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Essential marketing models

Classic planning tools to inform strategy.
Authors: Annmarie Hanlon and Dr. Dave Chaffey
Part of the Marketing Strategy and Planning Toolkit

CONTENTS
About the authors............................................................................3
Foreword..........................................................................................4
Model 1: The 7Ps..............................................................................6
Model 2: The 7S framework........................................................... 10
Model 3: AIDA.................................................................................16
Model 4: The Ansoff Matrix...........................................................20
Model 5: The BCG Matrix..............................................................27
Model 6: Diffusion of Innovation..................................................30
Model 7: DRIP................................................................................33
Model 8: Porter’s Five forces........................................................37
Model 9: Price-Quality Strategy Model........................................41
Model 10: Push and Pull................................................................45
Model 11: Product Life Cycle........................................................49
Model 12: RACE Planning for Digital Marketing.........................52
Model 13: Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning (STP)........56
Model 14: SOSTAC®.......................................................................62
Model 15: SWOT (TOWS) matrix...................................................66
Model 16: PESTLE analysis..........................................................69

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Annmarie Hanlon, Evonomie Limited
Annmarie Hanlon is the Smart Insights expert commentator on

online and offline marketing strategies for business. Annmarie
is the MD of Evonomie and co-author of Quick Win Digital
Marketing. She runs social media workshops in the UK and
Ireland and shares marketing tips and news in her blog, B2B
Marketing. You can follow Annmarie on Twitter or connect on
LinkedIn.
Dr. Dave Chaffey, Smart Insights
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Marketing Excellence and Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice. In
2004 he was recognised by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as one of 50 marketing
‘gurus’ worldwide who have helped shape the future of marketing.
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FOREWORD
Understanding the various models and frameworks that populate the learning resources
for business and marketing can be problematic. What do they mean, are they helpful, are
they relevant, and how and when should they be used? These are frequent comments
uttered by professionals, students and others.
Well, now we have a really helpful resource designed to guide us through the labyrinth
of terms, boxes and symbols. Annmarie Hanlon and Dave Chaffey not only explain the
meaning behind these frameworks, but also provide us with examples and best practice
advice. If this was not enough, marketing students also have access to the original
sources through the references for these top models, all in Harvard APA format.
Marketing models play an important role and those that dismiss their relevance fail to
grasp how they can underpin and provide shape and coherence to planning and managing
our marketing activities. Kurt Lewin (1935) wisely informed us that ‘there’s nothing as
practical as a good theory,’ and these models, identified by Annmarie and Dave, vividly
demonstrate the various applications that these theoretically grounded frameworks
provide. As our marketing activities adapt to emerging contexts so these models provide
a sound basis on which we can learn, relate and develop suitable strategies and tactics
to help us manage in these new environments.
Please spread the word and tell colleagues, friends and students about this exciting
resource and how it can assist us in our marketing endeavours.
Chris Fill, Author of the internationally recognised textbook Marketing Communications

and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing where he was senior examiner for 15
years.
Lewin K. (1935) A Dynamic Theory of Personality, New York: McGraw Book Co.

FOREWORD
About this guide

There are so many marketing models developed over the years, that it can be
overwhelming to know what to use and when. In this guide we have selected what we
see as the classic models that have stood the test of time and are still relevant for today’s
era of omnichannel marketing.
This guide explains the fundamentals of each model, how it works and gives practical
examples of how to use each model along with best practice advice.
We believe that marketing models are powerful tools to aid thinking, particularly when
reviewing strategic options and selecting the best future direction for a company’s
marketing. We created this guide to help today’s marketers apply established frameworks
for their decision making.
For marketing students there is the added benefit of the original information source,
using Harvard referencing!
This guide is freely available to Free and Premium members of Smart Insights, so if you
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Or suggest others!

1 THE 7PS
What is it?
The ‘traditional marketing mix’ also known as the 4Ps, consisted of Product, Price,
Place and Promotion. It was designed at a time where businesses sold products, rather
than services. This concept of the 4Ps is credited to McCarthy (1964) who created the
alliterative terms.
This developed over several years and in 1981 Booms and Bitner added the three ‘service
Ps’: Participants, Physical Evidence and Processes. Participants later became People.
WHAT IS IT? THE 7PS OF THE MARKETING MIX

The marketing mix enables a company to review and define the key issues that
effect marketing of its products and services. If a non-marketer asks for marketing
advice, this is THE model to explain to help them.
The 7Ps are now considered as:
þþ 1. Product (including branding)
þþ 2. Price
þþ 3. Place
þþ 4. Promotion
þþ 5. Processes
þþ 6. Physical Evidence
þþ 7. People
An eighth P, ‘Partners’ is often used in online businesses.
In his book: Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice, Dave Chaffey
refreshed this model and applied it to online channels internet to give a practical approach
which works well for online and offline businesses. Here are some of the opportunities
to vary the mix online.

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1 BCG MATRIX
How can I use this model?

The Marketing Mix (or Digital Marketing Mix), is a useful framework to:
þþ Ensure each aspect of the business has been considered
þþ Build objectives
þþ Conduct a SWOT analysis (see page 65)
þþ Compare your business to competitors
Look at your existing business and work through these questions:
Mix Element Our assessment New approaches to

consider?
Products/Services How can you develop or
amend your products and
services?
Prices/Fees How can we change our
pricing models?
Place/Access What new distribution options
are there for customers to
experience our product, e.g.
online, in-store, mobile
Promotion How can we add to or
substitute the combination
within paid, owned, and
earned media channels?
Physical Evidence How we reassure our
customers, e.g. impressive
buildings, well-trained staff,
great website?

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1 BCG MATRIX
Processes How can we improve service?

What hoops do we make
customers jump through?
People Who are our people and are
there skills gaps?
Partners Are we seeking new partners
and managing existing
partners well?
Take a look at HubSpot as an example. Founded in 2006, HubSpot has 8,000+ customers
in 56 countries and sells software. What does their marketing mix look like?
This is a top-level overview; you would take this into greater detail.
Mix Element Our assessment New approaches to

consider?
Products/Services Integrated toolset for SEO,
blogging, social media,
website, email and lead
intelligence tools.
Prices/Fees Freemium, plus fees by size
of organisation, number
of users. Fees for agency
partners.
Place/Access Online! Network of Partners,
Country User Groups.
Promotion Directors speak at events,
webinars, useful guides that
are amplified by SEO and
effective with SEO. PPC
Social media advertising, e.g.
LinkedIn.
Physical Evidence Consistent branding across
communications.
Processes More sales staff are now
involved in conversion.
People Investment in online services.
Partners HubSpot looks to form
partnerships with major
media companies such as
Facebook and Google plus
local partners.

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1 BCG MATRIX
BEST PRACTICE
Communicate your mix simply
For your business, create a single PowerPoint slide for each ‘P’ to clarify what’s
offered now and what works and what doesn’t.
What to watch for

When using the 7Ps as a model to conduct a marketing audit, I look at each of the Ps. It’s
unwise to ignore an area unless it is completely outside your control.
Original Sources
Bitner, M. J. and Booms, H. (1981). Marketing Strategies and Organization: Structure
for Service Firms. In Donnelly, J. H. and George, W. R. (Eds). Marketing of Services,
Conference Proceedings. Chicago, IL. American Marketing Association. p. 47- 52.
McCarthy, E. J. (1964). Basic Marketing. Richard D. Irwin. Homewood, IL.

2 THE 7S FRAMEWORK
What is it?
The McKinsey 7S framework is a useful framework for reviewing an organization’s
marketing capabilities from different viewpoints. Developed by Tom Peters and Robert
Waterman during their tenure at McKinsey & Company in the 1970s, this model works
well in different types of business of all sectors and sizes, although it works best in
medium and large businesses. It can be used to:
þþ Review the effectiveness of an organization in its marketing operations.
þþ Determine how to best realign an organization to support a new strategic direction.
þþ Assess the changes needed to support digital transformation of an organization.
WHAT IS IT? THE MCKINSEY 7S FRAMEWORK

The 7S framework covers the key organizational capabilities to implement its
business, marketing or digital marketing strategy.
The 7S framework was developed by McKinsey consultants in the 1970s and summarized
by Waterman et al. (1980). It can be readily applied to businesses of all sectors and sizes.

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What are the elements of the 7S framework?

In summary, the McKinsey 7Ss stand for:
7S Element Scope
Strategy The definition of key approaches for an organization to achieve
its goals.
Structure The organization of resources within a company into different
business groups and teams.
Systems Business processes and the technical platforms used to
support operations.
Staff The type of employees, remuneration packages and how they
are attracted and retained.
Skills Capabilities to complete different activities.
Style The culture of the organization in terms of leadership and
interactions between staff and other stakeholders.
Shared Values Summarized in a vision and or mission, this is how the
organization defines its reason for existing.
These components can be further broken down into ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ elements.
Hard elements: Strategy, Structure, Systems

Hard elements can be easily defined and directly influenced. They are the (often) more
tangible elements of a business, like the strategy documents and mission statements
that your company uses to inform its decisions. They also include the organizational
charts that demonstrate the reporting structure in your business and the systems that
you have in place to ensure everything is running smoothly (such as your IT servers and
related data storage methods).
Soft elements: Staff, Skills, Style, Shared Values

As hard elements provide the framework of how a company operates, soft elements are
the less tangible qualities that a company demonstrates through its work. They are the
people that comprise the workforce, the skills they offer, the office culture that evolves
from their co-operation with different teams, and the combined outward impression they
give the world.
Think of it like this – hard elements answer many ‘what’ questions about a business:
Strategy: What is the company’s driving strategy?
Structure: What teams are in place?
Systems: What formal systems ensure work progresses?

