3.0 Marketing Flashcards
What is marketing?
Strategic processes of promoting and selling products or services by understanding customer needs, creating value, effectively communicating with target audience.
What is market research?
Processes of collecting and analysing customer information.
What is a business’ target market?
Specific group of potential customers that business aims to reach and serve with its products and services
Consumers businesses want to sell to
Why is it important to understand target market?
Crucial aspect of marketing strategy, helps focus efforts + resources on potential customers.
What must a business consider when finding a target market?
Consider various demographic, psychographic, behavioural and geographic factors.
Target market:
What are demographic factors?
Characteristics such as age, gender, income level, education, marital status, occupation.
Target market:
What are psychographic factors?
What motivates customers?
Attitudes, values, interests, lifestyles, personality traits
Target market:
What are behavioural factors?
Purchasing behaviours, brand loyalty, usage rate, buying frequency of customers.
e.g will customer always buy from same brands rgardless of price? How often do they buy, how often consume?
What the customer does
Target market:
What are geographic factors?
Factors involving physical locations and regions where market resides.
e.g rural or urban area, hot or cold climate
What is market segmentation?
Dividing up of market into different groups of customers that share similar characteristics.
e.g young people, people that use techology
Why does a business segment the market?
To determine which customers’ needs and preferences likely to be satisfied by product. Become TARGET MARKET.
To determine what needs satisfied by product.
What are the four P’s of marketing?
Product, Price, Place and Promotion
Four P’s of marketing:
What is Product?
Refers to physical product or service being offered to customers.
Involves decisions about features, quality design branding and differentiation.
Business must ensure product meets customer needs and stands out in market.
Four P’s of marketing: Product
What is aim of branding?
Stand out from competitors with distinictive brand name and logo
Four P’s of marketing: Product
What is branding?
Describe
Involves creating a name, design or logo that are recognisable and memorable.
Four P’s of marketing: Product
What is the aim of design?
Features are able to fulfil needs of customers
Four P’s of marketing: Product
What does design involve?
creating and developing product that has features needed to fulfil purpose.
Four P’s of marketing: Product
What are the aims of quality?
Achieves customer’s desired quality and is reliable