Marketing Management: The Nature of Marketing
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Chapter One
The Nature of Marketing
Objectives
Define & discuss marketing in its broadened
sense
ID elements of the marketing mix
Examine external environmental forces
Introduce the marketing concept
Recognize marketing's societal & economic
contribution
The social marketing concept
Understand why it is important to study
marketing
Bringing Buyers and Sellers
Together
CONSUMER
PRODUCER
MARKETING
A Definition of Marketing
“Marketing is the process of influencing
voluntary exchange transactions in which
one party to the transaction can be
envisioned as a customer of the other, the
marketer. The marketing process involves
communication and requires a mechanism
or system to carry out the exchange of
the marketer’s product for something of
value.”
Exchange
mechanism
Marketing 5
Aspects
Two or
more
parties
Each gives
Communication
something
up
Each receives
something
Relationship Marketing
What is a Market?
Resources
Potential
Customers
Willingness
Ability
The Marketing Mix:
An Overview
Product
Promotion
Place
Price
Product
Tangible goods
Service
Intangible idea
Total Product Concept
Place
How do goods get to the customer?
How quickly do they get there?
In what condition will they arrive?
Promotion
Advertising:
Direct or Mass Media
Personal Selling
Publicity
Sales Promotion
Promotion
Inform
Remind
Persuade
Price
Marketing Mix: A Creative
Activity
Product
Promotion
Consumer
Price
Place
The Marketing Environment
The
Consumer
The Uncontrollable External
Environment
Economic and competitive forces
Natural resources and physical factors
Science and technology
Political and legal forces
Demographic forces
Sociocultural forces
Business Philosophies
Market Orientation
Sales Orientation
Production Orientation
The Marketing Concept
1st Consumer orientation
2nd Stress long-run success
3rd Adopt a cross-functional perspective
Marketing and Society
Macromarketing
“the delivery of a
standard of living to
society.”
Marketing and Society
Micromarketing
“having the right goods or
services at the right time
and the right place in the
right assortment.”
Why Study Marketing?
Career opportunities
Emerging cross-functional nature of business
Entrepreneurial opportunities
More informed citizen and consumer
Part of being an educated person
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www.zikmund.swcollege.com
Summary
The function of marketing is to bring buyers and
sellers together. The primary emphasis of
marketing is an exchange process that involves
two or more parties trading things of value.
Review
Define & discuss marketing in its broadened
sense
ID elements of the marketing mix
Examine external environmental forces
Introduce the marketing concept
Recognize marketing's societal & economic
contribution
The social marketing concept
Understand why it is important to study
marketing