2. Contents
Marketing an Its Applications
Marketing planning and Organisation
Understanding Consumers
Product Management
Pricing an Promotion Strategy
Distribution and Public Policy
5. The Meaning of Marketing
Marketing is the performance of business
activities that directs the flow of goods and
services from producer to consumer or user
PRODUCER CONSUMER
Product Need
Marketing activities
7. Marketing Strategy
Needed to create and retain a satisfied
customers
Strategies
STDP Strategies
Marketing Mix Strategies
8. STPD Strategies
Segmentation
Aggregating process – A cluster of people with
similar needs.
A Homogeneous group of customer who will
respond to a marketing mix in a similar way.
Targeting
Once the market segment is defined, it has to
decide how many and which one to target.
9. Differentiation
Product Differentiation
Service Differentiation
Channel Differentiation
Personnel differentiation
Positioning
It’s a perception about your offering in the
minds of the consumer.
10. Product Mix Strategies
What is Product Mix
Set of all products offered by an
organisation to its customers
Consists of
Width
Length
Depth
Consistency
11. Case Study
Product-Mix Width and Product-Line Length for PepsiCo India
Product-Mix Width
Beverages Juice Snacks
Pepsi Tropicana Lays
Mountain Dew Orange Cheetos
Product-line Aquafina Nature Sweet Lehar
Length Mirinda Apple Numkeens
7-Up Grape Nutyumz
Dukes Soda Pineapple Kurkure
Dukes Mangola Tomato
Slice Mixed Fruit
12. Strategy of Product Mix
Expansion of product mix
Contraction of product mix
Altering existing products
Positioning the product
13. Place
Is concerned with all the decisions involved in the getting right product to
the target market’s place.
Distribution Channels – any series of firms that
participate in the flow of products from producer to its final
consumers.
Manufactures or producer
Toyota Raymond's Nestle
Wholesaler Wholesaler
Wholesaler
Retailer Retailer Retailer
Consumer
14. Promotion Mix Strategy
Push Strategy
directing communications to channel
members
Pull Strategy
directing communications to end users
Factors
type of product/market
buyer readiness stage
product life-cycle stage
15. Pricing Strategy
PRICE
HIGH MEDIUM LOW
1) Premium 2) High-value 3) Super-value
HIGH
Strategy strategy strategy
QUALITY
4) Overcharging 5) Medium-value 6) Good-value
MEDIUM
Strategy strategy Strategy
8) False
7) Rip-Off 9) Economy
LOW economy
Strategy Strategy
strategy
18. Relevance of Marketing in a
developing economy
Marketing and planned economic growth
How to view the marketing effort
Significance of macro and micro marketing
General role of marketing
Stimulates potential aggregate demand and thus
enlarge the size of the market
It helps in the discover of entrepreneurial talent
19. Areas of Relevance
Marketing in agriculture, basic industries, mining
and plantation
Intermediate industrial goods
Semi-industrial products
Export trade & services like tourism and banking
20. The Relevance of Social
Marketing
4 P’s
Social Marketing planning system
22. The service sector
The services sector has been growing
at a rate of 8% per annum in recent
years
More than half of our GDP is
accounted for from the services sector
This sector dominates with the best
jobs, best talent and best incomes
23. “There are no such thing as
service industries.There are only
industries whose service
components are greater or less
than those of other industries.
Everybody is in service.”
-Theodore Levitt-
24. What is services?
It is the part of the product or the full
product for which the customer is
willing to see value and pay for it.
25. Growing Importance of
Services
Economic well being increases the
demand of services
Changing lifestyle
Complexity of the product
26. Characteristics of Services
Intangibility
Perishability
Inseparability
Variability
Client relationships
Right of owner-ship
27. Intangibility
Hard to grasp, concept is abstract
Dramatization often necessary for concept
Hard to separate the service provider and the
service
28. Perishability
Services cannot be stored or held in
inventory.
If not used when available, they “go to
waste”.
29. Inseparability
Outlet accessibility can limit the area covered
by the service.
Image is important: Image affects the
perception of the service.
30. Variability
Service quality tends to vary
considerably.
Haircut from your hair dresser vs.
