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Abstract
We live in a highly changing and competitive world. Today, having a good product or service is not guarantee of sales.
Enterpreneurs must not only compete with big enterprises but also with foreigner competitors offering theirs services. For
this, marketing becomes an important source of sustainability for any brand. SME need to create efective marketing
strategies for differentiation with the rest. This model looks for be agile and lean. It enables any enterprise of any kind
create a marketing strategy in an easy and quick way without dying in the attempt.
2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the organizers of ITQM 2015
Marketing, Agile Marketing, Lean Marketing, Marsketing, Mkt DIY
1. Introduction
New challenges emerge given the constant need of SME professionalization to compete in a changing and
complex market.
Chilean SME provide the 85% of the employment but only the 17% of the GDP. This is not a positive
relation because it means low incomes for these type of business.
Only 10% of the entrepreneurships survives two years after their start and the premise on the general model
is the problem is not centered on the business ideas but their poor marketing.
Today, having a great product its not guarantee of good sales. Then the enterprises wont achieve their
objetives without a correct and effective marketing strategy.
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Lean Concept
The concept known as Lean Thinking emerges from the Toyota Way Model and it was originated on the
Deep thinking of W. Edward Deming. He was an USA statistician, university profesor, text autor, consultant
and difussor of the total quality concept. He worked as statistician consultant for the USA Census Bureau
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1.5. Neuromarketing
From the premise of enterprises are not selling goods and services but dreams, emotions, experiences,
among other things, it must be identified what really it is being sold. The neuroscience has advanced a lot in the
last 15 years and today it can understand the human mind in a better way, in these case, the consumer mind.
Many studies demonstrate brain its not very rational and making decisions are ruled to a large degree by
emotions and further by the instincts.
The brain is divided (for learning uses) in three clusters: cortex, limbic and reptile. The cortex brain is the
rational one: it has the reason, its functional, it uses the logic and the analytics, and the words process happens
in it. The limbic brains is the emotional one: it has the emotions, the memories and it is in charge of sensations,
kinetics and color processing. The reptile brain is the primitive one: it has the instincts, the survival, the
reproduction and it is in charge of defense and protection.
This is the most powerfull for selling because only acts this is the principle of the neurosales.
Then, the marketing activation or action must be more intelligent like the neuromarketing that uses the mind
principles for giving people what really they want.
If a martians came to earth to give a message to the human kind, the first thing to do is communicate the
message to a valid interlocutor, then the interlocutor contrasts the message with the image the Martina projects
and finally determining if the message is real through the self experiences.
The SME are martians in a fast changing world and reach their target people in some way. The must achieve
a correlation between theirs message and image and finally seduce them with an excellent service experience
for accomplish a mutual benefit.
This model is considered Lean because it seeks eliminate fat from its processes of marketing strategies
creation focusing on three fundamental pillar thats seeks adding brand value and connecting with the customer.
The methodology looks for writing on post-it the team thoughts about the client. The main idea is
introducing in the consumer mind and think like him. Then it must be expose what locations this person
frequents and what communication media consumes the client.
For knowing where the client is, it must be identified what places he goes and communication channels he
uses. It will be known what channels are the most effective for sending the message, tale or story.
Identified the channels the target client constantly uses, it will be have a variety of places where to
communicate the message. Now it must be choosen the places the brand will use according budget and
knowledge.
Having a story, a client and a cannel the message can be communicated. For ending this pillar, the
communication must be fluid and in both directions. The brand must be opened for receiving feedback.
2.4. The Image
With the enterprise essence, the brand image must be designed in a positive and effective way to the
audience. Furthermore it must have a correlation with the communication.
The coherence between the brand different presentation channels must be look for, creating an unique and
powerful image syncronized with the business idea, brand values and the message sent to the clients.
The image finality is to have a clear and correlated presentation with the communication. A high percentage
of the brain is dedicated to the visual aspects. That is why the importance of a good presentation on the
products physical and digital spaces. They must be attractive and seductive for the clients on visual, aestethic
and ergonomic aspects.
In branding, brand architectures are created and designing a brand is very important for a SME.
Previously we talked about identity, values and enterprise essence and all these topics must be reflecte don
the brand image. Then the first stage of this pillar is creating an image with a coherent design.
The first is the naming or the name creation. The name is fundamental for any type of enterprise because
dertermines the brand identity. A clear and known example is Starbucks. The first Starbucks store, enterprise
dedicated exclusively to ground coffee and coffee machines in the beginning, was located in Seatle, city with a
maritime tradition and one of the principal ports of the country. That why they looked for a name typical from
the seas and adopted the name of one of the characters of the Moby Dick novel (icon of the maritime novels)
called Starbucks, a quaker for the Nantucket island.
The second is the corporate identity achieved through the design of visual elements that accomplish the
brand identification.
The branding differentiates 3 types of elements: symbol, logo and communicative name:
The symbol is an expression through a graphics or a designed image. In the Starbucks example, they used
the icon of the sea stories, the mermaid. Then they looked for iconic images representign the mermaids in the
popular culture until the image actually known.
