Ads Flashcards
WHAT IS MARKETING?
Marketing is about identifying and meeting human and social needs. One of the
shortest good definitions of marketing is “meeting needs profitably.”
The American Marketing
Association offers the
following 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.”
WHAT IS MARKETED?
Marketers market 10 main types of
entities:
goods, services, events,
experiences, persons, places, properties,
organizations, information, and ideas.
Core Marketing Concepts
NEEDS
WANTS
DEMANDS
Stated needs
(The customer wants an inexpensive
car.)
Real needs
(The customer wants a car whose
operating cost, not initial price, is low.)
Unstated needs
(The customer expects good service
from the dealer.)
Delight needs
(The customer would like the dealer to
include an onboard GPS system.)
Secret needs
(The customer wants friends to see him
or her as a savvy consumer.)
Negative demand
consumenrs dont like the product and dont want to pay for it
Nonexistent demand
cons dont know about or not interested in product.
Latent Demand
Strong need, cant be satisfies by excisting product.
Declining Demand
cons startt buying the product less
Irregular Demand
seasonal, weekly, montthly purchases
Full demand
adequately buying