Marketing Principles and Application Flashcards
Define marketing
Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering and
exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large
What are the marketing concepts?
- Negative Demand
- Expectations
- Satisfaction
- Quality
- Value
- Loyalty
Negative Demand
Not wanting the goods or services but realizing that you have to have it
Negative Demand goals
- To focus marketing on why these negative demand services or products are being bought….what is the result? (focusing on your outcomes)
- Identify needs and influence wants and demands (focus on the outcomes of those around you)
Expectations
- Internal standards of customers when evaluating products or services
- Finding the balance between
• Desired service (what they hope to receive)
• Adequate service (the minimum they are willing to accept
• Zone of tolerance (difference between desired and adequate, willingness to accept variation)
• Predicted service (level of service customers think they will get)
Satisfaction
A person’s feeling of pleasure or disappointment resulting from comparing a product’s perceived performance
Types of Satisfaction
- Confirmation: performance matches expectations
- Disconfirmation: doesn’t match; positive - better than what you expected; negative - worse than expected
Quality
Superiority or excellence
What are the types of quality?
- Service quality
- Technical quality
- Functional quality
Service quality
more global, long-term evaluation of service
Technical quality
specific, was outcome successful
Functional quality
how service was performed
Value
- What did customers get vs. what they gave up
- Perceived benefit vs. perceived costs
Loyalty
The consumable product must be subject to adoration
What are the 4 P’s of marketing
- Product
- Price
- Place
- Promotion
- People
4 P’s of marketing: Product
- Good and/or service
- Any OTC front-end product
- Any clinical service
- Any ‘special event’ (health fairs)
- Any medication
- Take into consideration the packaging of the product
What are the major characteristics of service marketing decisions?
- Intangibility
- Inseparability
- Variability
- Perishability
Characteristics of service marketing decisions: Intangibility
- Services cannot be seen, tasted, felt
- Add something tangible to the service
- Want to make the experience memorable; take into consideration: interaction, location of service
Characteristics of service marketing decisions: Inseparability
- Services produced/consumed at once
- Provider/patient relationship
- Keep an ‘agenda’
Characteristics of service marketing decisions: Variability
- Services are impacted by people delivering the service
- Hire the ‘right’ people
- Train for consistency
Characteristics of service marketing decisions: Perishability
- Services cannot be ‘stored’
- Meeting supply and demand can be challenging
- Create appointment based services
4 P’s of marketing: Price
Cost of good or service