The logo is the enterpirse name that can be expressed by letters, abreviations, nmbers, acronym. In the
exmaple, the logo was constructed base don Starbucks coffee (originally was Starbucks coffee, tea and spices).
The communicative name (or fantasy name) is the client recognizes, usually different to the legal one. In the
example, the fantasy name is Starbucks Coffee or just Starbucks and the legal one, Starbucks Coffee Chile S.A.
(for Chile).
From this, it follows two characteristics of special concern: the typo and colors that identify the brand. A lot
of experts on the field say typo and colors have their own spirit and communicate to the brain imperceptible
messages through conscious mind (neocortex) instead of the strong ones through the subconscious and the
unconscious (limbic and reptile brains). So here is their vital importance.
A simpler and economic way to determine this it is to gather the team and collaborators and think in your
enterprise or business as an only one person, describing it with all of its characteristics on a paper sheet.
If the brand essence and identity and client tastes and preferences are achieved, the correct image
architecture can be created with clarity and effectiveness.
This will allow the further positioning that engage communication with the service experience and finally a
brand loyalty. This brings a preference safety in front of the market competitors.
If its not unique is part of the mainstream, if its part of the mainstream it will die with the mainstream.
The next step is designing the business idea. A lot of experts talk about in the center of life and human
experience is the design that shows the world in differents points of view, therefore all and each one of our
beliefs must be transformed in actions.
As the brand image architecture was created, now the efforts must be concentrated on designing and
bringing down ideas on paper.
If a name, symbol, colors and typo was chosen we are ready for designing the corporate image with all these
elements. This visual design will allow identify the brand with naturality, thanks to the unique image. Now
having a unique and coherent corporate image, this must be adapted for the diferent communication channels,
stores, offices, web, social media, colaborators uniforms, etcetera. The idea is to generate coherence.
For having a correct image at stores and offices, all must be clean and ordered. If it not occurs all the efforts
could be useless because the little details. The deatails are important because nobody likes eating in a dirty or
With this pillar we seek differentation and the client satisfaction. Its good to remember that a happy and
satisfied client will be more open to pay out larger amounts of money because the trust factor will be installed
in his brain.
With the service experience and an investigation over the clients it can be detected lacks on services. Thisis
simplier and it not requires much effort. Another possibility is having a mistery shopper that tests the service.
This could be useful for knowing how much positive is the experience using the service or product, purchasing
on a store and the well served the clients are by the executives or sellers.
A case when the experience is fundamental: going to a restaurant is a experience from the store location, the
table, ambient, to the music. But the most notorious is the waiter service. If the attention its not fast and the
waiting takes more than 30 minutes or if the order takes more than 45 minutes affects the satisfaction level. If
the service is bad or they are bad-mannered, the client is less disposed for returning to this restaurant
eventhough the food is exquisite.
The treatment and user experience is a key factor in the success of any industry. Everyone wants well treated
and the correct things will be done in a prudent time. If the expectations wont be achieved a person can be
replaced by another one with better performance.
The greatest restaurants and hotels in the world have very high service policies. The most common is that all
the employees must smile. Every time a person is atended regardless location and hour they will always
atended with a smile. These experience is so powerful that the satisfaction indexes are very good and it always
is highlighted that the collaborators are smiling. Is this policy expensive to apply?
Then identify the falencies in the shopping experience, atention, restraint, among others.
See how with your market knowledge can suffocate these points of insatisfaction. You will see the detection
its not very complicated and the solutions is easier. Normally, the solutions requires a human commitment that
every person is disposed to pay.
Four different processes can be identified in the experience: our products and services, the sales, the internal
process involving a client and client attention.
Products and Services: they must be tested constantly. Are they really satisfying the needs of the clients? If
not, an investigation must be performed about the client needs.
Sales: people like to buy, specially a certain gender but not always the buy experience is satisfactory. Some
process are tedious and bureaucratic, they have too many procedures. The sale process must be reviewed but
in the client point of view. Then their buy processes can be inspected looking for failure critical points and
their sales force can be trained. This is vital for achieving a project objectives: agile sale processes must be
looked for a satisfactory shopping experience to the public, stop trying to sell more and start to sell better.
Processes: it must to be known to look for enterprise internal processes that affect directly the client and
impact their satisfaction, looking for effect over the client happiness. Questioning, what must the client do
before and after buying us? Some enterprises ask for requisites or documents for contract a service. Are they
all necesary? Can the process be expedited? If an effective and agile way is looked for redesigning these
procedures, the project life will be easier.
Client attention: this a critical factor of differentation, how the client is atended. These experience is
determinant, people dont go where its bad treated, people dont visit uncomfortable palces, shoppers dont
buy where they dont be considered.
Culture and society evolves and today they are changing more faster than ever in history and its not posible
enterprises cant adjust to these cchanges. Who dont change ends extincted. Who dont evolve with his
environment its out of the game and it will be ending obsolete.
Then, two process exist for those already buyed the brand. These are:
Post-sale is totally necesary if you want have feedback about your products and services. Besides the general
strategy, it can be known the use of the product or the advance on the giving services. Its important to note a
good post-sale shows a concern about the client and this generates loyalty.