CHAPTER
1
DEFINING MARKETING
FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading this chapter, students should:
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Know why marketing is important
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Know what is the scope of marketing
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Know some fundamental marketing concepts
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Know how marketing management has changed
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Know what the necessary tasks are for successful marketing management
CHAPTER SUMMARY
From a managerial point of view, 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 organizational goals. Marketing management is the art
and science of choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and growing customers through
creating, delivering, and communicating superior customer value.
Marketers are skilled at managing demand. They seek to influence the level, timing, and
composition of demand. Marketers are involved in marketing many types of entities: goods,
services, events, experiences, persons, places, properties, organizations, information, and
ideas. They also operate in four different marketplaces: consumer, business, global, and
nonprofit.
Businesses today face a number of challenges and opportunities including globalization, the
effects of advances in technology, and deregulations. They have responded by changing how
they conduct marketing in very fundamental ways.
There are five competing concepts under which organizations can choose to conduct their
business: the production concept, product concept, selling concept, marketing concept, and the
holistic marketing concept. The first three are of limited use today.
The holistic marketing concept is based on the development, design, and implementation of
marketing programs, processes, and activities, that recognizes their breadth and interdependencies. Holistic marketing recognizes that “everything matters” with marketing and that a
broad, integrated perspective is often necessary. Four components of holistic marketing are
relationship marketing, integrated marketing, internal marketing, and social marketing.
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Marketing management has experienced a number of shifts in recent years as companies seek
marketing excellence.
The set of tasks necessary for successful marketing management include developing
marketing strategies and plans, connecting with customers, building strong brands, shaping the
market offerings, delivering and communicating value, capturing marketing insights and
performance, and creating successful long-term growth.
OPENING THOUGHT
Marketing is too often confused and identified with advertising or selling techniques, and our
practices and theories are all too often invisible to the average consumer. The instructor should
spend some class time differentiating between advertising/promotion techniques and
marketing. Students who are not marketing majors will have some difficulty accepting the
encompassing role that marketing is now having on the other functional disciplines within a
firm. Finally, for those students who have never been exposed to marketing and its
components, the instructor’s challenge is to educate the students about the world of marketing.
The in-class and outside of class assignments noted in this text should help both educate and
excite the students about the “world of marketing”!
TEACHING STRATEGY AND CLASS ORGANIZATION
PROJECTS
1. Semester-Long Marketing Plan Project
An effective way to help students learn about marketing management is through the actual
creation of a marketing plan for a product or service. This project is designed to
accomplish such a task.
Dividing the class into groups, have each group decide on a “fictional” consumer product
or service they wish to bring to market. During the course of the semester, each of the
elements of the marketing plan, coordinating with the text chapter, will be due for the
instructor’s review. The instructor is encouraged to review each submission and suggest
areas for improvement, for more detailed study, or if acceptable to allow the students to
proceed to the next phase in development. Students can use the computer program
Marketing Plan Pro in creating their proposals and submissions and in their final
presentation(s). At the end of the semester, each group is to present their entire marketing
plan to the class.
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The following is an outline of this process:
Chapter #
1
2
3
4
5
Title
Defining Marketing for
the 21st Century
Element of the Marketing Plan Due
None, group formation and begin the process
of selecting the product or service.
Developing Marketing
Strategies and Plans
Gathering Information
and Scanning the
Environment
Conducting Marketing
Research and
Forecasting Demand
Creating Customer
Value, Satisfaction, and
Loyalty
Formation of groups; first presentation of
“product” to instructor for approval.
Competitive information and environmental
scanning project(s) completed and presented
for instructor’s review.
Initial marketing research parameters
completed; demand forecasted and target
market selections defined.
Students should have completed their value
proposition for the fictional product, defined
how they will deliver satisfaction, and
maintain customer loyalty.
Definitive data on the consumer for the
product/service including all demographic and
other pertinent information obtained and ready
for instructor’s approval.
