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Product, Services, and Branding

Strategy

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Philip KotlerPhilip KotlerGary ArmstrongGary ArmstrongSwee Hoon AngSwee Hoon Ang

Siew Meng LeongSiew Meng LeongChin Tiong TanChin Tiong Tan

Oliver Yau Hon-Oliver Yau Hon-MingMing

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Learning ObjectivesAfter studying this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Define product and the major classifications of products and services

2. Describe the decisions companies make regarding their individual products and services, product lines, and product mixes

3. Discuss branding strategy—the decisions companies make in building and managing their brands

4. Identify the four characteristics that affect the marketing of a service and the additional marketing considerations that services require

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Chapter Outline1. What Is a Product?

2. Product and Service Decisions

3. Branding Strategy: Building Strong Brands

4. Services Marketing

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What Is a Product?Products, Services, and Experiences

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

• E.g. soap, toothpaste

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What Is a Product?Products, Services, and Experiences

• Service is a form of product that consists of activities, benefits, or satisfactions offered for sale that are essentially intangible and do not result in ownership.

• E.g., Doctor’s exam, legal advice

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Products, Services, and Experiences

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

• E.g., Disney, Lego, Toys “R” Us

What Is a Product?

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What Is a Product?Levels of Products

and Services

• Core benefits

• Actual product

• Augmented product

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What Is a Product?Levels of Product and Services

• Core benefits represent what the buyer is really buying.

• Actual product represents the design, brand name, and packaging that delivers the core benefit to the customer.

• Augmented product represents additional services or benefits of the actual product.

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What Is a Product?Discussion Question: Describe the core, actual, and

augmented levels of Microsoft’s Windows XP Professional operating software:

Core – A software application that enables a PC to function

Actual – A well-designed, high-quality, branded, and packaged computer operating system that provides a variety of features that are important to the user

Augmented – An operating system software application that offers a series of channel and consumer services. The channel member can obtain favorable pricing and credit terms, training, engineering support, etc. The consumer can get online support, version updates, access to forums and communities, etc.

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What Is a Product?Product and Service Classifications

• Consumer products

• Industrial products

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• Consumer products are products and services bought by final consumers for personal consumption.

• Classified by how consumers buy them

• Convenience products

• Shopping products

• Specialty products

• Unsought products

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• 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

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

• Furniture

• Cars

• Appliances

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• 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.

• Designer watches

• Branded fashion wear

• High-end electronics

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• 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

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What Is a Product?Discussion Question: Classify the following consumer

products

• A laptop computer

• A surgeon

• Automobile tires

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What Is a Product?• A laptop computer – shopping good: most people purchase a

laptop infrequently, and when they purchase it, they usually conduct extensive research and comparison of brands and features

• A surgeon – Specialty good: There is usually little comparison between doctors as most patients collect only a few names

• Automobile tires – it depends on the individual and the situation. If a consumer has a luxury brand of car and will consider only “designer” tires, this is a specialty good; for most consumers, tires are a shopping good, and they will be heavily influenced by price and brand name; in some situations, the tires could be an unsought good.

If one was traveling and had a flat tire in an unknown area he would probably be towed to a local station and with little product knowledge, agree to a tire carried by the local station

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• 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 items

• Supplies and services

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

• Wheat

• Lumber

• Iron

• Cement

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

• Buildings

• Elevators

• Computers

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• Supplies and Services include operating supplies, and repair and maintenance items, as well as maintenance and repair services and business advisory services.

• Copy papers

• Stationary

• Training service

• Market research/Advertising service

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What Is a Product?Organizations, Persons, Places, and Ideas

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

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What Is a Product?Organizations, Persons, Places, and Ideas

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

• Andy Lau

• Stephanie Sun

• Siti Nuraliza

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What Is a Product?Organizations, Persons,

Places, and Ideas

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

• Tourism, e.g. the Great Wall of China, Walt Disney World.

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Organizations, Persons, Places, and Ideas

• 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.

• Public health campaigns

What Is a Product?

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Product and Service DecisionsIndividual Product & Service Decisions – A

single product

Product Line Decisions - A group of related products

Product Mix Decisions – The set of product lines and items offered to customers by a particular seller

These tools helps the planner to properly view the product so it can achieve competitive superiority and better product strategy.

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Product and Service DecisionsIndividual Product and Service Decisions

• Product attributes

• Branding

• Packaging

• Labeling

• Product support services

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• Product attributes are the benefits of the product or service

• Quality

• Features

• Style and design

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• Define “Quality” in terms of the lack of defects or creating customer value and satisfaction

• Quality level is the level of quality that supports the product’s positioning.

– Performance quality is the ability of a product to perform its functions.

– Conformance consistency is freedom of defects and consistency in delivering a targeted level of performance.

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

Assessed based on the value to the customer versus the cost to the company.

• Product style and design add value to customer value.

– Style describes the appearance of the product.

