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STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES ................................................................................ 5-2
KEY TERMS, CONCEPTS & MARKETING TIP ............................................................. 5-2
LECTURE NOTES &ANSWERS TO IN-TEXT QUESTIONS
• Opening Vignette – Rovi Corporation ........................................................................... 5-3
• The Nature and Size of Organizational Markets............................................................ 5-4
• Measuring Industrial, Reseller, and Government Markets ............................................ 5-5
• Content Marketing ......................................................................................................... 5-5
• Characteristics of Organizational Buying ...................................................................... 5-5
• The Organizational Buying Process and the Buying Center ......................................... 5-7
BRING IT TO LIFE
VIDEO – TIM HORTONS TRAVELS BACK TO 1964
• Synopsis and Teaching Suggestions ............................................................................. 5-18
• Video Case – Printout and Worksheets ........................................................................ 5-19
• Answers to Questions ................................................................................................... 5-21
METRICS ASSIGNMENT
• Calculating Market Shares ............................................................................................ 5-34
STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading this chapter students should be able to:
MARKETING TIP
For this chapter we look to Sharon Metz, vice president of vertical marketing at Rovi
Corporation for her MARKETING TIP. You may wish to use this at the start of a class, after a
break, or to summarize the material at the end of a session. The quote for this chapter is as
follows:
“In B2B marketing, there may be numerous departments and people involved. When you are
working with so many people, and trying to ensure all needs (especially, the consumers’ needs)
are met, it can take years to get the solution just right.”
Rovi Corporation and Its Partnerships: As consumers, we sometimes take for granted the
work that needs to be done in the background to offer end-user services. We are familiar with
companies such as Apple and Best Buy and amazed by their offerings. What we may not realize
is that these companies turn to others for the ability to enhance their products and services for
consumers. Rovi Music provides the back-end support to online stores and social networking
sites. This service, which adds artist biographies and reviews to sites, is offered by Rovi
Corporation to companies such as Apple and Best Buy, enhancing the end-user experience.
Business-to-business marketing is conducted with multi-billion dollar companies, but also with
small to medium-size companies.
The Cogeco Cable Inc. Launch: In 2013, Cogeco Cable Inc. and Rovi Corporation launched
two new interactive applications. Cogeco Remote Cable powered Rovi TV Listings, and
TotalGuide xD allowed Canadian subscribers to find television shows and schedule recordings
from their tablets. The partnership was a win for consumers and the two businesses. Upon the
announcement, executives from both companies shared the excitement of the purchase decision
and what it meant for customers.
Similar to strategies that draw in consumers to make purchases, marketing to businesses requires
a strong digital footprint and social media presence. Companies look to partner with companies
that are innovative and have growing markets. This is extremely important as technology has
enabled more marketing opportunities on a global scale.
Reality Check
As you read Chapter 5, refer back to the opening vignette to answer the following questions:
Answer: This question requires students to make assumptions regarding the roles that individuals
played in the buying centre at Cogeco Cable. Ron Perotta, vice president of strategic planning at
Cogeco Cable would either be a decider or influencer. Encourage students to review the buying
centre and determine who would play the roles of user, gatekeeper, and buyer.
• Considering the makeup of the buying centre, what roles would the executives in the vignette
play in the purchase decision?
Answer: The individuals in the vignette would represent either influencers and potentially
deciders of their respective companies. Since the magnitude of this decision is large, there would
most likely be a collaborative team approach to make the final decision.
A. Industrial Markets: Industrial firms in some way reprocess a product or service they
buy before selling it again to the next buyer.
B. Reseller Markets: Resellers are wholesalers and retailers who buy physical products
and resell them again without any reprocessing.
C. Government Markets: Government units are the federal, provincial, regional, and
municipal agencies that buy goods and services for the constituents they serve.
• The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) provides common industry
definitions for Canada, Mexico, and the United States, which make easier the measurement
of economic activity in the three member countries of the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA).
• The NAICS is consistent with the International Standard Industrial Classification of All
Economic Activity, published by the United Nations, to help measure global economic
activity.
• The NAICS groups economic activity to permit studies of market share, demand for goods
and services, competition from imports in domestic markets, and similar studies.
Ask Yourself
1. Organizational buyers are divided into three different markets. What are they?
Answer: Industrial firms, resellers, and government units.
