Chapter 8 Flashcards
What is the simple definition of marketing?
Engaging customers and managing profitable customer relationships
What is the aim of marketing (two-fold goal)
Create value for customers in order to capture value from customers in return
Easier:
To attract new customers by
promising superior value and keeping and growing current customers by delivering value
and satisfaction
What is the primary trait shared by today’s successful companies like Amazon?
They are strongly customer-focused and heavily committed to marketing.
What drives successful companies in building lasting customer relationships?
A passion for satisfying customer needs in well-defined target markets and motivating everyone in the organization to create value.
Why are customer relationships and value more important today than ever before?
Due to dramatic technological advances, economic, social, and environmental challenges, customers are reassessing their engagement with brands.
How have digital, mobile, and social media developments impacted marketing?
They have revolutionized how consumers shop and interact, requiring new marketing strategies and tactics.
What should modern marketing strategies prioritize?
Building strong customer engagement, relationships, and advocacy based on real and enduring customer value.
Marketing more than any other business function deals with ______
Customers
What is an example of brands dominating the online marketplace?
Amazon:
By creating a world-class online buying experience that helps customers to “find and discover anything they might want to buy online.”
Facebook:
attracted two billion+ active web and mobile users worldwide by
helping them to “connect and share with the people in
their lives.”
What is an example of a brand dominating the out-of-home coffee market
Starbucks:
By “creating a culture of warmth and belong-ing, where everyone is welcome.”
What is critical to the success of every organization?
Sound marketing
Large for-profit firms such as Google, Target, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and Microsoft use marketing. But so do not-for-profit organizations, such as universities, hospitals, museums, symphony orchestras, and even churches
Marketing is all around us. T or F
True
What are examples of traditional forms of marketing?
Products at your nearby shopping mall and the ads that fill your TV screen, spice up your magazines,
or stuff your mailbox.
What are new marketing approaches assembled in recent years?
Everything from imaginative websites and smartphone apps to blogs, online videos, and social media
What do the new approaches of marketing do beyond blasting out messages to the masses?
They reach you directly, personally, and interactively. Today’s marketers want to become a part of your life and enrich your experiences with their brands. They want to help you live their brands
Where can marketing be observed in daily life?
At home, school, work, and play—it’s present in almost everything we do.
What is behind the marketing activities we see as consumers?
A massive network of people, technologies, and activities competing for attention and purchases.
What is a common generalization of marketing?
Many people think of marketing as only selling and advertising. We are bombarded daily with TV commercials, catalogues, spiels from salespeople, and online pitches.
Selling and advertising are only the tip of the marketing iceberg
How is marketing understood in the modern sense?
It focuses on satisfying customer needs rather than simply making a sale through “telling and selling.”
What can the marketer do to help products sell easily?
Engages consumers effectively, understands their needs, develops products that provide superior customer value, and prices, distributes, and promotes them well,
What is Peter Drucker’s perspective on the aim of marketing?
“The aim of marketing is to make selling unnecessary.”
Selling and advertising are
only part of a larger marketing mix
What is the marketing mix?
A set of marketing tools that work together to engage customers, satisfy their needs, and build relationships.
How is marketing broadly defined?
Marketing is a social and managerial process by which individuals and organizations obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging value with others
How is marketing defined in a narrower business context?
Marketing involves building
profitable, value-laden exchange relationships with customers
What is the definition of marketing FROM THE TEXTBOOK
The process by which companies
engage customers, build strong
customer relationships, and create
customer value in order to capture
value from customers in return
What is the first step as a marketer?
Need to understand customer needs and wants and the marketplace in which they operate.
What are the 5 core customer and marketplace concepts?
- needs, wants, and demands
- market offerings (products, services, and
experiences) - customer value and satisfaction
- exchanges and relationships
- markets
What is the most basic concept underlying marketing?
That of human need
What is (human) needs?
States of felt deprivation
What are examples of needs?
Physical needs for food, clothing,
warmth, and safety; social needs for belonging and affection; and individual needs for knowledge and self-expression
Did marketers create human needs?
Marketers did not create these needs; they are a basic part of the human makeup
What are wants?
The form human needs take as
they are shaped by culture and
individual personality
What is an example of a want vs a need?
A person needs food but wants a Big Mac, fries, and a soft drink
How are wants shaped?
Wants are shaped by one’s society and are described in terms of objects that will satisfy those needs.
What are demands?
Human wants that are backed by
buying power.
What determines the products and services people demand?
Their wants, resources, and the perceived benefits that provide the most value and satisfaction.
How do companies learn about customer needs, wants, and demands?
They conduct consumer research, analyze mountains of
customer data, and observe customers as they shop and interact, offline and online
Who in a company is involved in staying close to customers?
People at all levels, including top management.
Example of company staying close to customers?
Airbnb:
CEO and co-founder regularly stay at company’s host locations. When first launched they went to all the New York location, wrote reviews making sure they lived up to company’s vision
Personal visits help the pair to shape new customer solutions based on real user experience
Target:
CEO makes unnanounced visits to stores. Nosing around stores and getting a real feel for what’s going on. It gives him “great, genuine feed-back.” Him and other executives even visit households of customers to to understand their product choices and buying habits
What are market offerings?
Some combination of products,
services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy
a need or want
How are consumers’ needs and wants fulfilled?
Through market offerings
Are market offerings limited to physical products?
They also include services
What defines a service in the context of market offerings?
Activities or benefits offered for sale that are intangible and do not result in ownership of anything.
What are examples of services?
Banking, airline, hotel, retailing, and home-repair services
What entities, besides products and services, are included in market offerings?
Persons, places, organizations, information, ideas, and causes
What is an example of a market offering focused on a cause?
The “Bell Let’s Talk” campaign, which raises awareness and funds for mental health care in Canada.
It has raised over $100 million, assisted over 1.2 million Canadians, and in 2019 alone, engaged over 145 million interactions and raised a record-breaking $7.2 million.
What is marketing myopia?
The mistake of paying more
attention to the specific products
acompany offers than to the
benefits and experiences produced
by these products.
What are the issues of someone suffering from marketing myopia?
They are so taken with their products that they focus only on existing wants and lose sight of underlying customer needs.
They forget that a product is only a tool to solve a consumer problem.
What risk do sellers face when they focus solely on their existing products?
They may lose sight of underlying customer needs and struggle if a better or cheaper product meets those needs.
What is an example illustrating marketing myopia and what is the issue with it?
A drill bit manufacturer thinking customers need a drill bit, when they actually need a quarter-inch hole.
These sellers will have trouble if a new product
comes along that serves the customer’s need better or less expensively.
The customer will have the same need but will want the new product.
What do smart marketers focus on beyond product attributes?
Look beyond the attributes of the products and ser-vices they sell. By orchestrating several services and products, they create brand experiences for consumers.
How does Walt Disney World exemplify creating brand experiences?
By offering more than amusement park rides, using Disney magic to create carefully orchestrated family experiences.