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MARKETING MIX
Marketing Mix
 Marketing Mix is a combination of marketing
tools that a company uses to satisfy their target
customers and achieving organizational goals.
McCarthy classified all these marketing tools
under four broad categories:
>> Product , >> Price ,
>> Place , >> Promotion
 These four elements are the basic components
of a marketing plan and are collectively called 4
P’s of marketing.
Marketing Mix and 4P
Product
 Product: Product refers to the goods and
services offered by the organization. A pair of
shoes, a plate of rice, a lipstick, all are products.
All these are purchased because they satisfy
one or more of our needs. We are paying not for
the tangible product but for the benefit it will
provide. So, in simple words, product can be
described as a bundle of benefits which a
marketer offers to the consumer for a price.
While buying a pair of shoes, we are actually
buying comfort for our feet, while buying a
lipstick we are actually paying for beauty
because lipstick is likely to make us look good.
Product
 The range of products offered by an
organization is called the product mix.
 Motor car manufacturer- cheap, basic family
runabouts, medium prices family saloons, estate
cars, executive saloons, and sports cars. Within
most of these product lines, various refinement
can be offered e.g. two door and four door
function of the family saloons, variations in the
engine size and of course a range of colors.
Product
 The range of products offered by an
organization is called the product mix.
 Motor car manufacturer- cheap, basic family
runabouts, medium prices family saloons, estate
cars, executive saloons, and sports cars. Within
most of these product lines, various refinement
can be offered e.g. two door and four door
function of the family saloons, variations in the
engine size and of course a range of colors.
Product
 It is important to note that people generally want
to acquire the benefits of the product, rather
than its features. For example for buying a
motor car a person is buying such thing as
luxury or speed or economy or status. The facts
that these benefits are achieved by differences
in engine size suspension design or paintwork is
really of secondary interest. All the
organizations are selling benefits of the product
to their customers.
Product life cycle
 PLC: Various studies have shown that as the
time goes product passes though a series of
stages. The product life cycle is the combination
of these stages form the time they are
introduced until the time they are withdrawn.
Product life cycle
Product life cycle
 From the PLC it is possible to plan the product mix ,
plan the development and introduction of new
products , plan the development and introduction of
new products, plan to withdrawal or obsolete or
unprofitable products and set the revenue targets
for each product within the total range
Price
Price: Price is the amount charged for a product or
service. It is the second most important element in the
marketing mix. Fixing the price of the product is a
tricky job. The factors have to kept in mind while
pricing a product are:
 like demand for a product,
 cost involved,
 consumer’s ability to pay,
 prices charged by competitors for similar products,
government restrictions etc.
Price
 The activities of competitors have an important
bearing on pricing decision.
 The most obvious example is when a competitor’s
raises or lowers his prices. If your product can offer
no particular advantages over his, then if he drops
his price, you will have to follow suit.
Promotion
If the product is manufactured keeping the consumer
needs in mind, is rightly priced and made available at
outlets convenient to them but the consumer is not
made aware about its price, features, availability etc.,
its marketing effort may not be successful.
Promotion is done through means of personal selling,
advertising, publicity and sales promotion. It is done
mainly with a view to
prospective consumers
provide information to
about the availability,
characteristics and uses of a product.
Promotion- Advertising
Advertising:
communication,
Advertising is the process of
persuasive information about the
product to target market by means of the written and
spoken word, and by visual material. There are five
principal media of advertising as follows:
 The press- newspaper, magazines, journals etc.
 Commercial Television
 Direct mail
 Commercial radio
 Outdoor- hoardings, transport advertisements etc.
Promotion- Advertising
The aim of the adverting is given below:
 Increase customer familiarity with a product
 Inform customers about specific features of a product
 Inform the customers about the key benefits of a
product
 Establish the creditability of a product
 Encourage potential customers to buy the product
 Maintain loyalty of existing customers
Promotion- Advertising
Advertising effectiveness: There are two main ways
of looking at the question of advertising effectiveness-
the first is to consider the results of the advertising in
achieving target improvements in specific tasks e.g.
increasing brand awareness in a specific market; the
second is to consider the impact of advertising on
sales generally. It is extremely difficult to assess the
impact of advertising on sales as a whole, because so
many other factors, internal and external, are at work
in the marketing process of an organization
Promotion- Personal Selling
 Personal Selling: Personal selling is the promotion
activity consists of face to face meeting between the
buyer and seller or his repetitive. Advertising creates
the interest and the desire, but personal selling
clinches the deal. Personal selling is the most
expensive from of promotion.
