2. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Marketing is a social and managerial process by which
individuals and groups obtain what they need and want
through creating, offering and exchanging products of
value with others
(Philip Kotler )
Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes
for creating, communicating, and delivering value to
customers and for managing customer relationships in ways
that benefit the organization and its stakeholders
(Kotler Keller)
• Demand ?
• Services and Ideas ?
3. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Needs : State of deprivation of some basic
satisfaction. Not created by society / marketers.
Exist in very texture of human biology and condition
• Wants : Desires for specific satisfiers of need.
Continuously shaped/reshaped by social forces and
institutions..
• Demands : Want for specific products products that
are backed by the ability and willingness to buy
them. Wants become demands when supported by
purchasing power
4. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Needs are few / wants are many
• Needs preexist marketers
• Marketers along with social influences
influence wants
• Marketers influence demand by making the
products appropriate, attractive, affordable,
and easily available to target customers
5. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Product : Anything that can satisfy a need or want
• Product : also called offering or solution
• Product can have three components : physical
goods , services and ideas
• Product owning vs. obtaining the service they
render
• Marketing myopia
• Physical object : means of packaging a service
7. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Product choice set
• Need set
• Value :consumer’s estimate of the products’
overall capacity to satisfy needs
• Value is the satisfaction of customers’
requirements at the lowest possible cost of
acquisition, ownership and use
• Opportunity Cost
10. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• How people can obtain products :
1. Self – production
2. Coercion
3. Begging
4. Exchange : act of obtaining a desired product
from someone by offering something in
return
11. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Conditions that must be satisfied for exchange
potential to exist :
1. At least two parties
2. Each party has something that might be of value to
the other party
3. Each party is capable of communication and delivery
4. Each party is free to accept or reject the exchange
offer
5. Each party believes it is appropriate or desirable to
deal with the other party
12. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Exchange is a process rather than an event
• Transaction is a trade of values between two or more
parties
• Monetary transaction vs. barter transaction
• Transfer : One party gives something of value to the
other party but does not receive anything in return
• Marketers seek to elicit a behavioral response from the
other party
• Negotiation : Process of trying to reach agreeable
terms
13. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Market : Consists of all the potential customers
sharing a particular need or want who may be
willing and able to engage in exchange to satisfy
that need or want
• Traditionally : Market is a place here buyers and
sellers gather to exchange their goods
• Economists : Collection of buyers and sellers
who transact over particular product (class)
• Marketers : Sellers = industry , buyers = market
14. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Market types : Need / Product / Demographic /
Geographic /Voter / Labor etc-.
Industry (
Collection of
sellers )
Market (
Collection of
buyers)
Goods / Services
Money
Communication
information
15. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Marketing (Management) : Process of planning and
executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and
distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create
exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational
goals.
• Marketing management is the art and science of
choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and
growing customers through creating, delivering, and
communicating superior customer value
• Marketing Management has the task of influencing the
level, timing and composition of demand in a way that
will help the organization achieve its objective
16. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Production Concept : The consumers will favor
those products that are widely available and
low in cost. Managers of production oriented
organizations concentrate on achieving high
production efficiency and wide distribution.
• This holds true in two situations :
1. Demand for a product exceeds supply
2. Product’s cost is high and has to be
decreased to expand the market
17. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Product Concept : Customers will favor those
products that offer the most quality, performance,
or innovative feature. Concentration is on making
superior products and improving them all the time.
• Companies are more self obsessed
• Customer input is vital
• Looking into a mirror vs. looking outside the
window
18. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Selling Concept : Holds that the consumers, if left
alone, will not buy enough of the organisation’s
products. The organisation must therefore undertake
an aggressive selling and promotion effort
• Practice for goods that people do not normally think of
buying / overcapacity
• Aim is to sell what they make rather than make what
the markets want
• Aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous
• Aim of marketing is to know the customer so well that
the product or service fits him and sells itself
19. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Marketing Concept :The key to achieve organisational
goals consists of being more effective than competitors
in integrating marketing activities towards determining
and satisfying the needs and wants of target markets
• 4 pillars of marketing concept : Target Market /
Customer Needs / Integrated marketing / profitability
• Selling focuses on the needs of the seller, marketing on
the needs of the buyer
• Selling is preoccupied with the seller’s need to convert
his product into cash, marketing with the whole idea of
satisfying the needs of the customer by means of the
product
20. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Customer Needs : Types of Need :
1. Stated Needs
2. Real Needs
3. Unstated Needs
4. Delight Needs
5. Secret Needs
21. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Responsive Marketing : Find a stated need and fulfill it
• Creative Marketing : Discovers and produces solutions
that the customer did not as for but to which they
respond enthusiastically
• Integrated Marketing : When all the company’s
departments work together to satisfy the customer’s
interest, the result is integrated marketing
• External marketing : Marketing directed to people
outside the company
• Internal marketing : Successful hiring / training and
motivating employees who want to serve the
customers well
22. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Societal Marketing Concept : The organisation’s
task is to determine the needs, wants and
interests of target markets and to deliver the
desired satisfactions more effectively and
efficiently than competitors in a way that
preserves or enhances the consumer’s and the
society’s well being
• Calls for marketer to build social and ethical
considerations into the marketing practices
• Green marketing : Marketing of products that are
presumed to be environmentally safe
23. MARKETING : CORE CONCEPTS
• Social marketing : Systematic application of marketing,
along with other concepts and techniques, to achieve
specific behavioral goals for a social good.
• Social marketing can be applied to promote merit goods, or
to make a society avoid demerit goods and thus to promote
society's well being as a whole
• The primary aim of social marketing is "social good", while
in "commercial marketing" the aim is primarily "financial”
• Social marketing is being described as having "two
parents"—a "social parent" = social sciences and social
policy, and a "marketing parent" = commercial and public
sector marketing approaches
24. Functions of CMOs
• Strengthening the brands
• Measuring marketing effectiveness
• Driving new product development based on
customer needs
• Gathering meaningful customer insights
• Utilizing new marketing technology
25. Improving CMO Success
• Make the mission and responsibilities clear
• Fit the role to the marketing culture and
structure
• Ensure the CMO is compatible with the CEO
• Remember that show people don’t succeed
• Match the personality with the CMO type
• Make line managers marketing heroes
• Infiltrate the line organization
• Require right-brain and left-brain skills
26. Core Marketing Concepts
• Target markets,
positioning,
segmentation
• Offerings and brands
• Value and satisfaction
• Marketing channels
• Supply chain
• Competition
• Marketing
environment
27. New Consumer Capabilities
• A substantial increase in buying power
• A greater variety of available goods and services
• A great amount of information about practically
anything
• Greater ease in interacting and placing and
receiving orders
• An ability to compare notes on products and
services
• An amplified voice to influence public opinion