Basic Business Functions and Marketing Overview

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What is the primary goal of marketing?

  • To manage product development and distribution effectively
  • To create effective advertising campaigns
  • To ensure all sales targets are met regardless of customer satisfaction
  • To attract new customers and maintain current customer satisfaction (correct)

Which function is primarily responsible for understanding consumer behavior?

  • Organisation
  • Marketing (correct)
  • Operations
  • Finance

How does marketing differ from advertising?

  • Marketing is focused solely on product pricing, advertising covers everything else
  • Marketing is only about creating ads, while advertising involves market research
  • Marketing sets the strategy, while advertising executes it (correct)
  • Marketing is strictly a short-term approach, while advertising is long-term

Which of the following best describes the role of advertising?

<p>Making products known to the marketplace (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What aspect does marketing focus on compared to sales?

<p>Long-term relationship building and customer satisfaction (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the roles of marketing related to product development?

<p>Conducting market research to inform product features (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following definitions best sums up marketing?

<p>Identifying and satisfying customer needs to achieve loyalty and profitability (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In terms of target audience, how is marketing characterized?

<p>One-to-many approach fulfilling broader customer wants (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What role does packaging play in marketing?

<p>It helps facilitate the distribution of products (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a role of marketing?

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Study Notes

Three Basic Business Functions

  • Organization: Essential for structure and management
  • Finance: Handles financial resources, investments, and budgeting
  • Operations: Focuses on the production and delivery of goods and services
  • Marketing: Manages customer relationships, promotes products, and drives sales

Defining Marketing

  • Glen Gilmore: Marketing identifies, anticipates, and meets customer needs to build loyalty and profits
  • Kotler: Marketing is a social process where individuals and groups obtain what they need through exchange of value
  • American Marketing Association: Marketing involves planning and executing decisions around product, pricing, promotion, and distribution to achieve organizational goals

Marketing Goals

  • Attract new customers by offering superior value
  • Retain and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction
  • Understanding customer behavior and influencing it is crucial

Marketing Roles

  • Advertising: Promotes products and services through various mediums
  • Selling: Involves direct interaction with customers to make sales
  • Product Development: Creates new products or improves existing ones
  • Packaging: Design and presentation of products
  • Pricing: Setting competitive prices to attract customers
  • Distribution: Ensuring products reach the right place at the right time

Marketing vs. Advertising

  • Marketing: Focuses on understanding customer needs, creating a brand, and aligning product image with target audience
  • Advertising: Involves communicating the existence and benefits of a product to potential customers.

Marketing & Advertising: Creativity

  • Both rely heavily on creativity to attract attention and engage customers.

Marketing vs. Sales

  • Marketing: Long-term focus on meeting future customer needs through strategy
  • Sales: Short-term focus on fulfilling current demand by matching products to customer needs
  • Marketing: One-to-many approach, fulfilling customer wants through products and services
  • Sales: One-to-one approach, fulfilling sales targets
  • Marketing: Long-term perspective
  • Sales: Short-term perspective

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