This document defines marketing and discusses the marketing process. It explains that marketing involves understanding customer needs, designing a customer-driven strategy to deliver value, building relationships, and capturing value from customers. The document also discusses trends like digitalization, globalization, and the importance of ethics. It emphasizes satisfying customer needs over selling and defines key concepts like the marketing mix, segmentation, value propositions, and customer relationship management.
Chapter Overview Definemarketing and the marketing process. Explain the importance of understanding customers and identify the five core marketplace concepts. Identify the elements of a customer-driven marketing strategy and discuss the marketing management orientations. Discuss customer relationship management and creating value for and capturing value from customers. Describe the major trends and forces changing the marketing landscape.
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Value Creation forTide History: Tide is an innovative brand, historically positioned on the basis of superior functional performance. At Issue: Competitors can copy product benefits quickly, but can not copy feelings toward the brand. Challenge : Understand what the brand name means to consumers and how it fits into their lives. Goal: “Speak eye-to-eye with consumers.” Case Study – Proctor and Gamble Building Relationships Research Process: Explored emotional connections women have with their laundry via consumer immersion. Findings: Women are linked emotionally to clothing. Fabrics allow women to express their attitidues, personality, and multiple faces of being female. “ Tide Knows Fabrics Best”: Campaign featured in rich visual imagery and meaningful emotional connections. Result: 7% sales increase .
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What Is Marketing?Simple Definition: Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. Goals: Attract new customers by promising superior value. Keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction.
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Marketing Defined Asocial and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others. OLD View of Marketing: Making a Sale – “Telling & Selling” New View of Marketing: Satisfying customer needs NEW View of Marketing: Satisfying Customer Needs
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The Marketing ProcessA simple model of the marketing process: Understand the marketplace and customer needs and wants. Design a customer-driven marketing strategy. Construct a marketing program that delivers superior value. Build profitable relationships and create customer delight. Capture value from customers to create profits and customer quality.
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Needs, Wants, &Demands Need: State of felt deprivation including physical, social, and individual needs. Physical needs: Food, clothing, shelter, safety Social needs: Belonging, affection Individual needs: Learning, knowledge, self-expression
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Wants: Form that a human need takes, as shaped by culture and individual personality. Wants + Buying Power = Demand Needs, Wants, & Demands
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Need / WantFulfillment Needs and wants are fulfilled through a Marketing Offer: Some combination of products, services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want.
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Need / WantSatisfiers Products: Persons Places Organizations Information Ideas Services Activity or benefit offered for sale that is essentially intangible and does not result in ownership. Brand Experiences: “ . . . dazzle their senses, touch their hearts, stimulate their minds.”
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Marketing Myopia Marketingmyopia occurs when sellers pay more attention to the specific products they offer than to the benefits and experiences produced by the products. They focus on the “wants” and lose sight of the “needs.”
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Value & SatisfactionCare must be taken when setting expectations: If performance is lower than expectations, satisfaction is low. If performance is higher than expectations, satisfaction is high.
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Exchange vs. TransactionExchange: Act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return. Transaction: A trade of values between two parties. One party gives X to another party and gets Y in return. Can include cash, credit, or check.
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What Is aMarket? The set of actual and potential buyers of a product. These people share a need or want that can be satisfied through exchange relationships.
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Modern Marketing SystemsMain elements in a modern marketing system include: Suppliers Company (marketer) Competitors Marketing intermediaries Final users
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Marketing Management Theart and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them. Requires that consumers and the marketplace be fully understood What Customers Will We Serve? How will we Serve them Best? (Our VALUE Proposition)
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Marketing Management Designinga winning marketing strategy requires answers to the following questions: 1. What customers will we serve? What is our target market? 2. How can we best serve these customers? What is our value proposition?
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Segmentation & TargetMarketing Market Segmentation: Divide the market into segments of customers Target Marketing: Select the segment to cultivate
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Marketing Management DemandManagement Finding and increasing demand, also changing or reducing demand, as in demarketing. Demarketing Temporarily or permanently reducing the number of customers or shifting their demand.
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Value Proposition Theset of benefits or values a company promises to deliver to consumers to satisfy their needs. Value propositions dictate how firms will differentiate and position their brands in the marketplace.
The Marketing PlanTransforms the marketing strategy into action Includes the marketing mix and 4 P’s of marketing: Product Price Place (Distribution) Promotion
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Customer Relationship ManagementThe overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction. Acquiring customers Keeping customers Growing customers
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Customer Perceived ValueCustomer’s evaluation of the difference between all of the benefits and all of the costs of a marketing offer relative to those of competing offers.
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Customer Satisfaction Dependenton the product’s perceived performance relative to a buyer’s expectations. Customer satisfaction often leads to consumer loyalty. Some firms seek to DELIGHT customers by exceeding expectations.
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Customer Relationships Loyaltyand retention programs build relationships and may feature: Financial Benefits EX: Frequency marketing programs Social Benefits EX: Club marketing programs Structural Ties Focus is on relating directly to profitable customers, for the long term .
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Partner Relationship MarketingMarketing partners help create customer value and assist in building customer relationships. Partners inside the firm: All employees customer focused Teams coordinate efforts toward customers Partners outside the firm: Supply chain management Strategic alliances
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Customer Loyalty &Retention Customer Lifetime Value The entire stream of purchases that the customer would make over a lifetime of patronage. Share of Customer The share a company gets of the customers purchasing in their product categories.
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Customer Equity Thecombined discounted customer lifetime values of all the company’s current and potential customers. Classify customers by loyalty and potential profitability Manage accordingly
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New Marketing LandscapeThe New Digital Age Rapid Globalization Ethics and Social Responsibility Not-for-Profit Marketing New World of Marketing Relationships
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The New DigitalAge Technology impacts the ways firms bring value to their customers. Greater connectivity means greater access to information, faster travel and communication. The Internet allows anytime, anywhere connections between firms and customers. “ Click-and-mortar” companies “ Click-only” companies Business-to-business e-commerce
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You Should Nowbe Able to: Define marketing and the marketing process. Explain the importance of understanding customers and identify the five core marketplace concepts. Identify the elements of a customer-driven marketing strategy and discuss the marketing management orientations. Discuss customer relationship management and creating value for and capturing value from customers. Describe the major trends and forces changing the marketing landscape.