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Business Key Terms - Page 108 Flashcards

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What is the marketing mix?

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The ways businesses target different customer genres, such as price, product, promotion and place

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What is a franchise?

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When a business sells the right for someone to sell their product

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What is an entrepreneur?

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A person who takes calculated risks to start a new business venture

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What is an intrapreneur?

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A person who thinks creatively to improve conditions inside a business

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What is blue skies thinking?

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Deliberately creative thinking to help businesses improve

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What is a supplier?

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A business which sells (or supplies) products to another business

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What is a customer?

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Any person or organisation which buys or is supplied with a product by a business

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What is a consumer?

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The person who ultimately consumes the product

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What are markets?

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Where buyers and sellers meet to exchange goods and services

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What is a survey?

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Research involving asking questions of people or organisations

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What are respondents?

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Thos who provide data for a survey usually by answering questions or a questionnaire or a interview

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What is a focus group?

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In market research, a group of people brought together to discuss a product, brand or issue and to answer questions

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What is qualitative data?

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Information about opinions, judgements and attitudes

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What is quantitive data?

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Data that can be expressed as numbers and statistically analysed

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What is secondary research?

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The process of gathering data that has already been composed (eg. government stats, sales records etc.)

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What is a market segment?

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A part of a market that contains a group of buyers with similar buying habits, such as age or income

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What does price sensitive mean?

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When the price is very important in the decision of the buyer whether or not togged the product

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What is market map?

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A diagram that shows the range of possible positions for two features of a product, such as low to high price and low to high quality

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What is a gap in the market?

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Occurs when no business is currently serving the needs of customers for a particular product

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Brand

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A named product which customers see as being different from other products and which they can associate or identify with

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Brand image

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The idea/impression that customers have in their minds about the brand

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Added value

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The increased worth that a business creates for a product; it is the difference between what a business pays its suppliers and the price that it is able to charge for the product/service

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Unique Selling Point (USP)

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A characteristic of a product that makes it different from other similar products being sold in the market such as design, quality or image

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Franchisee

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A business that agrees to manufacture, distribute or provide a branded product, under licence by a franchisor

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Franchisor

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The business that gives franchisees the right to sell its product, in return for a fixed sum of money or a royalty payment

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Enterprise

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A willingness by an individual or a business to take risks, show initiative and undertake new ventures

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Enterprises

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Another word for businesses

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Risk

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The chance of damage or loss occurring as a result of making a decision

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Goods

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Physical, tangible products like a car, a pair of scissors or a television set

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Services

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Non-physical, intangible products like a taxi journey, haircut or a TV programme

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Thinking creatively

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Coming up with new and unique ideas

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Competitive advantage

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An advantage a business has that enables it to perform better than its rivals in the market and which is both distinctive and defensible

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Deliberate creativity

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The intentional creation of new ideas through recognised and accepted techniques

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Lateral thinking

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Thinking differently to try and find new and unexpected ideas

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Blue skies thinking

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A technique of creative thinking where participants are encouraged to think of as many ideas as possible about an issue or problem

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Invention

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The discovery of new processes and potential new products, typically after a period of research

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Innovation

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The process of bringing a new product to market (transforming an invention into a product that can be sold to customers)

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Patent

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The right of ownership of an invention or process when it is registered with the government

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Copyright

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Legal ownership of material such as books, music and films which prevents these being copied by others

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Trademarks

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The symbol, sign, or other features of a product or business that can be protected in law

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Calculated risk

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The probability of a negative event occurring

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Mindmap

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A diagram that is used to record words and ideas connected to aa central word or idea

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Financial objectives

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Targets expressed in money terms such as making a profit, earning income or building wealth

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Revenues / Sales revenue / Turnover / Sales turnover

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The amount of income received from selling dos or services over a period of time

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Sales volume

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The number of items or products or services sold by a business over a period of time

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Insolvency

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When a business can no longer pay its debts

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Net cash flow

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The receipts of a business minus its payments

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Cumulative cash flow

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The sum of cash that flows into a business over time

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Business plan

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A plan for the development of a business giving forecasts of items such as sales, costs and cash flow

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Share

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A part ownership of a business

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Personal savings

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Money that has been set aside and not spent by individuals and households

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Venture capitalist

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An individual or company that buy shares in what they hope will be a fast growing company, with the long term view of selling the shares at a profit

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Loan

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Borrowing a sum of money which has to be repaid with interest over a period of time

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Security / Collateral

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Assets owned used to guarantee repayments of a loan: if the loaner cannot pay off the loan, they just sell what they used as collateral to pay it off

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Mortgage

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A loan where property is used as collateral

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Dividend

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A share of the profits of a company received by shareholders

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Retained profit

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Profit that is kept back in the business and used to pay for investments within it

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Leasing

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Renting equipment or premises

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Overdraft facility

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Borrowing money from a bank by drawing more money than is actually in the current account. Interest is charged on the amount overdrawn

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Marketing mix

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The combination of factors which help the business to take into account customer needs when selling a product - usually summarised as the 4 Ps (Price, product, promotion, place

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Price

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The amount of money customers have to pay for a product

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Product

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A good or service produced by a business or organisation and made available to customers for consumption

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Promotion

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Communication between the business and the customer, making the customer aware that the product is for sale, telling them or explaining to them what the product is, and persuading them why they need it and therefore why they should buy it

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Place

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The way in which a product is distributed - how it gets from the producer to the consumer

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Companies

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Businesses whose shareholders have limited liability

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Limited liability

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What shareholders of a company are not personally liable for the debts of the company: the most they lose is their investment in the company

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Unlimited liability

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A legal obligation on the owner of a business to settle all debts of the business. In law, there is no distinction between what the business owner owes and owns and what they company owes and owns

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Soe trader / Sole proprietor

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The only owner of the business who has unlimited liability

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Records

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Evidence of what has happened in the past; records could be kept in paper form or in computer files for example

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HMRC

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Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs: The government authorities in the UK responsible for collecting tax

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VAT

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Value Added Tax: A tax on the value of sales: it is paid by businesses to the government

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Income Tax

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A tax on the value of income earned by workers; this includes sole traders who have to pay income tax on their net earnings

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National Insurance Contributions

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A tax on the earnings of workers; Employers’ National Insurance contributions are paid by employers on the wages of their workers; employees and sole traders have to pay NICs on their earnings

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Corporation Tax

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A tax on the profits of limited companies

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Customer service

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The experience that a customer gets when dealing with a business and the extent to which that experience meets and exceeds customer needs and expectations

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Customer satisfaction

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A measure of how much products meet customers’ expectations

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Repeat purchases / Repeat business

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Orders or sales that occur from customers that have bought the product or service in the past

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