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MGT 101
CENTRAL BICOL STATE UNIVERSITY OF
AGRICULTURE
S/Y 2016-2017
PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING
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Grading System
20% - Midterm Exam
20% - Final Exam
60% - Class Standing
Class Standing:
5%- Attendance
15% - Project
15% - Recitation
25% - Quizzes
CHAPTER 1
OVERVIEW OF MARKETING:An Introduction
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
 At the end of the chapter you should be able to:
1. Explain the meaning of marketing.
2. Describe the stages of marketing thought.
3. Discuss the goals of marketing
4. Describe the traditional approaches to marketing
5. Identify and explain contemporary marketing approaches
Stages of Marketing Thought
 Developmental stages of marketing thoughts in its 50
years classified:
 1900-1910 Period of Discovery
 Teachers of marketing sought facts about the distributive trades.The
marketing theory was borrowed from economics, which thus resulted to
distribution, world trade, and commodity markets -> “Marketing”
 1910-1920 Period of Conceptualization
 Many marketing concepts was developed and classified.Terms were
defined.
 1920-1930 Period of Integration
 Principles of Marketing were postulated.The general body of thought
was integrated for the first time.
 PaulW. Ivey was the first to use “Principles of Marketing” as a book title.
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 1930 -1940
 Specialized areas of marketing continued to be developed,
hypothetical assumptions were verified and quantified, and some new
approaches were developed to explanation of marketing knowledge.
 The scientific aspects of the subject were considered.
 1940 -1950 Period of Reappraisal
 The concept and traditional explanation of marketing was reappraised
in terms of current needs for marketing knowledge.The scientific
aspects if the subject were considered.
 1950 – 1960 Period of Reconcepcion
 Traditional approaches to the study of marketing were supplemented
by increasing emphasis on managerial decision making, the societal
aspects of marketing, and quantitative marketing analysis. Concepts
borrowed in the field of Management
1960 – 1970 Period of Differentiation
 Marketing expanded, new concepts took on
substantial identity as significant components of the
total structure of thought.
1970 Period of Socialization
 Social issues and marketing became much more
important. It is the influence not of society upon
marketing, but of marketing upon society that
became a focus of interest.
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What is MARKETING?
 A human activity responsible for managing the demand structure
of need-satisfying goods and services in order to facilitate
satisfactorily, the exchange process at a reasonable profit, for
present and potential customers.
 A social and managerial process whereby individuals and groups
obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging
products and value with others.
 An expanded and broader view of marketing integrating the
different approaches to marketing is this definition:
What is Marketing
 Simply put:
 Marketing is the delivery of customer satisfaction at a profit.
 Goals:
 attract new customers by promising superior value and keep
and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction.
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Bliss Perry’s Summary of the Behavioral Concepts
Relevant to Marketing
Behavioral Concept Marketing Thought
From anthropology (community
in entirety)
Culture
Subculture
Comparative approach
Climate for business
Market research
Culture restraints
Word association
Communication
Retailing structures
From Sociology (individuals in
relation to other individuals)
Social class
Social differentiation
Status crystallization
Reference groups
Social role
The family
Individuals
Institutions
Market segments
Social class awareness
New product acceptance
Shopping behavior
Communication
Leisure
Groups, products,brands
Aspirations
Status conflict
Personal influence
Decision making
Life cycle
Bliss Perry’s Summary of the Behavioral Concepts
Relevant to Marketing
Behavioral Concept Marketing Thought
From Psychology
(centres of the
individual)
Motivation
Drives
Cognitive dissonance
Achievement
Affiliations
Hierarchy of motives
Perception
Orientation
Scope
Thresholds
Perceptual function
Mechanics of vision
Time
Selective perception
Classical and operant learning
Serial learning
“Insight”
Learning of concepts
Attitudes
Motivation
Risk reduction
Ego
Self-image
Concept generalization
Brand choice
From Political Science Power groups
Values
Trade association
Public policy
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Marketing as Management Function
 A simple business organization consists of the following
functions:
 Finance and accounting
 Human resource management
 Production and materials management
 Marketing
Management
Marketing Production Finance
Human
Resource
 MARKETING and PRODUCTION
 Products manufactured or service delivered to customers must
be consistent with customer specifications.This means that
production should only produce products that will satisfy
customers’ needs and wants.
