Most Influential HR Leaders Leading the Corporate World, 2024 (Final file).pdf
Marketing
1. MarketingMarketing
Preview
3. What product can I sell where
at what price?
2. How are markets analysed?
1. What is marketing?
4. Have my marketing measures
been effective?
2. Definition
MARKETING includes all the activities
needed to direct the flow of goods and
services from producers to consumers.
at least two parties
each has something to offer
must be able to communicate
must be able to deliver
parties must be free to accept
or reject offers
3. Roles of marketing
but also:
• product development
(brand and product managers)
• packaging
(packaging designers)
• pricing
(pricing specialists)
• distribution
(sales personnel)
main roles:
• advertising (advertising and promotion managers)
• selling (sales representatives/sales force)
4. Marketing Process
three elements:
1. Market analysis
(Who will buy?)
2. Marketing-mix planning
(What? Where? How much? How?)
3. Marketing control
(Have we been successful?)
5. 1. Market analysis (STP)
a) Segmentation
segmentniche
individuals
b) Targeting: Who are my customers?
c) Positioning: What is my main selling point?
6. = developing a tactics to achieve strategic aims
elements:
a) Product
b) Price
c) Place
d) Promotion
aim: to make customers from the target group buy
2. Marketing mix planning (4 P)
7. = looking back at the entire process to find out whether
or not it was successful
Why control?
• planning is no guarantee for profit
• markets change constantly
• strategies not always effective
Tools:
a) Annual-plan control
b) Profitability control
c) Efficiency control
d) Strategic control
3. Evaluation and control
8. 1. Market analysis (STP)
Segmentation
Targeting
Positioning
2. Marketing-mix planning (4
P)
Product
Place
Price
Promotion
3. Marketing control
Annual-plan control
Profitability control
Efficiency control
Review
9. a) Product
nowadays:
- products have a life cycle
- product range is constantly expanded
- find out what target market desires
Consequence is adjustment of:
Product development
traditional economies: same things
produced and consumed
- public relations
- finance
- personnel administration
- research & development
- production
10. Packaging
• create clear message
• create credibility
• involve emotionally
• motivate
• invite user loyalty
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Branding
11. b) Price
Pricing strategies:
1. Market determines
the price
2. Price as an expression
of quality
3. Price as a method of
gaining market share
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12. c) Place (distribution)
Production site Warehouse Wholesaler
Retailer
- factory outlet
- mail order house
- internet
- TV shopping
- door-to-door selling
consumer
back
13. c) Promotion
Aims:
communicate with customers
influence customers
4 major tools:
1. Sales force
2. Advertising
3. Sales promotion
4. Public relations
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14. 1. Sales force
they personalize the promotion process
Representatives who advertise for and sell products
effective at selling complex goods
most expensive promotion
back
16. 3. Sales promotion
attracts brand switchers
is a short-term incentive
(Anreiz) to buy a product/service
Techniques
:
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3. two for one
2. loyalty reward points
1 price reduction
17. 4. Public relations
Does not aim to increase sales directly but
tries to boost the image of the company
back
- contests
- community events
- charitable events
- ecological projects
Techniques:
- press conferences
- foundations
18. a) Annual-plan control
Tools:
1. Sales analysis
(Did we sell as much as we planned?)
2. Market-share analysis
(Have we lost or gained market share?)
3. Marketing expense-to-sales analysis
(Did the marketing efforts pay?)
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19. b) Profitability control
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• many cheap products and many customers
Do we have more earnings than expenditures?
Strategies:
Aim:
Which of my products is the most profitable?
• few expensive products and few customers
20. c) Efficiency control
Example: Avon Lady (sales representative)
how many doors in what time?
how many products sold?
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Are my marketing methods profitable?
21. d) Strategic control
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Is my marketing program effective
over a long period of time?
marketing philosophy
information policy
- enough advertisement?
- enough promotion?
Positioning USA: “big and powerful”
after few years: Is this positioning still OK?
22. 1. Sales analysis
Comparison sales goals (100 units)
actual sales (20 units)
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discrepancies???
reasons
better product of the competitors
decline of the economic situation
wrong calculation
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23. 2. Market share analysis
analysis of the competition on the market
Rates of selling beauty cases
28%
42%
13%
17%
Gucci
Joop
Dolce & Gabbana
Kuniberg
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24. 3. Marketing expense-to-sales
analysis
• How much did my marketing activities cost?
• What sales numbers have these activities
generated?
Example: expenses (costs): € 200.000
sales revenues: € 200.001
=> We have a problem!!!
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