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PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING
Eighth Edition
Philip Kotler and Gary Armstrong

Chapter
Chapter 88
Product and Services
Strategy
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What
What is
is aa Product?
Product?
• Anything that can be offered to a market for
attention, acquisition, use or consumption.
• Satisfies a want or a need.

• Includes:
– Physical Products
– Services
– Persons
– Places
– Organizations
– Ideas
– Combinations of the above

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Levels
Levels of
of Product
Product

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Augmented
Augmented
Product
Product

Installation
Packaging
Brand
Name
Delivery
& Credit
Quality
Level

Core
Core
Benefit
Benefit

or
or
Service
Service

Features
AfterSale
Service
Design

Warranty
Core
Core
Product
Product

Actual
Actual
Product
Product

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Product
Product Classifications
Classifications
Consumer
Consumer Products
Products
Convenience Products

Shopping Products

> Buy frequently & immediately
> Low priced
> Many purchase locations
> Includes:
• Staple goods
• Impulse goods
• Emergency goods


> Buy less frequently
> Gather product information
> Fewer purchase locations
> Compare for:
• Suitability & Quality
• Price & Style

Specialty Products

Unsought Products

> Special purchase efforts
> Unique characteristics
> Brand identification
> Few purchase locations

> New innovations
> Products consumers don’t
want to think about
> Require much advertising &

personal selling

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Product
Product Classifications
Classifications
Industrial
Industrial Products
Products

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Materials
Materials
and

and
Parts
Parts
Capital
Capital
Items
Items
Supplies
Supplies
and
and
Services
Services
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Product
Product Classifications
Classifications
Other
Other Marketable

Marketable Entities
Entities

• Marketed to create, maintain, or change the
attitudes or behavior toward the following:
• Organizations - Profit (businesses) and
nonprofit (schools and
churches).
• Person - Political and sports figures,
entertainers, doctors and lawyers.
• Place - Business sites and tourism.
• Social - Reduce smoking, clean air,
conservation.

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Individual

Individual Product
Product Decisions
Decisions
Product
Product Attributes
Attributes

Branding
Branding

Packaging
Packaging

Labeling
Labeling

Product
Product Support
Support Services
Services

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Product
Product Attribute
Attribute
Decisions
Decisions

Quality
Quality
Design
Design

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Features
Features

Brands
Brands

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Consistency
Consistency

Quality
Quality &
& Value
Value

Attributes
Attributes

Advantages
of
Brand Names

Identification
Identification

Association
Association

Brand
Equity

Loyalty
Loyalty

Credibility
Credibility

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Awareness
Awareness

Major
Major Brand
Brand Decisions
Decisions
Brand
Brand Name
Name Selection
Selection
Selection
Selection
Protection
Protection

Brand
Brand Sponsor
Sponsor
Manufacturer’s
Manufacturer’s Brand
Brand
Private
Private Brand
Brand
Licensed
Licensed Brand
Brand
Co-branding
Co-branding

Brand
Brand Strategy
Strategy
Line
Line Extensions
Extensions
Brand
Brand Extensions
Extensions
Multibrands
Multibrands
New
New Brands
Brands
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Brand
Brand Strategy
Strategy

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Brand Name

Product Category
Existing

New

Existing

Line
Extension

Brand
Extension

New

Multibrands

New
Brands

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Brand
Brand Strategy
Strategy
• Line Extension
– Existing brand names extended to new forms,
sizes, and flavors of an existing product category.

• Brand Extension
– Existing brand names extended to new product
categories.

• Multibrands
– New brand names introduced in the same product
category.

• New Brands
– New brand names in new product categories.

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Packaging
Packaging

Sales
Tasks

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Competitive
Advantages
Packaging
Packaging

Product
Safety

Labeling
Labeling
Identifies

Promotes
Describes

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Product
Product -- Support
Support Services
Services

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Companies should design its support services to
profitably meet the needs of target customers.
How?
• Step 1. Survey customers to determine satisfaction
with current services and any desired new services.
• Step 2. Assess costs of providing desired services.
• Step 3. Develop a package of services to delight
customers and yield profits.

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Product
Product Line
Line Decisions
Decisions

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Product
Product Line
Line Length
Length

Number
Number of
of Items
Items in
in the
the Product
Product Line
Line

Stretching

Filling

Lengthen beyond
current range

Lengthen within
current range

Downward

Upward
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Product
Product Mix
Mix Decisions
Decisions

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Consistency

Width
Width -- number
number of
of
different
different product
product
lines
lines

Length
Length -- total
total
number
number of
of items
items
within
within the
the lines
lines

Depth
Depth -- number
number
of
of versions
versions of
of
each
each product
product

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Product
Product Mix
Mix -all
all the
the product
product
lines
lines offered
offered

Characteristics
Characteristics of
of Services
Services

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Intangibility
Intangibility

Can’t be seen, tasted, felt, heard,
or smelled before purchase.

Inseparability
Inseparability

Can’t be separated from service
providers.

Variability
Variability
Perishability
Perishability

Quality depends on who provides
them and when, where and how.
Can’t be stored for later sale or use.

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The
The Service-Quality
Service-Quality Chain
Chain

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Internal
Internal Service
Service Quality
Quality

Satisfied
Satisfiedand
and
Productive
ProductiveService
Service
Employees
Employees

Health
HealthService
Service
Profits
Profitsand
and Growth
Growth

Satisfied
Satisfied and
andLoyal
Loyal
Customers
Customers

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Greater
GreaterService
Service
Value
Value

Marketing
Marketing Strategies
Strategies for
for Service
Service
Firms
Firms
• Managing Service Differentiation
– Develop offer, delivery and image with competitive
advantages.

• Managing Service Quality
– Empower employees
– Become “Customer obsessed”
– Develop high service quality standards
– Watch service performance closely

• Managing Service Productivity
– Train current or new employees
– Increase quantity by decreasing quality
– Utilize technology

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