 MARKETING and HUMAN RESOURCE
 The marketing strategy by itself cannot produce good results,
say, meeting target sales, profit, and market share.A company
needs good people to implement these strategies.A marketing
plan is useless if the people who execute the plan are not
committed to the idea.
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 MARKETING and FINANCE
 One of the common conflicts in a company involves sales and
finance. Marketers and finance people should coordinate their
functions to successfully achieve company objectives.
ASSIGNMENT:
1. What are the goals of Marketing.
2. What are the contemporary Marketing approaches.
3. Clip or photocopy (3) three current print advertisements.
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GOALS OF MARKETING
 Maximize consumption
 Maximize consumer satisfaction
 Maximize choice
 Maximize life quality
MARKETING: The Strategic 3C’s
Concept
 The interacting components in marketing are the company
and the market. Marketing is the interfacing of a company
and its target market.
Company Market
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 Two Interacting Components of Market
Customer Competition
 Strategic 3Cs of Marketing
Company
Customers
Competition
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 Key objectives of the 3Cs of marketing are as follows
 Customers – satisfy the needs, wants, and expectation of target
customers.
 Competition – to outperform competition
 Company – to ensure corporate health and profit
 The 3 must be attained to be called “marketing oriented”.
 Its outputs are called: key result areas (KRA)
 Outputs: sales, market share, and profit
Input and Output of Marketing
Sales
CUSTOMERS
COMPETITION
Market Shares
COMPANY
Profit
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Key Result Areas:
1. Sales results from satisfying customers’ needs and wants.
2. Market shares are an effect from outperforming
competition.
3. Profit comes from having excess of sales over cost and
expenses in earning market shares.
CONTEMPORARY MARKETING
APPROACHES
 Marketing Mix
 Conceptual Approach
 Systems, or holistic approach
 Marketing management
 Macro-marketing
 Social marketing
 Comparative marketing
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Marketing Mix
 Developed by E. Jerome McCarthy
 Consists of 4Ps
 Product
 Price
 Place
 Promotion
 It influences buyer’s decision and responses.
 Each P relates and is dependent on every other P’s.
 Controllable variables that a company may use in mapping a
successful marketing strategy.
 Formula of a marketing success:
Desirable Product + Effective Promotion of
demand Stimulation + Acceptable Price +
Availability in the right Places = Marketing
Success
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To be effective each P should focus on the consumer
Consumer
Product
(Desirable)
Price
(Affordable)
Place
(Availability)
Promotion
(Effective)
Product
 Product – anything marketed to satisfy a want or a need. It may
be a person, a place, an organization, an idea or a good offered to
a target market.
 A bundle of attributes (features, functions, benefits and uses) that
exists for the purpose of exchange to satisfy both the customers
and the organizational objective.
 Good – tangible physical entity you can touch.
 Service – the application of human and mechanical efforts to people
or objects to provide intangible benefits to customers.
 Ideas – concepts, philosophies, images and issues.
 Target Market – set of buyers who share common needs or
characteristics that company decides to serve.
 Develop first the right product that will satisfy customer needs
because how potential customers view the product will affect the
development of other Ps.
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Place
 Place – considers all the functions, problems, and institutions
involved in getting the right product to target market. It also
refers to the channel of distribution that marketers work
in and through to move goods from manufacturers to
consumers.
 To satisfy customers, products must be available at the right
time and in convenient locations.
 Example: through stores, mail order catalogues, and web site
ordering
Promotion
 Promotion – advertising, sales promotion, public relations,
personal telling, direct marketing.
 Concerned with communication tool used to persuade and
influence the target and potential market about the right
product that will be sold in the right place at the right price.
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Price
 Price – factors like competition, existing practice on mark
ups, discounts and terms of sale, product appeal, and legal
restrictions must ne considered
 Relates to decisions and actions associated with establishing
pricing objectives and policies and determining product prices.
 A product is developed to satisfy the target customer.
 Then a way (place) is found to reach the target market.
 Promotion informs the target market about the availability
of the product.
 Then the price is established based on expected customers
and reaction to the total offering.
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Conceptual Approach
 Studies the ideas of marketing rather than the activities of
marketing
 Emphasis: theoretical analysis and development of new
concepts whether of consumer, products, marketing,
institution, functions, processes or policies.
 Seeks to improve marketing and provide means of solving
marketing problems through research, logical analysis, and
innovative thought.
