Ch 14-15 Flashcards
Value
Good quality at a fair price.
What consumers calculate the value of a product, they look at the benefits and then subtract the cost to see if benefits exceed the costs.
Value is foundation of marketing
Distributed product development
Handing off various parts of your innovation process- often to companies overseas.
Total product offer
Or
Value package
Everything that consumers evaluate when deciding whether to buy something.
Product line
A group of products that are physically similar or are intended for a similar market.
Product mix
The combination of product lines offered by a manufacturer.
Product differentiation
The creation of real or perceived product differences.
Convenience goods and services
Products that the consumer wants to purchase frequently and with minimal effort.
Shopping goods and services
These products that the consumer buys only after comparing value, quality, price, and style from a variety of sellers.
Speciality goods and services
Consumer products with unique characteristics and brand identity. Because these products are perceived as having no reasonable substitute, the consumer puts forth a special effort to purchase them.
Unsought goods and services
Products that consumers are unaware of, haven’t necessarily thought of buying, or find that they need to solve an unexpected problem.
Industrial goods
Products used in the production of other products. Sometimes called business goods B2B goods.
Bundling
Grouping two or more products together and pricing then as a unit.
Brand
A name, symbol, or design that identifies the goods or services of sellers and distinguished them from the goods and services of competitors.
Trademark
A brand that has exclusive legal protection for both its brand name and its design.
Manufacturers
The brand names of manufactures that distribute products nationally.
Dealer(private-label) brands
Products that don’t carry the manufacturers name but carry a distributor or retailer’s name instead.
Generic goods
Non branded products that usually sell at a sizable discount compared to national or private label brands.
Knockoff brands
Illegal copies of national brand name goods.
Brand equity
The value of the brand name and associated symbols.
Brand loyalty
The degree to which customers are satisfied, like the brand, and are committed to further purchases.
Brand awareness
How quickly or easily a given brand name comes to mind when a product category is mentioned.
Brand association
The linking of a brand to other favorable images.
Ex: Coke and Santa
Brand manager
A manager who has direct responsibility for one brand or one product line; called a product manager in some firms.
Product screening
A process designed to reduce the number of new product ideas being worked on at any one time.
Product analysis
Making cost estimates and sales forecasts to get a feeling for profitability of new product ideas.
Concept testing
Taking a product idea to consumers to test their reactions.
Commercialization
Promoting a product to distributors and retailers to get wide distribution, and developing string advertising Nd sales to generate and maintain interest in the product amount distributors and consumers.
Product life cycle
A theoretical model of what happens to sales and profits for a product class over time; the four stages of the cycle are introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.
Stages of sales and profit
Introduction
Growth
Maturity
Decline
Target costing
Designing a product so that it satisfies customers and meets the profit margins designed by the firm.