CHAPTER 1 Flashcards
are movements in the market that are new or different reactions, which eventually lead to change, either in a negative or positive way for business. Businesses can anticipate and analyze market trends to improve their practices, attract the right target audience, adjust budgets, focus their marketing efforts, and more.
MARKET TRENDS
can easily make or break a business. Catching the trend early and analyzing it could keep you ahead of the competition and protect your market share.
MARKET TRENDS
is occurring at an accelerating rate; today is not like yesterday, and tomorrow will be different from today. Continuing today’s strategy is risky; so is turning to a new strategy. Therefore, tomorrow’s successful companies will have to heed three certainties:
CHANGE
will continue to affect everyone’s business and personal life.
GLOBAL FORCES
will continue to advance and amaze us.
TECHNOLOGY
There will be a continuing push toward _____&of the economic sector.
DEREGULATION
Marketing deals with identifying and meeting human and social needs. One of the shortest definitions of marketing is “___”
meeting needs profitably.
is the conscious effort to achieve desired exchange outcomes with target markets. It is a process of controlling the marketing aspects, setting goals, organizing the plans step by step, taking decisions for the firm, and executing them to get maximum turnover by meeting the consumers’ demands.
MARKETING MANAGEMENT
5 Functions of Management:
PLANNING, ORGANIZING, LEADING, STAFFING, CONTROLLING
The process of choosing appropriate goals and actions to pursue and determining what strategies to use, what actions to take, and deciding what resources are needed to achieve the goals.
PLANNING
Establishing worker relationships that allow them to work together to achieve their organizational goals.
ORGANIZING
Articulating a vision, energizing employees, and motivating people using vision, influence, persuasion, and effective communication skills.
LEADING
Recruiting and selecting employees for positions within the company.
STAFFING
Evaluating how well goals are being achieved, improving performance, and establishing standards to help measure progress and make informed decisions.
CONTROLLING
5 Marketing Concepts
PRODUCTION CONCEPT, PRODUCT CONCEPT, SELLING CONCEPT, MARKETING CONCEPT, SOCIETAL MARKETING CONCEPT
Consumers prefer products that are widely available and inexpensive. Managers of production-oriented businesses concentrate on high production efficiency, low costs, and mass distribution. This concept is used when a company wants to expand its market.
PRODUCTION CONCEPT
Holds that consumers favor products that offer the most quality, performance, or innovative features. Product-oriented companies often design their products with little or no customer input, focusing instead on making superior products.
PRODUCT CONCEPT
Assumes that consumers must be coaxed into buying through aggressive selling and promotion. This concept is often practiced with unsought goods (e.g., insurance). Many firms apply the selling concept when they have overcapacity and want to sell what they produce rather than what the market wants.
SELLING CONCEPT
Focuses on being more effective than competitors in creating, delivering, and communicating customer value to target markets. It rests on four pillars:
MARKETING CONCEPT
Carefully selecting target markets and preparing tailored marketing programs.
TARGET MARKET
Correctly understanding customers’ needs and wants. Customer needs can be classified as stated needs, real needs, unstated needs, delight needs, and secret needs.
CUSTOMER NEEDS
When all departments work together to serve customers’ interests.
INTEGRATED MARKETING
Achieving profit for private firms or attracting funds for nonprofits.
PROFITABILITY
Balances meeting the needs of target markets while also preserving or enhancing the well-being of individual consumers and society as a whole.
SOCIETAL MARKETING CONCEPT
Companies are adjusting in various ways to cope with changes in the environment:
REINGINEERING, OUTSOURCING, E-COMMERCE, BENCHMARKING, ALLIANCES, PARTNER-SUPPLIERS, MARKET-CENTERED, GLOBAL AND LOCAL, DECENTRALIZED
Focusing on key processes managed by multidisciplinary teams.
REINGINEERING
Buying more products from outside sources if they are cheaper and better.
OUTSOURCING
Making products available on the internet, with increasing business-to-business purchasing online.
E-COMMERCE
Adopting best practices from world-class performers.
BENCHMARKING
Forming partnerships with other firms.
ALLIANCES
Relying on fewer but more reliable suppliers who work closely with the company.
PARTNER-SUPPLIERS
Organizing by market segment.
MARKET-CENTERED
Being both global and local in business operations.
GLOBAL AND LOCAL
Encouraging entrepreneurship and initiative at local levels.q
DECENTRALIZED
As the environment changes, marketers are rethinking their philosophies, concepts, and tools:
MARKETER RESPONSES AND ADJUSTMENTS
Building long-term, profitable customer relationships.
RELATIONSHIP MARKETING
Managing customer lifetime value by offering recurring products at a lower price.
CUSTOMER LIFETIME VALUE
Building customer share by offering a larger variety of goods to existing customers and training employees in cross-selling and up-selling.
CUSTOMER SHARE
Serving well-defined target markets with specialized offerings.
TARGET MARKETING
Customizing messages and offers for individual customers.
INDIVIDUALIZATION
Building databases to track individual customers’ purchases, preferences, demographics, and profitability.
CUSTOMER DATABASE
Using several communication tools to deliver a consistent brand message.
INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATION