Customer Relationship Mangement
Chapter 3
The Marketing
Marketing
Environment
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Learning Objectives
Understand environmental actors and forces
Learn how demographic and economic factors affect marketing
Identify trends in the firm’s natural and technological environments
Explore key changes in political and cultural environments Realize how companies react to the marketing environment
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The Marketing Environment
The actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management’s marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers
Marketing
Environment
Larger societal forces The actors close to the company
Macroenvironment
Microenvironment
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The Marketing Environment
Demographic
Company
Economic
Cultural
Publics
Company
Competitors
Political
Suppliers
Customers
Intermediaries
Natural
Technological
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The Company’s Microenvironment
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Actors
The company
Suppliers
Marketing intermediaries intermediaries
Customers
Competitors
Publics
Marketing must consider must consider other parts of the organization including top management, finance, R&D, purchasing, operations and accounting
Marketing decisions must relate to broader company goals and strategies 5
The Company’s Microenvironment
(2)
Actors
Actors
The company
Suppliers
Marketing intermediaries intermediaries
Customers
Competitors
Publics
Provide resources needed to produce goods and services
Marketers must watch supply availability and pricing Effective partnership partnership relationship management with suppliers is essential
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