How promotions help in range management issues?

Product Range Management A product range is the total product offering expressed in terms of width and depth. The width of a product range depends on the variety or number of types in a product category. The depth of a product range refers to the amount of choice offered in terms of product and brand …

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The Global, National, and Regional strategy

Consumers come from different cultures, demographics, psychographics, and are at different evolutionary stages. Different markets have different advantages and disadvantages. The majority of the largest companies in the world produce and distribute products across national borders. Most companies have different products in different continents at an instant of time. Also, based on the different consumer markets …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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Strategy – Mission & Vision

People say organizations should have Mission statement, Vision Statement, etc. I say everything boils down to only one word - Purpose. To better understand these things, I took a small example of a person who wants to shift his career from IT to Marketing. Let us see these things from his perspective: MISSION - Why does …

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Customer Perceived Value – The base for your pricing strategy

Pricing is one of the linchpins of marketing strategy and success. Marketer's need to get their pricing strategy right and it is always a big challenge to understand which price is the right for both my customer and me. Marketeers should understand how customers perceive value, because it is the value that is the ultimate …

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Porter’s five forces and value-chain analysis

Michael Porter provided a framework that models an industry as being influenced by five forces. The strategic business manager seeking to develop an edge over rival firms can use this model to better understand the industry context in which the firm operates. The five forces of competition according to Porter are: - Threat of substitutes …

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Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence (CI) is a process of enhancing marketplace competitiveness through a greater understanding of a firm's competitors and the competitive environment. This process is unequivocally ethical. It involves the legal collection and analysis of information regarding the capabilities, vulnerabilities, and intentions of business competitors. CI helps the senior management in companies of all sizes …

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Indian Rural Markets and their potential

India is one of the most challenging markets in the world which fooled big marketers and companies across the world. We have over 1500 Gods segmented into 350 broad categories, and we have a God for every single day of the week. There are 9.5 lakh pan shops, 638,667 number of villages, 612 districts, and …

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What makes a region productive ?

The Five competitive forces that shape strategy – Michael E. Porter