Gibbs and the Problems of Satisfaction and Well-Being

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Marketing ethics Philippe MIGNEN “Gibbs and the problems of satisfaction and well-being” “Response to Gibbs and the problems of satisfaction and well-being” “The articles you had to read before the class reflect very different positions concerning the need for and the possibility of ethics in marketing. Which one of the two opinions expressed by the authors would you support and for what reason(s)?” The ethical aspect of Marketing seems completely obvious to me, and even if the practical application of what Paul Gibbs said is objectionable, I agree with his ideas. First of all, marketing tends to facilitate exchanges in the economic market. Like Kotler said, marketing should ideally result in a customer who is ready to buy. But such an influence implies expectations in customers’ minds. In a way, Marketing is playing with clients, catching their needs and trying to position a product in the highest-profitability way to fulfill these needs. Marketing is in this metacognition process, initiated by marketing teams, who tends to evaluate what would customers be ready to sacrifice in order to satisfy a need. Thus, marketers are responsible for the impact purchasing a product could have on people’s lives. Moreover, we have seen that marketing aims at taking new markets shares but also keeping its past ones. Thus, the particular emotion caused by marketers to customers must necessarily be related with their well-being. Indeed, Gibbs first made confusion between satisfaction and well-being. But it seems to me that he wanted to say that a firm’s activity could only be sustainable by provoking the well-being of people. What I mean is that each competitor of a same market tends to satisfy people’s needs. A marketing plan which enables this satisfaction is necessary, but it’s not enough. You need to differentiate your offer; it’s one of the main principles of Marketing. Thus

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