Rabu, 14 Desember 2011

Chapter 16: International Marketing

  1. Marketing

Process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individuals and organizational objectives

  1. International Marketing as an Integrated Functional Area

Marketing :

- Operations Management

- Finance

- Accounting

- Human Resource Management

  1. Marketing Mix and The Elements of the Marketing Mix for International Firms

- How to develop the firm’s product(s)

- How to price those products

- How to sell those products

- How to distribute those products to the firm’s customers

  1. Key Decision-Making Factors

- Standardization versus customization

- Legal forces

- Economic factors

- Changing exchange rates

- Target customers

- Cultural influences

- Competition

  1. Standardization versus Customization

Advantages

Reduces marketing costs

Facilitates centralized control of marketing

Promotes efficiency in R&D

Results in economies of scale in production

Reflects the trend toward a single global marketplace

Disadvantages

Ignores different conditions of product use

Ignores local legal differences

Ignores differences in buyer behavior patterns

Inhibits local marketing initiatives

Ignores other differences in individual markets

  1. Pricing Policies

- Standard price policy

- Two-tiered pricing

- Market pricing

  1. Risks to Market Pricing

- Complaints about dumping

- Damage to its brand name

- Development of a gray market for its products

- Consumer resentment against discriminatory prices

  1. Promotion Mix

- Advertising

- Personal Selling

- Sales Promotion

- Public Relations

  1. Distribution Issues

- Physically transporting its goods and services from where they are created to the various markets in which they are to be sold

- Selecting the means by which to merchandise its good in the markets it wants to serve

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