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Whereas soft elements answer many ‘who’ and ‘how’ questions about a business:
Staff: Who comprises the company’s workforce?
Skills: How skilled are these workers?
Style: How do organizational leaders inspire their colleagues?
Shared Values: How does the company demonstrate its core values?

You can review each of the 7Ss to assess how the capabilities of an organization can
be improved as the starting point of creating an action plan. This example considers
some of the issues related to introducing digital technology into an organization (a theme
familiar to Smart Insights readers).
Element of the 7S Relevance to digital Key issues

model transformation
Strategy The contribution of digital þþ Gaining appropriate
business in influencing and budgets and
supporting organizations’ demonstrating/delivering
strategy. value and ROI from
budgets
þþ Annual planning approach
þþ Techniques for using

digital business to impact
organization strategy
þþ Techniques for aligning

digital business strategy
with organisational and
marketing strategy

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Structure The modification of þþ Integration of

organisational structure to digital marketing or
support digital business. e-commerce teams with
other management,
marketing (corporate
communications,
brand marketing, direct
marketing) and IT staff
þþ Use of cross-functional
teams and steering
groups
þþ Insourcing vs outsourcing
Systems The development of specific þþ Campaign planning
processes, procedures approach integration
or information systems to
þþ Managing/sharing
support digital business.
customer information
þþ Managing customer
experience, service and
content quality
þþ Unified reporting of digital

marketing effectiveness
þþ In-house vs external
best-of-breed vs external
integrated technology
solutions
Staff The breakdown of staff in þþ Insourcing vs outsourcing
terms of their background,
þþ Achieving senior
age and sex and
management buy-in/
characteristics such as IT vs
involvement with digital
marketing, use of contractors/
marketing
consultants.
þþ Staff recruitment and
retention
þþ Virtual working
þþ Staff development and

training

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Style Includes both the way in þþ Defining a long-term

which key managers behave vision for transformation
in achieving the organization’s
þþ Relates to role of the
goals and the cultural style of
digital marketing or
the organization as a whole.
e-commerce teams in
influencing strategy – is
it dynamic and influential
or a service which is
conservative and looking
for a voice?
Skills Distinctive capabilities of key þþ Staff skills in specific
staff, but can be interpreted areas such as supplier
as specific skillsets of team selection, project
members. management, content
management, specific
e-marketing media
channels
Shared Values The guiding concepts of þþ Improving the perception
the digital business or of the importance and
e-commerce organization effectiveness of digital
which are also part of shared business amongst senior
values and culture. managers and staff it
works with (marketing
generalists and IT)

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BEST PRACTICE
Manage the hard and soft factors separately
Hard factors:
þþ Strategy
þþ Structure
þþ Systems
Soft factors:
þþ Style
þþ Staff
þþ Skills
þþ Systems
þþ Share values/superordinate goals
What to watch for

Superordinate goals is an alternative term for the “Shared Values” used when the model
was first created, but not replaced by a more meaningful term!
Original Sources
Waterman, R.H., Peters, T.J. and Phillips, J.R. (1980) Structure is not organization.
McKinsey Quarterly, in-house journal. McKinsey & Co., New York.

3 AIDA
What is it?
A true classic marketing model, dating back to the 19th century, you will certainly have
heard of AIDA! The AIDA model was created in 1898 by Elias St. Elmo Lewis, an American
advertising agency CEO. It was partly a way of understanding the sales process and
partly a way of demonstrating the place of advertising at a time when the concept of ad
agencies was relatively new.
WHAT IS IT? AIDA

AIDA stands for Attention, Interest, Desire and Action. Use it to review what
you want to achieve through your marketing campaigns or individual pieces of
creative.
AIDA uses four cognitive steps that buyers adopt when buying new products which would
be later referred to as the hierarchy of response to a communication. The steps are:
þþ 1. AWARENESS of the existence of a product or service.
þþ 2. INTEREST in paying attention to the product’s benefits.
þþ 3. DESIRE for the product.
þþ 4. ACTION and purchasing the product, downloading information or making an

enquiry.

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The model is a simple communications framework rather than a strategic decision-making
model. It is useful to bear in mind when reviewing the aims and effectiveness of campaigns
and creative a single piece of creative or a wave of integrated communications need to
achieve this. The model is a little dated as it doesn’t take into account the re-purchase
stage. Smart Insights has evolved this model to include retention. However, the basic
model is still a useful tool when creating a marketing communications plan. It is helpful
to use this checklist in the initial brainstorming phases to ensure that the key elements
have been considered.
AIDA Step Questions to review for campaign or creative

Awareness How do we make buyers aware of our products?
Interest How will we gain their interest?
Desire What makes this product desirable?
Action Where are the calls to action?
AIDA Example
Here’s an example of how Francesco Group, one of the UK’s largest hairdressing
franchises, uses AIDA when they launch a new salon.
AIDA Step Questions to review for campaign or creative

Awareness PR activity takes place up to four months before the launch
focusing on the stylists, their qualifications, skills and awards
won.
This is supported by a direct mail campaign to carefully

selected target customer group.
Interest The direct mail campaign includes an invitation for a
consultation or free haircut and finish. Research shows that
many women are loyal to a hairdresser for many years, so
the offer has to be compelling enough to create interest and
generate a telephone call to the salon.
Desire As the salon prepares to open, exclusive launch events are
organised. These are noticeable in the local area to the
extent where people want an invitation. This is supported by
local press advertising, information on social media networks
and creates a demand to have a look at the salon to see
what’s different. The launch events generate additional
publicity and a buzz at a local level.
Action There are calls to action on the Facebook pages (call now to
reserve), the website (call to book) and in the local advertising
(call this number to receive discount or offer).

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BEST PRACTICE
Using AIDA for brand tracking
The AIDA model works well at a more strategic level when extended to assess the
health of a brand. Key measures used in brand market research are:
þþ Awareness - Prompted and unprompted recall.
þþ Familiarity - A deeper measure of what a brand, product or service can
offer.
þþ Favourability - An assessment of how positive a consumer is towards a
brand service or product. This can be measured through propensity for
consumers to recommend through Net Promoter Score.
þþ Purchase intent - How do communications influence intent to buy?
þþ Loyalty - An assessment of loyalty (not covered by AIDA) which can again
be measured through Net Promoter Score.
If a product or service no longer attracts awareness where, for example, the brand
has diminished and competitors have entered the sector, the Ansoff model helps
get the business back on track. For example, Nokia used to lead the mobile phone
market with the Nokia Communicator, an advanced state-of-the-art device which
was suddenly eclipsed by smartphones and their favourability dropped although
awareness and familiarity remained relatively high.
What to watch for
Don’t forget customer retention. Once your customers are aware of you, have an interest
in the product, desire leading to action, it’s essential to look at customer retention.
It’s also worth remembering that today, many question the simplicity of AIDA within the
buying process. New models include the McKinsey Consumer Decision Journey and
Google’s ZMOT.

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Original Sources
Lewis evolved the AIDA model in various articles, papers and books, as follows:
Lewis, E. St. Elmo. (1899) Side Talks about Advertising. The Western Druggist. (21
February). p. 66.
Lewis, E. St. Elmo. (1903) Advertising Department. The Book-Keeper. (15 February). p.
124.
Lewis, E. St. Elmo. (1908) Financial Advertising, Indianapolis: Levey Bros. & Company.
Lewis, E. St. Elmo. (1909). The Duty and Privilege of Advertising a Bank. The Bankers’
Magazine. (78, April). P. 710-711
Lewis, E. St. Elmo. (1910). More Science in Advertising. Printers’ Ink. (70, January 26).
P. 58-61.
The extended model explained on Smart Insights model can be found here:
Anon (2013). Using the AIDAR purchasing funnel model. [Online] 25 April 2013 Available
from http://www.smartinsights.com/customer-relationship-management/social-crm/
aidar-model. [Accessed: 23 August 2013].

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4 THE ANSOFF MATRIX
What is it?
In 1957 H. Igor Ansoff created the ‘Product-Market Matrix’ which is known better known
as ‘The Ansoff Matrix’. We believe this is possibly the most important strategic marketing
planning model since it can help set the direction of growth.
WHAT IS IT? THE ANSOFF MATRIX

Ansoff helps companies review the options for growth of a business through
showing alternatives for new markets (customer types) and types of products
and services.

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The matrix enables businesses to identify ways to increase sales, based on four strategies:
Strategy What this means

1. Market Penetration How to sell more of your existing products or services
Strategy to your existing customer base.
2. Market Development How to move into new markets.
Strategy
3. Product Development How do develop your existing products or services.
Strategy
4. Diversification How to move into new markets with new products or
Strategies services.

If you want to grow your business, The Ansoff Matrix is a good place to start. Look at
each of the strategies and decide which is most appropriate for your business. Be aware
that this could be more than one strategy at the same time. Here are some of the options
to explore:
1. Market Penetration Strategy

Can your business increase its sales to existing customers by taking one or more of the
following actions?
þþ Reduce the order interval
þþ Increase the average order value
þþ Demonstrate the entire product selection
þþ Increase or change opening hours

Amazon achieves market penetration by suggesting additional products when the
customer is browsing.

