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Midterm Reviewer Marketing Management
Midterm Reviewer Marketing Management
(MIDTERM)
CHAPTER 1
MARKETING
- an organizational function and set of processes for creating, communicating and
delivering value to customers.
- Refers to activities a company undertakes to promote the buying or selling of a product
or service.
PHILIP KOTLER
- According to him, marketing is “a social and managerial process by which individuals
and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products
and value with others.
CORE CONCEPTS OF MARKETING
● NEEDS - if an individual feels that he is deprived of something we may say that he is
having a need.
- An individual may have different types of needs.
● WANTS - human wants is the other concept of marketing.
- Conversion of needs some tangible product or service.
- This conversion depends on the personality of the individual or his culture.
● DEMANDS - backed up by purchasing power and willingness to buy.
● PRODUCT - set of tangible and intangible attributes.
- Including packaging, color, price, quality and brand plus the seller's service and
reputation.
● EXCHANGE - the process of obtaining a desired product by offering something in return.
● TRANSACTION - a trade of values between two or more parties.
- Includes two things of value, agreed upon conditions on a time of agreement and
a place of agreement.
- The basic unit of exchange is transaction.
● TRANSFER - when one party gives but the other party does not receive anything in
return.
4Ps
● Product
● Price
● Place
● Promotion
4Cs
● Customer
● Cost
● Convenience
● Communication
MARKET RESEARCH
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- any technique or a set of practices that companies use to collect information to
understand their target market better.
MARKETING INSIGHT
- Provides diagnostic information about how & why we observe certain effects in the
marketplace, and what that means to marketers.
- Good marketing insights often form the basis of successful marketing programs.
MARKETING RESEARCH
- Defined as the systematic design, collection, analysis and reporting of data and finding
relevant to a specific marketing situation facing the company.
- Not limited to large companies with big budgets.
- Small companies can also hire the services of a marketing research firm.
RESEARCH FIRMS (S,C,S)
● Syndicated- service research firms
● Custom marketing research firms
● Specialty-line marketing research firms
MARKETING RESEARCH PROCESS
● Define the problem, decision alternatives and research objectives.
● Develop the research plan
○ Data sources
○ Research approaches
○ Contact method
○ Sampling plan
○ Research Instruments
■ Questionnaire
■ Qualitative research
■ Technological events
○ Sampling plan
■ Sampling unit
■ Sampling procedure
■ Sample size
● Collection of data
MARKETING RESEARCH PROCESS
1. Collect the information
2. Analyze the information
3. Present the findings
4. Make the decision
MEASURING MARKETING PRODUCTIVITY (TWO COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES)
● Marketing metrics to assess marketing effects
● Marketing mix modeling to estimate causal relationships and measure how marketing
activity affects outcomes.
ORGANIZATIONAL BUYING
● Refers to the decision making process by which formal organizations establish the
needs for purchased products and services.
● Identify, evaluate and choose among alternative brands and suppliers.
BUSINESS MARKET
● Consists of all the organizations that acquire goods and services used in the production
of other products or services that are sold, rented or supplied to others.
CONSUMER MARKET
● A marketplace consisting of household consumers who buy goods for individual or family
consumption.
CHARACTERISTICS OF BUSINESS MARKETS
● Fewer, larger buyers
● Close supplier-customer relationship
● Professional purchasing
● Multiple buying influence
● Multiple sales calls
● Derived demand
● Inelastic demand
● Fluctuating demand
● Geographically concentrated buyers
● Direct purchasing
BUYING SITUATIONS
● STRAIGHT REBUY - purchasing or reordering of supplies on a routine basis.
● MODIFIED REBUY - an individual or organization purchase goods that have been
purchased previously.
● NEW TASK - new-task purchaser buys a product or service for a first time
SYSTEMS BUYING
● This practice originated with government purchases of major weapons and
communications systems.
SYSTEMS SELLING
● It is a key industrial marketing strategy in bidding to build larger-scale industrial projects.
PARTICIPANTS IN THE BUSINESS BUYING PROCESS THE BUYING CENTER
(I.U.I.D.A.B.G.)
1. Initiator
2. Users
3. Influencers
4. Deciders
5. Approvers
6. Buyers
7. Gatekeepers
BUYERS EXHIBIT DIFFERENT BUYING STYLES (K,O,W,W)
● “Keep it simple” buyers
● “Own expert” buyers
● “Want the best” buyers
● “Want everything done” buyers
STEPS IN BUYING PROCESS (P.G.P.S.P.S.O.P)
1. Problem recognition
2. General need description
3. Product specification
4. Supplier search
5. Proposal solicitation
6. Supplier selection
7. Order routine specification
8. Performance review
PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
● Buying process begins when someone in the company recognizes a problem or need
that can be met by acquiring a good or service.
GENERAL NEED DESCRIPTION
● Once they recognize that a need exists, the buyers must describe it thoroughly to make
sure that everyone understands both the need and the nature of the solution the
organization should seek.
PRODUCT SPECIFICATION
● Usually the responsibility of the engineering department
● Engineers should design what the organization requires.
SUPPLIER SEARCH
● Buyer tries to identify the most appropriate suppliers through different supplier search.
