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BCEN 2900 Entrepreneurship. Building a Marketing Plan Chapter 8. What is Marketing?. Creating and delivering desired goods and services to customers Winning the customers’ hearts Pairing needs or wants with satisfaction Guerilla marketing Nothing to do with the animal!
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BCEN 2900Entrepreneurship Building a Marketing Plan Chapter 8
What is Marketing? • Creating and delivering desired goods and services to customers • Winning the customers’ hearts • Pairing needs or wants with satisfaction • Guerilla marketing • Nothing to do with the animal! • Low cost, unique, creative ?
What Should Great Guerilla Marketing Plan Do? • Pinpoint target markets • Determine markets’ needs and wants • Build strategy around sources of C.A. • Satisfy needs and wants through marketing mix. Annual Men’s Night at Borsheims
How to Select a Target Market • What is a target market? • Why do you waste money by NOTpinpointing a market? • Ability to provide superior customer service
A Great Guerilla Marketing Example • Kenny Chesney (my favorite marketer!) • Had local photographer go around in each tour stop and take pictures of landmarks near and dear to concert-goers • Played “Back Where I Come From” while slide show of photo montage plays on giant screen • Nashville version
How Does Market Research Help? • Helps you to identify trends • Demographics • Systematically gathering and analyzing data • Do NOT assume a market exists for your product just because you like it!!!
Great Questions to Answer Using Research • Who are my customers? • What are they looking for? • What kind of people are they? • How old are they? • What gender are they? • What’s their income and occupation? • How often do they buy my product? • What goes into their decision to buy? • What do they prefer in my product? • When do they shop? • What advertising do they listen to? • What do they think of me?
The Marketing Mix • Product, place, price, and promotion PRODUCT • Using the product life cycle • Introduction, growth, maturity, decline • Creative destruction and planned obsolescence • Understanding where the gap is… what do your customers want that they can’t get? • Gary Busey on white hair dye for bears
The Marketing Mix PLACE • How can you best get the product to the customer? • The role of the middle man – the distributor • Possible distribution channels • The Internet • Retail • Direct • Place utility • The value of having a product conveniently near the customer.
The Marketing Mix PRICE • Affects sales volume and profits • Depends on cost structure, market, and value • Nonprice competition is best for entrepreneurs. PROMOTION • Advertising and personal sales • Emphasis on the benefits of the product • Is SERVICE a 5th “P?” What could a business do to increase its retention rate, or number of customers who return?