Chapter 1: What Is Marketing Flashcards
Market Offering
A combination of products, services, information or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want
Purpose of market offerings
To create a brand experience
Marketing Myopia
When a business lacks insight into how it is catering to it’s customers
Customer-perceived value
The difference between all benefits and costs (in the eye of the customer) of a market offering compared to competitors offerings
Customer satisfaction
The extent to which perceived product performance matches customer expectations
Exchange
The act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return
Relationship
Actions taken to build and maintain desirable exchange relationships with target audience
Market (Business Management)
The set of all actual and potential buyers of a product or service
Market (Economics)
The abstract mechanisms whereby supply and demand confront each other and deals are made
Strategic planning
The process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organisations goals and capabilities
Strategic Business Units (SBUs)
a fully-functional unit of a business that has its own vision and direction.
Product or Market Combination (PMC)
a unique combination of a product for a specific group of customers.
Levels of planning within a market strategy
1) Concern or company
2) Strategic Business Units (SBUs)
3) Product or Market Combination (PMC)
Strength within SWOT analysis
Internal capabilities that may help a company reach its objectives
Weakness within SWOT analysis
Internal limitations that may interfere with a company’s ability to achieve its objectives
Opportunity within SWOT analysis
External factors that the company may be able to exploit to its advantage
Threat within SWOT analysis
Current and emerging external factors that may challenge the company’s performance
Vision statement
outlines the company’s long-term goals and aspirations for the future in terms of its long-term growth and impact on the world.
Mission statement
a simple statement about the goals, values, and objectives of an organization.
Marketing management
The art & science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them
3 important questions within marketing management
1) Target Market —> What customers will we serve?
2) Value proposition —> How can we serve these customers the best?
3) Company objective —> What is the value you want to realise for your company?
Customer lifetime value
Value of the entire stream of purchases a customer makes over a lifetime of patronage
Importance of customer lifetime value
- 5x cheaper to keep an existing customer than to acquire a new one
- Transactions may not always be profitable in the beginning (cost of acquisition) but become very profitable thanks to the length of the customer retention
- An emotional bond makes the customers come back
Marketing management process
- Market is analysed
- A strategy is defined
- The market is Segmented
- A target market is chosen
- A positioning is chosen
- The marketing mix is defined
- The marketing mix is implemented & evaluated
STP process
The defining of the group of customers you can serve in a decent & profitable way
Segmentation
Dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs, characteristics or behaviours and who might require separate products or marketing programs
Targeting
The process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter
Positioning
Give the product/brand a clear/distinctive/desirable place in the minds of the target consumers relative to competing products through a clever marketing mix
Types of segmentation
- Geographic segmentation
- Demographic segmentation
- Psychographic segmentation
- Behavioural segmentation
Geographic segmentation
- Countries/regions
- Population/city size
Demographic segmentation
- Age
- Family life cycle stage
- Ethnic group
- Gender
- Income
- Occupation
Psychographic segmentation
- Lifestyle
- Personality
- Social class
Behavioral segmentation
- Usage rate
- Brand loyalty
- Occasions
- Benefits sought
- User status
Different targeting approaches
- Micromarketing
- Niche marketing
- differential marketing
- mass marketing