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• Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships

 Attracting new customers


 Retaining and growing current customers
• “Marketing” is NOT synonymous with “sales” or
“advertising”
• Kotler’s social definition:
“Marketing is a social and managerial process
by which individuals and groups obtain their
needs through creating and exchanging
products and value.”

• Marketing management is “the art and science of


choosing target markets and building profitable
relationships with them.”
 Creating, delivering and communicating
superior customer value is key.
• Customer Management:
 Marketers select customers that can be served
well and profitably.
• Demand Management:
 Marketers must deal with different demand
states ranging from no demand to too much
demand.
Management
Orientations
• Production concept
• Product concept
• Societal marketing concept
• Selling concept
• Marketing concept

• CRM – Customer relationship management . . .


“is the overall process of building and maintaining
profitable customer relationships through superior
customer
• It costs 5 to 10 times MORE to attract a new customer
than it does to keep a current customer satisfied.
• Marketers must be concerned with the lifetime value of
the customer.

CRM Key Concepts


• Attracting, retaining and growing customers
• Customer value/satisfaction
• Loyalty and retention
• Growing share of customer

• Building customer relationships and customer equity


• Customer equity
• Customer relationship levels and tools

Marketing Challenges

• Technological advances, rapid globalization, and


continuing social and economic shifts are causing
marketplace changes.
• Major marketing developments can be grouped under
the theme of connecting.
Connecting:
• Via technology
• Advances in computers, telecommunications,
video-conferencing, etc. are major forces.
 Databases allow for customization of
products, messages and analysis of
needs.
• The Internet
 Facilitates anytime, anywhere connections
 Facilitates CRM
 Creates marketspaces
• With customers
• Selective relationship management is key.
• Growing “share of customer”
• Direct sales to buyers are growing.
• With marketing partners

• Partner relationship management involves:


 Connecting inside the company
 Connecting with outside partners
 Supply chain management
 Strategic alliances

• With the world


• Globalization
 Competition
 New opportunities
• Greater concern for environmental and social
responsibility
• Increased marketing by nonprofit and public-sector
entities

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