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MARKET
It’s derived form the Latin word “ Marcatus”. It means merchandise or trade. Market in
common language is used for a place where buyers and sellers indulge in buying and
selling activities. But, with the changing business environment, the focus of market is not
on a place but on meeting of buyers and sellers. They can conduct business without
meeting at a place by telephone, mail and internet.
CUSTOMER
Customers refer to people or organizations that seek satisfaction of their needs and wants.
There are varieties of customers:
• Male Customers
• Female Customers
• Infant Customers
• Teenage Customers
• Old Customers, etc
• Religion
• Location
• Personality
SELLER / MARKETEER
It can be a person or an organization that makes products and services available and offer
them to the customers with an intention of satisfying their needs and wants. Marketeer’s
success lies in his ability to elicit a response (favourable) from the customers. A seller is
successful when customers respond favourably by buying the products and services
offered by him for sale to customers. E.g. McDonalds or Titan are marketeers as they try
to satisfy the customer’s varied needs. If customer is a seeker of satisfaction then
marketer is a deliverer of satisfaction.
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MARKETING
Traditionally marketing has been defined as “Marketing includes all activities that direct
the flow of goods and services from the producers to the customers”.This definition is
product oriented as it doesn’t consider the needs of customers. It emphasizes sale of
goods produced by producers. The modern definition of marketing is based on the
philosophy that “Satisfaction of customers is the basic purpose of business”. As per
‘Cundiff & Still’,”Marketing is the business process by which products are matched with
the markets and through which transfers of ownership are affected.
Marketing is a wide term as it covers all activities concerned with identifying and
satisfying the needs and wants of customers.
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PRODUCTION CONCEPT
Some firms believe that potential exchange would be realized when the products are
inexpensive and are widely available.Thus,the firms following the production concept
focus on lowering the cost pf production by means of mass production and distribution.
But, there is an important drawback here. There are certain customers who don’t always
buy products that are inexpensive and widely available.
PRODUCT CONCEPT
It proposes that the way to realize business goals lies in making high quality products.
The firms that follow this concept, direct their efforts into making superior products. It’s
true that customers want to buy high quality products, but only when they need them.
E.g. a customer whoa has black hair would not like to buy a hair dye even if it is of high
quality.
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SELLING CONCEPT
It is based on adoption of aggressive selling and promotional efforts due to customer
buying inertia and resistence.The assumption is that customer, if felt alone, would not
buy enough of the firm’s product. The firm must push its products through aggressive
selling and promotional efforts. The selling concept can be summed up in the statement,
“selling what you have”. Thus, the focus here is on pushing products on to customers by
hook or by crook. Selling can succeed in the short run but not in the long run.
MARKETING CONCEPT
The modern definition says that, “satisfaction of customers is the basic purpose for
business”. As per Cundiff & Still,” marketing is the business process by which products
are matched with the market and through which transfers of ownership are affected.
Marketing driven firms keep a constant eye on the customers to keep a track of
changes that may take place and influence the customer needs. This is called
Customer Orientation.
But, simply selling what customers want may not be sufficient as another powerful
force in any market is competition. The firms need to be better that the competitors
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in satisfying customers. Maintaining constant vigil on competitors’ strategies is
called Competitor Orientation.
The critics of marketing concept argue that blindly following the goal of identifying and
satisfying customers’ needs has led to social and environmental problems such as:
• Pollution
• Ecological Imbalance
• Wastage of Natural Resources
• Drug Abuse
• Extinction of many species
MARKETING MANAGEMENT
1. CREATION OF DEMAND
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Marketing tries to create demand through various means. There is a conscious attempt
to find out what customers want. The producers first ascertain or determine:
• what customers want
• produce goods as per needs of customers
Demand is also created by informing the customers about the utility of various goods
and services.
2. MARKET SHARE
Every business aims at increasing its market share i.e. ratio of its sales to the total
sales. To survive in a competitive world, every business concern tries to capture a
reasonable share in the market. The demands of customers with regard to reasonable
price and quality are kept in mind. Various promotional methods are used to make the
goods and services popular. These activities enable a firm to capture a reasonable
share in the market.
