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Setting Product
Strategy
Discussion Questions
1. What are the characteristics of a
product, and how do marketers
classify products?
2. How can companies differentiate
products?
3. Why is product design important and
what factors affect a good design?
4. How can a company build and
manage its product mix and product
lines?
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Discussion Questions
5. How can companies combine
products to create strong co-brands
or ingredient brands?
6. How can companies use packaging,
labeling, warranties, and guarantees
as marketing tools?
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Marketing Planning
Needs
Wants
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Components of the
Market Offering
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Product Characteristics/Classifications
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Persons
Experiences
Events
Properties
Organizations
Information
Ideas
Goods
Services
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Places
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Five Product Levels
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Product Levels
Core Benefit
(Rest and sleep)
Basic Product
(Bed, bathroom, towels)
Expected Product
(Clean bed, fresh towels)
Customer-value
Hierarchy
Augmented Product
(Free Internet; free breakfast)
Potential Product
(Future augmentations)
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Product Classifications
Durability and
Tangibility
Nondurable
goods
Durable
goods
Services
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Product Classifications
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Staples
Impulse goods
Emergency goods
Consumer-Goods
Specialty goods
Convenience
goods
Shopping goods
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Unsought
goods
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Product Classifications
Materials and Parts
Raw materials
Manufacture
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Supplies and
business
Services
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Industrial-Goods
Capital Items
Installations
Equipment
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Product and Services
Differentiation
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Product Differentiation
Form
Features
Customizatio
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Durability
Performance
Conformanc
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Repairability
Reliability
Style
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Services Differentiation
Customer
Consulting
Delivery &
Returns
Ordering
Ease
Training
Installation
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Maintenance & Repair
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Design
Function
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Benefits
Aesthetic
Benefits
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Product and Brand
Relationships
Product Hierarchy
Product
Systems/Mixes
Product Line Analysis
Product Line Length
Product Mix Pricing
Co-Branding
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Product Hierarchy
Need Family
Product Family
Product Class
Product Line
Product Type
Item
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Product Systems and Mixes
Product
System
Consisten
cy
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Proctor & Gamble Product Mix
Product Mix Width
Bar Soap
Disposabl Paper
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Ivory Snow Gleem
Dreft
Crest
Ivory
Camay
Pampers
Luvs
Tide
Zest
Cheer
Safeguar
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Dash
Oil of
Olay
Detergents
Produc
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Length
Toothpast
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Charmin
Puffs
Bounty
Bold
Gain
Era
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Product Line Analysis
Sales and Profit
Market Profile
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Product-Item
Contributions
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Product Map
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Product Line Length
Up-market
stretch
Line
stretching
Twoway
stretch
Line modernization,
featuring, and
pruning
Down-market
stretch
Line
filling
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Product Mix Pricing
Product line pricing
Captive-product pricing
Optional-feature pricing
Two-part pricing
By-product pricing
Product-bundling
pricing
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