In this article author talks about Cause based Marketing, Its evolution and factors involved in its growth. Since donation of a penny for every card transaction to restoration project of Statue of Liberty. This type of marketing soon became a trend and caught many eyes non profit organisations had ample opportunity to raise funds and marketers seek it as an opportunity to grow their businesses. Companies projected it as a social responsibility and made benefits from the same. Since, its introduction Cause marketing has been subject of debate as it has both pros and cons. The methods and strategies of cause marketing evolved and popularised.
Cause Marketing is described as the partnerships created among companies and causes(NGOs or Fundraiser),
resulting in purchase of a product that support of a charity or cause They are designed to build a relationship between a brand and a social cause and resulting in a purchase of a product. This paper reviews academic and industry literature on cause-marketing and is an effort to find the current attitudes towards the Cause marketing practices, its impact on consumers, Corporate and causes for which they have partnered a fund raiser or NGO. Cause Marketing encourages consumers to give money only if they get something in return and also encourages that through consumption, consumers can change the world. With the consistently increasing and widespread approval from consumers, The promises made by cause marketing seems way to be realized. The charities involved get, cause-marketing offers get number of benefits. Not only are funds raised for a cause and public awareness, but as well as public interest and consumers involvement in the cause, are also increased. New opportunities of cause-marketing lie in targeting a somewhat overlooked men's. As there's been a saturation in targeting women and mothers since they are known to be a soft target. Also, social media is emerging as new target for cause marketing. Cause-marketing has been promising ,but there are serious issues that presents obstacles or may cause setbacks. Consumers became more cause-marketing savvy and are likely to demand more transparency in regards of the efforts of cause marketing campaigns and there reality, and social media has increased use of cause-marketing, consumer surveillance over cause marketing campaigns may intensify. Consumers , now expect companies to support causes, Cons enthusiasm has matured into demands for transparency, accountability and proof of impact These demands show no signs of abating in the near future.
Nonprofit and for-profit businesses have multiple similarities and differences. For-profit organizations are very different from non-profit organizations because the driving goal of a for-profit organization is increasing its revenue whereas a non-profit organization will not go out of business if it suffers financial loss or does not have a bottom-line. The marketing process also differs, with the biggest differentiating factor of profit marketing is to encourage customers to buy and while the nonprofit marketing purpose is usually to encourage people to give. This means that the return on investment differs between the two. Although the principles of marketing remain the same, some of the methods must, of necessity, be different. Because of the intense involvement in the community as well as support from government, agencies non-profit firms should not compete in the same markets as for profit companies nor in anyway position their organization in any way to give the impression that their efforts could be commercial based (Nelson, 2002).
According to the author, Social Marketing can be defined as a process involving the design, implementation and control of social change programs aimed at increasing the acceptability of a social idea in one or more groups of target adopters as well as bringing about the desired behavioural change. Even if the idea that is being marketed is accepted, social marketing is not successful till it is able to induce an action in the individual as well. Andreasen believes that social marketing is unique because it:
Marketing has earned its place in the not-for-profit world. But marketing and development are not the same. Marketing is about exchanging goods and services for money. Development is about relationships — it is not about money.
Gupta, K 2010, Innovative marketing strategy balancing commercial goal and corporate social responsibility. Mumbai [India: Himalaya Pub. House.
It discusses broadening the concept of marketing and new approach to marketing, which emphasises on social and relationship marketing. Then, the government/public sector has been introduced and it proceeds with whether traditional marketing principles can be applied to the marketing of organisations in this sector. It concentrates on issues of relevance-how marketing mix fits to it, what are the benefits and constraints. 1.1 The Marketing Concept and the Marketing Mix: Before proceeding further, it is essential to define what marketing is: Kotler (1991) defines marketing as “a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they want and need through creating, offering, and exchanging products of value with others.
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