MARKETING MIX 7PS

Marketing professionals and specialist use many tactics to attract and retain their customers. These activities comprise of different concepts, the most important one being the marketing mix. There are two concepts for marketing mix: 4P and 7P. It is essential to balance the 4Ps or the 7Ps of the marketing mix. The concept of 4Ps has been long used for the product industry while the latter has emerged as a successful proposition for the services industry.

The 7Ps of the marketing mix can be discussed as:

Product - It must provide value to a customer but does not have to be tangible at the same time. Basically, it involves introducing new products or improvising the existing products.

Price - Pricing must be competitive and must entail profit. The pricing strategy can comprise discounts, offers and the like.

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Place - It refers to the place where the customers can buy the product and how the product reaches out to that place. This is done through different channels, like Internet, wholesalers and retailers.

Promotion - It includes the various ways of communicating to the customers of what the company has to offer. It is about communicating about the benefits of using a particular product or service rather than just talking about its features.

People - People refer to the customers, employees, management and everybody else involved in it. It is essential for everyone to realize that the reputation of the brand that you are involved with is in the people's hands.

Process - It refers to the methods and process of providing a service and is hence essential to have a thorough knowledge on whether the services are helpful to the customers, if they are provided in time, if the customers are informed in hand about the services and many such things.

Physical (evidence) - It refers to the experience of using a product or service. When a service goes out to the customer, it is essential that you help him see what he is buying or not. For example- brochures, pamphlets etc serve this purpose.

The New Marketing Mix

Have I convinced you that seeing marketing in terms of the traditional marketing mix of the 4Ps or the service marketing mix of 7Ps is too simplistic?

So how does the new marketing mix appeal - the 27P's of Marketing (and counting)

1. Product 

2. Price 

3. Promotion 

4. Place 

5. People 

6. Process 

7. Physical evidence 

8. Purpose 

9. Purchaser 

10. Push/pull 

11. Personal relationships 

12. Positioning 

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13. Packaging 

14. Persuasion 

15. Performance 

16. Profitable 

17. Proactive 

18. Pull together 

19. Perform 

20. Permission 

21. Pain 

22. Pleasure 

23. Periodic 

24. Persistent 

25. Partners 

26. Psychology 

27. Perceptions  

OK what key marketing concept have I forgotten? Inevitably there are bound to be things that I have missed so please leave a comment and let me know.

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