No report due for this chapter; allows students
and instructor to “catch up” on the project.
Specific market segmentation, targeting, and
positioning statements by the students due .
At this point in the semester, students are to
have their “branding” strategy developed for
their project. Questions to have been
completed include the brand name, its equity
position, and the decisions in developing the
brand strategy.
At this point in the semester, student projects
should be completed to include their fictional
product or service’s brand positioning. In
relationship to the material contained in the
chapter, students should have delineated and
designed a differentiated brand positioning for
their project.
At this point in the semester-long project,
students should be prepared to present their
competitive analysis. Who are the market
leaders for their chosen product or service?
What niche have they identified for their
product/service? Is their product or service
going to be a leader, follower, or challenger to
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Analyzing Consumer
Markets
7
Analyzing Business
Markets
Identifying Market
Segments and Targets
Creating Brand Equity
8
9
10
Crafting the Brand
Positioning
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Dealing with
Competition
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well-established products or brands?
12
Setting Product Strategy
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Designing and
Managing Services
14
Developing Pricing
Strategies and Programs
15
Designing and
Managing Value
Networks and Channels
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Managing Retailing,
Wholesaling, and
Logistics
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Designing and
Managing Integrated
Marketing
Communications
At this point for the semester-long project,
students should have set their group project’s
product or service strategy. Instructors are to
evaluate their submissions on the product (or
service) features, quality, and price and the
other considerations of “product” found in this
chapter.
At this point in the semester-long project,
those students who have selected a “service”
idea for the marketing plan must submit their
offering. Students whose project is a “productbased” component do not have anything to
submit for this chapter.
At this point in the semester-long marketing
plan project, students should be prepared to
hand in their pricing strategy decisions for
their fictional product/service. In reviewing
this section, the instructor should make sure
that the students have addressed all or most of
the material concerning pricing covered in this
chapter.
At this point in the semester-long project,
students should present their channel decisions
for getting their product or service to the
consumer. In evaluating this section, the
instructor should evaluate the completeness of
the projects to the material contained in this
chapter.
At this point in the semester-long project for
the “fictional” product or service, students
should be directed to turn in their retailing,
wholesaling, and logistical marketing plans.
Those students who are acting in the role of
providing a new “service” should include here
their plans for locations, hours of operations,
and how their “service” plan’s on managing
demand and capacity issues.
At this point in the semester-long marketing
plan project, students should have agreed upon
their integrated marketing communications
matrix. The instructor is encouraged to
evaluate the submissions vis-à-vis the material
presented in this chapter. In reviewing the
submissions, the instructor should evaluate the
continuity of the message across all possible
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communication media (students will tend to
concentrate their media to television or to the
Internet and exclude other forms such as
personal selling and radio).
Managing Mass
At this point in the semester-long project,
Communications:
students should submit their advertising
Advertising, Sales
program complete with objectives, budget,
Promotion, Events, and
advertising message, and creative strategy,
Public Relations
media decisions, and sales and promotional
materials.
Managing Personal
At this point in the semester-long project,
Communications: Direct students who have decided to market their
Marketing and the Sales product/service through direct market channels
Force
should submit their proposals. All other groups
must decide at this point if they will use a
direct sales force and if so to outline the
specifics (including financials) for this option.
Introducing New Market At this point in the semester-long Marketing
Offerings
Plan project, in this section should be a brief
write up by the students as to the consumeradoption process for their new product. How
will the consumer learn about their new
product and how quickly will they adopt it?
Will the product be targeted to the heavy users
and early adopters’ first, then early and late
majorities? What is their estimated time for
full adoption?
Tapping into Global
If the project is to be exported to another
Markets
country, then student’s submissions regarding
how the product is to be distributed should be
included here; otherwise this begins the
presentation phase of the project; student
groups should begin their presentations to the
class.
Managing a Holistic
Second phase of the presentations of the
Marketing Organization project; students should ensure that their
marketing plans contain a holistic view of the
marketing process.
