Anu Mishra presents on the marketing mix and its 4Ps and 7Ps. The 4Ps include product, price, promotion, and place. Product refers to the goods or services a company offers. Price is what customers pay to obtain the product. Promotion covers advertising and communications to raise awareness. Place involves how the product is distributed and made available to customers. The 7Ps add people, process, and physical evidence. People refers to a company's workforce. Process covers how services are delivered. And physical evidence represents the tangible elements customers experience during service delivery.
5. PROMOTION
Any form of communication a
business or company uses to
inform, persuade, or remind
people about products and to
improve its image
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6. 4. Place : Place under marketing mix involves all
company activities that make the product
available to the targeted customer .
5.
6. 7.
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7. 5.People: The human resources in the
organization. The most important asset of
the organization.
6.Process: This means procedure,
mechanism and flow of activities by
which a service is acquired .The services
includes various process like meeting of
customers .
7.Physical Evidence: This is the
environment when services is delivered
and any tangible goods that facilitate the
performance and communication of the
service.
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There are many ways to price a product. Let's have a look at some of them and try to understand the best policy/strategy in various situations. Premium pricing, penetration pricing, economy pricing, and price skimming are the four main pricing policies/strategies. They form the bases for the exercise. However there are other important approaches to pricing.Price Skimming:Charge a high price because you have a substantial competitive advantage. However, the advantage is not sustainable. The high price tends to attract new competitors into the market, and the price falls due to increased supply. Manufacturers of digital watches used a skimming approach in the 1970s. Once other manufacturers were tempted into the market and the watches were produced at a lower unit cost and other marketing strategies and pricing approaches are implemented. E.g. mobilinkPenetration Pricing:The price charged for products and services is set artificially low in order to gain market share. Once this is achieved, the price is increased. This approach was used by France Telecom and Sky TV. E.g. telenorPsychological Pricing:This approach is used when the marketer wants the consumer to respond on an emotional, rather than rational basis. For example 'price point perspective' 99 cents not one dollar. Cost-plus pricing:Cost-plus pricing is the simplest pricing method. The firm calculates the cost of producing the product and adds on a percentage (profit) to that price to give the selling price. This method although simple has two flaws; it takes no account of demand and there is no way of determining if potential customers will purchase the product at the calculated price.Price = Cost of Production + Margin of Profit. Loss Leader: Basic Concept In the majority of cases, this pricing strategy is illegal under EU and US Competition rules. No market leader would wish to sell below cost unless this is part of its overall strategy. The idea of selling at a loss may appear to be in the public interest and therefore not often challenged. Only when the leader pushes up prices, it then becomes suspicious.