Introduction To Marketing Flashcards
What is the traditional definition of marketing?
“Telling and selling”
What is the contemporary view on marketing ?
Satisfying customer needs
Broadly define marketing
A social and managerial process by which individuals and organizations obtain what they need and want through creating abs exchanging value with others.
Define marketing In a business context
Building profitable value-laden exchange relationships with customers. The process by which companies engage customers, build strong customer relationships, and create customer value in order to capture value from customers in return
How many steps are in the marketing process
5
What do companies do in the first four steps of the marketing process
Work to understand consumers, create customer value, and build customer relationships.
What Happens in the final step of the marketing process
Companies real rewards of creating superior customer value.
By creating value for customers they in turn capture value from consumers in the form of sales profits and long term customer equity
What are the five core customer and market place concepts
1) customers needs wants and demands
2) market offerings (products services and experiences)
3) value, satisfaction and quality
4) exchanges and relationships
5) markets
What are needs
States of felt deprivation
What are wants
The form human needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality
What are demands
Human wants that are backed by buying power
What are market offerings
Some combination of products, services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or a want
What is marketing myopia
The mistake of paying more attention to the specific products a company offers than to the benefits and experiences produced by these products
When does marketing occur
When people decide to satisfy their needs and wants through exchange relationships
What is a market
The set of actual and potential buyers of a product or service