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Explore the core concepts of marketing, including customer value, satisfaction, and quality. Learn how marketers manage demand and build profitable customer relationships. Analyze the major challenges facing marketers in the new "connected" millennium.
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Chapter 1 Marketing in a Changing World: Creating Customer Value and Satisfaction
Road Map: Previewing the Concepts • Define what marketing is and discuss its core concepts. • Explain the relationships between customer value, satisfaction, and quality. • Define marketing management and understand how marketers manage demand and build profitable customer relationships. • Compare the five marketing management philosophies. • Analyze the major challenges facing marketers heading into the new “connected” millennium.
What is Marketing? Simply put: Marketing is the delivery of customer satisfaction at a profit. Goals: Attract new customers by promising superior value and keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction.
Marketing Defined Process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others.
What Will Satisfy Consumers’ Needs and Wants? Products Anything that can be Offered to a Market to Satisfy a Need or Want Experiences Persons Places Organizations Activities Ideas Services Activity or Benefit Offered for Sale That is Essentially Intangible and Doesn’t Result in the Ownership of Anything
Value Gained From Owning a Product and Costs of Obtaining the Product isCustomer Value Product’s Perceived Performance in Delivering Value Relative to Buyer’s Expectations is Customer Satisfaction Total Quality Management Involves Improving the Quality of Products, Services, and Business Processes How Do Consumers ChooseAmong Products and Services? Customer-Driven Quality
How Do Consumers Obtain Products and Services? Transactions Exchanges • Relationships • Building a Marketing • Network by Adding: • Financial Benefits • Social Benefits • Structural Ties • Profitable Customers
Interactive Student Assignments • Consider the following thought questions, formulate an answer, pair with the student on your right, share your thoughts with one another, and respond to questions from your instructor. • When was the last time you were completely satisfied with something you purchased? • What was it? • Why were you satisfied? • What did a marketer have to do with this?
Marketing Management Marketing Management Involves managing demand, which involves managing customer relationships Demand Management Finding and increasing demand, also changing or reducing demand such as in Demarketing Profitable Customer Relationships Attracting new customers and retaining and building relationships with current customers
Stage 1. Entrepreneurial Marketing Marketing Management Practice Stage 2. Formulated Marketing Stage 3. Intrepreneurial Marketing
Marketing Management Philosophies Production Concept Product Concept Selling Concept Marketing Concept Societal Marketing Concept Customer-Driven
Societal Marketing Concept (Fig. 1-4) http://www.johnsonandjohnson.com/
Discussion Question • What are the major differences between the Marketing Concept and the Societal Marketing Concept?
Marketing Challenges in the New “Connected” Millennium (Fig. 1-5)
Technologies for Connecting Create Products & Services Tailored to Meet Customer Needs Learn About & Track Customers With Databases Connecting Technologies in Computers, Telecommunications, Information, & Transportation Help To: Distribute Products More Efficiently & Effectively Communicate With Customers in Groups Or One-on-One
The Internet • The Internet has been hailed as the technology behind a New Economy. • New applications include: • “click-and-mortar” companies • “click-only” companies • Business-to-business e-commerce • Business-to-business transactions online are expected to reach $3.6 trillion in 2003. • By 2005, 500,000 companies will use the Internet to do business.
Connections With Customers • Most marketers are targeting fewer, potentially more profitable customers. • Asking: • What value does the customer bring to the organization? • Are they worth pursuing? • Connecting for a customer’s lifetime.
BankOne (Marketing at Work 1-3) • BankOne focuses on connecting with customers they can serve profitably. • Premier One customers know that they are “special, exclusive, privileged, valued.” • http://www.bankone.com/
Direct Connections With Customers • Many companies use technologies to let them connect more directly with their customers. • Products available via telephone, mail-order catalogs, kiosks and e-commerce. • Some firms sell only via direct channels (i.e. Dell Computer, http://www.amazon.com/), others use a combination. • Direct marketing is redefining the buyer’s role in connecting with sellers. • Buyers are active participants in shaping the marketing offer and process; some buyers design their own products online such as at http://www.landsend.com/.
Connecting Inside the Company Every employee must be customer-focused Teams coordinate efforts toward customers Connecting With Outside Partners Supply Chain Management Strategic Alliances Connections With Marketing’s Partners
Connections With the World Around Us Global Connections Broadening Connections Value Connections Social Responsibility Connections
Rest Stop: Reviewing the Concepts • Define what marketing is and discuss its core concepts. • Explain the relationships between customer value, satisfaction, and quality. • Define marketing management and examine how marketers manage demand and build profitable customer relationships. • Compare the five marketing management philosophies. • Analyze the major challenges facing marketers heading into the next millennium.