“Javed Habib”
31. Client Relationships
Relationships between service organizations
and customers are often close
Potential for loyalty longterm
32. Right of owner-ship
It is not taken to the service, we merely
experience it.
e.g. Services of a doctor, lawyer, teacher,
mechanic, etc..
33. Difference between physical
goods and services
Physical goods Services
tangible intangible
homogeneous heterogeneous
Production and distribution are Production, distribution and
separated from consumption consumption are simultaneous
processes
A thing An activity or process
Core value processed in factory Core value produced in the buyer-
seller interaction
Customers do not participate in Customers participate in
the production process production
Can be kept in stock Cannot be kept in stock
Transfer of ownership No transfer of ownership
34. SERVICES MARKETING MIX
Product
Place
Prize
Promotion
People
Physical Evidence
Process
35. In services, the last
experience remains
uppermost in your mind.
Therefore, it is not enough to
be good, you have to be
consistently good
39. The Elements of Marketing Mix
Product activities
Quality, features, style, brand name, packaging, sizes,
services, warranties, returns
Pricing activities
Target customers, cost, competition, the law, social
responsibility
Promotional activities
Advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, publicity and
public relations
Place or Distribution related activities
Physical distribution
Transportation, warehosuing and storage, Order processing,
Inventory control, Location
Channels of distribution
40. The Place of the Marketing Mix in
Marketing planning
Current Marketing Situation
Identification of Problems and Opportunities
Defining Objectives
Designing the Marketing Strategy
Developing the marketing programme
41. The Relationship between Marketing Mix
and Marketing Strategy
The concept of Optimum Marketing Mix
42. Marketing Mix and some specific Situation
New product development and
marketing mix
Product life cycle and marketing mix
Role of Advertising in marketing mix
Role of price in marketing mix
45. The Concept of Market
In respect of the network of institutions like
wholesalers and brokers dealing in a product
To refer to the nature of demand for the product,
as when we speak of the market for soap
46. The concept of segmentation
Relationship of a segment to a market
Market Segmentation versus product
development
Benefits and doubts about segmentation
What is grouped in forming segments
What, how, where, when, why, who
47. Bases for Segmentation
Geographic
Region, City or Metro
Size, Density, Climate
Demographic
Age, Gender, Family size
and Life cycle, Race,
Occupation, or Income ...
Psychographic
Lifestyle or Personality
Behavioral
Occasions, Benefits,
Uses, or Attitudes
48. Segmenting Business Markets…Contd.
Personal
Demographics
Characteristics
Bases
Bases
for Segmenting
for Segmenting
Situational Business
Business Operating
Factors Markets
Markets Characteristics
Purchasing
Approaches
49. How is the basis for segmentation selected?
Methods that companies use
Logical division
Perceptual mapping technique
Considerations in using perceptual maps
50. Selection of Segments
General factors
Company trust
Size & growth potential
Investment needed
Profitability
Risk
Competition
Specific Segmentation factors
Segment durability
Mobility
Visibility
accessibility
52. Principles of Designing an Organisation
Specialisation
Departmentalisation
Standardisation
Formalisation
Centralisation
Evaluation
Structure
53. Marketing Organisation
The changing role of Marketing Organisation
Simple sales department
Sales department with some marketing function
Separate marketing department
Integrated marketing department
Marketing oriented organisation
Considerations involved in designing the marketing organisation
Statement of objective and goals of the firm
Nature of the product/Line of activity
Areas of operation
Nature of Industry
Computerisation & up-gradation of information system
External environment & Government intervention.
