The document discusses the marketing strategy for launching a new product by Mobile Manufacturing Inc. It outlines the key elements of the marketing mix - product, price, place, and promotion. For the product, it recommends a thorough analysis of the lifecycle. For price, it recommends a penetration pricing strategy to gain market share. For promotion, it suggests an integrated approach using various channels. For place, it recommends focusing on youth and early adopters. The marketing strategy aims to aid Mobile Manufacturing in gaining market penetration in overseas markets as well.
1. APPLIED MANAGERIAL MARKETING
NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH
STUDENT’S NAME
PROFESSOR’S NAME
25TH NOVEMBER’ 2013
MOBILE MANUFACTURING, Inc.
ABSTRACT
A marketing strategy illuminates the key marketing
fundamentals of a business and maps out guidelines, principles
and proceedings for the business and its employees. The
marketing plan depicts on the extensive perceptions summarized
in a firm's business plan. The business strategy illustrates the
ways a company will seize a product thought and refurbish that
into a commercially viable plan.
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Managing Product Management: Empowering Your
Organization to Produce Competitive Products and Brands by
Steven Haines (Sep 19, 2011)
The Market Planning Guide: Creating a Plan to Successfully
Market Your Business, Products, or Service by David H. Bangs
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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous
Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses... by Eric
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Approved Marketing Plans for New Products and Services by
Ken K. Wong (Nov 23, 2010)
BRANDING STRATEGY
2. Branding is one of the major crucial attributes of any business,
hefty or miniature, retail or B2B. Mobile Manufacturing Inc.
fits in to the service industry; consequently the eminence of the
merchandise and service they proffer must be of better-quality
in order to achieve cutthroat benefit in the market. Therefore an
effective brand stratagem for MM’s new product furnishes a
prime periphery in increasingly more insistent markets. It
elucidates them what they can foresee from MM’s goods and
services, and it discriminates their proffering from their
contenders. The brand subterfuge is by means of, what,
anywhere, at what time and to whom the organization strategize
on consequent and assigning on the brand communications.
Wherever MM promotes is constituent of the brand stratagem.
The distribution feeds are in addition component of the brand
stratagem. And what the company commune visually and
vocally are constituent of the brand subterfuge, as well.
Unswerving, considered branding escorts to a strapping brand
equity, which means the additional value conveyed to the
company's products or services that permits to charge more for
the brand than what indistinguishable, unbranded products
grasp.
NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH GOALS OF MOBILE
MANUFACTURING
Prospect goals: Mobile Manufacturing, Inc. has an elongated
lead time for selling new products. A suitable goal may perhaps
be to delineate how many prospects MM would be fond of to
categorize as a consequence of the product launch.
Product consciousness goals: The sales progression generally
commences with the market being conscious of the organization
and its product. MM’s marketing endeavors can facilitate to put
together that awareness. Even though the tactics may perhaps
differ, one goal ought to incorporate being competent to
3. determine the consciousness MM has built.
Customer goals: Since it is not the foremost product launch,
MM may perhaps have goals to illustrate the espousal of their
product within their accessible customer base such as
promotions, enablement of attributes.
MARKETING MIX
The marketing mix is a trade machination utilized in marketing
yield. The marketing mix is recurrently influential when
determining a product or brand's unique selling peak, the
outstanding reputation that differentiates merchandise from its
competitors. A premeditated merge of the opportune
fundamentals of a product's marketing plan usually named as
4Ps: product, price, place, and promotion. These four
fundamentals are accustomed in anticipation of the precise
incorporation is established that serves the necessities of the
product's clients, whilst generating optimal earnings.
4 P’s of MARKETING MIX
Product - A product is professed as an item that sways what a
purchaser wishes or needs. It is a considerable good or an
insubstantial service. Considerable products are those that have
a self-governing corporeal continuation. A less perceptible but
ubiquitous mass produced service is a computer functioning
method. Each product is interconnected to a life-cycle counting
an amplification segment trailed by a maturity segment and
finally an eventual interlude of beg off as sales drops. While
endorsing MM’s new product we ought to do vigilant
investigation on how all-embracing the life cycle of the
merchandise we are endorsing is anticipated to be and underline
their contemplation on diverse confronts that crop up as the
merchandise evolves through every juncture. Marketers can
inflate the accessible merchandise mix by escalating a
4. convinced merchandise line's concentration or by escalating the
quantity of merchandise lines. Mobile Manufacturing Inc. ought
to reflect on procedures to position the merchandise techniques
to utilize the brand, technique to utilize the company's resources
and how to constitute the product mix so that merchandise
complements the other.
