INTRODUCTION
In this new book, written by Iwan Setiawan, Hermawan Kartajaya and Philip Kotler titled Marketing 3.0: Values-Driven Marketing or the human-centric era is the age where consumers will be treated as human beings who are active, anxious, and creative.
They define Marketing 1.0 as a product-centric era, marked with the famous saying of Henry Ford, "Any customers can have a car painted any colour that he wants as long it is black". When it comes to today's information age where consumers are well informed and can compare several value offerings of similar products, then the product value is defined by the consumer. They called it Marketing 2.0 or customer-centric era. Marketing 3.0 thinks about consumers as whole humans with hearts, minds and spirits.
From Ford’s any colour you want, as long as it is black (Marketing 1.0), to Customer is the King (Marketing 2.0); marketing has evolved into a collaborative exercise which is defined as the marketing 3.0.
Marketing 3.0 clearly lays out the authors' key ideas and gives you real-world examples so you can implement Marketing 3.0 practices at your organization. Customers have realized that their purchasing power has a global impact, and they are acting accordingly and talking to each other about the choices they make. Marketing 3.0 explains how you can engage this conversation, position your brand as a positive force in the world, and collaborate successfully with customer-advocates. Marketing 3.0 takes a holistic approach to customers as multidimensional, values-driven people, even as potential collaborators. Marketing 3.0 explores how brands have an impact on issues such as poverty. Socio-cultural change and environmental sustainability. It also looks at how values-driven marketing affects employees, channel partners, and shareholders.