2. CONCEPT OF MARKETING
Marketing has been derived from the term ‘Market’ which is a
Place or geographical area where buyers and sellers meet
and enter into transactions involving transfer of ownership
of goods & services.
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3. Marketing is a human activity directed at satisfying needs and
wants through exchange process.
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Consumer
Oriented
Recognition
of consumer
needs
Customer
satisfaction
Profit
4. WHAT IS MARKETING…??
• Selling?
• Advertising?
• Promotions?
• Making products available in stores?
• Maintaining inventories?
• All of the above, plus much more!
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5. According to Philip Kotler: Marketing is a social and managerial
process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and
want through creating, offering and exchanging products of value with
others.
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6. MARKETING = ?
•Marketing is the process of planning and executing the
conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas,
goods, services to create exchanges that satisfy individual
and organizational goals
•American Marketing Association
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7. MARKETING = ?
•Marketing management is the art and science of
choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and growing
customers through creating, delivering, and communicating
superior customer value.
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8. It is a process of formulating and implementing such strategies
by a firm(product development ,pricing, promoting &
distributing) that ensures flow of needs satisfying goods &
services at profit.
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9. MARKETING = ?
Marketing is the sum of all activities that take you to a sales
outlet.After that sales takes over.
Marketing is all about creating a pull, sales is all about push.
Marketing is all about managing the four P’s –
product
price
place
promotion
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10. THE 4 PS & 4CS
Marketing
Mix
Product
Price Promotion
Place
Customer
Solution
Customer
Cost
Communication
Convenience
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11. THE 4PS OF APPLE
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1. Product
• High-quality, innovative products: iPhone, iPad, MacBook,Apple Watch, etc.
• Focus on user-friendly design and technology.
• Ecosystem integration: seamless connection between devices and services
like iCloud, iTunes, and App Store.
2. Price
• Premium pricing strategy.
• Reflects high quality and exclusivity.
• Offers financing options and trade-in programs to attract diverse customer
segments.
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3. Place
• Exclusive Apple Stores for direct customer experience.
• Partnerships with authorized resellers and online platforms.
• Global availability in over 100 countries.
4. Promotion
• Minimalistic and emotional advertising campaigns (e.g.,“Think Different”).
• Keynote events to launch products, creating hype.
• Heavy reliance on digital marketing, influencer endorsements, and word-of-
mouth.
13. 3 more Ps of marketing:
5-Physical layout
6-Provision of Customer service
7-Processes
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14. Difference Between - Sales &
Marketing ?
Sales trying to get the customer to want what the
company produces
Marketing trying to get the company produce
what the customer wants
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Aspect Sales Marketing
Definition
Focuses on selling the product or service
to the customer.
Focuses on creating awareness, interest, and
demand for the product.
Objective
Achieve immediate revenue by closing
deals.
Build long-term customer relationships and
brand equity.
Orientation Product-oriented (sell what is available).
Customer-oriented (understand and fulfill
customer needs).
Timeframe
Short-term focus on achieving sales
targets.
Long-term focus on market positioning and
customer retention.
Approach
One-to-one, direct interaction with
customers.
Mass communication, campaigns, and
targeted advertising.
Key Activities
Negotiation, handling objections, and
closing sales.
Market research, product design, pricing,
promotion, and distribution.
Tools Used
Sales calls, pitches, discounts, and
incentives.
Advertising, social media, PR, SEO, and
branding strategies.
Success Metric
Number of units sold or revenue
generated.
Market share, brand recognition, and
customer satisfaction.
16. THE NATURE OF MARKETING
• Customer-Focused: Modern marketing revolves around
understanding customer needs and preferences. The focus
is on enhancing the customer experience, not just selling
products.
• Value-Driven: Customers want more than products—
they want meaningful experiences. Marketers must highlight
how their product solves problems and adds value.
• Digital and Data-Based: Digital tools and data help
marketers understand customers, predict trends, and
personalize strategies. Channels include SEO, social media,
email, and online ads.
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17. THE NATURE OF MARKETING
• Multi-Channel Integration: Marketing uses various
channels—online and offline—to deliver a consistent and
unified brand message.
• Flexible and Evolving: Marketing adapts to changing
trends, customer behaviors, and technologies to stay
relevant and effective.
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18. THE SCOPE OF MARKETING
• Market Research: Understand your audience by
collecting data through surveys, feedback, and tools. This
helps tailor products, services, and messages to customer
needs.
• Product Development: Work with product teams to
design items that fill market gaps and provide value. Test
products with real users before launch.
• Branding: Create a unique identity through logos, taglines,
and messaging to build trust and stand out from
competitors.
