What exactly is marketing and why is it important to you as an entrepreneur?

Simply stated, marketing is everything you do to place your product or service in the hands of potential custom.

"If a young man tells his date she's intelligent, looks lovely, and is a great conversationalist, he's saying the right things to the right person and that's marketing. If the young man tells his date how handsome, smart and successful he is — that's advertising. If someone else tells the young woman how handsome, smart and successful her date is — that's public relations."

S.H. Simmons

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Marketing Concepts



Production Concept
Consumers will favour products that are available and highly affordable.
The demand of a product exceeds the supply.
Product’s cost is too high and improved productivity is needed to bring it down.

Product Concept
Consumers will favour products that offer the most quality, performance, and features. The organisation also making continuous product improvements.

Selling Concept
Consumers will not buy enough of the organisation’s products unless the organisation undertakes a large-scale selling and promotion effort.

Marketing Concept
The marketing concept is the idea that achieving organizational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of the target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions better than competitors do.

Marketing Societal Concept
Organisation determines the needs, wants and interests of target markets and deliver the desired satisfactions more effectively and efficiently than competitors do in a way that maintain or improves the consumer’s and society’s well-being.

 


Building Customer Relationships

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Customer relationship management is the overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior value and satisfaction.
Customer perceived value is the difference between total customer value and total customer cost.
Customer satisfaction is the extent to which a product’s perceived performance matches a buyer’s expectations.

Monday, June 27, 2011

What Is Marketing?

Marketing defined:
  • Marketing is the process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships to capture value from customers in return.

Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships
  • Attracting new customers
  • Retaining and growing current customers



Understanding the Marketplace and Customer Needs

Customer Needs, Wants and Demands

Needs are states of deprivation:
  • Physical—food, clothing, warmth, safety
  • Social—belonging and affection
  • Individual—knowledge and self-expression

Wants are the form that needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality.

Demands are wants backed by buying power

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