Chapter One
Roadmap:
Previewing the Concepts
1. Define marketing and the marketing process.
2. Explain the importance of understanding customers and identify the five core
marketplace concepts.
3. Identify the elements of a customer-driven marketing strategy and discuss the
marketing management orientations.
4. Discuss customer relationship management and creating value for and capturing value from customers.
Creating Value
NASCAR sells the
experience – in-car cameras, wholesome family orientation.
NASCAR.com engages
fans via content.
Success has been
achieved by creating
lasting customer relationships.
NASCAR – What is its secret?
NASCAR – What is its secret?
Case Study
Case Study
Capturing Value
NASCAR is the 2nd
highest rated sport on TV.
Fans are young, affluent,
and family oriented, spending nearly $700 annually on NASCAR merchandise.
Fans are loyal to sport
What Is Marketing?
Simple Definition:
Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships.
Goals:
1. Attract new customers by promising superior value.
Marketing Defined
A social and managerial process by
which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through
creating and exchanging products and value with others.
OLD View of Marketing: Making a Sale – “Telling & Selling”
The Marketing Process
A simple model of the marketing process:
– Understand the marketplace and customer needs and wants.
– Design a customer-driven marketing strategy. – Construct a marketing program that delivers
superior value.
– Build profitable relationships and create customer delight.
Needs, Wants, & Demands
Need:
State of felt deprivation including
physical, social, and individual needs.
– Physical needs:
• Food, clothing, shelter, safety
– Social needs:
• Belonging, affection
Needs, Wants, & Demands
Wants:
Form that a human need takes, as shaped by culture and individual personality.
Need / Want Fulfillment
Needs and wants are fulfilled through a
Marketing Offer:
– Some combination of products, services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need
Need / Want Satisfiers
– Activity or benefit offered for sale
that is essentially intangible and
does not result in ownership.
Brand Experiences:
Marketing Myopia
Marketing myopia occurs when sellers
pay more attention to the specific
products they offer than to the benefits and experiences produced by the
products.
They focus on the “wants” and lose
Value & Satisfaction
Care must be taken when setting
expectations:
– If performance is lower than expectations, satisfaction is low.
– If performance is higher than expectations,
Exchange vs. Transaction
Exchange:
– Act of obtaining
a desired object from someone by offering
something in return.
Transaction:
– A trade of
values between two parties.
– One party gives
X to another
What Is a Market?
The set of actual and potential buyers
of a product.
These people share a need or want that
Modern Marketing Systems
Main elements in a modern marketing
system include:
– Suppliers
– Company (marketer)
– Competitors
– Marketing intermediaries
Marketing Management
The art and science of choosing target
markets and building profitable relationships with them.
– Requires that consumers and the
Marketing Management
Designing a winning marketing
strategy requires answers to the following questions:
1. What customers will we serve?
What is our target market?
2. How can we best serve these
customers?
Segmentation & Target Marketing
Market Segmentation:
– Divide the market into segments of customers
Target Marketing:
Marketing Management
Demand
Management
– Finding and increasing
demand, also changing or reducing
demand, as in demarketing.
Demarketing
– Temporarily or permanently reducing the number of
Value Proposition
The set of benefits or values a
company promises to deliver to consumers to satisfy their needs.
– Value propositions dictate how firms will
Marketing Management
Philosophies
Production Concept Product Concept
Selling Concept
Marketing Concept
The Marketing Plan
Transforms the marketing strategy into
action
Includes the marketing mix and 4 P’s of
marketing:
– Product – Price
Customer Relationship Management
The overall process of building and
maintaining profitable customer
relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction.
Customer Perceived Value
Customer’s evaluation of the difference
Customer Satisfaction
Dependent on the product’s perceived
performance relative to a buyer’s expectations.
– Customer satisfaction often leads to
consumer loyalty.
Customer Relationships
Loyalty and retention programs build
relationships and may feature:
– Financial Benefits
• EX: Frequency marketing programs
– Social Benefits
• EX: Club marketing programs
– Structural Ties
Focus is on relating directly to
Partner Relationship Marketing
Marketing partners help create customer
value and assist in building customer relationships.
Partners inside the firm:
– All employees customer focused
– Teams coordinate efforts toward customers
Partners outside the firm:
Customer Loyalty & Retention
Customer
Lifetime Value
– The entire
stream of
purchases that the customer would make over a lifetime of patronage.
Share of
Customer
– The share a company gets
of the customers purchasing in
Customer Equity
The combined discounted customer
lifetime values of all the company’s current and potential customers.
– Classify customers by loyalty and
potential profitability
The New Digital Age
Technology impacts the ways firms bring
value to their customers.
Greater connectivity means greater access to
information, faster travel and communication.
The Internet allows anytime, anywhere
connections between firms and customers.
– “Click-and-mortar” companies
– “Click-only” companies
New Marketing Landscape
Rapid Globalization
Ethics and Social Responsibility Not-for-Profit Marketing
Rest Stop:
Reviewing the Concepts
1. Define marketing and the marketing process.
2. Explain the importance of understanding customers and identify the five core
marketplace concepts.
3. Identify the elements of a customer-driven marketing strategy and discuss the
marketing management orientations.
4. Discuss customer relationship management and creating value for and capturing value from customers.