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Marketing
Chapter 1: Becoming Marketing Oriented
Introduction
Marketing
Second SA edition
• What is marketing?
• If we start a new business what do we need to know about
the market?
• It’s a process: needs, market size, buyer behaviour, 4Ps,
customers, competitors
• What marketing is not
– not just sales
– not just advertising
Charles W. Lamb, Jr.
Joseph F. Hair, Jr.
Carl McDaniel
Christo Boshoff
Nic S. Terblanche
Chapter
Chapter 1:
1:
An
An overview
overview of
of Marketing
Marketing
Please note: All diagrams and copyrighted material has been
removed for all study units (SU 1-14)
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Marketing defined
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Marketing is about:
Marketing is the process of
planning and executing the
conception, pricing, promotion,
and distribution of ideas, goods,
and services to create exchanges
that satisfy individual and the
firm’s goals.
• anticipating and satisfying customer
needs
• by means of mutually beneficial exchange
processes, and
• doing so profitably and more
effectively than competitors
• by means of effective managerial
processes.
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To summarise:
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Our focus is on:
• Marketing refers to the activities that
provide need-satisfying products to
buyers at profit - the reward for creating a
satisfied customer
• It’s a philosophy, an attitude, it’s a
management orientation, it becomes a
culture
• End result is satisfied customers and
sellers
•
•
•
•
micro-marketing - the individual firm
from a managerial perspective
goods/product marketing
for profit
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Customer satisfaction
Key Concepts in Marketing:
• Customer satisfaction (CS)
– it is marketing’s primary goal
– the measurement of CS
– customer dissatisfaction
• The disconfirmation paradigm (see next
slide)
• Customer satisfaction is a comparison
between consumers’ expectations and the
performance of a firm or brand
• Refer to figure 1.1
» what do dissatisfied customers do?
» what are the implications?
• Customer loyalty
– advantages of customer loyalty
» lower acquisition cost, base profit, revenue growth, cost
savings, referrals, price premium
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The Exchange Process
At
At Least
Least Two
Two
Parties
Parties
Necessary
Necessary
Conditions
Conditions for
for
Exchange
Exchange
Desire
Desire to
to Deal
Deal
With
With Other
Other Party
Party
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Six Marketing Philosophies
Something
Something of
of
Value
Value
Ability
Ability to
to
Communicate
Communicate
Offer
Offer
Freedom
Freedom to
to
Accept
Accept or
or Reject
Reject
Philosophy
Philosophy
Key
Key Ideas
Ideas
Production
Production
Focus
Focus on
on efficiency
efficiency of
of internal
internal operations
operations
Product
Product
Focus
Focus on
on product
product features
features and
and product
product quality
quality
Sales
Sales
Focus
Focus on
on aggressive
aggressive techniques
techniques for
for overcoming
overcoming
customer
customer resistance
resistance to
to buying
buying
Marketing
Marketing
Focus
Focus on
on satisfying
satisfying customer
customer needs
needs and
and wants
wants
Societal
Societal
Marketing
Marketing
Focus
Focus on
on satisfying
satisfying customer
customer needs
needs and
and wants
wants
while
while enhancing
enhancing individual
individual and
and societal
societal wellwellbeing
being
Focus
Focus on
on long
long term
term relationships
relationships with
with
customers
customers based
based on
on consistent
consistent value
value and
and
customer
customer satisfaction
satisfaction
Relationship
Relationship
Marketing
Marketing
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The Importance of Customers
Companies
Companies Create
Create
Competitive
Competitive
Advantage
Advantage by
by
Stressing
Stressing Customer
Customer
Importance
Importance
Manifestation of
Relationship Marketing
• Refer to the Mutual and Federal example in Chapter 1
Customer
Customer
Value
Value
Customer
Customer
Satisfaction
Satisfaction
Building
Building LongLongTerm
Term
Relationships
Relationships
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Customer Value and Satisfaction
Implementing the Marketing Concept
Customer Value:
the ratio of benefits to the sacrifice
necessary to obtain those
benefits
1. Management must fully endorse the concept
2. Management must encourage its spread
throughout the firm
3. Changes in authority and responsibility
may be required
Customer Satisfaction:
the feeling that a product has met or
exceeded the customer’s expectations
4. Management should be provided with
front-line experience
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The Marketing Concept
Opportunities and the Firm’
Firm’s Business
Philosophy based on:
• Opportunities
and the Firm’s Business
– customer need satisfaction
– integrated, total firm-wide effort
– profit
– important to stay ahead of competition and for
long term survival, but must fall within the …
• Move away from persuasion
• Marketing orientation
• Adoption of marketing orientation poor why?
• Firm’s business - can be defined:
– in generic terms
– in product-market terms
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The Firm’
Firm’s Business Definition
• Product-market: in terms of the product its features and characteristics
The Importance of a Competitive Advantage
– what?
– to meet what?
– for whom?
– where?
» similar needs, competitors offer close
substitutes
• Competitive advantage (CA) is a consumer’s
“reason for buying”
• Linked to differentiation
• Must be sustainable
• Different sources:
– service quality, customer value, customer satisfaction,
customer orientated personnel, well-trained employees,
empowerment, teamwork and many others
• Generic: in terms of customer benefits
– broad definition, diverse need satisfaction
• What are the implications?
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Activities in the Marketing Process
Understanding
Understanding Mission
Mission
Example of a
Competitive Advantage
Setting
Setting Objectives
Objectives
Gathering
Gathering Information
Information
Refer to British Airways example in Chapter 1
Developing
Developing Strategy
Strategy
Areas
Areas of
of
Focus
Focus
for
for
Marketing
Marketing
Managers
Managers
Implementing
Implementing
Measuring
Measuring
Evaluating
Evaluating
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Three Key Concepts
Criticism of Marketing
• Marketing strategy
–
–
–
–
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• Marketing often criticised for:
opportunity and competitive advantage
objective (s)
target market and positioning
4Ps
– adding costs eg. retailers and wholesalers
– advertising is sometimes viewed as:
» annoying
» misleading consumers
» wasteful
» unethical
– many products are unsafe and/or poor quality
– packaging/labelling deceptive
– unnecessary products are produced
– packaging pollutes the environment
• Marketing plan: the strategy in writing plus
– allocation of resources and responsibility for
implementation
– control measures and time scale
• Marketing programme: combination of
various plans
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Response to Criticism
Position and Role of Marketing in the Firm
• Counter-argument: marketing is useful because it
overcomes:
• Marketing is one of eight business
functions
• The marketing function must be managed
– discrepancies of quantity, assortment; and
– separations:
» spatial (place utility)
» time (time utility)
» information (information utility)
» ownership (possession utility)
– planning
– organizing
– leading
– control
• Marketing also plays a role in creating:
– form utility
– task utility
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Why Study Marketing?
Summary
• Marketing:
• Marketing is about
– anticipating and satisfying customer needs
– by means of mutually beneficial exchange processes,
and
– doing so profitably and more effectively than
competitors
– by means of effective managerial processes
– plays an important role in society
– is important to business firms
– offers outstanding career opportunities
– affects our daily lives
• Effective marketing is having the right
product at the right time and place and at
the right price
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Summary (cont.)
• The customers will be satisfied and be
retained
• Discrepancies and separations make that
difficult but marketing does add value
• A customer (market) orientation is the key
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