The interests that customers value can be used as the appeal points of advertising.
Ideally, the advertising creative strategy strictly follows the company's positioning and customer value strategy
The statement of creative strategy should be plain and straightforward, summarizing the benefits and positioning points that the advertiser wants to emphasize.
Advertisers must then develop an innovative concept that sparks interest, or a good idea, and make the creative strategy a reality in a distinctive and memorable way.
A concept idea can be an image, a phrase, or a combination of the two
The appeal of advertising has three characteristics:
They should be meaningful and clearly point to product benefits that make consumers desirable and interested.
They must be credible and consumers must believe that the product or service will deliver the promised benefits
They must be unique and illustrate how their product compares to competing brands
creative execution
After having a good creative idea, the advertiser must convert it into a real advertisement that wins the attention and interest of the target market.
The creative team must find the best
method
style
style
Word
style
to execute ideas
Creativity is presented with different execution styles
slice of life
This method shows one or more "typical" people using a certain product under normal circumstances.
lifestyle
This method shows how a product fits a specific lifestyle
Fantasy
Create a magical context around the product and its use
mood or image
Establish a mood or image around a product or service
music
A song that shows a character or cartoon character singing the product
Character symbol
Create a character that represents the product
Professional skills
Demonstrate company expertise in manufacturing products
scientific evidence
Present research results or scientific evidence that the brand is superior to other brands
Testimony or endorsement
Ask someone with high credibility or popularity to endorse the product
Advertisers also need to set a tone for the ad.
For example, Procter & Gamble always talks about the advantages of its products in a positive tone.
Guangzhou owners must use catchy and memorable words in their advertisements
Sunscreen can never look this good
ultimate driver
Buy cheap socks and your toes will tell you they are not cost-effective
Finally, format also affects the effectiveness and cost of advertising
An illustration is the first thing a reader notices, and it must be enough to grab the reader's attention.
Secondly, the title must effectively attract and guide the target audience to read the relevant content
Finally, the main idea of the ad must be concise and persuasive
Where will color lead you?
Consumer-generated content is a great way to integrate the voice of the customer into the brand message, resulting in higher consumer engagement
Encourage fans to create fun ads and other content year-round
Consumer-generated content can make customers a daily part of your brand.
Marketing examples
Converse: Let customers co-create brand stories
The answer is: let the customer do it
Converse invites customers to co-create the Converse brand and create brand stories
They are passionate about experiencing the brand, participating in the process of building it, and sharing it with other like-minded people
Converse has become the most popular sneaker brand on Facebook
The most recent example of Converse inspiring consumer-generated marketing content is its “Made by You” campaign
We make shoes, but you do more
You wear them like fashion
They become a way for you to express your personality and self-expression.
Choose advertising media
The main steps
Determine the reach, frequency, effectiveness and engagement of advertising
Reach measures the proportion of people in the target market who are exposed to the advertising campaign during a given period
Select primary media type
TV, digital, mobile and social media, newspapers, direct mail, magazines, radio, outdoor advertising
Another important trend affecting media choices is the rapid growth in the number of “media overworkers”
Select specific media carriers
Media planners must consider the cost of advertising production in different media simultaneously
First, planners should evaluate the audience quality of media carriers
Select media period
Companies can increase or decrease their advertising spending based on seasonal changes
Evaluate advertising performance and return on advertising investment
How do we know we're spending the right money on advertising?
Advertisers should regularly evaluate the results of both types of advertising
communication effect
sales and profit results
and measure recall of information or changes in attitude before and after
Advertisers can test how advertising affects consumer recall or product awareness, understanding and preference, and can also perform pre- and post-evaluation of the communication effectiveness of the entire advertising campaign.
Measuring the sales and profit effectiveness of advertising is much more difficult
One way to measure the effectiveness of advertising sales and profits is to compare past advertising costs with sales and profits. Another way is through experiments.
Other advertising factors
two questions
How does the company organize its advertising and content functions, that is, who is responsible for advertising?
Facing the complexity of the international market, how should companies adjust their advertising strategies and plans?
advertising organization
Different companies often organize their advertising programs in different ways
advertising agency
They form an agency, and change is closer to advertisers than to media
international advertising decisions
Snickers
When you wear accessories, you are no longer yourself
In recent years, the rise of online social networking and video sharing sites has fueled the need for global brand advertising standardization
The familiar Coke red and iconic Coke bottle
Standardization brings many benefits: lower advertising costs, greater coordination of global advertising efforts, a more consistent global image.
Disadvantages of standardization
It ignores the fact that national markets differ in culture, demographic characteristics and economic conditions.
Think globally and act based on local realities
Adjust specific advertising programs to suit local cultural customs, media characteristics, and relevant regulations
15.3 Public relations
public relationship
Activities designed to build good relationships with a company's various publics consist of
The work of the public relations department
press relations or news agency
Create and publish newsworthy information in the news media to draw public attention to certain people, products or services
Product promotion
Promote specific products and brands
Public Affairs
Build and maintain relationships with national and local communities
lobbying
Establish and maintain good relationships with legislators and government officials to influence relevant legislation and regulation
investment relations
Maintain relationships with shareholders and other financial individuals
Open up channels
Work with donors or nonprofit members to obtain funding or volunteer support
The role and impact of public relations
Like other forms of promotion, public relations engages customers and makes the brand part of their lives and conversations
If you have the right spark, it will ignite more word-of-mouth than paid media.
Marketing managers are more interested in how advertising and public relations impact brand building, sales and profits, as well as customer engagement and customer relationships.
As the amount of digital content acquired and shared grows rapidly, public relations plays an increasing role in brand content management
Public relations people are some of the best storytellers in organizations
Public relations should work side by side with advertising in an integrated marketing communication program to jointly build relationships between brands and customers.
15.4 Main public relations tools
Main tools
news
Special Event
The core strength of public relations is the ability to tell stories and get people talking
16. Personal selling and sales promotion
learning target
Discuss the role of a company's sales staff in creating value for customers and building customer relationships.
Identify and explain the six major steps in sales force management
Discuss the personal selling process and differentiate between transaction-oriented and relationship-oriented marketing
Explain how to design and implement sales promotion campaigns
Quotes
Salesforce: You need a great sales team
The first step in building a customer relationship
Ask probing questions and let the customer do the talking, trying to understand everything about the customer's situation and needs
Understanding customers leads to the second basic principle
Empathy – Let customers know you understand their problems and feel their pain points.
Empathy builds rapport and solid trust and is an important step in closing deals and building long-term relationships.
Being able to tell stories is very, very important
When faced with rejection, we usually tell a relevant customer story
Emphasize Scalesforce’s strengths, not competitors’ weaknesses
You need to guide them and not disparage Microsoft, even if that's what we really want to do in our hearts.
The purpose is to stimulate customer purchases, intermediary support, and sales team efforts
16.1 Personal Selling
nature of personal selling
personal selling
Is one of the oldest professions in the world
call
salesman
sales representative
acting
regional manager
account Manager
sales consultant
Sales Engineer
agent
Customer Development Representative
The role of the salesperson
Connecting companies and customers
Salespeople serve as a key link between a company and its customers.
