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Marketing
Principles of Marketing (Kotler)
Question | Answer |
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Define: Marketing | Marketing is the process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships in order to capture value from customers in return. |
5 Stages of the Marketing Process | 1.Understand marketplace + customer needs, wants, demands. 2.Customer-driven marketing strategy. 3.Integrated marketing program delivers superior value. 4.Build profitable relationships + create customer delight. 5.Capture value from customers. |
Needs | States of felt deprivation. Physical: e.g. food, Individual: e.g. knowledge and Social: e.g. belonging. |
Wants | The form human needs take as shaped by culture and individual personality. |
Demands | Human wants that are backed by buying power |
Market offering | Some combination of products, services, information or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want. |
Marketing Myopia | The mistake of paying more attention to the specific products a company offers than to the benefits and experiences produced by these products. |
Customer Perceived value | The customer's evaluation of the difference between all the benefits and all the costs of a market offering relative to those of competing offers. |
Customer satisfaction | The extent to which a product's perceived performance matches a buyer's performance. |
Exchange | The act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return. |
Transaction | A trade between two parties that involves at least two things of value, agreed-upon conditions, and a time and place of agreement. |
Market | A set of all actual and potential buyers of a product or service. |
Marketing Management | The art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them. |
Demarketing | Marketing in which the task is to temporarily or permanently reduce demand. |
Excitement | Customer engagement through experiential and emotional involvement with sellers. The key to to creating excitement is interactivity and involvement. |
Value Proposition | The set of benefits or values it promises to deliver to consumers to satisfy their needs. It differentiates and positions the company in the marketplace. |
Production Concept | The idea that consumers will favour products that are available and highly affordable, and that the organisation should therefore focus on improving production and distribution and efficiency. |
Product concept | The idea that consumers will favour products that offers the most quality, performance and features, and that the organisation should therefore devote its energy to making continuous product improvements. |
Selling Concept | The idea that consumers will not buy enough of the firm's products unless it undertakes a large scales selling and promotion effort. |
Marketing Concept | The marketing management philosophy which holds that achieving organisational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions better than competitors do. |
Societal Concept | The idea that a company's marketing decisions should consider consumers' wants, the company's requirements, consumers' long run interests and society's long-run interests. |
Elements of an integrated marketing program | Product: Goods, Services and Experiences. Promotion, Price, Place, People Process Physical evidence. |
Customer relationship management | Overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction. |
Customer satisfaction | The extent to which a product's perceived performance matches a buyer's expectations. |
Customer managed relationships | Marketing relationships in which customers, empowered by today's new digital technologies, interact with companies and with each other to shape their relationships with brands. |
Consumer generated marketing | Brand exchanges created by consumers themselves -both invited and uninvited -by which consumers are playing an increasing role in shaping their own brand experiences and those of other consumers. |
Partner Relationship management | Working closely with partners in other company departments and outside the company to jointly bring greater value to customers. |