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101 Final

Lecture 1: Introduction

- Four Ps marketing mix
o Product
o Promotion
o Price
o Place
- Five Cs of marketing
o Company
o Customers
o Competitors
o Collaborators
o Context
- Evolution of marketing
o Product orientation (prior to 1950): build a better product and people will want to buy it
o Sales orientation (1950 1960): lets make people want our product; madmen
o The classic marketing concept (1970): competitors have same insights how do we get
ahead?
Desires of customers should guide actions
Product and demand oriented
o Competitor orientation (1980s): competitive actions and reactions
o Relationship management (CRM): long term relationships with customers because
customers derive value from firm relationships
o Customer centricity/value marketing era: value, service, solving customer problems, loyalty,
long-term approach, customer lifetime value (CLV)

Marketing Math

- Case steps: (1) identify the core problem, (2) analyze the problem, (3) evaluate & decide, (4)
summary
- Unit contribution = Revenue per unit Variable costs per unit = R(per unit) VC(per unit)
o Variable costs: manufacturing, shipping, sales commissions
o Fixed costs: executive salaries, rent, insurance, overhead expenses
- Profit Margin = Unit contribution / Revenue per Unit
o Percent of selling price associated with profit
o Retail price: charged to the consumer
o Manufacturer price: wholesale price
o Manufacturer variable costs: costs of production
- Break-Even Volume = Fixed Costs / Unit Contribution
o Number of units you need to produce to cover total fixed costs
o Use BEV to make decisions about new investments
o If youre going to make profits > 0, do it but dont accept the project at breakeven
o Default time frame is one year
- Market share
o Sales/Revenue market share: the percentage of sales accounted for by that firm, within the
product category
Firm Sales/Total Market Sales
o Volume market share: the percentage of units accounted for by that firm within the product
category
Firm Units Sold/Total Market Units Sold
o Customer market share: percentage of customers the firm has relative to total customers
Firm customers/Total customers
- Profit Impact = (Unit Contribution*Units Sold) Fixed Costs

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o Impact of product on company profits


o How many units must be made/sold to achieve a specific profit impact
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) = Annual Profit Per Customer * Years as a customer
o The value of the entire stream of purchases that the customer would make over a lifetime of
patronage
o Annual profit per customer: avg amount that a typical customer would spend with the
business, with expenses subtracted (Unit Contribution * Units per customer per year)
o Not all customers stay with the product the same length of time or have the same annual
profit (retention rate)
o Does not account for (1) discounting profits over time, (2) retention rate (morality/attrition),
(3) segments with different values/lifetimes
o margin(retention rate / (1+discount rate-retention rate))
Opportunity costs: must deliver value above the opportunity cost to be acceptable but not included
when assessing absolute profitability of a course of action
Sunk costs: market research and R&D expenses
Premium: percentage of manufacturer price that is added to the retail price (rev-cost / cost)
Return on investment: ratio of net profit to the investment used to make the net profit


CHAPTER 1: Marketings Value to Consumers, Firms, and Society

Marketing Whats it all about
- Marketing is much more than selling or advertising
- Production: actually making goods or performing services
- Marketing: provides needed direction for production and helps make sure that the right goods are
services are produced and find their way to consumers
- Customer satisfaction: the extent to which a firm fulfills a customers needs, desires and expectations
Marketing is important to you
- Marketing is important to every consumer and affects almost every aspect of life
- In advanced economies, marketing costs about 50 cents of every consumer dollar
- Marketing encourages research and innovation, the development and spread of new ideas, goods and
services
How should we define marketing?
- Marketing is a set of activities done by an individual organization to satisfy its consumers
- We can view marketing in two ways:
o From a micro view, as a set of activities performed by organizations
o Macro view, as a social process (what people usually think of)
- Marketing: performance of activities that seek to accomplish an organizations objectives by
anticipating customer or client needs and directing a flow of need-satisfying goods and services from
producer to customer or client
- Applies to both profit and nonprofit organizations
- Identify consumer needs and meet them so well that the product almost sells itself
- Marketing involves the facilitation of exchanges
- Pure subsistence economy: each family unit produces everything it consumes
- Marketing exchange is part of an ongoing relationship
- Macro-marketing: social process that directs an economys flow of goods and services from
producers to consumers in a way that effectively matches supply and demand and accomplishes the
objectives of society
o How the whole marketing system works and affects society
o More difficult in an advanced society because consumers and producers and more separated

Discrepancies of Quantity: Producers prefer to produce and sell in large quantities.

Consumers prefer to buy and consume in small quantities.


Discrepancies of Assortment: producers specialize in producing a narrow

assortment of goods and services, consumers need a broad assortment.


o Separations:




-Spatial separation: producers tend to locate where it is economical to



produce, while consumers are located in many scattered places.
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-Separation in Time: consumers may not want to consume goods and



services at the time producers would prefer to produce them, and time may



be required to transport goods from producer to consumer.
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-Separation in Information; producers do not know who needs what, where,



when, and at what price. Consumers do not know what is available from



whom, where, when, and at what price.
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-Separation in Values: Producers value goods and services in terms of costs



and competitive prices. Consumers value them in terms of satisfying needs



and their ability to pay.
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-Separation of Ownership: producers hold title to goods and services that
they themselves do not want to consume. Consumers want goods and services that they do not own.
- Economics of scale: companies produce larger numbers of a particular product so the cost of the
product goes down
- Universal functions of marketing: buying, selling, transporting, storing, standardization and
grading, financial risk taking, market information
o All exchanges require buying and selling
Buying function: looking for and evaluating goods and services
Selling function: promoting the product
Transporting function: movement
Storing function
Standardization and grading: sorting products according to size and quality
Financing: provides the necessary cash and credit to produce, transport, store,
promote, sell, and buy products.
Risk taking: bearing uncertainties are part of marketing process
Market information function: involves the collection, analysis, and distribution of all
the information needed to plan, carry out, and control marketing activities
- Both producers and consumers can benefit from an intermediary or middleman someone who
specializes in trade, rather than production
- Marketing collaborators: firms that facilitation or provide one or more of the marketing functions
other than buying or selling
- E-commerce: exchanges between individuals or organizations and activities that facilitate these
exchanges based on applications of information technology
- All of the marketing functions must be performed by somebody in a macro-marketing viewpoint;
however, from a micro viewpoint, not every firm must perform all the functions
Role of marketing in economic systems
- Economic system: the way an economy organizes to use scarce resources to produce goods and
services and distribute them for consumption by various people and groups in society
- Two kinds of basic economic systems
o Command economy: government officials decide what and how much is to be produced and
distributed by whom, when, to whom and why planned economies
Producers have little choice
Prices are set by government planners and are rigid
o Market-directed economy: individual decisions of many producers and consumers make
macro-level decisions for the whole economy
Price is a measure of value
Greatest freedom of choice
The role of government interest rates and supply of money, import and export
rules, etc.
- Effectiveness and fairness of particular macro-marketing system is evaluated in terms of that
societys objectives
Marketings role has changed a lot over the years
- Five stages in marketing evolution

Simple trade era: families traded or sold their surplus out to local middlemen who resold
the goods to other consumers or distant middlemen
o Production era: from the Industrial Revolution to the 1920s company focuses on
production of a few specific products
o Sales era: companies emphasize selling because of increased competition (1930 1950)
o Marketing department era: all marketing activities are brought under control of one
department to improve short-run policy planning and to try to integrate firm activities
o Marketing company era (1960+): in addition to short-run marketing planning, marketing
people develop long-range plans and the whole company effort is guided by the marketing
concept
What does the marketing concept mean?
- Marketing concept: organization aims all its efforts at satisfying its customers at a profit
o Customer satisfaction: give the customers what they need
o Total company effort: all departments should adopt philosophy
o Profit as an objective: the more you satisfy customers, the more they are willing to pay
bottom line measure of firms success and ability to survive
- Production orientation: making whatever products are easy to produce and trying to sell them
- Marketing orientation: carrying out the firms marketing concept to offer consumers what they need
Adoption of the marketing concept has not been easy or universal
- First accepted by consumer products companies like GE and P&G
- Service industries were slow to adopt the marketing concept
- Easy to slip into a production-oriented way of thinking (dot-com bubble)
The marketing concept and customer value
- Customer may look at market offering from two views
o Potential benefits of that offering
o What customer has to give up to get those benefits
- Customer value: the difference between what the benefits a customer sees from a market offering
and the costs of obtaining those benefits
- Building relationships with customers requires everyone in a firm work together to provide
customer value before and after each purchase
The marketing concept applies in nonprofit organizations
- Nonprofits face competition for resources and support they need
- Must take in as much money as it spends or they cant survive
The marketing concept, social responsibility and marketing ethics
- Micro-macro dilemma: what is good for some firms may not be good for society as a whole
- Social responsibility: a firms obligation to improve its positive effects on society and reduce its
negative effects
- Being more socially conscious often leads to positive customer response but it can conflict with a
firms profit objectives
- Marketing ethics: moral standards that guide marketing decisions and actions

CHAPTER 2: Marketing Strategy Planning

The management job in marketing
- Marketing management process:
o Planning marketing activities
o Directing implementation of the plans
o Controlling these plans
- Process is continuous
- Marketing managers must constantly seek new opportunities
- Strategic (management) planning: managerial process of developing and maintaining a match
between an organizations resources and its market opportunities
What is a marketing strategy?
- Marketing strategy: specifies a target market and a related marketing mix big picture of what a
firm will do in some market
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o Target market: homogenous group of customers


o Marketing mix: controllable variable company puts together to satisfy this target group
Selecting a market-oriented strategy is target marketing
- Target marketing: marketing mix is tailored to fit some specific customers (marketing-oriented
approach)
- Mass marketing: vaguely aims at everyone, assumes everyone is the same, and considers everyone to
be a target customer (production oriented approach)
- Mass marketers: different from mass marketing, aim at clearly defined markets, that happen to be
very large and spread out (Walmart, Kraft)
- Less likely to face direct competitors when you target a specific group
Developing marketing mixes for target markets
- Four Ps make up a marketing mix: product, place, promotion, price
- Customer is not part of the marketing mix it is the target of efforts in the center of the diagram
- Product: developing the right product for the target market, not limited to physical goods
- Place: reaching the target
o Channel of distribution: series of firms that participate in the flow of products from
producer to final user or consumer
- Promotion: telling and selling the customer about the right product
o Personal selling: direct spoken communication
o Customer service: personal communication between seller and customer to resolve a
problem with the purchase
o Mass selling: communicating with large numbers of customers at the same time
Advertising: any paid form of nonpersonal presentation by an identified sponsor
Publicity: any unpaid form of nonpersonal presentation
o Sales promotion: coupons, materials, samples, signs, etc.
- Price: consider competition and cost of whole marketing mix
- Dot-Com bubble: stock went up because investors expected firms would earn profits in the future as
more consumers went online, optimistic predictions about lifetime value of customers
- Selecting target market and developing marketing mix are interrelated strategies must be
evaluated against the companies objectives
- Toddler University example: shoe company, thought there was a mass market for baby shoes but he
knew there was competition so he didnt compete, identified four other different markets
o Traditionalist: well-manufactures shoes from quality stores
o Economy-Oriented: lower income group, basic and low price
o Fashion Conscious: baby shoes like the latest styles
o Attentive Parents: shoes that meet variety of functional needs
Targeting fit and functional with fashion and fun
Contracted with producer in Taiwan that improved the product
Promotion: print ads with close up babies wearing shoes
Price: $35-40 a pair, premium price
Marketing plan is guide to implementation and control
- Marketing plan: written statement of a marketing strategy and the time-related details for carrying
out the strategy, spells out the following:
o What marketing mix will be offered, to whom, and for how long
o What company resources (shown as costs) will be needed at what rate
o What results are expected
o Control procedures
- Implementation: putting marketing plan into operation
- Operational decisions: short-run decisions to help implement strategies
- Several plans are combined to make a whole marketing program for a firm
o Marketing program: blends all the firms marketing plans into one big plan
Marketing program should build on customer equity
- Customer equity: expected earnings stream (profitability) of a firms current and prospective
customers over some period of time

Marketing manager should select opportunities and make choices where the revenues from target
customers are greater than the costs of acquiring those customers, retaining their business and
keeping it
- Find cost-effective ways to increase earnings from current customers while bringing profitable new
customers into the fold
Importance of marketing strategy planning
- Watch industry:
o Conventional watch-makers aimed for high-priced, high-quality symbols and ignored people
who just wanted to tell time
o Timex watches become worlds largest company by offering lower cost channels
o Texas Instruments entered the market with low-costs watches and liquid crystal displays
o In 1990, economic downturn made consumers less interested in high-price watches so
Timex came back with It takes a licking and keeps on ticking
o Inexpensive yet durable choice
o Timex has introduced GPS, heart monitors, I-control technology, wireless, etc. so watches
must be constantly updated and revised with technology
- Attractive opportunities for a firm are those that the firm has a chance to do something about given
its resources and objectives
- Breakthrough opportunities: opportunities that help innovators develop hard-to-copy marketing
strategies that will be profitable for a long time
- Competitive advantage: firm has a marketing mix that the target market sees as better than a
competitors mix only exists if firm provides superior value and satisfies customers better
- Process narrows from broad opportunities to specific strategy: narrowing down process
- Market segmentation can help pinpoint the target market
- Differentiation: marketing mix is distinct from and better than what is available at competitor
- Screening criteria (qualitative and quantitative) can help to zero in on a strategy
- SWOT Analysis: useful aid for strategy identifies the firms strengths, weaknesses, opportunities
and threats in the market
Types of opportunities to pursue
- Market penetration: trying to increase sales of a firms present products in its present markets
probably through a more aggressive marketing mix
o New promotion appeals
o Strengthen customer relationships
- Market development: trying to increase sales by selling present products in new markets
- Product development: offering new or improved products for present markets
- Diversification: moving into new lines of business, most risky
- Greater market penetration is usually the opportunity that comes first, also market development into
international markets
International opportunities should be considered
- Trade barriers are coming down and advances make it easier to reach international customers
- May improve economies of scale

