Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
OVERVIEW OF
MARKETING
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
i. Understand marketing
ii. Identify the marketplace and customer
needs
iii. Identify a customer-driven marketing
strategy
iv. Understand the major trends and forces
that are changing the marketing
landscape
WHAT IS MARKETING??
Broadly defined MARKETING as a.
Markets
Exchanges &
relationships
Offerings
Societal
marketing
concept
Selling Marketing
concept concept
Product
concept
Production
concept
Production Concept
Thephilosophy that consumers will favour
products that are available and highly
affordable and that management should
therefore focus on improving production
and distribution efficiency.
Product Concept
Thephilosophy that consumers will favour
products that offer the most quality,
performance, and innovative features.
Selling Concept
Theidea that consumers will not buy
enough of the organizations products
unless the organization undertakes a large
scale selling and promotion effort.
Marketing Concept
Themarketing management philosophy
that holds that achieving organizational
goals depends on determining the needs
and wants of target markets and
delivering the desired satisfactions more
effectively and efficiently than
competitors do.
Societal Marketing Concept
The idea that the organization should
determine the needs, wants, and interests
of target markets and deliver the desired
satisfactions more effectively and
efficiently than competitors in a way that
maintains or improves the consumers and
societys well being.
THE MAJOR TRENDS AND
FORCES THAT ARE CHANGING
THE MARKETING LANDSCAPE
The digital age
Rapid
globalization
The grow of
non-for-profit
marketing