BASIC MARKETING CONCEPTS

WHAT IS MARKETING ?

Marketing is a social process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others

PHILIP KOTLER

This definition includes following core concepts : NEEDS ,WANTS and DEMANDS --- PRODUCTS------VALUE & SATISFACTION---EXCHANGE & TRANSACTION---MARKETS & MARKETERS

WHAT IS MARKETING ?

• ANY INTERPERSONAL AND INTERORGANISATIONAL RELATIONSHIP INVOLVING AN EXCHANGE IS MARKETING .

WILLIAM J.STANTON

WHAT IS MARKETING ?

The essence of Marketing is a transaction - an exchange- intended to satisfy human needs and wants.There are three elements in the marketing process :

(A) MARKETERS

(B)WHAT IS BEING MARKETED

(C) TARGET MARKET

NEEDS,WANTS AND DEMANDS

NEED : A state of felt deprivation of some basic satisfaction ( Food, Clothing, Shelter, Belonging etc. )

WANTS : Wants are desires for specific satisfiers of the deeper needs. Needs are few and wants are many .

DEMANDS : are wants backed by ------Ability to buy and Willingness to buy

PRODUCTS / OFFERS / SATISFIERS / RESOURCES

Anything that can be offered to someone to satisfy a need or want is a product .

Product refers to physical object

Services refer to intangible object

WHAT IS MARKET ?

A market consists of all the potential customers sharing a particular need or want who might be willing and able to engage in exchange to satisfy that need or want.

WHAT IS MARKETING ?

Marketing is the management process which identifies, anticipates, and supplies customer requirements efficiently and profitably.

In other words, it is the process of understanding, creating, and delivering profitable value to targeted customers better than the competition.

WHAT IS MARKETING ?

Its aim is to establish, maintain, enhance long term relationship with customers at a profit so that the objectives of the parties involved are met.

In short marketing consists of attracting, developing, and retaining profitable customers.

BUSINESS IS MARKETING

Marketing can not be considered as a separate function , it is the whole business, seen from the point of view of its final results.................that is profit,through customer satisfaction

PETER DRUCKER

A SIMPLE MARKETING SYSTEM

Industry Market

Communication

Information/Feedback

Goods & Services

Money

WHAT IS MARKETING MANAGEMENT ?

Marketing Management is the analysis, planning, implementation and control of programs designed to create, build and maintain beneficial exchanges and relationships with target markets for the purpose of achieving Organisational objectives.

STATE OF DEMAND AND MARKETING TASK

State of demand Negative Demand No Demand Latent Demand Falling Demand Irregular Demand Full Demand Overfull Demand Un-wholesome Demand

Marketing task Conversional Mktg. Stimulational Mktg. Developmental Mktg. Remarketing Synchro-marketing Maintenance Mktg. Demarketing Counter-marketing

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Negative demand is a type of demand which is created if the product is disliked in general. The product might be beneficial but the customer does not want it. For example – Dental work where people don’t want problems with their teeth and use preventive measures to avoid the same. Insurance, which people should have but they delay buying an insurance policy

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No demands – Certain products face the challenge of no demand. The best example for the same can be education courses where there is very low demand or no demand at all

Latent Demand – Latent demand is, as the name suggests, a demand which the customer realizes later. Thus, while buying the product, he might not desire some features. But later on, he might think about those features and buy the product.

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Declining demand – Declining demand is when demand for a product is declining. For example, when CD players were introduced and IPOD came in the market, the demand for walkman went down. Although there was still a demand for the product, the demand was a declining demand. A marketers job in such a case to think ways to revive the product so that the demand is not declining

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Irregular demand – Irregular demand can be demand which is not consistent. The best example of irregular demand is seasonal products like umbrellas, air conditioners or resorts. The best way to counter irregular demand is to introduce incentives for the customer to buy the product.

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Full demand – In an ideal environment, a company should always have full demand. Full demand means that the demand is meeting the supply potential of the company.

It also means that the markets are happy with the products of the company and that people want to buy from the same company.

The marketing challenge in this type of demand is to maintain the same level of interest in the product and the company

CONTINUED Overfull demands – Overfull demands happen

when the companies manufacturing capacity is limited but the demand is more than the supply. This can be observed in the cement industry occasionally.

Unwholesome demand – In unwholesome demand, the customer should not desire the product, yet the customer wants the product badly. Best example of unwholesome demand are cigarettes, alcohol, pirated movies, guns etc

EVOLUTION OF MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Marketing management has evolved through following stages :

(1) Production Orientation Stage (2) Sales Orientation Stage (3) Marketing Orientation Stage (4) Social Responsibility & Human

Orientation Stage

COMPANY ORIENTATION FOR MARKETING ACTIVITIES

Marketing Management can be defined as the effort to achieve desired EXCHANGE outcomes with TARGET MARKETS.