The salesperson serves two customers at the same time
seller
Contact customers on behalf of the company, discover and develop new customers, and tell customers about the company's products and services.
buyer
Deal with the company on behalf of customers, act as a defender of consumer interests within the company, and manage buyer-seller relationships
The concept of "loyalty to the salesperson" is particularly important when examining the salesperson's ability to build customer relationships.
Focusing on customer solutions is the way to go not just for salespeople but for the entire company
Coordinate marketing and sales
Ideally, salespeople work closely with other members of the company's marketing function (marketing planners, brand managers, and researchers) to create value for customers.
At the very least, companies can increase communication between the two by arranging joint meetings and clear communication channels
Companies can also establish shared goals and reward systems for the sales and marketing functions, or designate a marketing-sales liaison—someone from the marketing department who can work with the sales team and help coordinate marketing and sales team plans and actions.
A higher-level marketing manager who oversees both marketing and sales efforts. People in this role can help marketing and sales collaborate toward the common goal of creating customer value and achieving market returns.
16.2 Managing sales personnel
Sales force management
Defined as the activities of analyzing, planning, executing, and controlling the sales force, including designing the strategy and structure of the sales team and recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, supervising, and evaluating sales personnel.
Design sales team strategy and structure
sales team structure
Adopt a product sales structure, a customer sales structure, or a combination of the two
Helps strengthen salespeople's desire to build relationships with local customers, making sales more effective
If the company has a wide range of complex products, it may adopt a product sales team structure
More and more companies are adopting a customer (marketing) sales team structure
Understand that there is no single structure that fits all companies and situations. The ideal sales organizational structure should not only meet customer needs, but also fit the company's overall marketing strategy.
Sales team size
Many companies use the workload method to determine the size of their sales force
Other sales team strategy and structure issues
Outside and inside sales staff
outside salesperson
Go out to visit customers
Work face-to-face with customers to build relationships
inside salesperson
Conduct business at the company through phone calls, the Internet, social media interactions, or by visiting potential customers.
Insiders provide daily reviews and support
team selling
If the product is complex and the customer's requirements are high and demanding, a single salesperson may not be able to handle all the needs of a large customer.
Sales are often completed by strategic account teams under the command of senior account managers or account business managers
Recruitment and selection
The key to successful personal sales management is recruiting and selecting excellent salespeople
Frequent turnover of personnel can also damage relationships with important customers
The best salespeople possess four very important talents: intrinsic drive, a rigorous work style, the ability to close deals, and the ability to build relationships with customers.
Inner drive
Rigorous work style
ability to close deals
Ability to build relationships with customers
Top salespeople are outstanding customer problem solvers and relationship builders
their characteristics
Good listener
empathic
Be patient
Loving
fast reaction
They not only want to be liked by customers, but also want to create value for customers
Recruitment Sales Quiz
Examine sales capabilities
Analytical and organizational skills
Personality and other characteristics
training
Training has multiple objectives
First, the salesperson needs to understand the customer and how to build a relationship with the customer
Salespeople also need to know and be familiar with the company, its products and competitors
Many companies now apply imaginative and sophisticated e-learning techniques to make sales training more effective and sometimes even more fun.
excitation
To attract good salespeople, a company's compensation plan must be attractive.
Compensation is made up of several elements
fixed remuneration
variable compensation
expense allowance
fringe benefits
Sales force compensation plans should both motivate salespeople and guide their activities
Companies are now designing compensation plans to reward salespeople who build lasting relationships and long-term customer value.
supervise
They must also be guided and supervised.
The purpose of coaching is to help salespeople do the right things in the right way, thereby increasing their productivity.
Coach sales staff
Two methods
Develop weekly, monthly, and annual visit plans—reminding which existing or potential customers need to be visited and what activities should be carried out
Time-responsibility analysis. In addition to scheduling time to sell, this method also schedules time for salespeople to travel, wait, take breaks, and handle errands.
In short
Technology has changed the way salespeople perform tasks and engage customers
Motivating salespeople
Managers can improve sales staff morale and performance through organizational climate, sales quotas, and positive incentives.
organizational climate
Refers to the salesperson's feeling that they have the opportunity to achieve good results, reflect their own value and be rewarded
sales quota
Specify the minimum sales volume for sales personnel and the distribution ratio of sales among the company's products.
Positive motivation
Companies can also use sales contests to motivate salespeople to exceed predetermined sales. Some other incentives include honorary titles, in-kind or cash rewards, vacations, and profit-sharing programs.
Evaluate sales force and team performance
The most important sources are sales reports, including weekly and monthly work plans as well as long-term marketing plans for your area.
Salespeople also write visit reports on activities completed and submit expense reports for partial or full reimbursement.
Companies can also monitor sales and profit performance data for salespeople's regions. Additional information comes from personal observation, customer surveys, and conversations with other salespeople.
Sales staff’s ability to plan work and complete the plan
Social Selling: Web, Mobile and Social Media Tools
social selling
The use of online, mobile and social media to attract customers, build strong customer relationships and improve sales - is currently the fastest growing sales trend.
Marketing examples
B2B salespeople: In the time of digital and social media, who needs them
Salespeople who are good at finding new customers, managing customer relationships, and increasing transactions with existing customers will be in demand
Finding potential customers, attracting customers and managing customer relationships are always the primary responsibilities of the salesperson
Digital technology helps salespeople become more efficient and effective. Build customer relationships by solving their problems—and do it better, faster, and cheaper
16.3 Personal Selling Process
The process of sales
It consists of a series of steps that salespeople must master. These steps focus on how to acquire new customers and how to get orders from them
steps of personal selling
Generate leads and check qualifications
The first step in the personal selling process is prospecting—finding the right potential customers
Approaching the right prospects is critical to a successful pitch
sales preparation
Before visiting potential customers, the salesperson should learn as much as possible about the business customer (what the needs are, who will be involved in the purchase) and their purchasing personnel (the purchasing person's personality, buying style)
close to customers
During the approach stage, salespeople need to know how to meet the customer and get the relationship off to a good start
Introduction and Demonstration
Today’s customers want solutions, not smiles
This solution-providing sales approach requires good listening and problem-solving skills
What customers least like about salespeople: Pressuring, late, deceitful, unprepared, disorganized or chatty
Favorite salesperson
Good at listening, compassionate, honest, responsible, thoughtful and consistent
What is needed is results, not dazzling boasts
Finally, salespeople should prepare in advance the tools they will use during the presentation.
Handle objections
When handling objections, salespeople should adopt a positive attitude, look for implicit objections, ask customers to state their objections clearly, and use these objections as opportunities to provide more information, and ultimately turn these objections into reasons for purchase.
Every salesperson needs training in objection handling skills
Salespeople can use a variety of deal-closing techniques
make a deal
Salespeople should know how to recognize the buyer’s closing signals, including body movements, words, or comments.
For example
Customers may be leaning forward in their seats, nodding approvingly, or bottom-line prices and payment terms
Follow up and maintain
If the salesperson wants to ensure that the customer is satisfied and will make repeat purchases in the future
The best source is recommendations from acquaintances
Personal Selling and Customer Relationship Management
We hope to establish long-term and in-depth relationships with customers in a mutually beneficial manner.
