Chapter
1
Defining
Marketing
for the
New Realities
Learning Objectives
1. Why is marketing important?
2. What is the scope of marketing?
3. What are some core marketing concepts?
4. What forces are defining the new marketing realities?
5. What new capabilities have these forces given
consumers and companies?
6. What does a holistic marketing philosophy include?
7. What tasks are necessary for successful marketing
management?
The Value of Marketing
• Financial success often depends on marketing
ability
• Successful marketing builds demand for
products and services, which, in turn, creates
jobs
• Marketing builds strong brands and a loyal
customer base, intangible assets that contribute
heavily to the value of a firm
The Scope of Marketing
• Marketing is about identifying and meeting
human and social needs
• AMA’s formal definition: Marketing is the activity,
set of institutions, and processes for creating,
communicating, delivering, and exchanging
offerings that have value for customers, clients,
partners, and society at large
Marketing Management
• The art and science of choosing target
markets and getting, keeping, and growing
customers through creating, delivering,
and communicating superior customer
value
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What is Marketed?
• Goods
• Services
• Events
• Experiences
• Persons
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What is Marketed?
• Places
• Properties
• Organizations
• Information
• Ideas
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Who Markets?
• A marketer is someone who seeks a
response—attention, a purchase, a vote, a
donation—from another party, called the
prospect
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8 Demand States
• Negative
• Nonexistent
• Latent
• Declining
• Irregular
• Unwholesome
• Full
• Overfull
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Fig. 1.1
Structure Of Flows In A Modern
Exchange Economy
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Fig. 1.2
A Simple Marketing System
Key Customer Markets
• Consumer markets
• Business markets
• Global markets
• Nonprofit & governmental markets
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Core Marketing Concepts
• Needs: the basic human requirements
such as for air, food, water, clothing, and
shelter
• Wants: specific objects that might satisfy
the need
• Demands: wants for specific products
backed by an ability to pay
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Types of Needs
STATED
REAL
UNSTATED
DELIGHT
SECRET
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Core Marketing Concepts
• Segmentation
• Target markets
• Positioning
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Core Marketing Concepts
• Value proposition: a set of benefits that
satisfy those needs
• Offerings: a combination of products,
services, information, and experiences
• Brands: an offering from a known source
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Core Marketing Concepts
• Marketing channels
COMMUNICATION
DISTRIBUTION
SERVICE
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Core Marketing Concepts
• Paid media: TV, magazine and display
ads, paid search, and sponsorships
• Owned media: a company or brand
brochure, web site, blog, facebook page,
or twitter account
• Earned media: word of mouth, buzz, or
viral marketing
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Core Marketing Concepts
• Impressions: occur when consumers view a
communication
• Engagement: the extent of a customer’s
attention and active involvement with a
communication
• Value: a combination of quality, service, & price
• Satisfaction: a person’s judgment of a product’s
perceived performance in relationship to
expectations
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Core Marketing Concepts
• Supply chain: a channel stretching from raw materials
to components to finished products carried to final
buyers (Fig 1.3: The Supply Chain for Coffee)
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Core Marketing Concepts
• Competition: all the actual and potential
rival offerings and substitutes a buyer
might consider
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Core Marketing Concepts
• Marketing
environment
– Task environment
– Broad environment
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The New Marketing Realities
• Technology
• Globalization
• Social
responsibility
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A dramatically changed marketplace
• New consumer capabilities
– Can use the internet as a powerful information
and purchasing aid
– Can search, communicate, and purchase on the
move
– Can tap into social media to share opinions and
express loyalty
– Can actively interact with companies
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Can reject marketing they find inappropriate
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A dramatically changed marketplace
• New company capabilities
– Can use the internet as a powerful information and
sales channel, including for individually differentiated
goods
– Can collect fuller and richer information about
markets, customers, prospects, and competitors
– Can reach customers quickly and efficiently via social
media and mobile marketing, sending targeted ads,
coupons, and information
– Can improve purchasing, recruiting, training, and
internal and external communications
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Can improve cost efficiency
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A dramatically changed marketplace
• Changing channels
– Retail
transformation
– Disintermediation
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A dramatically changed marketplace
• Heightened competition
– Private brands
– Mega-brands
– Deregulation
– Privatization
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Marketing in practice
• Marketing balance
• Marketing accountability
• Marketing in the organization
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Company Orientation toward
the Marketplace
PRODUCTION
PRODUCT
SELLING
MARKETING
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Fig. 1.4
Holistic Marketing Dimensions
Relationship marketing
CUSTOMERS
EMPLOYEES
MARKETING PARTNERS
FINANCIAL
COMMUNITY
Integrated marketing
• Devise marketing activities and programs that
create, communicate, and deliver value such that
“the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Internal marketing
• The task of hiring, training, and motivating
able employees who want to serve
customers well
Performance marketing
FINANCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL
ACCOUNTABILITY IMPACT
SOCIAL IMPACT
Fig. 1.5
Marketing Mix Components (4 Ps)
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MODERN MARKETING
MANAGEMENT
PEOPLE
PROCESSES
PROGRAMS
PERFORMANCE
MARKETING
MANAGEMENT TASKS
• Developing market strategies and plans
• Capturing marketing insights
• Connecting with customers
• Building strong brands
MARKETING
MANAGEMENT TASKS
• Creating value
• Delivering value
• Communicating value
• Creating successful long-term growth
