1: Definitions Flashcards

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Needs

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States of felt deprivation.

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Marketing

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The process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships in order to capture value from customers in return.

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Wants

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The form human needs take as shaped by culture and individual personality.

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Demands

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Human wants that are backed by buying power.

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Marketing offering

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Some combination of products, services, information or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want.

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Marketing myopia.

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The mistake of paying more attention to the specific products a company offers than to the benefits and experiences produced by those products.

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Exchange

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The act of obtaining a desired objects from someone by offering something in return.

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Marketing management

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The art and science of creating target markets and building profitable relationships with them.

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Production concept

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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.

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Production concept

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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.

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Selling concept

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The idea that consumers will not buy enough of the firms products unless it undertakes a large-scale selling and promotion effort.

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Marketing concept

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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.

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Social marketing concept

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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.

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Customer-perceived value

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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.

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Customer satisfaction

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The extent to which a product’s perceived performance matches a buyers expectation.

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Customer lifetime value

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The value of the entire stream of purchases a customer makes over a lifetime of patronage.

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Share of customer

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The portion of the customer’s purchasing that a company gets in its product categories.

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Customer equity

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The total combined customer lifetime value of all of the company’s customers.

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Strategic planning

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The process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organisation’s goals and capabilities in its changing marketing opportunities.

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Mission statement

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A statement of the organisations purpose - what it wants to accomplish in the larger environment.

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Business portfolio

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The collection of businesses and products that make up the company.

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Portfolio analysis

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The process by which management evaluates the products and businesses that make up the company.

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Growth-share matrix

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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.

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Market penetration

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A strategy for company growth by increasing sales for current products to current market segments without changing the product.

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Market development

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A strategy for company growth by identifying and developing new market segments for current company products.

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Product development

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A strategy for company growth by offering modified or new products to current markets.

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Diversification

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A strategy for company growth through starting up or buying businesses outside of its current products and markets.

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Downsizing

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Reducing the business portfolio by eliminating products of business units that are not profitable or that no longer fit the company’s overall strategy.

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Value chain

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This series of departments that carry out value-creating activities to design, produce, market, deliver and support a firm’s products.

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Marketing strategy

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The marketing logic by which the company hopes to create customer value and achieve profitable relationships.

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Market segmentation

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Dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs, characteristics or behaviours and who might require separate products or marketing programmes.

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Market segment

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A group of consumers who respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing efforts.

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Market targeting

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The process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter.

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Positioning

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Arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target customers.

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Differentiation

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Actually differentiating the market offering to create superior customer value.

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Marketing mix

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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.

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SWOT-analysis

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An overall evaluation of the company’s overall strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

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Marketing environment

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The actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customer.

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Microenvironment

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The actors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers - the company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitors and public.

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Macroenvironment

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Th larger societal forces that affect the microenvironment - demographic, economic, ecological, technological, political and cultural forces.

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Customer relationship management (CRM)

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Managing detailed information about individual customers and carefully managing customer ‘touch points’ to maximise customer loyalty.

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Consumer buyer behaviour

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The buying behaviour of final customers - individuals and households that buy goods and services for personal consumption.

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Consumer market

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All individuals and households who buy or acquire goods and services for personal consumption.

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Subculture

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A group of people with shared value systems based on common life experiences and situations.

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Social grade

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Relatively permanent and ordered divisions in a society whose members share similar values, interests and behaviours.

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Opinion leader

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Person within a reference group who, because of special skills, knowledge, personality or other characteristics, exerts social influence on others.

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Brand personality

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The specific mix of human traits that may be attributed to a particular brand.

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Motive (drive)

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A need that is sufficiently pressing to direct the person to seek to satisfy it.

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Perception

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The process by which people select, organise and interpret information to form a meaningful picture of the world.

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Complex buying behaviour

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Consumer buying behaviour in situations characterised by high involvement in a purchase and significant perceived differences among brands.

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Dissonance-reducing buying behaviour

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Consumer buying behaviour in situations characterised by high involvement but few perceived differences among brands.

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Habitual buying behaviour

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Consumer buying behaviour in situations characterised by low consumer involvement and few significantly perceived brand differences.

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Variety-seeking brand behaviour

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Consumer buying behaviour in situations characterised by low consumer involvement but significant perceived brand differences.

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Alternative evaluation

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The stag of the buyer decision process in which the consumer uses information to evaluate alternative brands in the choice set.

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Post-purchase behaviour

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The stage of the buyer decision process in which consumers take further action after purchase, based on their satisfaction o dissatisfaction.

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Cognitive dissonance

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Buyers discomfort caused by post-purchase conflict.

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Adoption process

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The mental process through which an individual passes from first learning about an innovation to final adoption.

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Business buyer behaviour

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The buying behaviour of the organisations that buy goods and services for use in the production of other products and services or to resell or rent them to others at a profit.

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Business buying process

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The decision process by which business buyers determine which products and services their organisations need to purchase.

