Chapter 11
Marketing Strategy
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Introduction
• International Marketing:
The process of identifying the goods and services
that customers outside the home country want and
then providing them at the right price and place.
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Marketing Strategy
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International market
assessment (cont.)
• International market assessment:
An evaluation of the goods and services that the
multinational can sell in the global marketplace
1. Initial Screening: Basic need and potential
Who might be interested in buying our products?
• Current import policies of the countries
• Identification of goods & services that are purchased from
abroad
• Determining local products
• Examining the demographic changes that are taking place in
the country
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International market
assessment (cont.)
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International market
assessment (cont.)
– Market Indicators
Indicators used for measuring the relative strengths
of various geographic areas
– Market Size
An economic screening consideration used in
international marketing; it is the relative size of each
market as a percentage of the total world market
– Market Intensity
The richness of a market or the degree of purchasing
power in one country as compared with others
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International market
assessment (cont.)
– Market Growth
The annual increase in sales in a particular market
– Trend Analysis
The estimation of future demand by either
extrapolating the growth over the last 3 to 5 years and
assuming that this trend will continue or by using some
form of average growth rate over the recent past
• Estimation by analogy
• Regression analysis
• Cluster analysis
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International market
assessment (cont.)
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International market
assessment (cont.)
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International market
assessment (cont.)
– Final Selection.
• Before final selection:
– Visit of the site
– Talking to trade representatives or local officials
– Visit of the trade mission
– Based on marketing strategy that revolves around 4Ps
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Product strategies
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Promotion
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Promotion (cont.)
• Promotion: The process of stimulating demand for a
company’s goods and services.
• The specific approach will be determined by the nature of the
product:
– Identical product and identical message
– Identical product but different message
– Modified product but same message
– Modified product and modified message.
• Advertising: A non-personal form of promotion in which a firm
attempts to persuade consumers to a particular point of view.
• Personal selling: A direct form of promotion used to persuade
customers to a particular point of view.
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Pricing
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Pricing (cont.)
• Pricing is influenced by:
– Government controls
• Minimum prices, maximum prices and anti-dumping
– Market diversity
• Differences in consumer tastes and demands
– Currency fluctuations
• Exchange rate risk
– Price escalation forces.
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Place
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Distribution systems
• Distribution: The course that goods take between production
and the final consumer.
• Different distribution systems
– It is often difficult to standarise the distribution system in every country.
– There are many individual differences to be considered. For example:
• Traditional distribution systems in each market
• Consumer preferences about location
• Availability of consumer finance and credit cards.
• Choosing the best distribution system
– Get the best possible distributors to carry their products
• Factors: financial strength, inventory capacity, knowledge of
government and business, the number and types of product lines.
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