A. Derived Demand: Derived demand means that the demand for industrial products
and services is driven by, or derived from, demand for consumer products and
services.
C. Fluctuating Demand: Fluctuating demand means that demand for business products
and services fluctuate more than demand for consumer products and services.
D. Size of the Order or Purchase: The size of the purchase in organizational buying is
much larger than that in consumer buying. As a result, most organizations place
purchasing policies or procedures constraints on their buyers, who must often get
competitive bids from at least three prospective suppliers when the order is above a
certain amount.
The size of the order also is important in determining who participates in the
purchase decision and the length of time required to reach a purchase agreement.
E. Number of Potential Buyers: Firms selling consumer products and services try to
reach thousands or millions of individuals or households.
For not-got-profit firms and government agencies, the objective is usually to meet
the needs of the groups they serve.
a. Price.
b. Ability to meet the quality specifications required for the item.
c. Ability to meet required delivery schedules.
d. Technical capability.
e. Warranties and claim policies in the event of poor performance.
f. Past performance on previous contracts.
g. Production facilities and capacity.
H. The Role of Fear in B2B Buyer Behaviour: B2B buying decisions are usually
driven by one emotion—fear. Specifically, B2B buying is all about minimizing fear
by eliminating risk. There are two distinct types of risk.
Personal risk is explained by the buyer who chooses not to work with a new supplier
even if that potential supplier’s products offer better value.
A supply partnership exists when a buyer and its supplier adopt mutually beneficial
objectives, policies, and procedures for the purpose of lowering the cost and/or
increasing the value of products and services delivered to the ultimate consumer.
Ask Yourself
The same five stages consumers use in the buying decision process applies to
organizational purchases: (1) problem recognition, (2) information search,
(3) evaluation of alternatives, (4) purchase decision, (5) post-purchase behaviour.
• In large multi-store chain resellers, the buying centre is very formal and is called
a buying committee.
• A firm marketing to industrial firms and governmental units must understand the
structure, technical, and business functions represented, and the behaviour of the
buying centre. Need to ask the following questions:
a. Which individuals are in the buying centre for the product or service?
b. What is the relative influence of each member of the group?
c. What are the buying criteria of each member?
d. How does each member of the group perceive the potential supplier, its
products, its services and its salespeople?
1. People in the Buying Centre: The composition of the buying centre depends on
the item being bought. A buyer or purchasing manager is almost always a
member and individuals from other functional areas are included depending on
the purchase.
2. Roles in the Buying Centre: Researchers have identified five specific roles that
one or more individuals can play in a buying centre:
a. Users are people in the organization who actually use the product or service.
b. Influencers affect the buying decision, usually by helping define the
specifications for what is bought.
c. Buyers have formal authority and responsibility to select the supplier and
negotiate the terms of the contract.
d. Deciders have the formal or informal power to select or approve the supplier
that receives the contract.
e. Gatekeepers control the flow of information in the buying centre.
3. Buying Situations and the Buying Centre: The number of people in the buying
centre largely depends on the specific buying situation. There are three types of
buying situations, called buy classes, that vary from the routine reorder to the
completely new purchase:
a. Straight rebuy, where the buyer reorders an existing product or service from
the list of acceptable suppliers.
b. Modified rebuy, where users, influencers, or deciders in the buying centre
want to change the product specifications, price, delivery schedule, or
supplier, although the item purchased is largely the same.
c. New buy, where the firm is a first-time buyer of the product or service. This
involves greater risks, so the buying centre is enlarged to include all who
have a stake in the new buy.
1. What one department is almost always represented by a person in the buying centre?
Answer: Purchasing department.
Consumer market segmentation places consumers into groups that have common needs and
respond similarly to marketing programs. The process of segmenting business markets divides
markets based on type of customer, size, buying situation, customer location, and benefits
sought.
A. Type of Customer: The NAICS codes discussed earlier provide a useful tool for
identifying business target markets.
B. Size of Customer: Many B2B marketers divide their potential market into large and
small accounts, using separate distribution channels to reach each segment.
C. Type of Buying Situation: B2B marketers can divide their potential market by the three
types of buy classes – new buy, modified rebuy, and straight rebuy.
D. Customer Location: The product manager might segment on the basis of region or
actual location of the potential customer. Firms located in a metropolitan area might
receive a personal sales call, whereas those outside this area might be contacted by
telephone.