Unfortunately, salespeople eager to close a deal often take shortcuts by cutting price rather than selling value.
Value selling requires listening to customers, understanding their needs, and carefully coordinating all of the company's efforts to create long-term relationships based on customer value.
16.4 Sales Promotion
Personal selling and advertising often work closely with another promotional tool - sales promotion.
Preface
Refers to short-term incentive activities designed to encourage the purchase or sale of a certain product or service
Advertising provides a reason to buy a product or service, while sales promotion provides a reason to buy immediately
Tempt consumers to make impulse purchases
The rapid development of sales promotion
Their targets include end buyers (consumer promotions), retailers and wholesalers (trade promotions), industrial customers (industrial promotions), and sales team members (salesperson promotions)
Several reasons for the rapid growth of sales promotion
Within companies, product managers are under increasing pressure to increase sales, and sales promotion is seen as an effective short-term sales tool.
Externally, the company faces stiffer competition with competing brands that are less differentiated. Competitors are increasingly turning to promotions to differentiate their products
Advertising is increasingly less effective due to rising costs, media confusion and regulatory controls
Consumers are becoming more transaction-oriented, and increasingly large retailers are demanding more discounts from manufacturers.
When designing a promotional program, a company must first establish promotional goals and then select the appropriate tools to achieve those goals.
sales promotion goals
Sales promotion goals vary. Sellers can use consumer promotions to increase short-term customer purchases or enhance customer brand engagement
Promotional goals include getting more support for existing or new products, or signing new customers.
In times of economic downturn and sluggish sales, companies tend to offer deeper discounts to stimulate consumer purchases
Marketers are increasingly avoiding price-focused quick-deal promotions in favor of promotions that build brand equity
Frequent patrons receive frequent customer discounts
Build customer loyalty by adding value rather than lowering prices
Key Sales Promotion Tools
consumer promotions
consumer promotion
sample
Refers to a certain amount of trial samples of a product
discount coupon
A voucher that allows consumers to enjoy certain discounts when purchasing specific goods
cash back
Similar to discount coupons, except the price reduction occurs after purchase rather than in a retail store
Price goods
Also called discount trading, it provides consumers with discounts based on the regular price of the product.
physical reward
Certain items, ranging from children's toys to phone cards and DVDs, are offered for free or at a very low price as an incentive to purchase the product
Advertising specialties
Also called promotional products, they refer to useful items printed with the advertiser's name, logo or information as gifts to consumers.
Focus Promotion
Including display and display at the point of sale.
Contests, sweepstakes, and games provide consumers with the opportunity to win some prize
Investment and event sponsorship
They can create their own branded marketing events or be the sole or designated sponsor of events hosted by others
Transaction Promotional Means
Deal promotions convince retailers and wholesalers to provide shelf space for a brand, promote it in advertising, and actively "sell" it to the end consumer
Industrial promotion tools
Industrial promotions can generate potential industry customers, stimulate purchases, reward customers and motivate sales staff
Two important means of industrial promotion
Industry conferences and trade shows
Many companies and industry associations organize industry conferences and trade shows to promote products
sales competition
The purpose is to motivate salespeople or dealers to increase sales performance within a certain period of time
Design promotion plan
Promotional programs
First, they must size the incentive
For a promotion to be successful, a minimum incentive is necessary, higher incentives will generate more sales
Marketers must decide how to promote and implement promotions
More and more marketers are using multiple media.
Evaluation of sales promotion effectiveness is also important
Case
SunGard: Achieving continued growth by promoting the SunGard way
A pioneer in a new industry
As a B2B service provider, SunGard requires very strong sales capabilities
Excellent, but not great enough
First, the development of the Internet provides SunGard's customers and potential customers with the information they need to solve their respective problems.
SunGard also faces many internal problems
The company's thousands of sales reps spend most of their time and energy selling licensed software rather than developing richer solutions to customers' problems
It often happens that multiple sales representatives compete for the same customer
SunGard has appropriate systems in place for recruiting, hiring and training sales personnel
Companies that transform their sales teams from good to great can achieve 20% profit growth
It also requires that everyone in the organization clearly understands the benefits to themselves and the organization as a whole.
Such a drastic change could cause the company to lose some customers and employees, or even cause a short-term decline in performance before it becomes profitable.
Take decisive reform action
We need to maximize our sales pipeline, sell the broadest possible range of solutions and go to market in a coordinated manner, Powell said. “We have to build ourselves an engine for continued growth.”
From sales based on meeting customer needs to sales based on customer insights
core sales functions
recruit
training
manage
pay
You can even simulate the branch's "what if..." scenarios to determine potential profits under different conditions.
From transformation to results
Translate into new sales and revenue growth
If sales force effectiveness could be easily improved, all companies would have outstanding sales capabilities
"Customers have responded positively to these initiatives and know that our products and services help make their businesses more competitive, and we are particularly pleased with our sales capabilities and organic growth," Fradin said.
Notably, SunGard's sales force is able to coordinate and work better than ever before. With better training and better tools, salespeople can effectively close deals based on customer insights.
17. Direct response, online, social media and mobile marketing
learning target
Define direct versus digital marketing and discuss the benefits their rapid growth brings to customers and businesses
Identify and discuss the major forms of direct and digital marketing
Explain how businesses can use various online marketing strategies to cope with the Internet and the digital age
Discuss how companies can use social media and mobile marketing to attract consumers and create brand communities
Identify and discuss traditional forms of direct marketing and evaluate the public policy and ethical issues facing direct marketing.
Quotes
Amazon: The model of direct response and digital marketing
Founder and CEO Bezos’ summary is concise and concise: “obsessed with serving customers.”
As long as you do things that are beneficial to customers, your company will be able to make profits and develop
That empty chair represents the most important person: the customer.
Sometimes, that chair is not empty, but sits a special employee who has been specially trained to represent the interests of the customer - a "customer experience critic"
Offers free two-hour delivery on tens of thousands of items in some major cities
The reason why I am so obsessed with customer experience is because I firmly believe that it is the fundamental driver of business success.
17.1 Direct response and digital marketing
Direct response and digital marketing
Refers to interacting directly with carefully selected individual consumers and customer communities in order to obtain immediate responses from customers and build lasting customer relationships.
New model of direct marketing
direct distribution channel
A marketing channel that does not include middlemen, a method of communicating directly with consumers. In fact, direct marketing is more than just channels and means of communication
Direct marketing has become more than just supplementary channels or supplementary media
Direct Marketing—The Latest Form: Internet Marketing
Has constituted a complete business model
The rapid growth of direct response and digital marketing
The development and benefits of direct response and digital marketing
for buyer
For buyers, direct marketing is convenient, simple and private, allowing customers to shop online and access a wealth of relevant information anytime, anywhere.
Through direct marketing, buyers can interact with sellers over the phone or on the seller's website or mobile applications, accurately understand the information, products or services they want, and then order on the spot.
For interested customers, digital marketing provides brand interaction and community through web, mobile and social media – a place where brand messages and experiences can be shared with other fans.
for seller
Direct marketing provides a low-cost, high-efficiency method to help companies quickly and effectively influence customers.
Provides greater flexibility, allowing marketers to adjust prices and promotion plans at any time, creating immediate, timely, and personal fit and offer solutions.