• Advertising and Promotions: Use ads (digital,TV, print)
and promotions (discounts, deals) to attract customers and
boost sales.
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19. THE SCOPE OF MARKETING
• Sales and Distribution: Choose the best channels—
online, retail, or both—to make products easily accessible
to customers.
• Digital Marketing: Strengthen your online presence with
SEO, content, social media, and email marketing to stay
competitive.
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Use
CRM tools to build strong, personalized relationships and
keep customers loyal.
• Public Relations (PR): Manage your company’s image and
reputation through media relations, press releases, and
crisis responses.
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20. THE SCOPE OF MARKETING
• Content Marketing: Create valuable content like blogs,
videos, and podcasts to educate and engage your audience.
• Social Media Marketing: Connect with your audience
on platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn to build loyalty
and grow your brand.
• Analytics and Reporting: Use data to measure campaign
success, track behavior, and improve marketing strategies in
real-time.
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21. THE IMPORTANCE OF MARKETING
• Driving Sales: Marketing attracts customers and boosts sales by
creating awareness of your products or services through campaigns
and events.
• Building Brand Awareness: A strong marketing strategy ensures
your brand stands out, helping customers recognize and choose you
over competitors.
• Creating Customer Loyalty: Marketing builds lasting relationships
through personalized experiences, rewards, and engaging content,
turning buyers into loyal customers.
• Informing Product Development: Marketing gathers feedback to
help design products that align with customer needs and keep the
business competitive.
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22. THE IMPORTANCE OF MARKETING
• Supporting Business Growth: Marketing drives growth by
acquiring new customers, retaining existing ones, and expanding into
new markets.
• Enhancing Competitive Advantage: Marketing highlights your
unique value, helping you stand out through creative campaigns,
excellent service.
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24. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Understand the concept of marketing and its
importance.
• Learn how to apply the 4 Ps of Marketing in real-world
scenarios.
• Enhance creativity, teamwork, and presentation skills.
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25. CREATE YOUR OWN
PRODUCT
•
Goal: Develop a new product and a marketing
strategy using the 4 Ps.
• Format: Team-based activity followed by
presentations.
Duration: 30–40 minutes.
• Outcome: Students will gain practical insights into
marketing strategies.
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26. HE 4 PS OF MARKETING
• TProduct:What are you offering?What makes it unique?
• Price: How much will you charge? Why?
• Place:Where will you sell it?Why?
• Promotion: How will you promote it to attract
customers?
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27. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ACTIVITY
1. FormTeams: Divide the class into groups of 4-5 students.
2. Develop a Product: Create a new product idea that solves a
specific problem or meets a need.
3. Define the 4 Ps: For your product, decide:
1. Product features and USP.
2. Pricing strategy.
3. Sales channels and distribution.
4. Promotion methods.
4. Prepare a Pitch: Create a 3-minute presentation to showcase
your product and strategy.
5. Present: Each team will pitch their product to the class.
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28. EXAMPLE – QUICKFIX (ALL-IN-ONE
ADHESIVE)
• Product: Multi-purpose adhesive for quick repairs.
• Price: 50 for small tubes, 250 for larger bottles.
₹ ₹
• Place:Available online and in hardware stores.
• Promotion: Ads with the tagline “Fix It Fast with
QuickFix,” demos at stores, and social media campaigns.
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30. TYPES OF MARKETING ENTITIES
• Goods: Any product manufactured in mass quantity, requires
proper marketing to make it available to its consumers located in
different places of the country or world. For example; Mobile
phones manufactured in China and sold all over the world
• Services: An economic activity performed to meet the consumer’s
demand, needs, promotion and marketing. For example; Ola cabs
providing for local taxi services.
• Events: Various trade fairs, live shows, local events and other
promotional events need advertising and publicity. For example;
Indian Fashion Expo is the event where leading fashion houses
participate in displaying exhibit their creation needs marketing to
reach customers, manufacturers and traders.
• Experiences: It even organizes and customizes the impression
made by certain goods and services to fulfil the customer’s wish.
For example; A Europe trip package provided by
makemytrip.com or tripadvisor.com
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31. TYPES OF MARKETING ENTITIES
• Persons: A person who wants to promote his skills, profession,
art, expertise to acquire customers, take the help of marketing
functions. For Example; A chartered accountant updates his
profile over linkedin.com to publicise his skills and talent to
reach clients.
