...Q: Describe how today’s customer relationship differs from prior eras oriented to production & selling. A: U.S. business history is divided into four periods: the production era, the sales era, the marketing concept era, and the current customer relationship era. The production era covers the period to the 1920s when buyers were willing to accept virtually any goods that were available. The central notion was that products would sell themselves. The sales era lasted from the 1920s to the 1960s. Manufacturers found they could produce more goods than buyers could consume, and competition grew, so the solution was to hire more salespeople to find new buyers. In the 1960s, the marketing concept era dawned, when organizations began to integrate marketing into each phase of the business. In today's customer relationship era, organizations focus their efforts on (a) continuously collecting information about customers' needs, (b) sharing this information across departments, and (c) using it to create customer value. The first objective in maintaining customer relationship is discovering the needs of prospective consumers. This is not an easy task because consumers may not always know or be able to describe what they need and want. A need occurs when a person feels physiologically deprived of basic necessities such as food, clothing, and shelter. A want is a felt need that is shaped by a person's knowledge, culture, and personality. Effective marketing can clearly shape a person's wants...
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...CHAPTER 2 COMPANY AND MARKETING STRATEGY: PARTNERING TO BUILD CUSTOMER VALUE AND RELATIONSHIPS PREVIEWING THE CONCEPTS – CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 1. Explain company-wide strategic planning and its four steps. 2. Discuss how to design business portfolios and develop growth strategies. 3. Explain marketing’s role in strategic planning and how marketing works with its partners to create and deliver customer value. 4. Describe the elements of a customer-driven marketing strategy and mix and the forces that influence it. 5. List the marketing management functions, including the elements of a marketing plan, and discuss the importance of measuring and managing return on marketing investment. JUST THE BASICS CHAPTER OVERVIEW In this chapter, we dig deeper into steps two and three of the marketing process—designing customer-driven marketing strategies and constructing marketing programs. First, we look at the organization’s overall strategic planning. Next, we discuss how marketers partner closely with others inside and outside the firm to serve customers. We then examine marketing strategy and planning—how marketers choose target markets, position their market offerings, develop a marketing mix, and manage their marketing programs. Finally, we look at measuring and managing return on marketing investment. ANNOTATED CHAPTER NOTES/OUTLINE FIRST STOP Nike’s Customer-Driven Marketing: Building Brand Engagement and Community The Nike “swoosh”...
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...ideologies which include concepts and principles. However, the most important thing in business is marketing because it creates awareness to customers of the products of a business. As this is the case, managing directors and marketing managers should always make sure that they employ effective marketing principles in attracting customers and retaining them. The objective of marketing is to retain existing customers and attracting new ones. Business is about satisfying customers and thus increasing their activity with your business. As in most business sectors there is tough competition meaning that businesses can only gain competitive advantage when they are effective in marketing & good customer service, which includes creating good rapport via public relations. However, this is not as easy as it sounds and much work has to be done in order to attain it. Customers will make choices of where to go for goods or services based on many things - including their perception of the attitudes of employees. Four main aspects have been selected as the main determinants of the success of any business. They include the place where the business is located, the product(s) itself, the price of the product and the manner in which the company promotes its products. A combination of the 4 P’s and a PEST analysis are likely to improve or produce excellent results. Introduction Applying marketing principles are the building blocks in business growth and provide a business with in-depth exposure...
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...1 Principles of Marketing Marketing: Managing Profitable Customer Relationships Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to: 1. Define marketing and outline the steps in the marketing process 2. Explain the importance of understanding customers and the marketplace, and identify the five core marketplace concepts 3. Identify the key elements of a customer-driven marketing strategy and discuss the marketing management orientations that guide marketing strategy 4. Discuss customer relationship management, and identify strategies for creating value for customers and capturing value from customers in return 5. Describe the major trends and forces that are changing the marketing landscape in this age of relationships 1-2 Chapter Concepts 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. What Is Marketing? Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy Preparing an Integrated Marketing Plan and Program Building Customer Relationships Capturing Value from Customers The New Marketing Landscape So, What Is Marketing? Pulling It All Together 1-3 What Is Marketing? Marketing Defined Marketing is the process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships to capture value from customers in return 1-4 What Is Marketing? The Marketing Process 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Understand the marketplace and customer wants and needs Design a customer-driven marketing strategy Construct...
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...“Relationship Marketing Across Value Delivery Network: A Literature Review” Author(s) *Dr. Tripti Singh Lecturer, School of Management Studies, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh-211004, India tripti@mnnit.ac.in, kumartripti@rediffmail.com www.mnnit.ac.in **Vibhava Srivastava Research Scholar, School of Management Studies, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh-211004, India vibhava.sri@gmail.com www.mnnit.ac.in Abstract Contemporary Marketing Management identifies Relationship Marketing (RM) as a paradigm shift from traditional marketing practices to a strategic function. It is not only concerned with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) but also plays a significant role in value creation process at all levels across the value delivery network. Effort is made hereby to further validate this statement through secondary literature sources and various references taken out from current industry practices. The focus of the study is to understand the concept of relationship marketing, its evolution and its role in current business scenario. This study is proposed to understand the basic research problem i.e. “How value is created in a value delivery network (Supply Chain) through relationship marketing”? The study concludes by proposing a hypothetical model of relationship marketing across a value delivery network. Effort is being made hereby to identify various types of relationships...
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...Marketing and the Marketing Process Marketing deals with customers more than any other business functions. Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. Marketing has a twofold goal. They are to attract new customers by promising superior value, and keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction. The American Marketing Association defines marketing as “The Process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, good, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objective”. The Marketing process is the method of evaluating openings, choosing the proposed customer, addressing the consumer needs and wants, describing the price, product, place and promotion and addressing the marketing campaign. The marketing process takes major responsibility to control overall marketing strategy. The marketing process has 5 steps that lead to a successful advertising campaign. In the first four steps, companies work to understand consumers, create customer value, and build strong customer relationships. In the final step, companies reap the reward of having superior customer value. Now, we will explore the steps of the marketing process. Step 1 is marketers need to understand the market place and the needs and wants of customers. There are five core customer and market place concepts. Needs, wants, and demands is one. Human needs are states of felt deprivation. Human wants are the form human needs...
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...Describe a value proposition and provide an example. How important is value to the consumer? (Points : 5) There is no universal definition of the term value proposition. Value proposition in marketing is a statement that summarizes why a consumer should buy a product or service. Basically, value proposition should convince a potential consumer that the product or service will solve his/her problems and it is impossible to live without that product or service. Value proposition can be in form a statement or an ad. Prime example is Apple iPad ad. Apple does not have a convincing written statement on this product, but what they have is very convincing ad. From a consumer point of view, a value of a product or service is linked to quality and reliability. Most consumers are cost conscientious. They always look for a good value and they only decide what is valuable and what is not! 2. (TCO A, B, C) How would you describe relationship marketing? Why are these relationships so important to successful marketing? (Points : 5) Relationship marketing is relatively a new concept surfaced in late 1980s. It can be defined as marketing activities that attract, maintain and enhance customer relationships. In a nutshell, relationship marketing simply means customer retention and satisfaction. Basically, a trust relationship—thru quality product offering, is built among all stakeholders, especially with the customers (this is not a “buddy-buddy” relationship). Now a days...