Chapter 3: Evaluating Opportunities in the Changing Market Environment
Cultural and Social Environment: affects how and why people live and behave as they do which affects
customer buying and behavior and eventually the economic, political, and legal environments.
Gross Domestic Product: is the total market value of all goods and services provided in a countrys economy
per year by both residents and nonresidents of that country
Metropolitian Statisitcal Area: an integreated economic and social unit with a large popular nucleus.
Sustainability: the idea thats its important to meet todays needs without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their needs.
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Chapter 4: Focusing Marketing Strategy with Segmentation and Positioning
Searching for opportunities can begin by understanding markets

Market: group of potential customers with similar needs who are willing to exchange something of
value with sellers offering various goods or services
- Within a general market, marketing-oriented managers develop marketing mixes for specific target
markets
- Generic market: market with broadly similar needs and sellers offer various, often diverse, ways of
satisfying those needs
o Quite different product types can compete with each other (need for entertainment)
- Product-market: market with very similar needs and sellers offering various close substitute ways
of satisfying those needs (need for a digital camera)
Naming product-markets and generic markets
- Complete product-market definition has four parts product market names
o What: product type describes goods and services customers want
o To meet what: customer needs needs the product type satisfies
o For whom: customer types final consumer or user
o Where: geographic area where a firm competes
- Generic market description doesnt include any product-type terms; consists of three parts without
the product type
Market segmentation defines possible target markets
- Market segmentation:
o Naming broad product-markets: select broad areas where the firm has some resources and
experience
o Segmenting those in order to select target markets and develop suitable marketing mixes
these fail when the mass market is used
- Segmenting: aggregating process clustering people with similar needs into a market segment
- Market segment: homogenous group of customers who will respond to a marketing mix in a similar
way look for similarities rather than differences in needs
- Good market segments
o Homoegenous within
o Heterogenous between
o Substantial
o Operational: segmenting dimensions should be useful for identifying customers and
deciding on marketing mix variables, especially important
- Three ways to develop market-oriented strategies in broad product-market
o Single target-market approach
o Multiple target market approach: different marketing mixes
o Combined target market approach: may help achieve economies of scale but too much
combining is risky
- Combiners: try to increase size of target market by combining two or more segments
- Segmenters: aim at one or more homogenous segments and try to develop a different marketing
mix for each segment
- In general, it is safer to be a segmenter satisfy some customers very well instead of many customers
just fairly well
- Cost considerations encourage aggregating to obtain economies of sale
What dimensions are used to segment markets?
- Segmentation dimensions guide marketing mix planning
o Behavioral needs, attitudes, consumption patterns product, promotion
o Urgency to satisfy need and desire to shop place and price
o Geographic location, demographics size of target markets, promotion, place
- Segmenting a broad product market usually requires using several different dimensions at the same
time
- Qualifying dimensions: those relevant to a customer type in a product-market, help identify core
benefits that must be offered in the market
- Determining dimensions: those that actually affect the customers purchase of a specific product or
brand in a product-market

All potential dimensions Qualifying dimensions Product type determining dimensions Brand
specific determining dimensions
- Can face ethical issues by segmenting decisions
- Clustering techniques: try to find similar patterns within sets of data, uses computers
- Customer relationship management (CRM): variation of clustering approach, seller fine-tunes the
marketing effort with information from a detailed customer database
Differentiation and positioning take the customer point of view
- Positioning: how customers think about proposed or present brands in a market
o Leads to physical changes or image changes based on promotion
o Perceptual mapping: graphs for positioning decisions based on customer perceptions
o May lead a firm to combining if managers think they can make several general appeals to
different parts of a combined market

Lecture 2: Consumer Behavior

- Consumer decision making process: need recognition information search evaluation of
alternatives purchase decision postpurchase behavior
- Need recognition
o Need: discrepancy between actual state and ideal state
Can be utilitarian and psychological
Marketing can influence need recognition
o Basic needs: esteem, control, belonging, meaningfulness
Control: jeep example, 90% of sport-related utility vehicles never even go off the
road so why do we buy them
- Information search
o Internal search: consideration (evoked) set, own long term memory
o External search: interpersonal and word of mouth
o Influenced by motivation
- Evaluation of alternatives
o Influenced by motivation high vs. low effort
o Multi-attribute model: rate importance of each attribute from 1 to 7 and rate each attribute
from -3 to +3. Multiply those two factors and add them together
o Low effort decision making: automatic and resource saving, cognitive
o Heuristics: choice tactics or rules of thumb
Price: price/quality correlation
Habit
Normative: it must be good if everybody is doing it
More is better
- Post-Purchase behavior
o Satisfaction/dissatisfaction: repeat business is the profit center
o Factors that influence satisfaction: performance, quality, value, equity
o Expectations
o Disconfirmation: satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) occurs when there is a discrepancy, either
positive or negative, between our expectations and the products actual performance
Satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) occurs when our expectations are disconfirmed
Sat = f(perceived performance expected performance)

Chapter 4: Focusing Marketing Strategy with Segmentation and Positioning

- Case Study on Nintendo: the key to Nintendos success is from meeting entertainment needs of
different groups of customers, used to operate in the toy market and saw new opportunities in
video games and released the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985. Delivered fun to kids
with Game Boy. Nintendo looked for other customer groups like senior citizens, families and teenage
females came out with the DS and introduced the Wii.
- Strategy planning is a narrowing-down process

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MARKET: group of potential customers with similar needs who are willing to exchange something of
value with sellers offering various goods or services
o Focusing on specific target market is vital
Production oriented managers: describe their markets in terms of the products they sell, ignores
customers and leads to missed opportunities
GENERIC MARKET: market with broadly similar needs and sellers offering various, often diverse,
ways of satisfying those needs (entertainment)
o Quite different product types can compete with each other
o Doesnt include any product type- terms
PRODUCT MARKET: market with very similar needs and sellers offering very close substitute ways
of satisfying those needs (digital camera)
Complete product-market definition: four-part description, refers to people
o What: product type
Goods and/or services that customers want
o To meet what: customer needs
The needs the product type satisfies for the customer
Provide functional benefits, basic needs
Move on to emotional needs later
o For whom: customer types
Final consumer or user of a product type, not intermediaries unless they use the
product in their own business
o Where: geographic area
Where a firm competes or plans to compete
Market definition limits the market in which the firm will compete, sharpens the focus
Generic market does not include product type terms
MARKET SEGMENTATION: two step process of
o Naming broad product-markets
Disaggregating all possible needs into generic markets and broad-product markets
Brainstorming solutions to generic needs
o Segmenting those broad product markets in order to select target markets and develop
suitable marketing mixes
Takes a lot of demographic characteristics to segment the market but you always
begin with customer needs
All customer needs Some generic market One broad product-market Homogenous (narrow)
product-markets either single target market, multiple target markets or combined target markets
Market grid is a visual aid to market segmentation (bicycles)
SEGMENTING: aggregating process clustering people with similar needs into a market segment
MARKET SEGMENT: relatively homogenous group of customers who will respond to a marketing
mix in a similar way
o Different from naming part because we look for similarities rather than differences in needs
Good market segments:
o Homogenous within: as similar as possible with respect to likely responses to marketing
mix variables and segmenting dimensions
o Heterogeneous between: customers in different segments should be as different as possible
with respect to their likely responses to marketing mix variables and segmenting
dimensions
o Substantial: big enough to be profitable
o Operational: segmenting decisions should be useful for identifying customers and deciding
on marketing mix variables, leads marketers to include demographic dimensions
Market-oriented strategies in broad product market
o Single target market approach (segmenters)
o Multiple target market approach: treat each as separate target market needing a different
marketing mix (segmenters)
o Combined target market approach: combining two or more submarkets into one larger
target market and aiming at them with the same marketing mix (combiners)

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Oral healthcare market: Orajel targets parents of toddlers, Sensodyne targets sensitive teeth and
Crest targets adults with many oral concerns
COMBINERS: try to increase the size of their target markets by combining two or more segments;
look for similarities between submarkets rather than just differences; helps achieve economies of
scale
o Harder to develop marketing mixes that best satisfy potential customers
o ATI lost business to Nvidia because they focused on needs of video game lovers and chips
that did fewer things
SEGMENTERS: aim at one or more homogenous segments and try to develop a different marketing
mix for each segment; possible to provide superior value
o Hope to increase sales by getting larger share of business in markets they target; can charge
a price premium
o Aerin desk chair by HM with good support and good looks
o Safer to be a segmenter
o Kaepe: sneaker sales plummeted because of competition so they catered to the needs of
cheerleaders
Profit is the balancing point and determines how unique a marketing mix the firm can afford to offer
to a particular group
Segmenting dimensions:
o Behavioral: needs, benefits, thoughts, rate of use, purchase relationship, brand familiarity,
kind of shopping, information required
o Geographic: region, city size
o Demographic: income, sex, age, family size, family life cycle, occupation, education, ethnicity,
social class
QUALIFYING DIMENSIONS: those relevant to including a customer type in a product-market. help
identify core benefits that must be offered
DETERMINING DIMENSIONS: those that actually affect the customers purchase of a specific product
or brand in a product market
CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES: try to find similar patterns within sets of data, uses computers, groups
customers who are similar on segmenting dimensions
CDW: wholesaler of computer gear that targets small business customers and atypical marketing mix,
each have account manager
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM): seller fine-tunes the marketing effort with
information from a detailed customer database
o Amazon recommends related books when you buy one
By differentiating the marketing mix to do a better job meeting customers needs, the firm builds a
competitive advantage
POSITIONING: how customers think about proposed or present brands in a market
o More important when competitors are very similar
o Physical changes in product or image changes based on promotion
o Perceptual mapping (bars of soap deodorant vs. moisturizing what about germs? Dial
captures that element)
o May lead to a firm combining rather than segmenting if managers think they can make
several general appeals to different parts of a combined market



Chapter 5: Final Consumers and their Buying Behavior

- Case Study on Apple: Apple offered innovative marketing mix that addressed the needs of target
customers (online iTunes store, stylish iPod, different styles, iPhone)
- ECONOMIC BUYERS: people who know all the facts and logically compare choices to get the greatest
satisfaction from spending their time and money economists assume consumers are economic
o Economic-Buyer Theory: consumers decide what to buy based on economic needs and
economic value
Simplistic

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ECONOMIC NEEDS: making the best use of a consumers time and money
o Economy of purchase or use
o Efficiency in operation or use
o Dependability in use
o Improvement of earnings
o Convenience
Other person making decision:
o Psychological variables
o Economic needs
o Social influences
o Purchase situation
Income affects needs
o Median income: $61,355
o Americas middle-income consumers have been hit hard by the rising cost of necessities
o Purchase of luxuries comes from discretionary income
o DISCRETIONARY INCOME: what is left after taxes and necessities, elusive concept because
it varies between families
NEEDS: basic forces that motivate a person to do something
WANTS: needs learned during a persons life
DRIVE: strong stimulus that encourages action to reduce a need; internal
o In marketing, product purchase results from drive to satisfy some need
Maslows Five Level Hierarchy of Needs
Four-Level Hierarchy of Needs for Consumer Behavior
o Physiological: lowest level, concerned with biological needs like food, liquid, rest and sex
o Safety: protection and physical well being
o Social: love, friendship, status, esteem
o Personal: individual need for personal satisfaction
Motivation theory: we never reach a state of complete satisfaction target marketing at affluent
customers in advanced economies because they focus on higher-level needs
OXO utensils meet a variety of needs
PERCEPTION: how we gather and interpret information from the world around uswhy consumers
select varying ways to meet their needs
o Selective exposure: our eyes and minds seek out and notice information that interests us
(close pop-ups on computer)
o Selective perception: we screen out or modify ideas that conflict with previously learned
attitudes and beliefs
o Selective retention: we remember what we want to
o only notice a Goodyear newspaper ad when we need new tires
LEARNING: change in a persons thought processes caused by prior experience almost all
consumer behavior is learned. Can also be caused by indirect experience and associations.
Learning process:
o CUES: products, signs and stimuli in the environment that lead individual to have a specific
response
o RESPONSE: effort to satisfy a drive depending on cues and past experiences
o REINFORCEMENT: response is followed by satisfaction or reduction in the drive
o Repeated reinforcement leads to development of a habit
Ex. A person is thirsty. They see a mountain dew ad which could be a cue to the response buying
mountain dew. If the drink is satisfactory, positive reinforcement occurs and person may satisfy
drive in the same way next time.
Positive cues like appealing to the opposite sex or new car smell can help a marketing mix
Many needs are culturally or socially learned
ATTITUDE: persons point of view toward something
BELIEFS: not action-oriented, persons opinion about something, does not necessarily involve liking
or disliking
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More economical to work with consumer attitudes than to try and change them; changing negative
attitudes is most difficult job marketers face
Spaniards had an opinion that yogurt could either be healthy or taste good so Dannon started the
Actimel challenge
EXPECTATION: attitudes and beliefs combine to form an expectation an outcome or event that a
person anticipates
o Often focus on value that comes from a firms marketing mix
o Consumer is likely to be dissatisfied if his or her expectations are not met
Managers have not found a way to use personality in marketing-strategy planning
PYSCHOGRAPHICS/Lifestyle Analysis: analysis of a persons day-to-day pattern of living as
expressed in that persons AIOs (activities, interests and opinions)
VALS: service using psychographics to show where customers live and why they behave as they do
Family life cycle influences needs
o Singles and young couples are more willing to try new brands
o Durable goods for younger families
o Teens are a huge target for spending
o Empty-nesters have high-income, travel, etc.
Most marketers targeted the wife as the family purchasing agent
SOCIAL CLASS: group of people who have approximately equal social position as viewed by others in
society general relationship between income and social class in the U.S.
o Far less rigid than other countries
o Based on occupation, income, housing location
o America is middle-class society
REFERENCE GROUP: people to whom an individual looks when forming attitudes about a particular
topic
OPINION LEADER: person who influences others
CULTURE: whole set of beliefs, attitudes and ways of doing things of a reasonably homogenous set
of people
o Religious, ethnic and regional subcultures
o Pepto-Bismol in China: insulted Chinese people by accidentally saying Chinese delicacies
were nauseating
o 1/5 families is bilingual
o Variability among the black market mistake to treat all consumers in an ethnic group as
homogenous
o Hispanics are fasting growing ethnic group in the U.S.
o Asian-Americans have highest median family income
o Increasing buying power of ethnic submarkets
Individuals are affected by the purchase situation
o Time: how much do you have available, urgency of need
o Surroundings: excitement of auction vs. long lines
Consumer decision process
o Consumer becomes aware of unmet need
o How do I best meet that need?
o How they solve the problem depends on the situation:
Search for information
Identify alternatives
Evaluate one or more that might meet their need
Three levels of problem solving:
o Extensive problem solving: put in a lot of effort in deciding how to satisfy a particular
need
o Limited problem solving: some effort is required, a little previous experience with the
product
o Routined response behavior: he or she regularly selects a particular item, know how to
best meet the need
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Research shows that consumers show more dissatisfaction with products than about being satisfied
ADOPTION PROCESS: steps individuals go through on the way to accepting or rejecting a new idea
o Awareness the potential customer comes to know about the product bit lacks details. The
consumer may no even know how it works or what it will do
o Interest if the consumer becomes interested, he or she will gather general information and
facts about the product.
o Evaluation a consumer begins to give the product a mental trial, applying it to his or her
person situation.
o Trial the consumer may buy the product to experiment with it in use. A product that is
either too expensive to try or isnt available for trial, may never be adopted.
o Decision the consumer decides on either adoption or rejection, according to learning,
reinforcement leads to adoption.
o Confirmation the consumer continues to rethink the decision and looks for support (aka
further reinforcement.)

