Lecture "Designing business plan - Unit 4: Marketing plan" presentation of content: Overall marketing strategy, discussion, three levels of products, marketing Mix (Product, pricing, place, promotion).
Marketing Strategy
F Marketing strategy
§ ...firm’s approach to marketing its products
and services stated in broad term, which
firm the basis of all its marketing-related
activities.
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Discussion
What are key elements of a
marketing strategy?
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Overall Marketing Strategy
Marketing strategy components:
F Target consumers
F Positioning
§ Gives a product a clear, distinctive and desirable place
in the minds of target consumers compared with
competing products.
F Positioning involved selecting competitive
advantages:
§ Differentiation
§ Low Cost
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Customer Value Proposition
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Product strategy:
Three levels of products
• Physical good, service or
most often some of both
• Branding
• Packaging
• Service
• Product-ine
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Product strategy:
Three levels of products
Core
Installation Product
Delivery
Packaging Actual
Product
Credit Features
Core
benefit After-
or sale
Brand service service
name Styling
Quality
Payment
Augmented
Warranty product
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Product strategy:
Product Line Decision
F Product line-filling decisions
F Product line modernization decisions
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Pricing strategy
• Pricing objectives
• Pricing Policies
– Price Flexibility
– Levels over PLC
– Discounts and allowances
– Geographic terms
• Legal factors
• Markup chain in channels
• Costs
• Demand (price sensitivity)
– Competition/Substitutes
• Price of other products in line
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Pricing Strategy:
Pricing objectives
Target
Return
Profit
Oriented
Maximize
Profits
Dollar or Unit
Sales Growth
Pricing Sales
Objectives Oriented
Growth in
Market Share
Meeting
Status Quo Competition
Oriented
Nonprice
Competition
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Price Level Policies
Price Skimming
In price skimming, initial price is
set high--at top of the demand
Price curve
Sell at high
price before
reducing to Most sensible when:
next price level
Initial and repeat
Price • Demand is inelastic
Second • There is an “elite market” that is
Price less price sensitive
Final • Barriers to entry (patents, etc.)
Price
• Gradually working down the
demand curve with lower priced
marketing mixes over time.
Quantity
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Price Level Policies
Penetration Pricing
Penetration pricing means Price
entering the market with a
low initial price: Whole
market price
• Capture market share
quickly
• Take advantage of growth
• If competition is likely to
follow quickly, or if
• A low price will give
competitors less incentive
to enter
Quantity
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Value Pricing
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Discounts Reduce the Price Paid
Quantity Seasonal
Discount
Pricing
Sale Cash
Discounts are usually
defined as a percentage off
of a list price Trade
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Markups
50.00
Wholesaler
30.00
Producer
24.00
Markup = 20.00 = 40%
Markup = 6.00 = 20%
Markup = 2.40 = 10% Cost = 30.00 = 60%
Cost = 24.00 = 80%
Cost = 21.60 = 90%
Markup is usually stated as a percent of the selling price, not
of the cost
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Types of cost
Fixed Costs Variable Costs
Rent Raw materials
Depreciation Component parts
Manager’s salaries Hourly wages
Property taxes Packaging & freight
Insurance Sales commisions
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Break Even Analysis
Higher
Total Revenue and Cost
Profit Area Total Revenue
Curve
Total Cost Curve
Break-Even Point
Loss Area
0 More
Units of Production
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