Marketing Review

Marketing myopia

focusing too much on the short term

Who is who and what is what

first pre-step to working a case is to identify

Sales Funnel

inbound management tool to place customers in groups/stages based on how interested they are in the product, willingness to buy, purchase process, etc. monitors progress in moving customers through the process

Personality

you can attitudinally segment customers long-term by

4 P's

a good first step when analyzing why a product or service isn't selling

behavioral segmentation

includes looking at the current vs. non-current customers

Churn rate

the rate of people leaving the company

Retention rate

rate of people staying with the company

Brand Positioning

looking at the category, target segment, and customer needs

3 C's or CLV

use this to figure out what customers to target

Point of competitive parody

an asset that is only valuable, not RIO

Temporary competitive advantage

make as much money as you can before competitors catch up. asset that is V and R but not I or O

scenario analysis

includes looking at scenarios as pessimistic, optimistic, and realistic

focus on core competencies

after doing your VRIO analysis you should do this if they are all V,R,I,O

Marketing Strategy

the reason a company exists

Unexploited competitive advantage

assets that are valuable, rare, and inimitable but your company is not set up/organized to exploit them

immediacy

probability of trend occurring, time frame, how soon the company can adapt

Incremental innovation

small, added feature, tweak

Substantial innovation

medium, "new generation" of a product, enhanced

Transformational innovation

completely change the market, new product

Constant vigilance

pay attention to outside your industry as well

Inimitable

impossible to copy or imitate. Casual ambiguity, patents, social complexity

Market penetration

current customers, same product

Market development

non-current customers, same product

Geodemography

the geographical location of demographics

Asymmetric customer insights

info you have that competitor's don't

Commoditization

all one market becoming the same, indistinguishable between brands,

Strategy

vague, timeless, broad

Tactic

specific, targeted

Marketing

techniques to meet means to exist, the reason a company exists

Marketing from the outside in

Thinking first about the customer's needs and wants and then determine what product service to provide your customers with

Targeting

choosing which segment of customers to focus on

Brand positioning statement

Category, target segment, and customer needs met are all included in one of these

Positioning

which magazines to advertising in is an example of this type of decision

Inbound marketing

Especially good for complex B2B products

advantage of outbound

Easy to target your chosen customer segment

Outbound marketing

Relatively homogeneous set of customer

VRIO

takes a resource based view of the firm

Impact Analysis

helps firms to decide what factors in the external environment to focus on

strategic uncertainties

Trend that might have strategic implications for a company

monitor and analyze; contingent strategies considered

high impact low immediacy

Monitor

low impact, low immediacy

Analyze in depth, develop strategy

high impact, high immediacy

Monitor and analyze

low impact, high immediacy

affects impact

the number of different aspects of your business an environmental trend might affect

one step in scenario analysis

estimating scenario probabilities

customer insights

uncovering what job your product is doing for your customers, learning from other industries