chapter 1 marketing: managing profitable customer relationships

Chapter 1Marketing: Managing Profitable Customer

Relationships

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Learning Goals

1. Define marketing and the marketing process.

2. Identify the five core marketplace concepts.

3. Identify the elements of a customer-driven marketing strategy.

4. Discuss customer relationship management and capturing value from customers.

5. Describe the major trends and forces changing the marketing landscape.

NASCAR –What is their secret?

Creating Value• Compelling blend

of live racing events, media coverage and Web sites

• Show the customer a good time

• Create wholesome family-oriented environment

Capturing Value

• Fans spend nearly $700 a year on NASCAR merchandise

• Second highest regular season sport on TV

• NASCAR attracts over 250 big-name sponsors 1 - 3

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Learning Goals






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What is Marketing?

• Marketing Defined:– “Marketing is a social and

managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging value with others”

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

customers

The Marketing ProcessFigure 1-1

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Learning Goals


2. Identify the five core marketplace concepts

3. Identify the elements of a customer-driven marketing strategy

4. Discuss customer relationship management and capturing value from customers


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Understanding the Marketplace

Needs, wants, and demands

Marketing offers: including products, services and experiences

Value and satisfaction Exchange, transactions

and relationships Markets

• Need– State of felt

deprivation• Wants

– The form of needs as shaped by culture and the individual

• Demands– Wants which are

backed by buying power

Core Concepts

This very successful campaign

reminds the consumer of

a need

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• Marketing offer– Combination of

products, services, information or experiences that satisfy a need or want

– Offer may include services, activities, people, places, information or ideas

Core ConceptsNeeds, wants, and

demandsMarketing offers:

including products, services and experiences

Value and satisfaction Exchange,

transactions and relationships

Markets

This ad offers a product to

meet “sensitive” needs of the older child


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• Value–Customers form expectations regarding value

–Marketers must deliver value to consumers

• Satisfaction–A satisfied customer will buy again and tell others about their good experience






Markets

Discussion Questions Customer Satisfaction

• When have you, personally, been extremely satisfied or dissatisfied with a product? Why?

• Why is it so difficult for companies to deliver value to consumers?


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•Exchange–The act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return

–One exchange is not the goal, relationships with several exchanges are the goal

–Relationships are built through delivering value and satisfaction






Markets

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• Market– Set of actual and

potential buyers of a product

– Marketers seek buyers that are profitable






Markets

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Learning Goals






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Marketing Management

• Marketing management is “the art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them.”

• This definition must include answers to two questions:– What customers will we serve?– How can we serve these

customers best?

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Selecting Customers and Creating Value

• What customers will we serve?– Known as customer management– Marketers select customers that can

be served profitably

• How can we serve these customers best?– By defining a value proposition– Includes the set of benefits or values

a company promises to deliver to consumers in order to satisfy their needs

Netflix – DVDs by Mail

• Netflix began in early 2000• DVDs are delivered to your home with

return mail envelope• Monthly charge with unlimited rentals

– limited amount out at one time

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Discussion Questions Netflix

1. How might Netflix define its target market?

2. What need or want does it fulfill?

3. What is its marketing offer?

4. What is its value proposition? Is it a strong value proposition for its target market?


Netflix was first to the market

but a good value

proposition invites

competition.

Walmart, a strong

competitor, entered this market a few years later


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• Production concept

• Product concept

• Selling concept • Marketing

concept• Societal

marketing concept

Marketing Orientations

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The Marketing Plan

• Transforms the marketing strategy into action

• Includes the marketing mix and the 4P’s of marketing– Product– Price– Place– Promotion

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Building Customer Relationships

• CRM – Customer relationship management . . .“is the overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction. It deals with all aspects of acquiring, keeping and growing customers.”

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Value and Satisfaction

• Perceived Value– The customers’ evaluation of the

difference between benefits and costs.

– Customers often do not judge values and costs accurately or objectively.

• Customer Satisfaction– Product’s perceived performance

relative to customers’ expectations.

This ad attempts to change the

perceived value of Cheerios

Cereal Bar by helping

consumers evaluate its

nutritional value


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Not All Customers are Equal

• Basic relationships – low margin customers

• Full partnerships – key customers

• Selective relationship management – weeding out unprofitable

customers

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Capturing Value from Customers

•Customer Loyalty and Retention

•Share of Customer

•Customer Equity

• Customer delight leads to emotional relationships and loyalty

• Customer lifetime value shows true worth of a customer

Key Concepts

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•Customer Equity

• Share of customer’s purchase in a product category

• Achieved through offering greater variety, cross-sell and up-sell strategies

Key Concepts

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•Customer Equity

•The combined customer lifetime values of all current and potential customers

•Measures a firm’s performance, but in a manner that looks to the future

•Choosing the “best” customers is key

Key Concepts

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Marketing Landscape

•Digital age•Globalization•Ethics and social

responsibility•Not-for-profit

marketing•Marketing

relationships

Advances in computers, telecommunications information, transportation

– Customer research and tracking

– Product development– Distribution– New advertising tools– 24/7 marketing

through the Internet

ChallengesChallenges

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Marketing Landscape




relationships

Geographical and cultural distances have shrunk

– Greater market coverage

– More options for purchasing and manufacturing

– Increased competition from foreign competitors


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Marketing Landscape




relationships

Marketers need to take great responsibility for the impact of their actions

–Caring capitalism is a way to differentiate your company


This ad shows a company

communicating its “Caring Capitalism”


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Marketing Landscape




relationships

Many organizations are realizing the importance of strategic marketing

– Performing arts– Government agencies– Colleges– Hospitals– Churches


The Internet

is increasin

g as a channel for not-

for-profit marketers to raise

fundsMarketing in Action

Click on screenshot for website

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http://www.unitedway.com/

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Marketing Landscape




relationships

Profits through managing long-term customer equity

– Improve customer knowledge

– Target profitable customers

– Keep profitable customers


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What is Marketing?

• The process of building profitable customer relationships by creating value for customers and capturing value in return

Expanded model of the marketing process

Figure 1.6

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