Defining Marketing for the 21st Century

1. Defining Marketing for the 21st Century Chapter 1

2. MARKETING MANAGEMENT In this chapter we will address the following questions: What is the new economy like? What are the tasks of marketing? What are the major concepts and tools of marketing? What orientations do companies exhibit in the marketplace? How are companies responding to the new challenges?

3. Objectives • Be able to define marketing and discuss its core concepts. • Be able to define marketing management and compare the five marketing management orientations. • Understand customer relationship management and strategies. • Realize the major challenges facing marketers in the new “connected” millennium.

4. 1. Introduction • a. Today’s successful companies at all levels have one thing in common. • All successful companies are: a). Strongly customer focused. b). Heavily committed to marketing. • To be successful an organization motivates everyone in the organization to produce superior value for their customers, leading to high levels of customer satisfaction.

5. What is Marketing? • Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships • Attracting new customers • Retaining and growing current customers • “Marketing” is NOT synonymous with “sales” or “advertising” • Creating customer value and satisfaction are at the very heart of modern marketing thinking and practice

6. 2. What is Marketing? • b. A very simple definition of marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. • a. Creating customer value and satisfaction are at the very heart of modern marketing thinking and practice

7. Marketing Defined • d. Many people think of marketing only as selling and advertising. • 1). Marketing is no longer “telling and selling.” • 2). Today, marketing’s new sense is concerned with satisfying customer needs.

8. What is Marketing? • Kotler’s social definition: “Marketing is a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others.”

9. Needs, Wants, and Demands • Human needs are the most basic concept underlying marketing. • human need is a state of felt deprivation

10. 1). Humans have many complex needs. • a). Basic, physical needs for food, clothing, warmth, and safety. • b). Social needs for belonging and affection. • c). Individual needs for knowledge and self-expression. • These needs are part of the basic human makeup

11. g. Another concept in marketing is human wants. A human want is the form that a human need takes as shaped by culture and individual personality. • h. Demands are human wants that are backed by buying power.

12. Selling is only the tip of the iceberg “There will always be need for some selling. But the aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous. The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits him and sells itself. Ideally, marketing should result in a customer who is ready to buy. All that should be needed is to make the product or service available.” Peter Drucker

13. Goods Services Events & Experiences Persons Places & Properties Organizations Information Ideas What is Exchanged in Marketing?

14. Marketing Offers—Products, Services, and Experiences • j. Companies address needs by putting forth a value proposition, a set of benefits that they promise to consumers to satisfy their needs.

15. The value proposition The value proposition is fulfilled through a marketing offer—some combination of products, services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want.

16. Notice • Be careful of paying attention to the product and not the benefit being satisfied. • “Marketing myopia” is caused by shortsightedness or losing sight of underlying customer needs by only focusing on existing wants • Smart marketers create brand meaning and brand experiences for consumers.

17. Value and Satisfaction • Customer valueis the difference between the values that the customer gains from owning and using a product and the costs of obtaining the product. Customers form expectations about the value of various marketing offers and buy accordingly. • Customer satisfaction depends on a product’s perceived performance in delivering value relative to a buyer’s expectations. Customer satisfaction is a key influence on future buying behavior

18. Value and Satisfaction Customer satisfaction depends on a product’s perceived performance in delivering value relative to a buyer’s expectations. Customer satisfaction is a key influence on future buying behavior

19. Markets • The concepts of exchange and relationships lead to the concept of a market. Market is the set of actual and potential buyers of a product. • Originally a “market” was a place where buyers and sellers gathered to exchange goods (such as a village square). • Economists use the term to designate a collection of buyers and sellers who transact in a particular product class (as in the grain or housing market).

20. Marketers • Marketers see buyers as constituting a market and sellers constituting an industry. • Marketers are keenly interested in markets

21. A Simple Marketing System

22. Structure of Flows in a Modern Exchange Economy

23. 4 Types of Markets • Consumer Market: (consumption) • Business Markets: (saving/resell) • Global Markets: (different offering mix) • Nonprofit and Governmental Market: (bids)

24. Marketing Concepts and Tools • Market: a collection of buyers and sellers • Marketplace: a physical market (store) • Marketspace: a digital market (Internet: e.g., www.secondlife.com) • Metamarket: markets involving closely-related products and services (e.g., www.edmunds.com) • Marketer and Prospect: A marketer is someone seeking a response from another party, called the prospect.

25. Marketing Management • Marketing management is “the art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them.” • Creating, delivering and communicating superior customer value is key.

26. Marketing Management • Customer Management: • Marketers select customers that can be served well and profitably. • Demand Management: • Marketers must deal with different demand states ranging from no demand to too much demand.

27. Customer and Demand Management • Marketing management is concerned not only with finding and increasing demand, but also with changing or even reducing it. • 1). Demarketing’s aim is to reduce demand temporarily or permanently (move traffic away from a popular tourist attraction during peak demand times). • 2). In reality, marketing management is customer management and demand management

28. Marketing Management Marketing Management • Production concept • Product concept • Selling concept • Marketing concept Management Orientations • Societal marketing concept

29. Marketing Management Orientations • There are five alternative concepts under which organizations conduct their marketing activities: the production, product, selling, marketing, and societal marketing concepts.