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2. Market Development Strategy

Using your existing products or services, can you identify new markets based on these
factors?
3. Product Development Strategy

Developing new products usually involves a brainstorm or customer demand! Use the
flowchart below to identify the action your business can take.
Consider:
þþ Can the product be made cheaper?
þþ Can the product be made locally?
þþ Can you increase quality?
þþ Can you change the packaging?
þþ Can ask your customers or potential customers what they want?

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4. Diversification Strategies
Diversification is generally a higher risk, higher reward activity! It’s about harnessing your
skills, know-how and expertise and transferring this into a new product for a new market.
There are two main types:
Related Diversification
Opportunities to increase sales within similar customer groups, whilst still maintaining
your brand values, is new but related products:
þþ What’s your expertise, your technical know-how?
þþ Can you move into a new market with a new product offer using the skills within the
business?
Unrelated Diversification
This involves greater risks and is only undertaken where there is potential for high return
on investment, often because the company is undervalued or financially distressed.
þþ Consider whether you have a strong management team with the ability to manage
diverse business units.
BEST PRACTICE
Ansoff is an essential tool for annual planning
The Ansoff Matrix is probably my most used marketing model. It gives you the four
key strategies a business can adopt. It’s easy to use, so my best practice tip is
to use Ansoff once a year in your business to identify potential new markets, new
products as well as product development opportunities.
What to watch for

If you’re a newer business you might only focus on one or two strategies at most and
that’s likely to be the Market Penetration Strategy and over time, the Market Development
Strategy. Don’t feel that you have to add something to each quadrant in the box
immediately!
Applying Ansoff to digital strategies?
Applying Ansoff to Digital Marketing Strategy

The Ansoff matrix is a useful analytic tool for assessing online strategies too as shown
in the diagram, note that the cells are reversed in this application of Ansoff from Dave
Chaffey’s Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice,. This tool can help

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companies think about how online channels can support their marketing objectives, and
also suggest innovative use of these channels to deliver new products to new markets
(the boxes help stimulate ‘out-of-box’ thinking which is often missing with digital marketing
strategy).
Fundamentally, the market and product development matrix can help identify strategies
to grow sales volume through varying what is sold (the product dimension on the
horizontal axis) and who it is sold to (the market dimension on the vertical axis). Specific
objectives need to be set for sales generated via these strategies, so this decision relates
closely to that of objective setting.
Let us now review these strategies in more detail.
1. Market penetration
This strategy involves using digital channels to sell more existing products into existing
markets. The Internet has great potential for achieving sales growth or maintaining sales
by the market penetration strategy. As a starting point, many companies will use the
Internet to help sell existing products into existing markets, although they may miss
opportunities indicated by the strategies in other parts of the matrix. The figure indicates
some of the main ways in which the Internet can be used for market penetration:
þþ Market share growth – companies can compete more effectively online if they
have websites that are efficient at converting visitors to sale and mastery of the
online marketing communications techniques such as search engine marketing,
affiliate marketing and online advertising.

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þþ Customer loyalty improvement – companies can increase their value to

customers and so increase loyalty by migrating existing customers online by adding
value to existing products, services and brand by developing their online value
proposition.
þþ Customer value improvement – the value delivered by customers to the company

can be increased by increasing customer profitability by decreasing cost to serve
(and so price to customers) and at the same time increasing purchase or usage
frequency and quantity. These combined effects should drive up sales. Many
companies will offer competitive online prices or discounts to help increase their
market share.
2. Market development
Online channels are used to sell into new markets, taking advantage of the low cost of
advertising internationally without the necessity for a supporting sales infrastructure in
the customer’s country. The Internet has helped low-cost airlines such as easyJet and
Ryanair to enter new markets served by their routes cost-effectively. This is a relatively
conservative use of the Internet but is a great opportunity for SMEs to increase exports
at a low cost, though it does require overcoming the barriers to exporting.
Existing products can also be sold to new market segments or different types of customers.
Virtual inventory enables new offerings to be made available to smaller segment sizes,
an approach known as micro-targeting. This may happen simply as a by-product of
having a website. E.g. RS Components, a supplier of a range of MRO (maintenance,
repair and operations) items, found that 10% of the web-based sales were to individual
consumers rather than traditional business customers. It also uses the website to offer
additional facilities for customers placing large orders online. The UK retailer Argos
found the opposite was true with 10% of website sales being from businesses when
their traditional market was consumer-based. EasyJet also has a section of its website
to serve business customers. The Internet may offer further opportunities for selling to
market sub-segments that have not been previously targeted. E.g., a product sold to
large businesses may also appeal to SMEs that they have previously been unable to
serve because of the cost of sales via a specialist sales force. Alternatively a product
targeted at young people could also appeal to some members of an older audience and
vice versa.
Many companies have found that the audience and customers of their website are quite
different from their traditional audience.

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3. Product development
The web can be used to add value to or extend existing products for many companies.
E.g., a car manufacturer can potentially provide car performance and service information
via a website. Facilities can be provided to download tailored brochures, book a test drive
or tailor features required from a car model. But truly new products or services that can
be delivered only by the Internet apply for some types of products. These are typically
digital media or information products – e.g. online trade magazine Construction Weekly
diversified to a B2B portal Construction Plus which had new revenue streams. Similarly,
music and book publishing companies have found new ways to deliver products through
a new development and usage model such as subscription and pay-per-use. Retailers
can extend their product range and provide new bundling options online also.
4. Diversification
In this sector, new products are developed which are sold into new markets. The Internet
alone cannot facilitate these high-risk business strategies, but it can facilitate them at
lower costs than have previously been possible. The options include:
þþ Diversification into related businesses – e.g. a low-cost airline can use the
website and customer emails to promote travel-related services such as hotel
booking, car rental or travel insurance at relatively low costs either through its own
brand or through partner companies e.g. Ryanair offers it customers discounts if
they book car hire with Hertz car rentals.
þþ Diversification into unrelated businesses – again the website can be used to

promote less-related products to customers, which is the approach used by the
Virgin brand, although it is relatively rare.
þþ Upstream integration with suppliers – achieved through data exchange between

a manufacturer or retailer and its suppliers to enable a company to take more
control of the supply chain.
þþ Downstream integration with intermediaries – again achieved through data

exchange with distributors such as online intermediaries.
Original Source
Ansoff, H. I. (1957). Strategies for Diversification. Harvard Business Review. (Vol. 35
Issue 5, Sep/Oct). p113-124.

5 THE BCG MATRIX
What is it?
The Boston Consulting Group’s product portfolio matrix was created in 1982. The model
was created to help with long-term planning based on a company’s product range.
WHAT IS IT? THE BCG MATRIX

A classic known from MBA courses, this considers the opportunities for growth of
a business through reviewing its portfolio of products.
The matrix is divided into four named quadrants which are segmented based on market
growth rate and relative market share. The aim is to understand where to invest marketing
funds and whether to discontinue or develop products.
Dogs
Products with low growth and low market share are called ‘Dogs’. The usual marketing
advice is to remove any dogs from your product portfolio as they are a drain on resources.

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However some dog products can generate ongoing revenue and cost little to maintain.
For example, in the automotive sector, when a car line ends, there is still a need for spare
parts. As SAAB ceased trading and producing new cars, a whole business has emerged
providing SAAB parts.
Questions marks
Products in high growth markets but with low market share are called question marks.
They are sometimes referred to as ‘Problem Children’.
One of the reasons they are called question marks as it may not be clear as to whether
they will become a star or drop into the dog quadrant. These products often require
significant investment to push them into the star quadrant. The challenge is that a lot
of investment may be required to get a return. For example, Rovio (creators of the very
successful Angry Birds game) has developed many other games you may not have
heard of. Computer games companies often develop hundreds of games before gaining
one successful game. It’s not always easy to spot the future star and this can result in
potentially wasted funds
Stars
Products in high-growth markets with high market share are known as stars. Often the
market leader and require ongoing investment to maintain the position. However, they
generate more returns than the other product categories.
Cash Cows
Products in low-growth markets with high market share are known as cash cows. The
idea is to milk these products as much as possible, without killing the cow! They are often
mature, well-established products. The company Procter & Gamble which manufactures
products from Pampers nappies to Lynx deodorants has often been described as a ‘cash
cow company’.

The BCG Model is based on products rather than services, however it does apply to
both. You could use this if reviewing a range of products, especially before starting to
develop new products.
Looking at the British retailer, Marks & Spencer, they have a wide range of products and
we can identify every element of the BCG matrix across their ranges:
STARS
Example: Lingerie. M&S was known as the place for ladies underwear at a time when
choice was limited. In a multi-channel environment, M&S lingerie is still the UK’s market
leader with high growth and high market share.

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QUESTIONS MARKS
Example: Food. For years M&S refused to consider food and today has over 400 Simply
Food stores across the UK. Whilst not a major supermarket, M&S Simply Food has a
following which demonstrates high growth and low market share.
CASH COWS
Example: Classic range. Low growth and high market share, the M&S Classic range has
strong supporters.
DOGS
Example: Autograph range. A premium priced range of men’s and women’s clothing,
with low market share and low growth. Although placed in the dog category, the premium
pricing means that it makes a financial contribution to the company.
BEST PRACTICE
Use for a top-level review of your product portfolio
Use the model as an overview of your products, rather than a detailed analysis. If
your market share is small, use the ‘Relative Market Share’ axis is based on your
competitors, rather than the entire market.
What to watch for

The BCG Model is seen as simplistic and it can be difficult to classify products in smaller
businesses where the relative market share is too small to quantify. It’s also based on the
concept that market share can be achieved by spending more on the marketing budget.
Original Sources
Barksdale, H. C. and Harris Jr., C. E. (1982). Portfolio Analysis and the Product Life
Cycle. Long Range Planning. (Vol. 15 Issue 6). p74-83.