 Views all management decisions to be market oriented, with
the consumer or the customer as the end or object of all
business effort. (it starts and ends with the customers)
 To implement marketing concept:
 The company strives to determine what buyers want and uses
his information to develop satisfying products.
 It focuses on customer analysis, competitor analysis, and
integration of the organization’s resources to provide customer
value and satisfaction as well as long term profit.
 The company must continue to alter, adapt and develop
products to keep pace with the customers changing desires and
preferences.
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Company organization applying the
marketing concept
President
VP Finance
VP Human
Resource
VP Marketing
Sales
Marketing Research
Production Manager
Promotions Manager
Customer Service
VP Production
Systems (Holistic) Approach
 System – set of interacting groups coordinated to form a
unified whole and organized to accomplish a set of goals.
 System approach – marketing is perceived as a whole,
interdependent units, the marketing process conceptualized
as “flows” and the marketing structure as “systems”.
 Marketing is explained as the complex interrelationship of
the 4Ps and also as the interaction of marketing institutions,
price, and functions to management and gov’t control.
 Marketing System – the set of important institutions and
flows that connect an organization to its markets.
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Main actors and forces in modern
marketing system
Suppliers
Company
(Marketer)
Competitors
Marketing
Intermediaries
End-user
market
Marketing Management
 A Managerial approach to Marketing
 The process of planning, organizing, implementation, and
controlling marketing activities designed to create, build and
maintain beneficial exchanges with target buyers for the
purpose of achieving organizational objectives.
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Importance of money in our global
economy
 Marketing consumes a sizeable portion of buyer’s dollars
 Marketing is used in not-for-profit organizations
 Marketing is important to business
 Marketing fuels our global economy
 Marketing knowledge enhances consumer awareness
 Marketing connects people through technology
Closing Quiz:
1. What is marketing? (2)
2. What is the focus of all marketing activities?And why? (2)
3. What are the four variables of marketing mix? (4)
4. Give examples of each variables. (4)
5. Why is marketing important to our society? (2)
6. Why should you study marketing? (2)
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Marketing applications: Assignment
1. Identify several businesses in your area that have not
adopted the marketing concept.What characteristics of
these organizations indicate non-acceptance of the
marketing concept?
2. Choose a particular product/service and identify possible
target markets for each. Example:
 Nestle Koko Crunch
 Coke zero
 Bigg’s diner
Chapter 2
Customer Relationship
Customer Service
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 Buying behaviour – decision processes and acts of people
involved in buying and using products.
 Consumer buying behavior – the buying behavior of ultimate
customers, those who purchase products for personal or
household use and not for business purposes.
Why study buying behavior?
 Buyer’s reaction to a company’s marketing strategy have a
great impact on the company’s success
 For creating marketing mix, the company needs to
understand what influences on where, when and how
consumers buy.
 To predict how the consumers respond to a marketing
strategy
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Level of involvement
 Level of involvement – degree of interest on a product and
the importance the individual places on this product.
 High involvement – visible to others (clothing, furniture,
motorcycles) and that are expensive
 Low involvement – those that are less expensive and have less
associated social risk.
 Enduring involvement – person’s interest is ongoing and long
term
 Situational involvement – temporary and dynamic, and
results from particular set of circumstance.
consumer problem solving types
 Routinized response behavior (habitual response behavior) –
used by consumer when buying frequented purchased, low-
cost items needing very little search-and-decision effort.
 Low-involvement products
 Limited problem solving – when buying products
occasionally or when they need to obtain information about
an unfamiliar brand in a familiar product category.
 Extended problem solving – when purchasing an unfamiliar,
expensive and infrequently bought products
 High-involvement products
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 Impulse buying – no conscious planning but results forma
powerful urge to buy something immediately
 What kind of consumer problem solving would most
accurately describe the following purchase?
 School shoes
 Plasma television
 Milk
 Dining set
 Bag
The consumer buying process
Problem
Recognition
Information
Search
Evaluation
of
Alternatives
Purchase
Post
purchase
Evaluation
SITUATIONAL INFLUENCES
• Physical Surroundings
• Social Surroundings
• Time
• Purchase Reason
• Buyer’s mood & Condition
PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCES
• Perception
• Motives
• Learning
• Attitudes
• Personality & Self-concept
• Lifestyles
SOCIAL INFLUENCES
Culture and subcultures
SOCIAL INFLUENCES
• Roles
• Family
• Reference groups &
Opinion Leaders
• Social Classes
• Culture and subcultures
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1. Problem Recognition
 Occurs when a buyer becomes aware of a difference between
desired state and an actual condition.