Under the projects heading for each chapter will be a reminder of the material due when
that chapter is scheduled to be discussed in class.
2. Have students (in groups or individually) select a local firm in their community, or a local
division of a national firm, and ask these executives how their firm has responded or is
responding to the 14 major shifts in marketing management today. The students can then
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present these findings to the class in-group or by individual presentations. This could be a
full-semester project or limited to a few weeks of the semester.
ASSIGNMENTS
Small Group Assignments
1. In small groups (five students suggested as the maximum), have students visit their local
coffee shop or Starbucks and compare their local visit to the services provided in the
opening vignette of the chapter. Does their local Starbucks or coffee shop contain wireless
Internet access? What is the climate of the establishment—friendly or hurried? Is
marketing prevalent in this establishment? If so, how and to what extent are they exposed
to marketing messages—have the students keep a list of every marketing message they
encounter.
2. In small groups, ask the students to visit an on-campus eatery. During this experience,
have the students keep a diary of their exposures to marketing messages. How are the
messages being communicated—visually through signs and posters, by sound, or via
verbal communication? Ask the students to break down these messages into 1-minute
segments, and then total the amount of messages for the time spent in the eatery. What
conclusions can you draw from the number of messages exposed to in the time period for
marketers?
Individual Assignments
1. Each student is to select a company of their choosing and prepare a listing of all of the
marketing messages the company disseminates through their various communication
channels. The student is to examine the company’s pubic-relations messages, their
television advertising, Internet advertising, and printed messages. Students should collect
this information and try to discover if there is a commonality of message, preference for
one form of communication over another (by frequency), or a series of nonrelated
messages.
2. Students can choose a firm of their preference, interview key marketing management
members and ask the firm how they are reacting to the changes in marketing management
for the 21st century (students should ask and have answers to all of the 14 points listed in
the chapter).
Think-Pair-Share
1. Have the students reflect upon their favorite product and/or service. Then have the
students collect marketing examples from each of these companies. This information
should be in the form of examples of printed advertising, copies of television
commercials, Internet advertising, or radio commercials. During class, have the students
share what they have collected with others. Questions to ask during the class discussion
should focus on why this particular example of advertising elicits a response from you.
What do you like/dislike about this marketing message? Does everyone in the class
like/dislike this advertising?
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2. Have the students visit a retail mall or other type of retail establishment. During their visit,
have the students keep a log of the marketing messages they encounter. Such messages
can be in the form of emotional advertising, price-point advertisements, store design and
layout, or sensual advertisements such as smell or sound. Ask the students which retail
establishment enticed them the most and why? Have the students share these experiences
and ask the class if others in the class would be similarly affected (male versus female for
example).
MARKETING TODAY—CLASS DISCUSSION TOPICS
One of the most challenging assignments for marketing managers is the marketing of a
nonprofit charitable organization. After reading this chapter and learning about the challenges
facing firms in the 21st century, how would you market the following?
“You have been asked to develop a marketing plan for the local chapter of “Mothers Against
Drunk Driving.” The goal is to develop a specific marketing message designed to educate
young people about the dangers and consequences of driving while intoxicated. The 4Ps of
marketing apply and yet each presents its own challenges in implementation. Which of the 4Ps
would you emphasize and why? How would you develop a relationship with your target
market? How would you integrate your marketing communications? What aspect of the target
market needs (stated, real, unstated, delight, and secret) would you emphasize and why?
Which of the shifts, in marketing management for the 21st century, apply to this nonprofit
organization and why? Which of these shifts in marketing management will make your task
more difficult and why?”
