CHAPTER ONE
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What is Marketing?
What is Selling? What is Advertising?
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Know what marketing is and why you should learn about it. Understand the difference between micro marketing and macro-marketing. Know the marketing functions and why marketing specialistsincluding middlemen intermediaries and marketing collaborators develop to perform them. Understand what a market-driven economy is and how it adjusts the macro-marketing system.
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Know what the marketing concept isand how it should guide a firm or nonprofit organization. Understand what customer value is and why it is important to customer satisfaction. Know how social responsibility and marketing ethics relate to the marketing concept.
Analyze Needs
Predict Wants
Estimate Demand Predict When
Marketers must know what their customers want
Decide Promotion
Estimate Competition Provide Service
Production
Making Goods
Performing Services
Henry Fords Model-T
What Is Marketing?
Marketing is more than selling and advertising, but it also possible to define marketing too broadly. In defining marketing, there are really two alternative views a micro view and a macro view.
Micro View
Set of activities
Performed by individual organizations and
Macro View
Social process
Matches supply with demand
Marketing
Key Characteristics
Builds Relationships
Involves Exchanges
Doesnt Go It Alone
Macro-Marketing
Key Characteristics
Selling
Transporting
Marketing Functions
Storing Standardization & Grading
Financing
Producers
Wholesalers
Other Specialists
Retailers Ad Agencies
Research Firms
Consumers
Government officials decide May work well if: Simple economy Little Variety Adverse Conditions
Adjusts itself
OR
Production Era
Customer Satisfaction
Profit
Costs
Benefits
Satisfy Customers
Government Marketing
Group Needs
Individual Needs
Social Responsibility
You now
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Know what marketing is and why you should learn about it. Understand the difference between marketing and macro-marketing. Know the marketing functions and why marketing specialistsincluding middlemen intermediaries and marketing collaborators develop to perform them. Understand what a market-driven economy is and how it adjusts the macro-marketing system.
You now
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Know what the marketing concept isand how it should guide a firm or nonprofit organization. Understand what customer value is and why it is important to customer satisfaction. Know how social responsibility and marketing ethics relate to the marketing concept.
Key Terms
Production Customer satisfaction Innovation Marketing Pure subsistence economy Macro-marketing Economies of scale Universal functions of marketing
Buying Selling Transporting Storing Standardization and grading Financing Risk-taking Market information Intermediary (or middleman)
Key Terms
Collaborators E-commerce Economic system Command economy Market-directed economy Simple trade era Production era Sales era Marketing department era
Marketing company era Marketing concept Production orientation Marketing orientation Customer value Micro-macro dilemma Social responsibility Marketing ethics