54. Marketing Organisation
Methods of designing the Marketing Organisation
Functional Organisation
Product Management Organisation
Market Centered Organisation
Organisation of Corporate Marketing
No corporate marketing support
Minimal corporate marketing support
moderate corporate marketing
Strong corporate marketing
56. The Context of Marketing Decisions
Definition of Marketing Research
Purpose of Marketing Research
Scope of Marketing Research
Marketing Research Procedure
Problem Definition
Research design
Field Work
Data Analysis
Report presentation and implementation
Marketing Research in India
Problems of conducting marketing research
57. Application of Marketing Research
Sales & Market Analysis
Determination of market potential
Determination of market share
Sales forecasting
Design of market segmentation studies
Target market
Distribution channel studies
Determination of market characteristics
Determination of competitive information
Product Research
Evaluation of new product ideas
Testing for new product acceptance
Evaluating the need for change in product information
Testing package design
Testing of product positioning
58. Application of Marketing Research
Business Economics and corporate research
Studies of business trends
Pricing studies
Diversification studies
Product mix studies
Plant & warehouse location studies
Advertising Research
Audience Measurement
Determining the most cost effective media plan
Copy Testing
Determining advertising effectiveness
Consumer behaviour research
61. Importance of consumer behaviour for
marketers
Types of consumers
Buyers v/s Users
62. Figure 16.2 A Simple Model of Consumer Decision Making
External Influences
Sociocultural Environment
Firm’s Marketing Efforts
1. Family
Input 1. Product
2. Informal sources
2. Promotion
3. Other noncommercial sources
3. Price
4. Social class
4. Channels of distribution
5. Subculture and culture
Consumer Decision Making
Psychological Field
1. Motivation
Need Recognition 2. Perception
3. Learning
Process Prepurchase Search 4. Personality
5. Attitudes
Evaluation of Alternatives
Experience
Postdecision Behavior
Purchase
Output
1. Trial Postpurchase Evaluation
2. Repeat purchase
63. Factors influencing consumer behaviour
External Environment
Individual Determinants
culture Problem
Recognition others
Information
search
learning perception
Purchasing
decision
family subculture
Postpurchase
behaviour motivation
personality
attitudes
social group social class
65. What is a decision?
Process of decision making
Involvement
Alternative differentiation
Time pressure
66. Types of Consumer Decision
Making
What to buy
How much to buy
Where to buy
When to buy
How to buy
67. Levels of Consumer Decision
Making
Buying Roles
Buying Behaviour
Extensive problem solving
Routinized buying behaviour
Variety seeking behaviour
68. Stages in the Buyer Decision
Process
Gather Evaluate
Identify the information the
problem about the alternative
recognition product s and
and brands select the
best
possible
alternative
Purchase
Post
decision/
purchase
buying the
Evaluation
product
• Post purchase use
and disposal
69. Models of Buyer Behaviour
Horward-Seth Model
Inputs
Perceptual & learning constructs
Outputs
Exogenous or external variable
Engel-Kollat-Bloackwell Model
Information processing
Central control unit
Decision process
Environmental influences
Model of family decision making
Influencers
Gatekeepers
Deciders
Preparers
Buyers
users
Model of industrial buyer behaviour
70. Chapter 10
Indian Consumer Environment
Demographic Characteristics
Income and consumption characteristics
Characteristics of organisational consumers
Geographic characteristics
Market potential
Socio cultural characteristics
73. Product
Anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy a want or need
Physical goods
Services
Experiences
Events
Persons
Places
Properties
Organizations
Information
Ideas
74. Productbenefit
Marketer has to turn core
Levels Encompasses all possible
into basic product augmentation and transformations
Bank accounts like savings account, Thethe product might undergo in future
fundamental service or
current account product the customer is buying
Anywhere banking, ATM sharing,
In a CRM the customer is looking for
bank priority banking, portfolio
security of his money
management
A product that exceeds customer
expectations A set of attributes and conditions the
A bank can offer facilities like buyers expect when they buy the product
ATM/Debit cards, Telebanking, Internet The bank customer would expect a cheque
Banking and also other financial book, locker and other deposit products like
services FD, RD
75. Product Mix
Product mix has a certain…
Width
Length
Depth
Consistency
76. Case Study
Product-Mix Width and Product-Line Length for PepsiCo India
Product-Mix Width
Beverages Juice Snacks
Pepsi Tropicana Lays
Mountain Dew Orange Cheetos
Product-line Aquafina Nature Sweet Lehar
Length Mirinda Apple Numkeens
7-Up Grape Nutyumz
Dukes Soda Pineapple Kurkure
Dukes Mangola Tomato
Slice Mixed Fruit
77. Case Study
The Times Group
Print Net Entertainment Retail
82. Product Line Decisions
B. Product line Length
a. Objectives
b. Cycle
1. Line Stretching
a. Down market Stretch
b. Up market Stretch
c. Two way stretch
2. Line Filling
Just-noticeable difference
3. Line Modernization, Featuring and Pruning
83. Chapter 12
Product Life cycle and New Product
Development
The Product Life Cycle Concept
Marketing Mix at different stages
84.