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...2010.10.07. CRM – Customer Relationship Management Bianka Parragh, Phd Óbuda University Keleti Károly Faculty of Business and Management Institute of Enterprise Management • Approaches of Customer Relationship Management • The origins of CRM • The rise of CRM • The role of CRM • Types of CRM 1 2010.10.07. RE-INVENTING CRM In the late 1990s and early year of the 21th century, CRM was offered up as the next wave of marketing. The tools and techniques that would make traditional marketing obsolete. The automated approaches that would make customer relationships automatic and would enable the marketing organization to shell anything to anyone they chose. CRM was the single solution that would solve every marketing problem. Simply install the software, plug in the customer data and sit back and watch the profils roll in. But it wasn’t that simple. It wasn’t that easy. And, it simply didn’t work that way. Millions of dollars anp pounds and yen and Euros were spent on CRM systems, software and structures but, not enough seemed to come back. The five important things are about the book’s approach to CRM 1.Strategic, not more tactics. CRM is a business decision, made by business managers to achieve business goals. So, most of all, this approach to CRM is strategic. 2. Customers, not companies. Payne’s approach puts the company and the customer in perspective. If there is no benefits to the customer, there can be no benefit to the company. CRM is reciprocal process...
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...11/06/2014 Chapter One Marketing: Creating and Capturing Customer Value Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 1- slide 1 Creating and Capturing Customer Value Topic Outline • • • • • • • What Is Marketing? Understand the Marketplace and Customer Needs Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy Preparing an Integrated Marketing Plan and Program Building Customer Relationships Capturing Value from Customers The Changing Marketing Landscape Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 1- slide 2 1 11/06/2014 What Is Marketing? Marketing is a process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships to capture value from customers in return Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 1- slide 3 What Is Marketing? The Marketing Process Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 1- slide 4 2 11/06/2014 Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs Core Concepts • • • • • Customer needs, wants, and demands Market offerings Value and satisfaction Exchanges and relationships Markets Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 1- slide 5 Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs Customer Needs, Wants, and Demands Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing...
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...Chapter One Marketing: Creating and Capturing Customer Value Chapter 1- slide 1 Creating and Capturing Customer Value Topic Outline • • • • • • • What Is Marketing? Understand the Marketplace and Customer Needs Designing a Customer‐Driven Marketing Strategy Preparing an Integrated Marketing Plan and Program Building Customer Relationships Capturing Value from Customers The Changing Marketing Landscape Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 1- slide 2 What Is Marketing? Marketing is a process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships to capture value from customers in return Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 1- slide 3 What Is Marketing? The Marketing Process Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 1- slide 4 Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs Core Concepts • • • • • Customer needs, wants, and demands Market offerings Value and satisfaction Exchanges and relationships Markets Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 1- slide 5 Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs Customer Needs, Wants, and Demands Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 1- slide 6 Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs • Market offerings are some ...
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...Lecture Outline – CH. 1 (2012) I. Marketing is the process of creating, distributing, promoting, and pricing goods, services, and ideas to facilitate satisfying exchange relationships with customers and to develop and maintain favorable relationships with stakeholders in a dynamic environment. This definition is consistent with the American Marketing Association definition of marketing. A. Marketing Focuses on Customers 1. As the purchasers of the products that organizations develop, promote, distribute, and price, customers are the focal point of all marketing activities. 2. The essence of marketing is to develop satisfying exchanges from which both customers and marketers benefit. a) Both customer and marketer expect to gain something of value from the exchange. 3. Organizations generally focus their marketing efforts on a specific group of customers, or target market. B. Marketing Deals with Products, Distribution, Promotion, and Price 1. Marketing is more than simply advertising or selling a product; it involves developing and managing a product, making the product available in the right place and at a price acceptable to buyers, and communicating information to help customers determine if the product will satisfy their needs. 2. These activities—product, distribution, promotion, and pricing—are known as the marketing mix because marketers decide what type of each element to use and in what amounts. a)...
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...What is Marketing? Fundamentals of Marketing Management Process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others. Dr. P.V. (Sundar) Balakrishnan Simply put: Marketing is the delivery of customer satisfaction at a profit. Managing World-Class Organizations S #1 Balakrishnan The Marketing Objective Activities in the Marketing Process ... “Satisfy the needs of a group of customers better than the competition.” Distinguish from Selling or Advertising: – merely a subset of marketing actions used to satisfy consumer needs. Marketing focuses on the use of all the firm’s controllable influences to satisfy the customer. S #3 Balakrishnan S #2 Balakrishnan Broad Objective of Marketing Identify needs of customers that company can satisfy Design a Product (“bundle of benefits”) that satisfies those needs - better than existing products. Promote / communicate these benefits in order to motivate purchase Price at the right level so that consumers are willing & able to buy the product and the firm’s profit goals are met Make the product available at the right Place so that exchange is facilitated S #4 Balakrishnan Core Marketing Concepts To grow the business by adapting it to changes in the environment : by monitoring Needs, wants, and demands changes in customer needs changes in competition changes in the company’s own skills...
