Marketing 301 - Exam 1 Flashcards
Marketing
The process by which companies create VALUE for customers and build strong customer relationships in order to capture VALUE from customers in return
4 Ps of Marketing
1) What do potential customers need/want? PRODUCT
2) How much should we ask customers to pay?
PRICE
3) How will we get it to the customers?
PLACE
4) How will we communicate with the customers?
PROMOTION
The Marketing Concept
market (starting) -> customer needs (focus) -> integrated marketing (means) -> profits through customer satisfaction (ends)
Products
physical objects, people, organizations, places, information, ideas (how marketers create value)
The Selling Concept
Factory (starting point) -> Existing products (focus) -> selling and promoting (means) -> profits through sales volumes (ends)
Societal Marketing Concept
Society (human welfare ) v consumers (want satifaction) -> company (profits)
Marketing Mix
Product
Price
Place
Promotion
CUSTOMER IS AT THE CENTER!
Customer Value Results In:
1) Customer loyalty and retention
2) Customer refferals
3) More customers
4) Customer equity (lifetime value of customer x # of customers you have)
5) Higher profits
Profitability/Loyalty Chart
High profitablity, low loyalty: butterflies
High profitability, high loyalty: true friends ** What you want **
Low profitablity, low loyalty: strangers
Low profitability, high loyalty: barnacles
Marketing Environment
the actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful RELATIONSHIPS with target customers
Microenvironment
- The Company
- Suppliers + Marketing Intermediaries
- Competitors
- Publics
- Customers
(MICRO) The Company
Intermediaries help the company promote, sell and DISTRIBUTE the products to end-users
TYPES:
1. resellers
2. physical distribution firms
3. marketing services agencies
4. financial intermediaries (funding)
(MICRO) Competitors
Who the customer might choose instead
-provide reasonable substitutes to customers
- “Competitive advantage” / “Point of difference”
LAW OF COLOR: a brand should use a color that is opposite of their major compteitors
(MICRO) Publics
Publics are any group that has an interest in or an impact on an organization’s ability to achieve its objectives
TYPES:
1. financial
2. media
3. government
4. citizen-action
5. local
6. general
7. internal
(MICRO) Customers
Who buys your products
5 TYPES:
1. consumers
2. businesses
3. reseller
4. government + nonprofit
5. international customers
Macroenvironment
- Demographic Forces
- Economic Forces
- Natural Forces
- Technological Forces
- Political Forces
- Cultural Forces
(MACRO) Demographic Forces
-household structures
-age structures
-geographic population shifts
-educational characteristics
-population diversity
-occupations
(MACRO) Demographic Forces [Age Structure]
-baby boomers: most affluent group, likely to postpone retirement + stay active
-gen X: less materialistic, spend time cutting and pasting lives, care for the environment
-gen Y (millennials): “Echo boom”, comfortable with technology, “now” oriented, lots of debt, “interdependent”
-gen Z: have “digital” in their DNA, desire lots of sensory information, expect personalized experiences, “makers” not “sharers”
(MACRO) Economic Forces
-consists of changes in buyers behavior due to changes in wealth
treasure hunter tradeoffs: want to treat themselves
-changes in income distribution
upper class, middle class, working class, under class
(MACRO) Natural Forces
Natural resources that are needed as inputs by marketers/ are affected by marketing activities
-shortages of raw material
-increased pollution
-increased government intervention
-increased environmentally sustainable packaging
*Walmart poptart hurricane example