In today's environment, direct marketing offers many opportunities for real-time marketing. Real-time marketing connects brands to important moments and events in customers' lives. It is an effective tool to move customers through the purchase process and build customer interaction, community and personalized relationships.
17.2 Forms of direct response and digital marketing
Build direct customer engagement and community
Digital and social media marketing
Internet marketing (website, online advertising and promotions, emails, online videos and blogs, etc.)
social media marketing
Such as Douyin
mobile marketing
traditional direct marketing
face to face sales
direct mail marketing
Shopping catalog marketing
Telemarketing
TV direct marketing
kiosk marketing
17.3 Marketing, Internet and Digital Age
Many consumers do not forget to use their smartphones and tablets to find the best prices even in physical stores. Today's omni-channel consumers are increasingly proficient in integrating online and offline channels to complete purchases, and digital channels will play an unprecedented role in their purchasing process.
multi-channel marketing
More successful than competitors that operate purely online
internet marketing
Refers to marketing through the Internet through company homepages, online advertising and promotions, emails, online videos and blogs, etc.
Websites and brand online communities
Marketing website
Specifically engage customers to drive direct purchases or other marketing purposes
Brand social website
It does not sell anything, its main purpose is to display brand content, attract consumers and build customer-brand community
Online Advertising
As consumers spend more time online, many businesses are directing more marketing spend toward online advertising to increase brand sales or attract visitors to their web, mobile and social media sites.
The most important form of online advertising is contextual advertising (or contextual advertising)
email marketing
Still an important and evolving digital marketing tool.
Amazon tops list of most popular email subscriptions
Internet video
Another form of online marketing is to publish digital videos on the homepage of the brand website or on social media such as YouTube and Facebook.
Some videos are produced specifically for websites and social media, including how-to videos and public relations videos.
Marketers want their videos to go viral. Viral marketing is the digital version of word-of-mouth marketing and involves creating videos, ads, and other marketing content that is so infectious that consumers actively search for it and forward it to their friends.
Those who act are remembered, those who retreat are forgotten. No one can sit back and enjoy the success, fight hard!
Only when people love the idea can it spread like a blazing fire
Blogs and forums
blog
An online journal where an individual or company can write down their thoughts and other content, often related to a very small topic
It provides a fresh, original and personalized low-cost way for businesses to join consumers' online and social media conversations
Blogging remains a consumer-driven medium.
online forum
17.4 Social media and mobile marketing
social media marketing
social media
The increasingly common use of the Internet and the rapid development of digital technologies and devices have given rise to a wave of online social media and digital communities.
Wherever consumers gather, that’s where marketers focus.
Most social media, even the most successful ones, still face a monetization problem: How to make money from the marketing potential of large communities without driving away loyal users?
Leverage social media
Leverage existing social media or create your own
It’s easiest to leverage existing social media
Advantages and Challenges of Social Media Marketing
Advantage
Social media is highly targeted and highly personalized, allowing marketers to create and share customized brand content with individual consumers and customer communities. The interactive nature of social media makes it an ideal platform for businesses to initiate customer conversations and listen to customer feedback.
Social media is also instant and real-time
Social media is very cost-effective. Although creating and managing social media content can be expensive, most social media is free or low-cost. Social media has a high ROI. The low cost of social media makes it accessible to small businesses and brands that cannot afford big-budget marketing campaigns.
Perhaps the greatest advantage of social media is its ability to engage in interaction and social sharing
challenge
First, many businesses are still figuring out how to use social media more effectively, and the results are difficult to measure.
Second, social networks are largely controlled by users.
Marketers must develop content that has lasting appeal and becomes a valuable part of consumers’ online experiences without being overly intrusive. Because consumers have greater control over social media content.
With social media, “you can get very close to consumers, but remember this is their territory.”
Another social marketer said: "Social media is a pressure cooker. Hundreds of thousands or even millions of people will see your idea and they will try to destroy it and find its weaknesses and follies."
Integrate social media marketing
Create brand-related social sharing, interaction and customer communities
Social media is about more than just interacting, telling stories and creating connections, they can have a real impact on businesses
mobile marketing
Deliver marketing messages, promotions and other marketing content to consumers on the go via their mobile devices.
Marketers use mobile marketing to reach and interact with customers anytime, anywhere during the purchasing and relationship-building process.
The widespread adoption of mobile devices and the rapid increase in mobile traffic have made mobile marketing an obvious choice for most brands.
Most people like to use mobile phones and even rely heavily on them
Nowadays, everyone is trying to integrate mobile marketing into direct marketing plans.
We are integrated into our customers' morning behavior.
Marketing examples
Mobile Marketing: Attract customers anytime, anywhere
This makes them an ideal medium for achieving quick responses, especially for time-critical, highly personalized products.
Create a "seamless" purchasing experience
From location technology to mobile payment systems, more and more companies are becoming the Amazons of their industries
Customer contact and support, insurance, roadside assistance and payments
Kiip helps marketers reach their target users in positive moments and provide rewards for their real-time actions and achievements.
The reward information provided by Kiip reinforces users' regular behaviors rather than interrupting them.
It’s not so much real-time marketing as it is real-time demand satisfaction.
In the increasingly mobile marketing space, customers won’t do it unless they see real value. The challenge for marketers, therefore, is to develop valuable mobile offerings, ads, and mobile apps that make customers put their guard down.
Mobile apps that engage customers and drive purchases
Most people don’t want to be frequently interrupted by ads
In summary, digital direct marketing - online, social media and mobile marketing - brings huge opportunities to the future of enterprises, but also presents serious challenges.
Become the leading source of information and place to shop
17.5 Traditional forms of direct marketing
direct mail marketing
Send products, flyers, souvenirs or other items to a person at a specific address
Direct marketing uses carefully selected mailing lists to send thousands of emails each year
Direct mail is ideal for one-to-one direct communication
Shopping catalog marketing
"Catalog Times" magazine once defined a shopping catalog as "a printed volume of more than eight items that sells a variety of goods and provides direct ordering"
Mobile catalog allows consumers to enjoy the convenience of browsing and purchasing anytime, anywhere
Telemarketing
Use the telephone to sell directly to consumers or business customers
But unsolicited marketing calls often irritate consumers, with nuisance calls driving them off their dinner tables or filling their phone records almost every day
TV direct marketing
two main forms
direct reply tv ads
Direct marketers use direct-response television commercials to broadcast advertisements, usually 60 to 120 seconds, that introduce a product persuasively and provide customers with a toll-free number or website for ordering.
interactive tv ads
A newer form of direct-response television advertising that allows viewers to interact with television programs and ads.
kiosk marketing
As consumers become increasingly accustomed to digital and touch-screen technology, many businesses are placing information and the machines to access it—called kiosks—in stores, airports, hotels, college campuses and more.
Public policy issues in direct response and digital marketing
Offense, injustice, deception and fraud
consumer privacy
Take action
4. Expand marketing
18. Create competitive advantage
learning target
Discuss the need for competitive analysis to understand competitors and consumers
Explain the principles of competitive marketing strategy based on creating customer value
Explain the necessity of balancing customer orientation and competition orientation in a truly market-oriented enterprise
The purpose of marketing is to create value for customers and obtain value in return from customers.
