Marketing Management - Dealing With Competition
Marketing Management - Dealing With Competition
Marketing Management - Dealing With Competition
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Dealing with Competition
By:-
• Aniruddha.G
• Ranjit Brave
• Tejas Kamat Ghanekar
• Piyush Sharma
• Alexander Peter
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Chapter Questions
How do marketers identify primary
competitors?
How should we analyze competitors’ strategies,
objectives, strengths, and weaknesses?
How can market leaders expand the total
market and defend market share?
How should market challengers attack market
leaders?
How can market followers or nichers compete
effectively?
9-2
Competitive forces
Potential entrants
Suppliers
Buyers
Industry competitors
Substitutes
9-3
IDENTIFYING COMPETITORS
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Analyzing Competitors
Strategies
Objectives
Strengths & weaknesses
Share of market
Share of mind
Share of heart
5
Commercial and
Individual Users Industrial Educational
Personal DELL
Computers
Hardware
Accessories
software
6
Analyzing Competitors
Selecting competitors
Strong Vs weak
Close sources distant
Good Vs bad
Selecting customers
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COMPETITIVE STRTEGIES FOR
MARKET LEADERS
EXPANDING THE TOTAL MARKET
New customers
More usage
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Expanding the Total Market
New customers
More usage
9-9
COMPETITIVE STRTEGIES FOR
MARKET LEADERS
Defending market share
Flank
Preemptive
Position
Contraction
ATTACKER Counteroffensive
DEFENDER
Mobile
9-10
COMPETITIVE STRTEGIES FOR
MARKET LEADERS
Expanding market share
Possibility of provoking antitrust action
Economic cost
Pursuing the wrong marketing-mix strategy
The effect of increased market share on actual and
perceived quality
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Other Competitive Strategies
Market challengers
Market followers
Market nichers
9-12
Market Challenger Strategies
Define the strategic objective and opponents
Choose a general attack strategy
Choose a specific attack strategy
9-13
General Attack Strategies
Frontal attack
Flank attack
Encirclement attack
Bypass attack
Guerrilla warfare
9-14
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Market Follower Strategies
Counterfeiter
Cloner
Imitator
Adaptor
9-16
MARKET NICHER STRATEGIES
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Balancing Orientations
Competitor-centered
Customer-centered
9-18