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Most of the organization does not sell the product direct to the final consumer, between them a set of
intermediaries performing a variety of function such as distribution of good, transportation of goods and
storage of goods. These intermediaries constitute a Marketing Channel.
Value Networks:
In order to source, augment and deliver the offering to final customer firm builds valued relationship
with suppliers, supplier’s supplier, immediate customer, a end customer and other institution such as
Government approving agencies and university researcher. This value relationship creates a value
network.
New Customer:
New customer can be increased through market penetration, new market segmentation strategy and
geographic expansion strategy.
1. Identifying additional opportunities to use product e.g. in various festival occasion marketer
persuade customer to use the product and announces extra discount.
2. Identifying completely new and different ways to use brand. E.g. Most of the foods companies
advertise of communicate various recipes relevant to product to convince customer to use their
product in different way.
Proactive Marketing :
In satisfying customer’s needs a distinction between responsive marketing, anticipating marketing and
creative marketing is drawn. In responsive marketing finds a stated needs of customer and try to fill it, in
anticipating marketing marketer look the need of customer may have in near future, in creative
marketer discovers the solutions customer did not ask for but they enthusiastically respond to that
solution. Many marketer who adapt the needs of customer are reactive whereas proactive marketer
needs two approaches i.e. responsive anticipation and creative anticipation. Proactive companies cerate
new offers to serve the customer.
Defensive Marketing:
Marketing Leader adopt following defensive strategies to protect market share.
1. Position Defense: through this marketer occupying most desirable market space that make
brand impregnable.
2. Flank Defense: through this marketer defend their side product.
3. Preemptive Defense: is the aggressive defense mode in which marketer attack first with guerilla
action. e.g. India state bank introduced in rural area in large No. of scale first to capture market.
4. Counter Offensive Defense: Market leader meet his attacker frontal and launch a pincer
involvement. The leader crush competitor through subsidizing, up gradation product.
5. Mobile Defense: leader stretch his domain over new territories through marketing broadening
and diversification. “Petroleum” Company recast them self as “Energy” Company through
market broadening and companies enter into unrelated industry through diversification.
6. Contraction Defense: large companies cannot defend their entire territories therefore they
decide to plan contraction called strategic withdrawal.