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What is marketing?
What is marketing?
Performance of activities that seek to accomplish objectives by anticipating customer or client needs from producer to a customer or client and directing a flow of need-satisfying goods and services.
Marketing is only important to consumers and not for job opportunities.
Marketing is only important to consumers and not for job opportunities.
False (B)
Which of the following are key characteristics of marketing?
Which of the following are key characteristics of marketing?
- Profit and nonprofit
- More than persuasion
- Builds relationships
- Begins with needs
- Involves exchanges
- Doesn't do it alone
- All of the above (correct)
What can be marketed?
What can be marketed?
Marketing involves exchanges.
Marketing involves exchanges.
What is pure subsistence economy?
What is pure subsistence economy?
Marketing begins with needs.
Marketing begins with needs.
Give an example of Consumer need in 2005.
Give an example of Consumer need in 2005.
Give some consumer needs for Dyson.
Give some consumer needs for Dyson.
What are universal functions of marketing?
What are universal functions of marketing?
Which markets use all universal functions of marketing?
Which markets use all universal functions of marketing?
Give an example of economic systems.
Give an example of economic systems.
What is matched in the macro-marketing system?
What is matched in the macro-marketing system?
Identify some of the marketing eras of the 20th century.
Identify some of the marketing eras of the 20th century.
List some key characteristics to the marketing concept.
List some key characteristics to the marketing concept.
Explain marketing metrics?
Explain marketing metrics?
What is the customer value formula?
What is the customer value formula?
Which of the following statements illustrates an understanding of the concept of customer value?
Which of the following statements illustrates an understanding of the concept of customer value?
How can a computer manufacturer increase customer value?
How can a computer manufacturer increase customer value?
Flashcards
Marketing
Marketing
The performance of activities that seek to accomplish objectives by anticipating customer needs and directing a flow of need-satisfying goods and services from producer to customer or client.
Marketing Exchanges
Marketing Exchanges
Parties with unsatisfied needs, desire and ability to satisfy, a way to communicate, and something to exchange
Pure Subsistence Economy
Pure Subsistence Economy
An economic system where each family unit produces everything it consumes.
Marketing Builds Relationships
Marketing Builds Relationships
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Macro-Marketing
Macro-Marketing
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Discrepancies of Quantity and Assortment
Discrepancies of Quantity and Assortment
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Separation Between Producers and Consumers
Separation Between Producers and Consumers
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Economies of Scale
Economies of Scale
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Universal Functions of Marketing
Universal Functions of Marketing
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Buying Function
Buying Function
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Selling Function
Selling Function
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Transporting Function
Transporting Function
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Storing Function
Storing Function
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Standardization and Grading
Standardization and Grading
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Financing Function
Financing Function
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Risk Taking
Risk Taking
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Market Information Function
Market Information Function
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Intermediary
Intermediary
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Economic System
Economic System
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Command Economy
Command Economy
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Market-Directed Economy
Market-Directed Economy
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Simple Trade Era
Simple Trade Era
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Production Era
Production Era
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Sales Era
Sales Era
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Marketing Department Era
Marketing Department Era
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Marketing Company Era
Marketing Company Era
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Marketing Concept
Marketing Concept
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Marketing Metrics
Marketing Metrics
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Customer Value
Customer Value
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Micro–Macro Dilemma
Micro–Macro Dilemma
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Study Notes
- Marketing's value extends to consumers, firms, and society.
What is Marketing?
- Marketing is more than just selling and advertising, it involves a range of activities.
- Key steps for managers before selling include analyzing needs, determining wants, identifying competition, predicting designs, deciding on promotion, estimating price, and providing service.
- Marketing matters to every consumer.
- Marketing provides a framework for various jobs.
- Marketing affects innovation and the general standard of living by directing the flow of need-satisfying goods and services from producer to consumer.
- Marketing is the performance of activities that seek to accomplish organizational objectives.
- Marketing builds relationships, is key to understanding characteristics, and satisfies the needs of both profit and non-profit organizations.
- Marketing involves exchanges, focuses on customer satisfaction, and encompasses the entire company effort.
- Marketing begins with the customers needs.
- Goods, services and ideas are all marketed.
Marketing Exchanges and Needs
- Marketing involves parties with unsatisfied needs.
- It requires a desire and ability to be satisfied.
- It also entails a way for involved parties to communicate and exchange with each other.
- Marketing was not necessary throughout the pure subsistence economy.
- Consumers may not know what they need or want.
