1. Developing a Market Strategy
Costly and Important
50% or more of the selling price
Carefully planned
Meet customer needs
Make a profit

2. Market Planning
Meeting the customers needs better than the competitors.

3. A companies plan that identifies how it will use marketing to achieve its goal is called market strategy.

4. Developing a Market Strategy
Step 1: Identify the target market
Step 2: Develop a Marketing Mix

5. Target Market Aim to Broad Specific aim Too many unhappy people
Customers don’t like product
Waste money
Specific aim
Much easier to please customers

6. Activity
Computer, Honda Odyssey, iphone 4, snowmobile, solar radio, set of tools, new Jordan shoes, motorized cart.

7. snowmobile

8. Flashlight - cranks

9. Tool Set

10. Honda Odyssey

11. Laptop Computer

12. New Jordan Shoes

13. Panda Car (for kids)

14. Marketing Mix Blending of 4 elements Product Place Price Promotion
When this is successful
=satisfied customers
=profit

15. Product Brand Name Functionality Styling Quality Safety Packaging
Repairs and Support
Warranty
Accessories and Services
Refers to the tangable products as well as services. Examples of product decisions that need to be made.

16. Place Distribution Channels Market Coverage Specific Channel members
Inventory Management
Warehousing
Distribution Centers
Order Processing
Transportation
Reverse Logic
This is about getting the products to the customers. These are some of the decisions that need to be made.

17. Price Pricing Strategy Suggested Retail Price
Volume discounts and wholesale pricing
Cash and early payment discounts
Seasonal pricing
Bundling
Price flexibility
Price discrimination
Examples of decisions that need to made.

18. Promotion Promotional strategy Advertising
Personal selling & sales force
Sales promotions
Public relations and publicity
Marketing communications budget
Communicate the information about the product with the goal of generating positive customer reponse. The activities include…

19. Where do Companies go wrong
Assume they know what the customer wants.
Making a product – then trying to sell it to customers.
Fail to think of possible drawbacks.

20. Web TV
WebTV (now MSN TV) offered consumers Internet connection via their television sets in the mid-1990s. A Cable World article by Andrea Figler describes it this way: The service grew quickly at first, attracting mainstream users that typically shied away from technology. But to WebTV's dismay, they became the dreaded consumer: a customer who failed to produce new revenue streams but insisted on creating expensive customer service problems. So Microsoft which bought WebTV in 1997, scrapped the brand. It never passed the one-million-subscriber mark.

21. Touch of Yogurt Shampoo
The Brand Failures blog says: The shampoo failed to attract consumers (in 1979) largely because nobody liked the idea of washing their hair with yogurt. Of those who did buy it, there were even some cases of people mistakenly eating it, and getting very ill as a result. The "Touch of Yogurt" concept is made even more remarkable because three years earlier Clairol introduced a similar shampoo called the "Look of Buttermilk." This product instantly bombed in test markets where consumers were left asking: what exactly is the "look of buttermilk" and why should I want it?

22. Colgate Kitchen Entrees
The Brand Failures blog explains: In what must be one of the most bizarre brand extensions ever Colgate decided to use its name on a range of food products called Colgate's Kitchen Entrees. Needless to say, the products did not take off and never left U.S. soil. The idea must have been that consumers would eat their Colgate meal, then brush their teeth with Colgate toothpaste. The trouble was that for most people the name Colgate does not exactly get their taste buds tingling.

23. Kellogg's Breakfast Mates
The idea behind Kellogg's Breakfast Mates was fairly simple -- pack a box of cereal with milk and a spoon, and you have a tasty meal on the go! Hey, it worked for Lunchables, right? Unfortunately, Kellogg's failed to take two things into account. First of all, though the milk included in the Cereal Mate did not require refrigeration, no one likes the idea of warm milk. And second, the ads showed parents sleeping while children helped themselves to Cereal Mates -- but the packaging was not child-friendly. The confusion associated with Breakfast Mates led to its ultimate failure.

24. How to develop a successful marketing strategy
Consider needs of consumers.
Don’t assume – research!

25. Step 1
Study similarities and differences
Step 2
Identify target Market
Step 3
With this information develop a marketing mix

26. Activity A Cruise Vacation -
Option 1
Families
With small children
Option 2
Retired Travelers
Option 3
First time Cruisers
Option 4
Couples
with no children
A Cruise Vacation -
Create a marketing mix (the 4 P’s) for one of the above Cruise vacations.