Chapter 6: Business and Organizational Customers and Their Buying Behavior

- Case Study on MetoKote Corp/John Deere: protective coating applications for equipment, MetoKote
has closer relationship with Deere, built some facilities right next to plants, innovative approaches to
delivering customer value like OneSource for golf courses
- BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONL CUSTOMERS: buy for resale or to produce other goods and
services
o Producers of goods and services: manufacturers, farmers, hotels
o Intermediaries: wholesalers, retailers
o Government units
o Nonprofits
- B2B market: business-to-business market organizational customers
- Organizations make purchases to satisfy needs, buy goods that will help them meet the demand for
the goods or services they in turn supply to their markets
o Focus on economic factors: total cost of selecting a supplier and its marketing mix,
dependability, reliability
- PURCHASING SPECIFICATIONS: written description of what the firm wants to buy, services tend to
be more detailed
- ISO 9000: way for supplier to document its quality procedures according to internationally
recognized standards so that customer does not have to conduct a time consuming and costly audit
- PURCHASING MANAGERS: buying specialists for their employers; real experts who specialize in
product areas
- MULTIPLE BUYING INFLUENCE: several people play a part in making a purchase decision including
users, influencers, buyers, deciders, and gatekeepers (people who control the flow of information)
- BUYING CENTER: all the people who participate in or influence a purchase
- VENDOR ANALYSIS: formal rating of suppliers on all relevant areas of performance helps with
purchasing decisions; lower the TOTAL costs associated with purchases
o Economic factors
o Behavioral needs
- A sellers marketing mix should satisfy both the needs of the customer company as well as the needs
of the individual who influences the purchasing decision
- Centralized buying: purchasing work done at a central location so sales rep can sell to facilities all
over the country
- REQUISITION: request to buy something
- Some firms use spend management systems to track every single purchase and can lead to cost-
cutting opportunities
- Three kinds of buying processes:
o New-task buying: organization has a new need and customer wants a great deal of
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o Modified rebuy: in-between process where some review of buying situation is done
Increased attention on global warming and the environment; sustainability identifies savings that
were previously not obvious; be guided by what customers want
Most purchasing managers start with an internet search and online marketplaces
COMPETITIVE BID: terms of sale offered by the supplier in response to the purchase specifications
posted by a buyer; buyers will ask suppliers to submit competitive bids; buyer will select low-price
bid that meets specifications
o Sometimes buyers just invite whatever supplier to submit a bid
o Reverse auctions foster price competition among sellers because all potential bidders can
see the bids
Many firms are reducing the number of suppliers they work with and just expanding the services that
one supplier supplies
Closer relationships are not always the best
o May reduce flexibility
o Avoid all or nothing relationships
Cooperative relationships: buyer and seller work together to achieve mutual and individual
objectives problems are joint responsibility
Operational linkages: direct ties between the internal operations of the buyer and seller firms that
involve coordinate of activities
JUST-IN-TIME DELIVERY: provided a customer with inventory when it is needed, right before the
customer needs it
NEGOTIATED CONTRACT BUYING: agreeing to contracts that allow for changes in purchase
agreements
Industrial suppliers often customize a product for just one customer which may require investments
in R&D or new technologies
OUTSOURCE: contract with an outside firm to produce goods or services rather than produce them
internally, cut costs
Powerful customers may control the relationship
Manufacturers are important customers
o There are not many big manufacturers
o Certain geographic areas
o About 3% of manufacturing plants produce 60% of value added
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Codes: groups of firms in similar lines of
business; helps find similar companies that need the same goods and services
Most service firms are small and more spread out around the country, rely on e-commerce for their
purchases but they can add up
Retail and wholesale buyers are purchasing agents for their target customers
o Computerized inventory replenishment systems
o Buying committee: decisions to add or drop lines
o Reorders are straight rebuys
o Some are not open to buy buyers have budgeted funds that can be spent during the
current period
o Resident buyers: independent buying agents who work in central markets for retailers and
wholesale customers in other countries
The government market
o Largest customer group in many countries (30% of GDP)
o Expected to spend money wisely
o Negotiated contracts are common
o Purchases are subject to public review
o Write precise and complete specifications so buyers that dont match what is needed can not
submit a bid
o Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (1977): prohibits U.S. firms from paying bribes to foreign
officials

Lecture 3: STP

- Market segmentation: identifying bases for segmenting the market; develop segment profiles
- Target marketing: develop measure of segment attractiveness; select target segments
- Market positioning: develop positioning for target segments; develop a marketing mix for each
segment
- Mass marketing: same product and marketing mix for everyone; efficient
o Highway example and the Holiday Inn: created chain of hotels that span the whole country;
most comfortable hotel room for most people
o Vs. Marriot and segmentation courtyard Marriot was designed for businesspeople who are
on the road and need space to work
- Segmentation: process of dividing markets into distinct subsets of consumers with common needs
and characteristics
o Select one or more segments to target and position with unique mix
o Allows companies to expand markets
o Allows new companies to find niches
o Identify specific wants and needs of groups and consumers
o Reposition existing products
o Determine appropriate media
- Conjoint analysis: analyzes how customers make trade-offs
- Segmentation variables:
o Geographic: region, city size, density, climate, zip code
o Demographic: age, cohort, marital status
o Psychological: needs, motivations, personality, perception, learning
o Psychographic: lifestyle traits
o Sociocultural: subculture, religion, social class, family lifecycle
o Use related: usage rate, brand loyalty, awareness
o Use situation: time, objective, person
o Benefit
o Hybrid: geo-demographic, demographic/psychographic
o Campbells soup segments markets by geographic regions because certain soups are much
bigger sellers in certain reasons; also peanut butter Skippy is on the coasts and Jif in the
Midwest
- Criteria for good segments
o Homogeneous within
o Heterogeneous between (differentiable)
o Substantial
o Operational (measurable, accessible, actionable)
o Stable
- Methods
o Cluster analysis
Max (between group variance/within group variance)
Choose the centers of clusters randomly and allocate each point to its nearest
center; choose centers again as the centroids of the clusters from iteration 1; choose
centers again and keep allocation; analysis is complete when nothing changes


Factor analysis: things measure same underlying construct and categorize them:
comfort/luxury vs. fun/sporty
o Art and opinion
Claritas PRIZM NE system: geo-demographical segmentation, consulting firm with proprietary
clustering scheme, 66 meaningful consumer segments in the U.S.
SBI VALS (Values and Lifestyle System): psychographic-demographic, 39 questions, 8 groups based
on value and lifestyle
Customer Relationship Management
o Micro segmentation: moving towards a segment of one
o Creating and maintaining a relationship with an individual customer to build lifetime value
o Identify, differentiate, interact, customize
o CRM systems: Harrahs, Amazon personalized pages for you
Targeting
o Segment size, growth, value, stability
o Company position within segment
Ease of entry
Ability to reach and serve segment
o Competitors
Number and strength
Ease of entry
o Product life cycle
Positioning: influences how a particular segment perceives an offering in comparison to the
competition
o Using the marketing mix
o Positioning statement
To (target segment and need), our (brand) is the (concept) that (point to differences
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Lecture 4: Marketing Research

- Process:
o Define the problem
o Analyze the situation
o Get problem specific-data
o Interpret data
o Solve the problem
- Research criteria
o Current: changing w/ environment
o Valid:
Internal: cause/effect; are we measuring what we intend to measure?
External: extent to which we can generalize findings
o Reliable: effect is consistent or replicable test/retest
Surveys intentionally ask the same question in 5 different ways
o Representative: of the segment, target population, etc.
- Two broad uses of marketing research
o Diagnostic analysis: How do customers perceive our offerings? How do these perceptions
explain current performance? How did we get to where we are?
o Opportunity analysis: Does the market present unexploited opportunities for growth? How
do we exploit those opportunities? Forward-looking
- Diagnostic Protocol: Why is this great product not selling?
o Availability?
Inappropriate distribution channels
Insufficient production
o Awareness?
Insufficient absolute advertising
Insufficient relative advertising
o Perceptions?
Poor performance on secondary attributes
Poor advertising positioning (creative design)
o History?
Poor past history drags on current sales
o Competition?
Performance of your product is always relative to competitors moves
ex. Even though safety is the most important, airlines dont advertise it because
everybody is tied for first so they have to find other areas to differentiate
themselves
- Identifying opportunities
o Typical applications
Re-positioning an underperforming brand
Introducing a new brand
o Need to see through eyes of the customer
Direct elicitation: directly asking customer what they want
Surveys Likert Scales
Indirect elicitation: observation, conjoint analysis sometimes customers dont
know what they want or wont tell you
- Perceptual maps
o Plot data from semantic scales for each attribute (Likert)
o Visual representation of:
Perceived position of competitive products on pairs of dimensions
Perceived position of ideal products on pairs of dimensions

H&M and Zara have moved into the fashion forward/low cost area of the perceptual map;
hard area to operate because fewer high-fashion items sell very well; these two just copy the
high-fashion successes very quickly
o Easy way to spot opportunities and niches that are not currently served in the market
Worlds favorite paintings survey problems
o Customer may not precisely know what they really like in art
o Customer may be reluctant or unable to reveal requirements, especially when:
Infrequently made decisions
Lack of awareness of attribute variation
Sensitive soft attributes
New attributes/technologies
o Cross-customer differences (heterogeneity)
o Dimensions are not independent of one another
o Ideal offering may not be a sum of the parts (George Washington + animals + water)
Conjoint Analysis
o Infers (via indirect elicitation) the relative importance of product features and how objective
values of products relate to their desired values by analyzing how consumers evaluate an
experimental array of hypothetical product profiles
o Uncover what is driving decisions and tradeoffs
o Steps:
Define a set of attributes, levels
Construct set of hypothetical products
Have members of relevant population evaluate them
Calculate part-worth utilities statistical inferences about the importance of a
particular variable
Conduct what if studies, segmentations studies, price sensitivity, etc.
o Look for spikes, peaks and altitudes
o Most widely used pre-launch product design and forecasting tool
o Used for: Courtyard Marriot design, Ravens logo, E-Z pass design and pricing, etc.
Implicit theory of sales performance
o Share of Market = Share of Awareness x Share of Preference x Share of Distribution
usually a glaring deficiency in one of these
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Chapter 7
IMPROVING DECISIONS WITH MARKETING INFORMATION
to make marketing decisions
market research: procedures that develop and analyze new information about a market
MIS marketing information systems radically changed by technology: organized way of
continually gathering, accessing, and analyzing information that marketing managers need
to make ongoing decisions.

important to have a continual flow of information and not wait until you have an
important question you cant answer
intranet linked computers within a company
data warehouse readily available, a place where databases are stored so that they are
available when needed
decision support system get info as decisions are being made real time: a computer
program that makes it easy for a marketing manager to get and use information as he or
she is making decision.

involves some sort of search engine: computer program that helps a marketing
manager find information that is needed.
makes data useful i.e graphs, search engine
marketing dashboard real time data: displays up to the minute marketing data in
an easy-to-read format. Usually customized to a managers area of expertise
marketing model statement of relationships among marketing variables, helps
select marketing mix

MIS used to collect sales analysis: a detailed breakdown of a companys sales records
steps for marketing research: guided by scientific methods (focused on being objective and orderly
and testing before accepting ideas
define problem hardest step
analyze situation( primary and secondary data already published )
get problem-specific data
interpret data
solve problem
Step 1: Defining the problem: dont confuse the problem with the symptom
Step 2: Analyzing the Situation:

