Product Services and Branding Strategy PowerPoint Presentation

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Product, Services, and Branding Strategy

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Define product and the major classifications of products and services. Describe the decisions companies make regarding their individual products and services, product lines, and product mixes. Discuss branding strategy – the decisions firms make in building and managing their brands. Identify the four characteristics that affect the marketing of a service and the additional marketing considerations that services require. Discuss two additional product issues: socially responsible product decisions and international product and services marketing. Roadmap: Previewing the Concepts

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What Is a Product? Anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use, or consumption and that might satisfy a want or need. Includes: physical objects, services, events, persons, places, organizations, ideas, or some combination thereof.

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What Is a Service? A form of product that consists of activities, benefits, or satisfactions offered for sale that are essentially intangible and do not result in the ownership of anything. Examples: banking, hotel, airline, retail, tax preparation, home repairs.

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Market Offerings Continuum ranges from pure tangible goods (with no services) to pure services (with no good component) with many combinations in between. Pure good: Camay soap. Pure service: Legal representation. Combination: Restaurant meal. Creating and managing customer experiences differentiates offers.

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The Product-Service Continuum Sugar Restaurant Education Pure Tangible Good Pure Service Offer another example of a pure service.

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Levels of a Product Core benefit What the consumer is really buying. Actual product Includes the brand name, features, design, packaging, quality level. Augmented product Additional services and benefits such as delivery and credit, instructions, installation, warranty, service.

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Three Levels of Product

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Chrysler

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Discussion Question Consider Starbucks What goods and services do they offer? How do they differentiate through experience? What is their core, actual and augmented product offering? 8 - 10

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Consumer Products Products and services bought by final consumers for personal consumption. Also includes other marketable entities. Classified by how consumers buy them.

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Convenience Products Purchased frequently and immediately Low priced Mass advertising Many purchase locations Examples: candy, soda, newspapers

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Shopping Products Bought less frequently Higher price Fewer purchase locations Comparison shop Examples: furniture, clothing, cars, appliances

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Specialty Products Special purchase efforts High price Unique characteristics Brand identification Few purchase locations Example: Lamborghini, Rolex Watch

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Let’s Talk! Why might a tropical fish be classified by different consumers as a convenience good, a shopping good, OR a specialty good? Explain.

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Unsought Products New innovations Products consumers do not want to think about Require much advertising and personal selling Examples: life insurance, cemetery plots, blood donation

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Product and Service Classifications Consumer products Industrial products Materials and parts Capital items Supplies and services Organization, Person, Places and Ideas

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Industrial Products Those purchased for further processing or for use in conducting business. Distinction between consumer and industrial products is based on the purpose for which an item is bought.

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Industrial Products Materials and parts: Raw materials, manufactured materials, and parts Capital items: Products that aid in buyer’s production or operations Supplies and services: Operating supplies, repair, and maintenance items

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Other Market Offerings Organizations: Profit (businesses) and nonprofit (schools, religions, Hospitals etc.). Includes corporate image advertising.

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Other Market Offerings Persons: Politicians, entertainers, sports figures, doctors, and lawyers.

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Other Market Offerings Places: Create, maintain, or change attitudes or behavior toward particular places (e.g., tourism).

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Other Market Offerings Ideas (social marketing): Public health campaigns, environmental campaigns, family planning, or human rights.

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Individual Product Decisions Product attributes Branding Packaging Labeling Product support services

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Product & Service Attributes Product quality Performance quality Conformance quality Features Value to consumer Cost to company Style and design Influences experience

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Branding Creating, maintaining, protecting, and enhancing products and services. A brand is a name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination of these, that identifies the maker or seller of a product or service.

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1. Coca-Cola $70.5 2. Microsoft $65.1 3. IBM $51.8 4. GE $42.3 5. Intel $31.1 6. Nokia $29.4 7. Disney $28.0 8. McDonald’s $24.7 9. Marlboro $22.2 10. Mercedes $21.4

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Branding Advantages to buyers: Product identification Product quality Advantages to sellers: Basis for product’s quality story Provides legal protection Helps to segment markets

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Packaging Designing and producing the container or wrapper for a product. Developing a good package: Market the brand Protect the elements Ensure product safety Address environmental concerns

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Packaging can Differentiate POM brand Pomegranate juice used a distinctively shaped bottle to gain attention on the grocery shelf

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Labeling Printed information appearing on or with the package. Performs several functions: Identifies product or brand Describes several things about the product Promotes the product through attractive graphics

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Marketing in Action As Americans become increasingly concerned about cholesterol, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has responded by requiring food manufacturers to list trans fat (i.e., trans fatty acids) on the Nutrition Facts portion of product labels, effective 1/1/06. Labeling

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Product Support Services Assess the value of current services and obtain ideas for new services. Assess the cost of providing the services. Put together a package of services that delights the customers and yields profits for the company.