 Companies which utilize an aggressive sales policy,
based on personal selling, are said to be adopting a
push strategy. By comparison firms which rely more
heavily on advertising are described as adopting a
pull strategy
Promotion- Personal Selling
Sales representative’s tasks:
 After sales servicing (dealing with technical quires,
deliveries matters etc.)
 Gathering information (feedback on customers
reactions, competitors activities etc.
 Communicating regular information to customers
and prospective buyers.
 Prospecting (Looking out new selling opportunities)
Promotion- Personal Selling
The effectiveness of sales
representatives can be measured in a
number of different ways. Typical
evaluation criteria include:
 Net sales achieved (per product, per
customer etc.)
 Call rate(no. of calls given in a
period)
 Values of sales per call
 No. of new sales/new customers
 Sales expense in proportion to sales
achieved
Promotion- Sales promotion
Sales promotion: Sales promotion activities are a form of indirect
advertising designed to stimulate sales mainly by the use of incentives.
Sales promotion activities are organized and funded by the organization’s
own resources. They can take a no. o different forms, as, for example:
Customer oriented:
 Free samples
 Twin pack bargains
 Temporary price reductions
Point of sale demonstrations
Trade oriented:
 Special discounts
 Co-operating advertising
 Bonuses/ prizes for sales representatives
 Provision of display material
Place
Place: Goods are produced to be sold to the consumers. They
must be made available to the consumers at a place where
they can conveniently make purchase. Foods and snacks are
manufactured on a large scale in Bangladesh and you
purchase them at a store from the nearby market in your town.
So, it is necessary that the product is available at shops in your
town. This involves a chain of individuals and institutions like
distributors, wholesalers and retailers who constitute firm’s
distribution network (also called a channel of distribution).
The channel though which the products are distributed to the
final customer are known as channel of distribution
Place-Channel of distribution
Most common channels of distribution are given below:
Channel A represents a direct marketing channel. Manufacturers of
goods such as m/c tools, computers, ships and other large expensive
items tend to move them direct to the buyer without involving
middleman or inter middleman. e.g.: ship/plane
Place-Channel of distribution
Most common channels of distribution are given below:
Channel B represents the typical chain for mass marketed
consumer goods. Manufacturers selling a wide range of
products over a wide geographical area to a market.
Middlemen are important links in this channel. Wholesalers,
for example buy on bulk from the manufacturers, store the
goods, break them down into smaller quantities, and
undertake advertising and promotional activities. The role of
the retailer is to make products available at the point of sale.
Individual customers need accessibility and convenience from
their local sources of consumable products. They also need to
see what is available, and what alternatives are offered. e.g:
Place-Channel of distribution
 Channel C represents one of the shorter indirect
channels, where the retailers are omitted. This kind
of operation can be found in mail order business, and
in cash and carry outlets. Wholesaler buy from
manufacturers, store and subsequently distribute
direct to customers on a nation-wide basis. e.g.:
steel, cement, imported items.
 Channel D is another version of a shorter, indirect
channel. In this case, it is the wholesaler who is
removed from the scene. Not, surprisingly, the
retailers who dominate this channel are powerful
chains or multiples in their own right. e.g: Tiles
Market Segmentation
 Markets are made up of different types of
customers i.e. within each total market; there
exist sub-markets which express distinctive
product preferences compared with each other.
Market segmentation can be defined as the sub-
division of a market into identifiable buyers-
groups, or sub markets, with the aim of reaching
such group with a particular marketing mix.
 The most frequent methods of segmenting
market are based on geographical, demographic
and buyer-behavior variables
Market Segmentation
Marketing Research
Marketing research is fundamentally about the
segmentation and analysis of information required
for the marking of marketing decisions. The two
basic areas in which the information is sought are
 (a) markets (existing and potential), and
 (b) marketing tactics and methods.
The former is oriented towards what is happening
outside the organization, in the market place. The
second is oriented towards the way in which the
organization is responding internally to the
customers, present and future
Marketing Research
A marketing research study usually includes the
following steps:
 Definition of problem and specification of
information to be sought
 Design of the study with particular reference to
data collection methods (surveys),
instrumentation (questionnaires), and simple
design.
 Field work (utilizing questionnaires, structured
interviews, consumer panels)
 Data analysis (using statistical and O.R.
techniques)
Marketing Research
 Some of the more important advantages and
disadvantages of three approaches described are
as follows:
Intellectual property (IP)-Patent
Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the
mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works;
designs; and symbols, names and images used in
commerce. IP is protected in law by, for example,
patents, copyright and trademarks, which enable
people to earn recognition or financial benefit from
what they invent or create.