3. GOODWILL
Marketing helps a firm to build goodwill in the market over a period of time. By
selling quality products at reasonable prices a firm tries to earn a name for itself and
build a position in the market. The marketing manager attempts to raise the goodwill
of the firm through various business activities like:
• Sales Promotion
• Publicity and Administration
• High Quality
• Reasonable Price
• Convenient Distribution Outlets, etc
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FUNCTIONS OF MARKETING
1. MARKETING RESEARCH
2. PRODUCT PLANNING
The design, quality, size, colour and other features of the product can be determined
by marketing. The marketeer must take all these decisions judiciously so that
customer needs are satisfied. E.g. BPL TVs available in market are an outcome of a
series of decisions taken by the marketeer.
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3. BUYING AND ASSEMBLING
A firm procures inputs from the environment and processes them and sends them
back to environment in terms of finished products.E.g. A firm like Maruti Udyog
obtains raw materials like steel, wires, screws, etc. from various sources/vendors
which are assembled in the form of a complete product i.e. a car.
Buying is one of the important functions that a marketeer needs to perform. Different
types of raw materials are purchased that, later on, transform into finished products.
An assembly line depicts the order of operations employed to assemble various parts
to give final shape to the product.
4. PACKAGING
5. TRANSPORTATION
Transport plays a significant role in the economic, social, and political development
of our country. Rapid industrialization and exchange of goods and services cannot
take place unless sufficient facilities of transportation are available.
It is with the help of means of transport that raw materials are transported from place
of production to industrial centers where they are converted into finished goods.
It is transportation that facilitates movement of goods from produces to ultimate
consumer. Transportation helps to create time utility in goods and services as speedy
transport minimizes the time consumed in their transit.
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There is invariably a time lag between production and consumption. To bridge up
this time lag goods need to be stored in the warehouses so that the exposure of goods
to the various risks is minimized. (theft, fire, weather, moisture, rust, insects, etc.)
Warehouses help to meet the unexpected demand throughout the year. They create
time utility.
Once the goods are produced, the marketeer offers them to the potential customers
for the purchase. It requires performance of two important functions:
• PROMOTION
It includes all those activities that are undertaken to inform the prospects
Of the product, its qualities, its availability, its price, etc.
• SELLING
The ownership of goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer. By
selling, the marketeer earns revenue.
P-lace Mix
P-romotion Mix
P-roduct Mix
P-rice Mix
Marketing Mix refers to the ingredients or tools or variables which the marketeer mixes
in order to interact with a particular market.
It is used to describe the combination of 4 inputs that constitute the core of company’s
marketing system i.e. product, price, promotional activities, distribution system.
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As per McCarthy, Marketing Mix is a combination of 4 Ps.
PRODUCT
As per Philip Kotler,” a product is anything that can be offered to a market for attention,
acquisition, use or consumption. It includes a variety of products like:
PRODUCT MIX
The total number of products and items that a particular marketeer offers to the market is
called Product Mix or Product Assortment. It involves planning, developing, producing
the right type of products and services for the customers. It consists of product lines e.g.
product mix of ITC consists of product lines like hotels (Welcome group), cigarettes
(Wills), readymade garments (Wills Sport), groceries (Aashirwad), etc.
COMPONENTS OF PRODUCT MIX
1. PRODUCT LINE
It refers to group of products within a product class that are closely related due to their
similarity in terms of functions performed or buyer group.e.g. detergent line, car line,
soap lone, etc.
2. MIXED WIDTH
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It refers to the total number of product lines the company operates. Some companies have
narrow width like Maruti carries only 1 product line while some have multiple product
lines. E.g. Hindustan Lever has soap line, detergent line, shampoo line, toothpaste line,
etc.
3. LINE LENGTH
It refers to the number of product items carried in a line e.g. HLL carries number of lines
in the soap line-Lux, Rexona, Liril, Lifebuoy, Hamam, etc.
4. DEPTH
It refers to the number of variants offered of each product in the line. E.g. Lux soap
comes in different sizes, fragrances, etc
5. MIXED CONSISTENCY
This implies how closely the products are related. The closeness can be seen on the
parameters like production, consumers, distribution or needs.
BRANDING
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promises to satisfy them consistently. Branding helps to give distinct individuality to a
product.
• Individual Branding
• Blanket Family Branding
• Separate Family Brand Name
• Company Name combined with Individual Name
3. Suggestive brand names are better as they work as silent salesmen. They convey
product benefits.
Package means a case, container or a wrapper for packing goods. It can be made of
metals, paper, glass or cloth.
