Overview

The product can be defined as goods, services or both; in the other words it's anything that satisfies customer need. Each product has its own limited life, however it shares the same aspect and we define the period that the product goes through as the "Product life cycle".

The Product life cycle consist of four stages starting from introduction stage, growth stage, maturity stage and decline stage. At the introduction stage, the product is not popular and can't really make a lot of profit. Its marketing cost may be high in order to test a market and set up a distribution channel. At the growth stage, the product start making a profit, the sales increase rapidly with some cost on marketing especially brand building. Competitors enter the market, often in large number depending on how attractive the market is. When a profit starts to decline, it's the sign of ‘Maturity stage'. At maturity stage, the sales continue to increase but at the decreasing rate until become......

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Title: Product Life-Cycle Model
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