Quotes
Microsoft: New competitive marketing strategy in the post-PC era
Today, Microsoft wants to be a company that provides a full line of devices and services, creating "delightful and seamless technology experiences" that connect people to communication, productivity management, entertainment and other content.
Under the guidance of this new competitive strategy, Microsoft has released a series of new, improved or new digital products and services
Establishing valuable customer relationships and gaining competitive advantage requires companies to deliver value and satisfaction to target consumers better than competitors.
From the customer's perspective, competitive advantage is customer advantage, which is the company's real advantage over its competitors.
Two steps of competitive strategy
first step
competitor analysis
Step 2
Develop competitive marketing strategies
18.1 Competitor Analysis
Enterprises must always be
marketing strategy
product
Pricing
channel
Promotion
Compare with competitors
Identify competitors
In a narrow sense
A business can define competitors as other businesses that offer similar products and services to the same customers at similar prices.
generally
Competitors may include all businesses that produce products that provide the same service.
Companies must avoid “competitor myopia”
A company is often more likely to be destroyed by its potential competitors than by its existing competitors.
Marketing examples
Kodak: Didn’t discover competitors in time – no film
Kodak was blinded by its obsession with film and failed to notice new competitive trends related to capturing and sharing images.
Along the way, Kodak, which once created brilliance, was blinded by success and gradually turned away from its founder George. Eastman defines needs for customers and creates motivation due to competition.
Companies can identify competitors from an industry perspective
A business can define competitors as those businesses that are trying to satisfy the same customer needs or attempting to build relationships with the same customers.
Evaluate competitors
The problems that marketing managers have to solve now are:
What goals do each competitor pursue in the market?
Clarify competitors’ goals
Each competitor has a set of goals
If it is discovered that a competitor is planning to enter the market segment currently served by the company, the company must be alert and prepare for battle in advance.
What is the strategy?
Identify competitor strategies
The more similar a company's strategy is to that of another company, the greater the likelihood that the two companies will compete with each other.
In most industries, competitors can be divided into groups pursuing different strategies
strategic group
Understand how each competitor delivers value to customers. To do this, it needs to understand each competitor's product quality, features and mix, customer service, pricing strategy, channel network, sales force strategy, advertising and promotional programs, and Internet and social media programs.
Companies also need to understand the details of each competitor's R&D, manufacturing, purchasing, finance, and other strategies
What are the advantages and disadvantages?
Assess competitors’ strengths and weaknesses
Enterprises generally use secondary data, personal experience and word-of-mouth to understand the strengths and weaknesses of competitors, and can also conduct marketing research on original data from customers, suppliers and dealers.
Or refer to other companies for benchmarking, and compare the company's products and processes with competitors or leading companies in other industries to find ways to improve quality and performance. Benchmarking has become a powerful tool to improve corporate competitiveness.
How will they respond to actions taken by companies?
Assess competitor reaction
Each competitor's reaction pattern is different.
Some companies do not respond quickly and forcefully to competitors' actions
Think their customers are loyal
sluggish
Lack of funds to respond
Choose to attack and evade competitors
When an enterprise makes the above decisions and selects target customers, positioning and marketing mix strategies, it has already determined its main competitors to a large extent.
Strong competitor or weak competitor
Most businesses like to target their firepower at weak competitors
But the company’s gains are not big either.
Sometimes, companies can't avoid their biggest competitors, as was the case with Verizon and AT&T. However, even strong competitors have weaknesses, and overcoming them often leads to huge rewards.
customer value analysis
Is an effective tool for assessing competitors’ strengths and weaknesses
The goal of customer value analysis is to determine the customer's interests and how customers evaluate the relative value of different companies' products.
In order to conduct customer value analysis, companies must know the product attributes that customers value most and their weight, and then compare their performance with those of competitors based on the product attributes that customers value most.
The key to gaining competitive advantage is to examine the differences between your competitors' products in each target market and discover where you hope to meet customer needs in a way that your competitors cannot.
If the company's products exceed those of its competitors in terms of attributes valued by customers, thereby delivering more value, then the company can charge a higher price and earn higher profits, or charge the same price to obtain more value. much market share.
“Good” or “Bad” Competitors
A business does need competitors and can benefit from them. The existence of competitors brings several strategic benefits
Competitors can share market and product development costs and promote technology standardization
They can serve less attractive market segments or bring increased levels of product differentiation.
The presence of competitors also helps increase aggregate demand
Discover unoccupied market space
The so-called "blue ocean strategy" aims to avoid competition
By creating and occupying a "blue ocean," a company can overwhelm most competitors.
Design competitive intelligence systems
We have described the main types of information a business needs to know about its competitors
Therefore, companies must design competitive intelligence systems in an economical and effective way
A competitive intelligence system begins by identifying the main types of information needs and their best sources
The system then continuously moves from
each field
(Sales personnel, channels, suppliers, market research companies, Internet and social media websites, online public opinion monitoring, trade associations)
public data
(Government publications, speeches and online databases) and other channels to collect information
Next, the system checks the validity and reliability of the information, interprets it, and organizes it in an appropriate manner.
Finally, the system will send key information to relevant decision-makers and answer questions from managers about competitors.
18.2 Competitive strategy
marketing strategy approach
Every enterprise must base its own
rank in the field
Target
Chance
resource
Develop the most reasonable strategy
Even within a business, different departments or products may require different strategies
Such as red bull
They formulate strategies during business operations, extend limited resources, get closer to customers, and create more satisfactory solutions for customer needs.
Marketing strategies and practices usually go through three stages:
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Most businesses are started by smart people. They seize opportunities, develop flexible strategies, and find ways to attract attention.
Standardized marketing
As small businesses become successful, they inevitably turn to formal marketing: developing a formal marketing strategy and sticking to it
intrapreneurial marketing
Many large, mature companies are stuck in standardized marketing. The marketing creativity and enthusiasm at the beginning of the establishment have been lost. The innovative spirit that made it successful in the first place needs to be re-established within the company and more initiative and innovation should be encouraged throughout the company.
Many companies implement intrapreneurship into core marketing operations
It is precisely the innovation and enthusiasm in their strategies that help them achieve and sustain market success
basic competitive strategy
Four basic competitive strategies
Three strategies for success
total cost leadership
Businesses strive to minimize production and distribution costs. Low cost allows a company to charge lower prices than its competitors, thus gaining huge market share
Differentiation
Companies focus on creating highly differentiated product lines and marketing campaigns to create the impression of being an industry leader.
If the price is not too high, most consumers would like to own products of this brand.
focus
Companies focus on serving a few market segments rather than pursuing the entire market.
Businesses that pursue a clear strategy are likely to perform well. Whoever can implement this strategy best will gain the most profits.
A more customer-focused classification of competitive marketing strategies. They advise companies to achieve leadership by delivering superior value to customers
Companies can use one of three strategies to deliver superior customer value. This strategy is called the value principle
operational excellence
Businesses offer superior value through industry-leading price or convenience
Close to customers
Companies provide superior value by accurately segmenting markets and customizing products or services to closely meet the needs of target customers.
Product leadership
Enterprises provide excellent value through continuous product and service innovation, with the goal of continuously eliminating their own and competitors' products.
