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Marketing Program-Session 1




       Principles of Marketing

             Instructor: Khaled Bekhet
          Maastricht School of Management
Today’s Agenda
 Review Syllabus
 Overview of the Marketing Concepts and
  creating customer value.
1st Session Course Description
“An introduction to the basic concepts underlying
  marketing, marketing definition, needs, wants,
  demands, product, Exchange, Market, creating
  customer value, customer satisfaction, Production
  Concept Vs Product Concept Vs Selling concept Vs
  Marketing concept.. And Societal Marketing Concept

Next Session we’ll discuss: Marketing Mix, Market
  segmentation, target market selection Consumer
  and industrial buyer behavior …”



                                            Review Syllabus
Course Objectives
   Understand basic concepts in Marketing
   Your ability to analyze Marketing problems.



    Learn how to develop
             a
      marketing plan.
                                                  Review Syllabus
COURSE STRUCTURE

   Readings
   Lectures
   Assignments
   Project
   Exam
Recommended Text Books
   Principles of Marketing by Philip Kotler
    and Gary Armstrong, 2005, (11th Edition)
    Prentice –Hall Inc.

   Fundamentals of Marketing by Stanton,
    Etzel and Walker, 2005 , (8th Edition) McGraw
    Hill Inc.

   Marketing by Joel R. Evans and Barry
    Berman, 2004, (9th Edition) Atomic Dog Publishing
Question : Is marketing good or
evil?
If you think marketers have an image problem
What People Think of Marketers
Marketers are faddish, irresponsable, …
don’t think like business people …
McKinsey & Company, CEO/CMO Survey, 2005
Too many marketers have become so
specialized that they don’t think in terms of
the company’s big picture.
                                Philip Kotler
Marketers are frivolous and difficult to
approach
Australian Society of Certified Public Accountants
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Marketing Everywhere!
Understanding marketing helps you when:
 You buy a new pair of shoes, or go to the
  grocery store.
 You open a new bank account.
 You apply for a job.
 You watch television.




  In Fact People Buy  3  Things
 ….. Essential needs (Food, Shelter, ..),
  Solutions, Things to feel good.
                                   What is Marketing?
What is Marketing?
Marketing is the total system of business
 activities designed to plan, price, promote,
 and distribute want-satisfying products,
 services, and ideas to target markets in order
 to achieve organizational objectives- AMA


   Simple: The delivery of CS at profit.
In your own words…

                      What’s
                     marketing ?


                       This is your 1st
                       homework :)
Key Words in the Definition
   total system: not an ad hoc approach
   business activities: but not just for
    businesses
   plan, price, promote, distribute: the
    application of the marketing mix
   need-satisfying: meeting customers’ needs
   products, services, ideas: not just
    products
   target markets: not a broad-brush
    approach
   objectives: the customer’s as well as the
    firm’s
Costs                                    Careers
 About 50% of total                      About 25 to 33% of the
Product/service costs                       work force hold
are marketing costs.                      marketing positions.


                            Why Study
                            Marketing?

    Contributions to                     Contributions to Society
Individual Organizations                    Marketing decisions
  Critical to the success                    affect the lives of
        of the firm.                     individual consumers and
                                            society as a whole.
Basic Concepts Underlying Marketing

 Needs
 Wants
 Demands
 Products
 Exchange
 Markets
Needs
   The most basic concept underlying
    marketing is that of human needs.

   The needs are built in human nature itself.
    It is not invented by marketers.

   When the needs are not satisfied, a person
    will try to reduce it or look for an
    alternative that will satisfy it.
Wants
   Human wants are desires for specific
    satisfaction of deeper needs.

   Human needs may be few, but their
    wants are numerous.

   Wants are continually shaped and re-
    shaped by social forces and institutions
    such as families, Mosque, church, schools
    and business corporations.
Wants
   Marketers do not create needs, but
    influence wants.

   They suggest and inform consumers about
    certain products.

