| About the Authors |
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| Preface |
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Chapter 1 Distribution Channels Today |
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1.2 What Is New: Radical Changes in the Navigation of Distribution Channels |
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1.2.1 Changing Business Models |
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1.2.2 Omni-Channel Retailing |
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Part I The Bedrock of channel Functions, Power, and Conflict |
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Chapter 2 Push, Pull, and Total Channel Performance |
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2.2 An Organizing Framework Illustrated with Natura's Distribution Channel |
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2.2.3 Supplier Inputs, Downstream Effects, and Channel Performance |
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2.3 Push-Pull Inputs and Downstream Effects in PepsiCo's Channel |
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2.4 Push and Pull for Services and Digital Channels |
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2.5 Beneficial and Harmful Feedback Loops in the Push-Pull System |
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23 | (3) |
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Chapter 3 Root Causes of Channel conflict |
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3.1.1 Examples of Channel Conflict |
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3.1.2 Myopia and Four Root Causes of Conflict that Strain the Partnership |
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3.2 Uncoordinated Pricing and Selling Effort |
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33 | (7) |
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3.2.1 Double, Triple, and Quadruple Marginalization |
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33 | (4) |
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3.2.2 Loss Leaders Have Their Own Problems |
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3.3 Over- and Under-Distribution |
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40 | (6) |
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40 | (2) |
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3.3.3 Competing with Your Customers |
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3.3.4 Unauthorized Distribution |
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3.4 Division of Work and Pay: Who Sold That? |
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46 | (5) |
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3.4.1 The Case of Leather Italia: Functions Performed and Margin Earned |
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3.4.2 Free Riding on Showrooms, Webrooms, and Billboards |
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3.5 Adapting to Change: Where Does the Future Lie? |
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51 | (1) |
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Chapter 4 Middlemen in Today's Channel Ecosystem and Their Functions |
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57 | (22) |
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57 | (3) |
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4.2 Brick-and-Mortar Intermediaries |
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60 | (4) |
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4.3 New Digital Intermediaries |
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64 | (3) |
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4.4 Support Service Providers |
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67 | (2) |
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4.5 What's Different about Today's Channel Functions |
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4.5.1 The Critical Nature of Delivery and Returns |
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4.5.2 Increasingly Targeted Selling and Peer Persuasion |
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4.5.3 Location Means More, Not Less |
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4.5.4 Agglomeration Is Alive and Well |
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74 | (1) |
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Chapter 5 The sources and indicators of Power in the Channel |
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5.2 Power in the Channel and Its Sources |
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81 | (4) |
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5.2.1 How Social Psychologists and Economists Think about Power |
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5.2.2 Sources of Power in the Distribution Channel |
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83 | (2) |
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5.3 Consumer Search Loyalty: The Ultimate Source of Power |
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5.3.1 Loyalty to the Brand or to the Channel? |
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5.3.2 Search Loyalty: Hard to Get, Harder to Measure in the Physical World |
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5.3.3 Fake It Till You Make It? |
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89 | (1) |
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5.3.4 Is Loyalty a Dinosaur in the Digital World? |
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89 | (2) |
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5.4 Economic Indicators of Power |
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91 | (5) |
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5.4.1 Monopoly Power: The Lerner Index and Price Elasticity |
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5.4.2 Manufacturer versus Retailer Price Elasticity and How It Can Distort Power Assessment |
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5.4.3 Profitability as a Sign of Power |
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Chapter 6 Using Power Without Using it up |
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6.2 Applying Power in Channel Relationships |
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100 | (3) |
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6.3 Investments and Safeguards: Efficient Partnership or Power Struggle? |
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6.3.1 Make Partner-Specific Investments with Open Eyes |
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6.3.2 Safeguards Protect Each Party's Interests |
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6.3.3 Safeguards Can Outlive Their Usefulness |
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6.3.4 How Automobile Dealer Safeguards Came to Be |
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6.4 The Challenge of Preserving Power |
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6.4.1 Using Up Power: The "Objectification" of Leather Italia USA |
