Marketing Essentials
Essentials of Marketing
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Holistic marketing takes into account the considerations of stakeholders, customers, employees, suppliers, and the community as a whole when creating and implementing marketing strategies. Although strategies for implementation differ from one company to the next, every holistic marketing approach includes four main components: relationship marketing, integrated marketing, internal marketing, and societal marketing.
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Market segmentation is the practice of dividing consumers into groups based on shared needs, desires, and preferences. Using these categories, a business can adjust its product lines and marketing techniques to appeal to each group more effectively by addressing their specific needs. Numerous types of businesses use market segmentation to optimize their ability to sell to a wide variety of consumers, including skincare, haircare, and beauty product manufacturers, car companies, clothing and apparel suppliers, banks and other financial institutions, as well as television networks and media outlets.
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Coupons can drive customers to your business and introduce new customers to your store, as well as help introduce new product lines and encourage customers to try a more profitable brand or service. Coupons can also help attract existing customers to come back to your store. The biggest con of using coupons is that they cost businesses money and may lead to lower profit for that sale. Another drawback is when existing customers wait for coupons, cannibalizing existing revenue before the coupon program.
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The most successful advertising campaigns solidify a new catchphrase and become a point of cultural reference. They also manage to tie the products being sold to a catchy slogan and persuade you to buy the product being advertised. Successful ad campaigns include Nike’s “Just do it,” or “Got Milk?” Having these campaigns permeate everyday conversation and live on in cultural references is the ultimate goal of marketers when they develop their advertising campaigns.
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Creating a positive brand image through marketing efforts is vital to a business's success. A brand is much more than a familiar name or logo that identifies a business, product, or service and is presented through traditional advertising strategies. A brand encompasses the consumer's complete experience with both the product and the company and the mix of associations that develop as a result of these interactions. The most effective way for a company to increase its market share is to create an integrated strategy for marketing and branding and, in so doing, provide consumers with a unified and seamless way to interact with the brand.
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Key Terms
- Marketing
Marketing refers to all activities a company does to promote and sell products or services to consumers. Marketing makes use of the "marketing mix," also known as the four Ps—product, price, place, and promotion. At its core, marketing seeks to take a product or service, identify its ideal customers, and draw the customers' attention to the product or service available.
- Brand
A brand is an intangible marketing or business concept that helps people identify a company, product, or individual. Brands are considered to be among a company's most important and valuable assets. Types of brands include corporate, personal, product, and service brands. People often confuse brands with things like logos, slogans, or other recognizable marks, which are marketing tools that help promote goods and services.
- Digital Marketing
Digital marketing involves marketing to consumers through any number of digital channels. This form of marketing is commonly executed on websites, mobile devices, and social media platforms. Digital marketing is a broad field, including attracting customers via email, content marketing, search platforms, social media, and more.
- Data Mining
Data mining is the process of analyzing a large batch of information to discern trends and patterns. Data mining programs break down patterns and connections in data based on what information users request or provide. Data mining can be used by corporations for everything from learning about what customers are interested in or want to buy to fraud detection and spam filtering. This use of data mining has come under criticism lately s users are often unaware of the data mining happening with their personal information.
- Merchandising
Merchandising refers to the marketing and sales of products. Merchandising is most often synonymous with retail sales, where businesses sell products to consumers. Categories of merchandising include product, visual, retail, digital, and omnichannel.
- Brand Loyalty
Brand loyalty is demonstrated by repeat purchases of a product even when the consumer has choices of competing alternatives. Brand loyal customers commit to a brand without respect to price. Marketing campaigns are designed to nurture brand loyalty. Brand loyalty can evaporate when consumer trends change, but the product doesn't.
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