   Marketers persuade them to purchase,
    stressing the benefits of such products.
Demands
 People have almost unlimited wants but
  limited resources.
 They want to choose products that provide
  the most value and satisfaction for their
  money.
 When backed by purchasing power, wants
  become demand.
That is, demand is “want for specific
  products that backed up by an ability”.
Demands
Many desire a car such as Mercedes Benz,
 Toyota, BMW, Honda etc. but only a few
 are really willing and able to buy one.
 It is therefore important for marketing
 executives to measure not only how many
 people want their company’s products, but
 also measure how many of them would
 actually be willing and able to buy them.
Products
   People normally satisfy their wants and needs
    with products offered in the market.

    A product can be defined as anything that can be
    offered to someone to satisfy a need or want.
   A product can be an object, service, activity,
    person, place, organization or idea.

   People do not buy physical objects for their own
    sake. For example why women buy lip stick and
    why would you buy a toothpaste?????????.
But, It is not Just Products
   There could be a good, a service, or an idea.
Exchange
   Marketing takes place when people decide
    to satisfy needs and wants through
    exchange.

   Exchange is therefore the act of getting a
    desired object from someone by giving
    something in return.
Figure 1-1:
The Give and Get of Marketing
Markets
A market is defined as a set of all actual and
potential buyers of a product and service.
These buyers share particular needs or wants
that can be satisfied through exchange.
Simple Marketing System


                   Communication

                   Product/Service
 Producer/Seller                     Consumer
                      Money



                     Feedback
Who is the Focus?
   Customers
    The purchasers of
    organizations’
    products; the focal
    point of all
    marketing
    activities.
       The Target Market
           Starbucks focuses on
            its target market to
            meet their needs
Discussion Questions
Is customer satisfaction enough?
Is customer delight necessary?

Do not feel scary, It is not Homework, We
 will discuss about that in class ..NOW !!!!
It’s All About Satisfaction
 customer satisfaction, leads to long-term
  profitability and success.
 Whenever things of value are being
  exchanged, marketing principles apply:
  consider exactly what is being exchanged
  (it’s “give” and “get”)
 Marketing today is the role of all
  company’s operations and departments
  which influence satisfaction
 Marketing principles apply in all
  organizations
…and Creating Value
 Successful marketing involves meeting or
  exceeding customer expectations
 When expectations are exceeded,
  customer satisfaction or delight
  results
 Marketing is very much about adding
  value through a broadly-defined value
  proposition
 The value proposition comprises
  everything the company offers its
  customers – must be defined very broadly
 Value may is not only about price
Creating Customer Value
         Positive      Customer    Negative
                        value


    Perceived                        Perceived
     benefits                         sacrifice

                                  Monetary costs
 Product benefits                 Time costs
 Service benefits                 Energy costs
 Relational benefits              Psychological
 Image benefits                     costs

                                                   8
A value proposition

Value = benefits – costs – risk

As perceived   ‘Solution to   Financial & Unfulfilled
by consumers   my problem’    Opportunity Promises
                                Costs
Creating Value Proposition
 Value proposition contains aspects of CS.
 Many aspects contribute to customer
  satisfaction:
       The emotional connection with customers
       Interaction with the firm and it employees
       The technical performance of the firm
       Support services and systems
       The core product or service offered
   Ability to add value and to differentiate as
    a firm focuses more on the top levels
The Production Concept
   Consumers will favor those products that
    are widely available and low in cost.

   Therefore increase production and cut
    down costs.

   And build profit through volume.
The Product Concept
   Consumers will favor those products that
    offer the most quality, performance, or
    innovative features.

   Therefore, improve quality, performance
    and features.

   This would lead to increased sales and
    profits.
The Selling Concept
   Consumers , if left alone , will not buy enough
    of company’s products.

   Therefore, promote sales aggressively.

   And, build profit through quick turnover.
The Marketing Concept
   The key to achieving organizational goals
    consist in determining the needs and
    wants of target markets and delivering the
    desired satisfactions more effectively and
    efficiently than competitors. As per Kotler
    et all, 1996

   And build profit through customer
    satisfaction And loyalty And Innovation.