 Marketers use sales personnel, advertising and packaging to
help trigger recognition of such needs or problems.
2. Information search
 Searches for product information that will help resolve the
problem or satisfy the need.
 Internal Search – search own memories for information about
the product
 External Search- outside sources; may focus on communication
with friends/ relatives, comparison of available brands and
prices, market dominated sources and/or public sources
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3. Evaluation of alternatives
 Consideration set (evoked set) - a group of brands that a
buyer views as possible alternatives
 To assess the products in consideration set the buyer uses
evaluative criteria
 Evaluative criteria – objective (e.g. energy rating) and
subjective (such as style)characteristics that are important to
a buyer
4. Purchase
 Consumer chooses the product to be bought.
 Selection – based on the outcome of the evaluation stage and
on other dimensions.
 Product availability may influence which product is
purchased.
 Buyers pick the seller
 Other factors that has influence in this phase: price, term of
sale, warranties, maintenance agreement, installation and
credit arrangements, etc.
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5. Post purchase evaluation
 Evaluation of product to ascertain if its actual performance
meets expected levels
 Outcome: Satisfaction or Dissatisfaction
 Cognitive dissonance – buyer’s doubts shortly after a
purchase about whether the decision was the right one.
 Usually arises after buying a high-involvement product that
lacks some of the desirable features of competing brands.
 Buyer may attempt to return the product or seek positive
information about it to justify choosing it.
 Marketer needs to reduce this by having salesperson contact
recent buyer to make sure they are satisfied.
Situational Influences
 Result from circumstances, time and location that affect the
consumer buying decision process
 5 categories:
1. Physical surroundings – location, store atmosphere, aromas,
sounds, lighting, weather, and other factors in the physical
surroundings.
2. Social surroundings – include characteristics and interactions of
others, such as friends, relatives, salespeople and other customers,
who are present when a purchase decision is being made.
3. Time perspective – amount of time required to become
knowledgeable about a product, to search for it, or to buy for it,
also influences the buying decision
4. Reason for purchase – what should the product accomplish and for
whom.
5. Buyer’s momentary mood and condition -
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Psychological Influences
 Perception motives, learning, attitudes, personality and self-
concept and lifestyles
 Perception – process of selecting, organizing, and
interpreting information inputs to produce meaning.
 Information inputs – sensations received through sight, taste,
hearing, smell and touch.
 Selective exposure – individuals selects which input will reach
awareness
 Selective distortion – changing or twisting currently received
information
 This happens when a person receives information inconsistent with
his or her personal feelings or beliefs
 Lessens the effect of advertisement
 Selective retention – a person remembers inputs that support
personal feelings, and beliefs and forgets inputs that do not.
 Closure – occurs when a person mentally fills in missing elements
in a pattern or statement. (organize and integrate new information
with what is already stored in memory)
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 Motives – internal energising force that directs a person’s
activities towards satisfying needs or achieving goals.
 Patronage motives – motives that influence where a person
purchases products on a regular basis.
 Learning – changes in an individual thought processes and
behavior caused by information and experience
 Attitude – an individual’s enduring evaluation of feelings
about and behavioral tendencies towards an object or idea.
 Attitude scale – means of measuring consumer attitudes by
gauging the intensity of individual’s reaction to adjectives,
phrases or sentences about an object.
 Personality - set of internal traits and distinct behavioural
tendencies that result in consistent patterns of behavior in
certain situation
 Self concepts – or self image/ a person’s view or perception
of himself or herself
 Lifestyles – an individual’s pattern of living expressed
through activities, interests or opinions.
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Social influence
 Role – actions and activities that a person in a particular
position is supposed to perform based on expectations of the
individual and surrounding people
 Family members
 Parents teach children how to cope with problems including
those dealing with purchase decisions
 consumer socialization - process through which a person
acquires the knowledge and skills to function as a consumer.
 Reference groups- any group that positively or negatively
affect a person’s values, attitudes or behavior. (reference
group influence
 Families, work-related groups, sporting clubs, organizations,
etc.
 Opinion leader – a reference group member who provides
information about a specific sphere that interests reference
group participants. (considered well- informed)
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Social classes
 Open group of individuals with similar social rank
Culture and subculture
 Culture- accumulation of values, knowledge beliefs, customs,
objects and concepts of a society
 Subculture – a group of individuals whose characteristics
values and behavior patterns are similar, but differ from those
of the surrounding culture.
