Developing Products and Managing Product Portfolios Chapter 12 What We Already Know About Products • How to define a product • How to classify a product – Consumer v business products – Different types of consumer products • The product life cycle • There are different levels of product: – Core benefits – Branding‚ design‚ quality – Support aspects: guarantees‚ after-sales service What Is Managing Products About? • Ensuring we have the right product mix to maximise
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Brand Positioning Submitted by: Rishi Dewan PGDM-Marketing (DCP) IMT Ghaziabad Contents Introduction 2 Process of Positioning 3 Strategies of Positioning 5 Positioning by Product attributes 5 Positioning by Quality 5 Positioning by Price 6 Positioning by User Category 7 Positioning by Use 8 Positioning by Competitor 9 Positioning by Celebration 10 Positioning Errors: 11 1. Under-positioning 11 2. Over Positioning 11 3. Confused positioning 12 4
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suitable examples‚ three reasons why international marketing is more challenging than domestic marketing. [10 Marks] Ans: Following are the three reasons why International Marketing is more challenging than domestic marketing: 1. Inflation and Price Moderation: Imports can also be highly beneficial to a country because they constitute reserve capacity for local economy. Without imports‚ there is no incentive for domestic firms to moderate their prices. The lack of imported product alternatives
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Product costing systems in modern manufacturing organisations Product costing refers to the process of assigning shared direct and indirect costs to individual products‚ customers‚ branches or other cost items. (USAID‚ 2007) Product costing is also referred to as assigning costs to inventory and production based on the expenses that go into producing or buying inventory. It is an important process for manufacturers that helps improves management information on products and helps managers and the
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Marketing a new product is challenging. Marketer have to target the right customers with the right product and message at the right time. Much of the failure in new product launches lies in the strategy planning. Strategy is the foundation for new product management and integrates all people and resource in organization. Failure plans may decrease that product’s effectiveness in doing so. New product strategy input components is important. Product failure when marketer fail to describes the market
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Product Process Matrix A common classification of production process structures We often classify processes based on their physical configuration‚ material and product flow‚ flexibility‚ and volume expectation. There are four different process types‚ which a manager can choose‚ keeping in mind the relative importance of the following attributes:- Quality‚ Time‚ Flexibility‚ and Cost. These are: 1. Job process 2. Batch process 3. Line process‚ and 4. Continuous process Job
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PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE (PLC) (Compiled by Deep Banerjee‚ Marketingpundit.com) Product Life Cycle (PLC) is based upon the biological life cycle. For example‚ a seed is planted (introduction); it begins to sprout (growth); it shoots out leaves and puts down roots as it becomes an adult (maturity); after a long period as an adult the plant begins to shrink and die out (decline). The conditions under which a product is sold will also change over time. The Product Life Cycle refers to the succession of stages
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survive. Therefore a company’s relationship with stakeholders is critical. Such a relationship explains why businesses and manufacturers have a legal and moral responsibility to provide consumers with safe products. There are many responsibilities businesses have towards consumers concerning product quality‚ labeling‚ prices‚ and packaging. Furthermore‚ there are government regulations that are designed to protect a consumer’s well-being. A business’s responsibility for protecting‚ providing for‚ and
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As technology advances‚ it becomes more feasible to load products with a large number of features‚ each of which individually might be seen as useful. However‚ too many features can make a product overwhelming for consumers and hard to use. Three studies examine how consumers balance their desires for capability and usability when they evaluate products‚ and how these desires shift over time. Because consumers give more weight to capability and less weight to usability before relative to after use
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Announce a New Product or Service—Letter Recipe Dr. Mel Luthy‚ Chief Editor This letter recipe makes creating your own letters easy. With tips‚ steps and sample phrases and sentences for each step‚ you can boost your creativity. Click for the sample letters. Helpful Tips Although this is an announcement‚ it also serves as a sales letter or newspaper advertisement. It provides the reader with useful information and promotes your product or service. See also "Write a news release." Writing Steps
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