Marketing can shape consumers' reactions to goods and services: for instance, a product with a known brand name is judged to taste better than the same product with a generic brand.
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All of a sudden people will say, wait a minute, if Ican get the same product or service at a common currency price and it's better, why stay with the home country bank?
The halo effect is generally used to explain why a customer has a bias towards a certain product because of a favorable experience with another product at the same company.
While it makes sense for The Economist to compute a Big Mac Index for a product that is basically the same wherever it is sold, price comparisons of services that are highly differentiated across countries are less revealing.
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Designing a band is much the same as designing any other product: take a basic, successful model and adapt it.
In the same vein, a good product mix can dramatically improve delivery costs and increase profits.
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But he is also the finance minister, and a product of the same political party with its tight links with business.
They suffer from the inability to recognize value and assume that all competitors can provide the exact same product at a lesser price.
My point is that they are not good enough to keep an online shopper from going to another site with a lower price for the same product.
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In fact, the introduction of iOS and Android caught Microsoft so off guard, that it wasn't until February of 2010 that we saw even the first tangible evidence that the company had a product in the same league.
And there is nothing to stop a rival company from creating the same product.
Adapt your financial strategy the same way you would a product or marketing strategy.
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Even though it would have been a whole lot cheaper to outsource customer service abroad or even to the midwest, Popick made a strategic decision to keep customer service under the same roof as product development and marketing in San Francisco, which is a particularly expensive part of the country.
But reasonably sophisticated investors can create the same product themselves by purchasing a risk-free zero-coupon Treasury bond and call options on a stock index, such as XSP options traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Having two different prices for the exact same product is not sustainable in a free market economy.
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And he started pondering the question: Was there a product he could make using the same material back home?
However, they could all be using the same software, and for that matter, at the same time, creating a non-linear product on how it creates value in the organization.
The audience you speak to is never wrong, in the same way that if you launch a new product and it fails in the marketplace, consumers were not wrong for refusing to buy it.
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Negroponte, who formerly headed up the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agrees, but says Intel is thwarting sales of OLPC's XO laptop by selling a similar product, Classmate, in the same markets.
But the product itself faces the same problem as the toaster: cooking grains is a fairly simple task, how do you build a product that can do it better and therefore be worth a premium to consumers?
Time and again, we see the same scenes the world over when Apple launches a new product.
The Witcher 2, however, was the first day-and-date release of a new game at the same time it arrived as boxed product in shops, however.
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It figured on integrating the beef industry from ranch to supermarket the same way Tyson did with chickens, offering a consistent product at a lower price.
The same email hinted that the bank will reveal a set of product updates in December of this year.
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This not only decreased our bottom line, but we were also able to provide the same high-quality product to our clients at a much lower cost.
With Xbox Music, Microsoft is trying to get into digital music by once again bringing a product to people who already have been using the same services for years.
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Mr. STEVE GUY (Developer, Easton): We found in one of more recent projects that there is a demand for condominiums that would mimic the type of condominiums that people would find in urban areas in northern Jersey and, actually, in New York, and that same product can be found here in Pennsylvania at a much-reduced price, relative to what it is in New Jersey.
While the service brings a new product to business users, the core service remains the same.
In the 1980s, a new type of retirement product began changing the market in the same way exchange traded funds are changing it today.
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Instead they work on reducing costs in other ways such as reformulating their packaging to be less expansive, or downsizing their product by putting less in a container but still charging the same.
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