A Patent is a right granted to the owner of the
patent to stop others from making, using or selling
the invention that is the subject of the patent. The
right is granted by the Government by way of The
Consumer Protection
There are several means by which consumer
interest may be protected. These involve the
application of one or more:
 The common law
 Acts of Parliament
 Codes of Good practice
 Trademarks
 Independent consumer groups
Thank you!

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GEC - TEM Lec 4.pptx

  • 2. Marketing Mix  Marketing Mix is a combination of marketing tools that a company uses to satisfy their target customers and achieving organizational goals. McCarthy classified all these marketing tools under four broad categories: >> Product , >> Price , >> Place , >> Promotion  These four elements are the basic components of a marketing plan and are collectively called 4 P’s of marketing.
  • 4. Product  Product: Product refers to the goods and services offered by the organization. A pair of shoes, a plate of rice, a lipstick, all are products. All these are purchased because they satisfy one or more of our needs. We are paying not for the tangible product but for the benefit it will provide. So, in simple words, product can be described as a bundle of benefits which a marketer offers to the consumer for a price. While buying a pair of shoes, we are actually buying comfort for our feet, while buying a lipstick we are actually paying for beauty because lipstick is likely to make us look good.
  • 5. Product  The range of products offered by an organization is called the product mix.  Motor car manufacturer- cheap, basic family runabouts, medium prices family saloons, estate cars, executive saloons, and sports cars. Within most of these product lines, various refinement can be offered e.g. two door and four door function of the family saloons, variations in the engine size and of course a range of colors.
  • 6. Product  The range of products offered by an organization is called the product mix.  Motor car manufacturer- cheap, basic family runabouts, medium prices family saloons, estate cars, executive saloons, and sports cars. Within most of these product lines, various refinement can be offered e.g. two door and four door function of the family saloons, variations in the engine size and of course a range of colors.
  • 7. Product  It is important to note that people generally want to acquire the benefits of the product, rather than its features. For example for buying a motor car a person is buying such thing as luxury or speed or economy or status. The facts that these benefits are achieved by differences in engine size suspension design or paintwork is really of secondary interest. All the organizations are selling benefits of the product to their customers.
  • 8. Product life cycle  PLC: Various studies have shown that as the time goes product passes though a series of stages. The product life cycle is the combination of these stages form the time they are introduced until the time they are withdrawn.
  • 10. Product life cycle  From the PLC it is possible to plan the product mix , plan the development and introduction of new products , plan the development and introduction of new products, plan to withdrawal or obsolete or unprofitable products and set the revenue targets for each product within the total range
  • 11. Price Price: Price is the amount charged for a product or service. It is the second most important element in the marketing mix. Fixing the price of the product is a tricky job. The factors have to kept in mind while pricing a product are:  like demand for a product,  cost involved,  consumer’s ability to pay,  prices charged by competitors for similar products, government restrictions etc.
  • 12. Price  The activities of competitors have an important bearing on pricing decision.  The most obvious example is when a competitor’s raises or lowers his prices. If your product can offer no particular advantages over his, then if he drops his price, you will have to follow suit.
  • 13. Promotion If the product is manufactured keeping the consumer needs in mind, is rightly priced and made available at outlets convenient to them but the consumer is not made aware about its price, features, availability etc., its marketing effort may not be successful. Promotion is done through means of personal selling, advertising, publicity and sales promotion. It is done mainly with a view to prospective consumers provide information to about the availability, characteristics and uses of a product.
  • 14. Promotion- Advertising Advertising: communication, Advertising is the process of persuasive information about the product to target market by means of the written and spoken word, and by visual material. There are five principal media of advertising as follows:  The press- newspaper, magazines, journals etc.  Commercial Television  Direct mail  Commercial radio  Outdoor- hoardings, transport advertisements etc.
