Chapter 15: Marketing Mix: Product, Place, Price, And Promotion Flashcards
Value
Good quality at a fair price
Total product offer (value package)
Everything that customers evaluate when deciding whether to buy something
Product line
Group of products that are physically similar or are intended for a similar market
Product mix
The combination of product lines offered by an organization
Product differentiation
The creation of real or perceived product differences
Bundling
Grouping two or more products together and pricing them as one unit
Brand
A name, symbol, or design that identifies a good or service of one seller
Brand equity
The value of the brand name associated symbols
Brand loyalty
The degree to which customers are satisfied, enjoy the brand, and age committee to further purchase
Brand manager
The person in the company who has direct responsibility for one brand or one product line
Product life cycle
Theoretical model of what happens to saless and profits for a product class over time.
Four stages of product life cycle
Introduction, growth, maturity, and decline
Target costing
Designing a product so that’s it satisfies customers and meets the profit margins desired by the firm
Competition based pricing
A pricing strategy based on what all the other competitors are doing. The price can be set at, above, or below competitors prices
Price leadership
The strategy by which one or more dominant firms set the pricing practices that all competitors in an industry then follow
Break even analysis’s
The process used to determine profitability at various levels of sales
Total fixed costs
All expenses that remain the same regalesless of product sold
Variable cost
Costs that change according to the level of population
Skimming price stategy
A strategy in which a new product is priced high to make optimum profit while there is little competition
Penetration price strategy
Strategy in which the product is priced low to attract many customers and discourage competitors