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chapter 7 marketing
Products, Services and Brands
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Product | Anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that might satisfy a want or need.(ex. services, events, places, ideas or mixes of them.) |
| Core benefit | What the buyer is really buying. |
| Services | form of a product that consists of activities, benefits, satisfaction offered for sale that are essentially intangible and do not result in ownership of something. |
| Levels of product | *Core customer value*Actual product*Augmented product |
| Consumer Products | Products and services bought by final consumers for personal consumption. (ex. convience products, shopping products, specialty products and unsought products. |
| Convenience products | Consumer products and services that customers usually buy frequently, immediately and with minimal comparison and buying effort.(ex. candy, magazines, soap.) |
| Shopping Products | Less frequently purchased consumer products & services that customers compare carefully on suitability, quality, price and style. (ex. clothing, furniture, used cars.) |
| Specialty Products | Consumer products and services with unique characteristics or brand identification for which a significant group of buyers is wiling to make a special purchasing effort. (ex. designer clothes, enhancing medical services and legal specialists) |
| Unsought Products | Consumer either does not know or knows about, but does not normally think of buying. (ex. life insurance, funeral plans) Requires alot of advertising, personal sellin and marketing. |
| Industrial Products | Those purchased for further processing or for use in conducting business. Based on the purposefor which the product is bought. (ex. If a person buys a lawn mower to use around the home it is consdereda consumer product, but used landscape is this. |
| Organizational Marketing | Consists of activities undertaken to create, maintain or change the attitudes and behavior of target consumers toward an organization. (Ex.business and advertising firms) |
| Person Marketing | Consists of activities undertaken to create, maintain or change the attitudes and behavior of target consumers toward particular people. |
| Place Marketing | Consists of activities undertaken to create, maintain or change the attitudes and behavior of target consumers toward particular places. |
| Social Marketing | Use of commercial marketing concepts and tools in programs designed to influence individuals behaviors to improve their well-being and that of society. |
| Corporate Image Advertising | A tool companies use to market the company as a whole to various publics such as investors and potential employees. |
| Marketers make product and service decisions based on | 1.)Individual product decisions2.)Product Line decisions3.)Product Mix decisions |
| Product Quality(Level and Consistency) | One of the marketers major positioning tools. The characteristic of a product or service that relies on its ability to satisfy stated or implied customer needs. |
| Total Quality Management (TQM) | Is a approach on which all the company's people are involved in constantly improving the quality of the products, services and the business processes. |
| Performance Quality | The abilty of a product to perform its functions. |
| Conformance Quality | Freedom from defects and consistency in delivering a targeted level of performance. |
| Brand | Is the name, term, sign, symbol or design or a combination of these that identifies the maker or seller of a product or service. |
| Packaging | The activities of designing and producing the container or wrapper for a product. Attracts attention, desribes product to make sale. |
| Labels | Identify products or brands, desribe several things about the product, who made it? Where its made, and how to use it, Contents. |
| Product Line | Is a group of products that are closely related because they function in a similar manner, are sold to the same customer groups, are marketed throuh the same types of outlets or fall with in given price ranges. |
| Product Line Length | The number of items in the product line. |
| Product Line Filling | Involves adding more items with in the present range of the line.(ex. reaches extra profits,satifies dealers, plugging holes to keep out competitors.) |
| Product Line Stretching | Occurs when a company lengthens its product line beyond its current range. |
| Downward-upper-end companies | Adding low-end products attractions. |
| Upward stretch | Add prestige to their current products. |
| Line stretching in Both directions | Serves both upper and lower ends of the market. |
| Product mix (product portfolio) | The set of all products lines and items that a particular seller offers for sale. |
| Dimensions of product mix | Width, Length, Depth and Consistency. |
| A powerful brand has high brand equity | Measures the brand's ability to capture consumer preference and loyalty. |
| Brand equity | Positive differential effect that knowing the brand name has on the customer's response to the product or service. |
| Consumer perception dimensions | Differentiation, relevance, knowledge, esteem. |
| Brand valuation | Process of estimating the total financial value of a brand. |
| Consumer equity | The value of a customer relationships that the brand creates. |
| Store brands (private brands) | A brain created and owned by a reseller of a product or service.(Generic or no-name) |
| Licensing | For a fee. Companies allowed use of names or symbols previously created by other manufacturers to be displayed. |
| Co-branding | Practice of using the established brand names of two different companies on the same product. One company licenses another company's well-known brand to use in combination with its own. |
| Line extensions | Extending an existing brand name to new forms, colors, sizes, ingredients or flavors of an existing product category.(ex. Kosher salt, sea salt, popcorn salt) |
| Brand extension | Extends the current brand name to a new or modified products in a new category. Give instant recognition saves high advertising costs but involves risk may confuse image of main brand. |
| Multi-branding | Offers a way to establish different features and appeal to different buying motives. |
| Mega-Brand strategies | Weeding out weaker brands and focusing their marketing dollars only on brands that can achieve the number one or number two market share positions in their categories. |
| Services account for | Close to 79% of US gross domestic product. Estimated 4/5 jobs in the US to be these Industries. |
| Companies must consider special service characteristics when designing marketing programs | 1.) Intangibility 2.) Inseparability3.) Variability 4.) Perishability |
| Service intangibility(Major) | Service cannot be seen, tasted, felt, heard or smelled before bought. (ex. Surgery) |
| Service inseparability | Cannot be separated from providers, and they are produced and consumed at the same time. |
| Service variability | The quality may be very greatly depending on who provides them when, where, and how. (ex. Hotels and guest customer service) |
| Service perishability | They cannot be stored for later use or sale. |
| Service profit chain | The chain that links service firm prospects with employee and customer satisfaction. |
| Links of service profit chain | Internal service quality, satisfied and productive service employees, greater service value, satisfied and loyal customers, healthy service profits and growth. |
| Internal marketing | Orienting and motivating customer contact employees in the supporting service people to work as a team to provide customer satisfaction. |
| Interactive marketing | Training service employees in the fine art of interacting with customers to satisfy their needs. |
| Brand name | It's tangible because you can add value to it. How much would you pay for a no-name product, compared to a namebrand product? value |
| Parity | The quality or state of being equal or equivalent. Based on performance they are all the same. |
| Branding | Helps the buyer identify products, must be easy to pronounce, convey a benefit, translated easy into other languages. |
| Quality | Judging products/- at what level do you want to perform, conformance is a high quality measures how consistent, how the product performs, features is the design and style. |
| Brand-new product choices | Multibrand, new brands, line extensions, brand extensions. |
| Sponsorship options | Manufactures/national, Private label, Licensed, Co-branded. |
| Over 90 percent of new products | Consumers don't want or need products, cost of failures enormous. |
| Brand equity | A high-level means more loyalty more advantages in power and helps launch extension helps to defend against price competition. |