- Cheetos lip balm in 2005 and Dyson vacuum cleaners are examples of consumer needs.
- Marketing builds relationships between firms and customers.
- Firms provide products and services for customers.
- Satisfied customers are key to marketing growth.
- Micro-marketing focuses on a single organization's activities whereas Macro-marketing emphasizes the whole system.
- Macro-marketing matches up producers and consumers and every society needs it
Macro-Marketing System
- Societies require macro-marketing systems to match supply and demand.
- Different producers vary in objectives, resources, and skills.
- Each consumer has different requirements.
- Systems must effectively align diverse consumer and producer needs.
- Effective macro-marketing systems deliver desired goods and services, at the right time and place, at acceptable prices.
- It also continues to keep consumers satisfied after the sale for future purchases.
- Macro marketing is a social process that directs the flow of goods and services from producers to consumers matching supply and demand to meet society's objectives.
- Marketing bridges the gap between production discrepancies and consumer separation.
Universal functions of Marketing.
- Universal functions of marketing include buying, selling, transporting, storing, standardization & grading, financing, market information, and risk-taking.
- Producers, wholesalers, retailers, transport firms, ISPs, product testing firms, research firms, advertisers and consumers perform Marketing Functions.
- Marketing overcomes spatial separation via marketing.
- Economic systems can be command based or market directed.
- In a Command Economy, government officials decide production and distribution.
- This may work well in simple economies, with little variety, or under adverse conditions.
- In a Market-Directed Economy, the economy adjusts itself.
- Price works as a measure in a market-directed economy.
- There is freedom of choice, limited government intervention and public interest groups/consumers.
- A Market-Directed Macro-Marketing System includes interactions between many individual producers, intermediaries, collaborators and, individual consumers.
Evolution of Marketing Eras
- Marketing roles have changed over the years.
- The Simple Trade Era involved families selling surplus.
- The Production Era until the1920s focused on increasing supply.
- The Sales Era, from the 1930s to 1950, focused on beating the competition.
- The Marketing Department Era that began after 1950s focused on coordination and control.
- The Marketing Company Era since the 1960s involves long-run customer satisfaction.
- The Marketing Concept revolves are customer satistfaction.
- It incorporates total company effort to strive for profit and long term measured success as objectives.
- The Marketing Concept states customer satisfaction guides the entire company working together for survival.
- Marketing adoption is not universal.
- Some organizations promote a "triple bottom line" consisting of economic, social, and environmental outcomes.
- Companies like TOMS use “purpose orientation”.
Perspectives on Orientation
- Some differences in outlook include adopters of a production, marketing, or purpose orientation
- Some differences include attitudes towards customers, attitudes towards employees and/ or product offerings.
- The Role of marketing research, for the sake of innovation and bettering customer service is taken in to account.
- Factors to address are consumer customer satisfaction, maintaining relationships and costs.
- Marketing concept aims all efforts at satisfying customers at a profit..
- Production orientation makes whatever products are easy to produce and then sells them.
- Marketing orientation carries out the marketing concept.
- Marketing metrics use numeric data to evaluate performance against goals like profit, revenue, and cost.
Customer values
- Metrics include Revenue = Price x Quantity and Profit = Revenue - Cost,
- Customer value is the customer value being offered.
- Customer Value equals Benefits minus Costs.
- Benefits are functional, emotional and life changing .
- Costs are Monetary and involve inconviences.
- The Marketing Concept and Customer Value revolves around taking a Customer's Point of View to satisfy their needs..
- Customers may or may not dwell on value.
- Customer Value builds Relationships
- The marketing concept also includes customer retention.
- Applying customer value requires considering satisfaction offerers.
- The Marketing Concept Applies in Nonprofit Organizations like newcomer groups may or may not be ready for marketing.
Micro v Macro dilemma
- The Micro v Macro dilemma balances group needs, dilema.
- Society's needs must be in balance with consumer satisfaction to build relationships.
- Horlicks was developed in 1873 and marketed as a malted drink powder taken warm with milk or water
- The product is targeted as a drink to sleep better and feel better, the largest markets being the UK and India.
- Products in the U.K, are taken warm and contains additional vitamins and minerals
- Products sold are sweet tasting and malty in different variants of Original, Light and Light malted chocolate.
- SKU is sold in 2kg, 800g and 400g sizes as a drink before bedtime.
- Marketing requires the understanding of psychology, anthropology and economics.
- Key terms in marketing include production, cust satisfaction, and different functions of marketing, collaborators and economic systems.
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