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108 | (2) |
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6.4.2 Pushing Power Too Far or Giving It Up: Retailers and Their Private Labels |
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6.4.3 Should National Brand Manufacturers Produce Private Labels? Ill |
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6.5 Vertical Restraints: Welfare Enhancing or Anticompetitive? |
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Part II Metrics, Tools, and Frameworks for Getting the Right Distribution |
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Chapter 7 Metrics for intensity and Depth of Distribution Coverage |
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7.2 A Framework for Measuring Distribution and Matching It to Demand |
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7.3 Measuring Stocking Outlet Findability: Metrics for Intensity of Distribution Coverage |
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7.3.1 Importance of Outlets Can Be Measured by Their ACV, PCV, and GMV |
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128 | (3) |
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7.3.2 Traffic and Search Are Important, Perhaps Even More Than Sales Volume |
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131 | (2) |
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7.3.3 Online or Offline, Stocking Outlets Have to BeFindable |
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133 | (3) |
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7.3.4 The Double-Edged Sword of Increasing Importance of a Channel Member |
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136 | (1) |
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7.3.5 Integrate Metrics Across Offline and Online Channels |
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7.4 Metrics for Distribution Depth |
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7.4.1 Total Distribution Provides More Information Than Brand Distribution |
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139 | (1) |
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7.4.2 Aggregate Other Depth Metrics Only Across Stocking Outlets |
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7.4.3 Getting the Data to Monitor These Metrics |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (5) |
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Appendix: An Example to Calculate Basic Distribution Metrics |
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143 | (4) |
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Chapter 8 What Are You Managing Towards? |
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147 | (2) |
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8.2 A Hierarchy of Performance Metrics |
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149 | (11) |
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8.2.1 Compliance Metrics Can Catch Problems Early |
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150 | (2) |
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8.2.2 Cross- and Omni-Channel Metrics Are Increasing in Importance |
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152 | (2) |
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8.2.3 Both Parties Care about Sales, Share, and Sales Velocity but in Slightly Different Forms |
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154 | (2) |
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8.2.4 Gross and Net Margins, Category, and Customer Profitability |
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156 | (4) |
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160 | (3) |
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Chapter 9 The Challenge of optimizing Distribution Breadth |
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9.2 Classic Categorizations of Products and Distribution Coverage |
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9.3 Consumer Search Loyalty and Distribution Elasticity |
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9.3.1 How Consumer Search Loyalty Reduces Distribution Elasticity |
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9.3.2 Empirical Evidence of Distribution |
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9.3.3 Feedback Effects and Longer-Term Distribution Elasticity |
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9.4 The Difficulties of Optimizing Distribution Coverage |
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9.4.1 The Complexity of Distribution Costs |
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9.4.2 Discontinuities Arising from Retail Structure |
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9.4.3 Distribution Is Not under the Complete Control of the Supplier |
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Chapter 10 Using Velocity Graphs to Guide sustainable Distribution Coverage |
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10.2 The Concept of a Velocity Graph |
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10.2.1 Sustainable Positions Likely Lie Close to the Velocity Graph |
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10.2.2 Special Logistics Can Allow a Brand to Persist "Off the Graph |
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10.2.3 Three Main Variants of Velocity Graphs |
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10.3 Insights from Velocity Graphs: An Illustration with Laundry Detergents |
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10.3.1 Brand Distribution Velocity Graphs |
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10.3.2 Total Distribution Velocity Graphs |
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10.4 Velocity Graphs, State Franchise Laws, and Overdistribution of U.S. Auto Makers |
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188 | (5) |
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Chapter 11 Augmenting the Distribution Mix: Digital Channels and Own Bricks and Clicks |
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193 | (22) |
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11.2 A Variety of Own-Stores to Augment Distribution by Independent Resellers |
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194 | (7) |
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11.2.1 Store-Within-a-Store to Improve Distribution Depth |
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11.2.2 Flagship Stores and Outlets Stores Are at Two Extremes of the Branding Spectrum |
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196 | (2) |
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11.2.3 Look Before You Leap with Regular Physical and Web Stores |
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11.2.4 Showrooms Are a Little Like Flagship Stores |
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11.3 The Inevitability and Challenge of Online Distribution |
