Unit 1 - Introduction
Unit 1 - Introduction
Unit 1
What is marketing?
• Organization’s planned process where the
needs are identified
• Target market is identified
• Satisfy their needs
• Retain the customers
Definition
• AMA, “ It’s a process of planning and
executing the conception, pricing, promotion
and distribution of ideas, goods and services
to create exchanges that satisfy individual and
organization goals.”
Marketing and Selling
• Meaning- needs and wants through exchange
• Inception- before production
• Subject matter- customer satisfaction, only
sales
• Scope- wider term, part of marketing
• Environment- internal & external, only
internal
Nature/Characteristics of marketing
• Customer centric
• Managerial function
• Dynamic process
• Economic function
• Continuous process
• Dual objectives – profit maximization &
customer satisfaction
Scope/Elements
Primary elements Auxiliary Elements
(additional)
• Goods
• Services • Consumer behaviour
• Experience • Marketing research
• Events • Customer satisfaction
• Places (video) • 4 p’s of marketing
• Persons
• Properties
• Information – eg:
truecaller
Core concept of marketing:
1. Business Enterprise
2. Environmental Scanning (needs, wants and
demand)
3. Product/Services (unique and different from
competitors)
4. Value & Satisfaction
5. Exchange process (selling)
6. Customer Relationship management
Marketing Environment
• MICRO FACTORS • MACRO FACTORS
(Internal) (External)
1. Employees 1. Political
2. Finance 2. Economic
3. R&D (improvise the 3. Legal
existing) 4. Socio-cultural
4. Suppliers 5. Demographics
5. Customers(stakeholder)
6. Distribution channels
7. Competitors
Marketing
orientation/concepts/philosophy
1 •Production concept
2 •Product concept
3 •Selling concept
4 • Marketing concept
5
• Societal marketing concept
6 • Holistic concept
The Production Concept
• Oldest
• Consumer prefers products that are widely
available and inexpensive
• Production orientation efficiency, low cost
and mass distribution
• Product quality is not given importance
The Product Concept
• Consumers favors products that are of better
quality & features
• Good product Good sales
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Marketing management
Refers to planned activities that emphasis
on application of marketing resources &
techniques of a company in order to
identify, anticipate and satisfy customer
requirements profitably.
Marketing Management Involves: