Product-Based Marketing Strategies
• Web presence must integrate with image and brand
• Managers often think in terms of physical objects
– Useful Web site design when customers use product
categories
• Web site examples: Home Depot, Staples, Sears
– Not a useful Web site design when customers look to
fulfill a specific need
• Advice: design Web site to meet individual customer
needs
– Offer alternative shopping paths
• Getting right products to the right places at the best
time to sell them