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201 | (4) |
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11.3.1 Whether to Be Online Is No Longer Debatable |
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11.3.2 Coverage Versus Control Is a Steeper Trade-off Online |
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11.3.3 How Viable Is the Online Channel's Revenue and Profit Model? |
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11.4 Be Clear about "Why" to Decide "How" to Distribute Online |
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11.4.1 Which Segments Are You Trying to Reach and Why Do They Go Online? |
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11.4.2 Own Website Is Usually Not Enough and Omni-Channel Retailers Will Expect to Sell Online |
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11.4.3 Think Hard About the Functions That Pure Play Web Intermediaries Perform |
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11.4.4 Whether and How to Do Business with Tech Behemoths Is a Strategic Question All Its Own |
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Chapter 12 Three Cases on online Distribution |
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12.2 The Saga of Brooks Running and Amazon.com |
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12.2.1 What Do Segments of Runners Search for Online and Where? |
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12.2.2 Coverage without Sacrificing Control |
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218 | (2) |
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12.3 Aggregation: Work Worth the Pay in the Online Travel Channel? |
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220 | (9) |
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12.3.1 Why Online Travel Intermediaries Thrive |
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221 | (2) |
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12.3.2 Power from Consolidation and Pull Marketing |
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223 | (1) |
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12.3.3 Limits to Power from Regulation and Competition |
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224 | (4) |
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12.3.4 What Is Sustainable? |
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12.4 Building a Viable Revenue Model Online: News, Music, and TV |
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12.4.1 Online Erosion of a Two-Sided Platform's Business Model |
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12.4.2 Music and Pay-TV Tread More Carefully |
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Part III Aligning the Marketing Mix to Manage Distribution |
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Chapter 13 Using the Product Line to Manage Multiple Channels |
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13.2 Channel-Motivated Expansion of SKUs, Brands, and Categories |
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13.3 Portfolios of SKUs for a Portfolio of Channels |
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13.3.1 Product Line Length Is Tied to Marketing and Distribution Structure |
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13.3.2 Product Line Guidance from Total Distribution and SKU Distribution Velocity Graphs |
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13.3.3 Use the Opportunity to Be a "Category Captain" Judiciously |
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248 | (2) |
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13.3.4 Be Clear About Why and How SKUs Are Aligned with Channels |
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250 | (2) |
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13.4 Portfolios of Brands to Protect Equity and Mitigate Channel Conflict |
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252 | (3) |
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13.4.1 Get Clarity on Your Brand Portfolio Strategy and Brand Architecture |
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252 | (2) |
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13.4.2 Real Differentiation Is Harder than It Looks |
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254 | (1) |
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13.5 Expanding to Support an Exclusive or Direct Channel |
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255 | (4) |
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13.5.1 Enticing Consumers to the Direct Channel Requires Greater Scale and Scope |
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255 | (2) |
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13.5.2 Sometimes It Makes Sense to Sacrifice Profits to Support the Channel |
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257 | (1) |
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13.5.3 But Make Sure the Long Tail Is Not Wagging the Strategy Dog |
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258 | (1) |
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13.6 Cautions at All Three Levels of Product Line Expansion |
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259 | (2) |
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13.6.1 Preempt, Monitor, and Control Unauthorized Distribution |
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13.6.2 Curation Is More Important than Ever |
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260 | (1) |
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Chapter 14 Harnessing the Power of Price and Price Promotions |
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267 | (20) |
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14.2 Why One "Everyday" Price to Resellers Is Usually Not a Smart Idea |
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268 | (4) |
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14.2.1 Variable Supplier Prices Can Alleviate Double Marginalization |
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268 | (3) |
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14.2.2 Trade Promotions Fund Retail Promotions to Consumers |
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271 | (1) |
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14.3 The Many Varieties of Trade Promotions |
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272 | (4) |
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14.3.1 Trade Promotion Goals Evolve Over the Product Life Cycle |
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14.3.2 Pay-for-Performance Trade Promotions Tie Funding to Reseller Actions |
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14.4 The Challenge of Assessing the Costs and Profitability of Trade Promotions |
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14.4.1 What Is the Cost of a Trade Promotion? |
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14.4.2 How Much of the Sales (and Profit) Bump Is Incremental for Whom? |