6 DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION
What is it?
Created in 1962 by Everett Rogers, the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) Theory explains
how a product gains momentum and spreads, or diffuses, through a group. The theory
created five categories of buyer adopting new products.
WHAT IS IT? DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION

Diffusion of innovation shows how new products and technologies tend to be
adopted by people through time.
Shown as a bell curve with the categories divided into percentages. These are still used
today and relevant when launching a new product or service, adapting a product or
introducing an existing product into a new market. Note how the percentages change
(not shown to scale).

The five categories of innovativeness are:
Category Types of people How to engage

Innovator A small group of people keen Get featured on tech blogs
to explore new ideas. You can and relevant news sites for
spot them with the very latest your business.
gadget!
Early adopters Opinion leaders who are This group don’t need to be
happy with new products persuaded to change, they
and services. Often seeking want to. What they need is
improvements and greater guides on how to use the
efficiency. product or service.
Early majority Followers who like to read These people will check out
about new products before your products on YouTube
purchasing. and read reviews.
Late majority The sceptics who are not They need lots of marketing
keen to change and will material, evidence, reviews
only do so when they’re left from opinion leaders and
behind. Think about people case studies to show how it
hanging on to the Nokia 6210 works.
when the rest of the world
owned smartphones.
Laggards These people may not Only when others write about
even own mobile phones! what you’ve done, provided
They prefer traditional hard research evidence,
communications and will statistics and pressure from
only adopt new products others, will they come on
when their alternatives have board.
disappeared.


If you are launching a new tech product, such as software, you can use this model to
show the marketing materials needed for each group.
Category Action you can take Marketing material needed

Innovator Launch the software on key Website to provide
software sites; Techcrunch, information and potential
Mashable. sales via downloads.
Early adopters Create guides and add to More information, guides,
major software sites. FAQs, case studies.
Early majority Conduct blogger outreach for Links to social media pages,
others to write about you. facts and figures, YouTube
videos showing ‘how to’.
Late majority Encourage reviews, Press area with information,
comparisons and share press links to reviews, testimonials,
commentary on your website. links to review sites.
Laggards It’s probably not worth trying N/A.
to appeal to this group!
BEST PRACTICE
Apply adoption theory when reviewing new product launches
The Adoption theory is most useful when looking at new product launches, but it
can be useful when taking existing products or services into a new market.
What to watch for

The Adoption theory is mainly useful when developing new products. If you’re in FMCG
and launch many new products or lines a year, it may be less effective as it’s not practical
to create individuals strategies for hundreds of products.
Original Sources
Rogers, E.M. (1976). New Product Adoption and Diffusion. Journal of Consumer
Research. (March). p290-301.

7 DRIP
What is it?
DRIP is an acronym for differentiate, reinforce, inform and persuade. It’s a key element in
marketing communications theory and extremely useful when setting communications
goals.
WHAT IS IT? DRIP

DRIP is a communications model that defines marketing communications goals
from the point of view of what the company wants to achieve. It is an alternative
to AIDA.
Developed by Chris Fill, as in the 1970s and 1980s there had been various unrelated
ideas, one of which from Bowersox and Morash (1989), about the role of persuasion and
information within communications. However, the idea of reassurance and differentiation
as tasks of marketing communications were quite alien and there was nothing that
brought them altogether into a single framework. Fill first published DRIP in the third
edition of Marketing Communications (2002) but under the context of the role of marketing
communications. Fill subsequently revised this into the tasks and developed the principle
that the role of marketing communications is to engage audiences.
Each of the DRIP elements has a specific purpose and one follows the other as this is a
sequential or ‘flow’ model:

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DRIP Element Explanation

Differentiate a To make a product or service stand out in the category. This
product or service involves showing where the product sits in the market. This is
often informed by the digital marketing mix (See the 7Ps).
Reinforce a brand’s To consolidate and strengthen previous messages and
message experiences. This means demonstrating or explaining why
your product is different, superior, cheaper or easier to use.
Inform or make To make known and advise of availability and features. If it’s
people aware of a a totally ‘new to market’ product, this may also be to educate
brand
the market.
Persuade audiences To encourage further positive purchase-related behaviour.
to behave in This could be to visit a website, read about a new product,
particular ways share with a friend, request a trial.

If launching a new product or service, you need to use DRIP to develop your objectives.
Let’s look at how Nokia used DRIP to promote the Lumia smartphone.
DRIP Rationale Objective How was this executed?

Element
Differentiate We’re making a new To secure 15% of Many smartphones on
a product or smartphone, so we the smartphone the market, so Lumia
service need to focus on market by needed to differentiate
a specific point of November 2013. their latest phone.
difference. A camera,
with zoom and a They have done this by
well-known branded making the camera the
lens would work. star. The camera is 8.7
mega pixels with auto
focus, digital zoom and
the only smartphones to
have a Carl Zeiss lens.

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7 THE BCG MATRIX
Reinforce Explain about the To partner with Lumia’s messages focus

a brand’s camera and why this Carl Zeiss for on the camera (and also
message works well. camera lens on innovation which is
and launch new confusing).
smartphone by
November 2012. “PureView camera
phone. Blur-free photos
every time.”
This is further reinforced

with the details
“PureView technology
with Carl Zeiss lens
captures blur-free videos
even if the camera’s
shaking or in low light.
Thanks to its Optical
Image Stabilisation.”
Inform Get others to talk To harness a Part of the campaign
or make about our brand, give minimum of 100 to make people aware
people aware hundreds of phones bloggers to talk of the brand is inviting
of a brand away for mini trials. about our new people to apply for a two
smartphone by week trial. If you have
November 2013. a blog or large twitter
following, it’s likely you’ll
be sent a complimentary
Lumia for two weeks. In
return, you need to tweet
and blog about it.
Persuade The challenge To start a Own and manage a
audiences is persuading conversation hashtag, to follow the
to behave the audience to via twitter and thread and create a
in particular switch from other demonstrate the buzz.
ways smartphones. number of people
switching by @Nokia_Connects was
Get existing November 2012. established as a Twitter
smartphone users to handle using the hashtag
switch to Lumia #SwitchToLumia.
Looking at Social
Mention, this hashtag
has been quoted less
than 100 times.

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7 THE BCG MATRIX
Nokia reinforced the brand message with the hashtag shown on their Twitter page for
Influencers who write about mobile. Interestingly Lumia is about ‘life in colour’ and the
Twitter page showed an image from the colour run, but ithe girl is wearing a face mask
so can’t speak – strange image for a mobile phone company!
Those signing up for the trial are encouraged to comment and share, as shown in this
email:
BEST PRACTICE
Use DRIP to review the focus of your marketing communications
DRIP is a good place to start with marketing communications planning. It’s ideal if
you are launching a new product or re-positioning an existing business.
What to watch for

DRIP is a strategic model and a more tactical approach may be needed.
Original Sources
Fill, C. (2002). Marketing Communications. Third edition. Harlow. Pearson Education.

8 PORTER’S FIVE FORCES
What is it?
Porter’s 5 Forces is an analytical model that helps marketers and business managers
look at the ‘balance of power’ in a market between different organizations on a global
level, and to analyze the attractiveness and potential profitability of an industry sector.
WHAT IS IT? PORTER’S FIVE FORCES

The Fives Forces model represents the balance of a power in a market between
different types of organizations.
What are Porter’s 5 Forces?

1. Competitive rivalry
2. Threat of substitute products
3. Bargaining power of buyers
4. Threat of new entrants
5. Bargaining power of suppliers

To apply Porter’s Five Forces, you need to work through these questions for each area:
Force Market characteristics Questions to Answer

Competitive rivalry Markets where there þþ What’s the level of
are few competitors are competition in this
attractive but can be sector?
short-lived.
þþ What’s the competitor
These are highly situation? Many
competitive markets with competitors and you’re
many companies chasing all in a commodity
the same work reduce your situation or a few?
power in the market.
Threat of substitution If there are easily available þþ How easy is it to find
alternatives, the threat of an alternative to this
substitution increases. product or service?
þþ Can it be outsourced?
Or automated?
Buyer power Where there are fewer þþ How powerful are the
buyers, they often control buyers?
the market.
þþ How many are there?
þþ Can the buyers get

costs down?
þþ Do they have the power

to dictate terms?
Threat of new entry If new businesses can þþ What’s the threat
easily start up in your of new businesses
sector, this is a threat. starting in this sector?
þþ How easy is it to start

up in this business?
þþ What are the rules and

regulations?
þþ What finance would be

needed to start up?
þþ Are there barriers to

entry which give you
greater power?

Supplier power Markets where there are þþ Examine how many

few suppliers means the suppliers are in the
suppliers retain the power. market?
þþ Are there a few who

control prices?
þþ Or many so prices are

lower?
þþ Do your suppliers hold

the power?
þþ How easy is it to
switch, what’s the cost?

