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THE MARKETING 

PROCESS
Marketing is 
the process by 
which 
companies 
create value
for customers 
and build 
strong 
customer 
relationships to 
capture value 
from
customers in 
return.
The Marketing Framework

Understand  Design a  Construct and  Build  Capture value 


the  customer‐ integrated  profitable  from 
marketplace  driven  marketing  relationships  customers to 
and customer  marketing  program that  and create  create profits 
needs and  strategy delivers  customer  and customer 
wants superior delight equity.
value
UNDERSTANDING THE 
MARKETPLACE A N D  
CUSTOMER N E E D S
STAGE 1
Needs, Wants, and 
Demands
Needs are states of 
deprivation
• Physical ‐ food, clothing, 
warmth, safety
• Social ‐ belonging and 
affection
• Individual ‐ knowledge 
and self‐expression
Needs, Wants, and 
Demands
Wants are the form that
needs take as they are
shaped by culture and
individual personality.
Demands are wants
backed by buying power.
Market offerings are 
some combination of 
products, services, 
information, or 
experiences offered 
to a market to satisfy 
a need or want.
Market Offerings

Marketing myopia 
is focusing only on 
existing wants and 
losing sight of 
underlying consumer 
needs.
Exchanges and 
Relationships
E x c h a n g e is the act of obtaining 
a desired object from someone 
by offering something in return.

Marketing consist of actions to 


build and maintain desirable 
relationships.
Markets are the set of
Markets actual and potential buyers
of a product.
Marketing system consists of all 
of the actors (suppliers, 
company, competitors, 
intermediaries, and end users) 
in the system who are affected 
by major environmental forces
Markets • Demographic
• Economic
• Physical / Environmental
• Technological
• Political–legal
• Socio‐cultural
DESIGNING A 
CUSTOMER DRIVEN 
MARKETING STRATEGY
STAGE 2
Marketing 
Management
Marketing management 
is the art and science of 
choosing target markets 
and building profitable 
relationships with them
• What customers will we 
serve?
• How can we best serve
these customers?
Selecting Customers 
to Serve
Market segmentation: 
Dividing the markets into 
segments of customers.

Target marketing: 
Which segments to g o  
after.
De‐marketing
Marketing to reduce 
demand temporarily or 
permanently; the aim is 
not to destroy demand 
but to reduce or shift it.
VALUE 
PROPOSITION
is the set of benefits 
or values a
company promises 
to deliver to 
customers to satisfy 
their needs.
VALUE 
PROPOSITION
Value 
Proposition
Marketing Management Orientations

Production  Product  Selling 


concept concept concept

Marketing  Societal 
concept concept
Marketing Management Orientations

◦ Production concept is ◦ Product concept is the idea 


the idea that consumers  that consumers will favor 
products that offer the most 
will favor products that are 
quality, performance, and 
available or highly  features for which the 
affordable. organization should therefore 
devote its energy to making 
continuous improvements.
Marketing Management Orientations

◦ Selling concept is the  ◦ Marketing concept is the 


idea that consumers will  idea that achieving 
not buy enough of the  organizational goals 
firm’s products unless it  depends on knowing the 
undertakes a large scale  needs and wants of the 
selling and promotion  target markets and 
effort delivering the desired 
satisfactions better than 
competitors.
MARKETING 
MANAGEMENT 
ORIENTATIONS
Marketing Management 
Orientations
◦ Societal marketing concept 
is the idea that a company 
should make g o o d marketing 
decisions by considering 
consumers’ wants, the 
company’s requirements, 
consumers’ long‐term 
interests, and society’s long‐
run interests
PREPARING A N 
INTEGRATED PLAN A N D  
PROGRAM
STAGE 3
The Marketing Mix

Product Price

Place / 
Promotion
Distribution
The Marketing Mix

◦ Integrated marketing 
program is a 
comprehensive plan that 
communicates and 
delivers the intended 
value to chosen 
customers.
BUILDING CUSTOMER 
RELATIONSHIPS
STAGE 4
◦ Customer relationship management 
Building Customer  is the overall process of building and 
maintaining profitable customer 
Relationships relationships by delivering superior 
value and satisfaction.
Customer 
Relationship 
Management
◦ Customer perceived 
value is the difference 
between total customer 
value and total customer 
cost of a market offering 
relative to those of 
competing offers.
Customer 
Relationship 
Management
◦ Customer 
satisfaction 
is the extent 
to which a 
product’s 
perceived 
performance 
matches a 
buyer’s 
expectations.
Customer 
relationship levels 
and tools.
• Basic relationship
• Full relationships
• Frequency
marketing
programs
• Club marketing
programs
The Changing 
Nature of Customer 
Relationships
Relating with more carefully selected 
customers uses selective 
relationship management to target 
fewer, more profitable customers
Relating for the l on g term uses
customer relationship management 
to retain current customers and build 
profitable, long‐term relationships
Relating directly uses direct marketing 
tools (telephone, mail order, kiosks, 
Internet) to make direct connections 
with customers
CAPTURING VALUE 
FROM CUSTOMERS
STAGE 5
Customer lifetime value is the value 
Creating Customer  of the entire stream of purchases that 
the customer would make over a 
Loyalty and Retention lifetime of patronage.
Share of 
Customer
◦ Share of 
customer is 
the portion of 
the customer’s 
purchasing 
that a 
company gets 
in its product 
categories
Building 
Customer Equity
◦ Customer equity is the 
total combined customer 
lifetime values of all of 
the company’s 
customers.
Building Customer 
Equity
Building the right relationships with 
the right customers involves treating 
customers as assets that need to be 
managed and maximized.
Different types of customers require 
different relationship management 
strategies.
 Build the right relationship with the
right customers.
Capturing Value From Customers
Butterflies – good fit between True Friends - good fit between
company’s offerings and customer company’s offerings and customer
needs; high profit potential needs; highest profit potential
High 
Profitability

Strangers – little fit between a Barnacles – limited fit between


Low 
company’s offerings and company’s offerings and customer
Profitability
customer’s need; lowest profit needs; low profit potential
potential

Short‐term customers Long‐term customers

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