Defining Marketing For The New Realities
Defining Marketing For The New Realities
Defining Marketing For The New Realities
Realities
Agenda for this session
General Guidelines throughout the teaching sessions:
• Matching the expectations
• Use of Mobile devices
• Recording any part of the session
• Participation in Class Discussion
• Reverse innovation
• Implications
✓ Good marketing is no accident.
✓ It is both an art and a science
The Value of Marketing
• Demand for products\services is must.
➢ How relevant are finance, operations, accounting, and
other business functions without demand?
• Marketers
✓ Stimulate the demand
✓ Influence the level, timing, and composition of demand
➢ Happy Hours
➢ How to stimulate demand for fashion brands in the
wake of Covid-19?
✓ Identify the reasons of the demand state and determine an
action plan to shift demand to a more desired state.
• Demand States
Scope of Marketing : Who Markets?
• Demand States
✓ Negative
✓ Nonexistent
✓ Latent
✓ Declining
✓ Irregular
✓ Unwholesome
✓ Full
✓ Overfull
• Needs
✓ the basic human requirements
✓ air, food, water, clothing, and shelter
• Wants
✓ specific objects that might satisfy the need
• Demands
✓ wants for specific products backed by an ability to pay
• Value proposition
✓ set of benefits that satisfy customers’ needs
• Offerings
✓ Combination of products, services, information, and
experiences
• Brands
✓ An offering from a known source
✓ What comes to your mind when you think of Apple?
Core Concepts : Marketing Channels
• How significant are service centers for automobile or
electronics industry?
• How significant are distribution channels for apparels and
fashion products?
• Owned media
✓ Company or brand brochure, web site, blog, facebook
page, or twitter account
• Earned media
✓ word of mouth, buzz, or viral marketing
• Globalization
✓ Growth lies in emerging economies.
✓ Demographic trends favor developing markets
✓ Countries are increasingly multicultural
✓ Changes in innovation and product development
• Social responsibility
✓ Marketing’s effects extend to society as a whole
➢ marketers must consider the ethical, environmental,
legal, and social context of their activities
✓ a way to differentiate from competitors, build consumer
preference, and achieve notable sales and profit gains
A changed marketplace
New consumer capabilities
• Can use the internet as a powerful information and purchasing
aid
• Can search, communicate, and purchase on the move
• Can tap into social media to share opinions and express loyalty
• Can actively interact with companies
• Can reject marketing they find inappropriate
A changed marketplace
New company capabilities
• Can use the internet as a powerful information and sales
channel, including for individually differentiated goods
• Can collect fuller and richer information about markets,
customers, prospects, and competitors
• Can reach customers quickly and efficiently via social media
and mobile marketing, sending targeted ads, coupons, and
information
• Can improve purchasing, recruiting, training, and internal and
external communications
• Can improve cost efficiency
A changed marketplace
Changing channels
• Retail transformation
• Disintermediation
Heightened competition
• Private brands
• Mega-brands
• Deregulation
• Privatization
Marketing in practice
• Marketing balance
✓ consumers are moving faster than marketers do
➢ Companies must move forward, innovate, stay in touch with
customer needs, and seek new advantages.
➢ Hindustan Unilever’s consumer license
✓ balance increased spending across marketing mediums.
• Marketing accountability
✓ Justify the investments in financial, profitability terms, brand
building, and growing the customer base.
✓ Brand equity, CLV, return on marketing investment
• Marketing in the organization
✓ Not only by the marketing department
✓ Every employee has an impact on the customer.
• Reinventing marketing at Coca-cola
✓ moving consumers from impressions to expressions to
conversations to transactions
Company Orientation Toward the Marketplace
What philosophy should guide a company’s marketing efforts?
• Production concept
• Product concept
• Selling concept
• Marketing concept
• Holistic marketing concept
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Company Orientation Toward the Marketplace
Holistic marketing concept
Marketing Mix
Marketing Mix
• Product, price, place, and promotion do not reflect the whole
story.