 Usually based on geographic locations, demographic
characteristics such as age, religion, race, and ethnicity.

Principles of marketing part 1 student handouts

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    15/08/2016 1 MGT 101 CENTRAL BICOLSTATE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE S/Y 2016-2017 PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING
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    15/08/2016 2 Grading System 20% -Midterm Exam 20% - Final Exam 60% - Class Standing Class Standing: 5%- Attendance 15% - Project 15% - Recitation 25% - Quizzes CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW OF MARKETING:An Introduction
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    15/08/2016 3 CHAPTER OBJECTIVES  Atthe end of the chapter you should be able to: 1. Explain the meaning of marketing. 2. Describe the stages of marketing thought. 3. Discuss the goals of marketing 4. Describe the traditional approaches to marketing 5. Identify and explain contemporary marketing approaches Stages of Marketing Thought  Developmental stages of marketing thoughts in its 50 years classified:  1900-1910 Period of Discovery  Teachers of marketing sought facts about the distributive trades.The marketing theory was borrowed from economics, which thus resulted to distribution, world trade, and commodity markets -> “Marketing”  1910-1920 Period of Conceptualization  Many marketing concepts was developed and classified.Terms were defined.  1920-1930 Period of Integration  Principles of Marketing were postulated.The general body of thought was integrated for the first time.  PaulW. Ivey was the first to use “Principles of Marketing” as a book title.
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    15/08/2016 4  1930 -1940 Specialized areas of marketing continued to be developed, hypothetical assumptions were verified and quantified, and some new approaches were developed to explanation of marketing knowledge.  The scientific aspects of the subject were considered.  1940 -1950 Period of Reappraisal  The concept and traditional explanation of marketing was reappraised in terms of current needs for marketing knowledge.The scientific aspects if the subject were considered.  1950 – 1960 Period of Reconcepcion  Traditional approaches to the study of marketing were supplemented by increasing emphasis on managerial decision making, the societal aspects of marketing, and quantitative marketing analysis. Concepts borrowed in the field of Management 1960 – 1970 Period of Differentiation  Marketing expanded, new concepts took on substantial identity as significant components of the total structure of thought. 1970 Period of Socialization  Social issues and marketing became much more important. It is the influence not of society upon marketing, but of marketing upon society that became a focus of interest.
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    15/08/2016 5 What is MARKETING? A human activity responsible for managing the demand structure of need-satisfying goods and services in order to facilitate satisfactorily, the exchange process at a reasonable profit, for present and potential customers.  A social and managerial process whereby individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others.  An expanded and broader view of marketing integrating the different approaches to marketing is this definition: What is Marketing  Simply put:  Marketing is the delivery of customer satisfaction at a profit.  Goals:  attract new customers by promising superior value and keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction.
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    15/08/2016 6 Bliss Perry’s Summaryof the Behavioral Concepts Relevant to Marketing Behavioral Concept Marketing Thought From anthropology (community in entirety) Culture Subculture Comparative approach Climate for business Market research Culture restraints Word association Communication Retailing structures From Sociology (individuals in relation to other individuals) Social class Social differentiation Status crystallization Reference groups Social role The family Individuals Institutions Market segments Social class awareness New product acceptance Shopping behavior Communication Leisure Groups, products,brands Aspirations Status conflict Personal influence Decision making Life cycle Bliss Perry’s Summary of the Behavioral Concepts Relevant to Marketing Behavioral Concept Marketing Thought From Psychology (centres of the individual) Motivation Drives Cognitive dissonance Achievement Affiliations Hierarchy of motives Perception Orientation Scope Thresholds Perceptual function Mechanics of vision Time Selective perception Classical and operant learning Serial learning “Insight” Learning of concepts Attitudes Motivation Risk reduction Ego Self-image Concept generalization Brand choice From Political Science Power groups Values Trade association Public policy
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    15/08/2016 7 Marketing as ManagementFunction  A simple business organization consists of the following functions:  Finance and accounting  Human resource management  Production and materials management  Marketing Management Marketing Production Finance Human Resource  MARKETING and PRODUCTION  Products manufactured or service delivered to customers must be consistent with customer specifications.This means that production should only produce products that will satisfy customers’ needs and wants.  MARKETING and HUMAN RESOURCE  The marketing strategy by itself cannot produce good results, say, meeting target sales, profit, and market share.A company needs good people to implement these strategies.A marketing plan is useless if the people who execute the plan are not committed to the idea.