   (Quote of P. Drucker-7Sources of Innovation )
Marketing and Sales Concepts Contrasted
Evolution of the Societal Marketing
Concept
 The Production Concept –Existing -Scales
 The Product Concept- Features
 The Selling Concept-Aggressive Promo
 The Marketing Concept-Integrated
 Societal Marketing Concept- New

       Deliver value to customers in a way that
    improves customers’ and society’s long term
    well being.
Marketing Myopia – Fit or Feature?
   Management’s failure to
    recognize a company’s scope
    of business.

   Sellers pay more attention to     Need a
    the specific products they        drill?
    offer than to the benefits and
    experiences produced by the
    products.

   They focus on the “wants” and    Need a
    lose sight of the “needs.”       cloth?
Your 2nd Homework and Last
Can   you Think of some
 marketing myopias that
 might crossed into your
 life? This is your 2nd and
 last homework today?
The Marketing Myopia
   People buy holes, not
    drills!
   Fashion, status,
    reference groups
    approval, and warmth,
    but not coats!
The New View of Marketing 4R
 The modern marketing concept emphasis
  today is on keeping existing customers as
  well as getting new ones
 Four principles guide marketing- 4R:
    retention: keeping them coming back
    referrals: encourage them to
    recommend us
    relationships: build an emotional
    connection
    recovery: solve problems as they arise
Next Class
Marketing Mix and Market segmentation, Target
  Markets selection, Consumer and industrial buyer
  behavior
 Discussion Session: 2 Case Studies



Next Class Debate:
What is the Marketing Mix?, What are the Market
 coverage different strategies?, What are Steps in
 Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning? How
 would you segment consumer and Industrial
 Markets
THANK YOU

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Marketing prgogram session(1)