-situation analysis: an information study of what information is already available in the
problem area. Will help you find relevant secondary data (information that has been collected or
published already) vs primary data gathered in step three (information specifically collected to solve
a current problem)
primary data sources observation/questioning: surveys, focus groups, using equipment for
observation
secondary data sources inside company/outside company
research proposal to determine what will be researched: plan that specifies what will be
researched and how.
marketing research reduces uncertainty
Step 3: Gather Problem Specific Data:
qualitative research seeks in-depth, open ended responses, not yet or no answers. Get people to
share their thoughts on a topic without giving them many directions or guidelines about what to say
focus groups focus group interview hard to measure objectively: goal = get group reaction,
get group talking
can provide good idea and hypothesis, but isnt the most representative sample or the most
objective measure
quantitative research when researchers use identical questions and response alternatives they can
summarize the information quantitatively: helps do research, statistics and data: come in many forms
and speed answering and analysis
Response rate: the percentage of people contacted who complete the questionnaire
mail/online(low response rate)
telephone quick but people hate telemarketers
personal interview $$ but more personal
focus group, observation, -- focuses on a well defined problem
Nielsen media research device that measures what people are watching on TV
consumer panels consumers who regularly provide data
used to test hypotheses

experimental method researchers compare response of two or more groups that are similar except
on characteristic being tested
test-marketing try stuff out on a few groups of people
sometimes disrupted by promotions
subscription
managers subscribe to data collection websites
Step 4: Interpret the Data:
statistical packages easy to use computer programs that analyze data
cross tabulation shows relationship of answers to two different questions: example: having
internet vs. income
test a sample of a population must be representative
confidence intervals range on either side of an estimate that is likely to contain the true value
for the whole population

validity make sure research data really measures what you are looking for
sometimes people don't know what they're talking about
poor wording of questions
data must support the conclusions drawn
solution managers apply data new or changed marketing mix
international marketing research
language barrier/culture misunderstandings
out of date information
data collection methods
receptivity/willingness to participate
standardization of practices
research criteria
current up to date, factor in changes
valid
internal and external
internal
control, how sure we are that we are measuring what we're supposed to lurking
variables
external
we can be sure that it is realistic, can be applied
comparable context
reliable replicable, consistent
representative
represents the population that we are trying to generalize to
sample the population of the broader target
experimental method
compare responses of 2 or more groups that are the same except for one characteristic
test marketing try out on small group
test samples of population
be wary of validity and make sure data supports conclusion, confidence interval(range that true
value may lie within)
statistical packages analyze date and relationships
cross tabulation
international market research is difficult but important
Lecture 5: Brand

- Great brands that have been named Brand of the Year: Apple, Google, Target, Starbucks
- Brand Equity: what the brand is worth to the firm
o Interbrand brand equity rankings
Coke is the most valuable brand at $70.5B
o Calculate equity using price premium weighted by growth
o Tangible assets as % of all assets for non-financial business is now 55% as compared to 80%
in 1950
o Since 2011, growth of Top 100 brands exceeded growth of advanced economy GDP by 35%
o Strong brands have higher market share, higher prices and higher margins
o Positive difference in willingness to pay, satisfaction, loyalty
- The Power of the Brand
o Identified vs. Blind Taste Tests
Beer: people willing to pay double for preferred beer even though they taste the
same
Peanut Butter: people rate their preferred brand highest on all dimensions;
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fMRI studies: monitor brain activity during particular exercises
When loyalists received preferred brand (Coke/Pepsi) there was a psychological
reaction and therefore, the person experiences their loyal brand at a higher level
through the emotional centers in the brain
iPhones demonstrate the same brain patterns as love

Image
o Dimensions of Meaning quick associations with the brand
o Brand meaning maps
Differentiation Value (factors that are important to the customer)
- Operational Excellence (low price):
o Key strengths: efficiences, low prices
(WalMart, Southwest Arilines)
o Weaknesses: selection, customization,
innovation
- Relational/Intimacy (Customer Service)
o Strengths: customer responsiveness,
unique
o Weaknesses: fewer customers, higher
prices (AmEx, Ritz Carlton)
o Performance Superiority (high quality):
Strengths: product is actually better, new, best, cutting edge
Weaknesses: high price, less customer responsiveness (Nike, Apple)
o People seek out price, service and quality
You cant be all three in one package
Best brands are superior to other brands on a single dimension but have parity on
the others and occupy a unique space with their triangle
Differentiation
o Positioning statement describing the value proposition to the target segment
Target (for whom)
Point of differentiation (reason to buy)
Frame of reference (points of parity)
o Positioning is accomplished through the marketing mix 4 Ps
o Focuses on key benefits (value proposition) that are defensible
Brand relationship
o Awareness Associations Relationship
o Emotional connections: contract, loyalty, trust
Brand Personality
o Beyond brand image
o Describes a brand as if it were a person (Mac vs. PC commercial)
o Five Personality dimensions
Sincerity
Excitement
Competence
Sophistication
Ruggedness
o Whirlpool: attractive suburban woman (cheerful, quiet, creative, modern, gentle)
o KitchenAid: fashionable career woman (smart, aggressive, glamorous, wealthy, elegant)
o Traits change from country to country
In Spain, passion replaces competence and peacefulness replaces ruggedness
In Japan, peacefulness replaced ruggedness
In China, there is excitement, competence, sophistication, traditionalism, joyfulness
and trendiness (6 dimensions)
Brand inferences

Schema: organized set of information/cognitions that provide us with an efficient way of


organizing new information
o Brand Extension: Arm & Hammer oral care, pet care, fabric care baking soda is fresh,
clean and deodorizing
- Brand Name
o Four easy tests: say, spell, read, remember
o Four fit tests: target market, benefits, culture, legal
o Inferences
- Packaging: brand value, experience, driver of sales increases (Coke)
o Packaging innovation is a huge growth area

Chapter 8: Elements of Product Planning for Goods and Services

- What is a product?
o Companies are selling satisfaction, the benefit the customer wants
o Product: need-satisfying offering of a firm; thought about in terms of the total satisfaction it
provides
o Elements of Product Planning for goods and services
Product ideas
Product classes
Branding
Packaging
Warranty
o Quality: products ability to satisfy a customers needs or requirements
A product with better features isnt higher quality if it wasnt what the customer
wants
- Differences in goods and services
o Good: tangible item; physical thing that can be seen and touched
Produced before sold
o Service: deed performed by one party for another; experienced, used or consumed;
intangible
Produced and consumed in the same time frame
Perishable; cant be stored
Often produced in presence of customer
o Many products are a combination of tangible and intangible elements
- Whole product lines must be developed
o Product assortment: set of all product lines and individual products that a firm sells
o Product line: set of individual products that are closely related
o Individual product: particular product within a product line that is differentiated on some
element
- Product classes help plan marketing strategies
o Product classes start with a type of consumer
Consumer products: products meant for the final consumer
CP Classes are based on how consumers think about and shop for products
o Convenience products a consumer needs but isnt willing to
spend much time shopping for. (Staples, impulse, emergency)
o Shopping products worth the time and effort to compare with
competing products (homogeneous (price main issue)
heterogeneous different characteristics)
o Specialty products a consumer really wants and makes a special
effort to find,
o Unsought products that potential customers dont yet want or
know they can buy. New unsought = offering really new ideas that
potential customers dont know about yet, regularly unsought =
products that stay unsought, but dont remain unbought forever.
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Business products: products meant for use in producing other products. Relate to
how and why business firms make purchases: helps in strategy planning
BP classes are based on how buyers think about products and how they will
be used
Expense item: a product whose total cost is treated as a business expense
in the year that its purchased.
Capital item: a long-lasting product that can be used and depreciated for
many years.
o Installations: ex. buildings, land rights, major equipment =
important capital items
o Accessories = short lived capital items
o Raw Materials = unprocessed expense items moved to the next
production process with little handling.
o =components-are processed expense items that become part of the
finished product
o =supplies = expense items that do not become part of the finished
product
o =professional services specialized services that support a firms
operations
Derived demand: demand for business products derived from the demand for final
consumer products
Consumer product classes
o Convenience products: consumer needs but isnt willing to spend a lot of time or effort
shopping for
Staples: products bought often and routinely without much thought
Impulse products: products bought quickly as unplanned purchases because of a
strongly felt need for them
Emergency products: purchased immediately when the need is great
o Shopping products: products consumer feels are worth the time and effort to compare
with competing products
Homogeneous: shopping products consumer sees as basically the same and wants
the lowest price
Heterogeneous: consumer sees as different and wants to inspect for quality and
sustainability memberships at a gym
Branding may be less important
o Specialty products: consumer products that the customer really wants and makes a special
effort to find
Willingness to search
Any branded product that consumers insist on by name
o Unsought products: products that potential customers dont yet want or know they can buy
New unsought products: offer new ideas that potential customers dont know about
yet
Regularly unsought products: products that stay unsought but not unbought
forever
Business product classes: based on how buyers think about products
o Installations: buildings, land rights, major equipment
Capital items: long-lasting product that can be used and depreciated for many
years
Boom or bust business
Suppliers sometimes include special services with an installation at no extra cost
o Accessories: short-lived capital items tools and equipment used in production
o Raw materials: unprocessed goods that become part of a physical good; expense items
Expense item: total cost is treated as a business expense in the year it is purchased
Two types of raw materials:
Farm products

Natural products
Components: processed expense items that become part of a finished product
Ready for assembly into the final product
Wire, plastic, textiles
o Supplies: expense items that do not become part of a finished product
Maintenance
Repair
Operating supplies
o Professional services: specialized services that support a firms operations; generally
expense items
What is branding?
o Branding: use of a name, term, symbol, or design or a combination of these to identify the
product
Brand name: world, letter or group of words or letters
Trademark: legal term; includes only those words, symbols or letters that are
legally registered for use by a single company
Service mark: trademark for services
o Good brands reduce selling time and effort for the marketer
Conditions favorable to successful branding
o Product is easy to label and identify by brand or trademark
o Product quality is easy to maintain; best value for the price
o Dependable and widespread availability
o Strong demand so market price can be high
o Economies of scale
o Favorable shelf locations
Achieving brand familiarity is not easy
o Brand familiarity: how well customers recognize and accept a company brand
Brand rejection: wont buy a brand unless image is changed
Brand nonrecognition: final customers dont recognize it
Brand recognition: customers remember the brand
Brand preference: target customers choose a particular brand
Brand insistence: customers insist on a firms branded product
Differentiation by design: companies are finding they can gain a competitive advantage by having
designers involved in basic decisions about product features and functions
Good brand name
o Short and simple
o Easy to spell
o Easy to remember
o Easy to pronounce in all languages
o Suggestive of product benefits
o Adaptable to packaging
o No undesirable imagery
o Timely
o Legally available for use
Brand equity: value of a brand to its current owner or to a firm value of a brands overall strength
in the market
Protecting brand names and trademarks
o Lanham Act (1946): spells out what kind of marks can be protected and the exact method of
protecting them; does not force registration
o Brand name becomes public property when it becomes a common descriptive term for its
product type (aspirin, Kleenex)
What kinds of brands to use
o Family brand: same brand for several products
Licensed brand: well-know brand that sellers pay a fee to use
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o Generic products: products that have no brand at all other than identification of their
contents and the manufacturer lower prices
Who should do the branding?
o Manufacturer brands: created by producers, national brands (Nabisco, IBM, Campbells,
McDonalds)
o Dealer brands/private: created by middlemen (Wal-Mart, Radio Shack) advantage is that
product is already presold to some target customers
o Battle of the brands: competition between dealer brands and manufacturer brands
Strategic importance of packaging
o Packaging: involves promotion, protecting and enhancing the product
o New packaging can enhance the product
o Better protective strategy is important to manufacturers and wholesalers
Socially Responsible Packaging
o Federal Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (1966): consumer goods must be labeled in easy-
to-understand terms to give consumers more information
o Many ethical decisions still remain
Warranty policies are part of strategy planning
o Warranty: explains what the seller promises about its product
o Magnuson-Moss Act (1975): producers must provide a clearly written warranty if they
choose to offer any warranty (full vs. limited)
o Warranty may improve the marketing mix
o Service guarantees are a way to attract and keep customers; risky
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Lecture 6: Place Channels and Distribution

- Distributors reduce the number of contacts a manufacturer needs to distribute their products
- What is a channel?
o Channel: path that enables products/services to flow from producers to end users
Intermediaries: organizations/partners
Functions: activities
o Value delivery network: company, suppliers, distributors and customers partner to
improve performance of entire system
- Channel functions and value
o Transactional functions: buying, selling, risk-taking
o Logistical functions: transporting, storing, sorting breaking bulk and creating assortments
o Facilitating functions: financing, information/research, promoting, inspecting/testing
- Consumer marketing channels: producer wholesaler retailers consumer
- Business marketing channels: producer manufacturers representatives of sales branch
business distributor business customer
- Intermediaries
o Agent/broker: negotiates sales without taking title to the goods, generally paid by
commission or fees
o Wholesaler: takes title to the goods and resells them
o Retailer: sells to end user
o Facilitating agency: moves the goods (no title, no negotiating) postal service, railroad,
storage warehouse, payment processors
- Density of coverage
o Intensive: distribution through every reasonable outlet in a market
High coverage
Convenient for end customers
High conflict potential
o Selective: distribution through multiple, but not all, reasonable outlets in a market

Resellers compete to carry our product


Less reseller loyalty
o Exclusive: distribution through a single wholesaling middleman and/or retailer in a market
High influence of reseller marketing activities
High margins throughout the channel
Stable level of distribution
Less competition at point of sale
Disintermediation
o Move towards direct to consumer marketing
o Hybrid systems
o E-Commerce
o Channel conflict
Integration:
o Vertical: combines successive stages of production and distribution under single
ownership
Corporate VMS
Luxottica: lenses, frames, Ray-Ban, Armani, LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, etc.
Zara
o Administered VMS
Detroit Model: tightly clustered and controlled suppliers
Trends
o Trend toward more effective markets and marketing channels through the endless quest for
different structural advantages
o Growth of direct marketing
o Major downstream power shifts in the channel (from producers and wholesalers to
retailers to customers)
o Much greater degree of sophistication in order fulfillment and customer tracking
o More companies using hybrid systems to reach different consumers through distinct
marketing channels
IKEA Furniture
o Successful, Swedish low-price, warehouse showroom retailer
o Traditional retailers boycotted IKEAs suppliers so IKEA partnered with small suppliers
o IKEA became a design and consulting firm and is now a multinational retailers of stylish,
but affordable, knockdown furniture
Li & Fung
o Est 1906 Trading and Exporting
o Sourcing
o $10B in revenue
o 1000 customers, 10,000 suppliers, 70 offices in 40 countries
o Flat world philosophy own nothing
Moving up the value chain
Just in time coordination
o The Soft $3
Factor Cost of Production = $1
US Consumer Price Paid = $4
The soft $3 provide value-added services move downstream
Licensing recognized brands; private label; proprietary brands


Chapter 10: Place and Development of Channel Systems

- Dell used UPS to ship directly to customers and prices were low because it eliminated retailer
markup; superior service; direct-sales force; direct-order approach of distribution
- Marketing planning decisions for place
o Place: making goods and service available in the right quantities and locations, when
customers want them