END-OF-CHAPTER SUPPORT
Suggestions for Use of the Application/Discussion Questions: These questions are meant to
challenge a student’s understanding of chapter material; and to enable them to develop an
ability to use the chapter material to solve problems. The questions may be used purely for
discussion (if so, they might be assigned in advance of the discussion), they can be given to
selected students for in-class presentation, they can be used as short essay questions on inclass quizzes or on formal examinations, or they can be used by the students to enhance the
chapter summary. Answers are provided to each question; however, the answers are only
intended to be suggestions (differing student answers should be judged on their own merit—
there is usually more than one creative way to answer these questions). The questions were
designed to make the students think.
MARKETING DEBATE—Does Marketing Create or Satisfy Needs?
Marketing has often been defined in terms of satisfying customers’ needs and wants. Critics,
however, maintain that marketing does much more than that and creates needs and wants that
did not exist before. According to these critics, marketers encourage consumers to spend more
money than they should on goods and services they really do not need.
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Take a position: Marketing shapes consumer needs and wants versus marketing merely
reflects the needs and wants of consumers.
Suggested Response
Pro: With the vast amount of information available to marketers today and the emphasis on
relational marketing, marketers are in more of a position to suggest needs and wants to the
public. Certainly, not all consumers have all the needs and wants suggested by society today.
However, with the vast amount of exposure to these societal needs and wants via the media, a
substantial amount of consumers will, through mere exposure, decide that they “have” the
same needs and wants of others. Marketers by their efforts increase peer pressure, and group
thinking, by showing examples of what others may have that they do not. An individual’s
freedom to choose is substantially weakened by constant and consistent exposure to a range of
needs and wants of others. Marketers should understand that when it comes to resisting the
pressure to conform, that individuals are and can be weak in their resolve. Marketers must take
an ethical position to only market to those consumers able to purchase their products.
Con: Marketing merely reflects societal needs and wants. The perception that marketers
influence consumers’ purchasing decisions discounts an individual’s freedom of choice and
their individual responsibility. With the advent of the Internet, consumers have greater
freedom of choice and more evaluative criteria than every before. Consumers can and do
make more informed decisions than previous generations. Marketers can be rightly accused of
influencing wants, along with societal factors such as power, influence, peer pressure, and
social status. These societal factors pre-exist marketing and would continue to exist if there
was no marketing efforts expended.
MARKETING DISCUSSION
Consider the broad shifts in marketing. Are there any themes that emerge to these shifts? Can
they be related to the major societal forces? Which force contributed to which shift?
Suggested Response
The major themes that emerge in these broad shifts are technology, decentralization, and
empowerment. As companies face increased global competition, they are beginning to
increase their attention to all aspects of marketing and are beginning to encompass marketing
as a corporate goal and not just a departmental function.
The major societal forces at work: two-income families, increased technology, fewer firms,
increased consumer education, and empowerment are forcing companies and marketers to
shift their thinking about marketing and rethink their best business practices.
Global competition:
1. From marketing does the marketing to everyone does the marketing.
2. From organization by products units to organizing by customer segments.
3. From being local to being “glocal”—both global and local.
4. Increase technology.
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5. From making everything to buying more goods and services from outside.
6. From emphasizing tangible assets to emphasizing intangible assets increasing
consumer expectations.
7. From relying on old market positions to uncovering new ones.
8. From building brands through advertising to building brands through performance and
integrated communications.
9. From attracting customers through stores and salespeople to making products
available online.
10. From selling to everyone to trying to be the best firm serving a well-defined target
market.
11. From focusing on profitable transactions to focusing on customer lifetime value.
12. From focusing on the financial scorecard to focusing on the marketing scorecard.
13. From a focus on gaining market share to a focus on building customer share.
14. From focusing on shareholders to focusing on stakeholders.
15. Decreased availability of firms.
16. From using many suppliers to working with fewer suppliers in a “partnership.”
MARKETING SPOTLIGHT—Coca-Cola
1. What have been the key success factors for Coca-Cola?
Its pursuit of always looking for new ways to portray the brand, to keep the brand
“fresh” in the minds of current consumers without betraying the “core values.”
2. Where is Coca-Cola vulnerable?
A change in consumer tastes for soft drinks is vulnerability for Coca-Cola.
