MS3 Midterms 1
MS3 Midterms 1
MS3 Midterms 1
Marketing
Management
and
Accountancy
Course Outline
Unit I. An overview of Marketing
Management
1. Broad Environment
2. Task Environment
3. Analysis of the factors affecting business
Unit III. Organizing the Marketing
Effort
1. Product decisions
2. Product strategy
3. Understanding the product life cycle concepts
4. Succeeding in product management
Unit VI. Price and Pricing Strategy
Midterms
Unit 1; An overview of
Marketing Management
– the art and science of choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and growing
customers through creating, delivering, and communicating superior customer value.
Marketing is not just “the art of selling products”.
The strategic
3 c’s
Customer
Company
competition
1. Production Concept
2. Product concept
5 concepts 3. Selling concept
4. Marketing concept
5. Societal marketing concept
Selling
concept vs.
Marketing
concept
Societal
marketing
concept
Core Marketing
Concepts
➢ Target Markets and Market ➢ Value And Satisfaction
Segmentation ➢ Exchange and Transactions
➢ Marketplace, Market-space ➢ Relationship and Networks
and Metamarkets
➢ Marketing Channels
➢ Marketers and Prospects
➢ Supply Chain
➢ Needs, Wants and
Demands ➢ Competition
The Demographic Environment - population, including the size and growth rate of
population in cities, regions, and nations; age distribution and ethnic mix; educational
levels; household patterns; and regional characteristics and movements.
1. WORLDWIDE POPULATION GROWTH
2. POPULATION AGE MIX
preschool children, school-age children, teens, young adults age 20 to 40, middle-aged adults 40 to 65,
and older adults 65 and older
3. ETHNIC AND OTHER MARKETS
4. EDUCATIONAL GROUPS
illiterates, high school dropouts, high school diplomas, college degrees, and professional degrees.
5. HOUSEHOLD PATTERNS
The Broad Environment
The Natural Environment - “green”parties have pressed for public action to reduce
industrial pollution. Trends in the natural environment for marketers to be aware of
include the shortage of raw materials,especially water; the increased cost of energy;
increased pollution levels; and the changing role of governments.
– Nearly a quarter of the carbon dioxide that makes up about 80 percent of all greenhouse
gases comes from electrical power plants
– Transportation is second only to electricity generation as a contributor to global warming,
accounting for roughly a fifth of carbon emissions.
– A person cooking over an open wood or kerosene fire inhales the equivalent of two packs
of cigarettes a day
**Corporate environmentalism recognizes the need to integrate environmental issues into the
firm’s strategic plans
The Broad Environment
The Broad Environment
The Task
Public suppliers Environment
Components
Marketing
competitors
Intermediaries
Customers
Right
Timely Price Quality
Product
Competitors
– A marketer must
– monitor itscompetitors’
offerings to create strategic
advantage
Reseller
Marketing
Distribution Intermediaries
Marketing Marketing intermediaries are firms
intermediaries that help the company to
promote, sell, and distribute its
Financial goods to final buyers.
Marketing
Service
Reseller
• They are those who hold and sell company’s
product.
• Wholesaler and retailer.
– Financial Intermediaries
• Theyhelp finance transactions and insure
– against risks.
• Banks, credit companies, insurancecompany, ect.
Public
– Interest in or impact on an
Media Citizen
organization’s ability to achieve its
objectives. Public
– Acompany should prepare a Groups
marketing plan for all of their Local Internal
majorpublics.
General
Financial
Media Citizen
Public
Groups
Local Internal
General
External Environment;
Opportunities
A marketing opportunity is an area of buyer need and interest that a company has
a high probability of profitably satisfying.
– offer something that is in short supply. This requires little marketing talent, as
the need is fairly obvious.
– supply an existing product or service in a new or superior way. How? The
problem detection method asks consumers for their suggestions, the ideal
method has them imagine an ideal version of the product or service, and the
consumption chain method asks them to chart their steps in acquiring, using,
and disposing of a product
– totally new product or service
External Environment; Threats
– The marketing plan identifies the marketing objectives and explains how
marketing activities will help the organization achieve its broader goals and
objectives.
– The marketing plan describes how the company will use the marketing mix—
product, promotion, place, and price—to achieve its marketing objectives
effectively within the competitive market environment.
– The marketing plan also focuses the company’s resources on reaching target
customers and driving them to act.
Strategic Management Process
A company is said to have a competitive advantage over its rival when its
profitability is greater than the average for all firms in its industry.
– Continually adapting to changes in external trends and events
– Continuously improve internal capabilities, competencies and resources
– Effective formulation, implementation and evaluation of strategies
Sustained Competitive Advantage
maintain above average profitability for a number of years
Strategy
A goal directed actions a firm intends to take in its quest to gain and
sustain competitive advantage.
Unit IV. Analyzing
Consumer Demand
Psychological
Motivation
Perception
SELECTIVE ATTENTION
– Even noticed stimuli don’t always come across in the way the senders intended.
Selective distortion is the tendency to interpret information in a way that fits
our preconceptions.
SELECTIVE RETENTION
Psychological
Motivation
Perception
Learning
Emotions
Memory
The Buyer Decision Process