If your business is thinking about moving into new sectors or markets, or if your business
is stuck in a commodity situation, then Porter’s 5 Forces enables you to see the issues
clearly. Work through each of the forces to identify who has the power in different
scenarios across each industry you work (or want to work) in.
Here are some examples of where the balance of power lies in different markets:
Element of Five Examples

Forces
Competitive rivalry These include estate agents, web design, and office
stationery. Many competitors often buy on price. There
are many providers of very similar products, meaning that
differences should be highlighted, and prices must be
competitive.
Threat of The substitute for all services is DIY. For example, anyone
substitution can cut their own hair or write their own will, but many
people spend money to enlist the services of an experienced
professional to deliver a level of service greater than they can
provide themselves. Focus on expertise, customer service
and added value your company can use to distinguish itself.
Buyer power An example is the grocery sector since supermarkets tend
to retain power over suppliers due to volume and price
of contracts. They dictate terms, set prices and can end
agreements at any time.

Threat of new entry An example is web design, as there are independents

in every location. This is an easy market to enter with
few requirements, other than skills, initiative and relevant
hardware and software. This does mean there are many new
entrants!
Supplier power Some sectors have just one or a few suppliers, such as
utility companies. Sometimes customers have little choice
i.e. where to buy domestic water suppliers, though this is
changing. In the jewellery sector, diamond suppliers often
hold the power and can set prices, withhold supply and
restrict sales.
What else should you consider?

This analytical model lets you assess the levels of control between your company and
influential forces throughout the production journey, from suppliers to competitors and
your consumers. Once you have worked through each section, you must make any
changes you deem necessary to tip the balance of power towards your business.
Sometimes there may not be information readily available to you when considering one
of the five factors. At times, you may need to make assumptions, but only after you have
tried other means of research. Try finding industry whitepapers or surveying a sample of
your customers to discover insights you may not have when you begin your marketplace
analysis.

9 PRICE-QUALITY STRATEGY
MODEL
What is it?
Developing new products means creating pricing strategies. These might follow the
company’s standard strategies, or take a different approach.
WHAT IS IT? THE PRICE QUALITY STRATEGY MODEL

This model reviews the positioning of a companies products or services relative
to competitors as perceived by a market.
Kotler (1988) created nine price-quality strategies. Some are better known than others!
The matrix below shows different price and quality strategies.

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The pricing strategy depends on the desired pricing objective. These are the most
frequently used pricing objectives:
Objective What it means Example Strategy

Maximum current A higher price Apple’s iPhones Premium
profit when there are few were the first smart
competitors and phones and were at
demand is high. high prices due to lack
of competitors. As
Android smartphone
sales have grown,
the actual cost of the
iPhone has dropped.
Product- quality Providing more Dyson vacuum High value
leadership expensive cleaners and fans
components for are based on greater
a longer lasting research, better parts
(higher-quality) and higher prices.
product.
Survival ‘Buying work’ or Waitrose introduced Superb value
dropping the price its Essential range on
to gain market 2010 as the UK moved
share. Often used into recession in 2009.
when customers’ Although this wasn’t
needs change or a survival decision
when competitors Waitrose was trying to
move into a market. re-capture shoppers
going to discount
stores and dropped
prices in basic
foodstuffs.
Maximum sales Setting a low initial Subway sandwiches Good value
growth price to capture offer a lower price
market share and lunchtime snack and
when the market now have more outlets
grows and costs across the UK than
decrease, they MacDonalds.
reduce costs
further.


When developing new products think of the price strategy before the product is completed.
What are you trying to achieve? The cost-plus pricing model has long gone as we expect
goods and services to be appropriately priced. One marquee hire company I worked with
offered high quality service and a very low price which was a superb-value strategy. It
didn’t work. Research showed that potential customers were suspicious and didn’t place
orders with them as they thought the product quality was low because the price was low.
They raised their prices adopting a high value strategy and increased sales by 40%.
You can use the Price - Quality Strategy Model to review competitors’ products and
services. Why do they charge more? Why do they charge less? Sometimes if aspects of
a service are removed, this can contribute to lower prices.
As an example, Dyson vacuum cleaners adopt a premium pricing strategy. They design
and manufacture quality products, based on years of research, testing and significant
investment into patents. As their website states: “New ideas are the lifeblood of Dyson.
Every year, we invest half our profits back into harnessing them at our research and
development laboratory in Wiltshire. There are 650 engineers and scientists based
there.” They share their story and ‘behind the scenes’ details, such as the hammer test
(below), to justify their premium pricing strategy.

When they introduce a new product, such as fans and heaters, these follow the same
premium pricing strategy.
BEST PRACTICE
Be realistic, research perceptions
“If it sounds too good to be true it usually is”. It’s essential to make sure that your
prices fits with the product’s perceived quality.
What to watch for

If you’re developing products and changing the quality, perhaps saving money and
reducing one element of the process, review the price too, or you could fall into False
Economy or Rip-Off strategies.
Original Sources
Kotler, P. (1988). Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation and
Control. 6th Ed. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Prentice-Hall Inc.

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10 PUSH AND PULL
What is it?
Push and pull strategies are promotional routes to market. Either by the product being
pushed towards customers or your customers pulling the product through the retail chain
towards them.
WHAT IS IT? PUSH AND PULL

Defines promotional routes to market.
Chris Fill advised us that the Push-Pull model has its origins in supply chain management
and was then adopted by marketers and adapted to fit a communication context.

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Manufacturers often based their business on a push strategy; finding distributors to
promote their products. For example, Mars who manufacture chocolate bars, sell via
distributors. It would impossible to manage requests to buy single bars of chocolate!
They have a large product portfolio and sell ranges into their distributors.
Service businesses often use pull strategies, for example, Intel, the computer chip
company created “Intel Inside” their brand ingredient programme by persuading
manufacturers that their computers would have higher perceived value if they featured
Intel in their own marketing, resulting in customers wanting to know if the PC they were
buying included an Intel chip.
As would be expected, there are advantages and disadvantages to both strategies:
PUSH STRATEGY
Advantages Disadvantages
þþ Useful for manufacturers looking ýý The distributor may source alternative
for a distributor to provide product products (cheaper, faster delivery)
promotion. once your product has established
the market need.
þþ Ideal when manufacturing or selling
low value items as the distributor is ýý Distributors may not organise a formal
likely to place bulk orders. contract, so no guarantee of regular
orders.
þþ Gives your product exposure in
potentially large retail environments. ýý Distributors may demand financial
contribution towards promotion.
þþ Good way to test new products in the
market. ýý Distributors may demand lower
prices to fit in with their promotional
campaign.
ýý Distributors can establish

dependence and then request price
reductions
ýý Distributors can demand lengthy

credit terms.

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PULL STRATEGY
Advantages Disadvantages
þþ Direct contact with customers. ýý Greater admin required in-house to
fulfil customers’ orders.
þþ Instant payment as customers do not
have credit facilities and pay online or ýý Many smaller and one-off orders.
in store at the checkout.
þþ Greater margins as no discount

needed.
þþ Customers can generate ideas for

new product development.
þþ Ideal for premium priced products.
How does your business operate right now? If you only sell via retailers, you have a
push strategy. If you sell to merchants like supermarkets or major retailers, the challenge
is often when your product establishes sufficient demand; the merchant may wish to
replace your product with its own alternative.
If you only sell direct to customers, that’s a pull strategy.
As markets, the environment and customers change, it’s wise to consider both strategies.
Thornton’s Chocolates operate both strategies in different ways. They have an own label
option and sell to specific retailers and package their goods using the retailers’ own
brand packaging and they sell direct to customers via high street stores, online and in
other retailers.
An example of Push and Pull can be seen with a South African winery. Stormhoek wines
went from selling 50,000 cases of wine a year in 2004 to 200,000 cases in 2006. As
a small business on a budget, they had a challenge competing for supermarket shelf
space and needed customers talking about them, so the supermarkets would want to
talk to them. They were looking at changing their traditional business model from a push
to a pull strategy. Via a blog (gapingvoid) a bottle of wine was offered to 100 bloggers in
the UK and Ireland. The bottle carried the message ’Maybe you will write about it. Maybe
not. You never know.’ It was a successful campaign and many bloggers started writing
about the wine, resulting in the orders from supermarkets.
BEST PRACTICE
Look at your competitors
What are they doing? Push or pull? Look at overseas competitors too as they may
have introduced other ideas.

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What to watch for

To grow a business you may need both strategies. A push strategy gets a larger volume
of products out to customers faster. A pull strategy can take longer and involve many
smaller orders.

11 PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE
What is it?
The Product Life Cycle (PLC) describes the stages of a product from launch to being
discontinued.
WHAT IS IT? THE PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE

Defines the development of a product through time.
It’s widely accepted that there are four stages in the process, although decline can be
avoided by reinventing elements of the product. It is also recognised that some products
never move beyond the introduction phase whilst others move through the life cycle
much faster than others.

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11 THE BCG MATRIX
LIFE CYCLE
Stage What this means

Introduction Newly introduced product, profits are non-existent and product is
unknown.
The price is often higher and distribution is limited. Promotion

likely to be personalised.
Growth The product is being bought and with volume, the price declines.
Distribution increases and promotion focuses on product

benefits.
Maturity The product competes with alternatives and pricing drops.
Distribution becomes intense (it’s available everywhere) and

promotion focuses on the differences to competitors’ products.
Decline The product is reaching the end of its life and faces fewer
competitors. The price may rise and distribution has become
selective as some distributors have dropped the product.
Promotion aims to remind customers of its existence.