E. Benefits Sought: The market may also be segmented on the basis of benefits sought.
Xerox may decide to focus on firms looking for quality products and good customer
service as opposed to those looking simply for lower prices.
E-marketplaces are online trading communities that bring together buyers and
supplier organizations.
• Large companies favour private exchanges that link them with their network of
qualified suppliers and customers. They are not a neutral third party, but
represent the interests of their owners.
• In a traditional auction a seller puts an item up for sale and would-be buyers are
invited to bid in competition with each other. As more would-be buyers become
involved, there is an upward pressure on bid prices. The auction ends when a
single bidder remains and wins the item with its highest price.
Ask Yourself
In the opening vignette, Sharon Metz of Rovi Corporation reflects on some of the challenges of
marketing to medium-to-large organization. In particular, for larger purchases and key
partnerships, decisions need to be made by a committee as opposed to an individual. Review the
opening vignette and identify other differences in the Organizational Buying Purchase Decision
Process that need to be considered in B2B Marketing.
Note: These assignments give students the opportunity to apply chapter material to a real-life
example, using the chapter’s opening vignette as a foundation. There are no specific answers, but
students should consider that B2B purchases are normally larger in magnitude and are driven by
the objectives of the organization rather than the individual.
Chapter Vignette…reminder
Strategic partnerships are critical to the success of many businesses. This chapter’s opening
vignette describes how B2B marketing helped build a partnership between Canadian company
Cogeco Cable and U.S. company Rovi Corporation.
At the end of the vignette, consider the question about the numerous individuals involved in a
decision like this partnership. Relate this to the concept of the buying centre and the different roles
of individuals outlined in this chapter.
Note: These assignments give students the opportunity to apply chapter material to a real-life
example, using the chapter’s opening vignette as a foundation. There are no specific answers, but
students should consider all the different roles in a buying centre and try to relate to this situation.
Video Clip…questions
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Tim Hortons “updated” its first store to a 1964 look. There are
number of other businesses Tim Hortons works with to make this opportunity a reality. Watch the
CONNECT video and answer the following questions:
- Name some of the strategic partners that Tim Hortons worked with to make its anniversary event
special?
- What process do you think Tim Hortons went through to select the different companies needed
to produce the components of the 1964 store?
- How do you think the 1964 clothing was acquired?
Note: These assignments give students the opportunity to apply chapter material to a real-life
example, using the chapter’s opening vignette as a foundation. There are no specific answers, but
students should be able to identify Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment and suggest potential
other partners in this endeavor. Lead a discussion of how companies go through the process of
choosing potential vendors and strategic partners.
Infographic…data analysis
Note: These assignments give students the opportunity to apply chapter material to a real-life
example, using the chapter’s opening vignette as a foundation. There are no specific answers, but
students should brainstorm on ways to make themselves and their business cards stand out in the
working world.
Answer: Industrial firms account for the majority of all organizational buyers. These firms in
some way reprocess a product or service they buy before reselling it. Resellers represent the
second largest group of organizational buyers. These wholesalers and retailers buy physical
products and resell them again without any reprocessing. Government units, the smallest of
the three groups, are federal, state, and local agencies that buy goods and services for the
constituents they serve.
2. Explain how the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) might be
helpful in understanding industrial, reseller, and government markets, and discuss the
limitations inherent in this system.
Answer: The NAICS groups economic activity to permit studies of market share, demand for
goods and services, import competition in domestic markets, and similar questions. NAICS
contains broad, two-digit categories that signify a sector of the economy. The third digit
designates a subsector while the fourth digit represents an industry group. The fifth digit
designates a specific industry and is the most detailed level at which data are available for the
three countries. The sixth digit is for country-level industries.
Such breakdowns allow one to identify firms within categories and to monitor growth or
decline with industries. The NAICS has two important limitations: (1) large firms engaging
in different activities or providing different products or services are given only one NAICS
code and (2) five-digit national industry codes are not available for all three countries.
3. List and discuss the key characteristics of organizational buying that make it difference
from consumer buying.
