DEFINITION: "The management process of anticipating, identifying & satisfying customer requirements profitably." [CIM, 2001]
PROFIT
Financial
Gain in society
Non-profit
PRODUCT BASED BUSINESS: Businesses
that produce products are always
aiming to offer solutions to customers'
"problems".
CUSTOMERS & CONSUMERS
A customer BUYS a product/service
A consumer USES a product/service
THE MARKETING MIX, [McCarthy, 1990]
Product
Place (distribution)
Price
Promotion
Physical Evidence
Process
People
MARKETING IN CONTEXT
THE SERVICE PERSPECTIVE: Marketing organised around
idea markets increasingly characterised not by physical
goods but by intangible services
Intangible, performance-dependent, nature of services
affects the way they should be marketed
BUSINESS TO BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE: Marketing is different
from consumer marketing because customer is a business
rather than an individual household/chief shopper
SIMPLE MARKETING
EXCHANGE PROCESSES
RETAILER: Goods & customer service to CUSTOMER
CUSTOMER: Payment at retail price for goods to RETAILER
MANUFACTURER: Goods, credit facilities, return facilities, distribution arrangements, other services to RETAILER
RETAILER: Payment at whatever price for goods to MANUFACTURER
MARKET ORIENTATION:
CUSTOMER ORIENTATION: Needs of customer
COMPETITOR ORIENTATION: Understand competitors
LONG TERM PROFIT: All functions work together to achieve above