Chapter 1 Marketing
Chapter 1 Marketing
Chapter 1 Marketing
Marketing orientation
Production concept: Consumers will favor products that are
available and highly affordable.
Product concept: Consumers favor products that offer the most
quality, performance, and features.
Selling concept: Consumers will not buy enough of the firm’s
products unless the firm undertakes a large-scale selling and
promotion effort.
Marketing concept: Know the needs and wants of the target
markets and deliver the desired satisfactions better than
competitors.
Societal marketing concept: is the idea that a company should
make good marketing decisions by considering consumers’
wants, the company’s requirements, consumers’ long-term
interests, and society’s long-run interests
Marketing affects all individuals, all organizations, all
industries, and all countries.
Marketing is the activity for creating, communicating,
delivering, and exchanging offerings that benefit its customers,
the organization, its stakeholders, and society at large.
Exchange is the trade of things of value between a buyer
and a seller so that each is better off after the trade.
A market consists of people with both the desire and the
ability to buy a specific offering.
A target market consists of one or more specific groups
of potential consumers toward which an organization
directs its marketing program
The marketing mix consists of the marketing manager’s
controllable factors—product, price, promotion, and
place—that can be used to solve a marketing problem
Customer value proposition is the cluster of benefits
that an organization promises customers to satisfy their
needs.
Environmental forces consist of the uncontrollable
forces that affect a marketing decision, which consist of
social, economic, technological, competitive, and
regulatory forces
Customer value is the unique combination of benefits
received by targeted buyers that includes quality,
convenience, on-time delivery, and both before-sale and
after-sale service at a specific price
Relationship marketing links the organization to its
individual customers, employees, suppliers, and other
partners for their mutual long-term benefit
A marketing program is a plan that integrates the
marketing mix to provide a good, service, or idea to
prospective buyers
Market segments are the relatively homogeneous
groups of prospective buyers that (1) have common
needs and (2) will respond similarly to a arketing action
A marketing concept is the idea that an organization
should (1) strive to satisfy the needs of consumers (2)
while also trying to achieve the organization’s goals
A market orientation occurs when an organization
focuses its efforts on (1) continuously collecting
information about customers’ needs, (2) sharing this
information across departments, and (3) using it to
create customer value
Customer relationship management (CRM) is the
process of identifying prospective buyers, understanding
them intimately, and developing favorable long-term
perceptions of the organization and its offerings so that
buyers will choose them in the marketplace
Customer experience is the internal response that
customers have to all aspects of an organization and its
offering
Societal marketing concept is the view that
organizations should satisfy the needs of consumers in a
way that provides for society’s well-being.
A product is a good, service, or idea consisting of a
bundle of tangible and intangible attributes that satisfies
consumers’ needs and is received in exchange for money
or something else of value
Ultimate consumers consist of the people who use the
products and services purchased for a household. Also
called consumers, buyers, or customers
Organizational buyers are those manufacturers,
wholesalers, retailers, and government agencies that buy
products and services for their own use or for resale
Utility consists of the benefits or customer value
received by users of the product.