bsm 100 final Flashcards
What is a market?
potential customers who have the willingness and resources to buy a product
What is marketing?
A way to build a relationship between a customer and a product
What is every business goal?
long term profits
Timeline of the evolution of marketing
- production era
- sales era
- marketing concept era
- marketing orientation era
- social media marketing era
marketing strategy definition
where are you going and how will you get there?
marketing plan definition
who is your audience and how will you reach them?
STP Plan (Marketing)
segmentation, targeting, positioning
Consumer Markets (B2C)
products for personal consumption
Business Markets (B2B)
products used to produce other products
B2C Segmentation
GooDPUB:
geography, demographic, psychological, usage, benefits desires
B2B Segmentation
- geographic
- customer
- size/type
- product use
- needs buying situation
4 P’s of Marketing
product, price, place, promotion
B2C Target Market Considerations
size, affordability, profitability, accessibility, limited competition
Product life cycle definition
evolution of sales and profits of a category of products
product life cycle negatives
- is a theoretical model so the predictive power is limited
- decision making can be flawed if the model is flaws
Product life cycle positives
reliable, provides information about the market, decision making is based on market data
Four stages of the product life cycle
- introduction
- growth
- maturity
- decline
What comes before the first stage of the product life cycle
development and research
Product adoption life cycle definition
customers self-segregate based on level of risk aversion. follows the product life cycle
5 communities of production adoption life cycle
- innovators (risk-immune)
- early adopters
- early majority
- late majority
- laggards (risk-averse)
who is apart of the early market
innovators and early adopters
who is apart of the mainstream market
early and late majority
what is cost-based pricing based on
profit margin desired
what is value pricing based on
value perception of customers
what is competition based pricing based on
price competitors or alternatives
what is the skimming prices strategy
prices a new product high in order to recover research and development costs and make as much profit while there is little competition