Chapter 11 Flashcards
Product Life Cycle
Life cycle describes the stages a new product goes through in the Market Place, Intro, Growth, Maturity, and Deadline
Market Modification
Strategies allow a company to find new customers, increase product use among customers, or new situations
Trading Up
Adding value to the product through features and higher-quality material
Trading Down
Reducing a products number of features, quality, or price
Branding
Decisions as organization uses a name, phrase, design or symbol to identify its products and distinguish them from competition
Brand Name
Any word, devise (design, color, shape, sound) of these used to distinguish a sellers goods
Trade Name
A commercial, legal, name under which a company does business
Trademark
Identifies that a firm has legally registered its brand name, so the firm has exclusive use, preventing others from using it.
Brand Personally
Set of human characteristics associated with a brand name
Brand Equity
Added value a brand name gives to a product beyond the functional benefits
Brand Purpose
Reasons why brand exists, place it has in consumers lives, the solution it provides, and the brands role in making society better
Brand Licensing
Contractual agreement whereby one company allows its brand name or trademark to be used with products offered by another company for a royalty fee
Multi product Branding
Branding Strategy in which a company uses one name for all its products in a product class
Multibranding
Branding strategy that involves giving each product a distinct name when a brand is intended for a different marketing segment
Private Branding
When a manufacturer produces products but sells them under brand name of wholesalers or retailers