Chapter 1:

Customer-Driven
Strategic Marketing

Pride/Ferrell
Foundations of Marketing
Fourth Edition

Prepared by Milton Pressley

University of New Orleans

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 Objectives
1. Define marketing
2. Understand several important marketing terms
including target market, marketing mix, marketing
exchanges, and marketing environment
3. Be aware of the marketing concept and marketing
orientation
4. Understand the importance of building customer
relationships
5. Explain the major marketing functions that are a
part of the marketing management process
6. Understand the role of marketing in our society

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 Marketing Defined
Marketing is the process of creating,
distributing, promoting, and pricing goods,
services, and ideas, to facilitate satisfying
exchange relationships with customers and
develop and maintain favorable relationships
with stakeholders in a dynamic environment.

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 Fig. 1.1 Components of Strategic Marketing

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 Discussion Question
1. What do you think is the difference
between marketing and selling?
2. Why do you think the term marketing is
used interchangeably with selling by
many (most?) business people?

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 Who is the Focus of Marketing?
Customers
The purchasers of organizations products;
the focal point of all marketing activities.
The Target Market
Old Navy focuses on its target market to meet their needs
Who is their target market?

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 Target Market
Target Market-is a specific
group of customers on
whom an organization
focuses its marketing
efforts.

Appealing to health-
conscious customers

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 Discussion Question
What do you think might be a good target
market for Michelin Tires? After discussing
this, click on the @ symbol below to see the
target markets defined by Michelin.

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 The Marketing Mix Variables
Marketers combine
and balance four
elements when
determining how
to satisfy
customers needs
for a product:
Product
Price
Distribution
Promotion

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 Product Variable
A product can be a:
Good
Service
Idea

Product
Petzls ad focuses on the
quality, comfort, and
reliability of its climbing
helmet
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 Price Variable
Relates to decisions and actions associated with
establishing pricing objectives and policies
Relates to determining product prices
Determines the value of the exchange

Price
The Mini Cooper is
promoted as being both
affordable to buy and
economical on fuel

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 Distribution Variable
Make products available in quantities desired
Minimize costs:
Inventory
Transportation
Storage
Select/motivate intermediaries
Establish/maintain inventory control
Develop/manage transportation and
storage systems

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 Promotion Variable
Inform individuals or groups about the
organization and its products/services
Advertising
Public relations
Personal selling
Promotions
Street teams
Viral marketing

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 Discussion Question
Other than those discussed in the
book or by your instructor, give an
example of a:
- good
- service
- idea

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 Discussion Question
Click on the Television below, watch the
commercial, and discuss whether the
promotional message is primarily about a
good, service or an idea.

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 Relationships with Customers
Exchange - the provision or transfer of
goods, services, or ideas in return for
something of value

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 Stakeholders
Constituents who have a stake, or claim,
in some aspect of a companys products,
operations, markets, industry,
and outcomes.

The Customer as
a Stakeholder
Yoplait donates to
breast cancer
research.
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 Marketing Environment
The six types of forces that surround the
customer and affect the marketing mix:
Economic forces
Political forces
Legal and regulatory forces
Technological forces
Socio-cultural forces
Competitive forces
Unlike marketing-mix variables, an
organization has no control over these
forces

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 Discussion Question
Pick a product that you want to market.
Discuss how each of the forces in the
marketing
environment will
effect your
marketing mix.

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 The Marketing Concept
A managerial philosophy that
an organization should try to
provide products that satisfy
customers needs through a
coordinated set of activities
that also allows the
organization to achieve its
goals.

The Marketing Concept

SSI understands the importance
of a customer orientation by
listening to customers and
providing great service

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 The Evolution of the Marketing Concept
The marketing concept has changed over time:

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 Marketing Orientation
An organization-wide commitment to
researching and responding to
customer needs.

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 Implementing the Marketing Concept
First, establish an information system to discover customers real needs
Use the information to create satisfying products
Coordinate all activities

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 Managing Customer Relationships
Relationship Marketing
Establishing long term mutually
satisfying, buyer/seller
relationships.

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 Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM)
Using information about customers to
create marketing strategies that develop and
sustain desirable customer relationships.

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 Value-Driven Marketing
Value-a customers subjective assessment of
benefits relative to costs in determining the
worth of a product.

Value = Customer
Benefits Customer
Costs

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 Marketing Management
The process of planning, organizing,
implementing, and controlling marketing
activities to facilitate exchanges effectively and
efficiently.

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 Why Marketing Plays An Important
Role in Our Global Economy
Consumes Large
Proportion of
Buyers Dollars
Creates
Is Used by
Career
Non-Profits
Prospects

Is Important
Promotes Welfare
to Business
of Consumers Marketing and the
and Society
Economy

Connects
Fuels
People
the Global
through
Economy
Technology Enhances
Consumer
Awareness

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 After Reviewing This Chapter
You Should:
1. Be able to define marketing
2. Understand several important marketing terms
including target market, marketing mix, marketing
exchanges, and marketing environment
3. Be aware of the marketing concept and marketing
orientation
4. Understand the importance of building customer
relationships
5. Explain the major marketing functions that are a
part of the marketing management process
6. Understand the role of marketing in our society

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 Key Concepts
Marketing Marketing concept
Customers Marketing orientation
Target market Relationship marketing
Marketing mix Customer relationship
management (CRM)
Products
Value
Exchanges
Marketing management
Stakeholders
Marketing environment

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