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    15/08/2016 8  MARKETING andFINANCE  One of the common conflicts in a company involves sales and finance. Marketers and finance people should coordinate their functions to successfully achieve company objectives. ASSIGNMENT: 1. What are the goals of Marketing. 2. What are the contemporary Marketing approaches. 3. Clip or photocopy (3) three current print advertisements.
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    15/08/2016 9 GOALS OF MARKETING Maximize consumption  Maximize consumer satisfaction  Maximize choice  Maximize life quality MARKETING: The Strategic 3C’s Concept  The interacting components in marketing are the company and the market. Marketing is the interfacing of a company and its target market. Company Market
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    15/08/2016 10  Two InteractingComponents of Market Customer Competition  Strategic 3Cs of Marketing Company Customers Competition
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    15/08/2016 11  Key objectivesof the 3Cs of marketing are as follows  Customers – satisfy the needs, wants, and expectation of target customers.  Competition – to outperform competition  Company – to ensure corporate health and profit  The 3 must be attained to be called “marketing oriented”.  Its outputs are called: key result areas (KRA)  Outputs: sales, market share, and profit Input and Output of Marketing Sales CUSTOMERS COMPETITION Market Shares COMPANY Profit
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    15/08/2016 12 Key Result Areas: 1.Sales results from satisfying customers’ needs and wants. 2. Market shares are an effect from outperforming competition. 3. Profit comes from having excess of sales over cost and expenses in earning market shares. CONTEMPORARY MARKETING APPROACHES  Marketing Mix  Conceptual Approach  Systems, or holistic approach  Marketing management  Macro-marketing  Social marketing  Comparative marketing
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    15/08/2016 13 Marketing Mix  Developedby E. Jerome McCarthy  Consists of 4Ps  Product  Price  Place  Promotion  It influences buyer’s decision and responses.  Each P relates and is dependent on every other P’s.  Controllable variables that a company may use in mapping a successful marketing strategy.  Formula of a marketing success: Desirable Product + Effective Promotion of demand Stimulation + Acceptable Price + Availability in the right Places = Marketing Success
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    15/08/2016 14 To be effectiveeach P should focus on the consumer Consumer Product (Desirable) Price (Affordable) Place (Availability) Promotion (Effective) Product  Product – anything marketed to satisfy a want or a need. It may be a person, a place, an organization, an idea or a good offered to a target market.  A bundle of attributes (features, functions, benefits and uses) that exists for the purpose of exchange to satisfy both the customers and the organizational objective.  Good – tangible physical entity you can touch.  Service – the application of human and mechanical efforts to people or objects to provide intangible benefits to customers.  Ideas – concepts, philosophies, images and issues.  Target Market – set of buyers who share common needs or characteristics that company decides to serve.  Develop first the right product that will satisfy customer needs because how potential customers view the product will affect the development of other Ps.
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    15/08/2016 15 Place  Place –considers all the functions, problems, and institutions involved in getting the right product to target market. It also refers to the channel of distribution that marketers work in and through to move goods from manufacturers to consumers.  To satisfy customers, products must be available at the right time and in convenient locations.  Example: through stores, mail order catalogues, and web site ordering Promotion  Promotion – advertising, sales promotion, public relations, personal telling, direct marketing.  Concerned with communication tool used to persuade and influence the target and potential market about the right product that will be sold in the right place at the right price.
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    15/08/2016 16 Price  Price –factors like competition, existing practice on mark ups, discounts and terms of sale, product appeal, and legal restrictions must ne considered  Relates to decisions and actions associated with establishing pricing objectives and policies and determining product prices.  A product is developed to satisfy the target customer.  Then a way (place) is found to reach the target market.  Promotion informs the target market about the availability of the product.  Then the price is established based on expected customers and reaction to the total offering.