Channel of distribution: any series of firms or individuals who participate in the flow of
products to the final user or consumer
Place decisions are guided by ideal place objectives
o Place and development of channel systems
Place objectives: product class, life cycle
Direct vs. indirect: differences between, when to use
Channel specialist: discrepancies and assortments, regrouping
Channel relationships: vertical marketing systems
Market exposure: intensive, selective, exclusive
o Product classes suggest place objectives
Product classes: summarize consumers urgency to have needs satisfied and their
willingness to seek information, shop and compare
Help us decide how much market exposure is needed in each geographic area
o Place system is not automatic several different product classes may be involved requiring
different strategies
o Place decisions have long-run effects
Harder to change than the other 4 Ps
Hard to develop effective working relationships with others in the channel
Ex. Procter & Gamble acquired Iams and needed more distribution for premium pet
food. Science Diet has cooperative relationships with members of their channel so
P&G gives them special promotion support
Channel system may be direct or indirect
o Direct distribution: allows firm to control the whole marketing job; think they can serve
customer at lower cost or do the work better; middlemen work with many products and
possibly competitors
o Internet makes direct distribution easier
o If a firm is in direct contact with customers, they are more aware of changes in attitudes
o Suitable middlemen are not available: firm may have to go direct
o Many business products are sold direct-to-customer
Fewer transactions, larger orders
Service firms often use direct channels as well
o Most consumer products are sold through intermediaries
o Direct marketing: direct communication between a seller and an individual customer using
a promotion method other than face-to-face personal selling
Not the same as direct distribution
Concerned with the promotion area, not place
o When indirect channels are best:
Sometimes customers have established buying patterns
Consumers are spread throughout many geographic areas and prefer to shop for
different products and different places
Direct distribution requires significant investments in facilities, people and
information technology
Middlemen reduce a producers need for working capital by buying the producers
output and carrying it in inventory until its sold
Some middlemen provide credit to customers at the end of the channel can reduce
credit risks
Intermediary can help producers serve customer needs better at lower cost
Channel specialists may reduce discrepancies and separations
o Middlemen supply needed information can anticipate customer needs and forecast
demand more accurately
o Discrepancy of quantity: the difference between the quantity of products it is economical
for a producer to make and the quantity final consumers or users normally want
o Discrepancy of assortment: difference between the lines a typical producer makes and the
assortment that final consumers or users want
o Channel specialists adjust discrepancies with regrouping activities
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Regrouping activities: adjust the quantities or assortments of products handled at


each level in a distribution
Four regrouping activities
Accumulating: collecting products from many small producers
o Especially important in less developed countries and agricultural
markets
o Important with professional services
o Internet websites
Bulk-breaking: dividing larger quantities into smaller quantities as
products get closer to the final market
o Several levels of middlemen
Sorting: separating products into grades and qualities desired by different
target markets
Assorting: putting together a variety of products to give a target market
what it wants
o Those closest to final consumer
o Specialists should develop to adjust to discrepancies if they must be adjusted
Channel relationship must be managed
o Marketing manager chooses type of channel relationship: middlemen may make channel
more efficient but its hard to get firms in a channel to work together well
o The whole channel should have a product-market commitment with all members focusing
on the same target market at the end of the channel and sharing the various marketing
functions
o Traditional channel systems: the various channel members make little or no effort to
cooperate with each other; weak relationships besides buying and selling from each other
o Conflict gets in the way
Vertical: between firms at different levels in channel of distribution
Horizontal: firms at the same level in a channel of distribution
Adding new channels creates conflict if they compete with existing middlemen
Treating channel partners fairly builds trust and reduces conflict
o Channel captain can guide channel relationships manager who helps direct the activities
of a whole channel and tries to avoid or resolve channel conflicts
o Some producers lead their channels select the target market, develop the product, set the
price and do some consumer and channel promotion and the place setup middlemen then
finish the promotion job
o Some middlemen are channel captains because they are closer to the final consumer
Vertical marketing focus on final customers
o Vertical marketing systems: channel systems in which the whole channel focuses on the
same target market at the end of the channel
Corporate channel systems: corporate ownership all along the channel, complete
cooperation
May develop vertical integration for stable sources of supplies, better
control of distribution and quality, greater buying power, etc. acquiring
firms of different channel activity
Administered channel systems: channel members informally agree to cooperate
with each other; control maintained by economic power and leadership (GE, Miller
Beer)
Contractual channel systems: channel members agree to cooperate with each
other; members retain some flexibility (McDonalds, Coke)
Traditional channel systems: little to no cooperation and control is maintained by
ownership by one company; independents
Ex. Costco: Vendor managed inventory where the suppliers take responsibility for
managing the sale of a product and place orders when necessary
o Vertical marketing systems are dominant in the marketplace healthy majority of retail
sales

The best channel system should achieve ideal market exposure


o Ideal market exposure: makes a product available widely enough to satisfy target
customers needs but not exceed them
Intensive distribution: selling a product through all responsible and suitable
wholesalers or retailers who will sell the product
Common for convenience products and business supplies
Selective distribution: selling through only those middlemen who will give the
product special attention
Suitable for most categories of products
Reduce costs and get better partners
Used to avoid selling to wholesalers who:
o Make too many returns
o Place orders too small for service calls
o Have a poor credit rating
o Not in a position to do a satisfactory job
Produce greater profits to all channel members
Moves to intensive as the market grows
Exclusive distribution: selling through only one middleman in a particular
geographic area giving up exposure in return for some other advantage like
lower cost; extreme case of selective
Help control prices and services
Vague area under antimonopoly laws
o Horizontal arrangements among competitors are illegal
o Vertical arrangements may or may not be legal
Sylvnia and the distribution of TV sets (1977)
Channel systems can be complex
o Sometimes competition results between different channels
o Multichannel distribution (dual): occurs when a producer uses several competing
channels to reach the same target market like using several middlemen in addition to
selling directly
o Ethical decisions may be required because other members of the channel can be hurt
o Reverse channels: channels used to retrieve products that customers no longer want
part of complete plan for place ones that help the environment can be profitable (Coke
reusing glass bottles)
Entering international markets
o Exporting: selling what the firm produces to foreign markets
o Licensing: selling the right to use some process, trademark, patent or other right for a fee or
royalty; licensee takes most of the risk because requires initial investment to get started
o Management contracting: seller provides only management and marketing skills and
others own production and distribution facilities Hilton low risk approach to
international marketing
o Joint venture: domestic firm enters partnership with foreign firm; make significant
investments and agree on marketing strategy
o Direct investment: parent firm has a division or subsidiary firm in a foreign market so they
have complete control; build reputation by providing jobs


Lecture 7: Retailing

- Retailing facts
o Downstream shift in power (access to large/vast amounts of data)
o Over 3.5T per year in U.S.
o Make money from managing cash flow
o Influences and incorporates every aspect of business
o Consumer spending accounts for over 70% of GDP

o Wal-Mart accounts for 3% of US GDP (Worlds largest company)


Retail industry
o Low barriers to entry how Starbucks got started; good for start-ups
o Replication and scale: Starbucks and Wal-Mart found the key differentiating element and
replicated it
o Cash flow- stock market pressure
Low margins
Use cash flow to grow replicate and grow based on cash flow by carrying no debt
Do well in stocks while still growing
Saturate the markets then stop growing or differentiate
Key Metrics
o Total revenue top line: how many sales there are
o Revenue per square foot
o Gross margin %: generally low but trying to maximize is relevant
o Inventory turn: how quickly you sell items
COGS for year/current inventory = turns per year
Balance between sufficient variety (slower turning items) and stock outs (high turn
rate)
Amazon can handle variety and low turn because cost per square foot where their
warehouses are is super low
Long-tail items sell once or twice a year
Wal-Mart
o 1962 first store in Rogers, AR
o Over 8500 outlets in 15 countries, $404B in revenue and $13.6B in profit
o Sold $1.52B on one day
o #1 in groceries, toys, CDs, pet care, etc.
o Sells 30% of diapers, 30% of hair care, 26% of toothpaste, 20% of dogfood
o 1.7 times bigger than all competitors combined and more data than the government
o Density based segmentation: focused on lower density places where there was largely
local retail crew concentrically around AR (keep distribution costs low, go into places
with low competition)
o Agent for customers reduce the cost of living
o EDLP: Every day low price
other companies are promotional based but wal-Mart keeps everything low all of
the time
o Tight control of distribution channels
Lowest cost structure in the industry
Technologically advanced systems individual ID for a specific unit that identifies
and tracks specific items to minimize holding costs and gather customer data
Pass a lot of savings on to consumers but also use power to get low costs for
themselves
Put many grocery chains out of business
Whole Foods
o Positioning away from Wal-Mart
Smaller, Natural Food Market
Affluent, liberal, educated customers
whole foods, whole people, whole plant
Located in university towns and urban areas
Partner with suppliers, dont beat them down like Wal-Mart Declaration of
Interdependence protect their margin now that WalMart sells organic, they
have a hard time getting suppliers
o Higher prices; higher margins, nearly $900 per sq ft
o Product assortment: private labels brands
365
Why retailers want to be brands

Greater profit opportunity from offering a private label


Unique offering creates differentiation from retail competitors more power due to limited
shelf space
o Increased bargaining clout with national brand suppliers
o Reduction in double marginalization (2-3 suppliers) but only one markup in store
Store brand strategies
o Inferior goods strategy: generics lesser quality at a lower price
No longer the main approach
o Exploit installed base: parity quality at a value price
Me- Toos that mimic the leading national brands at a 30% savings
Most common, growing method
People who want to save money or educated people who realize they are the same
o Private label as differentiator
Exclusive brands offering unique quality as good or better than the category leader
at an affordable price
Proprietary brand
o Differentiator: Trader Joes; not like Me-Too brands
Store Brand Architecture
o Umbrella brands
Store or endorsed brands: where all private labels carry the name of the store;
Trader Joes
Group brands: where all products carry a common non-store name across a wide
variety of products, e.g., Presidents Choice, 365
o Exclusive brands: exclusive, quasi or non-endorsed brands unique private label
dedicated to specific product line or category (Mossimo, Isaac Mizrahi, etc.) Choxie
chocolate offered at target
o Branded variants: Ryobi drill exclusive for Home Depot, Target CDs
Strengths and weaknesses of brands
o Strengths
Creates impression of wide product selection, range
Replacement for second and tertiary brands: get rid of low turning brand and
replace it with your own
Exclusive offering reinforces premium products/services
Allows retailer to offer products less compatible with existing brand equity (upscale
or outside core competence)
o Weaknesses
Consumers do not directly associate brand with store
No existing brand equity or track record of success
Fragmented need to launch several own brands to gain sufficient scale
Ex. Longs Drug Brand Architecture: did both umbrella brand and exclusive brand private labels
Private Labels
o A consistent mark reoccurs throughout the store
o Retailer absorbs all marketing and inventory investment
o Distribution and good shelf placement is guaranteed
o Private labels get 100% pass-through, few arbitrage possibilities
o Adds a competitive edge to the traditional buyer-seller relationship
Traditional model: brands outsource distribution to retailers and retailers outsource brand
development to manufacturers
Hybrid distribution: producers go into many channels of distribution brands become retailers
and retailers become brands
Brand becoming retailers
o Use retail stores as a giant advertising billboard
o Greater market coverage
o Control over the brand message
Education and image
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Get info at brand store and buy at others
o Ability to offer the full product line
o Reduce wholesale markdowns by selling through own factory locations
o Reduction in double marginalization
Billboards
Apple: usually flagship stores arent profitable but are for education and free-riding ; Apple is the
exception because they are so unique and well done
o Apple retail stores represent 25% of total apple sales
o Almost 15K visitors per store per week
o Over 300 stores
o About $10B in revenue
o $4300 sales/sq ft relative to best buy $900
Typical new model

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Chatper 12: Retailers, Wholesalers and Their Strategy Planning

- Best Buy targets five key customer segments and creates a store-within-a-store to better meet the
needs of those segments; focuses on women suburban shoppers offers Jill personal shopping
assistants
- The Nature of Retailing
o Retailing: covers all of the activities involved in the sale of products to final consumers
o Consumers spend $4.5 trillion per year buying goods and services from U.S. retailers
o Nature of retailing is related to stage and speed of a countrys economic development
- Planning a Retailers Strategy
o Consumers have a reason for buying from particular retailers
o Retailers whole offering (assortment of foods and services, advice from salesclerks,
convenience, etc) is its product
o Features of offering that relate to economic needs
Convenience
Product selection
Special services
Fairness in dealings
Helpful information
Prices
o Social and emotional needs
Social image
Shopping atmosphere
o Strategy requires carefully set policies
o Consumer needs relate to segmentation and positioning
Ex. Prestige of Tiffanys online jewelry stores are a completely different shopping
experience
o Different types of retailers emphasize different strategies
- Conventional Retailers Try to Avoid Price Competition
o General stores: carry anything they can sell in reasonable volume; used to be the main
retailers in the United States
o Now most conventional:
Single-line or limited-line stores stores that specialize in certain lines of related
products rather than a wide assortment
Often in a limited-line within a broader single-line (shoes/clothes)
o Single-line, limited-line stores are being squeezed by retailers who can vary their marketing
mixes
Limited-line can satisfy target markets better
Many keep prices up because they are small and have high expenses
- Expand Assortment and Service to Compete at a High Price

