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OBS 11414 May 2023 08:13
CHAPTER 8A MARKETING MANAGEMENT
• Marketing-the activity, set of institutions and process for creating, capturing, communicating, delivering and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners and
society at large.
-or the process by which individuals and organisations obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging value with others.
-or actions taken to attract customers to the company's products and services (including product/service development, distribution methods, sakes and advertising
• Market planning-a systematic written plan of all marketing for business, including information on the product, price, distribution and promotion strategy as well as a clear identification of
the target market and competition.
Core Aspects of Marketing
1. Satisfying customer wants and needs
• The marketplace needs to understand the customers' needs and wants in order to have a successful market.
-is referred to the world trade and can be segmented or divided into groups of people who are pertinent to an organisation for particular reasons.
2. Exchange
• Exchange-the trade of things of value between the buyer and seller so that each is better off as a result.
-marketing is about exchanging where the seller provides services/ products, then communicates and facilitates the delivery of the service/product they offered to their customers and the
buyers complete the exchange by giving the money and information to the seller.
3. Decisions requirements: 4Ps
• Marketing mix/4Ps-product, price, place and promotion-the controllable set of activities that a firm uses to respond to the wants of the target markets.
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, • Marketing mix/4Ps-product, price, place and promotion-the controllable set of activities that a firm uses to respond to the wants of the target markets.
• Product-anything that can be offered to market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption and that may satisfy a want/need.
-goods are classified as tangible products (chocolate) and services are classified as intangible products (insurance companies).
-ideas are intellectual concepts that include thoughts, opinions and philosophies that can also be marketed (bicycle safety for school kids and slogans).
-people (singers and car or fashion designers and celebrities).
-places (tourist sites).
• Price-everything has a price and it doesn’t have to be monetary, however price is what the buyer will give up everything (money, time and energy) to exchange the product for another.
-price can be determined on the basis of the potential buyer's belief about its value and the buyers are satisfied and the sellers can achieve a reasonable profit.
• Place/distribution-the availability of the product/service to the customers whenever they want it.
-the accessibility of the relative ease with which the customer can conduct a transaction with the supplier.
• Promotion-communication by a market that informs, persuades and reminds potential buyers about a product or service, to influence their opinions and elicit a response.
-enhances the product/service's value.
• Advertising-paid, controlled, and non-personal messages, which provide information about a product, service, or company, directed at the target audience through mass media with the
intention of influencing the target audience’s attitude towards the advertisement and causing it to react favourably.
• Personal selling-a situation in which two people communicate in an attempt to influence each other in a purchase situation.
• Sales promotion-a short-term tool used to stimulate immediate increases in demand.
• Public relations-the marketing communication function that evaluates public attitudes, identifies areas within the firm that the public may be interested in and executes a programme of
action to earn public understanding and acceptance.
• Direct marketing-direct communications with carefully targeted individual customers to obtain an immediate response and cultivate lasting customer relationships.
-use more than one medium to interact with target audiences and allow them to respond (phone, mail, email or personal visit).
4. Individuals and organisations
• Business-to-consumer marketing (B2C)-the process in which the business sells to the consumers.
• Business-to business marketing (B2B)-the process of buying and selling goods/services to be used in the production of other goods and services, for consumption by buying the organisation
or for resale by wholesalers and retailers.
• Consumer-to-consumer (C2C)-the process consumers sell to other consumers.
• Consumer-to-business (C2B)-the process consumers sell to businesses.
5. Stakeholders
• Marketing can affect stakeholders (supply chain partners, society at large). All the entities that are affected by marketing can sell their merchandises and those entities can also convince
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