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    15/08/2016 17 Conceptual Approach  Studiesthe ideas of marketing rather than the activities of marketing  Emphasis: theoretical analysis and development of new concepts whether of consumer, products, marketing, institution, functions, processes or policies.  Seeks to improve marketing and provide means of solving marketing problems through research, logical analysis, and innovative thought.  Views all management decisions to be market oriented, with the consumer or the customer as the end or object of all business effort. (it starts and ends with the customers)  To implement marketing concept:  The company strives to determine what buyers want and uses his information to develop satisfying products.  It focuses on customer analysis, competitor analysis, and integration of the organization’s resources to provide customer value and satisfaction as well as long term profit.  The company must continue to alter, adapt and develop products to keep pace with the customers changing desires and preferences.
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    15/08/2016 18 Company organization applyingthe marketing concept President VP Finance VP Human Resource VP Marketing Sales Marketing Research Production Manager Promotions Manager Customer Service VP Production Systems (Holistic) Approach  System – set of interacting groups coordinated to form a unified whole and organized to accomplish a set of goals.  System approach – marketing is perceived as a whole, interdependent units, the marketing process conceptualized as “flows” and the marketing structure as “systems”.  Marketing is explained as the complex interrelationship of the 4Ps and also as the interaction of marketing institutions, price, and functions to management and gov’t control.  Marketing System – the set of important institutions and flows that connect an organization to its markets.
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    15/08/2016 19 Main actors andforces in modern marketing system Suppliers Company (Marketer) Competitors Marketing Intermediaries End-user market Marketing Management  A Managerial approach to Marketing  The process of planning, organizing, implementation, and controlling marketing activities designed to create, build and maintain beneficial exchanges with target buyers for the purpose of achieving organizational objectives.
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    15/08/2016 20 Importance of moneyin our global economy  Marketing consumes a sizeable portion of buyer’s dollars  Marketing is used in not-for-profit organizations  Marketing is important to business  Marketing fuels our global economy  Marketing knowledge enhances consumer awareness  Marketing connects people through technology Closing Quiz: 1. What is marketing? (2) 2. What is the focus of all marketing activities?And why? (2) 3. What are the four variables of marketing mix? (4) 4. Give examples of each variables. (4) 5. Why is marketing important to our society? (2) 6. Why should you study marketing? (2)
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    15/08/2016 21 Marketing applications: Assignment 1.Identify several businesses in your area that have not adopted the marketing concept.What characteristics of these organizations indicate non-acceptance of the marketing concept? 2. Choose a particular product/service and identify possible target markets for each. Example:  Nestle Koko Crunch  Coke zero  Bigg’s diner Chapter 2 Customer Relationship Customer Service
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    15/08/2016 22  Buying behaviour– decision processes and acts of people involved in buying and using products.  Consumer buying behavior – the buying behavior of ultimate customers, those who purchase products for personal or household use and not for business purposes. Why study buying behavior?  Buyer’s reaction to a company’s marketing strategy have a great impact on the company’s success  For creating marketing mix, the company needs to understand what influences on where, when and how consumers buy.  To predict how the consumers respond to a marketing strategy
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    15/08/2016 23 Level of involvement Level of involvement – degree of interest on a product and the importance the individual places on this product.  High involvement – visible to others (clothing, furniture, motorcycles) and that are expensive  Low involvement – those that are less expensive and have less associated social risk.  Enduring involvement – person’s interest is ongoing and long term  Situational involvement – temporary and dynamic, and results from particular set of circumstance. consumer problem solving types  Routinized response behavior (habitual response behavior) – used by consumer when buying frequented purchased, low- cost items needing very little search-and-decision effort.  Low-involvement products  Limited problem solving – when buying products occasionally or when they need to obtain information about an unfamiliar brand in a familiar product category.  Extended problem solving – when purchasing an unfamiliar, expensive and infrequently bought products  High-involvement products
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    15/08/2016 24  Impulse buying– no conscious planning but results forma powerful urge to buy something immediately  What kind of consumer problem solving would most accurately describe the following purchase?  School shoes  Plasma television  Milk  Dining set  Bag The consumer buying process Problem Recognition Information Search Evaluation of Alternatives Purchase Post purchase Evaluation SITUATIONAL INFLUENCES • Physical Surroundings • Social Surroundings • Time • Purchase Reason • Buyer’s mood & Condition PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCES • Perception • Motives • Learning • Attitudes • Personality & Self-concept • Lifestyles SOCIAL INFLUENCES Culture and subcultures SOCIAL INFLUENCES • Roles • Family • Reference groups & Opinion Leaders • Social Classes • Culture and subcultures
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    15/08/2016 25 1. Problem Recognition Occurs when a buyer becomes aware of a difference between desired state and an actual condition.  Marketers use sales personnel, advertising and packaging to help trigger recognition of such needs or problems. 2. Information search  Searches for product information that will help resolve the problem or satisfy the need.  Internal Search – search own memories for information about the product  External Search- outside sources; may focus on communication with friends/ relatives, comparison of available brands and prices, market dominated sources and/or public sources
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    15/08/2016 26 3. Evaluation ofalternatives  Consideration set (evoked set) - a group of brands that a buyer views as possible alternatives  To assess the products in consideration set the buyer uses evaluative criteria  Evaluative criteria – objective (e.g. energy rating) and subjective (such as style)characteristics that are important to a buyer 4. Purchase  Consumer chooses the product to be bought.  Selection – based on the outcome of the evaluation stage and on other dimensions.  Product availability may influence which product is purchased.  Buyers pick the seller  Other factors that has influence in this phase: price, term of sale, warranties, maintenance agreement, installation and credit arrangements, etc.
