1: Definitions Flashcards
Needs
States of felt deprivation.
Marketing
The process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships in order to capture value from customers in return.
Wants
The form human needs take as shaped by culture and individual personality.
Demands
Human wants that are backed by buying power.
Marketing offering
Some combination of products, services, information or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want.
Marketing myopia.
The mistake of paying more attention to the specific products a company offers than to the benefits and experiences produced by those products.
Exchange
The act of obtaining a desired objects from someone by offering something in return.
Marketing management
The art and science of creating target markets and building profitable relationships with them.
Production concept
The idea that consumers will favour products that are available and highly affordable and that the organisation should therefore focus on improving production and distribution efficiency.
Production concept
The idea that consumers will favour products that offer the most quality, performance and features and that the organisation should therefore devote its energy to making continuous product improvements.
Selling concept
The idea that consumers will not buy enough of the firms products unless it undertakes a large-scale selling and promotion effort.
Marketing concept
The marketing management philosophy holds that achieving organisational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of target markets in delivering the desired satisfaction better than competitors do.
Social marketing concept
The idea that a company’s marketing decisions should consider consumers wants, the company’s requirements, consumers long-term interest and society’s long-term interest.
Customer-perceived value
The customer’s evaluation of the difference between all the benefits and all the costs of a marketing offer relatives to those of competing offers.
Customer satisfaction
The extent to which a product’s perceived performance matches a buyers expectation.
Customer lifetime value
The value of the entire stream of purchases a customer makes over a lifetime of patronage.
Share of customer
The portion of the customer’s purchasing that a company gets in its product categories.
Customer equity
The total combined customer lifetime value of all of the company’s customers.
Strategic planning
The process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organisation’s goals and capabilities in its changing marketing opportunities.
Mission statement
A statement of the organisations purpose - what it wants to accomplish in the larger environment.
Business portfolio
The collection of businesses and products that make up the company.
Portfolio analysis
The process by which management evaluates the products and businesses that make up the company.
Growth-share matrix
A portfolio-planning method that evaluates a company’s strategic business units in terms of its market growth rate and relative market share. SBUs are classified as stars, cash cows, question marks or dogs.
Market penetration
A strategy for company growth by increasing sales for current products to current market segments without changing the product.
Market development
A strategy for company growth by identifying and developing new market segments for current company products.
Product development
A strategy for company growth by offering modified or new products to current markets.
Diversification
A strategy for company growth through starting up or buying businesses outside of its current products and markets.
Downsizing
Reducing the business portfolio by eliminating products of business units that are not profitable or that no longer fit the company’s overall strategy.
Value chain
This series of departments that carry out value-creating activities to design, produce, market, deliver and support a firm’s products.
Marketing strategy
The marketing logic by which the company hopes to create customer value and achieve profitable relationships.
Market segmentation
Dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs, characteristics or behaviours and who might require separate products or marketing programmes.
Market segment
A group of consumers who respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing efforts.
Market targeting
The process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter.
Positioning
Arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target customers.
Differentiation
Actually differentiating the market offering to create superior customer value.
Marketing mix
The set of controllable tactical marketing tools - price, product, place and promotion - that the firm blends to produce the response it wants in the target market.
SWOT-analysis
An overall evaluation of the company’s overall strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Marketing environment
The actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customer.
Microenvironment
The actors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers - the company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitors and public.
Macroenvironment
Th larger societal forces that affect the microenvironment - demographic, economic, ecological, technological, political and cultural forces.
Customer relationship management (CRM)
Managing detailed information about individual customers and carefully managing customer ‘touch points’ to maximise customer loyalty.
Consumer buyer behaviour
The buying behaviour of final customers - individuals and households that buy goods and services for personal consumption.
Consumer market
All individuals and households who buy or acquire goods and services for personal consumption.