Positioning Errors to Avoid
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1.I have been asked to give a brief lecture on "Positioning Errors to Avoid" for a local Chamber of Commerce luncheon. I need a summary of a lecture. In my lecture I need to give specific examples of known service companies avoiding or falling prey to "positioning errors".
2.Ricketts Heating and Air installs natural gas-fired central heating systems with timers. In the wintertime, if the owner of a system wants to have the house cooler when no one is there, but have it heated back up before anyone arrives home, he or she can use this timing system. How could Ricketts use service to differentiate its heating systems?
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Positioning -> how well the product performs relatively to competitive offerings and to the needs of target audience. It refers to both the place a product or brand occupies in customers' minds relative to their needs and competing products or brands and to the marketer's decision making intended to create such a position -> differentiation
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The positioning decision is a strategic one, with implications not only for how the firm's goods or services should be designed, but also for developing the other elements of the marketing strategy.
Mostly customers buy because they consider one product better than the other or just cheaper than the other.
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Differentiation is why people buy.
Creating both physical and perceptual differences is what effective positioning seeks to accomplish.
Physical positioning -> placing the product or brand based on physical features (amount of airbags in your car)
Perceptual ...
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