Most outstanding companies focus on one of these principles and are far ahead in that principle, while meeting industry standards in the other two aspects.
It is tempting to classify competitive strategies according to value principles. It defines marketing strategy in terms of thoughtfully delivering superior value to customers. Each value principle defines a special way of building lasting customer relationships.
a failure strategy
competitive positioning
Companies can examine competitive strategies based on the role the company plays in the target market, including leader, challenger, follower and filler.
leader
Market share accounts for 40%
challenger
Market share accounts for 30%
follower
Market share accounts for 20%
filler
Market share 10%
market leader strategy
This leader has the largest market share and often guides other companies in price adjustments, new product introductions, channel coverage and promotional spending
To retain their No. 1 position, leading companies can take three actions:
First, they can find ways to expand aggregate demand
When the total market demand expands, it is often the leading companies that benefit the most.
Marketers often expand markets by discovering and promoting new uses for products
Second, they protect their existing market share through good defensive and offensive behavior
First, it must avoid or compensate for its own weaknesses to prevent competitors from finding an opportunity to exploit them.
But the best defense is an effective offense, and the best response is continued innovation
Leaders should not be satisfied with the status quo but should be at the forefront of the industry in cost reductions in new products, customer service, and distribution effectiveness.
Third, they can further expand their market share even if the market size remains the same.
Market leaders often grow by further increasing their market share.
Corporate strategy is the key to determining its profit growth
Only if unit cost decreases as market share increases
Or when a company provides higher quality products and charges a premium that is enough to cover the increase in costs, a higher market share is likely to generate higher profits.
Market Challenger Strategy
One of two competitive strategies
They can challenge leaders and other competitors for greater market share (market challengers)
Or coexist peacefully with other competitors without causing trouble (market follower)
Market challengers must first identify the competitors they want to challenge and their strategic goals
Although market leaders appear to have the strongest capabilities, market challengers often adopt strategies to take advantage of the "latecomer advantage."
In fact, market challengers often imitate and improve upon market leaders’ ideas
Challenge times must be carefully chosen and have a clear, achievable goal
Many new market entrants avoid head-on conflict, knowing that market leaders can thwart them through advertising wars, price wars, and other retaliatory measures.
market follower strategy
If the challenger's bait is lower prices, improved service, or new product features, the market leader can respond quickly to blunt its attack.
Market followers can reap many benefits. Market leaders often incur significant expenditures to develop new products and markets, expand channels, and cultivate markets. Market followers can learn from the market leader's experience and copy or improve the market leader's products and solutions, often with less investment.
While a market follower may not replace a market leader, it can often be just as profitable
Following does not equate to or exactly copy what the market leader is doing. Each market follower strives to bring a distinct and unique advantage to the target market - location, service or financing.
Market followers must maintain low manufacturing costs and prices, or high-quality products and services, and enter new markets as they open.
market filler strategy
Market fillers can set prices much higher than costs. Mass marketers get high sales, while market fillers get high profit margins
Market fillers trial production to find one or more safe and profitable niche markets. An ideal niche market
It should be large enough and have development potential, and it should be a market that can be effectively served by the enterprise.
Perhaps more importantly, market fillers serve markets that are unattractive to some of the more powerful competitors
As niche markets develop and become more attractive, companies can develop expertise and establish customer credibility to protect themselves from competition.
The key to a gap-filling strategy is specialization. Market fillers seek growth by deeply satisfying the special needs of precisely identified target customer groups.
By developing two or more niche markets, a business can increase its chances of survival
18.3 Balance customer orientation and competitor orientation
competition-oriented enterprise
Often spends most of their time tracking competitor actions and market shares and trying to figure out countermeasures
customer oriented company
In the process of designing strategies, pay more attention to the development of customers.
Customer-oriented companies are in a better position to identify new opportunities and develop sound long-term strategies. By observing changes in customer needs, companies can determine which customer groups and emerging needs are most worth serving.
It can focus resources to deliver superior value to target customers.
market oriented enterprise
Observe its customers and competitors closely to avoid blindly focusing on competitors or one-sided focus on customers
Businesses need to become market-oriented, balancing a focus on customers and competition. They need to observe customers and discover breakthrough ways to build profitable customer relationships by delivering more customer value than their competitors, rather than simply staring at competitors and beating them with existing business methods.
Case
YouTube: Google’s quest for video dominance
It turns out that these companies are not all that different in their ultimate goals—to meet the digital needs of consumers around the world, a rapidly evolving and hard-to-define set of needs.
As consumers increasingly turn their time and attention to mobile-connected devices, Google realizes that winning the largest share of "time spend" possible in the digital space is the real goal it wants to pursue.
i want my tv
Mention how people spend their time, work and sleep take up most of the time
Competition is fierce
In 5 years, Facebook will "completely" "move", and it may be all about videos
In a world where so much information is bombarded at us, video is actually the best way to tell a story.
Make videos your way
Make Red an ad-free streaming music service
19. Global Market
learning target
Discuss the international trading system and how the economic, political, legal, and cultural environments influence a company's international marketing decisions
Describe three important methods of entering international markets
Explain how companies adapt their marketing mix for international markets
Identify the three main forms of international marketing organizations
Quotes
IKEA: A delicate balance between global standards and local adaptation
IKEA has achieved global success by attracting consumers from different countries and cultures.
Buy stylish yet simple and functional furniture at low prices. IKEA's global mission is to "create a better everyday life for everyone...by offering a wide range of well-designed, stylish furniture products at prices so low that many people can afford them."
Many aspects of IKEA's strategy are standardized globally.
Initially, all products were contemporary Swedish furniture, whose classic minimalist designs have long-lasting global appeal.
Low price is another constant in IKEA's global formula
IKEA's space-saving "flat" packaging and display approach—furniture components are sold for customers to install in their homes—is also a sign of standardization.
You can spend hours shopping at IKEA without getting bored
The further the cultural distance, the more we need to understand, learn and adapt
Remember, the key to the IKEA model is volume, volume, volume: huge economies of scale are needed to keep costs low
IKEA is particularly good at showing how the same product can fit into the living habits of different regions.
In addition to changing design, product assortment, and composition, IKEA often adjusts its basic store operations to turn local cultural characteristics and differences into competitive advantages.
19.1 Global Marketing Today
Convenient communications, transportation and capital flows are rapidly making the world "smaller"
global enterprise
A company that operates in more than one country and gains marketing, production, research and development, and financing advantages that are not available to companies that operate only domestically.
The world is getting smaller, and all companies operating in global industries – regardless of size – must evaluate and position themselves in world markets
Companies face six major decisions in international marketing
Examine the global marketing environment
international trading system
Foreign governments may impose higher tariffs and taxes on certain imported products in an effort to increase revenue or protect domestic businesses.
The EU recently imposed import duties on toenail solar panels after determining that Chinese solar cell and panel manufacturers were selling them below market prices in EU countries.
Foreign governments may also set quotas to limit the import quantity of certain products in order to save foreign exchange and protect local product development and employment opportunities.
world trade organization
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), established in 1947 and adjusted in 1994, is committed to promoting the development of world trade by reducing tariffs and other international trade barriers.
regional free trade zone
Some countries or regions organize and establish groups with the common goal of breaking through the controls on international trade, forming free trade or economic groups.
