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B2B Marketing
B2B Marketing
Organizational sales and purchases of goods
and services to support production of other
products, to facilitate daily company
operations, or for resale.
What are these?
Industrial markets
All organizations that purchase goods and
services to use in the creation of their own
goods and services.
Industrial marketing
The process of matching and combining the
capabilities of the supplier with the desired
outcomes of the customer to create value for
the “customer’s customer.”
B2B versus B2C Marketing
B2C=Business-to-Consumer Market=
businesses sell products and services to
consumers for household or personal use
B2B=Business-to-Business Market=
businesses sell products and services to other
businesses for use in their daily operations or
for making other products and services
B2C versus B2B Marketing
The B2B market is 5X as large as
the B2C market in the USA.
Difference between B2B & B2C
Industrial Markets Consumer Markets
Structure Relatively fewer buyers Clustering Large number of customers
geographical concentration Mass markets
Price Bidding and negotiations a norm; list List prices and standard discounts
prices for standard products of low
value
Difference between B2B & B2C
B2B Marketing B2C Marketing
Relationship driven Product driven
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COMPONENTS OF THE BUSINESS
MARKET
Commercial market Individuals and firms
that acquire products to support, directly or
indirectly, production of other goods and
services.
Trade industries Retailers or wholesalers
that purchase products for resale to others.
Government.
Public and Private Institutions
Types of Organizational Customers
Nonprofit and
Nonprofit and
Commercial
Commercial Government
Government Not-for-Profit
Not-for-Profit
Enterprises
Enterprises Units
Units Organizations
Organizations
Industrial Churches,
Distributors local,
state, and federal hospitals,
Value-Added government units colleges,
Resellers nursing homes,
etc.
Original
Equipment
Manufacturers
Users or End Users
Producer Types
Raw Accessory
Materials Equipment
Producers Suppliers
Component Parts
Capital
and Manufactured
Goods
Materials
Manufacturers
Producers
Producer Types
Often compete in price sensitive markets
Joint Derived
Demand Demand
Volatile
Inventory
Demand
Adjustment
Inelastic
Demand
DERIVED DEMAND
The linkage between demand for a company’s output and its purchases of
resources such as machinery, components, supplies, and raw materials.
VOLATILE DEMAND
Derived demand creates volatility; for example, demand for gasoline pumps may
be reduced if demand for gasoline slows.
JOINT DEMAND
Demand for two products used in combination with each other.
INELASTIC DEMAND
Demand not significantly influenced by price changes.
INVENTORY ADJUSTMENTS
Just-in-time (JIT) inventory policies boost efficiency by cutting inventory and
requiring vendors to deliver inputs as they are needed.
Emotional or Rational Buyers?
(Considerations of B2B Buyers)
Gatekeepers Deciders
SEGMENTING B2B
MARKETS
Segmentation helps marketers develop the most appropriate
strategy.
Common
Bases for
Segmentation
By size of By size
the customer’s of account
company
By technology
By buying
used by the
behavior
customer
Attractiveness of Segments
Market
Attractiveness
Competitive
Attractiveness
Channel
Attractiveness
Internal
Attractiveness
Attractiveness – Other
Considerations
Market Attractiveness
•Large and fast growing segments
are more attractive than smaller
and slow-growing segments
•This necessitates accurately
Market predicting future growth.
Attractiveness •Other issues include
•Adaptability of market
segments,
•Existing relationships with the
buying center members, and
•Available customer’s budget
Competitive Attractiveness
•What is the likely existence or
emergence of competition in
Competitive the market segment?
Attractiveness •Are there barriers to entry
facing competitors?
•Does being first to market
provide an advantage?
Channel Attractiveness
•It is preferable to target
customers already served by
well-established marketing
channels, or if an existing
Channel channel can be adapted, it may
Attractiveness serve the segment.
•When there is no suitable
existing channel, a market view
of competition may be
necessary.
•How is the existing need
being met?
•Will customers switch?
Internal Attractiveness
Stage Result
Place
The
Product Marketing Price
Mix
Promotion
Marketing Mix: Product
The total offering is created by a
partnership between the buying
+ Core Product
organization and the marketing
+ Financing Terms
organization.
+ Delivery Options
= “Total Offering”
The process creates an
augmented product that is specific
to the buying unit’s needs and
maximizes the value creation
capabilities of the marketer.
Marketing Mix: Price
Price…
•is the mutually agreed-upon
amount that satisfies both sides in Price is the
an exchange. measure of value
•often varies from fixed price, with exchanged and is
more special discounts and determined by the
allowances (in comparison to market (not by
consumer markets). costs).
•may involve things other than
a one-time price payment
(such as commissions).
Key Components of the Industrial
Pricing Process
There is no easy formula for
pricing an industrial product or
service.
The decision is multidimensional.