When reviewing your business you need to understand which stage your products or
services have reached. This enables business managers to plan for new products,
reinvent existing products or discontinue products that are in serious decline.
This example shows how yoghurt has moved through the product life cycle by remixing
elements of the marketing mix.
Stage How the Product Life Cycle has evolved

Introduction þþ Yoghurt available in health food stores
þþ Functional and plain packaging
þþ Promoted as a health food

Growth þþ Yoghurt available in supermarket chiller cabinets
þþ Packaging gets a makeover
þþ New flavours introduced; Strawberry, Vanilla

Maturity þþ Product re-invented with added fruit, added muesli, added
chocolate!
þþ Packaging changes into different shapes and sizes
þþ Promoted as a fun snack, luxury treat

Decline þþ Not yet

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LIFE CYCLE
BEST PRACTICE
Review customer feedback continuously
To ensure your products don’t reach the end of their shelf life, carry out regular
customer surveys. Get feedback and find out what works, what doesn’t and why.
What to watch for

If product sales are declining, you need to know why. Products move into decline due to
improved offers from competitors, changes in behaviour or because there is no longer a
need for the product. Across Morocco there are long-established ‘Ecrivains Publics’ or
people who read your mail and write the responses. If the literacy levels in the country
continue to improve (currently around 70%, from 60% ten years ago) this service will
move into rapid decline.
Original Sources
Levitt, T. (1965). Exploit the Product Life Cycle. Harvard Business Review. (Vol. 43 Issue
6 Nov/Dec). p81-94.
Cunningham, M.T. (1969). The application of product life cycles to corporate strategy:
some research findings. European Journal of Marketing. (Vol. 3, Issue 1). p.32 – 44.

12 RACE PLANNING FOR DIGITAL
MARKETING
What is it?
The RACE mnemonic stands for Reach-Act-Convert-Engage. RACE Planning is focused
on increasing the commercial returns from digital marketing across the RACE conversion
funnel shown at the end of this section. It features an initial planning phase to create to a
strategy with defined Objectives and KPIs for evaluation. Best practices are then
developed to manage and optimise communications in an integrated way across the
many online and offline customer touchpoints that are involved when a consumer selects
a product or service today.
WHAT IS IT? RACE PLANNING

RACETM Planning is a system developed by Smart Insights to help marketers to
develop digital marketing plans focused on sales growth. The five areas of RACE
planning are:
þþ Plan – This is your overall strategy for digital marketing. Defining a strategy
to integrate communications across different customer touchpoints is often
forgotten. Planning involves setting goals, creating a coherent strategy to
achieve them and putting in place evaluation tools in place to make sure
you’re on track.
þþ Reach – Creating awareness of a brand through increasing the online
visibility of its sites to drive site visitors. Increasing the online footprint of the
brand across social media, publisher and partner sites.
þþ Act – Encouraging interaction of prospects with a brands content through
desktop and mobile experiences, social media and partner sites so they
become engaged leads.
þþ Convert – Encouraging conversion to sale through online and, if relevant,
offline channels.
þþ Engage – Encouraging customers to buy again and to become advocates
who recommend the brand and share its content.

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
7 Step guide to creating a digital marketing strategy
Your companion to creating or updating your online marketing strategy

The RACE framework is used to structure our 7 Step guide to creating a digital
marketing strategy. We also have an interactive version that is available on
our site where it links to free quick guides on all these topics containing links and
stats.

The RACE model can be used to create a digital marketing plan and supporting
dashboards and measures as explained in the Smart Insights Guide to Delivering
Results from Digital Marketing. Each aspect of RACE can then be continuously reviewed
to improve performance through a 90 day plan for example as explained in outline in this
table.
RACE element Aim Sample KPIs

Reach Build awareness across paid þþ Unique visitors and fans
and earned media to drive
þþ Audience share
awareness, preference and
visits to owned media such þþ Revenue or goal value
as websites and company per visit
social pages. þþ Brand search volume and
share of conversation
Act Encourage audience to þþ Bounce rate
interact with brand on
þþ Pages per visit
desktop and mobile and other
online presences to generate þþ Conversion to lead
leads.
Convert Achieve conversion to sales þþ Conversion rate to sale
and maximise average order
þþ Average order value
value.
þþ Revenue and margin
Engage Build customer and fan þþ % active customers
relationships through time to
achieve retention goals and þþ Customer satisfaction
encourage sharing. ratings
þþ Customer advocacy
þþ Repeat conversion rate

BEST PRACTICE
Create a Success Map for each stage of RACE
The Smart Insights Success Map for Ecommerce defines all of the main
factors which affect lead and sale volume. For optimisation of marketing activities
which have the biggest impact on commercial growth it’s important to identify the
levers which give the biggest improvements, so that time can be focused there.
What to watch for

When measures to review digital marketing effectiveness are defined, they often break
the funnel down into three - from Acquisition to Conversion to Retention. Within RACE
the conversion stage is broken down with separate KPIs for Act and Convert. This helps
assess how well a brand is at engaging its visitors on its online presences - a notoriously
difficult challenge since if Relevance and Engagement isn’t delivered, visitors will leave
immediately.
Original Sources
Chaffey, D. (2010) Introducing RACE = A practical framework to improve your digital
marketing, July 15th 2010. Available from by SmartInsights.com. Now updated [Accessed
18 September 2013].


13 SEGMENTATION, TARGETING
AND POSITIONING (STP)
What is it?
The 1950s saw product differentiation as the primary marketing strategy. As customers
became more sophisticated and their different needs were spotted, Segmentation,
Targeting and Positioning (STP) was introduced.
WHAT IS IT? SEGMENTATION, TARGETING AND POSITIONING

STP is core to marketing strategy linking and prioritising audiences with
propositions.
STP is a model for expanding sales by dividing your market into smaller units (segments).
This is achieved by identifying the segments, evaluating the commercial attractiveness

of those segments, developing a marketing mix and product positioning strategy for each
segment, as shown below:

13 SEGMENTATION, TARGETING AND POSITIONING (STP)
Why does STP matter?

þþ You can identify niches – smaller groups of customers with specific needs.
þþ Mature markets can find new customers.
þþ You can deliver more focused and more effective messages. The needs of the
segment are the same, so the marketing messages and methods are also the same
– instead of ‘one size fits all’.
þþ It’s more efficient; Delivering the right mix to the same group of people, rather than
a scattergun approach and hoping some will stick.
How can you segment your existing markets?

You can segment your existing markets based on nearly any variable, as long as it’s
effective as the examples below show:
Segment What this means? Example

Demographics Age, gender, income, Firebox sells the ‘coolest
education, ethnicity, marital things’ and is mainly aimed
status, education, household at a younger, male audience.
(or business) size, length of Whereas Moshi Monsters
residence, type of residence, provides parents with a fun,
profession/occupation. safe and educational space
for young children.
Psychographics Personality and emotionally Virgin Holidays has
based behaviour linked to segmented its holiday offer
purchase choices, including: into 6 groups as shown in
attitudes, lifestyle, hobbies, Figure 1.
risk aversion, personality
traits, leadership traits,
magazines read, TV watched.
Lifestyle Hobbies, recreational Some online and offline
pursuits, entertainment, magazines are aimed at
vacations, and other specific hobbies, such as
non-work time pursuits. FourFourTwo for football fans.
Belief and value Religious, political, The Islamic Bank of Britain
systems nationalistic and cultural offers Sharia compliant
beliefs and values. banking which meets specific
religious requirements.

Life stages Chronological benchmarking Saga holidays are only

of people’s lives at different available for people aged
ages. 50+. They claim a large
enough segment to focus on
this life stage.
Geography Country, region, area, Neiman Marcus, the
metropolitan or rural location, upmarket department store
population density, climate. chain in the USA now delivers
to the UK. See Figure 2.
Behaviour The nature of the purchase, In a B2B environment, the
brand loyalty, usage level, benefits sought are often
benefits sought, distribution about ‘how soon can it be
channels used, reaction to delivered?’ which includes
marketing factors. the ‘last minute’ segment, the
planning in advance segment.
parcelmonkey.co.uk offers
same day, next day and
international parcel deliveries.
Benefit The use and satisfaction Smythson stationery offer
gained by the consumer. similar products to other
stationery companies, but
their clients want the benefit
of their signature packaging:
tissue-lined Nile Blue boxes
and tied with navy grosgrain
ribbon!
Figure 1 – Virgin Holidays segments

Figure 2 – Neiman Marcus extending its geographical boundaries
Market targeting
The table below shows what’s needed to evaluate the potential and commercial
attractiveness of each segment.
Segment criteria Evaluation

Size The market must be large enough to justify segmenting. If the
market is small, it may make it smaller.
Difference Measurable differences must exist between segments.
Money Anticipated profits must exceed the costs of additional
marketing plans and other changes.
Accessible Each segment must be accessible to your team and the
segment must be able to receive your marketing messages.
Focus on different Different segments must need different benefits.
benefits
Product positioning
Positioning maps are the last element of the STP process. For this to work, you need
two variables to illustrate the market overview. In the example here, I’ve taken some cars
available in the UK. This isn’t a detailed product position map, more of an illustration. If
there were no cars in one segment it could indicate a market opportunity.


