what is marketing Mayopia?

Answer 1

MARKETING MYOPIA, (not mayopia) is the lack of foresight in marketing. This event occur when marketers fail to consider every aspect in marketing which, results to failure in achieving marketing goals and objectives.

A case example is when coca cola tried to replace their drink's flavour. Because of the intensifying competition posed by Pepsi, coca cola believed that the market will find it enticing to taste a new coca cola. In doing so, mass complaints flooded coca cola. Because of the failure of coca cola to consider that their target market includes people who wanted change in flavour and people who still prefer the original coca cola flavour, and by trying to replace the original flavour coca cola, they've lost the other portion of their market... which is the people who would still prefer the old flavour. The portion of the market coca cola have lost is substantial, such that the company was forced to return back the original coca cola flavour to be distributed in the market.

The aforesaid example is a case of marketing myopia because coca cola failed to foresee the repercussions of their marketing strategy.

Answer 2

There is nothing called marketing Mayopia.
It should be marketing Myopia.

Marketing myopia is a term used in marketing. Indeed, one of the most important marketing papers ever written [[1]] was that on `Marketing Myopia' by Theodore Levitt. This paper was published in the Harvard Business Review; a journal of which he was an editor. Some commentators have even gone as far as to suggest that its publication marked the beginning of the modern marketing movement in general. Its theme was that the vision of most organizations was constricted in terms of what they, too narrowly, saw as the business they were in. It exhorted CEOs to re-examine their corporate vision; and redefine their markets in terms of wider perspectives. It was successful in its impact because it was, as with all of Levitt's work, essentially practical and pragmatic. Organizations found that they had been missing opportunities which were plain to see once they adopted the wider view. The impact of the paper was indeed dramatic. The oil companies (which represented one of his main examples in the paper) redefined their business as energy rather than just petroleum; although Shell, which embarked upon an investment programme in nuclear power, subsequently regretted this course of action.

One reason that short sightedness is so common is that people feel that they can not accurately predict the future. While this is a legitimate concern, it is also possible to use a whole range of business prediction techniques currently available to estimate future circumstances as best as possible.

There is a greater scope of opportunities as the industry changes. It trains managers to look beyond their current business activities and think "outside the box". George Steiner (1979) claims that if a buggy whip manufacturer in 1910 defined its business as the "transportation starter business", they might have been able to make the creative leap necessary to move into the automobile business when technological change demanded it.

People who focus on marketing strategy, various predictive techniques, and the customer's lifetime value can rise above myopia to a certain extent. This can entail the use of long-term profit objectives (sometimes at the risk of sacrificing short term objectives).

Others have developed similar terms. Kotler and Singh (1981) coined the term "marketing hyperopia", by which they mean a better vision of distant issues than of near ones. Baughman (1974) uses the term "marketing macropia" meaning an overly broad view of your industry.

Answer 3

That was very understandable and easy, they should teach us using these example in business school, just joking!

Answer 4

i think enough has been said by these two people! u understand by now ...dont u? i just wanted to add...that its basically thinking out-of-the-box.

good luck!