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Marketing Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know
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• Marketing Management concepts explained in a simplified way
• Tools that can help you navigate your role as a marketing manager
• How to use marketing to manage customer relationships
• Understand the relationship between strategy and marketing
Marketing Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know guides new marketing managers and leaders with building blocks of marketing management. You will learn how to define marketing management and how it affects different levels of an organization. You will understand the main functions of a marketing manager so that you can incorporate those functions into your new role. You are given tools to assist you with some of the more challenging aspects of marketing management such as SWOT analysis, measuring customer satisfaction, and developing a marketing plan. Understanding the relationship between strategy and marketing and applying it to decision making is a vital skill that you will learn about that is vital to today’s marketing manager. After you have learned about managing marketing internally to your organization, you will begin to learn how to manage your external customers and gain their business. These timeless elements of marketing management will provide you the fundamentals with a 21st century point of view.
Marketing Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know gives you a look into the world of marketing and some of its key elements. When you have completed reading this book you should be able to:
• Define marketing management in an organization, understand its functions and elements
• Know the business responsibilities of a marketing manager and marketing department
• Describe tools that can help you navigate your role as a marketing manager
• Understand the relationship between strategy and marketing
• Know how to use marketing to manage customer relationships
This Self-Learning Management Series intends to give a jump start to working professionals, whose job roles demand to have the knowledge imparted in a B-school but haven’t got a chance to visit one. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, be it any industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter. The distinctiveness of the series lies in that all the relevant information is bundled in a compact form that is very easy to interpret.
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Marketing Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know
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Preface
Marketing management is a role of its own. The marketing manager is one whose skillset expands across different areas of the organization. Most people outside of the marketing realm do not have a deep understanding of what marketing managers do and what the required skillset is. Some may say they have acquired the skillset because they studied marketing in school but, again, studying and experiencing are two totally different things. So, how do you succeed in a new role of marketing manager?
Marketing Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know seeks to guide you in answering this question. This reading consists of core elements of marketing management that will support day to day activities. New marketing managers may be faced with challenges such as conducting an external audit, forecasting demand, developing a plan to gain new customers, and ensuring other departments are playing their part in providing customer value. These items are included in this reading along with several other elements to help anyone understand and function in their role of marketing manager. Using real life experiences and detailed study, this handbook will give you the tools to get started in your marketing management role.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Marketing Management
Stages of Marketing
Marketing Capacity
Marketing management
2. Strategic Planning and Marketing
The Process of Planning
The Strategic Plan
The Marketing Plan
Implementation
3. Research in Marketing
Information Systems
Constructing information
Marketing Definitions
What is the Current Market Demand?
What Could the Demand be for the Future?
Ethics in Marketing Research
4. Relationships with Customers and Marketing Management
Customer Value
Customer Satisfaction
Providing Satisfaction
How Much is a Customer Worth?
Retaining Customers
Relationship Marketing
When Do I Use Relationship Marketing?
Relationship Management
Defining Customer Relationship
Types of Customers
Customer Orientation
Ensuring Quality Customer Relationships
Measuring Customer Relationships
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Introduction to Marketing Management
Marketing affects everyone, every day. We all engage in marketing on a daily basis, so it is important that we understanding what marketing is. A market can be defined by Philip Kotler as, …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.
Marketing is a function of an organization. It is a group of processes or procedures for developing, connecting, and providing value to consumers. It is also for dealing with customer relations in ways that profit the organization and its stakeholders. Marketing is achieved by social and managerial processes. These processes consist of consumers and groups of consumers acquiring their needs and wants by developing and swapping products and value with one another. Marketing seeks to fulfill those wants, needs, and desires from the consumer.
Marketing is important because in the 21st century, with the struggling economy, organizations used marketing to help keep their companies afloat. Marketing helps to tackle the challenges faced in a failing environment. In a broader sense, marketing has brought awareness of products and services to the public that have made their lives better. When marketing is successful, demand increases for an organization’s products and services. It also helps to establish a brand in the public eye and build brand loyalty. Indirectly, successful marketing creates jobs for individuals because demand is increased and more assistance to produce and distribute the products and services is needed. In its simplest form, marketing puts products and services in the hands of its targeted consumers.
Marketing is an organizational function. The following list shows the many functions in an organization that can be categorized as a marketing function.
a) Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
b) Display
c) Stockholding
d) Servicing
e) Risk Taking
f) Transporting
g) Market Research
h) Merchandising
i) Publicity
j) Pricing
k) Forecasting
l) Buying
m) Financing
n) Selling
o) Public Relations
p) Advertising
q) Sales Promotion
Marketing is a management function. Management must ensure that the operations of the organization are running smoothly to ensure the customer’s needs are met effectively and efficiently. Manager conduct analysis, plan, allocate resources, control current processes, and work to anticipate customer needs in an effort to ensure customers are satisfied.
Marketing is a business concept. Here is where the exchange process comes into play that are associated with obtaining goods and services. This is where supply and demand come in. If I have the supply and you have a demand of the product, we can negotiate a deal.
It is considered an exchange when:
a) Two groups or more are involved
b) Both groups have something of value that the other group desires
c) Both groups effectively communicate and deliver
d) Both groups have the option to turn down each other’s offers
e) Both groups want to negotiate with the other party
Marketing is a business philosophy. It sees the importance of the customer and that all business exists to serve customers rather than manufacturing products.
In the remainder of this reading we will explore these concepts and dive deeper into marketing and marketing management, so we can better understand its inner works.
Stages of Marketing
Not all marketing is greatly expensive,