Price – The price is the computation a purchaser compensates
for the product. The price is very crucial as it ascertains the
company's income and accordingly, fortitude. Amending the
price has an intense bang on the marketing subterfuge, and
depending on the cost flexibility of the merchandise,
recurrently; it wills grief the stipulation and sales in
accumulation. While setting up the pricing strategy of MM”s
new product we need to implement penetration pricing strategy.
Penetration pricing is one of the good pricing strategies to gain
competitive advantage. Penetration pricing is the pricing modus
operandi of placing a realistically little prelude entrance price,
recurrently lesser than the closing market value, to create a
center of attention novel clientele. The stratagem works on the
expectancy that clients will toggle to the new-fangled brand as
of the lesser price. Penetration pricing is mainly recurrently
correlated with a marketing rationale of mounting market share
or sales dimensions, fairly than to make wages in the interim. It
cans consequence in fast dispersion and espousal. This can
achieve prominent market penetration charges speedily. This
can take the rivalry by exposure, not giving them time to react.
It can craft munificence in the midst of the early adopters
fragment. This can craft more dealings by means of word of
mouth. It crafts expenditure control and cost diminution forces
from the beginning, leading to superior effectiveness.
Penetration pricing facilitates in achieving superior and quicker
sales and volumes, thus larger market share. Penetration pricing
diminishes the likelihood of novel competitors from entering
the market and augments the product performance competence
because of low cost pressure.
5. Promotion - differentiates all of the modus operandi of
communiqué that a retailer may perhaps make use of to
bequeath with in sequence to miscellaneous parties pertaining to
the product. Promotion cuddles essentials such as: endorsement,
communal associations, entity selling and sales endorsement.
Advertising wraps any communiqué that is remunerated for,
radio and Internet pronouncements through print means and
classified ads. Public involvements are where the communiqué
is not unwaveringly remunerated for and comprise press
releases; subsidizes provision, trade fairs, seminar, colloquiums
and events. Word-of-mouth is any essentially brusque
communication pertaining to the product by common
individuals, satisfied clientele or people exclusively betrothed
to form word of mouth impetus. Sales personnel recurrently
play an imperative purpose in word of mouth and public
associations. In case of promotional stratagem of MM’s new
product, in order to be effectual, businesses impose planning
promotional procedures with the communiqué progression in
intellect. Sales promotions are intervening enticements engaged
to sway consumers to acquire a merchandise or service. Sales
promotion is usually careworn at the prevaricate sitters and
brand switchers. Consumers are mesmerized to coupons as they
proffer immediate significance and savings. They have the in
favor of of transient flanking savings unwaveringly to clientele,
as paradoxical to trade grants accurate to retailers by producers.
Consumers are acquainted with coupons as an impermanent
exclusive proffer relatively than a cost cutback, so the
abandonment of coupons generally does not have a detrimental
bang on sales.
Place - refers to bequeath with the product at a position which
is favorable for clientele to admittance. Place is
indistinguishable with allotment. An assortment of subterfuges
such as meticulous allotment, perceptive allocation, elite
allotment and franchising can be engaged by the purveyor to
harmonize the other attributes of the marketing mix. In case of
6. Mobile Manufacturing Inc. they need to focus on youth section
and early adopters.
These marketing stratagems will facilitate Mobile
Manufacturing Inc. in market penetration in overseas market as
well. It eases to make assured that marketing doings in overseas
market is accurately spotlighted and incorporated. It facilitates
everybody in the organization to be acquainted with precisely
what will ensue and when. It permits the business to take
benefit of market prospects. It facilitates to make certain that
the business vestiges vigorous by organizing for probable
tribulations. It puts the business in a superior position to
respond to unforeseen events.