This document provides an overview of marketing concepts and principles. It defines marketing as creating value for customers through strong customer relationships. The marketing process involves understanding customer needs, designing a customer-driven strategy, constructing a marketing plan, building customer relationships, and capturing value from customers. It also discusses key topics like the marketing mix, customer relationship management, building customer loyalty, and major trends changing marketing like digitalization and a focus on ethics.
2. Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
1. Define marketing and outline the steps in the marketing
process
2. Explain the importance of understanding customers and the
marketplace, and identify the five core marketplace concepts
3. Identify the key elements of a customer-driven marketing
strategy and discuss the marketing management orientations
that guide marketing strategy
4. Discuss customer relationship management, and identify
strategies for creating value for customers and capturing value
from customers in return
5. Describe the major trends and forces that are changing the
marketing landscape in this age of relationships
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3. Chapter Concepts
1. What Is Marketing?
2. Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs
3. Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy
4. Preparing an Integrated Marketing Plan and Program
5. Building Customer Relationships
6. Capturing Value from Customers
7. The New Marketing Landscape
8. So, What Is Marketing? Pulling It All Together
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4. What Is Marketing?
Marketing Defined
Marketing is the process by which companies
create value for customers and build strong
customer relationships to capture value from
customers in return
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5. What Is Marketing?
The Marketing Process
1. Understand the marketplace and customer wants
and needs
2. Design a customer-driven marketing strategy
3. Construct a marketing plan that delivers superior
value
4. Build profitable relationships and create customer
satisfaction
5. Capture value from customers to create profit and
customer equity
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6. Understanding the Marketplace
and Customer Needs
Customer Needs, Wants, and Demands
• Needs are states of deprivation
• Physical—food, clothing, warmth, safety
• Social—belonging and affection
• Individual—knowledge and self-
expression
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7. Understanding the Marketplace
and Customer Needs
Customer Needs, Wants, and Demands
Wants are the form that needs take as they
are shaped by culture and individual
personality
Demands are wants backed by buying power
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8. Understanding the Marketplace
and Customer Needs
Market Offerings—Products, Services, and
Experiences
Market offerings are some combination of
products, services, information, or
experiences offered to a market to satisfy a
need or want
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9. Understanding the Marketplace
and Customer Needs
Market Offerings—Products, Services, and
Experiences
Marketing myopia is focusing only on
existing wants and losing sight of underlying
consumer needs
Exchange is the act of obtaining a desired
object from someone by offering something
in return
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10. Understanding the Marketplace
and Customer Needs
Customer Value and Satisfaction
• Expectations
• Customers
• Value and satisfaction
• Marketers
• Set the right level of expectations
• Not too high or too low
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11. Understanding the Marketplace
and Customer Needs
Exchanges and Relationships
Exchange is the act of obtaining a
desired object from someone by
offering something in return
Relationships consist of actions to build
and maintain desirable relationships
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12. Understanding the Marketplace
and Customer Needs
Markets are the set of actual and potential buyers
of a product
Marketing system consists of all of the actors
(suppliers, company, competitors,
intermediaries, and end users) in the system
who are affected by major environmental forces
• Demographic
• Economic
• Physical
• Technological
• Political–legal
• Socio-cultural
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13. Designing a Customer-Driven
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Management
Marketing management is the art and
science of choosing target markets and
building profitable relationships with them
• What customers will we serve?
• How can we best serve these customers?
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14. Designing a Customer-Driven
Marketing Strategy
Selecting Customers to Serve
Market segmentation: Dividing the markets
into segments of customers
Target marketing: Which segments to go
after
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15. Designing a Customer-Driven
Marketing Strategy
Selecting Customers to Serve
De-marketing: Marketing to reduce demand
temporarily or permanently; the aim is not to
destroy demand but to reduce or shift it.
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17. Designing a Customer-Driven
Marketing Strategy
Choosing a Value Proposition
The value proposition is the set of
benefits or values a company
promises to deliver to customers
to satisfy their needs
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19. Designing a Customer-Driven
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Management Orientations
Production concept is the idea that
consumers will favor products that are
available or highly affordable
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20. Designing a Customer-Driven
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Management Orientations
Product concept is the idea that consumers
will favor products that offer the most quality,
performance, and features for which the
organization should therefore devote its
energy to making continuous improvements
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21. Designing a Customer-Driven
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Management Orientations
Selling concept is the idea that consumers
will not buy enough of the firm’s products
unless it undertakes a large scale selling
and promotion effort
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22. Designing a Customer-Driven
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Management Orientations
Marketing concept is the idea that achieving
organizational goals depends on knowing
the needs and wants of the target markets
and delivering the desired satisfactions
better than competitors do
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23. Designing a Customer-Driven
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Management Orientations
Societal marketing concept is the idea that
a company should make good marketing
decisions by considering consumers’ wants,
the company’s requirements, consumers’
long-term interests, and society’s long-run
interests
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24. Preparing an Integrated
Marketing Plan and Program
Marketing Mix
The marketing mix is the set of tools (four
Ps) the firm uses to implement its marketing
strategy
• Product
• Price
• Promotion
• Place
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25. Preparing an Integrated
Marketing Plan and Program
Integrated Marketing Program
Integrated marketing program is a
comprehensive plan that communicates and
delivers the intended value to chosen
customers
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26. Building Customer Relationships
Customer Relationship Management
(CRM)
Customer relationship management is the
overall process of building and maintaining
profitable customer relationships by
delivering superior value and satisfaction
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27. Building Customer Relationships
Customer Relationship Management
(CRM)
Customer perceived value is the difference
between total customer value and total customer
cost
Customer satisfaction is the extent to which a
product’s perceived performance matches a buyer’s
expectations
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28. Building Customer Relationships
Customer Relationship Management
(CRM)
Customer Relationship Levels and Tools
• Basic relationship
• Full relationships
• Frequency marketing programs
• Club marketing programs
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29. Building Customer Relationships
Partner Relationship Management
Partners inside the company is every function area
interacting with customers
• Electronically
• Cross-functional teams
Partners outside the company is how marketers
connect with their suppliers, channel partners, and
competitors by developing partnerships
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30. Building Customer Relationships
Partner Relationship Management
Supply chain is a channel that stretches from
raw materials to components to final
products to final buyers
• Supply management
• Strategic partners
• Strategic alliances
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31. Capturing Value from Customers
Creating Customer Loyalty and Retention
Customer lifetime value is the value of
the entire stream of purchases that the
customer would make over a lifetime of
patronage
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32. Capturing Value from Customers
Growing Share of Customer
Share of customer is the portion of the
customer’s purchasing that a company gets
in its product categories
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33. Capturing Value from Customers
Building Customer Equity
Customer equity is the total combined
customer lifetime values of all of the
company’s customers
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34. Capturing Value from Customers
Building Customer Equity
Building the right relationships with the
right customers involves treating
customers as assets that need to be
managed and maximized
• Different types of customers require different
relationship management strategies
• Build the right relationship with the right
customers
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35. The New Marketing Landscape
Major Developments
• Digital age
• Globalization
• Ethics and social responsibility
• Not-for-profit marketing
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36. The New Marketing Landscape
The Call for More Ethics and Social Responsibility
Social marketing campaigns encourage
energy conservation and concern for the
environment or discourage smoking,
excessive drinking, and drug use
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37. The New Marketing Landscape
The Growth for Not-for-Profit Marketing
• Colleges
• Hospitals
• Museums
• Zoos
• Orchestras
• Religious groups
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