Chapter 8 Flashcards

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Product

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Anything that can be offered to a marketer for attention, acquisition, use, or consumption that might satisfy a want or need

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Services

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Activities, benefits, or satisfaction offered for sale that is essentially intangible and does not results in the ownership of anything

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3
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What are the 3 levels that product planners need to think about products and services

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The core customer value, what is the buyer really buying?

Actual product

Augmented product

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4
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What are the 2 broad classes based on the types of consumer who use them?

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Consumer product

Industrial product

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Consumer product

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A product bought by final consumer for personal consumption

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What do consumer products include?

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Convenience product

Shopping product

Speciality product

Unsought product

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Convenience product

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A consumer product that customers usually buy frequently, immediately, and with minimal comparison and buying effort

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Shopping product

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A customer product that the customer, in the process of selecting and purchasing, usually compares on such attributes as suitability, quality, price, and style

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Specialty product

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A consumer product with unique characteristics or brand identification for which a significant group of buyers is willing to make a special purchase effort

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Unsought product

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A consumer product that the consumer either does not know about or knows about but does not normally consider buying

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Industrial product

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A product bought by individuals and organisations for further processing or for use in conducting a business

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What are the types of industrial products?

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Material part

Capital items

Supplies and services

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Material part

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Include raw materials as well as manufactured materials and parts

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Capital items

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Industrial products that aid in the buyer’s production or operations, including installations and accessory equipment

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Supplies and services

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Where supplies include operating supplies and repair and maintenance items, and services include maintenance and repair services and business advisory services

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Organisational marketing

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Consists of activities undertaken to create, maintain, or change the attitudes and behaviour of target consumer toward an organisation

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Corporate image marketing

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Campaigns to market themselves and polish companies’ images

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Person marketing

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Consists of activities undertaken to create, maintain, or change attitudes or behaviour toward particular people

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Place marketing

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Involves activities undertaken to create, maintain, or change attitudes or behaviour toward particular places

20
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Idea marketing

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Involves the marketing of an idea

21
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Social idea marketing

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Consists of using traditional business marketing concepts and tools to encourage behaviours that will create individual and societal well being

22
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What are the 3 levels that marketers make product and service decisions?

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Individual product decisions

Products ten decisions

Product mix decisions

23
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What are the important decisions in the development and marketing of and individual product decision?

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Attributes of the product (quality, features, design)

Branding

Packaging

Labeling and logos

Product support services

24
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Product line length

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The number of items in the product line

25
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How can a company expand its product line?

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By line filling

Product line stretching

26
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Line filling

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Involves adding more items within the present range of the line

27
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Product line stretching

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Occurs when a company lengthens its product line beyond its current range

28
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Product line

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A group of products that are closely related because they function in a similar manner

Sold to the same customer groups

Marketed through the same types of outlets

Fall within given price ranges

29
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What do companies with several product lines have?

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A production mix

30
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What are the 4 dimensions of the product mix?

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Width

Length

Depth

Consistency

31
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A company must consider 4 special service characteristics when designing marketing programs. What are they?

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Service intangibility

Service inseparability

Service variability

Service perishability

32
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Service intangibility

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Entails that services cannot be seen, tasted, felt, heard, or smelled, before they are bought

33
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Service inseparability

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Means that services are produced and consumer at the same time and cannot be separated from their providers

34
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Service variability

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Entails that the quality of services may vary greatly depending on who provides them and when, where, and how they are provided

35
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Service perishability

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Means services cannot be stored for later sale or use

36
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Service profit chain

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The chain that links service firm profits with employee and customer satisfaction

37
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What are the five links that consist in service profit chain

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Internal service quality

Satisfied and productive service employees

Greater service value

Satisfied and loyal customers

Healthy service profits and growth

38
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What does service marketing also include?

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Internal marketing

Interactive marketing

39
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Internal marketing

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Involves orienting and motivating customer contact employees and supporting service employees to work as a team to provide customer satisfaction

40
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Interactive marketing

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Involves training service employees in the fine art of interacting with customers to satisfy their needs

41
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What are the 3 marketing tasks that service companies face?

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Managing service differentiation

Managing service quality

Managing service productivity

42
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Brand equity

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The differential effect that knowing the brand name has on customer response to the product or its marketing

43
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Brand strength is measured along 4 consumer perception dimensions. What are they?

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Differentiation

Relevance

Knowledge

Esteem

44
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Brand value

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The total financial value of a brand

45
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What are the major brand strategy decisions involve:

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Brand positioning

Brand name selection

Brand sponsorship

Brand development