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Question
How is the product life cycle advantageous?
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Solution
- Effective product planning: Once the product life cycle is known, the company can create an effective product plan and anticipate sales and profitability for each stage.
- Advance steps before decline: Management can take advance measures before the product’s deterioration, such as offering new varieties or discovering new applications.
- Extending maturity stage: The mature stage can be extended by discovering new uses for the product, distinguishing it, or establishing new markets.
- Technological innovation: Technological advances can be used to increase product quality, functionality, and design.
- Marketing decisions: It provides a framework for making smart marketing decisions at each point of the life cycle, with appropriate emphasis on various aspects of the marketing mix.
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