Specialty shop: type of conventional limited-line store is small and has a distinct
personality
Carefully defined target market
o Department stores: larger stores that are organized into many departments and offer
many product lines each department like separate limited-line store; strong in customer
services; major force in big cities but business has declined
Evolution of mass-merchandising retailers
o Mass merchandising is different from conventional retailing retailers should offer low
prices to get faster turnover and greater sales volumes by appealing to larger markets
o Supermarkets started the move to mass-merchandising
Supermarkets: large stores specializing in groceries with self-service and wide
assortments developed in U.S. during 1930s during the Depression
Must have ann sales of at least $2mil but avg is $17mil
40,000 product lines and average around 45,000 square feet
Intense competition
Survival depends on efficiency
o Discount houses upset some conventional retailers
Discount house: offers hard goods (cameras, TVs, appliances) at substantial price
cuts to customers who would go to the discounters low-rent store, pay cash and
take care of any service problems themselves
o Mass-merchandisers are more than discounters self-service, large stores with many
departments that emphasize soft goods (houseware, clothing, fabrics) but still follow
discount house emphasis on lower margins for faster turnover (Wal-Mart, Target)
Wal-Mart handles 30% of more of total national sales for categories of products
High-tech systems to remove efficiencies
Expanding internationally
o Supercenters meet all routine needs (hypermarkets) very large stores that carry not only
food and drug items but all goods and services that consumers purchase routinely to meet all
needs at a low price
Convenient but often long lines
o New mass-merchandising formats like the warehouse club keep coming
Annual membership fee to shop in them
Wholesale clubs
Low price
o Single-line mass-merchandisers are coming on strong IKEA, Home Depot, PetSmart, etc
attract lots of customers at low prices in specific product category (category killers because
hard for others to compete)
Some retailers focus on added convenience
o Convenience (food) stores must have the right assortment limit stock to pickup or fill-in
items like bread and milk and many sell gas; higher priced
o Automatic vending: selling and delivering products through vending machines; vending
machines are convenient (1.5% of total retail sales in the U.S.)
o Door-to-door selling are still important for some firms but its becoming obsolete
o Telephone and direct-mail retailing: time pressured and dual-career families like this
because they can shop at home and charge to credit cards
o Put the catalog on cable TV or computer QVC
Retailing on the internet
o Still in its growth stages e-commerce purchases have grown at a fast rate
o Biggest gain in faster, lower-cost information flows result in more efficiency
o Failure to understand back door has hurt internet retailers because they focus on moving
information versus actually moving goods
o Convenient because consumer can get to a very wide assortment; but inconvenient because
you have to plan ahead and cant inspect products on the internet
o Better information available (more and less at the same time)
o Virtual malls like Amazon
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The costs are sometimes misleading w/ delivery costs


Retailers are refining their online efforts
Using a website to supplement stores promote best products
Use website to complement stores or catalogs (different benefits)
Being more efficient than competitors
Being very focused on specific needs of target customers
Why retailers evolve and change
o Wheel of retailing theory: new types of retailers enter the market as low-stats, low-margin,
low-price operators and then, if successful, evolve into more conventional retailers offering
more services with higher operating costs and higher prices
Threatened by new low-status, low-margin retailers and the wheel turns again
o Scrambled merchandising: carrying any product lines they think can sell profitably
o Product-life cycle concept applies too
o Ethical issues may arise due to competitive pressure
Retailer size and profits
o Larger retail stores do most of the business 11% of stores account for 70% of the sales
o Corporate chain: firm that owns and manages more than one store a way for retailers to
achieve economies of scale; use central buying for different stores and take advantage of
quantity discounts; dealer brands
o Cooperative chains: retail-sponsored groups formed by independent retailers that run
their own buying organizations and conduct joint promotion efforts
o Voluntary chains: wholesaler-sponsored groups that work with independent retailers (Ace
Hardware)
o Franchise operation: franchisor develops a good marketing strategy and the retail
franchise holders carry out the strategy in their own units (about half of all retail sales)
Differences in retailing in different nations
o Consumers in less developed nations dont have income to support mass distribution
o Political and legal environment severely limits the evolution of retailing in some nations like
Japan and the Large Store Law requiring permits
What is a wholesaler?
o Wholesaling: activities of those persons or establishments that sell to retailers and other
merchants, or to industrial, institutional and commercial users but that do not sell in large
amounts to final consumers
o Wholesalers: firms whose main function is providing wholesaling activities
Wholesaling is changing with times
o Used to dominate the distribution channels
o Producing value and profits rather than chasing orders
o Friedas fruits and vegetables, airfreight for orders and sends produce managers a weekly
hot sheet about the best sellers
Wholesalers add value in different ways
o Manufacturers sales branches: warehouses that producers set up at separate locations
away from their factories; classified as wholesalers and account for over a quarter of
wholesale sales
o Service merchant wholesaler: provides all the functions; owns the products general
merchandise wholesalers, single-line wholesalers, specialty
o Limited-function wholesalers: own the products but only provide some functions
o Wholesalers who dont own the products are agent middlemen
Merchant wholesalers are the most numerous
o Merchant wholesalers: own the products they sell; 90% of wholesaling establishments in
the United States
o Service wholesalers provide all the functions
General merchandise wholesalers: carry variety of nonperishable items; broad
line of convenience and shopping products
Single-line wholesalers: narrower line of merchandise; wide geographic area and
specialized service
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Specialty wholesalers: carry a narrow range of products and offer more


information and service than others
o Limited-function wholesalers: only some wholesaling functions
Cash-and-carry: customers must pay cash; common in less developed nations
Drop-shoppers: own the products they sell but do not actually handle, stock or
deliver them
Truck wholesalers: specialize in delivering products that they stock in their own
trucks
Rack jobbers: specialize in hard-to-handle assortments of products that a retailer
doesnt want to manage
Catalog wholesalers: sell out of catalogs that may be distributed widely to smaller
industrial customers
Agents are strong on selling
o Agent wholesalers: wholesalers who do not own products they sell main purpose is to
help in buying or selling; common in international trade
o Manufacturers agents sell similar products for several noncompeting producers for a
commission on what is actually sold
o Export or import agents: manufacturers agents who specialize in international trade
o Brokers: bring buyers and sellers together
o Selling agents: take over marketing job of producers
o Combination export manager: blend of manufacturers and selling agent handling the
entire export function
o Auction companies: place where buyers and sellers can come together and bid for products




Lecture 8: Product Life Cycle

- Cycle: Introduction Growth Maturity Decline
o Refrigerators have been in the mature phase for 60 70 years stages can vary in length of
time
- Profits decline during introduction and start to decline again toward the end of the growth phase
- Number of firms peaks at end of introduction phase but peak profitability is usually in the growth
phase; number of competitors starts to come down because superior products with market share
begin to take over
- Introduction stage
o A new product is brought to market: market development stage
o Demand: unproven, must be created
o Product: attributes/functions may not be fully developed
o Sales: low and slow
o Competition: sparse
o Profitability: not much; firms must be able to invest a lot
o Firms with high risk tolerance
- Growth stage
o The market is expanding rapidly: takeoff stage
o Product: differentiation begins; new variety of features
o Sales: steadily increasing
o Competition: immense increase; new entrants and new customers
o Profitability: increasing
o Risk: moderate
- Mature stage
o Intense competition on all 4 Ps
o Clear, fairly static segmentation
Experienced well-informed buyers
Slowdown in new customer acquisition

No technological breakthroughs
Repeat/replacement sales are key
Squeeze out profits however possible
Niche branding: high end vs. low end fridge
Differentiation on minor attributes
Cost-cutting and efficiency increases
o Market share and cashing in on repeat sales is valued at least as much as profits
Decline stage
o Sales and profits declining
o Virtually no new customers (or firm investments)
o Often due to dominant replacement technology
o Four basic strategies
Withdraw
Harvest: remain but invest as little as possible
Niche: find remaining pocket of demand
Market leadership: create new innovation
Adopters Categories based on innovativeness different types of customers play a role in diffusion
of ideas if they like a product it spreads because influential people can send it into rapid growth
o Innovators 2.5%: pick up a product and pass to early adopters; you can be an innovator in
one field but not another
o Early adopters 13.5%
o Early majority 34%
o Late majority 34%
o Laggards 16%
Evolution of an epidemic
o Estimated AIDS incidence through 2000
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Introduction Strategies: two key issues
o Trial vs. repeat sales: diffusion
Trial products are generally more successful
o Skim vs. penetration: launch strategy
Trial-Repeat Decomposition
o Trial depends on distribution and awareness
o Repeat depends on customer satisfaction and is much more indicative of product
profitability
o The process of buying a new product is different for a first time buyer versus a repeat buyer
Becoming aware and choosing to try it
Evaluating and purchasing it

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Using it
Evaluating it
o The long run success of a new product is more closely associated with repeat sales than trial
sales
Skim vs. Penetration
o Skim: Start slow, then grow
Follow the diffusion of innovation framework
Firm can extract max value from most interested customers
Can be profitable from the start but big money comes later with larger distribution
Enables testing of products
Biggest innovators want the best first
High price only marketed to those who want it the most
o Classic Skim Product
Risk of product failure:
Swiffer: so what it costs $10 (penetrate)
Botox: your face is paralyzed (skim)
Divisibility: how easy is it to try?
Swiffer: easy to try; high divisibility; borrow or buy and still have a broom
(penetrate)
Botox: cant try it on half of your face; do it or dont (skim)
o Penetration: big bang!
Mass market from the beginning
Number of new adopters peaks early
Requires significant resources, but can yield high ROI
ACCORD: what product fits into what category
o Relative ADVANTAGE to what it replaces
Swiffer slightly better than brooms penetration
Botox much better than creams skim
o COMPATIBILITY with current behaviors
Swiffer same process
Botox not at all, must go to doctor
o COMPLEXITY of communicating the benefits
Swiffer: simple advertisement
Botox: complex, doctors visits, etc.
o OBSERVABILITY of the products benefits
Swiffer: easy
Botox: complications and if done well, you cant notice
o RISK of product failure
o DIVISIBILITY or trialability

Strategies for introduction (relative amounts over time)


o High price, low selling effort: skim
o Low price, high selling effort: penetration
Sometimes products fall clearly into one or the other but some dont

Red Bull: innovator in energy drinks; looks more like a penetration product but they dont
have built in distribution; cant be high risk; communicating the benefits are not as clear
company chose to skim because they did not have the capital to penetrate
Classic Skim Products
o Hybrid corn seed: good advantages, high risk who adopts the product
o S curve were new adopters is a bell curve but cumulative production consistently grows and
levels off (even technology)

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Class Penetration Products: cumulative

Introduction Phase

Growth Phase: migrate to the opposite segment


Mature Phase
o Tide laundry detergent: high price, high selling effort
o Other PG laundry detergent: low price and low selling effort

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How to get the most out of the end:
o Compare your strengths and weaknesses as you try to reach small pockets of demand like
your competitors
o Starbucks: possess competitive strengths for remaining demand pockets
Industry structure: could still get coffee and store front so they could take a
leadership or niche position they did both when the developed the coffee culture
and brought coffee back to a period of growth


Practical problems with the PLC
o Sales patterns often arent very smooth
Noisy data
Sometimes cant sort out trial vs. repeat
Hard to know which stage of PLC is in effect
o Conflicting factors make it hard to judge skim vs. penetration
o Questions about cause-and-effect
Does PLC drive strategy or vice versa?
Can become a self-fulfilling prophecy
o Level of analysis
Generally applies for the (sub)category, not specific brands


Chapter 9: Product Management and New Product Development

- iRobot story: robotic vacuum cleaner Roomba; simple to use; sent home with employees for
testing; added vacuum to sweeper to add consumer value; helped people who hate to vacuum
- Product life cycle: describes the stages a new product goes through from beginning to end
o Market introduction: sales are low as an idea is first introduced into the market and
customers are unaware of it; most companies experience losses; need promotion
information
Product: One or few products
Place: build channels
Promotion: build primary demand; pioneer info
Price: skimming or penetration
Competitive situation: monopoly or monopolistic competition
o Market growth: industry sales grow fast but profits rise and then start falling

Big profits as more customers buy but competitors then enter the market and result
in monopolistic competition/oligopoly
Biggest profits for the industry
Profits begin to decline towards end of this stage because consumer price sensitivity
increases
Product: variety try to find the best and build brand familiarity
Promotion: build selective demand; persuade
Price: meet competition; price dealing and cutting
o Market maturity: industry sales level off and competition gets tougher
Aggressive competitors have entered in the race for profits
Promotion costs rise and some competitors cut prices
Persuasive promotion becomes important because products only differ slightly
Long-run downward pressure on prices
Late entries skip early phase of life-cycle
Battle of brands; heading toward pure competition
o Sales decline: new products replace the old ones and price competition becomes vigorous
for dying products
Product life cycles should be related to specific markets
o Individual brands may not follow the pattern of the life-cycle can introduce or drop a
product during any stage of the product life cycle
o Me too brands may suffer quick deaths like when Wal-Mart tried to rent DVDs by mail
around the time of Netflix
o Each market should be carefully defined shorter product life cycles in these small markets
because constant new products to replace the old
Product life cycles vary in length (90 days to 100 years)
o New product idea moves through early stages of life cycle more quickly when: fast
adoption of the DVD player
Greater comparative advantage
Easy to use
Advantages are easy to communicate
Can be tried on a limited basis without a lot of risk
Compatible with customer interests
o General product life cycles are getting shorter due to rapidly changing technology
o Fast copiers of basic ideas win in the market growth stage
o Sales of some products are influenced by fashion (really fast changes) short product life
cycles (Zara)
o Fad: idea that is fashionable only to certain groups who are enthusiastic about it do well
with short-lived cycle
Planning for different stages of the product life cycle
o Pioneers may need help for competitors to stimulate growth of the whole product market
Skim the market charge high price to pay for intro costs
Penetrate charge low price to develop loyal customers early
o Manage maturing products Nabisco creates Teddy Grahams
o Improve the product or create a new one Tide (55 modifications)
o Phasing-out is a strategy and must be marketing-oriented to cut losses
New Product Planning
o New product: one that is new in any way for the company concerned; even variations on
existing products
o Federal Trade Commission: federal government agency that policies antimonopoly laws;
to be called new, a product must be entirely new or changed in a functionally significant
respect
o Ethical issues holding back important new product innovations in medicine until patents
run out or sales slow down
An organized new product development process is critical hypothesis is that the new product idea
will not be profitable

