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�Chapter Eight

Product, Services, and Branding Strategy

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Product, Services, and Branding Strategy�

  • What Is a Product?
  • Product and Services Decisions
  • Branding Strategy: Building Strong Brands
  • Services Marketing

Topic Outline

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What Is a Product?

Product is anything that can be offered in a market for attention, acquisition, use, or consumption that might satisfy a need or want.

Service is any activity or benefit that one party can offer to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything.

Experiences represent what buying the product or service will do for the customer.

Products, Services, and Experiences

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What Is a Product?

Levels of Product and Services

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What Is a Product?

Product and Service Classifications

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What Is a Product?

  • Consumer products are products and services for personal consumption
  • Classified by how consumers buy them
    • Convenience products
    • Shopping products
    • Specialty products
    • Unsought products

Product and Service Classifications

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What Is a Product?

Convenience products are consumer products and services that the customer usually buys frequently, immediately, and with a minimum comparison and buying effort

  • Newspapers
  • Candy
  • Fast food

Product and Service Classifications

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What Is a Product?

Shopping products are consumer products and services that the customer compares carefully on suitability, quality, price, and style

  • Furniture
  • Cars
  • Appliances

Product and Service Classifications

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What Is a Product?

Specialty products are consumer products and services with unique characteristics or brand identification for which a significant group of buyers is willing to make a special purchase effort

  • Medical services
  • Designer clothes
  • High-end electronics

Product and Service Classifications

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What Is a Product?

Unsought products are consumer products that the consumer does not know about or knows about but does not normally think of buying

  • Life insurance
  • Funeral services
  • Blood donations

Product and Service Classifications

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What Is a Product?

  • Industrial products are products purchased for further processing or for use in conducting a business
  • Classified by the purpose for which the product is purchased
    • Materials and parts
    • Capital
    • Raw materials

Product and Service Classifications

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What Is a Product?

Capital items are industrial products that aid in the buyer’s production or operations

Materials and parts include raw materials and manufactured materials and parts usually sold directly to industrial users

Supplies and services include operating supplies, repair and maintenance items, and business services

Product and Service Classifications

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What Is a Product?

Organization marketing consists of activities undertaken to create, maintain, or change attitudes and behavior of target consumers toward an organization

Organizations, Persons, Places, and Ideas

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What Is a Product?

Person marketing consists of activities undertaken to create, maintain, or change attitudes and behavior of target consumers toward particular people

Organizations, Persons, Places, and Ideas

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What Is a Product

Place marketing consists of activities undertaken to create, maintain, or change attitudes and behavior of target consumers toward particular places

Social marketing is the use of commercial marketing concepts and tools in programs designed to influence individuals’ behavior to improve their well-being and that of society

Organizations, Persons, Places, and Ideas

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Product and Services Decisions

  • Individual Product and Service
  • Decisions Product Line Decisions
  • Product Mix Decisions

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Product and Services Decisions

Individual Product and Service Decisions

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Product and Services Decisions

Product attributes are the benefits of the product or service

  • Quality
  • Features
  • Style and design

Individual Product and Service Decisions

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Product and Services Decisions

Product quality includes level and consistency

  • Quality level is the level of quality that supports the product’s positioning
  • Conformance quality is the product’s freedom from defects and consistency in delivering a targeted level of performance

Individual Product and Service Decisions

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Product and Services Decisions

Product features are a competitive tool for differentiating a product from competitors’ products�

Product features are assessed based on the value to the customer versus the cost to the company

Individual Product and Service Decisions

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Product and Services Decisions

Style describes the appearance of the product

Design contributes to a product’s usefulness as well as to its looks

Individual Product and Service Decisions

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Product and Services Decisions

Brand is a set of mental (Rational and Emotional) affiliation evoked by name, sign, symbol influence in purchase decision.

Branding is all activities for building and managing brand to change overall consumer perceptions towards the brand.

Brand equity is the differential effect that the brand name has on customer response to the product and its marketing.

Individual Product and Service Decisions

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Product and Services Decisions

Packaging involves designing and producing the container or wrapper for a product

Labels identify the product or brand, describe attributes, and provide promotion

Individual Product and Service Decisions

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Product and Services Decisions

Product support services augment actual products

Individual Product and Service Decisions

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Product and Services Decisions

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 through the same types of outlets, or fall within given price ranges

Product Line Decisions

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Product and Services Decisions

Product line length is the number of items in the product line

  • Line stretching
  • Line filling

Product Line Decisions

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Product and Services Decisions

Product mix consists of all the products and items that a particular seller offers for sale

  • Width
  • Length
  • Depth
  • Consistency

Product Mix Decisions

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Branding Strategy: Building Strong Brands

Brand Equity is the value build in a brand.

The total accumulated value or worth of a brand, the tangible and intangible assets that the brand contributes to its corporate parent, both financially and in terms of selling leverage.

Brand Equity

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Branding Strategy: Building Strong Brands

Brand represents the consumer’s perceptions and feelings about a product and its performance. It is the company’s promise to deliver a specific set of features, benefits, services, and experiences consistently to the buyers

Building a Strong Brand

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Branding Strategy: Building Strong Brands

Brand strategy decisions include:

  • Product attributes
  • Product benefits
  • Product beliefs and values

Brand Positioning

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Branding Strategy: Building Strong Brands

Desirable qualities

  1. Suggest benefits and qualities
  2. Easy to pronounce, recognize, and remember
  3. Distinctive
  4. Extendable
  5. Translatable for the global economy
  6. Capable of registration and legal protection

Brand Name Selection

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Branding Strategy: Building Strong Brands

  • Manufacturer’s brand
  • Private brand
  • Licensed brand
  • Co-brand

Brand Sponsorship

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Branding Strategy: Building Strong Brands

Brand Development Strategies

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Services Marketing

  • Government
  • Private not-for-profit organizations
  • Business services

Types of Service Industries

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Services Marketing

Nature and Characteristics of a Service

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Services Marketing

In addition to traditional marketing strategies, service firms often require additional strategies

  • Service-profit chain
  • Internal marketing
  • Interactive marketing

Marketing Strategies for Service Firms

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Services Marketing

Service-profit chain links service firm profits with employee and customer satisfaction

  • Internal service quality
  • Satisfied and productive service employees
  • Greater service value
  • Satisfied and loyal customers
  • Healthy service profits and growth

Marketing Strategies for Service Firms

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Services Marketing

Internal marketing means that the service firm must orient and motivate its customer contact employees and supporting service people to work as a team to provide customer satisfaction

Internal marketing must precede external marketing

Marketing Strategies for Service Firms

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Services Marketing

Interactive marketing means that service quality depends heavily on the quality of the buyer-seller interaction during the service encounter

  • Service differentiation
  • Service quality
  • Service productivity

Marketing Strategies for Service Firms

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Services Marketing

Managing service differentiation creates a competitive advantage from the offer, delivery, and image of the service

  • Offer can include distinctive features
  • Delivery can include more able and reliable customer contact people, environment, or process
  • Image can include symbols and branding

Marketing Strategies for Service Firms

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Services Marketing

Managing service quality provides a competitive advantage by delivering consistently higher quality than its competitors

Service quality always varies depending on interactions between employees and customers

Marketing Strategies for Service Firms

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Services Marketing

Managing service productivity refers to the cost side of marketing strategies for service firms

  • Employee recruiting, hiring, and training strategies
  • Service quantity and quality strategies

Marketing Strategies for Service Firms

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