Answer: Although the buying processes organizations go through when making a purchase
also apply to consumer buying, there are some key differences. Organizations buy products
and services to help them achieve organizational objectives, namely, to increase profits
through reducing costs or increasing revenues. The buying criteria for organizational buyers
generally focus on three critical factors: (1) ability to meet quality standards, (2) ability to
deliver the product on time, and (3) performance on previous contracts. Furthermore, there
are fewer organizational buyers than consumer buyers, and the size of organizational
purchases tends to be much larger. Organizations often have formal positions and specific
purchasing policies or procedures. Finally, several people typically get involved in an
organizational purchase and the post-purchase evaluation is often more formalized.
G. W. Wingate,
What the Beef Scandal Teaches
(Independent, April 6, 1899).
See:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1898-1899.
{635}
On the 4th of January the Senate received the treaty from the
President. On the 7th, Senator Mason, of Illinois, introduced
the following resolution, and, subsequently, spoke with
earnestness in its support:
"I am to speak for my country, for its whole past and for its
whole future. I am to speak to a people whose fate is bound up
in the preservation of our great doctrine of constitutional
liberty. I am to speak for the dead soldier who gave his life
for liberty that his death might set a seal upon his country's
historic glory. I am to speak for the Republican party, all of
whose great traditions are at stake, and all of whose great
achievements are in peril. …
"To that extent and to that alone we claimed and avowed the
reason for the declaration of war. So it follows that the mere
declaration of war did not affect in any manner our relations
with the Philippine Islands except to put us in a state of war
with them as a part of the Spanish domain, and in no manner
laid any obligations upon us as to those islands. We were not
charged with the duty of preserving order in Asia. We were not
charged with the obligations of seeing that they had a stable
and orderly government in any part of that hemisphere. No such
duty rested upon us. None such was assumed by us. Therefore
the simple declaration of war did not lay any obligation upon
us as to the Philippine Islands, and I desire that any Senator
will put his finger upon the act which laid us under any
obligations to the Philippine Islands outside of the fact that
in the war which ensued we took those who were the insurgents
in those islands to be our allies and made a common cause with
them.
"Now, Mr. President, all that grows out of that—all that grows
out of the fact of that cooperation and that alliance—is to
impose upon us a single obligation which we must not ignore.
How far does that obligation go? Does it require that we shall
for all time undertake to be the guardians of the Philippine
Islands? Does that particular obligation lay upon us the duty
hereafter, not only now but for years to come, to maintain an
expensive military establishment, to burden our people with
debt, to run the risk of becoming involved in wars in order
that we may keep our hands upon the Philippine Islands and
keep them in proper condition hereafter? I am unable to see
how the obligation growing out of the fact that they were our
allies can possibly be extended to that degree. No Senator has
yet shown any reason why such an obligation rests upon us, and
I venture to say that none which is logical will or can be
shown."
{638}
"Section 2.
That it is against the policy, traditions, and interests of
the American people to admit states erected out of other than
North American territory into our union of American States.
"Section 3.
That the United States accept from Spain the cession of the
Philippine Islands with the hope that the people of those
islands will demonstrate their capacity to establish and
maintain a stable government, capable of enforcing law and
order at home and of discharging the international obligations
resting on separate and independent States, and with no
expectation of permanently holding those islands as colonies
or provinces after they shall demonstrate their capacity for
self-government, the United States to be the judge of such
capacity."
Congressional Record,
December 6, 1898—February 6, 1899.
{639}
The Dingley Tariff Act, which became law on the 24th of July,
1897, authorized the making of tariff concessions to other
countries on terms of reciprocity, if negotiated within two
years from the above date. At the expiration of two years,
such conventions of reciprocity had been arranged with France
and Portugal, and with Great Britain for her West Indian
colonies of Jamaica, Barbadoes, Trinidad, Bermuda, and British
Guiana. With France, a preliminary treaty signed in May, 1898,
was superseded in July, 1899, by one of broader scope, which
opens the French markets to an extensive list of American
commodities at the minimum rates of the French tariff, and
cuts the American tariff from 5 to 20 per cent. on many French
products, not inclusive of sparkling wines. In the treaty with
Portugal, the reduction of American duties on wines is more
general. The reciprocal reduction on American products extends
to many agricultural and mineral products. The reciprocal
agreement with the British West Indies covers sugar, fruits,
garden products, coffee and asphalt, on one side, and flour,
meat, cotton goods, agricultural machinery, oils, etc., on the
other.