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Kotler On Marketing: Watch The Product Life Cycle
Kotler On Marketing: Watch The Product Life Cycle
Technical problems.
Pioneer Advantage
During this stage the strategies the firm uses to sustain rapid
market growth are :
Improves product quality, adds new features and improve
styling.
Adds new models & flanker (products of different sizes,
flavours to protect the main product).
Enters new segments.
Increases & enters new distribution channels.
Shifts product awareness advertising to product
preference advertising.
Lower prices to attract the next layer of price -
sensitive buyers.
Maturity Stage :
Price.
Distribution.
Advertising.
Sales Promotion.
Personal Selling.
Services.
Decline Stage