Showing posts with label Marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marketing. Show all posts

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Packaging-The purpose of Product Packaging!

Packaging 


Some body has perfectly said ,"A picture is worth  a thousand words."
Packaging plays an important role in a product's life cycle.Packaging is just like a solution to the problem of the customer beautifully dressed in an attractive dressing.It plays a vital role in branding process of a product.

Customers don't buy products,they buy solutions to their problems and hence it becomes the utmost responsibility of the marketer to present its product in the most attractive way to help perceive his customers that there is no product available with the competitors and hence only he has a product as a solution to his problems  which will solve his purpose. 


As Branding helps to differentiate brand among the brands,the packaging helps a product to differentiate itself from the rest of the competitors available in the market.





A customer when enters a supermarket or a big retail chain,he passes more than 300 products per minute yet he reaches his product placed in the last.It is because of the reason that he has become loyal customer of that product.

Thus companies often use catchy tag lines.shiny colors and logos so that they can be catched by the eyes of the customer easily.
It is the collaborative effort of all like colors,font used,design of the packaging,shape,size,creativity of the designer that outlines itself from the rest of the products.

In most of the brands that are unknown to the  customers,packaging itself has persuaded the customer to give it a try.Hence to look trendy  and cool every time the most of the corporates stress on packaging and change it continuously to stop packaging ware out.

Packaging has got some basic functions:


  1. Protects the Contents: The basic function of the packaging is to ensure that the contents inside it are protected from any sort of Damage or physical wear and tear and hence packaging plays a vital role in the safety of the product.
  2. Branding: The packaging helps in product differentiation.It helps people identify their choicest brand among different brands available with the help of Logos,designs and colors used.
  3. Source of Information to the customers: As we already know that the role of the marketer is not only limited to sell its products by driving the demand for it but he also act as a teacher.He is also responsible to educate customers regarding the Product Quantity,Price,Quality,Weight,Nutritional Value (Where ever applicable),Hazards and product disposal techniques to follow.
  4. Barriers:Packaging  also saves the contents from moisture,direct exposure to sunlight, bacteria's etc.To enhance shelf life special desiccants are used in the product packaging.
  5. Security:Packaging helps tempering of the product by any non authorized persons to maintain the integrity,dignity and the genuineness of the product.Specially designed product features help in temper proofing of the products and helps in detecting if any tempering has been made.








3D Sticker




Thus corporates are ensuring every possiblity to deliver their products to the end customers in the best value in the best possible way at the best price in the presentable and in an affordable way.

Friday, August 21, 2015

"Power of Persuasion in Marketing"...

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The bond between persuasion and marketing...

The biggest power that lies in this world is ,"The Power of Persuasion..."Persuasion is a bigger thing...It is the power of influencing people and when we talk of the influence,it is not to influence them physically  but to influence there mind as well....


Lets take an example....
A little kid after seeing an Ice cream hawker tries to persuade her mother to get her one....










A politician giving people promises for resolving issues regarding their problems to make them cast votes in his favour.....




what you think that little kid and the politicans both are trying to do....They both are trying to persuade the concerned persons regarding the things they want to have...

Marketers job starts from the start of our day till its end,Every day we encounter so many things like Buckets,Towels,Tooth brush,Tooth pastes,Soap,our car,even our mobile phone......these are all products and we always are quite selective about them.

We chose as per the brands we like as we have certain expectaions from them....because they have so called an image in our mind.....Suppose we want a soap,the first thing that comes in our mind is "Lux" or we wanna purchase a tooth paste,the first thing that comes to our mind is "Colgate",why to go so far...The soft drinks that we use mostly,when some one asks for some "thanda" it automatically comes to mind that,"Thanda matlab Coca-Cola...or if we want a butter,the name that strikes our mind is "Amul"......
Thats called the brands reputation or in the other words we can call it Product positioning.

But have you ever thought that how these things have settled in your mind....Who are the people who are behind this...

Yes!!!There are people behind the scene with a proper strategy and those are Marketers...
Marketers are those people who are behind the scenes and who drive the customers crazy about a product..
"Marketers are in the business of making consumers to spend money which they donot have,on the products they donot need,to create impressions that donot last long,that too on the people that they really donot care about."!!!

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Is consumer really a King...!!!

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The concept of marketing has been discovered a long time ago..Let me take you back to few thousand years ago,the time when the first human came to earth (as per christian mythology)....You must be thinking why i used this word"Discovered",it is because of the reason that the concept of marketing is as older as the existence of mankind....(As per Dr.Philip Kotler-The Godfather of Marketing...)
Lets go few hundred years back......The time when Adam and eve existed.....
Lets have a look at the picture....
Who persuaded Eve to eat that apple....!!!
Who you think that who is the marketer in this picture.....Can you Guess it!!!
Think!!!
Neither its Adam and nor its Eve.....
Its Snake!!!!! Snake persuaded Eve to eat the Apple....Snake lured her to eat it....

Gone are those days when people used to believe only on three Needs of life"Roti","kapda"aur"Makaan"(Bread,Cloth & a Shelter to live in!!)

Marketer has changed this thinking of people....They communicated and taught people to switch from needs to wants and from wants to demands....

Marketers arise thurst in people regarding products....

Lets try to explain this with an example.....

A simple glass filled with tap water..... 







Marketers communicated to people (these are those people who happen to be their potential customers) that,"Why to only rely only on water when they are out of their homes...
they have a new product for them,that will quench their thurst and as well as they will feel refreshed after having the same!!!
The biggest thing in marketing is"Communication..."
If you don't communicate and educate people about your product you have made for them they are never ever gonna know about it and if they will never know about it,trust me your product is never going to sell...and the consequences will be very worse....
Unnecessary blockage of money,Over head costs,Financial burdens and huge loses....


Lets take an another example for this.....

Do you know what is this.....



Yes!!! you are right....
Its a Packaged mineral water bottle...
Marketers told them if you need water during your travel or general use....Why to rely on ordinary tap water....It is unsafe for you....

We present you a packaged drinking water with added minerals and without impurities....Thats good for your health and your family....

That's the purpose of a marketer and marketing as a strategy which he uses....He educates the consumer about the benefits of the product he is providing and persuades them to give the product a try!!!Marketers say that we( they) have got the solution to your problems.....

Actually it is the marketer who pushes a product into the market...

Not limited only to this.....the marketer are not finished yet!!!
from switching customers from needs to wants,they pushed them towards Demands...
Let me explain the basic difference between the three:
  1. NEEDS: These are the basic amenities of life required for survival....
  2. WANTS: Needs become wants when they are backed by purchasing power and purchasing decisions.
  3. Demands: Wants become demands when a consumer is willing to pay a price for a desired product.
let us try to get a better insight about Demands as well...

  1. People used to walk by foot over several kilometers in ancient times....Then Marketer provided them a bicycle by saying that ,"Why you go by foot,i have a better thing for you...and that's a bicycle....(let us consider it as a need).
  2. Then he persuaded customers to buy even a Scooter,saying,"why you need to put so much efforts on riding a bicycle...give your self some comfort...Here is new thing for you.....Use it....(want).
  3. Even after that he persuaded them to buy a Car....by projecting it as a family car....Saying that go...enjoy the ride with your family (Demand).

It should be remembered that Needs become Wants and Wants become Demands when the customer has the ability to pay the prices for the desired product...
because in the end it is the consumer or the customer who drives an economy....