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#11/25: Principles of Marketing Engineering

Marketing Engineering: A systematic approach to harness data and knowledge to drive effective marketing decision making and implementation through a technology-enabled and model-supported decision process.

Market response models

  • Inputs: actions that the marketer can control + environment
  • Response model
  • Objectives: monitor/measure, etc.

Value = Benefits – Price

  • Benefits
    • function (does the job)
    • psychological (status)
    • economic (saves money)
  • Price
    • Monetary
    • Perceived risk
    • Inconvenience

Customer Need

  • subject and importance of need
  • temporal aspects of need (urgency, frequency and duration)

Measuring Customer Value

  • Objective Customer Value
    • Internal engineering assessment (internal estimate)
    • Indirect survey questions (pay for better quality, etc.)
    • Field value-in-use assessment (economic benefit): Not only marginal costs but initial investment, etc.
  • Perceptual Customer Value
    • Focus groups
    • Direct survey
    • Importance ratings
    • Conjoint analysis
    • Benchmarking
  • Behavioral Customer Value
    • Choice Models
    • Statistical models / Data mining

Segmentation -> Targeting -> Positioning

  • Creating
    • how does the segmentation fit into the strategy
    • which variables can be used
    • exclusive segments?
    • how many segments?
  • Traditional segmentation
    • reduce data (PCA)
    • develop measure of association
    • identify and remove outliers
    • form segments (cluster analysis): are they clear and robust?
    • profile segments & interpret

Positioning

  • Attribute-based perceptual maps
    • identify other products & attributes
    • get data from questionnaires
    • reduce
    • plot
  • Preference Maps
    • weights for attributes
  • Joint-Space Maps

Translating Preference to Choice

  • first choice rule: infrequent, expensive
  • Share of preference rule: often, cheap, etc.

For [target segment], the [offering] is [positioning claim], because [single most important support].

Forecasting

  • Judgmental Methods
    • Sales force composite estimates: let the sales force forecast
    • Jury of executive opinion: different stakeholders
    • Delphi method: anonymous and iterative
    • Chain ratio method: split up in its factors

Conjoint study

  • select attributes of product
  • develop bundles
  • do survey
  • segment customers based o part-worth function
  • design market simulation
  • select choice rule
  • adj market shares

Top 10 Lessons

  • Marking Engineering is Marketing
  • ME is a means to an end
  • frames the opportunity costs for alt. actions
  • requires judgment
  • whole greater than the sum of its parts
  • data & info do not automatically result in value
  • rapid prototyping
  • every model has its downside
  • ME requires lifelong learning
  • be a coach rather than a teacher

Insights for better Implementation

  • Be opportunistic
  • Start Simple; Keep it Simple
  • Work backward
  • score inexpensive victories
  • develop a program, not just a project

I really liked Principles of Marketing Engineering. The book gives a great overview over the topic and different approaches. It’s written like a textbook, so it can be a bit lengthy in parts but otherwise, a nice book.

#41/111: Attention!

What is it about?

Do you know the five easy steps to own a yacht? I don’t neither but maybe I got your attention. Jim F. Kukral writes about generating attention and how to use it to make money.

Key points?

Be different: To get attention today, you have to be different. Try to draw outside the lines. Let’s take job applications, Jim Kukral saw that his future boss used post it notes to organize himself. So, he decided to write 50 post it notes with positive attributes of him and glued them on a big board. His future boss was impressed and hired him.

Sell benefits: What is in for your customers? Do they really need to know that you product get feature XY? Probably, no. They want to know how they can benefit from your product. Save time, increase productivity or higher the comfort. For example, a car offers lots of features from ABS to a air conditioner. The benefits are a more safety and conformable transportation.

Don’t try to be everybody’s darling: Don’t try to avoid every confrontation just because you could shy away some people. A example is again the iPod. A lot of techies complained about missing features. Though, most people don’t care about the features, they want a simple device for listening to music.

Conclusion

This book is actually interesting but lacks a bit of usefulness. He talks about a lot of one hit wonders from the Pet Rock to the Million Dollar Website. Sure, it’s fun to hear about such products but they aren’t a sustainable business.