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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