Chapter 1
Overview of Marketing
Tools For Instructors
Brief Chapter Outline
Learning Objectives
Extended Chapter Outline with Teaching Tips
PowerPoint Slides with Teaching Notes
Additional Teaching Tips
Brief Chapter Outline
What Is Marketing?
Summing Up
Learning Objectives
LO 1-1 Define the role of marketing in organizations.
Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, capturing,
communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients,
Better marketers are not concerned about just one transaction with their customers. They
recognize the value of loyal customers and strive to develop long-term relationships with them.
LO 1-2 Describe how marketers create value for a product or service.
Value represents the relationship of benefits to costs. Firms can improve their value by increasing
benefits, reducing costs, or both. The best firms integrate a value orientation into everything they
the supply chain, so the entire chain collectively can focus on the customer. The key to true