PROPOSAL SOLICITATION
● Buyers invite qualified suppliers to submit proposals.
SUPPLIER SELECTION
● Before selecting a supplier, the buying center will specify and rank desired supplier
attributes using a supplier evaluation model.
ORDER-ROUTINE SPECIFICATION
● After selecting a supplier, the buyer negotiates the final order.
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
● The buyers periodically review the performance of the chosen suppliers.
BENEFITS OF VERTICAL COORDINATION
● Availability of alternatives
● Importance of supply
● Complexity of supply
● Supply market dynamism
EIGHT CATEGORIES OF CLASSIFYING BUYER-SELLER RELATIONSHIP
1. Basic buying and selling
2. Bare bones
3. Contractual transaction
4. Customer supply
5. Cooperative systems
6. Collaborative
7. Mutually adaptive
8. Customer is king
INSTITUTIONAL AND GOVERNMENT MARKETS
● The institution consists of schools, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons and other
institutions that must provide goods and services to people in their care.
MARKETING ENVIRONMENT
● Includes the actors and forces outside marketing
● Affects marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships
with target customers.
MICROENVIRONMENT
● Consists of the factors close to the company
● Affects its ability to serve its customers, company suppliers, marketing intermediaries,
customer markets, competitors and publics
COMPANY’S MICROENVIRONMENT
● COMPANY
○ Top management
○ Finance
○ R&D
○ Purchasing
○ Operations
○ Accounting
● SUPPLIERS
○ Provide the resources to produce goods and services
○ Treated as partners to provide customer value
● MARKETING INTERMEDIARIES
○ Helps the company to promote, sell and distribute its products to final buyers.
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TYPES OF MARKETING INTERMEDIARIES:
■ Resellers
■ Physical distribution firms
■ Marketing services agencies
■ Financial intermediaries
● COMPETITORS
○ Firms must gain strategic advantage by positioning their offerings against
competitors’ offerings
● PUBLICS
○ Any group that has an actual or potential interest in or impact on an
organization’s ability to achieve its objectives. (F.M.G.C.L.G.I.)
■ Financial publics
■ Media publics
■ Government publics
■ Citizen-action publics
■ Local publics
■ General publics
■ Internal publics
COMPANY’S MACROENVIRONMENT
● DEMOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT
○ DEMOGRAPHY - the study of human populations in terms of statistics.
○ Demographic environment is important because it involves people, and people
make up markets.
○ Demographic trends include age, family structure, geographic population shifts,
educational characteristics, and population diversity.
○ Changing age structure of the population
■ BABY BOOMERS - born between 1946 and 1964
■ GENERATION X - born between 1965 and 1976
● High parental divorce rates
● Less materialistic
● Family comes first
■ MILLENNIALS (GEN. Y OR ECHO BOOMERS) - born between 1977
and 2000.
● Comfortable with technology
● Includes: tweens ages 8-12, teens 13-19 and young adults 20s
○ GENERATIONAL MARKETING - important in segmenting people by lifestyle or
life state instead of age.
○ Most people are:
■ Divorcing or separating
■ Choosing not to marry
■ Choosing to marrying later
■ Marrying without intending to have children
■ Increased number of working women
■ Stay at home dads
○ Moving from rural to metropolitan areas
● DEMOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT (INCREASED DIVERSITY)
○ Markets are becoming more diverse
■ International
■ National
○ Includes ethnicity, gay and lesbian, disabled.
● ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT
○ Consists of factors that affect consumer purchasing power and spending
patterns.
○ Industrial economies are richer markets.
○ Subsistence economies consume most of their own agriculture and industrial
output.
○ Value marketing involves ways to offer financially cautious buyers greater value
the right combination of quality and service at a fair price.
● ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT (CHANGES IN CONSUMER SPENDING PATTERNS)
○ ERNST ENGEL - Engel’s law
■ As income rises:
● The percentage on spent on foods DECLINES
● The percentage spent on housing remains CONSTANT
● The percentage spent on saving INCREASES
● NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
○ Involves the natural resources that are needed as inputs by marketers or that are
affected by marketing activities.
● TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT
○ Most dramatic force in changing the environment
○ Creates new products and opportunities
○ Safety of new product always a concern
● POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
○ Consists of laws, government agencies, and pressure groups.
○ Influence or limit various organizations and individuals in a given society.
● CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT
○ Consists of institutions and other forces
○ Affect a society's basic values, perceptions and behaviors.
● CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT (PERSISTENCE OF CULTURAL VALUES)
○ CORE BELIEFS AND VALUES - persistent and are passed on from parents to
children.
- Reinforced by schools, churches, businesses and government.
○ SECONDARY BELIEFS AND VALUES - more open to change.
- Include people’s views of themselves, others, organizations, society,
nature and the universe.
● CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT (SHIFT IN SECONDARY CULTURAL VALUES)
○ People’s view of organizations
○ People’s view of society
○ People’s view of nature
○ People’s view of the universe
RESPONDING TO THE MARKETING ENVIRONMENT
● UNCONTROLLABLE - React and adapt to the forces of environment
● PROACTIVE - Aggressive actions to affect forces in the environment
● REACTIVE - Watching and reacting to the forces of environment