Core Marketing

Concepts
FX Setiyo Wibowo
• Marketing can be further understood
by defining the core concepts can
applied by marketing managers

Core Marketing Concepts

• A marketer can rarely satisfy everyone in a market. Not everyone
likes the same soft drink, automobile, college, and movie.
• Therefore, marketers start with market segmentation.
• They identify and profile distinct groups of buyers who might
prefer or require varying products and marketing mixes.
• Market segments can be identified by examining demographic,
psychographic, and behavioral differences among buyers.

Target Market and

Segmentation
• For each chosen target market, the firm develops a market
offering.
• The offering is positioned in the minds of the target buyers as
delivering some central benefit(s).
• For example, Volvo develops its cars for the target market of
buyers for whom automobile safety is a major concern. Volvo,
therefore, positions its car as the safest a customer can buy.
• Traditionally, a “market” was a physical place where buyers and sellers gathered to
exchange goods.
• Now marketers view the sellers as the industry and the buyers as
the market (see Figure 1-1).
• The sellers send goods and services and communications
(ads, direct mail, e-mail messages) to the market; in return they receive money and
information (attitudes, sales data).
• The inner loop in the diagram in Figure 1-1 shows an exchange of money for goods
and services; the outer loop shows an exchange of
information.
• Another core concept is the distinction between
marketers and prospects.
• A marketer is someone who is seeking a response
(attention, a purchase, a vote, a donation) from another
party, called the prospect.
• If two parties are seeking to sell something to each
other, both are marketers.

Marketers and Prospects

• The successful marketer will try to understand the target market’s needs, wants,
and demands.
• Needs describe basic human requirements such as food, air, water, clothing, and
shelter. People also have strong needs for recreation, education, and
entertainment.
• These needs become wants when they are directed to specific objects that might
satisfy the need.
• An American needs food but wants a hamburger, French fries, and a
soft drink. A person in Mauritius needs food but wants a mango, rice, and beans.
Clearly, wants are shaped by one’s society.

Needs, Wants and

Demands
• Demands are wants for specific products backed by an ability to
pay.
• Many people want a Mercedes; only a few are able and willing
to buy one.
• Companies must measure not only how many people want their
product, but also how many would actually be willing and able
to buy it.
• People satisfy their needs and wants with products.
• A product is any offering that can satisfy a need or want, such as
one of the 10 basic offerings of goods, services, experiences, events,
persons, places, properties, organizations, information, and ideas.
• A brand is an offering from a known source.
• A brand name such as McDonald’s carries many associations in the
minds of people: hamburgers, fun, children, fast food.

Product or Offering
• In terms of marketing, the product or offering will be
successful if it delivers value and satisfaction to the target
buyer.
• The buyer chooses between different offerings on the basis of
which is perceived to deliver the most value.
• We define value as a ratio between what the customer gets and
what he gives. The customer gets benefits and assumes costs, as
shown in this equation:

Value and Satisfaction

Based on this equation, the marketer can increase the value of the customer offering
by
(1) raising benefits, (2) reducing costs, (3) raising benefits and reducing costs, (4)
raising benefits by more than the raise in costs, or (5) lowering benefits by less than
the reduction in costs.
A customer choosing between two value offerings, V1 and V2, will examine the
ratio V1/V2. She will favor V1 if the ratio is larger than one; she will favor V2 if the
ratio is smaller than one; and she will be indifferent if the ratio equals one.
• Exchange, the core of marketing, involves obtaining a desired product from
someone by offering something in return.
• For exchange potential to exist, five conditions must be satisfied:
1. There are at least two parties.
2. Each party has something that might be of value to the other party.
3. Each party is capable of communication and delivery.
4. Each party is free to accept or reject the exchange offer.
5. Each party believes it is appropriate or desirable to deal with the other
party.

A transaction involves at least two things of value, agreed-upon conditions,

a time of agreement, and a place of agreement.

Exchange and
Transaction
• Transaction marketing is part of a larger idea called relationship marketing.
• Relationship marketing aims to build long-term mutually satisfying relations with
key parties—customers, suppliers, distributors—in order to earn and retain their
long-term preference and business.
• The ultimate outcome of relationship marketing is the building of a unique
company asset called a marketing network.
• A marketing network consists of the company and
its supporting stakeholders (customers, employees, suppliers, distributors,
university scientists, and others) with whom it has built mutually profitable
business relationships.

Relationships and
Network
• Kotler, Philip. Marketing Management Millenium
Edition. Tenth Edition, copywrite 2000 by Prentice-Hall,
Inc.
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