Additionally, as the brand expands into third-world countries, lifestyles and
customs provide challenges.
3. What should they watch out for?
Any demographic, or lifestyle changes that would have long-term consequences
would be a threat for the brand. Young consumers must embrace the brand to
ensure that they continue to drink Coca-Cola as they age. If Coca-Cola misses a
generation, sales will suffer for a long time.
4. What recommendation would you make to their senior marketing executives going
forward?
Continue to embrace the core values of the brand and expand soft drink sales
opportunities, not from the Coca-Cola brand, but from flanker brands or
acquisitions. Preserve the Coke franchise and defend it steadfastly.
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5. What should they be sure to do with their marketing?
Evolve, adapt to changes in the consumer market by constantly monitoring
consumer buying habits, purchase intents, and their shifts in lifestyle priorities.
DETAILED CHAPTER OUTLINE
Marketing is everywhere. Formally or informally, people and organizations engage in a
vast number of activities that could be called marketing. Good marketing is no accident,
but a result of careful planning and execution. Marketing is both an “art” and a
“science”—there is constant tension between the formulated side of marketing and the
creative side.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MARKETING
Financial success often depends on marketing ability. Many firms have created a Chief
Marketing Officer (CMO) to put marketing on an equal footing with other Chief
Executives such as a CFO and CEO. Marketing is tricky and making the right
decisions is not always easy. Skillful marketing is a never-ending pursuit.
THE SCOPE OF MARKETING
To prepare to be marketers, you need to understand what marketing is, how it works,
what is marketed, and who does the marketing.
What Is Marketing?
Marketing deals with identifying and meeting human and social needs. One of the
shortest definition of marketing is “meeting needs profitably.”
A) The American Marketing Association offers the following formal definition:
“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 organizational goals.”
B) Marketing management is the art and science of choosing target markets and getting,
keeping, and growing customers through creating, delivering, and communicating
superior customer value.
C) A social definition of marketing is that “marketing is a societal process by which
individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating, offering, and
freely exchanging products and services of value with others.”
Review Key Definitions here: marketing and marketing management
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Exchange and Transactions
Exchange is the process of obtaining a desired product from someone by offering
something in return. For exchange potential to exist, the following conditions must be
satisfied:
A) There are at least two parties.
B) Each party has something that might be of value to the other party.
C) Each party is capable of communication and delivery.
D) Each party is free to accept or reject the exchange offer.
E) Each party believes it is appropriate or desirable to deal with the other party.
F) Exchange is a value-creating process because it normally leaves both parties better off.
G) A transaction is a trade of values between two or more parties and involves several
dimensions:
1) At least two things of value.
2) Agreed upon conditions.
3) A time of agreement.
4) A place of agreement.
H) A transaction differs from a transfer. In a transfer, A gives X to B but does not receive
anything tangible in return.
I) Marketers seek to elicit a behavioral response from another party.
What Is Marketed?
Marketing people are involved in marketing ten types of entities: goods, services, events,
experiences, persons, places, properties, organizations, information, and ideas.
A) Goods
Physical goods constitute the bulk of production and marketing efforts.
B) Services
A growing portion of business activities are focused on the production of services. The
U.S. economy today consists of a 70–30 services to goods mix.
C) Events
Marketers promote time-based events such as trade shows, artistic performances, and
the Olympics.
D) Experiences
By orchestrating several services and goods, a firm can create and market experiences
such as Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom.
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E) Persons
Celebrity marketing is a major business.
F) Places
Cities, states, regions, and whole nations compete actively to attract tourists, factories,
and new residents.
G) Properties
Are intangible rights of ownership of either real property (real estate) or financial
property (stocks and bonds).
H) Organizations
Actively work to build a strong, favorable, and unique image in the minds of their
target publics.
I) Information
Can be produced and marketed as a product. Schools, universities, and others produce
information and then market it.