85. Strategy Introduction Growth Maturity Decline
1. Objective Aggressive Entry Maximize Share Boast Milk
Profits Products
2. Focus Non- Users New Segments Defend Cut Costs
Share
3.Customer Innovators Early Majority Laggards
Targets Adopters
4.Competitor Few Growing Number Many Declining
5.Differentiated Product Brand Image Price & Service Price
Advantage Performance
Marketing MIX Introduction Growth Maturity Decline
1. Product Basic Extension & Differentiation Rationalize
Enhancement & Variety Range
2. Price High Lower Lower Stabilizing
3.Promotion High High Falling Low
4. Advertisement Awareness Brand Loyalty Selective
Forms. Performance
5.Distribution Selective Intensive Intensive Rationalize
86. New Product Development Strategy
Stages in new product development
Ideas generation
Screening of ideas
Concept testing
Product designing and evaluation
Product testing
Product launching
88. Branding
Definition: “A brand is a name, Term, Sign, Symbol,
Brand or combination of them intended to identify
the goods or services of one seller or group of
sellers and to differentiate them from those of
competitors.”
-American Marketing Association
•Trademarks – legal right to the exclusive use of that name or mark
89. Challenges in Branding and
decisions
Branding to be or not to be..
Whether Produce Manufacturer Brands or
Distributor / Private Brands
Which Brand Name/s to use
Whether to use Line extensions, Brand
Extensions, Multi Brands, New Brands or
Cobrands
90. Brand Name Features
A Brand name should
suggest something about the product’s
benefits
suggest the product or service category
suggest concrete, “high imagery” qualities
be easy to spell, pronounce, recognize, and
remember
be distinctive
not carry poor meanings in other countries and
languages
91. Packaging
What is packaging
Packaging Industry
Used materials : Metals, plastics, wood, paper, glass, laminates, polysters,
etc.
Functions of packaging
Protection,
Appeal
Performance
Offer convenience to the end-users
Cost effective
Legal dimensions of packaging
Statutory requirements
Net weight, when packed
Date of manufacture
Date of expiry
Directions of storage
MRP
Directions for use
98. Corporate Pricing Objectives
•Survival
•Low Prices to Cover Variable Costs and Some Fixed Costs to
Stay in Business.
•Current Profit Maximization
•Choose the Price that Produces the Maximum Current Profit, Etc.
•Market Share Leadership
•Low as Possible Prices to Become the Market Share Leader.
•Product Quality Leadership
•High Prices to Cover Higher Performance Quality and R & D.
•Market Skimming
•Initially setting up High Prices to Skim the market
99. Selecting the Price Objective
Survival
Survival Maximum current
Maximum current
(Mobile Operators)
(Mobile Operators)
profit
profit
(Aiwa)
(Aiwa)
Maximum market
Maximum market
share
share
(Kodak KB)
(Kodak KB)
Maximum market
Maximum market Product-quality
Product-quality
skimming
skimming leadership
leadership
(Nokia Handsets / Intel Micro Chips)
(Nokia Handsets / Intel Micro Chips) (Maruti)
(Maruti)
100. Estimating Cost
Fixed Costs
Fixed Costs Variable Costs
Variable Costs
(Overhead)
(Overhead)
Costs that don’t
Costs that don’t Costs that do vary
Costs that do vary
vary with sales or
vary with sales or directly with the
directly with the
production levels.
production levels. level of production.
level of production.
