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Marketing Programs. Chapter 5. Experiential Marketing. Focus on consumer experience Sony Metreon Focus on consumption situation Guinness museum View consumer as rational/emotional Nike sponsorship Use eclectic methods and tools Experiential grid (think, feel, do). Group Activity.
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Marketing Programs Chapter 5
Experiential Marketing • Focus on consumer experience Sony Metreon • Focus on consumption situation Guinness museum • View consumer as rational/emotional Nike sponsorship • Use eclectic methods and tools Experiential grid (think, feel, do)
Group Activity Design an experiential consumption situation for: • Sealy Posturpedic Mattress • Black & Decker products • K2 ski equipment
Product Strategy • Perceived quality • Brand intangibles • Relationship marketing & consumer value • Mass customization • Aftermarketing • Loyalty programs
Pricing Strategy Consumer perception of price tiers • fair price • typical price • last price • competitive pricing • usual discounted price • premium/ luxury price (value added) • every day low price
Channel Strategy:Distribution Direct - identify prospects and visit or contact them • pull strategy • company stores • web strategies Indirect - agents, retailers, brokers, dealers; • push strategy • retail segmentation • cooperative advertising
Private Labels • Supermarket store brands • 20% of all units sold, 15% dollar volume • Value positioning • Lower-price knockoffs • Trader Joe’s strategy
Profiling Activity • Pick a product category • Identify all the brands in that category • Develop a price tier for the category (Fig. 5-7) • Identify their pricing strategies • Critique those you think should be priced differently
Better Pricing: Consumers First 1. Consumer’s • value of product/service • Value variations • Price sensitivity • Emotional response 2. Company’s optimal pricing structure 3. Competitor’s reaction
Levels of Brand Communications Strategic Brand Management
Enterprise (company) • Communication seeks to make firm more transparent to the outsider by revealing its physique,human, technological and financial means. • Content is both factual and economic. • Coke’s worldwide presence; Atlanta Olympics
Institutional Communication • Points to firms’ wider values; voice of the company’s heart. • Should make clear the company’s social justification.
Mobil’s People Do Campaign • Brand Communication • Expresses the meaning of the brand’s products. • Brand injects its own value into the product and transforms its status
.Benetton’s Activist Advertising;Ford’s ‘Quality is Job 1’ • Product or Service Communication • Targeted straight at the consumer or client trying to make a decision.
Messages & Incentives MESSAGES • Short term • Long term INCENTIVES • Short term • Long term
Nissan • ‘Everything you need; nothing you don’t’ campaign for the Xterra SUV • Messages • Incentives
Database-driven relationships • Repository of information about customers and prospects • History of relationship transactions • Structural vs. relational databases • Match message with customer aggregate • Tangible asset
Emotional Branding Feeling good about a brand
Changing Vocabulary of Emotional Branding • Think of consumers as people • Create products as experiences • Convert honesty to trust • Change quality to preference • Shift notoriety to aspiration • Switch identity to personality • Revert function to feel • Make communication a dialog • Transform service into a relationship
Where does the brand hit? HEAD - Aveda Shampoo • smart, intriguing, stimulating, end benefit HEART - Godiva Chocolate • emotional/experiential, sensual, beloved, trust GUT - Prada design wear • sexy, cool, have to have it, ‘that’s me’