2. ?What Is Marketing
Simple definition:
Marketing is the management process responsible for
identifying, anticipating, and satisfying customer
requirements profitably.” (CIM,2001)
Goals:
4. Attract new customers by promising superior value.
5. Keep and grow current customers by delivering
satisfaction.
3. Marketing Defined
Marketing is the activity, set of instructions, and
processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and
exchanging offerings that have value for customers,
clients, partners, and society at large.
:OLD view of marketing
:NEW view of marketing
—Making a sale
Satisfying
“telling and selling”
customer needs
4. ?Why is Marketing Important
Shifting Business Paradigms
Buyers’ markets
Sellers’ markets
5. The Marketing Process
A simple model of the marketing process:
Understand the marketplace and customer needs and
wants.
Design a customer-driven marketing strategy.
Construct an integrated marketing program that delivers
superior value.
Build profitable relationships and create customer
delight.
Capture value from customers to create profits and
customer quality.
6. Needs, Wants, and 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
Want: Form that a human need takes, as shaped
by culture and individual personality.
Wants + Buying Power = Demand
7. Need/ Want Fulfillment
Needs & wants are fulfilled through a Marketing
Offering:
Products:
Persons, places, organizations, information, ideas.
Services:
Activityor benefit offered for sale that is essentially
intangible and does not result in ownership.
Experiences:
Consumers live the offering.
8. Customer Value and Satisfaction
Dependent on the product’s perceived
performance relative to a buyer’s expectations.
Care must be taken when setting expectations:
If performance is lower than expectations, satisfaction is
low.
If performance is higher than expectations, satisfaction
is high.
Customer satisfaction often leads to consumer loyalty.
Some firms seek to DELIGHT customers by exceeding
expectations.
9. Marketing Management
The art and science of choosing target
markets and building profitable
relationships with them.
Requires that consumers and the
marketplace be fully understood.
Aim is to find, attract, keep, and grow
customers by creating, delivering, and
communicating superior value.
10. Marketing Management
Marketing managers must consider the following,
to ensure a successful marketing strategy:
2. What customers will we serve?
— What is our target market?
3. How can we best serve these
customers?
— What is our value proposition?
11. Choosing a Value Proposition
The set 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.
12. The Marketing Concept
The marketing concept:
A marketing management philosophy that
holds that achieving organizational goals
depends on knowing the needs and wants
of target markets and delivering the
desired satisfaction better than
competitors.
13. Customer Perceived Value
Customer perceived value:
“Customer’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.” (Armstrong & Kotler)
Perceptions may be subjective
Consumers often do not objectively judge
values and costs.
Customer value = perceived benefits – perceived sacrifice.
14. The Marketing Mix
The set of controllable, tactical marketing tools that the firm blends to
produce the response it wants in the target market.
Product: Variety, features, brand name, quality, design, packaging,
and services.
Price: List price, discounts, allowances, payment period, and credit
terms.
Place: Distribution channels, coverage, logistics, locations,
transportation, assortments, and inventory.
Promotion: Advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and
personal selling.
16. Customer-Driven Marketing
Strategy
Requires careful customer analysis.
To be successful, firms must engage in:
Market segmentation
Market targeting
Differentiation
Positioning
17. Market Segmentation and
Targeting
Segmentation:
The process of dividing a market into distinct
groups of buyers with different needs,
characteristics, or behavior who might require
separate products of marketing programs.
Targeting:
Involves evaluating each market segment’s
attractiveness and selecting one or more
segments to enter
18. Differentiation and Positioning
Differentiation:
Creating superior customer value by actually
differentiating the market offering.
Positioning:
Arranging for a product to occupy a clear,
distinctive, and desirable place relative to
competing products in the minds of target
consumers.
19. Market Segmentation
Key segmenting variables:
Geographic
Demographic
Psychographic
Behavioral
Different segments desire different benefits from products.
Best to use multivariable segmentation bases in order to identify
smaller, better-defined target groups.
21. Evaluating Market Segments
Segment size and growth:
Analyze current segment sales, growth rates, and expected
profitability.
Segment structural attractiveness:
Consider competition, existence of substitute products, and the
power of buyers and suppliers.
Company objectives and resources:
Examine company skills and resources needed to succeed in that
segment.
Offer superior value and gain advantages over competitors.
22. Market Targeting
Market targeting involves:
Evaluating marketing segments.
Segment size, segment structural attractiveness, and
company objectives
and resources are considered.
Selecting target market segments.
Alternatives range
from undifferentiated marketing to micromarketing.
Being socially responsible.
23. Differentiation and Positioning
A product’s position is:
The way the product is defined by
consumers on important attributes—the
place the product occupies in consumers’
minds relative to competing products.
Perceptual positioning maps can help
define a brand’s position relative to
competitors.
24. Differentiation and Positioning
Identifying possible value differences and
competitive advantages:
Key to winning target customers is to understand
their needs better than competitors do and to
deliver more value.
Competitive advantage:
Extent to which a company can position itself as
providing superior value.
Achieved via differentiation.
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