Marketing principles: Task 2
2.1 Explain how the vacuum cleaner is developed to sustain a competitive advantage.
To sustain competitive advantage for any company so for ACL company developing new vacuum cleaner was an important step. In sustaining competitive advantage, there are 8 stages defined below (new product development, www.learnmarketing.net)
Stage 1: Idea generation- for every organization idea could come from different sources such as: market research, employees, consultants, competitors, customers, distributors etc.
ACL has got well experienced design engineers and scientist which were working to create our new vacuum cleaner with special design and use.
Stage 2: Idea screening- company choosing best idea for developing
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Our price decision will influence also demand for our product (customer research) in the target market, elasticity of demand, distribution channel members, competitors and our organizational objectives and also life-cycle of our product.
2.4 Illustrate how promotional activities are integrated to achieve the marketing objectives of ACL
Every product has its life cycle which includes – introduction, growth, maturity, decline. As product goes through those stages, different promotional strategies are needed to make sure that our product will have success and will last.(class notes)
ACL is reaching first stage of PLC, so our main objective now is – introducing new vacuum cleaner. There are two main kinds of promotional strategy: “push” and “pull”. ACL chose pull strategy, although it requires high spending on advertising and consumer promotion to build consumer demand for a new product. (tutor2u-promotion-push and pull strategy)
We expect the pull strategy will be successful and so consumer will ask their retailers for our product- retailers will ask the wholesaler- and they will ask ACL – producers of new vacuum cleaner.
Part of our marketing plan is integrated market communication (IMC) (class notes), which is really helpful to get all the promotional tools work together in harmony (http://www.multimedia)
Five main tools of IMC are: advertising, sales, promotion, personal selling, direct marketing and public
2. Sell the product through the existing distribution channels of the Agree line( distributed nationally and overseas to wholesalers and retailers through a system of manufactures’ representatives and factory salesmen.
• The company should find effective way to communicate about the product in public to boost up the sale of existing product but this plan does not work every time and it can be tricky also.
To increase CAH¡¯s sales in the U.S., set up push strategy (Exhibit 4), directing the promotional mix to channel members to gain their cooperation in ordering and stocking the product. In this approach, personal selling and sales promotions play major roles. Salespeople call on wholesalers to encourage orders and provide sales assistance. Sales promotions, such as case discount allowances (20 percent off the regular case price), are offered to stimulate demand. By pushing the product through the channel, the goal is to get channel members to push it to their customers.
| The production orientation forces a company to build whatever it builds best, that is, whatever it has the experience and expertise in doing.
When Quiksilver announced the start of its women line Roxy in 1990, they defined the brand as a “fun, bold, athletic, daring and classy” brand for young women. Market segmentation is a crucial marketing strategy and Roxy utilizes the four bases that are commonly used for segmenting consumer markets including geographic, demographic, psychographic, and benefits sought segmentation. The geographic segmentation is ideally unlimited for the Roxy target market because the brand offers clothes for both warm and cold weather, however, it focuses mainly on the “beach lifestyle” and is generally more popular in beach towns. The demographic segmentation of the Roxy brand, is aimed to attract young women between the
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When trying to communicate a sound and creative solution to a problem, it is important to persuade the target audience. In many instances, communications of this type fail to reach an agreement with the target audiences. When a company fails to reach this agreement it often ends in bad business or lost accounts, and there is a great example of failing to persuade the target audience within the Raymond Storage Concepts Inc.’s sales team. The latest example of a lost account is when the RSCI dealership tried to pitch their Radio Shuttle as a new material handling practice to ABC Company. Although the Radio Shuttle is a great product, it was RSCI’s job to persuade their audience to buy this product, to defeat their main competitor, Cardinal Carryor.
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Andrews integrated Cost Leader/Differentiator with Product Lifecycle Focus strategy. They invested huge amount of capital in high-end, low-end, and traditional segments. In order to reduce the labor cost for the long term, they add four automation levels in the low-end segment. They intends to move their product Adam from high end to low end gradually, therefore, Adam didn’t be revised so much at the first round. In the third round, Adam successfully fell into the traditional segment. On the evidence of adding automation to Adam in the second round, our conjecture can be proved. Additionally, heavily invested in promotion and sales budget in the three segments lead to a high level of awareness and accessibility, as a result, they stand out from the competition right now. As team Andrew has two products in both high end and traditional segment, they will take some of our market share.
The product life cycle is a critical aspect of any marketing plan. At different stages of the life cycle, products need to be treated in different ways, in order to maximise potential profit. The marketing mix should be manipulated in such a way to provide the best return for the business. One of Harvey Norman’s main products includes computers. As computers became a more common product, and entered the maturity stage of the product lifecycle, Harvey Norman approached the market with a price discounting approach to maintain a larger market share than its competitors.
Marketers can combine a variety of IMC tools to create brand value and avoid potential conflicts (Duncan & Everett, 1993) rather than separate practices to produce manifold messages about the same brand. However, companies can no longer be tied to a specific communication tool such as advertising. In order for consumers to get uniformity message and brand information, Reid (2005) states that marketers should fully apply IMC to capture audiences’ attention and convince them to have high perception of product and brand.
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