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Can Marketers Create Needs?: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
Can Marketers Create Needs?: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
objectives
is
vital
to
ensure
effective
promotional
activity.
They are:
Marketers will advertise for items which the consumers seem to be wanting.
These advertisements will make the product seem more important to have
and make the product seem to be a need than a want.
Established firms, it's essential to be able to satisfy the needs of customers.
As they say, a satisfied customer is a profitable one. To be able to satisfy
the customer's needs, the firm thus tries to understand it's customer's
needs and then attempt try to deliver it. On the other hand, new firms or
marketing these
However, Days also attempt to 'create' needs. By doing so, the customer
have a reason to buy the product. The basic reason customers purchase
anything is they need it. However if customers have a perception that they do
not need it, they may not purchase the product. Hence marketing these days
have evolved to create needs for customers. Marketing these days does not
only mean existing customers, which have needs but also non existing
customers, which have no needs.
Conclusion
Since there doesnt seem to be a definitive answer for the question of
creating need by the marketers. We may conclude the issue as under:
Then its marketing's job to expose (or exploit?) those needs and
communicate the value of potential solutions.
New product features and benefits help address needs. Emotion then creates
desire (Just look at the company Apple - do we really all "need" an iPad? We
certainly all desire one.)
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