  • 15. Promotion- Advertising The aim of the adverting is given below:  Increase customer familiarity with a product  Inform customers about specific features of a product  Inform the customers about the key benefits of a product  Establish the creditability of a product  Encourage potential customers to buy the product  Maintain loyalty of existing customers
  • 16. Promotion- Advertising Advertising effectiveness: There are two main ways of looking at the question of advertising effectiveness- the first is to consider the results of the advertising in achieving target improvements in specific tasks e.g. increasing brand awareness in a specific market; the second is to consider the impact of advertising on sales generally. It is extremely difficult to assess the impact of advertising on sales as a whole, because so many other factors, internal and external, are at work in the marketing process of an organization
  • 17. Promotion- Personal Selling  Personal Selling: Personal selling is the promotion activity consists of face to face meeting between the buyer and seller or his repetitive. Advertising creates the interest and the desire, but personal selling clinches the deal. Personal selling is the most expensive from of promotion.  Companies which utilize an aggressive sales policy, based on personal selling, are said to be adopting a push strategy. By comparison firms which rely more heavily on advertising are described as adopting a pull strategy
  • 18. Promotion- Personal Selling Sales representative’s tasks:  After sales servicing (dealing with technical quires, deliveries matters etc.)  Gathering information (feedback on customers reactions, competitors activities etc.  Communicating regular information to customers and prospective buyers.  Prospecting (Looking out new selling opportunities)
  • 19. Promotion- Personal Selling The effectiveness of sales representatives can be measured in a number of different ways. Typical evaluation criteria include:  Net sales achieved (per product, per customer etc.)  Call rate(no. of calls given in a period)  Values of sales per call  No. of new sales/new customers  Sales expense in proportion to sales achieved
  • 20. Promotion- Sales promotion Sales promotion: Sales promotion activities are a form of indirect advertising designed to stimulate sales mainly by the use of incentives. Sales promotion activities are organized and funded by the organization’s own resources. They can take a no. o different forms, as, for example: Customer oriented:  Free samples  Twin pack bargains  Temporary price reductions Point of sale demonstrations Trade oriented:  Special discounts  Co-operating advertising  Bonuses/ prizes for sales representatives  Provision of display material
  • 21. Place Place: Goods are produced to be sold to the consumers. They must be made available to the consumers at a place where they can conveniently make purchase. Foods and snacks are manufactured on a large scale in Bangladesh and you purchase them at a store from the nearby market in your town. So, it is necessary that the product is available at shops in your town. This involves a chain of individuals and institutions like distributors, wholesalers and retailers who constitute firm’s distribution network (also called a channel of distribution). The channel though which the products are distributed to the final customer are known as channel of distribution
  • 22. Place-Channel of distribution Most common channels of distribution are given below: Channel A represents a direct marketing channel. Manufacturers of goods such as m/c tools, computers, ships and other large expensive items tend to move them direct to the buyer without involving middleman or inter middleman. e.g.: ship/plane
  • 23. Place-Channel of distribution Most common channels of distribution are given below: Channel B represents the typical chain for mass marketed consumer goods. Manufacturers selling a wide range of products over a wide geographical area to a market. Middlemen are important links in this channel. Wholesalers, for example buy on bulk from the manufacturers, store the goods, break them down into smaller quantities, and undertake advertising and promotional activities. The role of the retailer is to make products available at the point of sale. Individual customers need accessibility and convenience from their local sources of consumable products. They also need to see what is available, and what alternatives are offered. e.g:
  • 24. Place-Channel of distribution  Channel C represents one of the shorter indirect channels, where the retailers are omitted. This kind of operation can be found in mail order business, and in cash and carry outlets. Wholesaler buy from manufacturers, store and subsequently distribute direct to customers on a nation-wide basis. e.g.: steel, cement, imported items.  Channel D is another version of a shorter, indirect channel. In this case, it is the wholesaler who is removed from the scene. Not, surprisingly, the retailers who dominate this channel are powerful chains or multiples in their own right. e.g: Tiles
  • 25. Market Segmentation  Markets are made up of different types of customers i.e. within each total market; there exist sub-markets which express distinctive product preferences compared with each other. Market segmentation can be defined as the sub- division of a market into identifiable buyers- groups, or sub markets, with the aim of reaching such group with a particular marketing mix.  The most frequent methods of segmenting market are based on geographical, demographic and buyer-behavior variables
  • 27. Marketing Research Marketing research is fundamentally about the segmentation and analysis of information required for the marking of marketing decisions. The two basic areas in which the information is sought are  (a) markets (existing and potential), and  (b) marketing tactics and methods. The former is oriented towards what is happening outside the organization, in the market place. The second is oriented towards the way in which the organization is responding internally to the customers, present and future
  • 28. Marketing Research A marketing research study usually includes the following steps:  Definition of problem and specification of information to be sought  Design of the study with particular reference to data collection methods (surveys), instrumentation (questionnaires), and simple design.  Field work (utilizing questionnaires, structured interviews, consumer panels)  Data analysis (using statistical and O.R. techniques)
  • 29. Marketing Research  Some of the more important advantages and disadvantages of three approaches described are as follows:
  • 30. Intellectual property (IP)-Patent Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce. IP is protected in law by, for example, patents, copyright and trademarks, which enable people to earn recognition or financial benefit from what they invent or create. A Patent is a right granted to the owner of the patent to stop others from making, using or selling the invention that is the subject of the patent. The right is granted by the Government by way of The
  • 31. Consumer Protection There are several means by which consumer interest may be protected. These involve the application of one or more:  The common law  Acts of Parliament  Codes of Good practice  Trademarks  Independent consumer groups