6. The Finance Function's Relationships with Sales and Marketing Flashcards
What is marketing?
The management process responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably
What is a marketing orientation?
The emphasis on meeting customer needs
What are the 6 steps in implementing a strategic marketing plan?
- Identify the organisation’s objectives
- Carry out a PESTEL of the environment
- Carry out an internal SWOT analysis
- Set out the marketing objectives
- Implement the plan
- Review regularly
What is the macro environment?
That which can affect the organisation but is outside its control
What is the micro environment?
That which can affect the organisation, and the organisation can influence it
What is the internal environment?
All internal factors that are potentially controllable
What are the 6 elements of PESTEL?
Political Economic Social Technological Environmental Legal
What are the 4 Ps of the marketing mix?
Product
Place (distribution)
Price
Promotion
What are the 3 types of distribution channels? (part of Place)
- Zero level (direct)
- One level (manufacturer, retailer and customer)
- Two level channel (several intermediaries)
What are the 8 possible pricing strategies?
- Loss leaders (low to attract)
- Penetration pricing (stimulate growth in share)
- Discounts
- Price skimming (high for early adopters)
- Selective pricing (reflect demand)
- Psychological pricing (e.g. £2.99 vs £3)
- Predatory pricing (damage competition)
- Dynamic pricing (real time data changes)
What are the 4 elements of the promotion mix?
- Advertising
- Personal selling
- Sales promotion
- Publicity campaigns
What is push marketing?
Promoting products by pushing them on to people
What is pull marketing?
Attempting to create brand loyalty and drawing customers to the products (e.g. mass media and word of mouth)
In what respects do services differ from product delivery? (4)
- Intangibility
- Immediate consumption
- Inventory management
- Involvement of the consumer
What are the additional 3 Ps of a service industry?
- People (increase heterogeneity)
- Processes
- Physical evidence (feel of the place and tangible element to non tangible service)
What are the 3 main considerations to make when forming the marketing mix?
- Seasonal products
- Difference between customer and end consumer
- Changing mix as the environment evolves
What is market research?
The process of gathering, recording, analysing and reporting data and information relating to the company’s market, customers and competitors