  • 1. Marketing Program-Session 1 Principles of Marketing Instructor: Khaled Bekhet Maastricht School of Management
  • 2. Today’s Agenda  Review Syllabus  Overview of the Marketing Concepts and creating customer value.
  • 3. 1st Session Course Description “An introduction to the basic concepts underlying marketing, marketing definition, needs, wants, demands, product, Exchange, Market, creating customer value, customer satisfaction, Production Concept Vs Product Concept Vs Selling concept Vs Marketing concept.. And Societal Marketing Concept Next Session we’ll discuss: Marketing Mix, Market segmentation, target market selection Consumer and industrial buyer behavior …” Review Syllabus
  • 4. Course Objectives  Understand basic concepts in Marketing  Your ability to analyze Marketing problems. Learn how to develop a marketing plan. Review Syllabus
  • 5. COURSE STRUCTURE  Readings  Lectures  Assignments  Project  Exam
  • 6. Recommended Text Books  Principles of Marketing by Philip Kotler and Gary Armstrong, 2005, (11th Edition) Prentice –Hall Inc.  Fundamentals of Marketing by Stanton, Etzel and Walker, 2005 , (8th Edition) McGraw Hill Inc.  Marketing by Joel R. Evans and Barry Berman, 2004, (9th Edition) Atomic Dog Publishing
  • 7. Question : Is marketing good or evil?
  • 8. If you think marketers have an image problem
  • 9. What People Think of Marketers
  • 10. Marketers are faddish, irresponsable, … don’t think like business people … McKinsey & Company, CEO/CMO Survey, 2005
  • 11. Too many marketers have become so specialized that they don’t think in terms of the company’s big picture. Philip Kotler
  • 12. Marketers are frivolous and difficult to approach Australian Society of Certified Public Accountants
  • 13. Cata s otion t ising logue Prom A dver s Co Sal up es on Public e s c Servi relation s What is Marketing, anyway? E- livery me rce De oppin g e t ml i R c oa Spon Sh i ng sorsh ips cha nnels g Pricin mail R Pack D irect es ea aging Billbo rch ards
  • 14. Marketing Everywhere! Understanding marketing helps you when:  You buy a new pair of shoes, or go to the grocery store.  You open a new bank account.  You apply for a job.  You watch television.  In Fact People Buy 3 Things  ….. Essential needs (Food, Shelter, ..), Solutions, Things to feel good. What is Marketing?
  • 15. What is Marketing? Marketing is the total system of business activities designed to plan, price, promote, and distribute want-satisfying products, services, and ideas to target markets in order to achieve organizational objectives- AMA  Simple: The delivery of CS at profit.
  • 16. In your own words… What’s marketing ? This is your 1st homework :)
  • 17. Key Words in the Definition  total system: not an ad hoc approach  business activities: but not just for businesses  plan, price, promote, distribute: the application of the marketing mix  need-satisfying: meeting customers’ needs  products, services, ideas: not just products  target markets: not a broad-brush approach  objectives: the customer’s as well as the firm’s
  • 18. Costs Careers About 50% of total About 25 to 33% of the Product/service costs work force hold are marketing costs. marketing positions. Why Study Marketing? Contributions to Contributions to Society Individual Organizations Marketing decisions Critical to the success affect the lives of of the firm. individual consumers and society as a whole.
  • 19. Basic Concepts Underlying Marketing  Needs  Wants  Demands  Products  Exchange  Markets
  • 20. Needs  The most basic concept underlying marketing is that of human needs.  The needs are built in human nature itself. It is not invented by marketers.  When the needs are not satisfied, a person will try to reduce it or look for an alternative that will satisfy it.
  • 21. Wants  Human wants are desires for specific satisfaction of deeper needs.  Human needs may be few, but their wants are numerous.  Wants are continually shaped and re- shaped by social forces and institutions such as families, Mosque, church, schools and business corporations.
  • 22. Wants  Marketers do not create needs, but influence wants.  They suggest and inform consumers about certain products.  Marketers persuade them to purchase, stressing the benefits of such products.
  • 23. Demands  People have almost unlimited wants but limited resources.  They want to choose products that provide the most value and satisfaction for their money.  When backed by purchasing power, wants become demand. That is, demand is “want for specific products that backed up by an ability”.
  • 24. Demands Many desire a car such as Mercedes Benz, Toyota, BMW, Honda etc. but only a few are really willing and able to buy one.  It is therefore important for marketing executives to measure not only how many people want their company’s products, but also measure how many of them would actually be willing and able to buy them.
  • 25. Products  People normally satisfy their wants and needs with products offered in the market.  A product can be defined as anything that can be offered to someone to satisfy a need or want.  A product can be an object, service, activity, person, place, organization or idea.  People do not buy physical objects for their own sake. For example why women buy lip stick and why would you buy a toothpaste?????????.
  • 26. But, It is not Just Products  There could be a good, a service, or an idea.
  • 27. Exchange  Marketing takes place when people decide to satisfy needs and wants through exchange.  Exchange is therefore the act of getting a desired object from someone by giving something in return.
  • 28. Figure 1-1: The Give and Get of Marketing
  • 29. Markets A market is defined as a set of all actual and potential buyers of a product and service. These buyers share particular needs or wants that can be satisfied through exchange.
  • 30. Simple Marketing System Communication Product/Service Producer/Seller Consumer Money Feedback
  • 31. Who is the Focus?  Customers The purchasers of organizations’ products; the focal point of all marketing activities.  The Target Market  Starbucks focuses on its target market to meet their needs
  • 32. Discussion Questions Is customer satisfaction enough? Is customer delight necessary? Do not feel scary, It is not Homework, We will discuss about that in class ..NOW !!!!
  • 33. It’s All About Satisfaction  customer satisfaction, leads to long-term profitability and success.  Whenever things of value are being exchanged, marketing principles apply: consider exactly what is being exchanged (it’s “give” and “get”)  Marketing today is the role of all company’s operations and departments which influence satisfaction  Marketing principles apply in all organizations
  • 34. …and Creating Value  Successful marketing involves meeting or exceeding customer expectations  When expectations are exceeded, customer satisfaction or delight results  Marketing is very much about adding value through a broadly-defined value proposition  The value proposition comprises everything the company offers its customers – must be defined very broadly  Value may is not only about price
  • 35. Creating Customer Value Positive Customer Negative value Perceived Perceived benefits sacrifice Monetary costs Product benefits Time costs Service benefits Energy costs Relational benefits Psychological Image benefits costs 8
  • 36. A value proposition Value = benefits – costs – risk As perceived ‘Solution to Financial & Unfulfilled by consumers my problem’ Opportunity Promises Costs
  • 37. Creating Value Proposition  Value proposition contains aspects of CS.  Many aspects contribute to customer satisfaction:  The emotional connection with customers  Interaction with the firm and it employees  The technical performance of the firm  Support services and systems  The core product or service offered  Ability to add value and to differentiate as a firm focuses more on the top levels
  • 38. The Production Concept  Consumers will favor those products that are widely available and low in cost.  Therefore increase production and cut down costs.  And build profit through volume.
  • 39. The Product Concept  Consumers will favor those products that offer the most quality, performance, or innovative features.  Therefore, improve quality, performance and features.  This would lead to increased sales and profits.
  • 40. The Selling Concept  Consumers , if left alone , will not buy enough of company’s products.  Therefore, promote sales aggressively.  And, build profit through quick turnover.
  • 41. The Marketing Concept  The key to achieving organizational goals consist in determining the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions more effectively and efficiently than competitors. As per Kotler et all, 1996  And build profit through customer satisfaction And loyalty And Innovation.  (Quote of P. Drucker-7Sources of Innovation )
  • 42. Marketing and Sales Concepts Contrasted
  • 43. Evolution of the Societal Marketing Concept  The Production Concept –Existing -Scales  The Product Concept- Features  The Selling Concept-Aggressive Promo  The Marketing Concept-Integrated  Societal Marketing Concept- New Deliver value to customers in a way that improves customers’ and society’s long term well being.
  • 44. Marketing Myopia – Fit or Feature?  Management’s failure to recognize a company’s scope of business.  Sellers pay more attention to Need a the specific products they drill? offer than to the benefits and experiences produced by the products.  They focus on the “wants” and Need a lose sight of the “needs.” cloth?
  • 45. Your 2nd Homework and Last Can you Think of some marketing myopias that might crossed into your life? This is your 2nd and last homework today?
  • 46. The Marketing Myopia  People buy holes, not drills!  Fashion, status, reference groups approval, and warmth, but not coats!
  • 47. The New View of Marketing 4R  The modern marketing concept emphasis today is on keeping existing customers as well as getting new ones  Four principles guide marketing- 4R:  retention: keeping them coming back  referrals: encourage them to recommend us  relationships: build an emotional connection  recovery: solve problems as they arise
  • 48. Next Class Marketing Mix and Market segmentation, Target Markets selection, Consumer and industrial buyer behavior  Discussion Session: 2 Case Studies Next Class Debate: What is the Marketing Mix?, What are the Market coverage different strategies?, What are Steps in Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning? How would you segment consumer and Industrial Markets

