The Nature andScope of Marketing
Definitions of Marketing
The term ‘Marketing’ has been defined in many ways by
different authorities:
Marketing is a total system of business activities designed to
plan, price, promote and distribute want-satisfying goods and
services to present and potential customers (Stanton, 1964).
The Evolution ofMarketing
Marketing develops as the society and its economic
activities develop.
During agrarian economy, the people largely self-
sufficient – they grew their own food, produce their
own clothes, built their own houses, etc.
How ever, when people make more than they wanted,
the foundation was laid for trade, and trade
(exchange) is the heart of marketing.
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Cont’d…
Hereafter, the exchangeprocess was a simple one. The
emphasis was largely on the production of basic needs
which usually was in short supply.
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Production concept
Customer
–Favor products that are available and
affordable
Goal
– Improve production and distribution efficiency
Usefulness
– Demand exceeds supply
–Risk
- [What to do when situation changes?
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Product Concept
Consumer
–Favor products with best quality, performance,
innovative features
Goal
– Improve product features in a continuous fashion
Usefulness
– [If market is stable, no competing technologies in
sight]
Risk
– Competing technology (spray instead of mouse trap)
enters market
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Selling Concept
Consumer
–Will not buy enough products unless seller(s)
undertake large-scale promotion and selling effort
Goal
– Promote product,
Usefulness
– Unsought goods – encyclopedias, insurance, ...
Risk
– Dissatisfied customers – will not buy again, will tell
many people!
“Inside out”
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Marketing concept
customers
Buys product that best satisfies needs and wants
Goal
– Determine needs and wants of target markets
– Deliver the desired satisfaction more effectively and
efficiently than competitors
Risk
– Short term focus larger social and ethical issues
– Overlooks long term customer welfare.
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Cont’d…
When customersknow what they want
Customer driving marketing
– When customers do not yet know they even need
something
– Meeting existing latent and future needs by
understanding customers better than they understand
themselves
– “Outside in” perspectives.
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Cont’d…
Generally, the marketingconcept rests on four pillars:
1. target market,
2. customer needs,
3. integrated marketing, and
4. profitability.
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Societal Marketing Concept
Somehave questioned whether the marketing concept is an
appropriate philosophy in an age of environmental
deterioration:
Resource shortages, and
Explosive population growth,
world hunger and
poverty, and
Neglected social services.
Goal: Balance (1) Consumer satisfaction in short and long
term, (2) society, (3) company profits
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Marketing Management
Marketing Managementis analysis, planning, implementation,
and control of programs designed to create, build, and maintain
beneficial exchanges with target buyers for the purpose of
achieving organizational objectives.
Simply put, marketing management is demand management.
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Different states ofdemand
There are Different states of demand up on which the
marketing manager has to deal by applying different
strategies. These are:
1. Negative Demand: is when the major part of the
market dislikes the product and even pay price to avoid
it.
Market strategy ( task)- Conversational marketing
- Identify (analyze) why the market- dislike the product
- Use different strategies to convince the market (buyers)
and based on their beliefs and attitudes.
2. No Demand: this happens when the market is unaware of
or un interested in the product of the company.
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Cont’d
Market strategy (task)stimulation marketing
- Release information to increase general awareness of product.
- Relate the functions of the product with individual’s natural
need.
3. Latent Demand ( Hidden Demand)
- Happens when there is a demand for the product but the
product doesn’t exist.
Market strategy: Developmental Marketing
- Measure the size of the potential market
- Develop new and commercialize the products that satisfy these
needs
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4. Decline Demand
Thedemand for product declines after some time
Market strategy- Remarking /Re stimulating
-Analyze why demand declines
-Find new target market, price reduction, applying more
effective promotional packages
5. Irregular demand
- Here demand for company’s product varies on certain
time frame.
- This causes idle or overworked capacity
Market strategy synchronic marketing
- is to find ways to alter the pattern of demand
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Cont’d
6. Full demand
-Happens when demand level is the level that company wants to
handle.
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- The actual demand is the level desired by the business firm.
Marketing strategy/ Maintain Marketing
Maintain the level of demand by measuring the satisfaction level
of consumers along with quality controlling
7. Over full demand
- When demand is greater than what can be supplied or handled
by company.
- Marketing strategy- de marketing
- It is the techniques of reducing demand temporarily or
permanently.
Marketing Challenges intothe Next
Century
Growth of Non-Profit Marketing
The Information Technology Boom
Rapid Globalization
The Changing World Economy
The Call for More Ethics and Social Responsibility
The New Marketing Landscape