Now the question arises : (1) What philosophy should guide the marketing activities? (2) What weights should be given to the interests of the organisation,the customers and the society?

MARKETING CONCEPTS

There are FIVE competing concepts under which organizations conduct their marketing activities:

The Production Concept The Product Concept The Selling Concept The Marketing Concept The Societal Marketing Concept

Production capbilities – manuf.product –aggressive sales efforts - customers

(1) THE PRODUCTION CONCEPT

Produce

Sell Consumers

Company

Produce more & more

Practically sells itself

THE PRODUCTION CONCEPT

Consumers will favour those products that are widely available and low in cost.

Therefore increase production and cut down costs.

And build profit through volume.

(2) THE PRODUCT CONCEPT

Marketing Myopia

Produce Quality Products

SellConsumers

Practically sells itself,if it gives most quality for money

Buyers admire well-made products and can appraise product quality and performance.

THE PRODUCT CONCEPT

Consumers will favour those products that offer the most quality, performance, or innovative features.

Therefore, improve quality, performance and features.

This would lead to increased sales and profits.

MARKETING MYOPIA Given by Theodore Levitt. A short-sighted and

inward looking approach to marketing Some companies become so focused on

improving only quality of products that they ignore the needs of customer or without paying any attention on the ways in which customer can fulfill their needs

Its dangerous because it does not allow company to explore other ways of serving customer needs ,hence left alone

(3) SELLING CONCEPT

Consumers have normal tendency to resist.

Produce

Sell it Consumers

Aggressive selling & promotion efforts

Making sales becomes primary function and consumer satisfaction secondary .

THE SELLING CONCEPT

Consumers , if left alone , will not buy enough of company’s products.

Therefore, promote sales aggressively.

And,build profit through quick turnover.

(4) MARKETING CONCEPT

“ LOVE THE CUSTOMER , NOT THE PRODUCT ”

ConsumersProduce it

Market it

Learn what they want(MR)

Sell what they want(Satisfy needs of customers)

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Efficiency VS Effectiveness

THE MARKETING CONCEPT

The key to achieving organizational goals consist in determining the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions more effectively and efficiently than competitors.

And build profit through customer satisfaction and loyalty.

(5) THE SOCIETAL MARKETING CONCEPT

It is Marketing Concept (+) Society’s well being.

Balancing of following three considerations while setting marketing policies : -Customer’s want satisfaction -Society’s well being -Company’s profits

THE SOCIETAL MARKETING CONCEPT

The societal marketing concept holds that the organization’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. - It addresses conflicts between consumer’s and firm’s short run wants and long term welfare.

MARKETING SYSTEM

Marketing is concerned with the flow of goods and services from the points of production to the points of consumption. There is a systematic arrangement of these functions of marketing to move the goods and services to the needy persons. This system is essential to the creation of time, place and possession utilities.

MARKETING SYSTEM

A dynamic marketing system must be willing to undertake the following specific activities : 1. Define market area. 2. Research consumer wants and needs.

3. Develop and redevelop product / service. 4. Select,train,motivate and control human resources.

5. Develop sales approach and advertising support.

GOALS OF THE MARKETING SYSTEM

(1) MAXIMIZE CONSUMPTION

(2) MAXIMIZE CONSUMER SATISFACTION

(3) MAXIMIZE CHOICE

(4) MAXIMIZE LIFE QUALITY

THREE LEVELS OF MARKETING

Responsive Marketing

Anticipative Marketing

Need Shaping Marketing

RESPONSIVE MARKETING

It is the form of marketing when some company defines an existing clear need and prepare an affordable solution.

(Recognizing that women wanted to spend less time for cooking and cleaning, led to the invention of modern washing machine, microwave oven etc.)

ANTICIPATIVE MARKETING

It is a form of marketing when a company recognize an emergent or latent need, and come out with an affordable solution. Evian, Perrier anticipated growing market for bottled drinking water as the quality of water deteriorated in many places.

Anticipative marketing is more risky than responsive marketing;companies may come into market too early or too late,or may even be totally wrong about thinking that such a market would develop.(eg. Dish washers in India)

NEED SHAPED MARKETING

The broadest level of marketing occurs when a company introduces product that nobody asked for and often could not even conceive of.

(e.g. Sony Walkman, Sony Compact Disc )

Late Akio Morita, founder and chairman of Sony, who introduced these and many other new products, summarized his marketing philosophy in these words: “ I don’t serve markets. I create them.”

MARKET- DRIVEN AND MARKET- DRIVING COMPANY

Market-driven companies focus on researching current customers to identify their problems, gather new ideas, develop products that result in incremental improvements, not radical innovations.

Market-driving companies generate significantly new products, services, business formats and raise our sights and our civilization. These companies are much more than customer-led. They lead customer where they want to go, but don’t know yet.