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    15/08/2016 27 5. Post purchaseevaluation  Evaluation of product to ascertain if its actual performance meets expected levels  Outcome: Satisfaction or Dissatisfaction  Cognitive dissonance – buyer’s doubts shortly after a purchase about whether the decision was the right one.  Usually arises after buying a high-involvement product that lacks some of the desirable features of competing brands.  Buyer may attempt to return the product or seek positive information about it to justify choosing it.  Marketer needs to reduce this by having salesperson contact recent buyer to make sure they are satisfied. Situational Influences  Result from circumstances, time and location that affect the consumer buying decision process  5 categories: 1. Physical surroundings – location, store atmosphere, aromas, sounds, lighting, weather, and other factors in the physical surroundings. 2. Social surroundings – include characteristics and interactions of others, such as friends, relatives, salespeople and other customers, who are present when a purchase decision is being made. 3. Time perspective – amount of time required to become knowledgeable about a product, to search for it, or to buy for it, also influences the buying decision 4. Reason for purchase – what should the product accomplish and for whom. 5. Buyer’s momentary mood and condition -
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    15/08/2016 28 Psychological Influences  Perceptionmotives, learning, attitudes, personality and self- concept and lifestyles  Perception – process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information inputs to produce meaning.  Information inputs – sensations received through sight, taste, hearing, smell and touch.  Selective exposure – individuals selects which input will reach awareness  Selective distortion – changing or twisting currently received information  This happens when a person receives information inconsistent with his or her personal feelings or beliefs  Lessens the effect of advertisement  Selective retention – a person remembers inputs that support personal feelings, and beliefs and forgets inputs that do not.  Closure – occurs when a person mentally fills in missing elements in a pattern or statement. (organize and integrate new information with what is already stored in memory)
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    15/08/2016 29  Motives –internal energising force that directs a person’s activities towards satisfying needs or achieving goals.  Patronage motives – motives that influence where a person purchases products on a regular basis.  Learning – changes in an individual thought processes and behavior caused by information and experience  Attitude – an individual’s enduring evaluation of feelings about and behavioral tendencies towards an object or idea.  Attitude scale – means of measuring consumer attitudes by gauging the intensity of individual’s reaction to adjectives, phrases or sentences about an object.  Personality - set of internal traits and distinct behavioural tendencies that result in consistent patterns of behavior in certain situation  Self concepts – or self image/ a person’s view or perception of himself or herself  Lifestyles – an individual’s pattern of living expressed through activities, interests or opinions.
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    15/08/2016 30 Social influence  Role– actions and activities that a person in a particular position is supposed to perform based on expectations of the individual and surrounding people  Family members  Parents teach children how to cope with problems including those dealing with purchase decisions  consumer socialization - process through which a person acquires the knowledge and skills to function as a consumer.  Reference groups- any group that positively or negatively affect a person’s values, attitudes or behavior. (reference group influence  Families, work-related groups, sporting clubs, organizations, etc.  Opinion leader – a reference group member who provides information about a specific sphere that interests reference group participants. (considered well- informed)
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    15/08/2016 31 Social classes  Opengroup of individuals with similar social rank Culture and subculture  Culture- accumulation of values, knowledge beliefs, customs, objects and concepts of a society  Subculture – a group of individuals whose characteristics values and behavior patterns are similar, but differ from those of the surrounding culture.  Usually based on geographic locations, demographic characteristics such as age, religion, race, and ethnicity.