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Derived demand

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Business demand that ultimately comes from (derives from) the demand for consumer goods.

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Straight rebuy

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A business buying situation in which the buyer routinely reorders something without any modifications.

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Modified rebuy

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A business buying situation in which the buyer wants to modify product specifications, prices, terms and suppliers.

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New-task

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A business buying situation in which the buyer purchases a product or service for the first time.

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Users

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Members of the buying organisation who will use the product or service.

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Influencers

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People in an organisation’s buying centre who affect the buying decision; they often help define specifications and also provide information for evaluating alternatives.

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Buyers

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Members of the buying organisation who make a purchase.

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Deciders

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People in an organisation’s buying centre who have formal or informal power to select or approve the final suppliers.

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Gatekeepers

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People in an organisation’s buying centre who control the flow of information to others.

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Problem recognition

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The first stage of the buying process in which someone in the company recognises a problem or need that can be met by acquiring a good or service.

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General need description

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The stage in the business buying process in which the company describes the characteristics and quantity of the needed item.

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E-procurement

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Purchasing through electronic connections between buyers and sellers - usually online.

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Institutional market

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Schools, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons nod other institutions that provide goods and services to people in their care.

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Government market

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Government units - national, regional and local - that purchase or rent goods and services to carrying out the main functions of government.

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Market segmentation

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Dividing a market into smaller groups with distinct needs, characteristics, or behaviour that might require separate marketing strategies or mixes.

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Market targeting (targeting)

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The process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter.

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Differentiation

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Actually differentiating the market offering to create superior customer values.

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Positioning

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Arranging for a market offering to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers.

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Geographic segmentation

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Dividing a market into different geographical units such as nations, provinces, region, cities or neighbourhoods.

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Demographic segmentation

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Dividing the market into groups based on variables such as age, gender, family size, family life cycle, income, occupation, market area, education, generation and nationality.

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Age and life-cycle segmentation

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Dividing a market into different age and life-cycle groups.

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Gender segmentation

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Dividing a market into different groups based on gender.

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Income segmentation

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Dividing a market into different income groups.

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Psychographic segmentation

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Dividing a market into different groups based on social grade, lifestyle or personality characteristics.

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Behavioural segmentation

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Dividing a market into groups based on consumer knowledge, attitudes, uses or responses to a product.

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Target market

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A set if buyers sharing common needs or characteristics that the company decides to serve.

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Undifferentiated (mass) marketing

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A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to ignore market segment differences and go after in the whole market with one offer.

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Differentiated (segmented) marketing

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A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to target several market segments and designs separate offers for each.

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Product positioning

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The way the product is defined by consumers on important attributes - the place the product occupies in consumers’ minds relative to competing products.

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Competitive advantage

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An advantage over competitors gained by offering greater customer value, either through lower prices or by providing more benefits that justify higher prices.

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Value proposition

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The full positioning of a brand - the full mix of benefits upon which it is positioned.

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Positioning statement

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A statement that summarises company or brand positioning, including target segment and need, brand, concept and point of difference.

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Global firm

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A firm that, by operating in more than one country, gains, marketing, production, R&D and financial advantages that are not available to purely domestic competitors.

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Economic community

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A group of nations organised to work towards common goals in the regulation of international trade.

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Countertrade

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International trade involving the direct or indirect exchange of goods for other goods instead of cash.

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Exporting

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Entering a foreign market by selling goods purchased in the company’s home country, often with little modification.

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Joint venturing

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Entering a foreign market by joining with foreign companies to produce or market a product or services.

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Licensing

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A method of entering a foreign market in which the company enters into an arrangement with a license in the foreign market.

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Contract manufacturing

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A joint venture in which a company contracts with manufacturers in a foreign market to produce its product or provide its service.

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Management contracting

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A joint venture I which the domestic firm supplies management know-how to a foreign company that supplies the capital; the domestic firm exports management services rather than products.

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Joint ownership

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A joint venture In which a company joins investors in a foreign market to create a local business in which they share joint ownership and control.

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Direct investment

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Entering s foreign market by developing foreign-based assembly or manufacturing facilities.

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Standardised global marketing

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An international marking strategy for using basically the same marketing strategy and mix in all the company’s intonational markets.

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Adapted global marketing

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An international marketing strategy for adjusting the marketing strategy and mix elements to each international target market, bearing more costs but hoping for a larger market share and return.

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Sustainable marketing

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Marketing that meets the present needs of costumes and businesses while also preserving and enhancing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

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Consumerism

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A organised movement of citizens and government agencies to improve the rights and power of buyers an relation to sellers.

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Environmentalism

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An organised movement of concerned citizens, businesses and government agencies to protect and improve people’s current and future living environment.

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Environmental sustainability

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A management approach that involves developing strategies that both sustain the environment and produce profits for the company.

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Social marketing

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A principle of sustainable marketing which holds that a company should make marketing decisions by considering consumers’ wants, the company requirements, and consumers’ and society’s long-term interests.