Any time you suspect there are significant, measurable differences in your market, you
should consider STP. Especially if you have to create a range of different messages for
different groups.
A good example of segmentation is BT Plc, the UK’s largest telecoms company. BT has
adopted STP for its varied customer groups; ranging from individual consumers to B2B
services for its competitors:
Figure 3 – BT’s Customer Groups

BEST PRACTICE
Keep it focused
Successful companies focus on specific markets. This enables them to send

better communications that are more effective and get better results.
What to watch for

Make sure the market is large enough to matter and customers can be easily contacted.
Original Sources
Lancaster G. and Massingham, L. (1988) Essentials of Marketing. Maidenhead, Berkshire,
England. McGraw-Hill.
Smith, W. R. (1956). Product differentiation and market segmentation as alternative

marketing strategies. Journal of Marketing. (Vol. 21, Issue 1, July). p3-8.

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14 SOSTAC®
What is it?
SOSTAC® is a planning framework that can be used to structure all types of plans from
business, to marketing strategy and communications plans through to digital marketing
plans.
It gives both a process to follow to create a plan or strategy, but can also be used to
structure the strategy document. Note that each stage of SOSTAC® shown on the
following page is not discrete, rather there is overlap during each stage of planning –
previous stages must be revisited and refined, as indicated by the reverse arrows.
WHAT IS IT? SOSTAC ®

PR Smith’s SOSTAC® is a planning process framework to help structure and
manage implementation of plans. SOSTAC® stands for Situation, Objectives
and Strategy, Tactics, Action and Control originally developed by PR Smith for
marketing communications planning. In Emarketing Excellence Chaffey and
Smith (2012) apply PR Smith’s SOSTAC® framework to digital marketing as shown
in the diagram on the next page.
View introduction post: SOSTAC®

The elements of SOSTAC® planning to help develop digital marketing strategy are:
Element Planning activities

1. Situation Analysis Planning activities involved as this stage include performing
means ‘where are a marketplace analysis reviewing the different aspects of the
we now?’
micro-environment including customers, competitors and
intermediaries forming the online marketplace. The wider
macro-environment as indicated by the PEST mnemonic can
also be reviewed here. PEST stands for Political, Economic,
Social and Technology factors.

14 MODEL 14. SOSTAC®
2. Objectives means Objectives can be divided into broad vision and goals for a
‘where do we want marketing or digital marketing strategy, with more specific
to be?’
SMART objectives for growth in sales, profit and increasing
customer touchpoint interactions to support this. Specific
KPIs can be defined to review effectiveness at the control
stage.
3. Strategy means Strategy summarises how to achieve the objectives
‘how do we get through reviewing the options and taking decisions about
there?’
segmentation, targeting and proposition development.
4. Tactics defines Tactics includes specific details of the marketing mix,
the specific details customer relationship management and marketing
of the strategy.
communications channels.
5. Actions refers Plans list all the activities, resources and budgets and should
to plans and tasks be presented on a timeline or in Gantt chart format.
to implement the
strategy and tactics.
6. Control looks at Control is a regular review process of dashboards containing
keeping plans on KPIs defined at the objective setting stage to check the
track against target. strategy is on track to meet objectives.
BEST PRACTICE
Iterate through the stages of SOSTAC® to refine your strategy
You don’t have to work through the model in a linear sense. If anything, working
through the process might require you to make refinements to an earlier position
in order to create a strategy that works for you.
Example
We have an example of a complete SOSTAC® marketing plan for a business.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Examples SOSTAC® plan
See details of the Business marketing planning guide and example template
by Annmarie Hanlon, available to Premium members.

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What to watch for

SOSTAC® is often used alongside by Smart Insights members alongside RACE planning
to create digital marketing plans. In this case, you have to think carefully about which is
the main framework you use. The options are:
þþ Use SOSTAC® for overall structure for plan broken down by different customer
touchpoints - Reach - Interact - Convert - Engage. Our members have asked for
this structure and to help we have created a matrix for an entire SOSTAC® plan
with the key issues to consider for RACE at each stage. This is the SOSTAC® and
RACE Planning checklist in our strategy toolkit. For example, at the Situation and
Objective Setting stages, the review and goals can be reviewed for each of RACE.
þþ Use a RACE Planning structure for overall plan broken down into a simplified form
of SOSTAC® namely Opportunity, Strategy and Action applied within each stage
of RACE. The initial plan section should contain an initial overall digital strategy
section which can include Situation Analysis, Objectives and Strategy.
Original Sources
SOSTAC® first appeared in PR Smith’s Marketing Communications books where it is still
used. Further details available from PR Smith’s site.
Smith, P. (2012) Marketing Communications: Integrating offline and online with social
media, 5th edn. Kogan Page, London.
Smith, P.R. (2012) The SOSTAC® Guide - to writing the perfect plan V1.1 [Kindle Edition]

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15 SWOT (TOWS) MATRIX
What is it?
For us, a SWOT analysis is an essential part of any business, marketing or digital
marketing plan. It allows you to create a strategy or plan of action based not on what
you’re interested in doing or on your gut feel, but what you need to do given the situation
in the marketplace. It considers your existing capabilities for marketing against competitors
and ‘best-of-breed’ practices across all industry sectors, plus looks at opportunities
created as new technologies are introduced.
WHAT IS IT? SWOT AND TOWS MATRIX

A SWOT summarises the internal strategic strengths and weaknesses of a
marketing or business strategy and the external strategic opportunities and
threats that are available to all competitors in a market.
The TOWS matrix reviews not only the situation through internal strengths and
weaknesses and external opportunities and threats around the edge, but also
shows four boxes for creating strategies to succeed in the marketplace. This is
the beauty of TOWS - it helps define future direction rather than just focusing on
the present.
Introductory post: Why SWOT isn’t “Utterly Pointless”
The TOWS matrix

When we develop SWOT, we find the so-called TOWs matrix approach invaluable, but
wish there was a more sensible name for it! We find that while almost everyone we speak
to knows the simple 2x2 SWOT matrix, relatively few know TOWS.
The power of the TOWS matrix format is in the way it not only enables a review, but also
helps you create and summarise strategies to improve relative to competitors. Often
SWOT are put in the appendix of a report or on the shelf and do not drive action, but the
TOWS approach integrates the SWOT into the whole strategy process to help create a
plan.


When creating a digital marketing plan, SWOT or TOWS analysis is also an essential
step. It’s sometimes seen as an academic exercise and there’s the feeling that the time
should be spent on improving the execution of the tactics like email or search marketing
or improving the site, but the SWOT analysis will give you the strategic view of the main
opportunities and challenges available from online marketing. The high-level view will
help you see the most important issues which need to be managed for your online
success.
This is how we recommend you apply the TOWS matrix to online marketing.
1. Based on existing SWOT for the business

Before looking at SWOT for your online marketing, you need to look at the broader picture.
What are the key issues that need to be managed for the business to be successful. As
Malcolm MacDonald has recommended this should ideally not be too generic, but should
focus on a particular market or customer segment.
2. Use a TOWs matrix approach to define strategic options

Start by reviewing the internal strengths and weaknesses - these are usually easy
to identify, especially the weaknesses. The move onto the external strengths and
weaknesses - these are more of a challenge, but brainstorming helps. Considering new
approaches that sector leaders or new entrants are trialling to identify these together
with external PEST (Political, Economic, Social and Technology) factors which will create
opportunities and threats.

Once the border of the matrix is complete, now for the most difficult part. Fill in the middle
four boxes. For example, define WO strategies which counter current weaknesses by
exploiting new opportunities in the marketplace such as new marketing models or
technologies.
BEST PRACTICE
Create a separate SWOT for different activities
If you’re struggling to limit yourself to top-level strategic issues it may help to focus
on a particular market or product. In training workshops we often get different team
members to focus on just some one market. Within digital marketing a different
SWOT can be created for each of the RACE Planning activities. Alternatively, a
letter from PRACE can be added next to each potential strategy.
3. Select the priority strategic options

We recommend you develop a scoring method to assess the business value of the
strategic options generated. Otherwise, it will be he or she who shouts loudest! Criteria
to consider for selecting the right options are:
þþ Potential value generated
þþ Investment and reallocation of resources needed
þþ Alignment with brand and other strategic initiatives
þþ Pursuit of similar strategies by others in the market
þþ Risk of following strategy
What to watch for?

When completing the matrix you will often find that...
1. You create more strategic options in the SO and WO boxes. Don’t worry, this is
typical.
2. It will sometimes be unclear which box to place the strategic option in. Again,
don’t worry, this is again normal. Remember that what is important in this
analysis is to create the strategic options.

16 PESTLE ANALYSIS
What is it?
PESTLE is one of a well-known series of acronyms used in business and marketing
planning which summarizes how to review the broader forces, sometimes known as the
‘macro-environment’, that can shape a business.
WHAT IS IT? PESTLE ANALYSIS

PESTLE stands for:
þþ Political
þþ Economic
þþ Sociological
þþ Technological
þþ Legal
þþ Environmental

The key technique with PESTLE is to dig deep. Many managers simply work through or
tick off one element after another. There is real value in PESTLE, but only if you adopt a
deeper approach and subsequently act on the information.
Let’s look at each of the factors in turn, with examples:
Political
One of the biggest environments that can cause you to alter your products, ads, or even
your overall brand perception is a country’s political views. While we like to think of the
Internet as a global space, the social media and search engine platforms popular in your
local market may not be the same as another country. For example, Facebook has been
blocked in Iran, Vietnam, and North Korea. Twitter is currently banned in several other
countries.