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Product Line Decisions Product line length: The number of items in a product line. Adjust line length by: Stretching Downward Upward Both directions Filling

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Product Mix Decisions Product mix: all of the product lines and items that a particular seller offers for sale. Product mix dimensions include: Length: the number of items in a line. Width: the number of different product lines the company carries. Depth: the number of versions offered of each product in the line. Consistency: how closely related various lines are.

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Brand Equity The marketing asset: the consequence of good marketing Formed primarily by brand experience but also by advertising/marcoms (externally) & good management (internally) What everyone has between the ears about the brand but also distribution (“channel equity”) The link between short- and long-terms: the reservoir of unrealised cash flow Key predictor of future profits

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Major Brand Strategy Decisions Brands are assets that must be carefully developed and managed via: Brand positioning Brand name selections Brand sponsorship Brand development

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Brand Positioning Can position brands at any of three levels: Product attributes Product benefits Beliefs and values

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Brand Name Selection Desirable qualities for a brand name include: It should suggest product’s benefits and qualities. (Bonus card, Burger King…) It should be easy to pronounce, recognize, and remember. (Dell, Acer, Sony …) It should be distinctive. It should be extendable. (Turkcell) It should translate easily into foreign languages. (Nike, Sony) It should be capable of registration and legal protection.

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A Few Examples

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Brand Sponsorship Manufacturer’s brands Also called national brands (i.e. Dogus Cay, Glade …) Private brands Also called store or distributor brands (i.e. Migros, Carrefour, …) Licensed brands (Ferrari hats, Home Depot toys, Mc Donald's toys …) Co-branding http://www.nike.com/nikeplus/#overview

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Brand Development Strategies

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Brand Development Line extension: introduction of additional items in a given product category under the same brand name (e.g., new flavors, forms, colors, ingredients, or package sizes) (i.e. Doritos Alaturka) Brand extension: using a successful brand name to launch a new or modified product in a new category. (Duru – soap and conditioner)

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Marketing in Action Marriott offers a full line of hotel brands, each aimed at a different market. Product Line Stretching

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Choose a partner in class and discuss your favorite products. How could the existing product line be stretched or filled? Explain. Let’s Talk!

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Brand Development Multibranding: offers a way to establish different features and appeal to different buying motives. (PG) New brands: developed based on belief that the power of its existing brand is waning and a new brand name is needed. Also used for products in new product category.

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Nature and Characteristics of a Service Intangibility: Services cannot be seen, tasted, felt, heard, or smelled before purchase. Inseparability: Services cannot be separated from their providers. Variability: Quality of services depends on who provides them and when, where, and how they are delivered. Perishability: Services cannot be stored for later sale or use.

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Let’s Talk! How do the service characteristics of intangibility, variability, inseparability, and perishability relate to restaurants? Explain.

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2000 JAPAN

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The Service-Profit Chain Internal service quality Satisfied and productive service employees Great service value Satisfied and loyal customers Healthy service profits and growth.

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Services Marketing External marketing: Traditional marketing via the 4 “P’s” Internal marketing: Effective training and motivation of customer contact employees Interactive marketing: Delivering interactions during the service encounter that are satisfying to the buyer

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The Service Triangle

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Major Service Marketing Tasks Managing service differentiation: Develop a differentiated offer, delivery, and image. Managing service quality: Be customer obsessed, set high service quality standards, have good service recovery, empower front-line employees. Managing service productivity: Train current employees or hire new ones, increase quantity and sacrifice quality, harness technology.

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International Product and Services Marketing Decide which products and services to introduce. Decide how much to standardize or adapt. Packaging presents new challenges. Services marketers face special challenges. Trend toward global service companies will continue.

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Define product and the major classifications of products and services. Describe the decisions companies make regarding their individual products and services, product lines, and product mixes. Discuss branding strategy – the decisions firms make in building and managing their brands. Identify the four characteristics that affect the marketing of a service and the additional marketing considerations that services require. Discuss two additional product issues: socially responsible product decisions and international product and services marketing. To Sum Up