Gurus On Marketing
Gurus On Marketing
Gurus On Marketing
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‘Differentiation allows the firm to get a price premium based on the<br />
extra value perceived by and delivered to the customers.’<br />
Differentiation can be based on product, services, personnel and image.<br />
Differentiation should be effectively communicated to the segments<br />
concerned. <strong>On</strong>ce the decision on differentiation is made a company<br />
can then position itself in the market place and prepare its competitive<br />
strategies.<br />
Developing, testing and launching new<br />
products and services<br />
It is important for companies to review their existing products and<br />
to develop new products to meeting changing market needs. There<br />
are dangers of new products failing if the best analytical tools and<br />
concepts are not applied properly or the company has not put in place<br />
an effective organisation for managing the new products.<br />
According to Kotler the new product development process consists<br />
of the following stages:<br />
• Idea generation.<br />
• Idea screening.<br />
• Concept development and testing.<br />
• <strong>Marketing</strong> strategy development.<br />
• Business analysis.<br />
• Product development.<br />
• Market testing.<br />
• Commercialisation.<br />
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