BASICS OF MARKETING

The Marketing Environment

Marketing Environment
All the actors and forces influencing the

companys ability to transact business effectively with its target market.

Includes:
Microenvironment - forces close to the

company that affect its ability to serve its customers. Macroenvironment - larger societal forces that affect the whole microenvironment.

The Marketing Environment

Demographic
Company

Cultural
Publics

Economic Company
Suppliers
Customers

Political

Competitors

Natural

Intermediaries

Technological

The Microenvironment
Company
Publics
Forces Affecting a Companys Ability to Serve Customers

Suppliers

Competitors
Customers

Intermediaries

The Companys Microenvironment

Companys Internal Environment- functional

areas such as top management, finance, and manufacturing, etc. produce goods and services.

Suppliers - provide the resources needed to Marketing Intermediaries - help the company to

promote, sell, and distribute its goods to final buyers.

The Companys Microenvironment

Customers - five types of markets that

purchase a companys goods and services.

Competitors - those who serve a target market

with similar products and services.

Publics - any group that perceives itself

having an interest in a companys ability to achieve its objectives.

Customer Markets

International Markets

Consumer Markets

Company
Government Markets Reseller Markets Business Markets

The Macroenvironment
Demographic Cultural
Forces that Shape Opportunities and Pose Threats to a Company

Economic

Political Technological

Natural

The Companys Macroenvironment

Demographic - monitors population in terms

of age, sex, race, occupation, location and other statistics.

Economic - factors that affect consumer

buying power and patterns.

Natural - natural resources needed as inputs

by marketers or that are affected by marketing activities.

Trends
Changing Age Structure
Population is getting older

Changing Family Structure

Marrying later, fewer children, working women, and nonfamily households

Moving to the Sunbelt and suburbs (MSAs)

Geographic Shifts

Increased Education
Increased college attendance and white-collar workers

Growing Ethnic and Racial Diversity

73% Caucasian, 12% African-American, 10% Hispanic & 3.4% Asian

Economic Environment

Economic Development

Key Economic Concerns for Marketers

Changes in Consumer Spending Patterns

Changes in Income

Environment
More Government Intervention

Higher Pollution Levels

Factors Affecting the Natural Environment

Shortages of Raw Material

Increased Costs of Energy

The Companys Macroenvironment

Technological - forces that create new

product and market opportunities.

Political - laws, agencies and groups that

influence or limit marketing actions.

Cultural - forces that affect a societys basic

values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviors.

Technological Environment
Rapid Pace of Change High R & D Budgets

Issues in the Technological Environment

Focus on Minor Improvements

Increased Regulation

Cultural Environment
Of Oneself Of the Universe Of Nature Views That Express Of Values Organizations Of Society Of Others

Responding to the Marketing Environment

Environmental Management Perspective

Taking a proactive approach to managing the microenvironment and the macroenvironment to affect changes that are favorable for the company. How? Hire lobbyists , run advertorials, file law suits and complaints, and form agreements.

Political Environment

Increased Legislation

Key Trends in the Political Environment

Greater Concern for Ethics

Changing Enforcement

Market Share
The percentage of an industry or market's total sales that is earned by a particular company over a specified time period. Market share is calculated by taking the company's sales over the period and dividing it by the total sales of the industry over the same period.

Market Potential
It is the best possible (or maximum) estimated sales of a given product or service for the entire industry in a given market for a specific period of time.