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Defining Marketing For The New Realities
Defining Marketing For The New Realities
Defining Marketing For The New Realities
Successful marketing builds demand for products and services by helping to build
products for which people are waiting after they come to know of the needs and the
demand for products in turn, creates jobs. By contributing to the bottom line, by finding
out the price at which a specific quantity of demand is available and then participating
successfully in the exchange process, successful marketing also allows firms to more fully
engage in socially responsible activities.
What Is Marketing?
Marketing is about identifying and meeting human and social needs. One of the shortest
good definitions of marketing is “meeting needs profitably.”
The American Marketing Association offers the following formal definition: 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.
Marketing management as the art and science of choosing target markets and getting,
keeping, and growing customers through creating, delivering, and communicating
superior customer value. (managerial definition of marketing).
Selling is part of marketing. But selling is only the tip of the marketing iceberg. Marketing
is creating, offering, and freely exchanging products and services of value with others.
Selling may include offering and exchange activities.
Peter Drucker, a leading management theorist, puts it this way: There will always, one can
assume, be need for some selling. But the aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or
service fits him and sells itself. Ideally, marketing should result in a customer who is ready
to buy. All that should be needed then is to make the product or service available.
What Is Marketed?
Marketers market 10 main types of entities: goods, services, events, experiences,
persons, places, properties, organizations, information, and ideas.
Who Markets?
A marketer is someone who seeks a response—attention, a purchase, a vote, a donation—
from another party, called the prospect.
Demands are wants for specific products backed by an ability to pay. The potential
person is willing to specify a price at which he is going to buy and able to show money
resources to do the transaction (generally it means he has an income).
After creating market segments for a product or service, the marketer decides which
present the greatest opportunities and select some of them as its target markets. For each,
the firm develops a benefit statement to position in the minds of the target buyers a central
benefit or two as the specialty of the offering by the particular company.
A brand is an offering from a known source. A brand name identifies the source and
carries many
associations in people’s minds that make up its image.
Marketing Channels
Marketers use three kinds of marketing channels. Communication, Distribution and
Service.
Distribution channels display, sell, and deliver the physical product or service(s) to the
buyer or user. The distribution may be direct via owned retail outlet, salesmen, the
Internet, mail, or mobile phone
or telephone, or indirect with distributors, wholesalers, retailers, and agents as
intermediaries.
Media used in marketing for communications is divided into three categories. Paid, owned
and earned media. For paid media, the companies pay fee and insert
their advertisement or communication message. When the communication medium is
totally owned by a company say, a brochure, an in-house magazine, or an advertisement
on the packaging, it is termed owned media. Earned media is the messages circulated by
consumers and public in social media or in traditional media. The rise of digital media has
increased the coverage of the earned media and also increased its role in the media mix.
Supply Chain
Each company has a value chain and captures only a certain percentage of the total value
generated by the supply chain’s value delivery system. When a company acquires or enters
upstream or downstream activities, it will capture a higher percentage of supply chain
value.
Competition
Competition includes all the actual and potential rival offerings and substitutes a buyer
might consider.
Marketing Environment
The marketing environment has task environment and broad environment. The task
environment includes the economic entities engaged in producing, distributing, and
promoting the offering. These are the company, suppliers, distributors, dealers, and target
customers. Suppliers include marketing services companies also.
To be written further
Technology
Globalization
Social Responsibility
Marketing 3.0
A Dramatically Changed Marketplace
Changing Channels
Heightened Competition
Marketing in Practice
Marketing Balance
Reinventing Marketing at Coca-Cola
Marketing Accountability
The product concept proposes that consumers favor products offering the most quality,
performance, or innovative features. What is missing is customer needs.
The selling concept holds that consumers and businesses, if left alone, won’t buy enough
of
the organization’s products. So you have to put in selling effort and make them buy.