Marketing Midterm 2 Flashcards
What is a product?
Good or service (most are a combination)
Good
Tangible object
Service
Intangible Offering
Product Layers
Core Product: (Benefits we Get)
Actual Product: (Features, Packaging, Brand quality)
Augmented Product: (Things to entice us: Warranty, repair service, installation)
3 types of new products
Continuous innovations
Dynamically Continuous innovations
Discontinuos innovations
Continuos Innovations
Little Disruptive Influence Ex: New flavor of chips
Dynamically Continuous Innovations
Some disruption but don’t alter existing buying patterns (Electric toothbrush to manual toothbrush)
Discontinuos innovations
Fundamental changes in buying behavior
Ex: Cars
8 (3) P’s of service Marketing
Physical Evidence (Appearance) Process (way service is created and delivered) Productivity g output with quality(balancin
4 Charachteristics of a service
Intangebile, Perishable, Variable (performed differently from time to time), Inseperable (tied to provider)
Gap analysis
Difference btwn expectation of serivice and what actually
3-new service
If labor intensive, Providers are part of the expwerience and innovation
May require customer s prescence
No tangible product to carry brand name
2 Service innovations
New elements improving or existing
continuos innovation
(purple cow)
Diffusion
Manner/Speed which consumer adopt new products
4- Categories of adopters
- Innovators: young risk takers (2.5%)
- Early adopters: heavy media users (3.5%)
- Early majority: Middle class (34%)
- Late majority: Older less educated (34%)
- Laggards: traditionalists (16%)
Product life cycle
Introduction
Growth (Peak profit)
Maturity
Decline
3 Strategies for elongating product lifestyle
Modify
Find New customers
Find new issues
Value Migration
Making: Good
Better
Best Version
Brand
Name , logo, core value to set you apart
-Your offer of value and promise to customer
6 Charachteristics of a good brand
- Communicated distinctive value
- Is “relevant “ to the customer
- Resonates w/customer
- Sustained over time- long term
- Reinforce intended positioning
- Easily Understood by customers and employees
3 levels of brand loyalty
Brand recognition
Brand Preference
Brand insistence
5 Entrepreneurial Branding process
- Conduct brand analysis
- Ridght fit of core strengths and customer needs - Determine Brand positioning
- Unique Desired benefits - Select Brand Name & Identity
- Brand communications strategy (Consistent Message)
- Select Branding Strategy
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Cooperate Branding
Branded house: Ex: Fedex, fedex prime
Individual Branding
House of Brands: Different product under one umbrella (Tide, Folgers, P&G)