L1 Intro MKT
==What is Marketing ?==
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\ Marketing is engaging customers and and managing profitable customer relationships.
MKT is a way attracting customers as well as managing relationship of value customer
Marketing is a process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships to capture value from customers in return.
MKT is a process that bring value to customer and build relationship between them…
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==Marketing Process==

(2) based on Pyramids of Management Hierarchy unstructure-semi-structure….*
Customer Needs, Wants and Demands !
- Needs : * Physical: food, clothing, warmth and safety * Social: belonging and affection * Individual: knowledge and self-expression
- Wants : Form that needs take as they are : shaped by * culture and individual personality
- Demands : Wants backed by buying power
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The Marketing Process
- }}Creating and Capturing Customer Value !}}
- Market offerings are some combination of products, services,
information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need
or want.
- Marketing myopia is focusing only on existing wants and losing
sight of underlying consumer needs.
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- }}Marketer expectations + Customer Value}}
- Set the right level of expectation (not too high / low)
- Value satisfaction
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Concept of Market and Exchange
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- Market : is the set of actual and potential buyers of a product.
- Exchange : is the act of obtaining a desired object from someone by
offering something in return.

Designing a value-driven marketing strategy
Marketing management is the art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them.
- Selecting customer : * Market segmentation = dividing the markets into segments of
customers * Target marketing = deciding which segments to go after
- Choosing a value proposition : * Choosing the set of benefits or values a company promises to deliver to customers to satisfy their needs
Developing a MKT strategy
- Production concept : is the idea that consumers will favour
products that are available or highly affordable.
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- Product concept : is the idea that consumers will favour products that offer the most quality, performance and features and that the organization should therefore devote its energy to making continuous product improvements.
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- ==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.
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- ==Marketing concept== : is the idea that achieving organisational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of the target markets and delivering the desired Satisfactions better than competitors do.
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- Societal marketing concept : is the idea that a company’s Marketing decisions should consider consumers’ wants, the company’s requirements, consumers’ long-term interests and society’s long run interests.
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Marketing Mix 4Ps and 4Cs
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