It is how a business intends to present a product to the public, taking into account the target audience, product benefits and marketing methods.
Marketing strategy
refers to activities a company undertake to promote the buying or selling of a product or service.
Marketing
is a long term plan on what to do to achieve a certain goal.
Strategy
specific group of people with shared characteristics you want to reach with your marketing efforts
Target market
is the activity of dividing a broad consumer or business market into sub-groups of consumers (known as segments) based on some type of shared characteristics
Market segmentation
Bases of market segmentation
Geographic
Demographic
Behavioral
Psychographic
What are under geographic
Location
Country
City
Language
Population
What are under demographic
Age
Sex
Income
Education
Social status
Family
Occupation
What are under behavioral
Readiness to purchase
Life cycle stage
User status
Intent
What are under psychographic
Lifestyle
Interest
Personality
Values
Attitudes
7Ps of marketing mix
Product
Price
Promotion
Place
People
Packaging
Positioning
is the set of controllable, tactical marketing tools that a company uses to produce a desired response from its target market.
Marketing mix
It consists of everything that a company can do to influence demand for its product..
Marketing mix
This is defined as “anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that might satisfy a want or need. It includes physical objects, services, persons, places, organizations and ideas.”
Product
bags, shoes, clothes, foods, cars, tables, pencil, notebooks, etc.
Tangible products
These are activities, benefits or gratification offered for sale that is essentially intangible and does not result in ownership of anything.
Intangible products
Product levels
1: Core Benefit
Level
2: Actual Product
Level
3: Augmented Product
is the fundamental need that the customer satisfies when they buy the product.
Ex: telephone calls or text
Level 1: core need
is the product features and its design. Products typically have lots of features but very few actual benefits (core benefits) to the customer.
Ex: features of the phone, including: color, screen size, camera, other specifications
Level 2: actual product
Augment means
“To add to”
Or
“To make greater”
Therefore, the last level in the product level model is increasing and adding value \These are referred to as ―add-ons.
Ex: 1 year warranty, free power bank, free case,
Augmented product
It answers the question—how much? This is also the amount of money that the customer must pay to get the products or services that he wants.
Price
This is also defined as the value that the entrepreneur assigns to a product or service after computing its costs.
Price
is the method of pricing that an entrepreneur use to determine how much to sell their products or services.
Pricing strategy