30. The Production Concept • The production conceptholds that consumers will favor products that are available and highly affordable and that management should, therefore, focus on improving production and distribution efficiency. This is one of the oldest philosophies that guides sellers • The production concept is useful when: • 1). Demand for a product exceeds the supply. • 2). The product’s cost is too high and improved productivity is needed to bring it down.

31. The risk with this concept is in focusing too narrowly on company operations. Do not ignore the desires of the market. This concept can lead to “marketing myopia.”

32. Company Orientations to the Marketplace(Marketing Management Philosophies) • Production concept: assumes consumers favor those products that are widely available and affordable. (Focus: wide distribution; high volume). 2. Product concept: assumes consumers will favor those products that offer the most quality, performance, and features. (Focus: Superior product)

33. Company Orientations to the Marketplace, cont. • Selling concept: assumes that consumers will either buy or not enough of the organizations’ products unless the organization makes a substantial effort to stimulate the customer’s interest in the product. (Focus: needs of the seller)

34. The purpose of marketing is to sell more stuff to more people more often for more money in order to make more profit Coca-Cola’s former Vice president

35. Company Orientations to the Marketplace, cont. 4. Marketing concept: holds that the key to achieving organizational goals consists in determining the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions more effectively and efficiently than competitors. (Focus: different needs of buyers)

36. The Product Concept • e. The product concept states that consumers will favor products that offer the most quality, performance, and features, and that the organization should, therefore devote its energy to making continuous product improvements.

37. 1). Some manufacturers mistakenly believe that if they “build a better mousetrap,”consumers will beat a path to their door just for their product. • 2). The product concept can also lead to “marketing myopia,” the failure to see the challenges being presented by other products.

38. The Selling Concept • f. Many organizations follow the selling concept. The selling concept is the idea that consumers will not buy enough of the organization’s products unless the organization undertakes a large-scale selling and promotion effort.

39. 1). This concept is typically practiced with unsought goods (those that buyers do not normally think of buying). • 2). To be successful with this concept, the organization must be good at tracking down the interested buyer and selling them on the product benefits.

40. 3). Industries that use this concept usually have overcapacity. Their aim is to sell what they make rather than make what will sell in the market • 4). There are not only high risks with this approach but low satisfaction by customers.

41. The Marketing Concept • The marketing conceptholds that achieving organizational goals depends on determining the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions more effectively and efficiently than competitors do. • Under the marketing concept, customer focus and value are paths to sales and profits

42. The Marketing Concept • h. The marketing and selling concepts are often confused. The primary differences are: • 1). The selling concept takes an “inside-out” perspective (focuses on existing products and uses heavy promotion and selling efforts). • 2). The marketing concept takes an “outside-in” perspective (focuses on customer needs, values, and satisfactions).

43. The Marketing Concept • i. Many companies claim to adopt the marketing concept but really do not unless they commit to market-focused and customer-driven philosophies. • 1). Customer-driven companies research current customers to learn about their desires, gather new product and service ideas, and test proposed product improvements

44. The Marketing Concept 2). Such customer-driven marketing usually works well when there exists a clear need and when customers know what they want. 3). When customers do not know what they want, marketers can try customer- driving marketing—understanding customer needs even better than customers themselves do, and creating products and services that will meet existing and latent needs now and in the future.

45. The Societal Marketing Concept • The societal marketing concept holds that the organization should determine the needs, wants, and interests of target markets. It should then deliver the desired satisfactions more effectively and efficiently than competitors in a way that maintains or improves the consumer’s and the society’s well-being.

46. The societal concept • 1). The societal marketing concept is the newest of the marketing philosophies. • 2). It questions whether the pure marketing concept is adequate given the wide variety of societal problems and ills. • 3). According to the societal marketing concept, the pure marketing concept overlooks possible conflicts between short-run consumer wants and long- run consumer welfare.

47. The societal concept The societal concept calls upon marketers to balance three considerations in setting their marketing policies: a). Company profits. b). Customer wants. c). Society’s interests.

48. CRM • CRM– Customer relationship management“is the overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction.” • It costs 5 to 10 times MORE to attract a new customer than it does to keep a current customer satisfied. • Marketers must be concerned with the lifetime value of the customer

49. CRM • Attracting, retaining and growing customers • Building customer relationships and customer equity • Customer value/satisfaction • Perceptions are key • Meeting/exceeding expectations creates satisfaction • Loyalty and retention • Benefits of loyalty • Loyalty increases as satisfaction levels increase • Delighting consumers should be the goal • Growing share of customer • Cross-selling Key Concepts

50. CRM • Customer equity • The total combined customer lifetime values of all customers. • Measures a firm’s performance, but in a manner that looks to the future. Key Concepts • Attracting, retaining and growing customers • Building customer relationships and customer equity