Chapter 10 Flashcards
Marketing plan
Is a document that lists activities aimed at achieving particular marketing outcomes in relation to a good or service. The plan provides a template for future action aimed at reaching marketing objectives, such as establishing a customer base.
Marketing concept
A customers needs and wants are met while achieving the business’s objectives.
Market research
The process of systematically collecting, recording and analyzing information concerning a specific marketing problem.
Marketing data
The information - usually expressed as facts and figures - relevant to the defined marketing problem.
Primary data
Facts and figures collected from original sources.
Survey
Gathers data by asking questions or interviewing people.
Secondary data
Refers to information that some other person or organization has already collected.
Marketing
The process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of ideas, goods and services to create exchange that satisfy individuals and organizational objectives.
Internal data
Refers to information that has already been collected from inside the business.
External data
Refers to published data from outside the business.
Statistical interpretation analysis
Is the process of focusing on the data that represent average, typical or deviations from typical patterns.
Market segmentation
Occurs when the total market is subdivided into groups who share one or more common characteristic.
Target market
Is a group of customers with similar characteristics who currently purchase the product or may do so in the future.
Primary target market
Is the market segment at which most of the marketing resources are directed.
Secondary target market
Usually a smaller and less important market segment.
Niche market
Narrowly selected target market segment.
Consumer buying behaviour
Refers to the decisions and actions of consumers when they purchase goods and services for personal or household use.
Psychological factors
Influences within an individual that affect his/her buying behaviour.
Motives
The reasons that individuals do something.
Customer attitude
A persons overall feeling about an object or activity.
Personality
Is the collection of all the behaviors and characteristics that make up that person.
Sociocultural influences
Forces exerted by other people that affect customer behaviour.
Peer group
Group of people with whom a person closely identifies, adopting their attitudes, values and beliefs.