MARKETING: CREATING AND
CAPTURING CUSTOMER
VALUE
Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Outline
What is Marketing?
Understanding the Marketplace and Customer
Needs
Designing a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy
Preparing an Integrated Marketing Plan and
Program
Building Customer Relationships
Capturing Value from Customers
The changing Marketing Landscape
What is Marketing?
Marketing is the process by which companies create
value for customers and build strong customer
relationships in order to capture value from
customers in return.
Value which is a key marketing concept is primarily
a combination of quality, service, and price (qsp).
Not only selling and advertising
What is Marketing?
It is about satisfying customer needs
If marketers understand consumer needs and
develop products that provide superior
customer value and prices, distributes, and
promotes them effectively, these products will
sell easily.
The Marketing Process
1. Understand the marketplace and customer needs
and wants
2. Design a customer driven marketing strategy
3. Construct an integrated marketing program that
delivers superior value
4. Build profitable relationships and create customer
delight
5. Capture value from customers to create profit and
customer equity.
The Marketing Process
In the first four steps, companies work to understand
consumers, create customer value, and build
customer relationships.
In the final step, companies gain the rewards of
creating superior customer value.
1. Understanding the Marketplace and
Customer Needs
Outstanding marketing companies work hard to
understand their customers’ needs, wants, and
demands.
Research customers and the marketplace
Manage marketing information and customer data
People at all levels of the company including top
management must stay close to customers.
Needs ,Wants, and Demands
What Motivates a Consumer to Take Action?
Needs - A state of felt deprivation for basic
items such as food and clothing and complex needs
such as for belonging. i.e. I am thirsty
Wants - The form that a human need takes as
shaped by culture and individual personality. i.e. I
want a Coca-Cola.
Wants are shaped by a person’s society and are
described in terms of objects that will satisfy a
person’s needs
Needs ,Wants, and Demands
Demands - human wants backed by buying
power. i.e. I have money to buy a Coca-Cola.
Market Offerings
Market offerings-some combination
of products, services, information, or
experiences offered to market to a
satisfy a need or a want
Market Offerings
Products - anything Services - activities
that can be offered to or benefits offered for
a market for attention, sale that are
acquisition, use or essentially intangible
consumption and that and don’t result in the
might satisfy a need or ownership of anything.
want. Examples: banking,
Examples: persons, airlines, haircuts, and
places, organizations, hotels.
information, and ideas.
Market Offerings
Marketing Myopia- The mistake of paying more
attention to the specific products a company offers
rather than to the benefits and experiences
produced by these products.
Focus only on existing wants and lose sight of
underlying customer needs.
Customers will have the same need but will want a
new product
Customer Value and Satisfaction
Expectation
Customers form expectations about the value and
satisfaction that various market offerings will deliver
and buy based on these expectations.
Marketers must set the right level of expectations.
If expectations are too low, they may satisfy those
who buy their products but they will not attract
enough buyers
If expectations are too high, buyers will be
disappointed.
How do Consumers Obtain
Products and Services?
Exchanges - act of obtaining a desired object from
someone by offering something in return.
Marketing occurs when people try to satisfy their
needs and wants through exchange relationships.
Relationships - building long-term relationships
with consumers, distributors, dealers, and suppliers.
Markets
A market is the set of actual and potential buyers
of a product or service.
These buyers share a particular need or want that
can be satisfied through exchange relationships.
2. Designing a Customer-Driven
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Management is the art and science of
choosing target markets and building
profitable relationships with them.
Target markets are the consumers a company
wants to sell its products and services to, and to
whom it directs its marketing efforts.
A marketing manager job is to find, attract,
keep, and grow target customers by creating,
delivering, and communicating superior customer
value.
2. Designing a Customer-Driven
Marketing Strategy
To design a winning marketing strategy, the
marketing manager must answer two important
questions.
What customers will we serve ( target markets)?
How can we serve these customers best (what’s our
value proposition) ?
Selecting Customers to Serve
Divide markets into segments of customers (market
segmentation)
Select which segments the company will go after (
target marketing)
Companies should only select customers that they
can serve well.
Choosing a Value Proposition
The company must decide how it will serve targeted
customers
How it will differentiate and position itself in the
marketplace?
Value proposition is the set of benefits or values the
company promises to deliver to consumers to satisfy
their needs.
Marketing Management Orientations
The Production Concept is the idea that
consumers will favor products that are available
or highly affordable.
Improving production and distribution
efficiency
The Product Concept is the idea that consumers
will favor products that offer the most quality,
performance, and features.
Continuous product improvement
Marketing Management Orientations
The Selling Concept is the idea that
consumers will not buy enough of the firm’s
products unless it undertakes a large scale
selling and promotion effort.
Unsought goods
Marketing Management Orientations
The Marketing Concept is the idea that
achieving organizational goals depends
on knowing the needs and wants of the
target markets and delivering the desired
satisfactions better than competitors do.
Find the right product for your customer
Marketing & Sales
Concepts Contrasted
Starting Focus Means Ends
Point
Selling Profits
Existing
Factory and through
Products
Promoting Volume
The Selling Concept
Profits
Customer Integrated
Market through
Needs Marketing
Satisfaction
The Marketing Concept
The Societal Marketing Concept
The societal marketing concept states that
marketing strategies should deliver value to
customers in a way that maintains or improves
both the consumer and society’s well-being.
Sustainable marketing socially and
environmentally responsible marketing that
meets the present needs of consumers and
businesses while also improving the ability of
future generations to meet their needs.
The Societal Marketing Concept
Companies should balance three considerations in
setting their marketing strategies.
Company profit
Consumer wants
Society’s interests
The Societal Marketing Concept
3. Preparing an Integrated Marketing
Plan and Program
Companies must develop an integrated
marketing programs to deliver on their
value propositions to target customers
The Four Ps of Marketing
To deliver on its value proposition, a company must:
Create a need-satisfying market offering (product)
Make the offering available to target consumers (
place)
Decide how much it will charge for the offering
(price)
Communicate with target market (promotion)
The 4Ps of Marketing
4. Building Customer Relationships
Building and managing profitable customer
relationships is the most important step.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is the overall
process of building and maintaining profitable customer
relationships by delivering superior customer value and
satisfaction.
Customer Relationship management involves managing
detailed information about individual customers and
carefully managing customer touch points (where a
customer directly or indirectly interacts with the
company in some form)
4. Building Customer Relationships
Example of a Hotel’s customer touch points:
Internet and phone reservation, Hotel website, Hotel
reception, check-in process, room service, laundry
service, restaurants, and checkout processes.
Think of a business or a company and give three
examples of its customer touch points
How Do Consumers Choose
Choose Among Products and
Services?
• Customer-perceived value is the customer’s
evaluation of the difference between all the benefits
and all the costs of a marketing offer relative to
those of competing offers.
How Do Consumers Choose
Choose Among Products and
Services?
Customer Satisfaction - depends on the product’s
perceived performance in delivering value relative to a
buyer’s expectations.
If the performance falls short of expectation, the customer is
disappointed.
If the performance matches expectations, the customer is
satisfied.
If the performance exceeds expectations, the customer is
delighted.
Smart companies aim to delight customers by promising only what they
can deliver and then delivering more than they promise.
Customer Relationship Levels and Tools
Basic relationships-many low margin customers
Full partnerships- few high margin customers
Frequency marketing program
Club marketing programs
The Changing Nature of Customer Relationships
Relating with more carefully selected customers
using selective relationship management to target
fewer, more profitable customers
Firing unprofitable customers
Relating more deeply and interactively by
incorporating more interactive two way
relationships through blogs, Websites, online
communities and social networks
The Changing Nature of Customer
Relationships
Customer-managed relationships: Marketing
relationships in which customers, empowered by
today’s new digital technologies, interact with
companies and with each other to shape their
relationships with brands.
The Changing Nature of Customer Relationships
Many companies are creating dialogues with
consumers using their own online social networks.
Example: Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
Consumer-generated marketing-Brand exchanges
created by consumers that results in consumers
playing a bigger role in shaping their own brand
experience and those of other consumers. The results
of this are:
New product and service ideas
More active role in shaping ads
The Changing Nature of Customer
Relationships
Partner relationship management involves
working closely with partners in other company
departments and outside the company to jointly
bring greater value to customers.
The Changing Nature of Customer
Relationships
Partner Relationship Management
Partners inside the company is every function area
interacting with customers.
Cross-functional teams
Partners outside the company is how marketers
connect with their suppliers, channel partners, and
competitors by developing partnerships.
The Changing Nature of Customer
Relationships
Partner Relationship Management
Supply chain is a channel that stretches from raw
materials to components to final products to final
buyers.
Supply chain management-companies are now
building stronger relationships with partners along
the supply chain.
The Supply Chain
Supplier(raw material or components)
Transportation(inbound logistics)
Manufacturer
Transportation (outbound logistics)
Warehousing
Wholesaler
Retailer
Final consumer
5. Capturing Value from Customers
Creating Customer Loyalty and Retention
Customer lifetime value is the value of the entire
stream of purchases that the customer would
make over a lifetime of patronage
It is five time more expensive to obtain a new
customer than to keep an existing customer
Growing Share of Customer
Share of customer is the portion of the customer’s
purchasing that a company gets in its product
categories
To increase share of customers, companies can offer
greater variety to current customers or create programs
to cross-sell and up-sell.
Cross-sell-The practice of suggesting related products
or services to a customer who is considering buying
something.
Up-sell- Sellers attempt to persuade customers to buy a
more expensive item.
Building Customer Equity
Customer equity is the total combined customer
lifetime values of all of the company’s customers.
The more loyal a firm’s profitable customers, the
higher its customer equity.
Reference
Kotler, Philip and Gary Armstrong. Principles of
Marketing. Pearson Education.
