MARKET STRATEGY
Objectives: what you want to achieve.
- Specific—increase the sales
- Measurable—10percent
- Within a time frame—in 3 years
Strategy: how you achieve.
Niche market: focus on a specific segment of the market.
Mass market: much bigger market.
Introduction:
- Create awareness
- Encourage sales
- Develop an image
Decline :( Product start to fall)
- Withdraw product
- Wait for other competitors to withdraw products
- Extension strategy
MARKET PLANNING
4PS:
- Product
- Price
- new product pricing strategies
- existing product pricing strategies
- pricing methods
- pricing tactics
- Place
- Promotion
1.above the line(advertising):TV,RADIO MAGAZINE
2.below the line:
a.sales promotion:BOGOF,25%extra free
b.personal selling:face-to-face selling
c.direct marketing:mailshots
pricing strategies:
- price leader strategy(a firm sets market prices then follows other competitors)
- price taker strategy(a firm follows market prices sets by the leader)
- predator strategy(a firm undercuts the competitors to force them out of the market)
pricing:
cost-plus:a amount of profit is added on the unit cost
contribution
discrimination:setting different prices for the same product/service at different times
loss leaders:very low prices to attract customers
psychological:3.99