In other words, it is a set of activities that are concerned with the design and
production of an appropriate container for the product. It is an important marketing
tool capable of performing variety of functions like protection, identification,
convenience, promotion and innovation.
FUNCTIONS OF PACKAGING
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1. PROTECTION
Appropriate packaging saves the product from moisture, breakage due to handling,
spoilage due to insects, etc.
2. IDENTIFICATION
3. CONVINIENCE
Packaged goods are very easy to handle It is a must for majority of goods like oil,
salt, butter, wheat, etc. It helps middlemen to store goods.
4. PROMOTION
5. INNOVATION
LABELLING
It means putting identification marks on the package. It is that part of product that
contains information about the producers, brand, grade, etc. of the product.
In general, label provides:
• Name of product
• Name and addresses of manufacturers
• Ingredients
• Directions and use
• Maximum retail price
• Manufacturing and expiry dates, etc
FUNCTIONS OF LABELLING
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1. Label contains the essential information about the product.
3. It enables the producer to give brief instructions to the traders and consumers with
regard to the handling of the product.
4. It helps to highlight the price of the item so that retailers are not able to charge
higher prices.
5. It is used by producers to seal the package to ensure that consumers get genuine
products.
6. Labels of different colours can be used to suggest different grades of the product.
TRADEMARK
FEATURES/QUALITIES OF A TRADEMARK
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PRICE MIX
The decisions related to pricing of a product or service is called Price Mix. It involves
determining the price of a product and establishing policies regarding cash, trade and
cash discount, credit sales.
Companies with the objective of profit maximization fix the price at a higher level to
achieve a specific level of profit. Whereas, some firms follow sales oriented goals. they
adopt a pricing policy that falls in line with their competitors.
2. COST
It is important that the price should recover all costs (fixed and variable).The price must
be able to recover the total cost but sometimes, a product maybe priced below the cost.
Usually the price should be able to recover at least variable cost if not full as fixed cost
tends to be sunk.
3. COMPETITION
When a firm does not face any competition it can enjoy full freedom in fixing its price
i.e. firm becomes ‘price maker’. On the other hand, if there are lots of competitors selling
similar products, the pricing freedom is limited to an extent. Its price must fall in line
with the competitors.
4. CUSTOMER DEMAND
Price elasticity refers to the responsiveness of demand to the changes in price. If the
demand of the product is elastic then slight alteration in the price alters the demand to a
great extent. In elastic demand seller can earn large revenue by decreasing the price. On
the contrary, in inelastic demand, the seller can charge higher price without much loss of
demand.
PRICING STRATEGIES
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It means using high introductory price to skim the ‘cream’. When a marketeer
introduces a new high-tech product, he prices it at a higher level. Innovators use this
strategy to enable them to recoup their R&D expenditure within a short time period.
Following conditions need to be fulfilled before skimming:
• The product should have inelastic demand so that the buyer is able to pay a
higher price for its novelty.
• There should be market segment that valued a high price.
• The marketeer should be able to maintain uniqueness of the product.
It means lower initial price to capture a large market share. A market penetrator
aggressively pushes the product with low price and captures a large part of the market
so that only a small part is left for its competitors.
Supportive conditions for penetration policy:
PLACE MIX
It refers to a set of decisions that need to be taken to make the products available to
the customers for purchase and consumption.
Making the products available to the customer requires:
They refer to the path taken by the goods in their movement to the customers. There
are series of firms or individuals like company agents, wholesalers, dealers, retailers
that help in the transfer of goods from producer to the ultimate consumer.
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It refers to physical handling and movement of goods from place of production to
consumption. It is used synonymously with logistics management. Logistics means
activities and decisions concerned with efficient physical movement of goods or
services from producer to customer.
CHANNEL LEVELS
1. ZERO-LEVEL CHANNEL
P-------C
Zero- level/Direct
E.g. Bata sells shoes directly to customers through its own network.
2. ONE-LEVEL CHANNEL
In this case one intermediary is used in between the producer and the customer. This
is suitable for specialty goods like expensive watches, electrical equipments, etc.
P-----A-----C
One –level
3. TWO-LEVEL CHANNEL
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In this case, two intermediaries are used in between the producer and the customer.
The manufacturer directly deals with the wholesaler and sells to him in bulk, who in
turn sells to a large number of retailers in smaller quantities. It is suitable for
convenience goods.
