LESSON 1
Welcome to the world of Marketing

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Objectives Outline (1 of 2)

1.1 Define marketing and outline the steps in the marketing

process.

1.2 Explain the importance of understanding the marketplace

and
customers and identify the five core marketplace
concepts.

1.3 Identify the key elements of a customer value- driven

marketing strategy and discuss the marketing
management orientations that guide marketing strategy.

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Objectives Outline (2 of 2)

1.4 Discuss customer relationship management and identify

strategies for creating value for customers and capturing
value from customers in return.

1.5 Describe the major trends and forces that are changing

the marketing landscape in this age of relationships.

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First Stop: Amazon

Amazon does much more
than just sell goods online.
It engages customers and
creates satisfying customer
experiences. “The thing that
drives everything is creating
genuine value for
customers,” says Amazon
founder Jeff Bezos.

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Objective Outline 1.1

• Define marketing and outline the steps in the marketing

process.

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What Is Marketing?

• Marketing is engaging customers and managing profitable

customer relationships.

• Goals of Marketing

– Attract new customers by promising superior value
– Keep and grow current customers by delivering

satisfaction

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Forms of Marketing

Traditional

• Making a sale

• Abundance of products in the nearby shopping centers

• Television, magazine, and direct-mail ads

Contemporary

• Imaginative Web sites and mobile phone apps, blogs,

online videos, and social media

• Reach customers directly, personally, and interactively

• Satisfying customer needs

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Figure 1.1

The Marketing Process: Creating and Capturing Customer
Value

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Objective Outline 1.1 Summary

• Marketing creates value for customers

– understand marketplace and customers
– design a customer value-driven marketing strategy
– construct a marketing program
– engage customers, build relationships

• Captures value from customers

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Objective Outline 1.2

• Explain the importance of understanding the marketplace

and customers and identify the five core marketplace
concepts.

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Understanding the Marketplace and
Customer Needs

• Five core customer and marketplace concepts:

– Needs, wants, and demands
– Market offerings
– Value and satisfaction
– Exchanges and relationships
– Markets

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Customer Needs, Wants, and Demands (1 of 2)

Needs

• States of felt deprivation

– Physical needs—food, clothing, warmth, and safety
– Social needs—belonging and affection
– Individual needs—knowledge and self-expression

Wants

• Form taken by human needs when shaped by culture and

individual personality

Demands

• Human wants that are backed by buying power

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Customer Needs, Wants, and
Demands (2 of 2)

Staying close to customers: Airbnb’s C E O Brian Chesky (left) and co-
founder Joe Gebbia (center) regularly stay at the company’s host
locations, helping them shape new customer solutions based on real
user experiences.

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Market Offerings

• Products, services, information, or experiences

– Offered to satisfy a need or want

• Marketing myopia—paying more attention to the specific

products than to the benefits and experiences produced

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Customer Value and Satisfaction

• Customers form expectations about the value and

satisfaction of market offerings.

– Satisfied customers buy again
– Dissatisfied customers switch to competitors

• Setting the right level of expectations

– Low expectations may fail to attract buyers
– High expectations may disappoint buyers

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Exchanges and Relationships

• Exchange is the act of obtaining a desired object by

offering something in return.

• Marketing consists of creating, maintaining, and growing

desirable exchange relationships.

– Strong relationships are built by consistently delivering

superior customer value.

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Markets

• All actual and potential buyers of a product

• Sellers and Consumers market

• Customer-managed relationships

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Figure 1.2

A Modern Marketing System

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Objective Outline 1.2 Summary

• Customers needs, wants, and demands

• Customer lifetime value and share of customer

• Long-term customer equity

• Other marketplace concepts

– market offerings
– value and satisfaction
– exchange and relationships
– markets

• Value proposition

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Objective Outline 1.3

• Identify the key elements of a customer value–driven

marketing strategy and discuss the marketing
management orientations that guide marketing strategy.

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Designing a Customer Value–Driven
Marketing Strategy (1 of 4)

• Customer value-driven marketing strategy

– Once a company fully understands its consumers and

the marketplace, it must decide which customers it will
serve and how it will bring them value.”

• Marketing management: Choosing target markets and

building profitable relationships

• Designing a winning marketing strategy

– Target market?
– Value proposition?

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Designing a Customer Value–Driven
Marketing Strategy (2 of 4)

• Selecting customers to serve

• Market segmentation refers to dividing the markets into

segments of customers.

• Target marketing refers to which segments to go after.

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Designing a Customer Value–Driven
Marketing Strategy (3 of 4)

Choosing a value proposition—the company must decide
how it will differentiate and position itself in the marketplace.

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Designing a Customer Value–Driven
Marketing Strategy (4 of 4)

• Marketing Management Orientations

– Production concept
– Product concept
– Selling concept
– Marketing concept
– Societal marketing concept

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Figure 1.3

The Selling and Marketing Concepts Contrasted

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Figure 1.4

Three Considerations Underlying the Societal Marketing
Concept

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Preparing an Integrated Marketing
Plan and Program

• Major marketing mix tools

• Four P s of marketing

– Product
– Price
– Place
– Promotion

• Marketing mix tools should be blended into a

comprehensive integrated marketing program.

