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Marketing

Organisation focuses on meeting customer needs with right product, at right price, right place, right time

Marketing Gaps

Space


Time


Information


Ownership


Value

Space Gap

Distance exists between manufacturer and consumer

Time Gap

Gap exists between manufacturing of a product and consumption of product e.g Easter eggs

Information Gap

Customer must know about product in order to consume it

Ownership Gap

To complete an exchange, ownership must change. e.g when a car is purchased

Value Gap

Value lies in what buyer is prepared to sacrifice for the product



Intermediaries

Middlemen


Sales Intermediaries


Auxiliary enterprises

Middlemen

Directly involved in taking title of products that are later sold to others E.g PEP Stores

Sales Intermediaries

Do not take title of product, they advertise products and are paid for this

Auxiliary Enterprises

Not involved in in transfer of title but provide support services to help the selling process

Marketing Activities

activities used to transfer product or service to buyer. This includes Primary, Auxiliary and Exchange activities

Primary Marketing Activity

Transport, to deliver product to consumer in quickest and safest way



Auxiliary Marketing Activities

Additional services:


*Sourcing and Supplying info


*Standardization and Grading


*Storage


*Financing


*Risk Taking





Sourcing and Supplying Info

SELLER must know who and where potential Customers are, info can be obtained by market research, thereafter communicate with these buyers through advertising

Standardization and Grading

Products must conform to norms and standards, this helps the buying process, helps buyer choose best product between all the varieties.

Storage

This activity closes the TIME GAP. Seasonal products are stored to ensure regular supply throughout the year

Financing

Costs are incurred when transferring products from seller to buyer, these costs must be financed

Risk Taking



Owner of product is exposed to risk of loss/damage. Risk is carried by both seller and buyer

Exchange Marketing Activities

Buying and Selling

Marketing Orientations

Production


Sales


Marketing


Social Responsibility

Production Orientation

*Produce products in sufficient quantities


*Reasonable price


*Main focus producing/manufacturing


*Products will sell themselves


*Wants and needs of customers ignored

Sales Orientation

*Realized they produced more than could be consumed


*Main Aim: Maximize sales volume


*Sell as much as possible at any cost


*Assumption High sales=Profitability


*Selling products and services regardless of if they are needed

Marketing Orientation

*Meeting needs of customers


*Satisfying needs of customers


*Make a profit in the process


*Marketing begins and ends with customer


*Should consider community in which it operates

Four Principles of Marketing Orientation

1. Customer Orientation


2. Profit Orientation


3. Systems Orientation


4. Social Responsibility

1.Customer Orientation

*Actions aimed at satisfying customer wants and needs


*Customers are focal point of decision making


*Task not complete after sale, provides after sale service - Check on satisfaction


*What can be done to enhance satisfaction



2.Profit Orientation

*Customer orientation achieves true goal - Profit


*Providing product that meets needs = Achieve product goal

3.Systems Orientation

*Group of units who work together to achieve joint objective


*all departments work together


*Activities of business should be co ordinated

4. Social Responsibility

*Businesses are part of larger society in which they exist


*Owe their success to society


*Demonstrate Social responsibility by spending lots of money on projects contributing to the well being of society


*Responsibility towards welfare of employees

Green Marketing

*Example of Social Responsibility


*Go to great lengths to let consumers know their products are environmentally friendly


*Promotion of products and services based on environmental factors


*Incorporates broad range of activities:


-Product modification


-change production process


-packaging changes


-alternative distribution


-modified advertisements

Relationship Marketing

Identify core customers, establish relationships, maintain and enhance these relationships, terminate if necessary


*Main focus development, maintenance and expansion of long term relationships


*Acknowledges different marketing strategies must be used to get and keep customers

Extended Market in relationship marketing

Maintaining close relationships with the following groups:


1. Current Customers


2. Potential Customers


3. Suppliers


4. Potential Employees


5. Reference Groups


6. Influencers


7. Current Employees