The chapter introduces marketing as both an organizational function and societal process. It is defined as creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization. The chapter outlines the importance of marketing to different types of organizations and individuals. It also distinguishes between viewing marketing as an organizational philosophy focused on customer satisfaction versus other philosophies like production or selling. Additionally, the chapter describes the key components of a marketing strategy including target markets and the marketing mix. It identifies common marketing positions, institutions, activities, and environments. The overall goal is to provide an overview of the contemporary marketing framework.

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An Overview of
Contemporary
Marketing
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Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
 Discuss what marketing is and why it is important to
organizations and individuals.
 Distinguish between marketing as an organizational
philosophy and a societal process.
 Understand the components of a marketing strategy and
the different activities involved in marketing products and
services.
 Be aware of the various types of marketing institutions
and the different marketing positions available in these
institutions.
 Understand the basic elements and relationships in the
contemporary marketing framework.

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Amazon: An Entrepreneurial Story
Amazon.com represents an
interesting entrepreneurial story.
Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com as
a book retailer in 1995.
The company’s mission was to use
the Internet to transform book
buying into the fastest, easiest,
and most enjoyable shopping
experience available.
Sales have increased from about
$150 million in 1997 to over $7
billion today.

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Amazon and Marketing
The Amazon.com story
illustrates a basic principle of
successful marketing:
 Identify market opportunities
and respond by developing and
executing marketing strategies
to take advantage of the
opportunities better than
competitors do.

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Marketing - Definition
What is marketing?
Marketing is an organizational function and a
set of processes for creating, communicating,
and delivering value to customers and for
managing customer relationships in ways that
benefit the organization and its stakeholders.
- American Marketing Association
www.marketingpower.com

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Why is marketing important?
Marketing is important to
many organizations.
For example, the Humane
Society uses advertising to
promote animal protection.

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Different Types
of Organizations
Social
Entrepreneurs
Farmers
Nonprofit
Individuals
Small Firms
The Importance of Marketing

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Marketing as
an Organizational
Philosophy
Production
Philosophy
Selling
Philosophy
Marketing
Philosophy
Views of Marketing

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Selling
Philosophy
Marketing
Philosophy
A selling philosophy
predominates where the selling
function is most valued.
A marketing philosophy
suggests that the organization
focuses on satisfying the needs
of customers.
Production
Philosophy
A production philosophy exists
when an organization emphasizes
the production function.
Marketing as an Organizational Philosophy

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Practicing the Marketing Concept
Marketing as an organizational philosophy has
been based on the marketing concept. This
concept consists of three interrelated principles:
 An organization’s basic purpose is to satisfy customer
needs.
 Satisfying customer needs requires integrated,
coordinated efforts throughout the organization.
 Organizations should focus on long-term success.

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Developing a Market Orientation
A market orientation consists of creating
norms and values that encourage customer-
oriented behavior throughout the organization,
including:
Generating
Market
Intelligence
Disseminating
Market
Intelligence
Responding to
Market
Intelligence

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Customer Equity
Customer equity is the financial value of a firm’s
customer relationships. It consists of profits from first-
time customers plus expected profits from future sales to
these and other customers. Customer equity can be
increased in several ways:
 Acquire more profitable customers at a lower cost.
 Retain profitable customers longer.
 Win back profitable customers.
 Eliminate unprofitable customers.
 Sell more to profitable customers.
 Reduce service and operational costs.

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Customer Equity Relationships
Marketing
Concept,
market
Orientation,
CRM
Providing
exceptional
customer
value
Achieving
completely
satisfied
customers
Earning
high
customer
loyalty
Increasing
sales growth
and
profits
Building
customer
equity

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Marketing as a Societal Process
Emphasis on:
Institution involved
Activities performed
Effectiveness of system
Efficiency of system
Consumers of
Goods & Services
Producers of
Goods & Services
Defined as a process that facilitates the flow of goods
and services from producers to consumers in a society.

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1
2
Identify the most important benefits of the
societal marketing system in the United States.
What changes would you recommend for this
system to be more beneficial to U.S. society?
3
Identify the most negative effects of the societal
marketing system in the United States.
4
What changes would you recommend to reduce
these negative effects?
Thinking Critically

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Marketing
Processes
Marketing
Exchanges
Marketing
Strategies
Marketing
Activities
Marketing
Institutions
Marketing
Positions
Marketing as a Set of Processes

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Marketing Exchanges
Exchange is defined as the transfer of something
tangible or intangible, actual or symbolic, between two or
more social actors.

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Marketing Strategies
Marketing strategies consist of selecting a target
market and developing a marketing mix to
satisfy that market’s needs.
 A target market is a defined group of consumers or
organizations with which a firm wants to create marketing
exchanges and relationships.
 A marketing mix is the overall marketing offer to appeal to
the target market.

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Marketing Mix Decisions

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Marketing Strategies
The cosmetics industry is a good place to look
for examples of different marketing strategies.

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Marketing Activities

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Product
manager
Develops goals, objectives, plans,
strategies, marketing mixes for product
line or brand
Marketing
manager
Directs all company’s marketing
activities, including planning, organizing,
staffing, directing, controlling, evaluating
performance
more
Marketing Positions

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Supply chain
manager
Manages distribution system, including
storage and transportation for all
products and services
Advertising
manager
Devises advertising policy and strategy,
selects advertising agencies, develops
promotional campaigns, selects media,
allocates advertising expenditures
more
Marketing Positions (con’t)

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Marketing
research
manager
Develops research designs for specific
problems; collects, analyzes, interprets
data; presents results to top
management
Purchasing
manager
Manages all purchasing activities,
including buying product ingredients or
components, supplies, equipment,
needed materials
more
Marketing Positions (con’t)

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Public
relations
manager
Manages all communications with media
and company stakeholders
to present favorable public image
Marketing Positions (con’t)
Customer
service
manager
Provides customer service, handles
customer complaints
Sales
manager
Organizes, develops, directs, controls,
evaluates sales force

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Marketing Institutions
Retailers
Wholesalers
Marketing
research firms
Advertising
agencies

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Marketing Environment
Exhibit 1-9

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Key Marketing Perceptive
Relationship
Building partnerships with firms outside the
organization and encouraging teamwork
among different functions within the
organization to develop long-term customer
relationships.
Global
Viewing the world as the potential
marketplace to include identifying and
responding both to market opportunities
around the world and to different cultural
groups within each market.
more

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Customer
value
Constantly looking for ways to give customers
more for less.
Ethics
Addressing the morality of marketing
decisions and practicing social
responsibility to include ecological
considerations.
more
Key Marketing Perceptive (con’t)
Productivity
Trying to get the best return for each
marketing dollar spent.

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Entrepreneur-
ship
Focusing on innovation, on risk taking, and
on being proactive in marketing efforts.
Technology
Translating new and emerging technologies
into successful products and services, and
using technology to improve marketing
practice.
Key Marketing Perceptive (con’t)

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Summary
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
 Discuss what marketing is and why it is important to
organizations and individuals.
 Distinguish between marketing as an organizational
philosophy and a societal process.
 Understand the components of a marketing strategy
and the different activities involved in marketing
products and services.
 Be aware of the various types of marketing
institutions and the different marketing positions
available in these institutions.
 Understand the basic elements and relationships in
the contemporary marketing framework.