A sales channel is about where you're going to sell and how you're going to sell. In fact, it is about where you're consumer is willing to purchase your product, where the consumer expects the product to be available, what is the consumer decision making process regarding your category and product, and what is your …
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Touch point strategy
Segmenting consumers and understanding their behavior helps us understand the different customer interactions and touch points available for each of these consumer segments. Understanding the brand personality and the moods the brand can leverage will provide the advantage to communicate the values and be present at relevant touch points. With the media clutter the consumers …
Flipkart attacks the online fears with its new set of TVCs
I was always excited with the company Flipkart and how carefully they are choosing their way forward. For now, Flipkart seems to be playing their cards right. Flipkart.com has aired three TVCs. Each of the ads attack a distinct fear in the consumer's mind towards online shopping, and how Flipkart solves that problem. Fear of …
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Deodorants and the launch of ‘Sure’
According to newspaper reports, deodorants and fragrances market in India is more than Rs. 10,000 million in 2010. No one could have imagined that deodorants would become such a huge market in India. It required a monumental marketing effort to convert people from an old to a new way to meet a primary human need. …
Myntra.com
Myntra.com is currently among the top e-commerce companies in India. Recently, they started above the line (ATL) advertising with the television commercial(TVC) below. As most of us know, if you have the pockets, a TVC is probably the best way to create awareness of your brand in India. Myntra.com TVC on air Going on TV …
Cash & Carry retail in India
Cash and carry is a membership based retail store selling limited SKUs in bulk packs. Cash and carry has a membership requirement. Customers are usually members of the club and pay an annual fee in order to continue their membership. It is not like any other retail outlet where in one can go and buy …
A to B and B to A marketing
In marketing, there are two fundamental principles called Attitude to Behaviour (A to B) and Behaviour to Attitude (B to A) marketing. In A to B marketing, you target and change the attitude of the consumer first, so that the change in the attitude may result in a desired change in the behaviour. For example, …
Brand Activations – An entertaining interaction for the consumer
A visit to any mall and you see it is filled with the in-mall activations and the in-store activations. Brand Activations are catching up fast and becoming a serious BTL activity for the marketers and it is no more only for the awareness, PR and couponing. It is fast becoming an important weapon in marketing …
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Importance of IMC
To best reach today’s consumers, both in and out of the store, companies have to focus on integrated marketing communications that include a mix of traditional and new media as well as creative promotional activities. Shopper marketing program, which focuses on in-store behaviour, is another way of identifying ew growth opportunities for the company and …
Positioning
Positioning of a product is how do you intend the consumer to perceive your product. It is to understand where and for what do you want to stand in the consumer's mind. After segmenting a market and then targeting a consumer, next step will be to position a product within that market. It refers to …
Coca-Cola: 125 years and 1.7 billion drinks per day
On May 1886, Coca-Cola sold its first bottle in Atlanta, Georgia. This month the beverage major completed 125 years of happiness and refreshing customers worldwide. There are set of events done by Coca-Cola across the globe to celebrate this event. Apart from generating some buzz, these events will be remembered as some of the best …
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What’s happening in Online India?
The Nielsen Global Online Shopping Report looks at how consumers shop online: what they intend to buy, how they use various sites, the impact of social media and other factors that come into play when they are trying to decide how to spend their money. More than eight out of ten Indian online consumers plan …
Why the clock says 10:10?
This is a question that all of us ponder on at some point of time. There is one famous answer, which is that the watch-makers want you to smile. They want people to remember that they should smile and look at their watch. I was also quite satisfied with this answer before. But, the actual …
Price Sensitivity Model
In the 1970s, Dutch economist Peter H. van Westendorp introduced a simple method to assess consumers’ price perception. It is based on the premise that there is a range of prices bounded bya maximum that a consumer is prepared to spend and a minimum below which credibility is indoubt. The Price Sensitivity Meter (sometimes called …
Colgate in India
Colgate has come up as one of the most resurgent brands in the Indian market. The brand covers massive market in terms of volume in toothbrush and toothpaste sales. Colgate is one of the top performers in its category. But with new players entering the segment, Colgate has been resurgent and is ready to face …
Bettering a billion lives, India’s Unique ID System
Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, Nandan Nilekani, said over a third of India’s 1.1 billion consumers had been largely overlooked in areas such as banking and social services. Speaking to business leaders gathered at The Nielsen Company’s Consumer 360 event in New Delhi, Nilekani said this had come about in part because …
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Pond’s toothpaste
Pond’s, the popular brand for cosmetics, applied its brand name to toothpaste releasing Pond’s toothpaste. Pond’s has done a blind test and people were happy with the toothpaste. So Pond’s thought it will extend itself into the toothpaste category. But when Pond’s actually released the toothpaste with the Pond’s name on it, it is a …
Culture Problems
In order to keep the same identity throughout the world, many companies stick with the same marketing campaign and brand message in every country. However, this occasionally creates difficulties as we see below: KFC in Hong Kong KFC’s ‘finger lickin’ good’ is used the world over to highlight the tastiness of the product. However, when …
Brand extensions – the dilemma of existing products
Often you see a great brand trying to come up with an extension and fail and some great brands extending their brand successfully. Maggi is a good example for successful brand extensions and Harley Davidson is a great example of brand extension failures. Let us see the hows and whys: Maggi is a brand which …
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