J) Ideas
Every market offering includes a basic idea. Products and services are platforms for
delivering some idea or benefit.
Who Markets?
Marketers and Prospects
A marketer is someone seeking a response (attention, purchase, vote, donation, etc.)
from another party called the prospect.
A) Marketers are responsible for stimulating demand for a company’s product.
B) Marketing managers seek to influence the level, timing, and composition of demand to
meet the organization’s objectives. Eight demand states are possible:
1) Negative demand—consumers dislike the product and may even pay a price to
avoid it.
2) Non-existent demand—consumers may be unaware or uninterested in the
product.
3) Latent demand—consumers may share a strong need that cannot be satisfied by
an existing product.
4) Declining demand—consumers begin to buy the product less frequently or not at
all.
5) Irregular demand—consumer purchases vary on a seasonal, monthly, daily, or
even an hourly basis.
6) Full demand—consumers are adequately buying all product put into the
marketplace.
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7) Overfull demand—too many consumers would like to buy the product that can be
satisfied.
8) Unwholesome demand—consumers may be attracted to products that have
undesirable social consequences.
Markets
Economists describe a market as a collection of buyers and sellers who transact over a
particular product or product class.
Figure 1.1 shows five basic markets and their connection flows.
Marketers use the term “ market” to cover various groups of customers. They view the
sellers as constituting the industry and the buyers as constituting the market. They talk
about need markets, product markets, demographic markets, and geographic markets.
See Figure 1.2 shows the relationship between the industry and the market.
A) Sellers and buyers are connected by flows:
1) Seller sends goods, services, and communications to the market.
2) In return they receive money and information.
3) There is an exchange of money for goods and services.
4) There is an exchange of information.
Review Key Definitions here: negative demand, non-existent demand, latent demand,
declining demand, irregular demand, full demand, overfull demand, and unwholesome
demand.
Key Customer Markets
A) Consumer Markets
Consumer goods and services such as soft drinks and cosmetics, spend a great deal of
time trying to establish a superior brand image.
B) Business Markets
Companies selling business goods and services often face well-trained and wellinformed professional buyers who are skilled in evaluating competitive offerings.
C) Global Markets
Companies face challenges and decisions regarding which countries to enter, how to
enter the country, how to adapt their products/services to the country, and how to price
their products.
D) Nonprofit and Governmental Markets
Companies selling to these markets have to price carefully because these organizations
have limited purchasing power.
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MARKETPLACES, MARKETSPACES, AND METAMARKETS
The marketplace is physical; the marketspace is digital.
Mohan Sawhney has proposed the concept of metamarkets to describe a cluster of
complementary products and services that are closely related in the minds of consumers
but are spread across a diverse set of industries. An example is the automobile industry
that consists of physical locations (car dealers) and marketspace locations (Internet
locations) that consumers use in deciding what car to purchase.
Review Key Definitions here: marketplace—physical,
metamarket—both physical and digital
marketspace—digital,
How Business and Marketing Are Changing
A) Changing technology.
B) Globalization.
C) Deregulation.
D) Privatization.
E) Customer empowerment.
F) Customization.
G) Heightened competition.
H) Industry convergent.
I) Disintermediation.
COMPANY ORIENTATIONS TOWARD THE MARKETPLACE
The competing concepts under which organizations have conducted marketing
activities include; the production concept, product concept, selling concept, marketing
concept, and holistic marketing concept.
Production Concept
A) The production concept holds that consumers will prefer products that are widely
available and inexpensive.
Product Concept
A) The product concept holds that consumers will favor those products that offer the most
quality, performance, or innovative features.
Selling Concept
A) The selling concept holds that consumers and businesses, will ordinarily not buy
enough of the organization’s products, therefore, the organization must undertake
aggressive selling and promotion effort.
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Marketing Concept
A) The marketing concept holds that the key to achieving organizational goals consists of
the company being more effective than competitors in creating, delivering, and
communicating superior customer value to its chosen target markets.
