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Marketing Is All Around Us

Marketing Is All Around Us. Chapter 1. Section 1.1- Marketing and the Marketing Concept What You’ll Learn. The meaning of marketing The foundations of marketing The functions of marketing Understand the Marketing Concept.

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Marketing Is All Around Us

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  1. Marketing Is All Around Us Chapter 1

  2. Section 1.1- Marketing and the Marketing ConceptWhat You’ll Learn . . . • The meaning of marketing • The foundations of marketing • The functions of marketing • Understand the Marketing Concept

  3. The process of developing, promoting, and distributing products to satisfy customers’ needs and wants. What Is Marketing?

  4. Products – goods and services that have monetary value

  5. Goods – things you can touch or hold

  6. Services – you can’t physically touch – tasks performed for a customer

  7. Marketing is based on Exchange • Marketing connects business’ to their customers.

  8. Exchange • An exchange takes place every time something is sold in the marketplace.

  9. EXCHANGE When the producer is someone other than the consumer, some form of exchange takes place.

  10. Foundations of Marketing • Business, Management, Entrepreneurship • Communication and Interpersonal Skills • Economics • Professional Development

  11. Functions of Marketing • Activities that work together to get goods and services from producers to consumers • Each is essential

  12. DistributionDeciding where and to whom products need to be sold to reach the final users. Add – All activities involved in packaging, storing, & physically delivering goods & services.

  13. FinancingGetting the money necessary to operate a business. Add – determining how a business will get money & use it.

  14. Marketing Information ManagementGetting information to make sound business decisions. Usually obtained through marketing research

  15. For example, after a stay at a luxury hotel, you fill out a form rating the service and accommodations.

  16. Pricing How much to charge to maximize profits

  17. Product Service Management • Obtaining, developing, maintaining, and improving a product or a product mix in response to market opportunities. Add – Determining what products & services to offer customers.

  18. Promotion Communicating with potential customers to inform & persuade, or remind them about a business’s products

  19. SellingPlanned, personalized communication that influences purchasing decisions

  20. The Marketing Concept Businesses must satisfy customers’ needs and wants in order to make a profit

  21. When Henry Ford first created the Model T, he was the only one mass producing cars. He didn’t have to think about “The Marketing Concept.” But, as more and more producers started making cars, they had to think about what customers need and want in order to stay in business. Click on the Model T Ford to see Henry Ford’s thoughts about car color in the early 1900’s.

  22. Imagine if, in today’s world, you could only buy black. Many customers would not be very happy!

  23. Today’s buyer wants a choice!

  24. The Marketing Concept • If automobile manufactures do not give their customers a choice (what they want), they will not stay in business. • That concept is true for all businesses. • You must give the customer what they need and want.

  25. The Marketing Concept Businesses must satisfy customers’ needs and wants in order to make a profit That is what we mean by The Marketing Concept Businesses must know their customers . . .

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