Marketing is not just a function of the company, it is its spirit. He shows us what goods to produce, how much and until what date; what services to provide; what price level to practice, what discounts to offer; where and when to advertise, what to communicate to our clients and how to do it. Marketing is the engine that leads the company to success.
In the current period, more and more companies are forced to radically redefine their objectives and strategies for action on the market. From where, previously, they operated in the conditions of a competition and stable or well-known clients, nowadays the companies operate in a dynamic environment, on which the technological progress has left its mark significantly, in which rapid changes take place at the level of the competition. a continuous decrease in customer loyalty and the emergence of new regulations.
The most successful companies are those that manage to offer customers the expected satisfaction, understanding marketing not as a separate function, but as a philosophy to be mastered throughout the organization. What is required of the marketing department is to identify the consumer segments, the desires, preferences and aspirations that the company can profitably satisfy, as well as the ways in which they can be achieved with higher efficiency compared to other competitors.
A successful company must be considered a system designed to ensure the development of internal business processes and not just a set of compartments. It must create a culture in which all employees gain awareness of the market and the product.
As a discipline, marketing reviews its premises, concepts, methodology and operating systems in order to make the most appropriate decisions in business. Those who work in this field must know when to choose to approach a market in a global sense or only for a segment of it, when to launch new products or just to expand the range of existing ones, when to encourage and when to stop distributing a product. , when to diversify the advantages of the offer or to reduce the price, when to increase or reduce the budget for sales, advertising or other elements specific to the marketing activity.
This book was built according to such coordinates and tries to answer questions that may be of concern to students, researchers, workers in the field or other categories of specialists.
The creation of this book is the result of several years of study and documentation in the country, but also in universities in France, Italy and Switzerland. In this way I would like to address my thanks to the team of professors from the Marketing Department within the Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest for the permanent encouragement and support given in carrying out this work.
The Author