1) Reactive market orientation—understanding and meeting consumers’ expressed
needs.
2) Proactive marketing orientation—researching or imagining latent consumers’
needs through a “probe-and-learn” process.
a.
Companies that practice both reactive and proactive marketing orientation are
implementing a total market orientation.
Holistic Marketing Concept
Holistic marketing can be seen as the development, design, and implementation of
marketing programs, processes, and activities that recognizes the breath and
interdependencies of their efforts. Holistic marketing recognizes that “everything
matters” with marketing—the consumer, employees, other companies, competition, as
well as society as a whole.
Review Key Definition here: holistic marketing
Figure 1.3 provides a schematic overview of the four broad themes characterizing
holistic marketing.
Relationship Marketing
A) Relationship marketing has the aim of building mutually satisfying long-term
relationships with key parties—customers, suppliers, distributors, and other marketing
partners. Relationship marketing builds strong economic, technical, and social ties
among the parties.
1) Marketing must not only do customer relationship management (CRM) but also
partnership relationship management (PRM).
2) Four key constituents for marketing are:
a. Customers.
b. Employees.
c. Marketing partners (channel partners).
d. Members of the financial community.
3) The ultimate outcome of relationship marketing is the building of a unique
company asset called a marketing network.
A marketing network consists of the company and its supporting stakeholders
(customers, suppliers, distributors, retailers, ad agencies, university scientists, and
others) with whom it has built mutually profitable business relationships.
Review Key Definitions here: relationship marketing and marketing network
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Integrated Marketing
A) The marketer’s task is to devise marketing activities and assemble fully integrated
marketing programs to create, communicate, and deliver value for consumers.
B) The 4Ps of marketing: product, price, place, and promotion.
Figure 1.4 shows the particular marketing variables under each P.
Marketing—mix decisions must be made for influencing the trade channels as well as
the final consumers.
1) Robert Lauterborn suggests that the sellers 4Ps correspond to the customers’ 4Cs:
4Ps
4Cs
Product
Customer solution
Price
Customer cost
Place
Convenience
Promotion
Communication
C) Two key themes of integrated marketing are:
1) Many different marketing activities are employed to communicate and deliver
value.
2) All marketing activities are coordinated to maximize their joint efforts.
Figure 1.5 shows the company preparing an offering mix of products, services, and
prices and utilizing a communications mix of sales promotion, advertising, sales force,
public relations, direct mail, telemarketing, and interactive marketing to reach the trade
channels and the target customers.
Internal Marketing
A) Holistic marketing incorporates internal marketing, ensuring that everyone in the
organization embraces appropriate marketing principles.
B) Internal marketing must take place on two levels:
1) At one level, the various marketing functions (sales force, advertising, customer
services, product management, and marketing research) must work together.
2) Secondly, marketing must be embraced by the other departments—they must
“think customer.” Marketing is not a department so much as a company
orientation.
Review Key Definition here: internal marketing
See Table 1.1 for assessing which company departments are customer minded.
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Social Responsible Marketing
A) Holistic marketing incorporates social responsibility marketing and understanding
broader concerns, and the ethical, environmental, legal, and social context of
marketing activities and programs.
Table 1.2 displays some different types of corporate social initiatives.
FUNDAMENTAL MARKETING CONCEPTS, TRENDS, AND TASKS
To understand the marketing function, we need to understand certain fundamental
concepts and tasks, along with current trends.
Core Concepts
Creates foundations for marketing management and holistic marketing orientation.
Needs, Wants, and Demands
Marketers must try to understand the target market’s needs, wants, and demands.
A) Needs are basic human desires.
B) Wants are shaped by one’s society.
C) Demands are wants for specific products backed by an ability to pay.
D) Marketers do not create needs—needs pre-exist marketers.
E) Marketers, along with society influence wants.