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

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• Brand is the name, term, sign, or design, or a combination of these, that identifies the maker or seller of a product or service.

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• Branding help buyers identify benefits

– Quality

– Consistency

• Branding provide legal protection for sellers can aid in

– Segmentation

– Communicate product features

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

• Label identifies the product or brand, describes attributes, and provides promotion.

• Product support services augment actual products.

Companies must continually:

– Assess the value of current services to obtain ideas for new ones

– Assess the costs of providing these services

– Develop a package of services to satisfy customers and provide profit to the company

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Product and Service DecisionsProduct Line 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.

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

• Product line can be lengthened in two ways:

– Line stretching (lengthen beyond its current range)

– Line filling (adding more items within the present range of the line)

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• Product line stretching is when a company lengthens its product line beyond its current range.

• Downward

• Upward

• Combination of both

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Line stretching

• Downward product line stretching is used by companies at the upper end of the market to plug a market hole or respond to a competitor’s attack.

• Upward product line stretching is by companies at the lower end of the market to add prestige to their current products.

• Combination line stretching is used by companies in the middle range of the market to achieve both goals of upward and downward line stretching.

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• Product line filling occurs when companies add more items within the present range of the line.

• More profits

• Satisfying dealers

• Excess capacity

• Plugging holes to fend off competitors

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Product and Service DecisionsProduct Mix Decisions

• Product mix consists of all the product lines and items that a particular seller offers for sale.

• Width

• Length

• Depth

• Consistency

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Product and Service DecisionsProduct Mix Decisions

• Product mix width is the number of different product lines the company carries.

• Product mix length is the total number of items the company carries within its product lines.

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• Product mix depth is the number of versions offered of each product in the line.

• Consistency is how closely the various product lines are in end use, production requirements, or distribution channels.

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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.

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• Brand equity is the positive differential effect that knowing the brand name has on customer response to the product or service. – The extent to which customers are willing to pay more for the brand

• Customer equity is the value of the customer relationships that the brand creates. – A powerful brand forms a basis for building strong and profitable customer relationships

• Brand valuation is the process of estimating the total financial value of the brand.

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• Brand strategy decisions include:

• Brand positioning

• Brand name selection

• Brand sponsorship

• Brand development


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Brand Positioning

• Position brands at any of three levels:– Product attributes (Giordano is positioned by each season’s

assortment of styles, colors and low price)

– Product benefits (Giordano save your money through its great price and time through its assortment of products for the whole family)

– Product beliefs and values (Giordano also positions itself as fun. Its ads are somewhat silly at times and always show the models having a lot of fun wearing Giordano clothes. This is different from other retailers who advertise using model with intense, serious, and seductive facial expressions)

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Brand Name Selection

• Desirable qualities

• Suggests benefits and qualities

• Easy to pronounce, recognize, and remember

• Distinctive

• Extendable

• Translatable for the global economy

• Capable of registration and legal protection


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Brand Sponsorship

• Manufacturer’s brand

• Private brand

• Licensed brand

• Co-brand


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Brand Sponsorship

Private brands provide retailers with advantages.

• Product mix control

• Slotting fees for manufacturers’ brands

• Higher margins

• Exclusivity


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Brand Development

In terms of Brand name & Product category

• Line extensions

• Brand extensions

• Multibrands

• New brands


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Brand Development

• Line extensions occur when a company extends existing brand names to new forms, colors, sizes, ingredients, or flavors of an existing product category.


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Brand Development

• Brand extensions extend a brand name to a new or modified product in a new category.


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Brand Development

• Multibrands are additional brands in the same category.


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Brand Development

• New brands are used when existing brands are inappropriate for new products in new product categories or markets.


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Managing Brands

• Requires:

• Continuous brand communication

• Customer-centered training

• Brand audits


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Services MarketingTypes of Service Industries

Service industries vary greatly:

• Government – courts, employment services, hospitals, military services, police and fire department, postal services, and schools

• Private not-for-profit organizations – Museums, charities, churches, colleges, foundations, and hospitals

• Business services

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Services MarketingNature and Characteristics of a Service

• Intangibility

• Inseparability

• Variability

• Perishability

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Services MarketingNature and Characteristics of a Service

• Intangibility refers to the fact that services cannot be seen, tasted, felt, heard, or smelled before they are purchased.

• Inseparability refers to the fact that services cannot be separated from their providers.

• Variability refers to the fact that service quality depends on who provides it as well as when, where, and how it is provided.

• Perishability refers to the fact that services cannot be stored for later sale or use.

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Services MarketingMarketing Strategies for Service Firms

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

• Service-profit chain

• Internal marketing

• Interactive marketing

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• 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

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• 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.

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

• Three major marketing tasks

• Service differentiation

• Service quality

• Service productivity

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• 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.

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• 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.

The first step is to empower employees Responsibility, Authority and Incentives they need to recognize, care about, and tend to customer needs

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• 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

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