Executive Salaries
Executive Salaries Raw materials
Raw materials
Rent
Rent
Total Costs
Total Costs
Sum of the Fixed and Variable Costs for a Given
Sum of the Fixed and Variable Costs for a Given
Level of Production
Level of Production
101. Selecting a Pricing Method
Markup Pricing
Target Return Pricing
Perceived Value Pricing
Value Pricing
Going-Rate Pricing
Sealed-Bid Pricing
102. Pricing Methods
Markup price = unit cost
(1-desired return on sales)
Where unit cost is variable cost + (fixed cost/unit sales)
Target return pricing (target ROI) =
Unit cost + desired return X invested capital
Unit sales
Break even volume = fixed cost
Price – variable cost
103. Pricing Methods
Value-based Pricing
Pricing strategy reflects the beliefs and
attitudes of the customer.
Perceived price/quality relationship.
Price is based on an understanding of the
value of the product as perceived by the
customer.
105. Pricing Methods
Going-Rate
Company Sets Prices Based On What Competitors Are
Charging.
Sealed-Bid
Company Sets Prices Based On What They Think
Competitors Will Charge.
106. Selecting the Final Price
Psychological pricing
Sometimes price is equated to quality
Reference Price
Influencing of other marketing-mix elements
The final price must be take in to account the brands quality
and advertising relative to competition
Company pricing policies
The Price must be consistent with company pricing policies
Impact of price on other parties
such as dealers and distributors
107. Geographical Pricing
Adjusting prices to account for the Geographical Location
of Customers
Marketing Management –
Philip Kotler
US Price $124.67
India Price Rs. 310
Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
US Price $17.99
India Price Rs. 636
108. Discount & Allowance
Discount & Allowance
Reducing Prices to Reward
Reducing Prices to Reward
Customer Responses such as
Customer Responses such as
Paying Early or Promoting
Paying Early or Promoting
the Product.
the Product.
Cash Discount
Cash Discount
Quantity Discount
Quantity Discount
Functional Discount
Functional Discount
Seasonal Discount
Seasonal Discount
Trade-In Allowance
Trade-In Allowance Promotional Allowance
Promotional Allowance
109. Promotional Pricing
• Reducing Prices to Increase Short-Run Sales
• Reducing Prices to Reward Customer Responses such
as Paying Early or Promoting the Product.
111. Product Mix Pricing Strategies
Optional-Product Pricing
Optional-Product Pricing
Pricing Optional or Accessory Products
Pricing Optional or Accessory Products
Sold With The Main Product
Sold With The Main Product
i.e. Car Options such as a CD player
i.e. Car Options such as a CD player
Captive-Product Pricing
Captive-Product Pricing
Product
Product Pricing Products That Must Be
Pricing Products That Must Be
Used Along With The Main Product
Mix
Mix Used Along With The Main Product
e.g. Printer cartridges
e.g. Printer cartridges
Pricing
Pricing By-Product Pricing
By-Product Pricing
Strategies
Strategies Pricing Low-Value By-Products To
Pricing Low-Value By-Products To
Get Rid of Them
Get Rid of Them
e.g. Sugarcane
e.g. Sugarcane
Product-Bundle Pricing
Product-Bundle Pricing
Bundles Of Products Sold
Bundles Of Products Sold
Together at a Reduced Price
Together at a Reduced Price
e.g. Gillete razor blades & foam
e.g. Gillete razor blades & foam
113. Analyzing Competitors ’Cost ,Prices and Offers
The company needs to benchmark its
costs against its competitors’cost to
learn whether it is operating at a cost
advantage or disadvantage.
The company also needs to learn the
price and quality of competitors’ offers
114. Assessing & Responding to
Competitor Price Changes
Has Competitor Cut
Has Competitor Cut No Hold Current Price;
Price? Hold Current Price;
Price? Continue to Monitor
Continue to Monitor
Competitor’s Price.
Competitor’s Price.
Yes
Will Lower Price
Will Lower Price
Negatively Affect Our No
Negatively Affect Our
Market Share & Profits?
Market Share & Profits?
Reduce Price
Reduce Price
Yes
Raise Perceived
Raise Perceived
Can/ Should Effective No Quality
Quality
Can/ Should Effective
Action be Taken?
