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Product, price, place
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Product, price, place book
Product, price, place
DOI link for Product, price, place
Product, price, place book
ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationships between a chosen value strategy, the marketing strategy, and decisions about three of the four marketing instruments: product/service, place/channels/distribution, and price. It shows what kinds of decisions have to be made for the instruments product, price, and channels. The chapter presents key issues about push/pull, intensity of distribution, forms of products, and distribution figures. Marketing is about finding and creating opportunities, and about making customers happy. This means that marketers should have a kind of positive mindset. The urgency for innovation and the choice of forms of innovation depends on the value strategy of a company. Companies focusing on operational excellence will focus on costs and/or convenience innovation. Price policy involves the description of policy rules in relation to price. The goal is to create a framework of parameters that the various decision makers in a company can use to make price decisions.