Customer Value and Engagement
Customer Value and Engagement
Simple definition:
Marketing is the management process responsible for
identifying, anticipating, and satisfying customer
requirements profitably.” (CIM,2001)
Goals:
1. Attract new customers by promising superior value.
2. Keep and grow current customers by delivering
satisfaction.
Marketing Defined
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American Marketing Association
What is Marketing Management?
Buyers’ markets
Sellers’ markets
Functions/Tasks of Marketing
Marketers act as the customers’ voice within the firm
and marketers are responsible for many more
decisions than just advertising or sales:
Analyse industries to identify emerging trends/
Assessing opportunities.
Determine which national and international
markets to enter or exit/ Identifying markets to
enter.
Conduct research to understand consumer
behavior.
Design integrated marketing mixes – products,
prices, channels of distribution, and promotion
programs. 11
A Simple Marketing System
Main actors and forces in a
Modern marketing system
Competitor
s
Marketing
Suppliers intermediarie End user
s market
Company
(marketer)
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Marketing Process
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Products and Services
Product:
Anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy a
need or want.
The concept of product is not limited to physical
objects – anything capable of satisfying a need can be
called a product.
However, these are largely tangible, material offerings .
Services:
In addition to tangible goods, products also include
services, which are activities or benefits offered for sale
that are essentially intangible and do not result in the
ownership of anything.
These cannot be touched and stored.
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Exchange, Transactions, and
Relationships
Exchange :
The act of obtaining a desired object from
someone by offering something in return
Transaction :
A trade between two parties that involves at
least two things of value, agreed – upon
conditions a time of agreement, and a place of
agreement.
Relationship marketing :
The process of creating, maintaining, and
enhancing strong, value – laden relationships 18
with customers and other stakeholders
MARKETING MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHIES
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Marketing Concept
- about:
+ knowing the target market,
+ sensing its needs, and
+ meeting them most effectively.
Societal Marketing Concept
Consumers Company
(Want satisfaction) (Profits)
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Societal Marketing
Concept
- emphasize the welfare of society.
Marketing Selling
Factory Market
Existing product Customer needs
Selling and promotion Integrated marketing
Profit from through Profits through
sells volume customers’ satisfaction
Selling vs Marketing
Productio Product
n concept Concept
Marketing Myopia
First introduced -Theodore Levitt
Narrow minded approach: Here the marketer
wants to sell the product and services, without
much focusing on the customer demands/needs
Also known as marketing short sightedness. It is
a type of distorted vision about the
organisation .
Focus on product rather than customer
Mass production
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Review: Marketing Management Philosophies
Orientation Focus
Sales
Sales How can we sell more aggressively?
What do customers
Marketing
Marketing want and need?
What do customers want and need, and how
Societal
Societal can we benefit society?
Marketing Process
A marketing process include all the steps and activities in the that a
marketing department administers to reach its objectives.
The marketing process include the following activities:-
1. Analyzing marketing opportunities and developing the organization’s
mission and objectives.
Can be done by SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,
threats).
2. Selecting target markets.
3. Developing the marketing strategy by developing marketing mix (4 P’s).
Product , Price, Promotion, and Place.
4. Managing the marketing effort.
Include analysis, planning, implementation, and control.
The Marketing Mix
4P’s Marketing mix
The physical People are
environment People fundamental
in which a Physical
in delivering
service takes Evidence any product or
place. service.
Process
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Recognize 4Ps and the 7Ps->
&C
Product customer value
Price cost
Place convenience
Promotioncommunication
People consideration
Processes co-ordination
Physical evidence confirmation
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NEEDS
Maslow’s
Hierarchy of Needs
Stated Needs • I want a car
- In reality, marketers do not create needs. Human’s needs exist before the
existing of marketers. Marketers might promote some specific objects, and
make people want those objects for their needs.
Wants:
form taken by human needs as they are shaped by culture
and individual personality. They are specific.
almost unlimited wants but limited resources.
Demands:
Wants for specific products that are backed by an ability &
willingness to buy them. 52
Once a month
10 years $ 17 x 12 x 10 = $ 2.040.
Maximizing Customer Lifetime
Value
● Customer profitability: 20-80 rule
● Customer equity :the total asset value of the relationships
which an organization has with its customers.
● Customer equity is based on customer lifetime value, and an
understanding of customer equity can be used to optimize
the balance of investment in the acquisition and retention of
customers. It is also known as customer capital and forms
one component of the intellectual capital of an organization.
Customer equity
sum of customer lifetime values
for every customer of a particular
brand.
Customer Satisfaction
how happy or
unhappy are the
customer with the
products or
services.
Customer Value and Satisfaction
Satisfaction:
Customer satisfaction depends on a product’s perceived
performance in delivering value relative to a buyer’s
expectation.
If the product’s performance falls short of the
customer’s expectations, the buyer is dissatisfied.
Quality:
Customer satisfaction is closely linked to quality.
Quality has a direct impact on product performance.67