12 Customer-Driven Marketing McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 12-2 Nature of Marketing • To create value by allowing people and organizations to obtain what they need and want 12-3 The Exchange Relationship • Exchange: – The act of giving up something (money, credit, labor, goods) in return for something else (goods, services, or ideas) 12-4 The Exchange Process: Giving Up One Thing in Return for Another 12-5 Marketing Creates Utility • Utility--a product’s ability to satisfy human needs and wants – Place – Time – Ownership – Form 12-6 Functions of Marketing • • • • Buying Selling Transporting Storing • • • • Grading Financing Marketing research Risk taking 12-7 The Marketing Concept • The idea that an organization should try to satisfy customer’s needs through coordinated activities that allow it to achieve its own goals (profit) Did You Know? Trying to determine a customer’s true needs is difficult because no one fully understands what motivates people to buy. 12-8 Evolution of the Marketing Concept • The production orientation – During the second half of the 19th century • The sales orientation – By the early part of the 20th century • The marketing orientation – By the 1950s 12-9 Marketing Orientation • Requires organizations to: – Gather information about customer needs – Share that information throughout the entire firm – Use that information to help build long-term relationships with customers 12-10 Developing Marketing Strategy • Marketing strategy: – A plan of action for developing pricing, distributing and promoting products that meet the needs of specific customers • Two major components: – Selecting a target market – Developing the appropriate marketing mix 12-11 Selecting a Target Market • Market – A group of people who have a need, purchasing power, and the desire and authority to spend money on goods, services, and ideas • Target market – A more specific group of consumers on whose needs and wants a company focuses its marketing effort 12-12 Total-Market Approach • The marketer tries to appeal to everyone and assumes that all buyers have the same needs 12-13 Target Market Strategies TotalMarket Approach 12-14 Market Segmentation • Market Segmentation: – A strategy to divide the total market into groups of people who have relatively similar product needs 12-15 Market Segment • A collection of individuals, groups, or organizations who share one or more characteristics and have similar product needs and desires 12-16 Minority Buying Power by Race,1990 versus 2003 & 2005 12-17 Niche Market • Narrow market segment focus when efforts are on one small, well-defined segment that has a unique, specific set of needs 12-18 Bases for Segmenting Markets • • • • Demographic Geographic Psychographic Behavioristic Did You Know? During its first year of operation, sales of Coca-Cola averaged just nine drinks per day for total first-year sales of $50. Today, Coca-Cola products are consumed at the rate of one billion drinks per day. 12-19 The Keys to Successful Market Segmentation 1. Consumers’ product needs must be heterogeneous 2. Segments must be identifiable and divisible 3. The market must be divided so segment sales, cost, and profit can be compared 4. One segment must have enough profit potential to justify a special marketing strategy 5. The chosen segment must be reached by the firm with a particular marketing strategy 12-20 Developing the Marketing Mix 12-21 Product • A good, service, or idea that has tangible and intangible attributes that provide satisfaction and benefit to consumers – Products should be sold at a profit 12-22 Price • A value placed on a product or service that is exchanged between a buyer and seller 12-23 Distribution • Making products available to consumers in the quantities and locations desired 12-24 Promotion • A persuasive form of communication that attempts to expedite a marketing exchange by influencing individuals and organizations to accept goods, services, and ideas 12-25 Marketing Research & Information Systems • Marketing research – A systematic, objective process of getting customer information to guide marketing decisions • Marketing information system – A framework for assessing information about customers from internal and external sources 12-26 Collecting Data • Primary data – Marketing information that is observed, recorded, or collected directly from respondents • Secondary data – Information that is compiled inside or outside an organization for some purpose other than changing the current situation 12-27 Buying Behavior • The decision processes and actions of people who purchase and use products 12-28 Psychological Variables of Buying Behavior • • • • • Perception Motivation Learning Attitude Personality 12-29 Social Variables of Buying Behavior • • • • Social roles Reference groups Social classes Culture 12-30 How America Spends If you had an extra $1,000 to spend, what would you do with the money? Save 31% Pay debt 29% Buy a luxury item, vacation or gift 20% 16% Spend on essentials Give it to charity 0% 2% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% Source: “If you had an extra $1,000 to spend, what would you do with the money?,” USA Today, January 11, 2006, p.B1. 12-31 U.S. Chocolate Consumption • Chocolate consumed by Americans – 11.7 lbs./person • Increase in sales (2003 vs. 1998) – 11% • Favorite forms of chocolate – Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – Kit Kat – Popable Pieces (such as M&Ms) Source: Sandra Yin (2004) “Chock Full of Gold,” American Demographics, February 1, http:/demographics.com (accessed August 3, 2004). 12-32 Consumers Showing a Preference for Additional Ingredients in their Chocolate Nuts 72% Caramel Peanut Butter Crispies Cookies 71% 64% 56% 50% Coconut Mint Flavor Raisins 47% 45% 39% Coffee Flavor None of these 29% 2% Source: Sandra Yin (2004) “Chock Full of Gold,” American Demographics, February 1, http:/demographics.com (accessed August 3, 2004). 12-33 The Marketing Environment • External forces that directly or indirectly influence the development of marketing strategies – Political – Legal – Regulatory – Social – Competitive – Economic, and technological 12-34 The Marketing Mix and the Marketing Environment 12-35 Obesity Share by Nation 12-36 Solve the Dilemma 1. What do you think were the main concerns with the Olympus 2-door sports coupe? – Is there a market for a 2-seat, $32,000 sports car when the Miata sells for significantly less? 2. Evaluate the role of the marketing mix in the Olympus introduction. 3. What are some of the marketing strategies auto manufacturers use to stimulate sale of certain makes of automobiles? 12-37 Explore Your Career Options • How will a career in marketing be enhanced by knowledge about customer buying behavior and customer service? 12-38 Additional Discussion Questions and Exercises 1. Utility is the ability of a product to satisfy human needs and wants. – What are the four kinds of utility? 2. Why are intermediaries helpful in distribution? 3. What are some different forms of promotion? 4. What is the difference between primary data and secondary data? 5. What are some sources for obtaining secondary data? 12-39 Chapter 12 Quiz 1. When a business segments markets on the basis of personality characteristics, motives, and lifestyles, that segmentation is based on a. b. c. d. demographics geographic factors psychographics behavioristic characteristics 2. The act of giving up one thing in return for something else is a. b. c. d. marketing utility an exchange promotion 12-40 Chapter 12 Quiz 3. The psychological factor described as “changes in a person’s behavior based on information and experience” is termed: a. b. c. d. 4. Perception Motivation Personality Learning In developing a marketing mix, what should be the central focus of all marketing activities? a. b. c. d. Price Buyer or target market Product Promotion 12-41 Multiple Choice Questions about the Video 1. The person responsible for helping the Pike Place Fish Market achieve such success is: a. b. c. d. Emeril Lagassi John Yokoyama Frederick Taylor Abraham Maslow 2. The only advertising done by Pike Place Fish Market is on: a. b. c. d. QVC Food TV CNN Its Web site 12-42