Action be Taken? Improve Quality
Improve Quality
& Increase Price
& Increase Price
Yes
Launch Low-Price
Launch Low-Price
“Fighting Brand”
“Fighting Brand”
116. The Communication
Process
M essage
Sender E n c o d in g M e d ia D e c o d in g R e c e iv e r
N o is e
Feedback Re sp o n se
117. Marketing Communication
Mix
Advertising
Sales
Promotion
Marketing Direct
Communication Marketing
Public
Relation
s
Personal
Selling
118. The Promotion Mix
Personal Selling
Direct Marketing
Personal Selling
Public Relations
Special Offer Sales Promotion
Advertising
Advertising
119. Advertising
A paid nonpersonal communication
about an organization and its
products transmitted to a
target audience through mass media
Mass Media
Newspapers
TV
Radio
Magazines
Billboards
Eg : Johnson & Johnson
120. Sales Promotion
Consists of a diverse collection of
incentive tools, mostly short term,
designed to stimulate quicker or greater
purchase of particular products or
services by consumers or the trade
Types of sales promotions
Coupon
Point-of-Purchase
Premium: free/ reduced-price
Trade Show
Contests & More
Britannia Khao World Cup
Jao
121. Public Relations & Publicity
Promotional tool Identify, establish, and
maintain beneficial relationships between
a company and its stakeholders
Benefits
Corporate visibility
Image Building
Product Information
Patni Computers
i-flex solutions
122. Personal Selling
Promotional tool in which a
salesperson communicates
one-on-one with potential customers
Advantages
Immediate response
Tailored message
Ability to measure effectiveness
Disadvantages
Relies on ability of sales rep.
Expensive per contact
JCI
Franco Indian Pharma
123. Direct Marketing & Others
Direct Communications with Carefully
Targeted Individual Consumers to
Obtain an Immediate Response
Face-to-Face
Face-to-Face
Online
Online Selling
Selling
Marketing
Marketing
Direct-Mail
Direct-Mail
Marketing
Marketing
Kiosk
Kiosk
Marketing
Marketing Catalog
Catalog
Marketing
Marketing
Direct-Response
Direct-Response Telemarketing
Telemarketing
TV Marketing
TV Marketing
Tracmail
Rohini International
124. Push & Pull Strategy
Push Policy
Promoting a product only to the next institution down the
marketing channel
Pull Policy
Promoting a product directly to consumers to develop stronger
consumer demand that pulls products through the marketing
channel
125. Determinants of promotion mix
Type of
product
Target Nature of
Audience market
Determinants
Company Stage in
Policy the PLC
Budget
126. Must Set the Communications Budget for Each
After Determining Its Objectives, the Marketer
Establish the Communication
Product and Market.
Affordable Percentage
Percentage o
Based on What the Based on a Certai
Based on a Certain
Company Can Afford of Current or Fore
of Current or Forec
Objective-and-Task
Objective-and-Task Competitive
Competitive
Based on Determining
Based on Determining Based on the C
Based on the Co
Objectives & Tasks, Then
Objectives & Tasks, Then Promotion B
Promotion B
Estimating Costs
Estimating Costs
Budget
128. Chapter 16
Advertising and Publicity
How advertising works?
Types of advertising
Role of advertising
Advertising expenditure
Advertising management
Setting advertising objective
Developing advtg. Copy and message
Selecting and scheduling media
Measuring advertising effectiveness
Coordinating with ad agency
Publicity
Use of publicity
Measuring effectiveness of publicity
130. Personal Selling
Role of personal Selling
Types of selling jobs
Merchandise deliveries
Inside order-taker
Outside order-taker
Missionary salesperson
Sales engineer
Tangible product seller
Intangible product seller
The selling process
Preparation
Prospecting
Preapproach
Approach
Sales presentation
Handling objectives
Closing the sale
Post-sale follow-up
131. What is sales promotion?
Sales promotion consists of a diverse
collection of incentive tools, mostly short
term, designed to stimulate quicker and or
greater purchase of particular
products/services by consumers or trade
-Kotler
“Below the line”
132. What is sales promotion?
Non personal promotional effort that are
designed to have immediate impact on
sales
Employed for a pre-determined limited
period to increase consumer demand or
stimulate market demand
133. What is sales promotion?
Sales promotion offers an incentive to buy
Encompasses everything that is outside of
advertising, PR and DM
Uses advertising, PR and DM to deliver the
sales promotion
Can be planned to increase sales over a long
period and not necessarily about immediate
results (privilege / mileage points)
134. Why has SP grown so much?
Results ! - immediate / quick boost to
sales
Results over finite period of time - v/s
advertising or PR
Results are measurable
Easy and inexpensive to implement
Costs & efficiency of mass media /
advertising has risen considerably
135. ….
