This document provides an overview of key marketing concepts including:
- Marketing is the process of creating value for customers and building relationships to capture value in return through communicating and delivering value.
- Marketing management involves choosing target markets and growing customers through superior value.
- Market segmentation involves dividing markets into groups with similar needs. Effective segmentation is measurable, substantial, accessible, differentiable, and actionable.
- Targeting involves deciding which market segments to focus on through concentrated or differentiated targeting strategies based on identifying segments that are identifiable, sufficient, stable/growing, and accessible.
- Positioning determines customer needs and how a product fulfills them differently than competitors in the customer's mind.