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Marketing in optical businesses
1. Marketing
for
optical businesses
Hossein Mirzaei
Msc optom
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2. Learning objectives
Analyze and develop solutions to
problems in merchandising
Sales promotion and store operation
Assess and evaluate pricing strategies
economic problems and competition
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3. Eye Care Market
Facts
In every community eye care is a large
market
Eye care providers are plentiful. Most
of them have excess capacity.
Most patients prefer independent
practice eye doctors.
Presbyopes represent the majority of
patients served by eye care providers.
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4. Eye Care Market
Facts:
Women purchase eyewear more
frequently
Eye care product technology is
rapidly evolving
In most optometric practices, the
sale of eyeglasses produces the
greatest share of revenue
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5. Eye Care Market
Facts:
Contact lens patients generate
25-30% of gross revenue in the
average practice
The Internet is transforming retailing
and business-to-business
transactions
Eye care is a somewhat seasonal
business
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6. The size of your organization isnot important
The size of your bank account is
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9. Marketing is:
The process of creating products and
services
The process of promotion those
products and services,pricing them and
distributing them in a specific
marketplace
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10. The Ps of Marketing
Planning Strategy
Product or service
Price cost, profit
Promotion creating desire for product
Place location
Positioning in marketplace
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11. PLANNIG
The Strategy of Marketing
We must answer important questions
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12. Positioning
The first marketing Question
What market position will I assume?
Or who am I?
Quality
price
Fast Service
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13. Marketing Identification
The second Marketing question :
Who is my customer?
Market segmentation:
grouping people with the same needs or
wants
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14. Key segmentation questions:
Geographic - where do they live?
Demographic –what is their age
,sex,family size ,income, education
Psychographic-what is their social
class,lifestyle,personality
Behavioral –what usage rate do they
employ?are they loyal?
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15. Third question:
What is my mission or purpose?
State in one or two sentences
This should become the foundation of your business
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17. Product (service)
The single most important marketing activity
is selecting right product for your market
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18. Product attributes:
The physical elements :size color
weight
The value elements:quality
,durability,reliabilty
Style or Fashion
taste:modern,conservative
Marketing success will depend on knowing all
product attributes
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19. Generic and specific needs
Understanding the difference
Modern marketing tactics suggests that we
promote the specific attributes of products
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20. The product Mix:
The total product line that is offered for sale
i.e.frames, lenses ,sunglasses,etc
The mix represents everything needed or
desired by the customer
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21. The product portfolio:
Group of closely-related products for
example the frame board
The key to managing a product potflio is to work
with it until it provides as much profit as possible
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22. The product life cyle
(George day)
Introductory stage: new and exciting
Growth stage:popular items-most wanted
Maturity stage: profitable days behind
Decline stage:cost you money to keep
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23. Introduction
competing against older, established
products
businesses need to identify those that are
dissatisfied with the current problems
product should be basic and not too
complicated
guarantee and warranties
not widely distributed
price usually high
promotion needs to inform the customer
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24. Growth
if product successful, competitors will
enter the market
features and options must be added
wider distribution
adjustment in pricing
promotion must attract customers,
advantages of the product
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25. Maturity
sales peak, profit begin to decline, customers
have the product and there are many companies
in the market, competition becomes very intense
all products features, option,
guarantees/warranties are similar (so customer
service options could be added)
pricing become very competitive
increase availability of the product becomes
wider
promotion – why their product is better
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26. Decline
product is no longer satisfying or they
discover new and better products, sales
drop, little or no profit
try to identify other uses
distribution is reduce
price is usually reduced
more selective and less promotions
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27. Stages in a Life Cycle
SALES
PROFITS
Introduction Growth Maturity Decline
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29. Promotion
Promoting—in house programs
Advertising—out of house ads
Selling—the activity employed to gain
business
Public relations—education and public
awareness activities
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30. Pricing
What is your market position?
Who is the target group?
What is the marketing mix?
What are the competetion prices?
Do you need to make changes due to a
marketing condition?
Any change due to economic condition?
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34. SWOP-an analysis of your
competition and yourself
S stands for strength
W stands for weakness
O stands for opportunity
P stands for problems
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