Product managers face pressure to
increase sales
Companies face more competition
Consumers have become more deal
oriented
Sales Promotions work!
136. How does SP work?
Consumer decision making process (except for
low cost, low involvement impulse pur.)
- Awareness
- Information gathering
- Pre purchase evaluation
- decision
- PURCHASE
- Post purchase evaluation
137. - Awareness
Advt / PR
- Information gathering
- Pre purchase evaluation Per Sell
- Decision
SP
- PURCHASE
- Post purchase evaluation
138. SP works because ...
It alters the price / value relationship
that the product offers the buyer
Lowers price - use of coupons, discounts
Add value - value packs, extra free
Everybody loves freebies
Consumers have a reason to purchase
the product NOW
Justifies post purchase evaluation
139. Advantages
Sales promotions help shape buying patterns
- Annual sales
Attract new audiences - trials for new
products
Increase sales - freebies, buy 1 get 1 free
Increases profits
Helps move stock / liquidate inventory
Increases awareness - reach new buyers
140. Advantages
Encourages the consumer to buy more than
usual on a single shopping visit
Reminder of product, especially when a new
product / competitor is about to launch
Improving TOM recall of the brand if promo is
advertised in mass media
Demoralise newly launched brands
141. Disadvantages
Can seem like last minute panic measures
and that can signal failure
Can give an impression of hard sell
Greed for sales - promos are often not related
to the strategic elements of the brands mktg.
mix
Often viewed as simple reactionary
techniques to increase sales and profits
Dilutes brand value - discount brands
143. ‘Samsung pinning toh winning’
All India promo
Aggressive use of mass media
Consumer gets an assured gift on
purchase of any Samsung product
100 cr worth of prizes on offer
Sms 16 digit pin and the gift u get wl b
sms’d 2 u.
Cash in on Diwali purchases
144. ‘Phod ke dekho’ offer
Consumer promotion scheme
Packaged as a coconut which cons
picks on purchase of a Samsung
product
Breaking the coconut reveals a chance
to win a gift
Strong consumer acceptance helped co
to achieve a growth of 35% in sales
over last year - same period
145. Test drive and win
Tata Motors celebrated 50 years
Offer to test drive any Tata car - fill a
form - and lucky winners could win
Prize Indica V2 Petrol
Buzz / Hype / Awareness
Mass media - TV / Press / DM
Helped build / gather data base
Buzz around Petrol
147. Developing a Sales Promotion and
Merchandising Plan
Set sales promotion and merchandising
objectives.
What is your target audience?
Establish a tentative sales promotion and
merchandising budget.
Select sales promotion and merchandising
techniques.
148. Developing a Sales Promotion and
Merchandising Plan
Select media for distributing promotions.
Decide on timing of sales promotions and
merchandising.
Pretest sales promotions and merchandising.
Prepare final sales promotion and
merchandising plan and budget.
Measure and evaluate sales promotion and
merchandising success.
149. 10 commandments of sales
promos
Know Specific
Coordinate when to objectives
with mktg break
Know
Basic
Support techniques
brand
image Creativity
Simplicity
Reinforce
Know Attn
advertising
your grabbing
Be clear target visuals
151. Chapter 18
Sales Forecasting
What is a sales forecast?
How to prepare a sales forecast?