Idea generation
Reverse engineering other products
o Screening
SWOT
Screen based on consumer welfare
Safety must be considered
Consumer Product Safety Act: set up CPSC to encourage safety in product
design
Products can turn to liabilities legal obligation of sellers to pay damages to
individuals who are injured by defective or unsafe products
ROI should be compared for each idea
o Idea evaluation
Concept testing: getting reactions from customers about how well a new-product
idea fits their needs
Looking for evidence that this is not a good idea
o Development
R&D
Computer-aided design: lifelike images of packages and products for designs
Test before firm commits to full-scale efforts
o Commercialization
New-Product Development: Total Company Effort
o Top-level support is vital
o A culture of innovation like Google who spends 20% of time on new ideas
o Market needs guide R&D effort marketing-oriented firms seek to satisfy customer needs at
a profit with an integrated, whole company effort
Need for product managers
o Product/brand managers: manage specific products; common in large companies that
produce many kinds of products
Managing product quality
o Total quality management (TQM): philosophy that everyone in the organization is
concerned about quality, throughout all of the firms activities, to better serve customer
needs
o Cost of poor quality is lost customers
o Continuous improvement sorting out of things gone right and wrong
o Starting with customer needs
o Slay the dragons first
Pareto chart: graph that shows the number of times a problem occurs from most
frequent to least frequent
o Figure out why things go wrong
Fishbone diagram: visual aid that helps organize cause and effect relationships for
things gone wrong
o Train and empower people to serve
Empowerment: giving employees the authority to correct a problem without first
checking with management
o Managers lead the quality effort
o Specify jobs and benchmark performance
Benchmarking: picking a basis of comparison for evaluating how well a job is being
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Lecture 9: Pricing

- Price planning: develop pricing objectives estimate demand determine costs evaluate
pricing environment choose pricing strategy choose pricing tactics
- Pricing objectives
o Drive sales or drive market share

Steinway Pianos: 35% of market share in profit but only 2% share of units
In mature markets with strong competitors, primary goal is to build or maintain
market share

Profit
Competitive effect: use price to disrupt competitor product launch
Crest was introducing electric toothbrush at a low price and Colgate dropped their
price right before the launch
o Customer satisfaction
o Image enhancement: perceptual maps as tool for perceptions to reestablish Burburry as
a luxury brand, they raised priced across the board by 25%
Estimating Demand
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For most goods, as price decreases quantity demanded increases but it is not perfectly linear
sweet spot where you are maximizing revenue at a certain demand level
o Elasticity: the more vertical the line is, the more inelastic the demand curve is changes in
price dont affect demand as much (Gas, cigarettes)
o Luxury goods have the rainbow curve: priced high and lower demand but if you price too
low, demand goes down even more because its no longer seen as a great, luxurious product
you dont want to round the curve
Pricing environment
o Economic factors: in a bad economy, people are frugal and have low confidence so it is very
hard for companies to raise prices; however, the costs of raw materials are rising which
presents a struggle for companies instead they decrease the size of their goods because
consumers are more sensitive to changes in price than quantity
o Competitive factors: easier to raise prices in a monopolistic environment than in a perfectly
competitive environment
o Channel concerns: if you raise prices, it also raises them at the wholesale and retail level
o Consumer trends: cross-category shopping
o Governmental concerns: when is changing size too sneaky? Stay within the law.
Pricing strategies
o Cost-plus: just add a certain amount to the price of the product; determine cost and factor in
a margin
o Competition-based
Going rate
Price-leadership: usually a low price but could mean setting the standard for
competition like GE
o Demand-based what customers are willing to pay
Target costing: we figure out what people are willing to pay and use these insights
to develop the product
Crest Spin Brush: X# of attributes at a particular retail price
Yield management
Managing capacity while maximizing revenue; businesses with fixed
capacity like airlines and hotels
Hiltons FC is to have hotel 70%-80% occupied or they dont make money
Balance filling capacity and maximizing revenue
o Value-based
EDLP (Everyday Low Price): beyond price leadership; price delivers value beyond
savings
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Time value and convenience


Dont have to shop around; nothing ever goes on sale
EVS: Economic Value to Customer
Does it make sense to charge $100 if it is work $20K to customer? Price in
some of that value and charge $5K or something
Apple delivers value on other dimensions and price in that because people
pay higher amounts for ease of use, sleek design, etc.
o New product
Skimming: charge a high price at the get-go
Penetrating: charge a low price and mass produce
Trial
Pricing Tactics
o Individual products
Two-part pricing: (phones) subscription based so activation fee and monthly fee
Payment pricing: multiple payments, mortgages
Ford pioneered this with cars, QVC, Paypal, etc.
o Multiple products
Bundling: you can sell more by pairing things that sell less
Captive pricing: charge low price for razor and high price for blades charge a
premium price when the consumer is captured for the complement
o Channel-based: prices differ based on channel consumers are buying them through
o E-Commerce
Dynamic pricing: altering prices in real time to effect changes in supply and
demand
Coke piloted vending machines and charged a higher price when it was hot
Auction: 24/7 auction for your site to come up on a google search; people bidding
for the product
Google top expensive hits: Carribean cruise, city names, back pain (law
firms, medical services, pharma all want it)
o Psychological
Reference prices: Taco Bell didnt match fast food prices
Price-Quality inferences
Odd-Even pricing: even numbers for high quality items
Price lining: creates reference points (limited number of prices for all products)
Promotional cues: sales, limited time, etc.


Chapter 16: Pricing Objectives and Policies

- PDT (Pure Digital Technologies): sold one-time use digital cameras for $10.99; sales for next product,
the camcorder, were slow but it generated a lot of online buzz; customers looking for something
reusable led to the Flip for $130 and added better quality products to the line
- Key pricing policies:
o How flexible prices will be
o Levels of prices of PLC
o To whim and when discount allowances will be given
o How transportation costs will be handled
- Price: amount of money that is charged for something of value
o Almost every business transaction involves an exchange of money the price for
something else
o List price less discounts (quantity, seasonal, cash, temporary sales), less allowances (trade-
ins, damages), less rebate and coupon value, less transportation and taxes
- Profit-Oriented Objectives
o Target return objective: sets a specific level of profit as an objective; states as % of sales or
capital investment

Profit maximization objective: seeks to get as much profit as possible; doesnt always lead
to high prices
Sales-Oriented Objectives: seek some level of unit sales, dollar sales or share of sales without
referring to profit
o More concerned about sales growth
o Nonprofits set prices to increase market share because they arent trying to earn a profit
Status-Quo Pricing Objectives: dont rock the boat; managers satisfied with current market share
and profits; common when total market is not growing
o Nonprice competition: aggressive action on one or more of the Ps other than price
Most firms set specific pricing policies
o Administered prices: consciously set prices; rather than market-determined
o Other channel members may wish to administer prices to achieve their own objectives
(Alcoa offered wholesalers 30% discount and expected them to pass to customers but they
didnt)
Price flexibility policies
o One-price policy: offering the same price to all customers who purchase products under
the same conditions in same quantities (majority of firms)
o Flexible-price policy: offering the same product and quantities to different customers at
different prices; computer data base
Frequent shopper club members get reduced prices by scanning their club card
Priceline.com consumers can set their own price
Retail shoppers in less developed economies (range for price charged)
Price cuts can have a big impact on profit
Price-level policies over the PLC
o Skimming price policy: tries to sell the top (skim of the cream) of market top of
demand curve a high price before aiming at more price-sensitive customers; may max
profits in introduction phase for an innovation
Should not be used on products with important social consequences like life-saving
drugs?
Slow reduction in price over time
Example: McCaw Cellular Communications pioneered cell phone service and was
bought out by AT&T drastic price cuts with innovations over time
o Penetration pricing policy: tries to sell the whole market at one low price
Wise when the elite market is small
Elastic demand
Competitive environment
Ex. Sony Blu-ray players needed to get quick adoptions but they priced below the
production cost but upped the price of PS3 to make up for it
o Introductory price dealing: temporary price cuts to speed new products into a market and
get customers to buy them
o Changes in exchange rates can have the same effects as price cuts
Discount policies reductions from list prices
o Basic list prices: prices final customers are normally asked to pay for products
o Discounts: reduction in price given to buyers who can either give up some marketing
function or provide the function themselves
o Quantity discounts: offered to encourage customers to buy in large amounts
o Cumulative quantity discounts: apply to purchases over a given period and the discount
usually increases over time; encourages repeat buying
o Noncumulative quantity discounts: only apply to individual orders
o Seasonal discounts: encourages buyers to buy earlier than present demand requires
o Net: payment for the face value of the invoice is due immediately (net 10 = payment is due
in 10 days)
o Cash discounts: reductions in price to encourage buyers to pay their bills quickly
o 2/10, net 30: buyer can take a 2% discount of the face value of the invoice if the invoice is
paid within 10 days; if not, full value is due within 30 days
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Trade (functional) discount: list price reduction given to channel members for the job
they are going to do giving wholesalers a discount to pass to customers
o Sale price: temporary discount from list price to encourage immediate buying
o EDLP: setting a low list price rather than relying on frequent discounts
Allowance policies off list prices
o Allowances: given to final consumers, customers or channel members for doing something
or accepting less of something
o Advertising allowances: price reductions given to firms in the channel to encourage them
to advertise the suppliers products locally 3% discount to its retailers so that they
advertise
o Stocking allowances/slotting: given to an intermediary to get shelf space for a product
(supermarkets)
Is this ethical?
o Push money (or prize money) allowances: PMS/Spiffs given to retailers by manufacturers
or wholesalers to pass on to the retailers salesclerks for aggressively selling certain items
o Trade-in allowance: price reduction given for used products when similar new products
are bought
Coupons: increase sales and are usually paid for the trouble of handling coupons
Rebates: refunds paid to customers after a purchase; give a producer a way to ensure that final
consumers actually get the price reduction; growing consumer backlash regarding rebates
List price may depend on geographic pricing policies
o F.O.B. free on board some vehicle at some place seller pays the cost of loading the
products onto some vehicle, then title to the products passes to the buyer who pays freight
and takes responsibility for damage in transit
F.O.B. delivered: firm wants to pay freight for convenience of customers so title
passes at delivery
F.O.B. shipping point: simplifies sellers pricing but narrows market
o Zone pricing: making an average freight charge to all buyers within specific geographic
areas; seller pays actually charge and bills each customer for an average charge
o Uniform delivered pricing: average freight charge to all buyers
Used when transportation costs are low
Seller wishes to sell in all areas at one price
o Freight-absorption pricing: absorbing freight costs so a firms delivered price meets that of
the nearest competitor
Pricing policies combine to impact customer value
o Value pricing: setting a fair price level for a marketing mix that really gives that target
market superior customer value
Ex. Toyota, Wendys
Clearly define the relevant target market and competitors
Meeting competitor prices may be necessary
Legality
o Unfair trade practice acts: put a lower limit on prices, especially at the wholesale and retail
levels required to take a certain minimum percentage of their markup over merchandise-
plus-transportation costs to protect certain kinds of limited-line food retailers
o Dumping: pricing a product sold in a foreign market below the cost of producing it in a
domestic market antidumping laws to protect countrys domestic producers and jobs
Overseas steel producers selling at a lower price in the U.S. than at home
o Phony list prices: price customers are shown to suggest the price has been discounted
from the list
o Wheeler Lea Amendment: bans unfair or deceptive acts in commerce; tries to ban phony
list prices
o Price fixing: competitors getting together to raise, lower or stabilize prices completely
illegal in the United States
o Producers may set minimum retail prices
o Robinson-Patman Act: makes price discrimination illegal
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Price discrimination: selling the same products to different buyers at different


prices if it injures competition
Allows a marketing manager to charge different prices for similar products if they
are not of like grade and quality
Allows price differences for cost differences (shipping costs)
Some firms violate the act by providing push money and advertising allowances


Chapter 17: Price Setting in the Business World

- War between prices of LCD flat screen TV and prices tumbled over 40% in one year
- Price setting is a key strategy decision
o Cost-oriented: requires estimate of total number of units to be sold that determine the
average FC per unit and thus the ATC add desired profit per unit to ATC to get cost-
oriented selling price
o Demand-oriented
- Some firms just use markups a dollar amount added to the cost of products to get the selling price
(usually stated as percentages)
o Markup (percent): percentage of selling price that is added to the cost to get the selling
price $1.20 markup on $3.60 price is markup of 33.33%
o May change it based on cost
o Many use a standard markup percent and apply it to all of their products because operating
expenses are usually similar
o Markups are related to gross margins amount left after subtracting COGS From net sales
to cover the expenses of selling products and operating the business markup should be
close to gross margin percent
o Markup chain: sequence of markups firms use at different levels in a channel determines
the price structure in the whole channel because markup is figured on the selling price at
each level in a channel
Each markup should cover costs of running business and leave a profit
o High markups dont always mean high profits because you may lose customers
o Lower markups can speed turnover and the stockturn rate the number of times the
average inventory is sold in a year
o Mass-merchandisers put low markups on fast-selling items and higher markups on items
that sell less frequently
o Rule of thumb formula
Selling price = Average production cost per unit x 3
- Average cost pricing is common and can be dangerous adding a reasonable markup to the average
cost of a product
o Doesnt consider cost variations at different levels of output
o Calculation of reasonable price = expected total costs and planned profit / planned number
of items to be sold
o Average cost per unit usually drops as quantity produced increases
- Marketing managers must consider various kinds of costs
o Total cost
Total fixed cost
Total variable cost
Total cost
o Average cost
Average cost per unit: total cost / relative quantity
Average FC: goes down as quantity decreases
Average VC: assume the same for each unit
o Ignoring demand is major weakness of Average Cost pricing
Works if they sell quantity they used to set the price
Need some estimate of quantity to be sold
Ignores competitors costs and prices

Break-even analysis can evaluate possible prices


o B/E Analysis: evaluates whether the firm will be able to cover all their costs with a
particular price
o B/E Point: quantity where firms total cost will just equal total revenue
o Breakeven charts help find the BEP (where the total cost and total revenue lines intersect)
the difference between the two at a given quantity is profit or loss
o BEP in units = Total FC / Fixed cost contribution per unit
Multiply by per-unit price for BEP in dollars
Can compute for several different prices
Often misunderstood because demand curves change
Marginal analysis considers both costs and demand
o Marginal analysis: focuses on changes in total revenue and total cost from selling one more
unit to find the most profitable price and quantity
Shows how costs, profit and revenue change at different prices
o Manager needs to estimate demand curve to compute total revenue
o Profit is the difference between total revenue and total cost
Focuses on the price that earns the highest profit usually a range of profitable
prices
o Encourages managers to think about what they do know about costs and demand
More demand-oriented approaches
o Know what influences customers price sensitivity
o When customers have substitute ways of meeting a need, they are likely to be more price
sensitive easiest when they can compare prices
o People are less price sensitive when somebody else pays the bills or shares the cost
o More price sensitive the greater the total expenditure
o Less price sensitive the greater the significance of the end benefit
o Less price sensitive if there are switching costs
o Value in use pricing: setting prices that will capture some of what customers will save by
substituting the firms product for one currently being used
o Auctions show what a customer will pay FCC, eBay
o Some sellers use sequential price reductions over time
o Customers may have reference prices that they expect to pay for a product customers
may view product as better value if a firms price is lower than their reference price
o Leader pricing: setting some very low prices to get customers into retail stores
o Bait pricing: setting low prices to attract customers but trying to sell more expensive
models or brands once the customer is in the store
o Psychological pricing: setting prices with special appeal to target customers
o Odd-even pricing: setting prices that end in certain numbers because consumers react
better to these prices
o Price lining: setting a few price levels for a product line and then marketing all items at
these prices; simplicity
o Demand-backward pricing: setting acceptable final consumer price and working
backward to see what a producer can charge
o Prestige pricing: setting high price to suggest high quality or high status
o Make money by giving your products away free attracts customer eyeballs
Pricing a full line
o Full-line pricing: setting prices for a whole line of products
(1) all products are aimed at the same general target market
(2) Different products are aimed at entirely different markets
o Complementary product pricing: setting prices on several products as a group so one
might be priced very low so that profits from another will increase different production
facilities may be involved so no cost-allocation problem
o Product-bundle pricing: setting one price for a set of products
Bid pricing and negotiated pricing depends heavily on costs

Bid pricing: offering a specific price for each possible job rather than setting a price that
applies for all customers complicated because there are a lot of costs components
Ethical issues
Demand must be considered too
Sometimes look for most attractive bid, not necessarily lowest bid
Negotiated price: a price set based on the bargaining between the buyer and the seller

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Lecture 10: Promotion

- Integrated Marketing Communications
o Marketing plan Promotional Goals Promotional Strategy Communications Mix
Execute and Evaluate
o Communications Mix: advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, PR, word of mouth
- Why IMC
o Extend brand relationship
o Improve overall effectiveness of marketing tactics
o Increase relevance of message
o More effectively manage marketing resources
o Drive results and ROI
- Advertising: Objectives Budget Message/Media Evaluation
- Advertising: Messaging
o Brand Positioning
o Messages Unique Selling Proposition
o Creative strategy Appeal
o Creative execution:
Comparative
Testimonial
Sex
Emotion Fear
Humor
- Media
o Media planning
o Targeting
o Metrics
Reach

Frequency

CPM

GRP

ROI
ROO
- Who is spending the money and how much?
o Proctor and Gamble spend $2.7B on advertising
o Total U.S. advertising expenditures increased 6.5% in 2010 to $131.1B
- Media Landscape has Changed
o Product Placement
o Branded Content Integration
o Advertainment

Guerilla Marketing
o Field/event marketing
Taking message directly to audience and getting people directly engaged with brand
o Often unconventional methodology
Reliance on creativity vs. budget
Requires energy, time and imagination
Suited for entrepreneurial companies
o Looking for sources of publicity
Interactive media
o Internet
Search engine optimization
Search engine marketing (PPC)
o Blogs
o Mobile
o Social Networking
o RSS Podcasts
o Online Video
Sales Promotion

o Incentives to channels push

Trade marketing

Co-op/Market development funds

Excite consumers Pull (make them demand it)

Coupons/Rebates
Sweepstakes
Cause-related campaigns
Personal selling
o Sales Force
Direct contact with customer
More are employed in sales positions than any other marketing-related job (11%)
o High Cost-per-Action (CPA)
o B2B
o Training
Public relations
o Communication with all publics
o Do something good and talk about it
o Dove real beauty huge Return On Investment from viral film on YouTube
o Apple free advertising
Word of Mouth
o Viral marketing buzz
o Interactive/social networks
o Most influential in decision making
Informational influence: individual turns to others for info
Normative heuristic
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Chapter 13: Promotion Introduction to Integrated Marketing Communications

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MINI Cooper: BWI designed a new model and was the smallest car on the American road hoped it
would attract fun-loving innovators
o Promotion launched brand independently from BMW
o Form of self-expression, not just a way to get to work
o Series of promotional events to give the car a personality drew 125K customers to the
website before the cars hit showroom
Promotion: communication information between the seller and potential buyer or others in the
channel to influence attitudes and behavior involves telling customers that the right Product is
available at the right Place and Price
Several promotion methods:
o Personal selling: direct spoken communication; flexibility
o Mass selling: communicating with large number of customers at same time; can be less
expensive
o Advertising: any paid form of non-personal presentation of ideas, goods or services by an
identified sponsor
o Publicity: any unpaid form of nonpersonal presentation of ideas, goods or services
offerings without having to pay media costs
o Sales promotion: promotion activities that stimulate interest, trial or purchase by final
customers or others in the channel; tries to spark immediate interest
Someone must plan, integrate and manage the promotion blend
o Sales promotion activities
Aimed at final users: coupons, aisle displays, samples, banners, frequent-buyer
programs, contests
Aimed at middlemen: price deals, promotion allowances, sales contests, gifts,
catalogs, videos
Aimed at companys own sales force: contests, bonuses, meetings, training
materials22
o Sales managers: concerned with managing personal selling; distribution channels and Place
policies
o Advertising managers: manage companys mass-selling effort; choosing the right media
and developing the ads
PR: communication with noncustomers, including labor, public interest groups,
stockholders and the government
o Sales promotion managers: manage sales promotion efforts; independent status; need
many talents
o Marketing manager blends all promotion methods together
o Integrated marketing communications: intentional coordination of every communication
from a firm to a target customer to convey a clear and consistent message
Which methods to use depends on promotion objectives
o Overall objective is to affect behavior
Reinforce present attitudes that might lead to favorable behavior
Change the attitudes and behavior of target market
o Informing, persuading and reminding target customers about company and the marketing
mix
o Informing is educating
o Persuading usually becomes necessary firm will try to develop a favorable set of attitudes
so customers will buy, and keep buying, its product
o Remind may be enough sometimes if customers already have positive attitudes about a
firms marketing mix Campbells
o Promotion objectives relate to adoption process
Informing: Awareness, Interest
Persuading: Evaluation, Trial, Desire
Reminding: Decision, Confirmation, Action
o The AIDA model is a practical approach: consists of 4 main jobs
To get attention

To hold interest
To arouse desire
To obtain action
Promotion requires effective communication
o Communication process: source trying to reach receiver with a message
Source: sender of the message
Receiver: potential customer
o Noise: any distraction that reduces effectiveness of the communication process
o Encoding: source deciding what it wants to say and translating it into words or symbols
that will have same meaning to receiver
o Decoding: receiver translating the message can be tricky and change based on who the
audience is
o Message channel: carrier of the message
o Source Encoding Message Channel Decoding Receiver Feedback
Integrated Direct-Response promotion is very targeted
o Direct-response promotion: prompts immediate feedback by customers
Early efforts were direct-mail advertising
Responses may be a purchase, donation, question, request for more information, etc.
o Target customer directly with a CRM database including customers names, home email
addresses, past purchases, etc.
o Direct-response methods raise ethical concerns junk mail
The customer may initiate the communication process
o Internet search engines
o Interactive technologies
o Interactive TV innovations
o Consumer initiates communication with a search process
Customer (Receiver) Search Message Channel Select a topic Sources
message
o Consumers decide how much information to get
o Action, including purchase, may be immediate
o Custom communications are even more personalized
How typical promotion plans are blended and integrated
o Get a push in the channel with promotion to middlemen
Pushing (a product through a channel): using normal promotion effort to help sell
the whole marketing mix to possible channel members
o Promotion to middlemen emphasized personal selling trade ads
o Push within a firm with promotion to employees
o Pulling policy customer demand pulls the product through the channel
Pulling: getting customers to ask middlemen for the product
o Promotion to final consumers builds consumer interest and short-term sales of a product
mass-selling, coupons, contests, free samples
o Promotion to business customers emphasize personal selling fewer customers with larger
purchases
Adoption process can guide promotion planning
o Adoption curve: shows when different groups accept ideas
Innovators: first to adopt; young, well educated, willing to take risks, often search
on the internet
Early adopters: well respected opinion leaders, fewer contacts outside of their own
social groups, greatest contact with salespeople
Opinion leaders help spread the word blogs, review sites and web media
give word of mouse a big impact
Early majority: avoids risk, contact with mass-media
Late majority: cautious about new ideas, older and more set in ways
Laggards or nonadopters: suspicious of new ideas and want to do things the way
they have done in the past

Promotion blends vary over the life cycle


o Market introduction: this new idea is good
Build primary demand for the general product idea not just the companys own
brand; need salespeople
o Market growth stage: our brand is best
Promotion emphasis goes from primary demand to selective demand demand for
a companys own brand
Persuade companys to buy and keep buying
o Market maturity our brand is better, really
Mass selling and sales promotion
Aggressive personal selling
Some companies resort to price cutting
o Sales decline lets tell those who still want our product
Some firms increase promotion to slow the cycle
Cut costs to remain profitable
- Setting the promotion budget
o Economies of scale in promotion common to compute % of past sales as the amount of
your budget
Simplicity
Leads to more spending when business is good and less spending when business is
poor
Find the task and budget for it task method: basing the budget on the job to be
done determine which promotion objectives are most important

Chapter 18: Ethical Marketing in a Consumer-Oriented World

How should marketing be evaluated?
- Two levels of marketing that must be treated separately
o Managerial (micro) marketing: how an individual firm runs
o Macro marketing: how the whole marketing system works
- Evaluating marketing
o Micro vs. macro criteria
o Measuring consumer satisfaction
o Micro-marketing often costs too much
o Macro-marketing does not cost too much
- Putting together innovative marketing plans
o Strategy planning process
o Understanding consumers
o Blending marketing mix
o Content of marketing plan
- Challenges facing marketers
o Opportunities for improvement
o Marketing managers and social responsibility
o How far should the marketing concept go?
- Nations objectives affect evaluation of marketing: dictatorships may be concerned with satisfying
the needs of society as seen by the political elite while in the socialist state it may be defined by
government planners
- Consumer satisfaction is the objective of the United States: political and economic freedom go hand
in hand
Can consumer satisfaction be measured?
- American Customer Satisfaction Index based on customers from 200 companies in 29 industries:
track changes in consumer satisfaction measures over time
- Satisfaction depends on individual aspirations
o Poorer consumers expect more when they see high living standards of others
o Aspiration levels rise and fall with successes and failures

o Consumer satisfaction is a highly personal concept


o Macro-marketing effectiveness is highly subjective
- Many measures of micro-marketing effectiveness
o Individual firms can measure how well marketing mixes satisfy customers
o Ongoing efforts to determine if they satisfy their target markets
o Attitude research studies
o Comment cards, email response features, unsolicited customer responses, opinions of
middlemen and salespeople, market test results, profits
- Evaluating marketing effectiveness is difficult, but not impossible
Micro-marketing often does cost too much
- The failure rate is high
o Lack of interest or understanding of customer
o Improper blending of the 4 Ps caused by overemphasizing internal problems
o Lack of understanding of marketing environment, esp. competitors
- High cost of missed opportunities
o Too many managers seize the easy strategy and stifle innovative thinking
o Not every new idea is good for every company
- Micro-marketing costs too much but things are changing
o More and more are becoming customer-oriented
o Companies are recognizing they need diverse sets of backgrounds and talents to meet the
global customer base
Macro-marketing does not cost too much
- Typical argument that macro-marketing system causes poor use of resources that leads to unfair
distribution of income
- Micro-efforts help the economy grow: profits rise, which leads to more innovation, investments,
growth, more income and employment, etc.
- Critics say marketing helps created a monopoly, high prices, restricted output, etc.
- Increased profits attract competition
- Advertising is economical way to inform large numbers of customers about a firms products, can
increase demand and economies of scale
- Marketing must adapt to consumer needs and wants that are changing
- Marketing caters to materialistic values
- Critics say that advertising elevates the wrong values like sex appeal
- In the short run, marketing reflects social values while in the long run, it enhances and enforces them
Marketing strategy planning requires logic and creativity
- Customer satisfaction is the present objective of our economy
- Value of marketing efforts in firms is improved when managers take the marketing concept seriously
and apply a strategic plan
- Narrow down to a specific target market and marketing mix that present opportunity
- The four Ps must be creatively blending so the firm develops the best mix
o Product
o Place
o Promotion
o Price
The marketing plan brings all the details together
- Marketing plan includes time-related details like costs and revenues
- Spells out the timing of strategy so plan can be compared to actual performance
- Spells out the reasons for decisions
Summary outline of marketing plan
- Situation analysis
o Company analysis
o Customer analysis
o Competitor analysis
o Analysis of market-context
o Key factors from situation analysis (SWOT)

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Marketing plan objectives


Differentiation and positioning
Marketing strategy
o Overview
o Target Market
o Product
o Place
o Promotion
o Price
- Marketing information requirements
- Implementation and control
o Problems to overcome
o Control
o Budget, sales forecast
o Timing
o Risk factors and contingency plans
Challenges facing marketers
- Change is the only thing that is constant
- Must constantly re-evaluate strategies
- Welcome international competition
- Use technology wisely
- More social responsibility
- Environment is everyones need
- Consumer privacy must be protected
- May need to change laws and how they are enforced
- Laws should affect top managers
- Laws define minimal ethical standards
- Need socially responsible consumers
How far should the marketing concept go?
- Consumer citizens should vote for laws restricting individual firms that are trying to satisfy
consumer needs because we have assigned the role to the government

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