• Places: Marketing of tourist places, cities, states and countries
helps to attract visitors from all over the world. For example;
India’s Ministry of Tourism promoting India through
‘Incredible India’ campaign
• Properties: It provides for selling of tangible and ntangible
properties like real estate, stocks, securities, debentures, etc.For
example; Real estate agents publicise the residential plots to
investors
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32. TYPES OF MARKETING ENTITIES
• Organizations: Several corporations and non-profit
organisations like schools, colleges, universities, art institutes,
etc. create and maintain a public impression through marketing.
For example; Circulars and advertisements made by colleges as
‘admission open.’
• Information: Certain information related to healthcare,
technology, science, media, law, tax, market, finance, accounting,
etc. have to demand among the corporate decision-makers who
are marketed by some leading information agencies.For
example; Bloomberg provides all current financial, business and
market data.
• Ideas: Brands market their products or services through
advertisements spreading a social message to connect with the
consumers. For example; Idea 4G’s advertisement spreading the
message of ‘sharing our real side.
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34. • Production Concept: Consumers prefer products that are
widely available and inexpensive. The production concept is
more operations oriented than any other concept.
• Product Concept: Consumers favor products that offer the
most quality, performance, or innovative features. The product
concept believes in the consumer and it says the consumers are
more likely to be loyal if they have more options of products
or they get more benefits from the product of the company.
• Selling Concept: Consumers will buy products only if the
company aggressively promotes or sells these products. Off
course, in this era of marketing, we know that selling is not the
only tactic to sell your product. You have to focus on
marketing as well.
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35. • Marketing Concept: Focuses on needs/wants of target markets &
delivering value better than competitors. The marketing concept
believes in the pull strategy and says that you need to make your
brand so strong that customers themselves prefer your brand over
every other competitor. This can be achieved through
• The Societal Marketing Concept adds another layer by balancing
consumer needs, company goals, and societal welfare. This
approach emphasizes making decisions that not only benefit
customers but also protect the environment and ensure
sustainable development for future generations.
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36. MARKETING MANAGEMENT: SELF-
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
• ______________ brings out new ideas and gets
several opportunities in Marketing.
A. Production
B. Marketing
C. Creativity
D. Consumer
• The main objective of marketing is __________.
A. Increasing profit
B. Increasing sales
C. Increasing prices
D. Decreasing cost of production
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37. MARKETING MANAGEMENT: SELF-
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
• Effective Marketing requires:
A. Proper pricing
B. Customized products
C. Effective procedures
D.All the above
• The concept which deals with good and quality
products provided to the consumers is:
A. Marketing concept
B. Product Concept
C. Exchange Concept
D. Production Concept
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38. MARKETING MANAGEMENT: SELF-
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
• The function of marketing that deals with the
development of goods with respect to their color,
design, shape, and other characteristics is called
__________.
A. Production
B. Product Planning and Development
C. Packaging and Pricing
D. Standardization and Grading
• The marketing function that deals with the cost of
the product and the capacity of the consumer to
pay is called:
A. Packaging
B. Branding
C. Pricing
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39. MARKETING MANAGEMENT: SELF-
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
• The process of collecting and analyzing the
information regarding consumer needs, nature of
competition, prevailing prices, and advertising
effectiveness is called:
A. Product Research
B. Marketing Research
C. Price Research
D. Selling Research
• Marketing is based on the rule of buying and selling.
According to this concept, marketing is an art of:
A. Buying more
B. Selling more
C. Fulfilling consumers' needs
D.All the above
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40. MARKETING MANAGEMENT: SELF-
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
• When a customer deals with the same organization
for a long time, it is called __________.
A. Customization
B. Customer Equity
C. Customers’ Need
D. Customer Retention
• A person who purchases any product or service is
known as __________.
A. Customer
B. Consumer
C. Marketing staff
D. Salesperson
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41. MARKETING MANAGEMENT: SELF-
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
• “Many people want BMW, only a few are able to
buy.”This is an example of __________.
A. Need
B.Want
C. Demand
D. Status
• __________ makes a service different from a
product.
A. Pricing
B. Intangibility
C. Ubiquity
D. Liquidity
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42. MARKETING MANAGEMENT: SELF-
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
• Marketing management is the __________ of
choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and
growing customers through creating, delivering, and
communicating superior customer value.
A.Art
B. Science
C.Art and Science
D. None of the above
• Marketing people market the following entities:
A. Goods
B. Services
C. Experiences
D.All the above
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43. MARKETING MANAGEMENT: SELF-
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
At a fast-food restaurant, what is marketed?
A. Pizza
B. Goods
C. Services
D. Goods and Services
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44. ANSWER
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. B
5. D
6. C
7. B
8. C
9. D
10.A
11.C
12.B
13.C
14.D
15.D
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