Marketing - -The activity, set of institutions, and are produced by people or machines and cannot be
processes for creating, capturing, communicating, separated from the producer
delivering and exchanging offerings that have value
for customers, clients, partners and society at large
Ideas - -Include concepts, opinions and
philosophies
Marketing Plan - -Specifies the marketing
activities for a specific period of time
Product - -Creating value by developing a
variety of offerings, including goods, services, and
4 Various Components of a Marketing Plan - - ideas, to satisfy customer needs
1. How the product will be conceived or designed
2. How much it will cost
3. Where and how it will be promoted Price - -Everything a buyer gives up (money,
4. How it will get to the consumer time, and energy) in exchange for the product
Key to determining price is figuring out how much
customers are willing to pay so that they are satisfied
Core Aspects of Marketing - -1. Helps create with the purchase and the seller achieves a
value reasonable profit
2. Occurs in many settings
3. Satisfying customers needs and wants
4. Entails an exchange Marketers must determine the price of a product
5. Can be performed by both individuals and carefully on the basis of the .... - -potential
organizations buyer's belief about its value
6. Requires product, place, price and promotion
decisions
Place - -Represents all the activities necessary
to get the product to the right customer when that
Exchange - -The trade of things of value customer wants it
between the buyer and the seller so that each is off Deals with retailing and marketing channel
better off as a result management (supply chain management)
Exchange Cycle - -goods/services (sellers) > Marketing Channel Management - -Set of
communications and delivery > approaches and techniques that firms employ to
customers/consumers (buyers) > money and efficiently and effectively integrate with their
information > goods/services (sellers) suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses and other
firms involved in the transaction into a seamless
value chain in which merchandise is produced and
Marketing Mix - Four Ps - -1. Product distributed in the right quantities, to the right
2. Place locations, and at the right time while minimizing
3. Promotion systemwide costs and satisfying the service levels
4. Price required by customers
Goods - -Items you can physically touch Promotion - -Communication by a marketer that
informs, persuades and reminds buyers about a
product to influence their opinions and elicit a
Services - -intangible customer benefits that response
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