Product sales determinants
Consumer non-durable goods
Consumer durable goods
Industrial goods
Approach to sales forecasting
Breakdown approach
Market build-up approach
152. Methods of forecasting
Executive Judgement
Surveys
Time series analysis
Corelation and regression methods
Market tests
Combining forecast and using judgement
Status of forecasting method usage
The evaluation of forecasts
Computerised sales forecasting
Relating the sales forecast to the sales budget an profit
planning
153. Chapter 19
Distribution Strategy
Importance of channel of distribution
Alternative channels of distribution
Direct selling
Mercantile Agents
Brokers
Commission agent
Merchant Middlemen
Wholesalers
Retailers
Functions performed by retailers
Services rendered by the retailers
Effective coordination between wholesaler and retailers
Types of retailers
Department stores
Co-operative stores
Multiple shops or chain stores
154. Role of middlemen in Indian Economy
Selecting an appropriate channel
The type of product
Nature and extent of the marker
Existing channels for comparable products
Buying habits of consumers
Cost involved in distribution
Physical distribution tasks
Location of manufacturing facilities
Location of warehouses
Mode and method of transportation
Inventory decisions
Using external distribution agency
Location of fixed facilities
Specific issues relating to maintenance of stocks
155. Chapter 20
Managing Sales personnel
Selling and sales management
Recruitment and selection of salesmen
Training of sales personnel
Motivating the sales personnel
Controlling the sales personnel
156. Chapter 21
Marketing and Public Policy
Regulatory role of the government
Role of government in marketing in developing
economy
Government control and marketing decision making
process
Impact of government control on product decision
Impact of government control on pricing decision
Impact of government control on promotion decision
Impact of government control on channel and
distribution decision
157. Chapter 22
Cyber Marketing
What is cyber marketing
Cyber marketing and conventional marketing
Interconnectivity
Interactivity
Involvement
Information
Individualisation
integrity
Cyber marketing model
The nature of cyber marketing
Customer profiling, segmentation and targeting
Product planning
Branding
Pricing decision
Advertising and sales promotion
Distribution
Marketing research
158. Limitations of cyber marketing
Limits of digitisation
Shopping experience
Security issues
Internet access density
Customers used to freebies
Dot.com bust
Attracting traffic to the internet site
159. What is internet ??
Global network of interconnected networks.
Includes millions of corporate, government,
organizational and private networks.
Types of network forming internet
Intranet
Extranet
Web
160. What is E- Marketing
Process of growing & promoting an organization
using online media
Ties creative and technical aspects of internet.
Creating, communicating and delivering value to
customers.
Managing customer relationship.
161. Objectives of Internet
Marketing
Create Awareness.
Generate Interest.
Disseminate Information.
Create an Image.
Create a Strong Brand.
162. Characteristics of Internet
marketing
Relatively Inexpensive.
Wide reach.
Allows research, purchase of
products and services on convenience.
Quick Response.
163. Differentiators from offline
Marketing
One-to-one vs. one-to-many approach
Demographics targeting vs. behavioral
targeting.
Measurability .
Response and immediate results.
164. Limitations of E- Marketing
Dependant on technology.
Rigid mindset.
Virtual aspect.
Security Concern.
Maintenance Cost.
Global competition.
166. Strength
Your specialist marketing expertise.
A new, innovative product or service.
Location of your business.
Quality processes and procedures.
Any other aspect of your business that
adds value to your product or service.
167. Weakness
Lack of marketing expertise.
Undifferentiated products or services.
Location of your business.
Poor quality goods or services.
Damaged reputation.
168. Opportunity
A developing market such as the
Internet.
Mergers, joint ventures or strategic
alliances.
Moving into new market segments that
offer improved profits.
A new international market.
A market vacated by an ineffective
competitor
169. Threat
A new competitor in your home market.
Price wars with competitors.
A competitor has a new, innovative
product or service.
Competitors have superior access to
channels of distribution.
Taxation is introduced on your product
or service.
170. Hidden Benefits
Tax Breaks.
Low Start up Costs.
Low Operating Costs.
High Profit Margin.
Market for little or no money.
You do not need your own Product.
Time Freedom.
Open 24 Hours in every country.
172. Product
Make sure that your product is something that
is useful to your intended customers.
Make sure that the product does what it says.
Ensure Quality.
Packaging.
Brand Consistency.
Good After Sales Service.
173. Price
Competitive Pricing.
Customers willingness to pay.
Experimentation with price.
174. Place
Placement on Major Search Engines.
Placement of vertical search engines/
guides and local search.
Placement through affiliates.
175. Promotion
Promotion through display advertising.
Promotion though search marketing.
Promotion through socal media.
Promotion through Public Relations.