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Principles of Marketing

Marketing: Managing Profitable Customer Relationships

Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able to: 1. Define marketing and outline the steps in the marketing process 2. Explain the importance of understanding customers and the marketplace, and identify the five core marketplace concepts 3. Identify the key elements of a customer-driven marketing strategy and discuss the marketing management orientations that guide marketing strategy 4. Discuss customer relationship management, and identify strategies for creating value for customers and capturing value from customers in return 5. Describe the major trends and forces that are changing the marketing landscape in this age of relationships

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Chapter Concepts
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

What Is Marketing? Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy Preparing an Integrated Marketing Plan and Program Building Customer Relationships Capturing Value from Customers The New Marketing Landscape So, What Is Marketing? Pulling It All Together

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What Is Marketing?
Marketing Defined

Marketing is the process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships to capture value from customers in return

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What Is Marketing?
The Marketing Process
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Understand the marketplace and customer wants and needs Design a customer-driven marketing strategy Construct a marketing plan that delivers superior value Build profitable relationships and create customer satisfaction Capture value from customers to create profit and customer equity
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Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs

Customer Needs, Wants, and Demands

Needs are states of deprivation Physicalfood, clothing, warmth, safety Socialbelonging and affection Individualknowledge and selfexpression

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Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs

Customer Needs, Wants, and Demands

Wants are the form that needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality Demands are wants backed by buying power

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Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs

Market OfferingsProducts, Services, and Experiences Market offerings are some combination of products, services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want

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Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs

Market OfferingsProducts, Services, and Experiences Marketing myopia is focusing only on existing wants and losing sight of underlying consumer needs Exchange is the act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return
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Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs

Customer Value and Satisfaction

Expectations Customers

Value and satisfaction

Marketers

Set the right level of expectations

Not too high or too low

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Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs

Exchanges and Relationships

Exchange is the act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return Relationships consist of actions to build and maintain desirable relationships
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Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs

Markets are the set of actual and potential buyers of a product Marketing system consists of all of the actors (suppliers, company, competitors, intermediaries, and end users) in the system who are affected by major environmental forces Demographic Economic Physical Technological Politicallegal Socio-cultural
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Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

Marketing Management

Marketing management is the art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them What customers will we serve? How can we best serve these customers?

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Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

Selecting Customers to Serve

Market segmentation: Dividing the markets into segments of customers

Target marketing: Which segments to go after

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Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

Selecting Customers to Serve

De-marketing: Marketing to reduce demand temporarily or permanently; the aim is not to destroy demand but to reduce or shift it.

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Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

Selecting Customers to Serve

Marketing management is: Customer management Demand management

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Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

Choosing a Value Proposition

The value proposition is the set of benefits or values a company promises to deliver to customers to satisfy their needs

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Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

Marketing Management Orientations

Production concept Product concept Selling concept Marketing concept Societal concept
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Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

Marketing Management Orientations

Production concept is the idea that consumers will favor products that are available or highly affordable

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Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

Marketing Management Orientations

Product concept is the idea that consumers will favor products that offer the most quality, performance, and features for which the organization should therefore devote its energy to making continuous improvements

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Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

Marketing Management Orientations

Selling concept is the idea that consumers will not buy enough of the firms products unless it undertakes a large scale selling and promotion effort

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Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

Marketing Management Orientations

Marketing concept is the idea that achieving organizational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of the target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions better than competitors do

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Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

Marketing Management Orientations

Societal marketing concept is the idea that a company should make good marketing decisions by considering consumers wants, the companys requirements, consumers long-term interests, and societys long-run interests

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Preparing an Integrated Marketing Plan and Program

Marketing Mix

The marketing mix is the set of tools (four Ps) the firm uses to implement its marketing strategy Product Price Promotion Place
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Preparing an Integrated Marketing Plan and Program

Integrated Marketing Program

Integrated marketing program is a comprehensive plan that communicates and delivers the intended value to chosen customers

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Building Customer Relationships

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Customer relationship management is the overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior value and satisfaction

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Building Customer Relationships

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Customer perceived value is the difference between total customer value and total customer cost Customer satisfaction is the extent to which a products perceived performance matches a buyers expectations
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Building Customer Relationships

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Customer Relationship Levels and Tools

Basic relationship Full relationships Frequency marketing programs Club marketing programs
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Building Customer Relationships

The Changing Nature of Customer Relationships
Relating with more carefully selected customers uses selective relationship management to target fewer, more profitable customers Relating for the long term uses customer relationship management to retain current customers and build profitable, long-term relationships Relating directly uses direct marketing tools (telephone, mail order, kiosks, Internet) to make direct connections with customers
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Building Customer Relationships

Partner Relationship Management

Partner relationship management refers to working closely with partners in other company departments and outside the company to jointly bring greater value to customers

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Building Customer Relationships

Partner Relationship Management
Partners inside the company is every function area interacting with customers Electronically Cross-functional teams Partners outside the company is how marketers connect with their suppliers, channel partners, and competitors by developing partnerships
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Building Customer Relationships

Partner Relationship Management

Supply chain is a channel that stretches from raw materials to components to final products to final buyers Supply management Strategic partners Strategic alliances
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Capturing Value from Customers

Creating Customer Loyalty and Retention

Customer lifetime value is the value of the entire stream of purchases that the customer would make over a lifetime of patronage

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Capturing Value from Customers

Growing Share of Customer

Share of customer is the portion of the customers purchasing that a company gets in its product categories

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Capturing Value from Customers

Building Customer Equity

Customer equity is the total combined customer lifetime values of all of the companys customers

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Capturing Value from Customers

Building Customer Equity

Building the right relationships with the right customers involves treating customers as assets that need to be managed and maximized

Different types of customers require different relationship management strategies Build the right relationship with the right customers
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The New Marketing Landscape

Major Developments

Digital age Globalization Ethics and social responsibility Not-for-profit marketing

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The New Marketing Landscape

The New Digital Age

Recent technology has had a major impact on the ways marketers connect with and bring value to their customers Market research
Learning about and tracking customers

Create new customized products Distribution Communication

Video conferencing Online data services
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The New Marketing Landscape

The New Digital Age

Internetcreates marketplaces and marketspaces Information Entertainment Communication

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The New Marketing Landscape

Rapid Globalization

The world is smaller Think globally, act locally

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The New Marketing Landscape

The Call for More Ethics and Social Responsibility

Marketers are being called upon to take greater responsibility for the social and environmental impact of their actions in a global economy

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The New Marketing Landscape

The Call for More Ethics and Social Responsibility

Social marketing campaigns encourage energy conservation and concern for the environment or discourage smoking, excessive drinking, and drug use

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The New Marketing Landscape

The Growth for Not-for-Profit Marketing

Colleges Hospitals Museums Zoos Orchestras Religious groups

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PowerPoint created by:

Ronald Heimler

Dowling College, MBA Georgetown University, BS Business Administration Adjunct Professor, LIM College, NY Adjunct Professor, Long Island University, NY Lecturer, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, CA President, Walter Heimler, Inc.