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3. • New Jersey Entrepreneurial Network.
• Venture Association of NJ.
• NJ Economic Development Authority.
• www.nyc.gov/html/sbs/nycbiz/html/library/library.shtml
• www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/start/financestartup/
• www.nyc.gov/html/sbs/nycbiz/html/business_planning/g
• http://www.nypl.org/smallbiz/
Resources
8. • A product is anything that is offered to the
market to satisfy customer wants, needs, and
demands
• A Good versus A Service:
– Tangibility: physical items
– Inseparability: Services are inseparable from
consumption (a haircut)
– Heterogeneity: The quality of the service depends
entirely on the co. and person performing the
service, and the circumstances at the time of the
service
– Perishability: a good can be stored for later
use/consumption
What’s a “Product”
9. • HYBRID products: a balance of tangible and
intangible (meal at restaurant)
– Chuck e cheese or Wolfgang Puck
• Total ProductTotal Product = CORE + Augmented
– CORE: Clean houses, help people find jobs, make
wine
– AUGMENTED: What distinguishes you from the
competition but is still associated with the CORE
– TOTALTOTAL: Comprises both but includes other aspects
that change over time
Making Intangible More TANGIBLE
10. • A small business’s resources are limited, so you
MUST focus on your TARGET MARKET:
– The group of people on which a marketer focuses
their promotional efforts
What’s a “Product”
15. • Avoid using JUST your family name
• Is your name appropriate (Ex. Pain Dental)
• Watch your intellectual capital, website
domains, etc.
• Don’t use a name that’s so narrow that it
prevents your future growth (Ex. Just Screws)
Brand Guidelines
16. • Idea Generation / SCAMPER (Chpt. 4)
• Idea screening for business potential, which do
we evaluate further
• Idea evaluation – specifying the details of each
idea’s technological feasibility, cost, market
potential
• Product Development – start with prototypes,
test marketing
• Commercialization
Product Development Process
17. • SS - Substitute
• CC - Combine
•A - Adapt
• MM - Magnify/Modify
• PP - Put to other uses
• EE - Eliminate
•R - Rearrange
SCAMPER
25. • Post commercial launch sales grow slowly
• Building brand awareness/recognition is
CRITICAL
• Advertising must focus on the advantage this
product/service offers
• Let them try your new product out (samples)
• Let them see it in action (Shamwow)
STAGE 1: Introduction
26. • Product acceptance happens rapidly
• Sales and profits grow at a high rate
• Not a huge need for advertising and promotions
• Marketing goal is maximize market share
• Critical time for small firms – larger firms can
now see you coming at them from the rear
view mirror
STAGE 2: Growth
29. • Rapid growth begins to slow
• Competition is fierce
• New client acquisition comes from taking
customers from competitors
• When competitors go out of business you
snatch up their accounts
• Less advertising more promotions
• Expand your suite of products and services
STAGE 3: Maturity
30. • Can be slow or fast, steady or sporadic
• Sales and profits fall
• Stop advertising and promoting
• Scale back production, phase out certain
products and/or services
STAGE 4: Decline
34. • So much more than the cost of making the
product plus a mark up
• Implies VALUEVALUE or WORTH
• Need to understand the “psychologypsychology” behind
consumer purchase decisions
• A MAJOR factor in affecting customers’ beliefs
about your quality and desirability
• The easiest variable of the 5P marketing mix to
change
• A critical component of your competitive
strategy
What’s “Pricing”
35.
36. • Seller tendency to overcharge
• Highest versus optimum price
• Optimum price is a function of 4 things:
– Demand for the product
– Value delivered to the customer
– Competitor pricing
– Your business strategy and product placement
• Markup: what you sell it for
-what it cost to make it
– As a %: markup / cost
What’s “Pricing”
37. • Price elasticity: inelastic product is one people
can’t do without. Now matter how much you
increase the price, they will still buy it.
• Got any examples???Got any examples???
• Inelastic products have almost NO substitutes
• Elastic products have LOTS of substitutes
Price Elasticity
38. • We all have INTERNAL & EXTERNAL reference
prices:
– Internal: A consumer’s mental image what the price
should be
– External: An estimation what the price should be
based on information external to the consumer
• Price Range ACCEPTABILITY
Pricing Psychology
39. • Align pricing to your company objectives
• Reflect your marketing strategy
• Channels of Distribution (pay off every hand in
the pot)
• Competition
• Legal Regulatory Issues:
– Price gouging
Factors in Setting Prices
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41. • Skimming: set it high, bring it down over time
• Prestige/Premium – the higher the price, the
higher the “perceived” value
• Odd-Even: End with a $.05$.05, $.07$.07, or $.09$.09
• Partitioned: Charging for all the “EXTRAS”
• Captive: The base unit pricing is inexpensive
but the expendable is COSTLY (Ex. Printer +
ink cartridge, single coffee cups, home water
service)
• Price Lining: Different product versions to
appeal to different markets.
Pricing Strategies