2. What is Product Positioning
Product positioning is a form of marketing
that presents the benefits of your product to
a particular target audience. Through market
research and focus groups, marketers can
determine which audience to target based on
favorable responses to the product.
3. Importance of Product
Positioning
Product positioning is the process marketers use to
determine how to best communicate their products'
attributes to their target customers based on
customer needs, competitive pressures,
communication channels and carefully crafted key
messages. Effective product positioning ensures
that marketing messages resonate with target
consumers and compel them to take action.
4. Steps In Product Positioning
1. Know your target audience well:
It is essential for the marketers to first identify the
target audience and then understand their needs
and preferences. Every individual has interests,
needs and preferences. No two individuals can
think on the same lines.
5. 2. Identify the product features:
The marketers themselves must be well aware of
the features and benefits of the products.
A marketer selling REDMI phones should himself also
use a REDMI handset for the customers to believe
him.
6. 3. Unique selling Propositions :
Every product should have USPs; at least
some features which are unique. The
organizations must create USPs of their
brands and effectively communicate the same
to the target audience.
USP of a REDMI – Fast as Light.
7. 4.Know your competitors
A marketer must be aware of the competitor’s
offerings. Let the individuals know how your
product is better than the competitors
Let the target audience know how your product is
better than others.
The marketers must always strive hard to have an
edge over their competitors.
8. 5.Ways to promote brands
Choose the right theme for the advertisement.
Use catchy taglines.
The advertisement must not confuse people.
The marketer must highlight the benefits of the
9. 6.Maintain the position of the brand
For an effective positioning it is
essential for the marketers to continue
to live up to the expectations of the end
- users.
10. Identifying Possible Competitive Advantages.
Product differentiation
Service differentiation
Channel differentiation
People differentiation
Image differentiation
11. Product Differentiation
Product differentiation is how a product or
service stands out in the eyes of customers.
product differentiation brands can be
differentiated on Features, performance, or
style and design.
REDMI
I-PHONE
12. Service differentiation
Where products are tangible in nature and
easily differentiated on the basis of
features, form, performance and quality,
service differentiation
13. Channel differentiation
Channel differentiation gain competitive
advantage through the way they design their
channels coverage, and performance.
17. Coca Cola Competitive Advantage
Coca Cola is the largest beverage company of the world, and it provides
consumers with more than five hundred different brands. Coca Cola is the
most valuable company of the world and it includes as products Fanta, Coca
Cola Zero, Powerade, and Minute Maid. At the moment the company
focuses on the having sustainable community protecting environment and
having good economical development.
As economic advance or develop the growing proportion of there activities
get focus on production of services, for instant USA economy consist of
seventy-thirty services to good mix. Services for instant include working in
airlines, hotels, banks, doctors, and software programmers. Many market
consist of both offering of service and goods for instant fast food company
offer both service and goods.
Marketing promotion strategy
Coca Cola has most popular marketing promotion strategy because its
brand is widely known. To make a successful marketing promotion strategy
a company must analysis trends (internal and external), spending
throughout company, identify customer and touch point for company and
the brand and to have innovation in its promotions marketing. Coca Cola
has been advertising on TV over fifty years. Coca Cola songs and
commercials are extremely popular and they have catchy mottos such as
"Adds a refreshing relish to every form of exercise".