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Chapter 1

Introduction: Consumer rule

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Objectives of One-to-One Marketing

• To attain customers

• Sell them more products

• Make a profit

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Digital Revolution in the Marketplace

• Allows customization of products, services, and promotional messages like never before

• Enhances relationships with customers more effectively and efficiently

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The behavior that consumers display in searching for, purchasing, using, evaluating, and disposing of products and services that they expect will satisfy their needs.

Consumer Behavior

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Personal Consumer

The individual who buys goods and services for his or her own use, for household use, for the use of a family member, or for a friend.

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Organizational Consumer

A business, government agency, or other institution (profit or nonprofit) that buys the goods, services, and/or equipment necessary for the organization to function.

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Development of the Marketing Concept

Production Concept

Selling Concept

Product Concept

Marketing Concept

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The Production Concept

• Assumes that consumers are interested primarily in product availability at low prices

• Marketing objectives:– Cheap, efficient production– Intensive distribution– Market expansion

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The Product Concept

• Assumes that consumers will buy the product that offers them the highest quality, the best performance, and the most features

• Marketing objectives:– Quality improvement– Addition of features

• Tendency toward Marketing Myopia

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The Selling Concept

• Assumes that consumers are unlikely to buy a product unless they are aggressively persuaded to do so

• Marketing objectives:– Sell, sell, sell

• Lack of concern for customer needs and satisfaction

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The Marketing Concept

• Assumes that to be successful, a company must determine the needs and wants of specific target markets and deliver the desired satisfactions better than the competition

• Marketing objectives:

– Profits through customer satisfaction

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The Marketing Concept

A consumer-oriented philosophy that suggests that satisfaction of consumer needs provides the focus for product development and marketing strategy to enable the firm to meet its own organizational goals.

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Implementing the Marketing Concept

• Consumer Research

• Segmentation

• Targeting

• Positioning

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Consumer Research

• The process and tools used to study consumer behavior.

• Two perspectives:– Qualitative research– Quantitative research

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Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning

• Segmentation: process of dividing the market into subsets of consumers with common needs or characteristics

• Targeting: selecting one ore more of the segments to pursue

• Positioning: developing a distinct image for the product in the mind of the consumer

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Successful Positioning

• Communicating the benefits of the product, rather than its features

• Communicating a Unique Selling Proposition for the product

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The Marketing Mix

• Product: features, brands and packaging

• Price: list price, discounts, allowances.

• Place: distribution through specific store

• Promotion: advt; sales promotion, public relation, demands,

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Successful Relationships

Customer Value

Customer Satisfaction

Customer Retention

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Customer value

• It can be thought of as the ratio between the consumers perceived benefits and the resources use to obtain those benefits.

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Customer satisfaction

• It is the individual consumer’s perception of the product or services in relation to his/her expectation.

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Customer retention

• The strategy designed to make it in the best interest of customer to stay with a company rather than switch to another company.

• Why????• 1. loyal customer buy more products

• 2.they are less price sensitive

• 3.product offer to loyal customer are more cheaper

• 4. they have positive word of mouth

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Types of Customers

• Loyalists

• Apostles

• Defectors

• Terrorists

• Hostages

• Mercenaries

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Societal Marketing Concept

A revision of the traditional marketing concept that suggests that marketers touch to principles of social responsibility in the marketing of their goods and services; that is, they must make an effort to satisfy the needs and wants of their target markets in ways that preserve and enhance the well-being of consumers and society as a whole.

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The Societal Marketing Concept

• All companies prosper when society prospers.

• Companies, as well as individuals, would be better off if social responsibility was an integral component of every marketing decision.

• Requires all marketers adhere to principles of social responsibility.

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Firm’s Marketing Efforts1. Product2. Promotion3. Price4. Channels of distribution

Sociocultural Environment1. Family2. Informal sources3. Other noncommercial

sources4. Social class5. Subculture and culture

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Postpurchase Evaluation

Purchase1. Trial2. Repeat purchase

Need Recognition

Prepurchase Search

Evaluation of Alternatives

Psychological Field1. Motivation2. Perception3. Learning4. Personality5. Attitudes

Experience

Figure 1-1: A Model of Consumer Decision Making