Chapter 12: Building Customer Relationships Through Effective Marketing Flashcards
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marketing mix
a combination of product, price, distribution, and promotion developed to satisfy a particular target market
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place utility
utility created by making a product available at a location where customers wish to purchase it
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sales orientation
marketing approach from 1920-1950s; characterized by increased advertising, enlarged sales forces, and occasionally, high-pressure selling techniques
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possession utility
utility created by transferring title (or ownership) of a product to a buyer
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business buying behavior
the purchasing of products by producers, resellers, governmental units, and institutions
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online information services
a tool that allows marketers the ability to communicate online with customers, suppliers, and employees that improves the capability of a firm’s marketing information system and helps track its customers’ changing desires and buying habits
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marketing
the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large
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market
a group of individuals and/or organizations that need products in a given category and that have the ability, willingness, and authority to purchase such products
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pricing ingredient
controllable element of the marketing mix concerned with both base prices and discounts of various kinds in order to achieve particular goals
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consumer market
market consisting of purchasers and/or household members who intend to consume or benefit from the purchased products and who do not buy products to make profits
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technological forces
technological changes that can create new marketing opportunities or cause products to become obsolete almost overnight
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utility
the ability of a good or service to satisfy a human need
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legal and regulatory forces
laws that protect consumers and competition and government regulations that affect marketing
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disposable income
personal income less all additional personal taxes
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customer relationship management (CRM)
using information about customers to create marketing strategies that develop and sustain desirable customer relationships
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producer market
market consisting of individuals and business organizations that buy certain products to use in the manufacturing of other products
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undifferentiated approach
directing a single marketing mix at the entire market for a particular product
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market segment
a group of individuals or organizations within a market that share one or more common characteristics
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governmental market
market consisting of federal, state, county, and local governments, who buy goods and services to maintain internal operations and to provide citizens with such products as highways, education, water, energy, and national defense
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promotion ingredient
controllable element of the marketing mix that focuses on providing information to target markets
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buying behavior
the decisions and actions of people involved in buying and using products