P-----W-----R-----C
Two-level
E.g. soaps, sugar, coffee, creams, etc are available at various shops.
4. THREE-LEVEL CHANNEL
In this case, one additional agent is added to two-level channel. It is usually done
when the producer cannot directly approach the wholesaler. Thus, the agent acts as a
linking pin between the producer and the wholesaler. It is suitable when the wide
market is to be reached and the producer carries limited product line.
P-----A-----W-----R-----C
Three-level
T- Transport
I- Inventory
W- Warehousing
O- Order Processing
1. TRANSPORT
Physical distribution of goods needs transport. It adds value to the goods by moving
them to the place where they are required.
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E.g. Fruits like apples are transported from villages in Kashmir to urban cities where
their value is much more than where they are grown. But, transport involves cost,
therefore value addition by transportation is greater than the cost of transportation.
2. INVENTORY
Inventories need to be maintained as they ensure product availability as and when
customer demand rises. It prevents out of stock situations. But, it involves cost, i.e.
cost of capital blocked in the stock. Customer service demands higher inventory level
but cost angle demands minimum inventory level, therefore, a firm must weigh
benefits of maintaining inventory against the cost and as per deciding optimum
inventory level.
3. WAREHOUSING
Production is a continuous process and often what is produced is not consumed
immediately. Therefore, every form needs to store finished goods in warehouses until
they are sold in the market. Hence, the marketeer needs to take decisions about
warehousing. Customer service demands many stocking locations, but, it would
enhance cost, therefore a firm must weigh benefits against the cost and decide the
number of locations of warehouses.
4. ORDER PROCESSING
The order cycle involves steps like:
There is a direct connection between the speed with which orders are processed and
the customer satisfaction level. Longer it takes in order processing, more discomfort a
customer is put to, therefore, companies are now investing in information technology
based systems so that order processing becomes faster and, but, cost should not be
ignored.
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PROMOTION MIX
It is concerned with activities undertaken to communicate with both customer and the
participants in the channel of distribution so that sales goals are achieved.
Promotion mix aims at informing and persuading the actual customers and potential
customers about the merits/special features of a product so that demand for a product and
sales enhances.
1. ADVERTISING
2. PUBLICITY
4. PERSONAL SELLING
It involves face-to-face interaction between the buyer and seller for the purpose of
making a sale. The process of selling involves informing, assisting and persuading the
consumers to buy a product. The sales person helps to
• Ascertain customer needs.
• Identify right product.
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• Communicate product features.
• Buy the product.
The modern personal selling aims at helping customers achieve their goals.
A. PERSONAL INTERACTION
Unlike other tools, personal selling involves face-to-face interaction between buyer
and seller i.e. both the buyer and seller interact on one-to-one basis.
B. TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION
C. BETTER RESPONSE
Personal Selling puts the potential buyer under some obligation to listen and pay
attention.
D. RELATIONSHIP
When the seller and buyer come together, it generally ends up in good relationship
like friendship.
E. FLEXIBLE
Salesmen can clear the doubts and reply to the obligations raised by customers on the
spot.
TYPES OF MEDIA
1. NEWSPAPER
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MERITS
DEMERITS
2. TELEVISION
MERITS
DEMERITS
• It is very expensive.
• Short span of message exposure.
• Message congestion and clutter.
3. MAGAZINE
MERITS
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• The life of magazines tends to be longer.
• The production quality tends to be better.
• Good magazines add credibility to the message.
• Advertisements in magazines have an advantage of repeated exposure.
DEMERITS
4. RADIO
MERITS
DEMERITS
5. OUTDOOR ADVERTISING
MERITS
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DEMERITS
6. INTERNET
MERITS
• It is very interactive.
• It is not expensive.
• Unlimited creativity, messages can be dramatized as per sponsor’s wants.
• Mass coverage.
DEMERITS
DECLARATION
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done with full commitment and it is purely based
on my own understanding and the materials have
not been copied from any published source or
website. In the process of completing the
Project, I have resorted to certain websites,
journals and books in order to make it more
practical.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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Above all I thank the PRINCIPAL , HEAD OF
DEPARTMENT and OUR COMMERCE FACULTY OF
DYAL SINGH COLLEGE, DELHI UNIVERSITY for
supporting and giving me an opportunity to
complete my curriculum project work.
(YAMUNA BHUCHAR)
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