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Objective Outline 1.3 Summary

• Market segmentation

• Target marketing

• Differentiation and positioning

• Production and product concepts

• Selling and marketing concepts

• Societal marketing concept

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Objective Outline 1.4

• Discuss customer relationship management and identify

strategies for creating value for customers and capturing
value from customers in return.

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Customer Relationship Management

• Delivering superior customer value and satisfaction to build

and maintain profitable customer relationships

– Customer-perceived value: Customer’s evaluation of

a marketing offer relative to those of competing offers

– Customer satisfaction: Extent to which a product’s

perceived performance matches a buyer’s expectations

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Customer Relationship Levels and
Tools (1 of 2)

Levels

• Basic relationships

• Low-margin customers

• Full partnerships

• High-margin customers

Tools

• Frequency marketing programs

• Loyalty rewards programs

• Club marketing programs

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Customer Relationship Levels and
Tools (2 of 2)

• Relationship marketing tools: As an Uber Rewards

member, the more you use Uber, the more you benefit,
with perks such as locked-in pricing, priority airport
pickups, access to highly rated drivers, and complimentary
upgrades at no extra cost.

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Customer-Engagement Marketing

• Customer-engagement marketing makes the brand a

meaningful part of consumers’ conversations and lives.

• Greater consumer empowerment means that companies

must practice marketing by attraction.

• Marketers must find ways to enter consumers’

conversations with engaging and relevant brand
messages.

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Consumer-Generated Marketing

• Brand exchanges created by consumers

– Consumers play an increasing role in shaping their

own brand experiences and those of other consumers.

• Uninvited and Invited

– Consumer-to-consumer exchanges
– Consumers invited by companies

▪ New product and service ideas
▪ Active role in shaping ads

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Partner Relationship Management

• Working closely with partners both inside and outside the

company to jointly bring more value to customers

– Partners inside the firm—cross-functional teams
– Partners outside the firm—suppliers, channel partners

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Creating Customer Loyalty and
Retention

• Keeping customers loyal makes good economic sense.

• Customer lifetime value is the value of the entire stream

of purchases a customer makes over a lifetime of
patronage.

• Customer defections can be costly

– Can lose that customer’s lifetime value
– May cause other customers to defect

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Growing Share of Customer

• Portion of the customer’s purchasing in their product

categories

• Share of Customer is increased by:

– Good customer relationship management
– Offering greater variety to current customers
– Creating programs to cross-sell and up-sell to existing

customers

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Building Customer Equity

• Total combined customer lifetime values of all of the

company’s customers

• Measures the future value of the company’s customer

base

• Increases when the loyalty of the firm’s profitable

customers increases

• Better measure of a firm’s performance than current sales

or market share

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Customer Equity

Cadillac: Managing Customer Equity

Managing customer equity: To increase customer equity,
Cadillac is making the classic car cool again among younger
buyers. For example, says G M, “Cadillac will lead the
company to an all-electric future.”

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Figure 1.5

Customer Relationship Groups

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Objective Outline 1.4 Summary

• Customer relationship management

• Customer-engagement marketing

• Customer equity

• Customer value and satisfaction

• Creating value for customers and capturing value from

customers in return.

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Objective Outline 1.5

• Describe the major trends and forces that are changing the

marketing landscape in this age of relationships.

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The Changing Marketing Landscape

• Digital Age

• Changing Economic Environment

• Growth of Not-for-Profit Marketing

• Rapid Globalization

• Sustainable Marketing

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The Digital Age: Online, Mobile, and
Social Media Marketing

• Digital and social media marketing: Engaging

consumers via their digital devices using digital marketing
tools

• Mobile marketing: Using mobile channels to stimulate

immediate buying, make shopping easier, and enrich the
brand experience

• Blending the new digital approaches with traditional

marketing creates a smoothly integrated marketing
strategy and mix.

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Social Media Marketing

• Online social media provide a digital home for people to

connect and share important information and life’s
moments.

• Social media offer an ideal platform for real-time marketing

and engagement.

– Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and smaller more

focused sites.

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Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (A I)

• Marketers can now amass mountains of data

• Brands can use big data to:

– gain deep customer insights
– personalize marketing offers
– and improve customer engagements and service

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Growth of Not-for-Profit Marketing

Sound marketing can help not-for-profits attract
membership, funds, and support.

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Rapid Globalization and Sustainable
Marketing

• Managers around the world are taking both local and

global views of the company’s:

– Industry
– Competitors
– Opportunities

• Corporate ethics and social responsibility have become

important for every business.

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Objective Outline 1.5 Summary

• Online, mobile, and social media marketing

• Post-recession economy

• Not-for-profit marketing

• Connecting globally

• Ethical and societal responsibilities

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Figure 1.6

An Expanded Model of the Marketing Process

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Final Thoughts

• How did the COVID-19 pandemic impact markets and

marketing?

• In the aftermath of the pandemic, are things returning to

the way they were before? Why or why not?

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