1) There are five types of needs that marketers must understand:
a. Stated needs.
b. Real needs.
c. Unstated needs.
d. Delight needs.
e. Secret needs.
Target Markets, Positioning, and Segmentation
A) A marketer can rarely satisfy everyone in a market therefore the marketers must divide
the market into segments.
B) The marketer then decides which segment presents the greatest opportunity—which
are its target markets.
C) For each chosen target market, the firm develops a market offering.
D) The offering is positioned in the minds of the target buyers as delivering some central
benefit(s).
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Offerings and Brands
A) Companies put forth a value proposition, a set of benefits they offer to customers to
satisfy their needs.
B) The intangible value proposition is made physical by an offering that can be a
combination of products, services, information, and experiences.
Value and Satisfaction
A) The offering will be successful if it delivers value and satisfaction to the target buyer.
B) The buyer chooses between different offerings based on which is perceived to deliver
the most value.
C) Value reflects the perceived tangible benefits and costs to customers.
D) Value can be a combination of quality, service, and prices called the customer value
triad.
E) Value is a central marketing concept.
F) Marketing can be seen as the identification, creation, communication, delivery, and
monitoring of customer value.
1) Satisfaction reflects a person’s comparative judgment resulting from a product’s
perceived performance (or outcome) in relation to his or her expectations.
Marketing Channels (three kinds of marketing channels)
A) Communication channels deliver and receive messages from target buyers.
B) Distribution channels to display, sell, or deliver the physical product or service(s).
C) Service channels to carry out transactions with potential buyers (warehouses,
transportation companies, banks).
Supply Chain
A) Describes a longer channel stretching from raw materials to finished goods.
B) Represents a value delivery system.
Competition
A) Includes all the actual and potential rival offering and substitutes that a buyer might
consider.
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Marketing Environment
A) Consists of the task environment and the broad environment.
B) Task environment includes the immediate actors involved in producing, distribution,
and promoting the offering: suppliers, company, dealers, and target customers.
C) The broad environment consists of six components:
1) Demographic.
2) Economic.
3) Natural.
4) Technological.
5) Political-legal.
6) Social-cultural.
Marketing Planning
A) Consists of analyzing marketing opportunities.
B) Selecting target markets.
C) Designing marketing strategies.
D) Developing marketing programs.
E) Managing the marketing effort.
Figure 1.6 presents a grand summary of the marketing process and the forces shaping
the company’s marketing strategy.
Shifts in Marketing Management
A) A number of important trends and forces are eliciting a new set of beliefs and practices
on the part of business firms. These fourteen major shifts are:
1) From marketing does the marketing to everyone does the marketing.
2) From organization by products units to organizing by customer segments.
3) From making everything to buying more goods and services from outside.
4) From using many suppliers to working with fewer suppliers in a “partnership.”
5) From relying on old market positions to uncovering new ones.
6) From emphasizing tangible assets to emphasizing intangible assets.
7) From building brands through advertising to building brands through performance
and integrated communications.
8) From attracting customers through stores and salespeople to making products
available online.
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9) From selling to everyone to trying to be the best firm serving a well-defined target
market.
10) From focusing on profitable transactions to focusing on customer lifetime value.
11) From a focus on gaining market share to a focus on building customer share.
12) From being local to being “glocal”—both global and local.
13) From focusing on the financial scorecard to focusing on the marketing scorecard.
14) From focusing on shareholders to focusing on stakeholders.
Marketing Management Tasks: Zeus Inc.
B) Developing marketing strategies and plans (Chapter 2).
C) Connecting with customers (Chapters 3, 4, and 5).
D) Building strong brands (Chapters 7, 8, and 9).
E) Shaping the market offerings (Chapters 10, 11, and 12).
F) Delivering value (Chapters 13 and 14).
G) Communicating value (Chapters 15, 16, and 17).
H) Capturing marketing insights and performance (Chapters 18 and 19).
I) Creating successful long-term growth (Chapters 20, 21, and 22).
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