Editor's Notes

  • #16: More simple: Marketing is the delivery of customer satisfaction at a profit.
  • #36: 16
  • #38: The CEO of Zappos.com says that "every call is perceived as a way to make a positive emotional connection with a customer."  So, what does "emotional connection" mean? It's about capturing hearts and minds, for  how a company makes us feel  determines our opinions about it and our buying decisions.  It is more psychological than logical. And, more unconscious than conscious.
  • #42: The ultimate goal of any organization is to gain and retain customers. The only way to achieve this goal is Innovation and Marketing. The rest only Adds cost. Peter Drucker.
  • #45: If we want to know what a business is, we have to start with its purpose. And its purpose must lie outside the business itself. In fact, it must lie in society since a business enterprise is an organ of society. There is one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. P. Drucker
  • #47: Web TV seemed like a couch potato’s dream a TV with a set top box that allows you to surf the WEB and watch TV. Despite 50 million promotional blitz by WEBTv and partners Sony and Philips Electronics only 50,000 subscribers signed up. Nothing was wrong with the product itself which displayed Internet information on a standard TV set, it is just the original owner of WEB Tv (now owned by Microsoft) didn’t know the market. The problem was the wrong marketing message. Couch potatoes want to be better entertained whereas computer users want to surf the WEB using small PC screens. The WWW had trouble with TV. To people conditioned by the tube the WEB is slow, static and arcane at least when compared with star truck or Baywatch reruns. A revamped campaign now emphasized entertainment over education.
  • #48: “ Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” Stephen R. Covey- The 7 habits of Highly effective people.