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Chapter TwoMarketing Strategy: Where Marketing Really Begins
With Duane Weaver
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• Strategic Planning Defined and the Process• SBU’s• Marketing Positioning – Tools:
- The BCG Matrix and- The Product-Market Expansion Grid
• Partnering• Strategy a& Marketing Mix• Segmentation• Differentiation & Positioning• Managing Effort, SWOTs, & ROI• A Marketing Plan
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What Is Strategic Planning?
Strategic Planning is the process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization’s goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities.
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Strategic Planning and the Marketing Process
Company Wide Strategic PlanningCompany Mission and Company Objectives
Design Business Portfolio BCG Matrix
Strategies for Growth Product Market Expansion
Developing Customer Driven Marketing Strategy Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning
Developing the Integrated Marketing MixProduct, Price, Place, Promotion
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Company Wide Strategic Planning
• Defining a Clear Company Mission– States the organization’s purpose.– Market and customer-oriented.– Provides direction to internal stakeholders.
• Setting Company Objectives and Goals– The mission of the organization is translated to
detailed, quantifiable objectives – The rest of the planning process is supported by
these objectives
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Mission Statements
• Mission statementA statement of the organization’s purpose -what it wants to accomplish in the larger environment.
• It answers basic questions – What is our business?– Who is the customer?– What does the customer value?– What should our business be?
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Defining a Market Oriented Mission
A market oriented mission statement
–Defines the business in terms of satisfying customer needs
–Will not be too narrow or too broad–Will be in tune with the current market
environment
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Company Objectives and Goals• Goals must be sustainable and lead to
growth• Corporate objectives include marketing
objectives (specific, measurable, obtainable):– Invest in research and development– Improve or develop new products– Develop customer relationships
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Strategic Business Units (SBU)
• A unit of the company that has a separate mission and objectives and that can be planned independently from other company businesses.
• Can be a company division, a product line within a division or sometimes a single product or brand
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Business Portfolio• The business portfolio is the collection of
businesses and products that make up the company.
• The company must:– Analyze its current business portfolio or Strategic
Business Units (SBUs).– Decide which SBUs should receive more, less or no
investment.– Develop growth strategies for growth or downsizing
and portfolio planning using tools such as the BCG matrix.
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The BCG Growth Share Matrix
Rising Stars Question Marks
Cash Cows DogsFix or abandon
Use cash to makeinto a star
Nurture to generate cash
Defend position
Industry attractiveness, marketshare, cash generation
Businessstrength,growth rate,cash use
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Analyze Opportunities• Product-Market Expansion Grid identifies
four potential growth areas.
MarketPenetration
ProductDevelopment
DiversificationMarket
Development
ExistingProducts
NewProducts
ExistingMarkets
NewMarkets
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Product/Market Expansion Grid• Strategies for growth
– Market penetration strategy– Market development strategy– Product development strategy– Diversification strategy
• Strategies for international growth– Company must decide whether to go
international, then which markets, how many, and which types to enter
in-class notes
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Partners Create and Deliver Customer Value
• Partnering to build customer relationships – In building profitable customer relationships
companies partner with the value chain to deliver value to its customers
– The value chain is the collective system of internal company departments and external business partners that together provide customer value by producing, delivering, marketing, and supporting the company’s products
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Marketing Strategy and the Marketing Mix
Mission Statement
Corporate Objectives
Business Objectives
Marketing Objectives
Marketing Strategies - The marketing logic by which the company creates customer value and achieves profitable customer relationships.
Marketing Mix Strategies – guided by marketing strategies made up of factors under its control - product, price, place, and promotion.
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Customer Driven Marketing Strategy
• Market Segmentation – sub dividing the target market
• Market Targeting – evaluating each segment and selecting one or more segments
• Market Differentiation and Positioning – occupy a clear distinctive place in consumer’s mind
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Market Segmentation• The process of dividing a market into distinct groups of
buyers with different needs, characteristics or
behaviours who might require separate products or
marketing programs.
• Consumers are grouped into market segments based
on:• Geographic
• Demographic
• Psychographic
• Behavioral factors (e.g.: bought here before-loyalty)
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Market Segmentation - exercise
PLEASE TAKE 5 MINUTES TO:
1. Get into your case team groups.
2. Choose a company you are familiar with as a team.
3. Identify one of the typical customers they sell to.
A. Determine what form of market segmentation
would work for them best to reach this type of
customer (as a group/segment)?
B. Be prepared to explain to the class why you think
this type of segmentation is the best approach.
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Market Differentiationand Positioning
• Arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers.
• Process begins with differentiating the company’s marketing offer so it gives consumers more value.
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The Marketing MixThe set of controllable, tactical
marketing tools that the firm blends to produce the response it wants in the
target market.
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Creating the Integrated Marketing Mix
• Product – offers the right product, service or experience.
• Price – controls perceived value and satisfaction.
• Place – allows customers’ easy access to product and support.
• Promotion – communicates the offer and the value proposition.
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The Four Ps and the Four Cs
• PRODUCT provides CUSTOMER SOLUTION
• PRICE represents CUSTOMER COST
• PLACE provides CONVENIENCE
• PROMOTION is two-way COMMUNICATION
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• Marketing Analysis – A detailed description and analysis of the current situation facing the company (e.g.: SWOT)
• Marketing Planning – a detailed plan for each business unit
• Marketing Implementation – turning plans into action
• Marketing Department Organization – • Functional organizations• Product organizations• Market based organizations• Geographic organizations• Combinational organizations
• Marketing Control – evaluating the results
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Managing the Marketing Effort
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Measuring and Managing Return on Marketing Investment
Can you PROVE it will or it did work?• Return on Marketing Investment
– The return on investment that can be calculated and attributed directly to the efforts of marketing
– Calculated by dividing net return from marketing by the cost of marketing investment
– Measures the profits generated by investments in marketing activities
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A Marketing Plan Outline• Executive summary.• Current marketing situation.
– Market description.– Product review.– Competitive review.– Review of distribution.
• Threat and opportunity analysis (SWOT).• Objectives and issues.• Marketing strategy.• Action program.• Budgets.• Controls.
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