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...WHAT IS MARKETING? Marketing deals with customers. Marketing is the managing profitable customer relationshis. 2 fold goal of marketing - to attract new customers by promising superior value; -keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction Today, marketing must be understoodnot in the old sense of making a sale -"telling and selling"- but in the new sense of satisfying customer needs. If the market understands consumer needs; develops products that provide superior customer value; and prics, distribuites, and promote them effectively, there products will sell easily. Marketing: the process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customers relationships in order to capture value from customer relationships. 5 steps of marketing process: companies work to undersand consumer, create value and build trong relationships---> 1. understend the market place and customer need and wants. 2. design a customer-driven marketing strategy. 3. construct an integrated marketing program that delivers superiors value. 4. build profitable relationships and create custumer delight. capture value from customers in return---> 5. capture value from custumers to create profits and customer equity. 1. Understanding the marketplace and Customer needs. Custumer Needs, Wants and Demands. Needs: states of felt deprovation; 1. physical (food, clothing, warmth, safety); 2. social (belonging and affection); 3. individual (knowledge and selfespression) Wants: the form of human...
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...an export department with a sales manager and a few assistants (and limited marketing services). As they go after global business more aggressively, they can create an international division with functional specialists (including marketing) and operating units structured geographically, according to product, or as international subsidiaries. Finally, companies that become truly global organizations have top corporate management and staff plan worldwide operations, marketing policies, financial flows, and logistical systems. In these organizations, the global operating units report directly to top management, not to the head of an international division. Evaluating and Controlling the Marketing Process To deal with the many surprises that occur during the implementation of marketing plans, the marketing department has to monitor and control marketing activities continuously. Table 1.1 lists four types of marketing control needed by companies: annualplan control, profitability control, efficiency control, and strategic control. The Fourteenth Edition of Principles of Marketing! Still Creating More Value for You! The goal of every marketer is to create more value for customers. So it makes sense that our goal for the fourteenth edition is to continue creating more value for you—our customer. Our goal is to introduce new marketing students to the fascinating world of modern marketing in an innovative and comprehensive yet practical and enjoyable way. We’ve poured ...
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...Chapter 1 Marketing: Managing Profitable Customer Relationships GENERAL CONTENT: Multiple-Choice Questions 1. Central to any definition of marketing is _____. a. demand management b. transactions c. customer relationships d. making a sale e. making a profit (Answer: c; p. 5; Easy) 2. All of the following are accurate descriptions of modern marketing today, except which one? a. Marketing is creation of value for customers. b. Marketing is customer satisfaction at a profit. c. Selling and advertising are synonymous with marketing. d. Marketing involves building and managing profitable customer relationships. e. None of the above statements is true. (Answer: c; p. 5; Easy) 3. Like NASCAR, successful companies recognize a crucial dimension of an outstanding marketing company to be _____. a. a strong customer focus b. a relentless pursuit of customer needs c. customer relationships built by everyone in the organization d. all of the above e. none of the above (Answer: d; p. 5; Moderate) 4. _____ is defined as a social and managerial process by which individuals and organizations obtain what they need and want through value creation. a. Selling b. Advertising c. Barter d. Marketing e. None of the above is correct. (Answer: d; p. 5; Challenging) 1 5. Society and culture shape the basic form of human needs called _____. a. needs b. wants c. demands d. value e. an exchange (Answer: b; p. 6; Moderate) 6. When backed by buying power...
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