Chapter 1: Overview of Marketing Flashcards
Marketing
The process of creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging valuable offerings for costumers
Exchange
Giving something in order to receive something
5 Requirements of an Exchange
1) 2 parties
2) Value for each party
3) ability to communicate/deliver
4) Ability to reject or accept
5) Desire
Production Orientation
Looking at internal ability of company instead of desire and need of costumer when making decisions (looks for things easy to produce)
Sales Orientation
Aggressive tactics and high sales= profit
All about selling and collecting
What is the downside to the sales orientation?
It doesn’t look at the wants and needs of costumers
Market Orientation
Perceived value (what the costumer thinks they are buying) is the most important thing. All about the costumer needs.
How can you be successful in the market orientation?
Diversification from competitors, execution of plans, and delivery to increase costumer satisfaction
Societal Market Orientation
Looking at producing products that are good for society as a whole. Also providing products that are sustainable.
Empowerment
ability of employees to make costumer experience solutions
The firms business in sales vs. marketing orientation?
Sales: in terms of good/service
Marketing: In terms of benefit costumer seeks
Product direction in sales vs. marketing orientation?
Sales: target the average
Marketing: targets specific people
Costumer Value
Involves creating, communicating, and delivering a product positively
Who are the STAKEholders in a company?
Customers Investors/shareholders Employees Community Society
What are the two core activities in marketing?
1) discovering costumer needs
2) Satisfying costumer needs
Costumer Satisfaction
The customers’evaluation of a good or service in terms of whether that good or
service has met their needs and expectations.
Relationship Marketing
A strategy that focuses on keeping and improving relationships with customers.
Costumer Relationship Managment
A company-wide business strategy designed to optimize profitability, revenue and customer satisfaction by focusing on highly defined and precise customer groups
How can you achieve costumer relationship managment
- Organizing around customer segments
- Establishing and tracking customer interactions
- Fostering customer-satisfying behaviors
- Linking company processes
How can you achieve relationship marketing?
Customer-Oriented Personnel
Effective Training Programs
Empowered Employees
Teamwork
5 vital marketing activities
1) Assess the wants and satisfaction of customers
2) Design and manage product offerings
3) Determine prices and pricing policies
4) Develop distribution strategies
5) Communicate with present and potential customers
4 types of marketers?
Companies
Political organizations
Governments
Individuals
What 3 things are marketed?
Products
Services
Ideas
Who is marketed to? (3)
Industrial buyers
Consumers
Ultimate users