This document provides an overview of key marketing concepts from Philip Kotler's book "Principles of Marketing". It defines marketing as satisfying customer needs and building relationships to create value for customers and capture value in return. The goal of marketing is to attract and retain customers by delivering superior value and satisfaction. It discusses the production, product, selling, marketing, and societal concepts of organizing a business. It also covers customer relationship management, lifetime value, equity, and strategies for building relationships with different customer types.

1. Principles of Marketing
by
Philip Kotler

2. Chapter 1
Marketing: Managing Profitable
Customer Relationship

3. Marketing
customer.
Marketing Defined

4. What is Marketing?
 Marketing is the process by which companies
create value for customers & build strong
customer relationships in order to capture value
from customers in return.
 Marketing is all about” satisfying customer
needs”

5. Goal of Marketing:
 To attract new customers by promising
superior value.
 To keep & grow current customers by
delivering satisfaction

6. A simple model of the marketing
process
Understand the
marketplace &
customer needs &
wants
Design a customer
driven marketing
strategy
Create value for customers &
build customer relationships
Capture value from
customers in return
Construct an
integrated
marketing
program that
delivers
superior value
Build profitable
relationships &
create customer
delight
Capture value
from
customers to
create profits
& customer
equity.

7. Core definitions
 Needs: Needs are the basic human requirements
e.g food, water, air, shelter.
 Wants: Are the form human needs take as shaped
by culture and individual responsibility.
 Demands: Human wants that are backed by buying power.
 Market offering: Some combination of products, services,
information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a
need or want. Eg, banks, airlines.

8.  Marketing Myopia: The mistake of paying more
attention to the specific products a company offers
than to the benefits & experiences produced by these
products.
 Exchange: Process of obtaining a desired product
from someone by offering something in return.
 Market: The set of all actual & potential buyers of a
product or service.

9.  Marketing Management: The art & science
of choosing target markets & building
profitable relationships with them.
 Value Proposition: A company’s value
proposition is the set of benefits or values it
promises to deliver to consumers to satisfy
their needs.

10. Winning Marketing Strategy
 What customers will we serve?
(what’s our target market)
- Divide the market into customer segments.
- Select which segments will it go after.
 How can we serve these customers best?
(what’s our value proposition)
- Differentiating & positioning the product in minds
of consumers.

11. Five Organizational Concepts
1. Production Concept
2. Product Concept
3. Selling Concept
4. Marketing Concept
5. Societal Marketing Concept

12. Production Concept
 The idea that consumers will favor products that
are available & highly affordable & that the
organization should therefore focus on improving
production & distribution efficiency.

13. Product Concept
 The idea that consumers will favor products that
offer the most quality, performance, & features
thereby devoting a company’s energy to making
continuous product improvements.
 Make & sell concept
 Focus on making superior products
 No customer input
 Less competitor product examination.
 “ Marketing Myopia”

14. Selling Concept
 The idea that consumers will not buy enough of
the firms products unless it undertakes a large
scale selling & promotion effort.
 Practiced most aggressively with unsought
goods eg, insurance, encyclopedias.
 Focuses on creating sales-transactions rather
than long term profitable relationships.
 “Political Relationships”

15. Marketing Concept
 The marketing management philosophy that
achieving organizational goals depends on
knowing the needs & wants of target markets
& delivering the desired satisfactions better
than competitors.
 Sense & respond philosophy.
 Finding right products for customers
 Customer-driving marketing – understanding
customer needs even better than the customers
themselves.

16. Contrast between Sales Concept & Marketing
Concept
Factory Products Selling &Promoting Profits through
sales volume
a. THE SELLING CONCEPT
b. THE MARKETING CONCEPT
Target Customer Integrated Profits through
Market Needs Marketing customer satisfaction
Starting Point Focus Means Ends

17. Societal Marketing Concept
 Holds that marketing strategy should deliver
value to customers in a way that maintains or
improves both consumers & the societies well-
being.
Societal
marketing
concept
Society
(Human Welfare)
Consumers
(Want Satisfaction)
Company
(Profits)

18. Customer Relationship
Management
 CRM is the process of building & maintaining
profitable customer relationships by delivering
superior customer value & satisfaction.
 Customer Perceived Value: The customers
evaluation of the difference between all the
benefits & all the costs of a market offering
relative to those of competing products.

19.  Customer Satisfaction depends on a product’s
perceived performance relative to a buyer’s
expectations.
Performance = Expectation
Customer Satisfaction= Customer Loyalty= Better
Performance
 Customer delight- promising only what a
company can deliver, & then delivering more
than promised.

20. Changing Nature of Customer
Relationships
 Relating with More Carefully selected Customers:
- Selective Relationship Management
Weeding out losing customers &
targeting & pampering winning ones
 Relating for the Long term:
Using CRM to retain current customers & building
profitable long-term relationships with them.
 Relating Directly: Using direct marketing tools such
as telephone, mail order catalogs & kiosks. Eg Dell &
Amazon.

21. Creating Customer Loyalty &
Retention
“ losing customers does not mean losing a single
sale but in fact losing the entire stream of
purchases that the customer would make over a
lifetime”.
 Customer lifetime value: The value of the
entire stream of purchases that a customer
would make over a lifetime of patronage.

22. Customer Equity
 Companies should not just acquire customers, but keep &
grow them as well.
 The ultimate aim of customer relationship management is
to produce high customer equity.
 Customer Equity is the combined discounted customer
lifetime values of all the company’s current & potential
customers.
 It is a better measure of a firms performance than current
sales or market share.
More Loyal firm’s = Higher firm’s
Profitable customers Customer Equity

23. Building Right relationships with
Right customers
Which customers should the company
acquire & retain?
 The company can classify customers according
to their potential profitability & projected
loyalty manage its relationships with them
accordingly.

24. Customer Relationship Groups
 Strangers …. Low profitability/ Less Loyal.
 Butterflies …. Profitable/ not Loyal
 True Friends …. Profitable/ Loyal
 Barnacles …. Not Profitable/ Highly Loyal
 Different types of customers require different
relationship strategies, therefore goal is to :
 “Build right relationships with the right customers”

25. Customer Relationship Groups
Butterflies
Good fit between company’s
offerings & customer needs;
High profit potential
True Friends
Good fit between company’s
offerings & customer needs;
Highest profit potential
Strangers
Little fit between company’s
offerings & customer needs;
Lowest profit potential
Barnacles
Limited fit between company’s
offerings & customer needs;
Low profit potential
High
Profitability
Low
Profitability
Short- term customers Long-term customers
Projected Loyalty