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What is marketing?

Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large

Marketing is about _______ and ________ to _______ affected by a transaction

Marketing is about meeting needs and delivering value to all people

Needs

Difference between actual and desired state

Wants

Desire to satisfy needs in a certain way

Benefit

The outcome customer desires; meets a need or want

Exchange

Transferring value from buyer to seller

Demand

Desire for product/serve + resources to pay for it

Market

Collection of people who have a need for a product/service, and are willing and able to spend the resources necessary to obtain it

Stakeholders

-Anybody who has a "stake" in outcome of the product or service


-Seller, buyer, investor, community, or place where product is made

Utility/Value

-Sum of benefits we receive from a product


-Can by symbolic (prestige)

Types of utility

-Form (convert raw materials into product)


-Place (make product/service available when customers want them


-Time (storing product until customer needs it)


-Possession (benefit from owning, using, enjoying product)

Value proposition

Marketplace offering that fairly and accurately sums up value realized if customer buys product or service

Value Chain (5)

-In-bound logistics (bringing in raw materials)


-Operations (converting raw materials into product)


-Outbound logistics (shipping our final product)


-Marketing and sales value chain


-Servicing product or customer

Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Schwartz value system (5)

-Self-actualization (self fulfillment)


-Ego needs (prestige, status, self-esteem)


-Social needs (affection, friendship, belonging)


-Safety and security needs (protection, order, stability)


-Physiological needs (food, water, air, shelter, sex)

McClelland's systems of needs (3)

-Power - Individual's desire to control environment


-Achievement - Need for personal accomplishment


-Affiliation - Need for friendship, acceptance, and belonging

Deel & Ryan (2000) (3)

-Autonomy - Desire freedom from external control


-Competence - Need to feel one is competent at tasks


-Relatedness - Need to relate to others


Product orientation (4)

-When demand > supply (seller's market)


-Focus is on efficient production/distribution


-Marketing plays an insignificant role


-A good product will sell itself


Selling orientation (4)

-When supply > demand (buyer's market)


-Assumed customers resist buying non-essentials


-Focus is on moving product via hard sales tactics


-Marketing seen as a sales function

Consumer (or market) orientation (7)

-After WWII, production of consumer products resumed


-Strong buyer's market created need for consumer orientation


-Idea captured by the "marketing concept"


-Purpose of organization is achieving long-term success of organization by creating customer value (meeting customer's needs)


-Thus, must gather data, understand and meet needs


-Advantage: can build products consumers will more quickly adopt


-Stressed Total Quality Management (TQM)


-Continual improvement/input from employees

New Era orientation (6)

-Build long-term relationships with customers


-Customer relationship management (track needs, tailor value proposition to unique needs)


-Social marketing concept (benefit society, firm)


-Sustainability


-Designing products so that we meet present needs without compromising ability of future generations to meet theirs


-Accountability (what is return on investment in marketing activities?)


Dark side of marketing (6)

Social, legal, psychological, environmental, etc


-Illegal practices like "bait and switch"


-Societal health problems


-Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, alcoholism, domestic violence


Psychological costs


-Many ads exchange us to feel bad about ourselves


Financial burdens


-Consumer debt


Environmental degradation and resource depletion

Marketing plan (3)

How to achieve goals


Perform a situation (SWOT) analysis


Set marketing objectives (more narrowly defined that organization objectives)

Develop marketing strategies (2)

Select a target market


-Market opportunity analysis - size and sales potential of target group, and assessment of key competitors


Develop marketing mix strategies


-Product, price, promotion, place of distribution

Implement and control the plan (3)

Action plans - implementation of marketing strategies, responsibilities, time line, budget, measurement, and control


Control = monitoring progress


-Compare actual performance to marketing objectives and adjust strategy/objectives as needed


-Must have good marketing metrics


Marketing audits = evaluation of objectives, strategies, structure, performance of marketing organization

Marketing mix 4 P's

4 P's - Product, price, place, promotion

Three levels of a business plan

Strategic, functional, operational

Strategic planning

Managerial decision process that matches an organization's resources and capabilities to its market opportunities for long-term growth and survival

Functional (marketing) planning

Decision process that focusses on developing detailed plans for strategies and tactics for the short term that support an organization's long-term strategic plan

Operational planning

Decision process that focuses on developing detailed plans for day-to-day activities that carry out an organization's functional plans

Five steps in a strategic plan

Mission, environmental analysis, set objectives, establish/evaluate portfolio, growth strategies

Mission (4)

-Formal statement in an organization's strategic plan that describes overall purpose of org, and what it plans to achieve in terms of customers, products, resources, etc


-Too narrow = marketing myopia; too broad = no direction


-Could have one for each strategic business unit (SBU)


-Individual unites in the firm that operate like separate businesess, each with its own mission, objectives, resources, managers, and competitos

Environmental analysis

S.W.O.T analysis


SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)


SW = internal


OT = external


Goal; figure out a competitive advantage (CA)


-Cos, product/service differentiation, niche


-Sustainable CA


-An advantage that cannot be copied by competition

Internal environment (3)

Controllable elements in org, that may affect performance, processes


External environment

Uncontrollable elements outside org, that may affect performance

Set objectives (2)

Objectives flow from mission statement


Effective objectives are


-Realistic, specific, measurable, and well-matched with mission statement

Establish/ Evaluate portfolio (SBU's, BCG market share matrix) (2)

Portfolio


-Collection of brands/units owned by org, that have different income generating potential


Portfolio analysis


-Evaluating an org's business mix and assessing potential of an org's SBU's

Stars

dominant market share in high growth markets

cash cows

dominant market share in low growth market

Question marks

low market share in high growth markets

Dogs

low market share in low growth markets

Basic model of consumer decision making

Problem recognition, information search, evaluate alternatives, product choice, post purchase behavior

Problem recognition

-Recognizing a difference between current and desired or ideal state


-Can be driven by internal (hunger, goals) or external (friends, life stage, advertisements) factors

Information search

-Searching for appropriate information to make a reasonable decision


-Internal sources (memory based on past experience)


-External sources, non-marketing controlled, marketing controlled


-Search enlarges when perceived risk and interest are high, and confidence, knowledge, experience low

Evaluate alternatives

Info search --> "evoked (consideration) set


-Evaluation criteria, dimensions used by consumers to compare competing products/services


-Good marketers know the impact of different evaluation criteria

Product choice (4)

Reducing alternatives


-Key attribute (AC) or cutoff (40 mpg)


Heuristics = rules of thumb that facilitate quick decision making (expensive is good)


Brand loyalty also important


Intentions don't always lead to choice


-Attitude of others and unseen situational factors


Post purchase behavior (3)

Post-purchase evaluation


-satisfaction based on expectations


-Larger gap, less satisfaction


reduce post-decisional regret (cognitive dissonance)


other post purchase behaviors


-repeat purchase


-good vs. bad word of mouth