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278 | (3) |
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14.4.3 Additional Metrics for Key Value Items and Loss-Leaders |
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281 | (1) |
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14.4.4 Baseline Sales Evolve Over Time |
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Appendix: Trade Promotion, Retail Price Discrimination, and Promotion "Cost": A Numerical Example |
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284 | (3) |
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Chapter 15 Managing Prices and incentives Across Channels |
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15.2 The Goals and Challenges of Channel Incentives |
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288 | (5) |
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15.2.1 Sales and Channel Management Goals |
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288 | (1) |
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15.2.2 Challenges in Implementing Incentives |
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288 | (3) |
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15.2.3 Conditioning Incentives on Reseller Efforts or Performance |
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291 | (2) |
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15.3 How to Maintain Reseller Prices |
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293 | (3) |
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15.3.1 Incentives to Keep Reseller Prices from Being Too Low |
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293 | (1) |
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15.3.2 Control Inventory to Control Price |
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294 | (2) |
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15.4 Decide Whether to Differentiate or Harmonize Across Multiple Channels |
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296 | (7) |
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15.4.1 Different Products, Retail Prices, and Retail Services Across Channels |
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296 | (1) |
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15.4.2 Harmonized Retail Prices Across Channels Can Reduce Showrooming |
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297 | (1) |
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15.4.3 Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) Policies Can Help |
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298 | (1) |
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15.4.4 Differential Incentives for Valuable Channels that Serve as Showrooms |
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299 | (2) |
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15.4.5 Use Targeting to Reduce Channel Conflict |
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301 | (2) |
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15.5 Challenges Even When You Control Retail Price Directly |
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303 | (4) |
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15.5.1 Don't Erode Your Own Price to Get the Buy Box |
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15.5.2 Paywalls: When Information Wants to Be Free but Two-Sided Markets Fall Apart |
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Appendix: Excerpts from Mizuno's MAP Policy |
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309 | (4) |
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Chapter 16 Summary: Dashboards and Principles for Managing New Directions in Distribution |
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16.1 Pulling (and Pushing) It all Together |
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313 | (8) |
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16.1.1 An Expanded View of the Push-Pull System |
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314 | (2) |
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316 | (2) |
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16.1.3 What Does It Mean to C oordinate Pull and Push? |
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318 | (2) |
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16.1.4 Measure, Match, and Manage to Nurture Beneficial Feedback Loops |
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320 | (1) |
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16.2 Distribution Dashboards |
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321 | (9) |
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16.2.1 A Simple Illustration of the Insight from Push-Pull Dashboards |
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322 | (1) |
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16.2.2 A Distribution Dashboard for Pete and Gerry's Organic Eggs |
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323 | (3) |
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16.2.3 A More Complicated Distribution Dashboard for Hotel Companies |
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326 | (4) |
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16.3 The Magical Number Seven Plus or Minus Two Nuggets of Wisdom |
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330 | (4) |
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16.3.1 Consumer Search Loyalty Bestows Power and Can Create Conflict |
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330 | (1) |
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16.3.2 Prevent Power Outages: Power Is Precious and It's Easy to Use It Up |
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331 | (1) |
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16.3.3 Be the Expert on Where and Why Your Target Consumer Visits, (Re)Searches, and Buys |
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331 | (1) |
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16.3.4 Form Should Follow Function with Channel Pay and Incentives |
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332 | (1) |
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16.3.5 The Direct Approach Can Work, but You Really Have to Know What You're Doing |
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332 | (1) |
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16.3.6 The Devil Is in the Details, and So Is the Profit |
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333 | (1) |
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16.3.7 Avoid Future Shock by Planning and Managing the Rate of Change |
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333 | (1) |
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16.4 Conclusion: Who Will Be the Masters of Multi-Channel Distribution? |
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| Author index |
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337 | (6) |
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