5.Marketing Flashcards
Marketing objectives
Sales volume and sales value
Sales growth
Market share
Market size and market growth
Internal factors influencing marketing objectives
Corporate objectives
Finance
Human resources - staff needed etc
External influences on marketing objectives
The market
Technology
Competitors
Ethics and environmental factors
Marketing laws
Predatory pricing is illegal
Trade descriptions act regulates promotion businesses can’t lie what advertised?
In what ways can a market be classified?
Location
Nature of the product
Seasonality
Development level
Product destination
Market Growth formula
Changing market size divided by old market size multiplied by 100
Market share formula
Sales divided by total market size multiplied by 100
Sales growth formula
Change in sales last year divided by sales last year multiplied by 100
What is market mapping?
Compose two features of products or brands such as quality and price
Why is market research done?
Sport opportunities
Help decide what to do next
See if plans are working
But can be expensive and bad
Extrapolation
Give to predict future sales
Trans and sales data from previous years can be continued into the future to forecast future sales. This allows manager to set target.
Confidence intervals
Modern of error for sample results
A confidence level of 95% means you are 95% certain that your confidence in the book contains the value for the population
Can be used to show uncertainty and predict and other figures
Price elasticity of demand
Shows how responsive demand is to change with price
Changing quantity demand divided by changing price percentages
Price elasticity of demand is always negative If it’s greater than one, the product is elastic if it’s less than one, it’s in elastic
Elastic product
Changing demand is greater than changing price
Inelastic product
Changing the amount to less than changing price
Income elasticity of demand
Measure of how responsible demand is to change of income
Percentages changing quantity demented over changing real income
Normal goods are less than one
Luxury goods are more than one
And inferior have a negative income elasticity of demand
Segment of the market
Divide the market into groups of similar characteristic or needs such as age groups and income groups
Target market
The side which market segment to focus on the product and the market appeal to this group