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Product Strategy: Differentiating, Designing, and Managing for Success

Learn about product characteristics, classifications, differentiation, design, managing luxury brands, and environmental considerations in product strategy. Explore product systems, co-branding, packaging, warranties, and more.

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Product Strategy: Differentiating, Designing, and Managing for Success

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  1. Chapter 13 Setting Product Strategy

  2. Learning Objectives • What are the characteristics of products, and how do marketers classify product? • How can companies differentiate products? • Why is product design important, and what are the different approaches taken? • How can marketers best manage luxury brands? • What environmental issues must marketers consider in their product strategies? • How can a company build and manage its product mix and product lines?

  3. Learning Objectives • How can companies combine products to create strong co-brands or ingredient brands? • How can companies use packaging, labeling, warranties, and guarantees as marketing tools?

  4. Product Characteristicsand Classifications • Product • Anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy a want or need, including physical goods, services, experiences, events, persons, places, properties, organizations, information, and ideas

  5. Figure 13.1Components Of The Market Offering

  6. Product Levels: The Customer-Value Hierarchy • Figure 13.2: Five Product Levels

  7. Product Classifications Durability Tangibility Use

  8. Durability and Tangibility Nondurable goods Durable goods Services

  9. Consumer-Goods Classification Convenience Shopping Specialty Unsought

  10. Industrial-Goods Classification Materials and parts Capital items Supplies and business services

  11. Product Differentiation • Form • Features • Performance quality • Conformance quality • Durability • Reliability • Reparability • Style • Customization

  12. Services Differentiation • Ordering ease • Delivery • Installation • Customer training • Customer consulting • Maintenance and repair • Returns

  13. Design • Design • The totality of features that affect the way a product looks, feels, and functions to a consumer

  14. Design • Is emotionally powerful • Transmits brand meaning/positioning • Is important with durable goods • Makes brand experiences rewarding • Can transform an entire enterprise • Facilitates manufacturing/distribution • Can take on various approaches

  15. Luxury brands • Quality • Uniqueness • Craftsmanship • Heritage • Authenticity • History

  16. Marketing Luxury Brands

  17. Environmental Issues • Environmental issues are also playing an increasingly important role in product design and manufacturing

  18. The Product Hierarchy 6. Item 5. Product type 4. Product line 3. Product class 2. Product family 1. Need family

  19. Product Systemsand Mixes • Product system • Product mix/assortment • Width • Length • Depth • Consistency

  20. Product Line Analysis • Sales and profits

  21. Product Line Analysis • Market profile and image

  22. Product line length • Line stretching • Down-market stretch • Up-market stretch • Two-way stretch • Line filling • Line modernization • Line featuring • Line pruning

  23. Product Mix Pricing • The firm searches for a set of prices that maximizes profits on the total mix Product line pricing Optional-feature pricing Captive-product pricing Product-bundling pricing By-product pricing Two-part pricing

  24. Co-Branding • Two or more well-known brands are combined into a joint product or marketed together in some fashion • Same-company • Joint-venture • Multiple-sponsor • Retail

  25. Ingredient Branding • Co-branding that creates brand equity for parts that are necessarily contained within other branded products

  26. Packaging • All the activities of designing and producing the container for a product

  27. Packaging • Used as a marketing tool • Self-service • Consumer affluence • Company and brand image • Innovation opportunity • Packaging objectives • Identify the brand • Convey descriptive and persuasive information • Facilitate product transportation and protection • Assist at-home storage • Aid product consumption

  28. Packaging

  29. Labeling, Warranties, and Guarantees • Labeling • Identifies, grades, describes, and promotes the product • Warranties • Formal statements of expected product performance by the manufacturer • Guarantees • Promise of general or complete satisfaction

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