CHAPTER 5: MANAGING THE MARKETING FUNCTION Flashcards
A group of activities designed to facilitate and expedite the selling of goods and services
Marketing
States that the engineer must try to satisfy the needs of his CLIENTS by means of a set of coordinated activities.
Marketing Concept
Key Marketing Concepts
- Customer
- Wants/Needs
- Value
- Exchange
- Market
Is generally understood to be the person who makes the decision to purchase a product, and/or pays for it.
Customer
Refers to something which is deep rooted in an individual’s personality.
Wants/Needs
It is usually represented by payment received for suppliers of goods and services. For customers, it is represented by the ratio of perceived benefits to price paid.
Value
Usually takes the form of a product being exchanged for money.
Exchange
Traditionally been used to describe a place where buyers and sellers gather to exchange goods and services, economists define a market in terms of a more abstract concept of interaction between buyers and sellers.
Market
4 P’s of Marketing
- Product
- Price
- Place
- Promotion
Tangible (or intangible) item and its capacity to satisfy a specific need of the customers.
Product
Money or other considerations in exchanged a product, idea, or service which could be influenced by operational costs.
Price
Business location should be in places where they can be easily reached by their customers to provide convenience.
Place
communicating information between seller and potential buyer.
Promotion
A distinct group of customers who will require a unique set of marketing strategy and tactics
Market Segment
A subgroup of people or organizations that have one or more characteristics in common that cause them to have the SAME product needs
Market Segment
Dividing the market into meaningful and measurable segments according to: Customer needs, Past behaviors, Demographic information, Psychographic profiles
Market Segmentation
5 Most Common Variables in Market Segmentation
- Demographics
- Behavioral
- Geographic
- Lifestyle
- Channel Preferences
personal attributes such as age, gender, ethnicity, religion, marital status, education, occupation, social class, income etc.
Demographics
how they behave, response and engage as well as their usage rate, readiness stage and loyalty
Behavioral
customers are grouped based on geographical indicators such as region, nation, urban/rural, climate, population density and neighborhood
Geographic
refers to hobbies, entertainment, extracurricular and other unprofessional activities.
Lifestyle
determining which channels to reach the customers will enable to save time and money on campaigns
Channel Preferences
Criteria for Successful Segmentation
- Substantial
- Identifiable
- Measurable
- Accessible
- Responsive
size and profit potential of a market segment have to be large enough to economically justify separate marketing activities for the segment.
Substantial