In many marketing textbooks, when discussing the product mix, the consumer product classification system is often a model that is presented. Please note that there are several articles on this website relating to the consumer product classification system – please refer to Related Topics at the end of this article.As a quick recap, in the […]
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Many marketing textbooks present the consumer product classification system, which is a model that helps guide the development and design of the marketing mix. Please note that there are several articles on this website relating to the consumer product classification system – please refer to Related Topics at the end of this article.As a reminder,
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It is common that introductory marketing textbooks discuss the consumer product classification system, which is a model that helps guide the design of the marketing mix. Note: There are several articles on this website relating to the consumer product classification system – please refer to Related Topics at the end of this article.As you probably
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Please note that this is one article on the consumer products classification system, which discusses why this classification system is helpful. There are also other articles on this website that discuss how products are classified and how the system guides marketing mix decisions – also please refer to Related Topics below.Most marketing textbooks will classify
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The consumer products classification system is a model commonly presented in most marketing principles textbooks in the product mix chapter. This model classifies as consumer products into one of four classes, namely:Convenience productsShopping productsSpecialty productsUnsought productsThere are numerous articles discussing the consumer products classification system on this website, please refer to Related Topics at the
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The importance of product in the marketing mixMarketing textbooks typically list all four elements (that is, the 4P’s) of the marketing mix equally in their diagrams. However, these textbooks usually structure product as the first chapter of the marketing mix. This clearly indicates there is some hierarchy to the importance of products in the overall
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Understanding the 4C’sThe traditional 4P’s marketing mix was developed from the point of view of the organization. Each of the marketing mix elements relates to something that the firm needs to do to be successful in the marketplace.For example, they need to develop a range of products to sell, they then need to set an
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The marketing mix has been a fundamental concept of marketing textbooks the past 50 years or more. This article explores the benefits and the role of the marketing mix in both the study and the practice of marketing.
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The extended marketing mix for services (the 7P’s)Services marketing emerged primarily in the 1980s, as more developed economies became more reliant on services as part of their overall gross domestic product. (Please see the article on service firm examples to have better sense of types of industries that need to operate under the 7P’s.)It was
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The 12 Component Marketing MixNeil Borden, of the Harvard Business School, was the first to document the concept of a marketing mix, way back in the 1950s. At that stage, the marketing profession was still considered to be art, not science, and in his paper, it compared a marketer to a chef in a restaurant
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