Chapter 1: Marketing Overview Flashcards
What activities does marketing involve?
Creating
Communicating
Delivering
Exchanging offerings
What is marketing?
It is an activity
Marketing is about
Delivering benefits
Who benefits in marketing?
Customers
Organisation
Stakeholders
Society
Why is marketing an activity?
It is a conscious effort
Requires both
Art (creativity and innovation)
Science (logic and processes)
What is created?
Value
How is value created?
By matching consumers with products and services
Marketers need to communicate to
Raise awareness
Let consumers know about P&S offered to them
Marketers need to deliver
Value
How do marketers deliver value?
Ensure P&S are as useful as promised
What does exchanging involve?
Physically meeting with consumers
Exchanging things of value
Pass products or services
Get payment
What are offerings?
P&S that will be valuable to the consumer
Offerings satisfy
The needs that the consumer has
How do customers benefit?
Satisfaction of needs
How does the organisation benefit?
P&S sold in return for cash
Increase company profits
Who are stakeholders?
Government
Public
Shareholders
How do stakeholders benefit?
Government:
Taxes
Public:
Profits given to needy
Shareholders:
Profits
How does the society benefit?
Research and development brings knowledge
Operations will add more employment
Revenues earned contribute to economy
Marketing is all about
Discovering and satisfying needs
A need occurs when an individual is
Deprived of basic necessities
A want is a
Preference for specific objects to satisfy want
Marketing is limited to shaping wants it cannot
Create need
What are the requirements for marketing to occur?
2 or more parties with unsatisfied needs
Both parties have desire and ability
There is a way for communication
Both parties can make an exchange
Challenges of marketing include
Consumer not knowing what he wants or needs
Meet consumer needs and earn profit at same time