International marketers must understand that every country is unique in its own way. A country's willingness to accept different products and services and its attractiveness as a market for foreign businesses depend on its economic, political, legal and cultural environment.
economic environment
Two economic factors reflect the attractiveness of a country's market
The country’s industrial structure
A country's industrial structure determines its demand for products and services, income levels, and employment levels
Emerging economies are countries or regions that are experiencing rapid growth and industrialization
The country’s income distribution
Industrialized countries have low, middle and high income households. In contrast, where subsistence countries may be dominated by low-income households, household incomes may vary widely in other regular-form countries.
Marketing examples
International Marketing: Targeting the Fortunes at the Often Bottom of the Pyramid
How can companies become profitable by catering to consumers whose incomes fall below the poverty line?
First, the price must be right
The bottom of the pyramid presents a huge, untapped market opportunity for companies that can develop the right product at the right price
Our innovation strategy is far from simply simplifying high-end products for low-end consumers. You have to develop the right product for the specific needs of those consumers. If you don't, you will fail.
political and legal environment
The buyer's government restricts the remittance of this currency, and the buyer can only purchase other goods he needs locally, or sell the purchased goods elsewhere in exchange for the required currency.
cultural environment
Every country has its own customs, morals and taboos.
The impact of culture on marketing strategy
Companies that downplay cultural norms and differences can make very embarrassing mistakes
The impact of marketing strategy on culture
Critics worry that countries around the world are losing their cultural identities due to this "Americanization"
Such concerns sometimes fuel backlash against U.S. globalization.
Cultural exchange is a two-way street – the United States is also influenced by other countries’ cultures
Decide whether to go global
Global competitors may attack a company's home market by offering better products or lower prices, and the company may have to fight back in its competitors' home markets to tie up their resources;
Or a company's customers may be expanding globally and requesting international services
or foreign markets are likely to present additional sales and profit opportunities
Decide which markets to enter
The company should work hard to formulate international marketing goals and policies and clarify the desired foreign sales volume
The attractiveness of a country's market depends on
product
geographical factors
income
population
political atmosphere
other factors
market potential indicator
Demographic characteristics
educate
Population size and growth
Population age structure
sociocultural factors
Consumer lifestyles, beliefs and values
Business ethics and methods
Culture and social norms
language
geographical features
climate
country size
Population Density – Urban, Rural
Transport structure and market accessibility
political and legal factors
national priority policy
political stability
Government attitudes towards global trade
government bureaucracy
currency and trade controls
economic factors
GDP size and growth rate
Income Distribution
industrial infrastructure
natural resources
Finance and Human Resources
Decide how to enter the market
Develop global marketing plan
Decide on Global Marketing Organization
19.2 Deciding how to enter the market
market entry mode
exit
The easiest way to enter foreign markets is to export. A company may occasionally passively export its surplus products, or it may take active actions to expand exports to a specific market.
Indirect exporting involves less investment because companies do not need to establish an overseas marketing organization or network.
The investment and risk involved in this strategy will be somewhat higher, but the potential returns are also higher.
conglomerate
The second way to enter international markets is conglomerates – forming joint ventures with foreign companies to produce or market products or services
Four types of conglomerates
license
For manufacturers, licensing is an easy way to enter international markets.
The company reaches an agreement with a foreign licensee. The licensee pays fees and license fees to obtain the right to use processing technology, trademarks, patents, trade secrets or other valuable matters from the company (licensor).
contract manufacturing
The company signs contracts with foreign manufacturers to produce products and provide services.
management contract
Under the management contract method, the domestic company provides management knowledge to the foreign company, and the latter provides its own capital.
This approach becomes more attractive if the company later has the opportunity to purchase shares in the foreign company being managed.
However, this arrangement would be unwise if the company could make better use of its management capabilities or make greater profits by taking over the entire business. The management contract also prohibits the company from establishing its own local operations for a certain period of time.
Joint venture
It is a joint venture between a local company and a foreign investor, with the joint venture partners sharing ownership and control. The company can acquire equity in a local company, or both parties can jointly fund a new company.
Or a foreign government may require joint ventures as a condition for entry into its market.
Many U.S. companies like to reinvest earnings to accelerate growth, but local companies often prefer to take these earnings back; U.S. companies emphasize the role of marketing, and local investors may pay more attention to sales
direct investment
The deepest involvement in foreign markets is direct investment - the establishment of foreign assembly plants or manufacturing plants
The company can also improve its image in the host country as it creates jobs
The main disadvantage of direct investment is that companies face many risks, such as currency restrictions and devaluations, market recessions, or regime changes.
19.3 Develop a global marketing plan
Marketing strategies and programs
At one extreme are global companies using standardized global marketing
They use almost identical marketing strategies and marketing mixes around the world.
Reduce costs through economies of scale
At the other extreme is adapted global marketing.
In this case, producers adjust their marketing strategies and marketing mix elements according to the demand characteristics of each target market. Although the cost is higher, they are expected to obtain larger market shares and returns.
Most marketers therefore adjust their products, pricing, channels and promotions to suit consumer needs in different countries.
We have a global brand but we need to adapt to local needs
Global brands should be down-to-earth in engaging local consumers, respecting local culture and becoming a part of it
product
Strategies that companies can use to adapt product and marketing communications plans to global markets
Five Global Products - Communication Strategies
Three product strategies
direct product extension
Refers to the company marketing its products abroad without making any changes.
Take the product as is and find customers for it
product adjustments
Refers to making modifications and changes to products based on local conditions or needs
Product Innovation
Refers to the creation of new products to meet the needs of a specific country's market
As markets become increasingly globalized, companies ranging from appliance makers and carmakers to producers of confectionery and soft drinks are developing products that meet the special requirements of low-income consumers in developing countries.
Two communication strategies
Promotion
Companies can adopt the same communication strategy as in their home market, or they can adapt it accordingly to the local market
Of course, even in highly standardized communication campaigns, subtle adjustments must be made to accommodate differences in language and culture
Other companies do not adopt globally standardized advertising strategies, but follow communication adjustments and fully adjust communication messages according to the demand characteristics of the local market.
In global marketing, media selection decisions also need to be adjusted because media availability and regulation vary greatly across countries.
Pricing
Regardless of how companies price their products, foreign selling prices are likely to be higher than domestic prices
It must add a series of costs such as transportation costs, tariffs, importer's gross profit, wholesaler's gross profit, and retailer's gross profit to the ex-factory price. The product must be sold in another country at 2 to 5 times the price to obtain the same profit.
Distribution channel
Multinational companies must adopt a holistic channel view
Look at the distribution of products to end consumers.
The first type of linkage is the channel between countries that transports a company's products from the place of production to the point of import in the host country.
The second link is the channel within the host country that transports the product from the point of market entry to the final consumer.
To compete in global markets, companies must effectively design and manage their entire global value delivery network.
Global value delivery network
international seller
international channels
Domestic channels
end user or buyer
First, the number and type of intermediaries in each country's markets vary widely, as does the transportation infrastructure that serves these intermediaries.
In emerging markets, companies often must overcome distribution channel infrastructure and resource availability challenges.
