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10. Marketing. 10-1 Marketing Basics 10-2 Develop Effective Products and Services 10-3 Price and Distribute Products 10-4 Plan Promotion.
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10 Marketing 10-1 Marketing Basics 10-2 Develop Effective Products and Services 10-3 Price and Distribute Products 10-4 Plan Promotion
Marketing BasicsMarketing - is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives. • Marketing activities – Marketing is all around you! • Marketing businesses – All businesses must complete some marketing activities even if that is not their focus. Chapter 10
MARKETING FUNCTIONS Chapter 10
Marketing Functions • Product/Service management – is designing, developing, maintaining, improving, and acquiring products and services that meet consumer needs. • Distribution – involves determining the best ways for customers to locate, obtain, and use the products and services of an organization. • Shipping • Storage Chapter 10
Selling – is communicating directly with potential customers to determine and satisfy their needs. Selling can be face to face, such as when a customer visits a business or when a salesperson goes to the home or business of a potential customer. • Marketing-information management – obtaining, managing, and using market information to improve business decision-making and the performance of marketing activities. Chapter 10
Financing – is budgeting for marketing activities, obtaining the necessary funds needed for operations, and providing financial assistance to customers so they can purchase the business’ products and services. • Pricing – is setting and communicating the value of products and services. • Fair value for money spending. Chapter 10
Promotion – is communicating information about products and services to potential customers. Advertising and other promotional methods are used to encourage consumers to buy. • Examples – television, newspapers, magazines, radio, direct mail, and the Internet. Chapter 10
MARKETING STRATEGY Marketing activities often cost 50 percent or more of the selling price of a product or service. • Marketing planning – need to develop strategies • To develop a successful marketing strategy • Identify a target market – is a specific group of consumers that have similarwants and needs. • Create a marketing mix - the blending of four marketing elements – product, place, price, promotion. Chapter 10
UNDERSTAND CUSTOMERSEffective marketing begins with customers. • Businesses can develop products for two types of consumers. • Final consumers – persons who buy products and services mostly for their own use. • Business consumers – persons, companies, and organizations that buy products for the operation of a business, for incorporation into other products and services, or for resale to their customers. Chapter 10
Consumer decision-making – a specific sequence of steps consumers follow to make a purchase • Begins with a need Chapter 10
STEPS IN THE CONSUMER DECISION-MAKING PROCESS 1. Recognize a need. 2. Gather information. 3. Select and evaluate alternatives. 4. Make a purchase decision. 5. Determine the effectiveness of the decision. Chapter 10
Understanding Customers • Buying motives – the reasons consumers decide what products and services to purchase. • Emotional buying motives – reasons to purchase based on feelings, beliefs, and attitudes • Examples – protecting family/security system Gifts & cards/Valentines Day – feelings of love and affection. Chapter 10
Understanding Customers • Rational Buying Motives – guided by facts and logic • Cost effective car/fuel use and repair • College/costs and reputation Chapter 10
Develop Effective Products and Services Finding solutions to problems through carefully designed studies involving consumers is known as marketing research. Chapter 10
PLAN MARKETING RESEARCH • Steps in marketing research 1. Define the marketing problem. 2. Study the situation. 3. Develop a data collection procedure. 4. Gather and analyze information. 5. Propose a solution. Chapter 10
TYPES OF RESEARCH STUDIES • Surveys – gather info from people using a carefully planned set of questions. • Mail/Internet/Phone • Focus groups – small number of consumers take part in a group discussion. • Discuss experience/react to new ideas/make suggestions • Observations – collect information • How customers choose products/problems with products • Experiments – pepsi/coke Chapter 10
PRODUCT PLANNING Each part of the marketing mix is important when you decide to buy a product – this even includes packaging. • Parts of a product • Basic Product – the simplest form of a product – not unique and is usually available from several companies. • Product features – models of cell phones • options • Brand Name – unique identification for a companies products. • Packaging – security, storage • Guarantee or warranty Chapter 10
PRODUCT PLANNING • Product planning procedures • Idea development – generating new product ideas is a creative process • Idea screening • Strategy development • Production and financial planning • Limited production and test marketing • Full-scale production Chapter 10
SERVICES – are activities that are consumed at the same time they are produced. • Intangible – no physical form • Inseparable – consumed at the same time they are produced • Perishable – the availability of a service must match the demand for that service at a specific time. • Heterogeneous – differences in the type and quality of service provided. Chapter 10
Price and Distribute Products • Buyers usually want to pay the lowest price possible. • Sellers want to charge the highest price possible. Chapter 10
PRICING FACTORS • Supply and demand • Uniqueness • Age – product new on market $ • Season • Complexity – highly complex and technical products have higher prices than simple products. Products with many features and options will also command higher prices. • Convenience Chapter 10
Selling price Product costs Operating expenses Profit Gross margin PRICE A PRODUCT Chapter 10
PRICE A PRODUCT • Markup – the amount added to the cost of a product to set the selling price. The markup is equal to the expected gross margin. • Markdown – reduction in selling price. Chapter 10
CHANNELS OF DISTRIBUTION • Need for distribution channels • Differences in quantity • Differences in assortment – businesses usually specialize in producing a specific type of product, while consumers want to purchase a variety of products. • Differences in location • Differences in timing Chapter 10
CHANNELS OF DISTRIBUTION • Channels and channel members • Direct channel of distribution – products move from the producer straight to the consumer with no other organizations participating. • Indirect channel of distribution – includes one or more other businesses between the producer and consumer. These other businesses provide one or more of the marketing functions. Chapter 10
COMMUNICATION • The communication process • Communicating through promotion • Promotion is any form of communication used to inform, persuade, or remind. Businesses, organizations, groups, or individuals use promotion. Chapter 10
COMPONENTS OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION Chapter 10
PROMOTION • Personalized promotion – communicated directly with each customer using information tailored to that person. • Mass promotion – communicated with many people at the same time with a common message. • Mass personalization Chapter 10
Promotion • The most well known type of personalized promotion is personal selling. • Personal selling – is direct, individualized communication with prospective customers to assess their needs and assist them in satisfying those needs with appropriate products and services. Chapter 10
Promotion • Personal Selling • Gather information for sale • Product information • Meet with Customer • Ask Questions • Provides Information • Demonstrate Product for Customer • Helps the Customer make decision to purchase • Arrange payment or financing • After sale – follow-up Chapter 10
Promotion • Advertising – is any paid form of communication through mass media directed at identified consumers to provide information and influence their actions. • Television, Radio, Newspapers • Magazines, Mass Mailings, Outside Displays • Internet • Specialty Advertising Chapter 10
Promotion • Publicity – is non-paid promotional communication presented by the media rather than by the business or organization that is being promoted. • Public relations – ongoing program of non-paid and paid communications – favorably influence public opinion about an organization, marketing effort, idea, or issue Chapter 10
Promotion • Sales promotion – includes activities and materials designed to reinforce a company’s brand or image. • Contests • Games Mass Personalization – Using the Internet sees advertisement – encouraged to complete on-line survey. Chapter 10