16 PESTLE ANALYSIS
This social media map, from Mother Jones, shows what’s banned where.
This means if you’re a business using Facebook in these areas, you cannot use these
advertising options and it is less likely that your target audience can see your updates.
It also means you need to consider local alternatives, for example, Sina Weibo in China
and Facenama in Iran and Afghanistan.
What you should consider:

þþ International and local laws (including GDPR)
þþ Preferred and, potentially, banned platforms
þþ Why the political climate of a country may prevent your brand’s success
Economic
The economic environment your brand fits into can be assessed on a nationwide or
demographic-specific level. For example, your brand may position itself with aesthetics
that make it appeal to younger demographics, but are your products priced appropriately
with that audience’s expected level of disposable income? These considerations can
lead you to consider lowering your prices or offering a low-cost alternative to your main
product/service (such as a ‘Basic’ or ‘Starter’ subscription plan, with other labelled
‘Premium’).

16 PESTLE ANALYSIS
The arrival of the Internet created many pricing options that would have previously been
impossible to imagine. For example:
þþ First visitor and return visitor pricing is available through the use of cookies
þþ 24-hour sales are easier to accommodate with a code to enter at checkout, “only
available until midnight”
þþ Dynamic pricing based on availability and quantity is now used by most airlines and
by many hotel groups and hotel chains
þþ Auction pricing focused on highest and lowest offers (reverse auctions) is used by
eBay, Priceline and many others
þþ Software being sold as a service, with monthly payments rather than an upfront fee
for a box of disks!
þþ Free, freemium and premium services have evolved with some services such as
games, being free, but showing ads and premium options available for ad-free
services
A major challenge to many businesses are price comparison websites, where the prices
are compared in a situation that isn’t always accurate as delivery charge may be excluded.
What you should consider:

þþ Competitor prices and product/service offering
þþ Primary/secondary/tertiary target audiences and their individual economic

situations
þþ Historical sales success and promotional offers that can push sales during
expected down times
Sociological
Understanding what’s acceptable socially or within a culture as well as greater appreciation
of different societies and beliefs is more available online than ever before. This knowledge
has created opportunities and has opened new markets. One of my favourite examples
of a company adapting to opportunities is Moonpig. There may have been a time where
they offered a limited range of cards for birthdays, weddings, and events like Christmas.
They now offer a wide range of cards for all occasions and religions.
Does your business know its target audience? What level of access to the internet do
they have? If they’re in that group without access, how can you make contact?
Interestingly, this question led to the development of Babajob. India has one of the
world’s lowest levels of internet penetration, so these entrepreneurs started a job service,
accessible via SMS. All you need is a mobile phone.

16 PESTLE ANALYSIS
What you should consider

þþ The beliefs, customs, and standards held by customers who may be of a different
faith, race, gender, and socio-economic background to your average customer
þþ Internet usage habits (which can differ greatly on customer age)
þþ Access to internet (which can differ between countries and people of lower levels of
income)
Interestingly this question led to the development of Babajob. India has one of the
world’s lowest levels of internet penetration, so these entrepreneurs started a job service,
accessible via SMS. All you need is a mobile phone.
Technological
This issue is an easier element to understand within the PESTLE mix when it comes
to digital marketing. It’s all about the technology being used, whether that’s desktop or
mobile, tablets or wearables.
All brands must consider how their website is displayed across the wide variety of devices
and screen dimensions available that their customers could be using. The website must
be usable across all channels. Pay close attention to how your customers are finding you
and cater to their behaviour. British Airways discovered that their customers used Twitter
as a self-serve customer service platform. Eventually, BA decided to play the role given
to them by their customers.
You may also need to stay on top of the popularity and use of different technological
platforms, in case an audience you reach through it changes. Social media is a large
component of this, as the demographics of available users or their common behaviour
might change.

þþ Screen size and where the internet is accessed
þþ How you can make your user journeys easier
þþ Whether new technology makes elements of your marketing mix redundant
Legal
Legal issues online are a major consideration. A legal oversight can not only affect
your bottom line, but also your brand’s perception. The more public of a mistake, the
more your brand can be hurt, which risks alienating a lucrative target demographic. For
example, when setting up social media pages, you may need to adapt to meet different
laws in different places. If you’re setting up a Facebook page to promote alcoholic drinks,
it’s essential to age-gate and country-gate; ensuring your page is only available to those
aged over 18 and those in the UK. If you ignore this, you could be breaking laws in other
jurisdictions and this could have a negative impact on your business.

16 PESTLE ANALYSIS
Spotify, the music streaming service, has been available in the USA since it started in
2013 but was not available in Canada until October 2014, quite possibly due to legal
reasons. There was no clarity about the royalty rate that companies like Spotify would
have to pay. In May 2014, the Copyright Board of Canada issued a decision on the
royalty rate that music streaming services should pay for the use of recordings. Under
the ruling, the payment will be about 10.2 cents in royalties for every 1,000 plays. It is
interesting to note that this rate is substantially lower than the one required by some
members of the Canadian music industry, who were aiming for between $1 and $2.30.

þþ Product placement and promotional content
þþ Copyright infringement
þþ Data protection
Environmental
The environmental is a fast-growing consideration in marketing. The biggest impact has
been on packaging and waste. Companies are needing to re-think packaging in some
countries, such as Ireland, where carrier bags are a chargeable item at the point of sale.
This in itself has created a business opportunity for companies like Envirosax, selling
fold-up bags that fit into handbags and pockets.
Fully assessing your brand’s environmental positioning can be difficult depending on the
product/service you provide, but try to consider every aspect of what you offer. If you sell
food products or cosmetics, look at how each ingredient is sourced and tested.

16 PESTLE ANALYSIS
Any positive changes you make to your brand’s environmental standing can boost your
social profile and make you more appealing to eco-minded customers. You only need
to look at the impact that Fairtrade has made in ensuring producers from developing
countries are paid a fair price for their work to see how an eco-friendly approach can
help your brand.
What to watch for?

Whatever your size of business, PESTLE can identify threats and highlight opportunities.
Successful companies in a digital age see these opportunities and adapt or create new
product ranges and boldly move into new markets. However, it should be noted that
each of your assessments should be made with the customer in mind to ensure that your
analysis can lead to changes that are going to affect your business for the better.
One company that ignored broader PESTLE factors for years was HMV, a UK retailer
of music with a long heritage. Originally selling ‘vinyl records’, it failed to address the
sociological impact of the internet, especially online retailing. Its sales continued to drop
as fewer people walked into a physical store on the high street to buy music. Emerging
competitors such as Napster and (later) Spotify offered music streaming and download
services, effectively making the HMV model redundant.
The downfall of HMV has been in part explained by Philip Beeching who was part of the
ad agency team that had worked for HMV for some time. He said that when re-pitching
for the HMV work after a new MD had been appointed, they pulled out all the stops and
told the MD and new team of directors “The three greatest threats to HMV are online
retailers, downloadable music, and supermarkets discounting loss leader product”. The
tragedy was that the MD had perhaps not had the same research and reacted badly to
this information. As Beeching commented, “Suddenly I realized the MD had stopped the
meeting and was visibly angry.”
Original source
Terry, P.T.(1977) Mechanisms for Environmental Scanning. Long Range Planning. Jun77,
Vol. 10 Issue 3, p2-9.
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Authors: Annmarie Hanlon and Dr. Dave Chaffey

Part of the Marketing Strategy and Planning Toolkit

About the authors............................................................................3

Model 1: The 7Ps..............................................................................6

Model 2: The 7S framework........................................................... 10

Model 4: The Ansoff Matrix...........................................................20

Model 5: The BCG Matrix..............................................................27

Model 6: Diffusion of Innovation..................................................30

Model 8: Porter’s Five forces........................................................37

Model 9: Price-Quality Strategy Model........................................41

Model 10: Push and Pull................................................................45

Model 11: Product Life Cycle........................................................49

Model 12: RACE Planning for Digital Marketing.........................52

Model 13: Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning (STP)........56

Model 14: SOSTAC®.......................................................................62

Model 15: SWOT (TOWS) matrix...................................................66

Model 16: PESTLE analysis..........................................................69

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WHAT IS IT? THE 7PS OF THE MARKETING MIX

The 7Ps are now considered as:

þþ 1. Product (including branding)

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How can I use this model?

þþ Ensure each aspect of the business has been considered

þþ Conduct a SWOT analysis (see page 65)

þþ Compare your business to competitors

Look at your existing business and work through these questions:

Mix Element Our assessment New approaches to

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Processes How can we improve service?

Mix Element Our assessment New approaches to

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What to watch for

McCarthy, E. J. (1964). Basic Marketing. Richard D. Irwin. Homewood, IL.

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þþ Review the effectiveness of an organization in its marketing operations.

þþ Determine how to best realign an organization to support a new strategic direction.

þþ Assess the changes needed to support digital transformation of an organization.

WHAT IS IT? THE MCKINSEY 7S FRAMEWORK

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What are the elements of the 7S framework?

Hard elements: Strategy, Structure, Systems

Soft elements: Staff, Skills, Style, Shared Values

Strategy: What is the company’s driving strategy?

Structure: What teams are in place?

Systems: What formal systems ensure work progresses?