19.4 Determining the global marketing organization
Companies can manage international marketing activities in at least three ways
Most companies initially form an export department
Then create an export division
eventually grew into a global organization
It can also be a world product team, responsible for the worldwide sales of different products;
It can also be an international branch, each responsible for its own sales and profits.
My cultural background in English, Hindi and French provides a wealth of references. I read books in these three languages, meet people from different countries, enjoy food from different cultures, etc.
Global organizations no longer think of themselves as domestic marketers selling abroad, but rather as global marketers.
Today, large companies must become more global if they hope to continue to compete. Shift from viewing international operations as a secondary business to viewing the world as a borderless market.
Case
L'Oréal: Beautiful United Nations
you deserve to have
L’Oréal’s universal strategy is closely linked to its mission of “Beauty for All”
Beauty from multiple perspectives
To achieve its mission of "Beauty for All" in the global market, L'Oréal relies on a large number of highly cross-cultural managers.
L'Oréal believes that such a structure fails to strike the balance between standardization and adaptation, which is the key to success in today's cosmetics industry. The company builds global teams around managers with deep backgrounds in multiple cultures, allowing them to move between teams.
In-depth research for beauty
One of the goals of its global research and development efforts is to gain a deep understanding of the beauty and care behaviors of women and men around the world.
These beauty rituals, repeated thousands of times, form an ingrained culture. Due to the inheritance of tradition and the influence of climate and living conditions, people's ideal beauty varies from country to country.
Physiological Reality: Smooth, straight, short lashes don't carry makeup as well as thick, curved long lashes.
L'Oréal's great success in international markets stems from its ability to achieve a "global-local" balance, adapting and differentiating its brand in local markets while maximizing its impact in global markets.
One of the companies that has achieved both local brand sensitivity and global brand integration.
We have a global brand, but we need to adapt it to local needs.
20. Sustainable Marketing: Social Responsibility and Ethics
Learning purpose
Define sustainable marketing and discuss its importance
Understand the main criticisms of marketing
Define consumer protectionism and environmentalism and explain their impact on marketing strategy
Describe the principles of sustainable marketing
Explain the role of ethics in marketing
Quotes
Sustainability at Unilever: Creating a better future every day
Unilever exists for "consumers, not shareholders"
Sustainable Living Plan – a proactive, long-term plan to take society to the next level.
Every day we create a better future for people around the world: the billions of people who work for us, do business with us, use our products, and for future generations whose quality of life depends on the way we protect the environment today.
The "Sustainable Living Plan" proposes that Unilever will achieve three important social and environmental goals by 2020:
Helping more than 1 billion people take action to improve their health and well-being
Halve the environmental impact of manufacturing and using our products
Grow our business and improve the lives of millions of people.
These changes include, in order:
Easy to understand, easy to act on, easy to desire, reward and form habits
20.1 Sustainable Marketing
sustainable marketing
Requires socially and environmentally responsible behavior that meets the current needs of consumers and businesses while protecting or enhancing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
20.2 Social criticism of marketing
The impact of marketing on individual consumers
high price
three factors
high distribution costs
high advertising
Promotional costs
Willing to pay more for a product that has the psychological benefit of making you feel rich, attractive, or special
deceitful acts
Marketers are sometimes accused of using deceptive tactics to mislead consumers into believing they are getting more value than they actually are.
There are three common types of deception:
deceptive promotion
Over exaggerating the features or performance of a product, or using preferential prices to attract customers and then claiming that they are out of stock and recommending other high-priced products.
deceptive packaging
Exaggerate the effectiveness of the package through clever design or misleading labeling, or describe the contents of the package in misleading terms
deceptive pricing
Including falsely advertising "ex-factory price" or "wholesale price"
Or you may set a falsely high price first, and then pretend to give a large discount.
high pressure sales
Convince customers to buy items they don’t really want
Counterfeit, harmful or unsafe products
Poor quality of products and services; followed by product safety issues
Deliberate early elimination
Marketers argue that consumers like style changes, they dislike the old, and they always want the latest technological innovations even if the old products still work.
They pursue continuous improvement to ensure that products consistently meet or exceed customer expectations.
Poor service to the vulnerable
Better marketing systems must be built to serve the poor
The impact of marketing on society as a whole
Undue Desires and Materialism
At a deeper level, our desires and values are influenced not only by marketers, but also by family, peers, religion, ethnic background, and education.
There are too few social public goods
We have to find a way to balance private goods with public goods. One option is for producers to bear all the social costs they impose.
cultural pollution
TV commercials interrupt serious programs
Print ads almost fill the pages of magazines
The impact of marketing on other businesses
Acquire a competitor
There are concerns that dynamic young competitors will be gobbled up and competition will weaken.
Barriers to entry created by marketing
and unfair competitive practices
20.3 Consumers drive sustainable marketing behaviors
Consumer protectionism and environmentalism are two important movements
consumer protectionism
An organized movement of citizens and government agencies to increase the rights and power of buyers vis-à-vis sellers
traditional seller's rights
Even if there is a hazard, just label it with appropriate warnings or controls
traditional buyer's rights
The right to freely purchase products
The right to demand product safety
The right to require product performance to be consistent with what the manufacturer promises
Increase consumer rights
Have the right to know important product information
The right to protection from questionable products and marketing practices
The power to influence products and marketing activities so that they improve consumers’ “quality of life”
The right to conduct current consumption in a manner that protects the interests of future consumers.
environmentalism
environmentalism
It is a movement organized by citizens, businesses and government agencies to protect and improve people's current and future living environment.
consume responsibly
Not only means the quantity and quality of consumer products and services, but also the quality of the living environment
More and more companies are implementing environmental sustainability policies. In short, environmental sustainability can both help save the planet and generate profits.
Environmentally sustainable development is an important but difficult social goal
Public action to regulate marketing
20.4 Corporate behavior for sustainable marketing
Principles of sustainable marketing
consumer-oriented marketing
Refers to the fact that companies should view and organize marketing activities from the perspective of consumers
consumer value marketing
Companies should invest most of their resources in marketing activities that create and deliver value to customers
innovative marketing
The company constantly pursues tangible improvements in product and marketing
Help Amazon enhance customer shopping experience and become the dominant player in online retail
Mission-driven marketing
Companies should define their mission with a broad social perspective rather than a narrow product perspective
social marketing
According to social marketing principles, when companies make marketing decisions, they must consider consumer desires, company requirements, and the long-term interests of consumers and society.
Companies should understand that ignoring the long-term interests of consumers and society will ultimately cause harm to consumers and society. Smart companies see social issues as market opportunities
social classification of products
defective product
For example, drugs that are unpalatable and ineffective have neither immediate appeal nor long-term benefits.
Delight product
Can bring a high degree of immediate gratification, but may harm consumers in the long term.
For example: cigarettes and junk food
beneficial products
The current appeal is small, but it will be good for consumers in the long term,
For example: bicycle helmets or insurance products
ideal product
Ability to both provide a high degree of immediate gratification and generate long-term benefits
For example: delicious and nutritious breakfast foods
20.5 Marketing ethics and sustainable companies
marketing ethics
Good ethics are the cornerstone of sustainable marketing.
sustainable company