International Marketing Marketing Concept • • • • • • Management process Identify Anticipate Satisfy Customer Requirements Profitably Marketing Concept • • • Nonprofits, governments Target audience Financially sustainable Marketing Concept • • • • • • Who is the customer Who is the target audience Needs Maslow Wants Extraneous pressures - culture, social, peer Marketing Concept • • • • Perceptions Desires Inform Influence Marketing Concept • • • • • • Position to buy Ability to do so plus Want Demand Size of market Volume of demand Marketing Concept • • • Know your customers Know your noncustomers Market research 4 Tenets of the Marketing Concept • • • • • • Well defined market Focus on customer needs Coordination of marketing activities Profitability Market orientation Beyond customer satisfaction Marketing Orientation • • • • • Internal Marketing Concentric circles Precedes external marketing “We consider it a sacking offence to promise something you can not deliver” React and adapt to market changes Marketing Orientation • • • • • • Forward planning Mesh aims and resources with changing market opportunities Analyze business situations Define opportunities Develop plans Implement Marketing Orientation • • • • Strategic Strategies Goals Objectives Marketing Orientation • • • Competition Unique selling point Core benefit Marketing Concept • • • • Utility Value Satisfaction Alignment of human wants and perceived benefits Marketing Concept • • • • • Decision making process Perceptions Judgement Preferences Evaluation Marketing Concept • • • • • Exchange Obtaining a desired product in exchange of something Transaction Relationship marketing Marketing Network Marketing Concepts • • • Market segmentation Set of customers with enough common characteristics and needs Same marketing methods used effectively Marketing Concepts • • • • • • • Target Marketing Market positioning Distinguishing from other products Meaningful differences Distinctive competencies Not incompetencies In the eyes of the customer Marketing Concepts • • • Market entry Credibility International Marketing Concepts • • • • • • Marketing Mix Elements 4 Ps Coordinate to greatest effect Actualize Positioning to a Segment Competition Marketing Concepts • • • • Marketing Plan Research Customer feedback Auditing techniques Implementation of Marketing Concepts • • • • • Production efficiency Supply Chain efficiency Distribution efficiency Pricing Margins Implementation of Marketing Concepts • • • • • Quality products Reduce promotional costs Stimulate demand Customers forget Competition tries Implementation of Marketing Concepts • • • • • • • Information Persuasion Customer satisfaction Customer delight Superior service Legal Ethical Implementation of Marketing Concepts • • • • • • • Information Persuasion Customer satisfaction Customer delight Superior service Legal Ethical Implementation of Marketing Concepts • • • • • Figure 1.2 Analysis Planning Direction Process Marketing Process • • • • • • Figure 2.1 Continuous Analytical Combines long-term strategy Short-term tactics Coordinates Marketing Process • • • • Mutual support of business aims Maintain focus on customer Strategic planning to Marketing planning Marketing Process • • Different stages of business performance Adjust and change when necessary Marketing Process • Customer needs Political o Economic o Cultural o Social o Psychological o Technological o Interaction of the above o Marketing Process • • • • • Consumer - end user Customer - buyer Specifier Decision-making unit Needs and wants Implementing Marketing Concepts Buying process Figure 2.2 Types of purchase - routine - impulse - high value - low value Marketing Process • • • • Need identification Search Evaluation Purchase may change due to situation o promotion o trial o drift between intention and decision o