Chapter Ten-Managing the Marketing Function Flashcards
Marketing Plan
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
‘The process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of ideas, goods and services to create exchanges, that satisfy individual and organisational objectives’
Marketing Concept
That a customer’s needs and wants are met while achieving the business’s objectives
Market Research
The process of systematically collecting, recording and analysing info concerning a specific marketing problem
Marketing Data
The info, usually expressed as facts and figures, relevant to the defined marketing problem
Primary Data
The facts and figures collected from original sources
Survey
A survey gathers data by asking questions or interviewing people
Secondary Data
Refers to info that some other person or organisation has already collected
Internal data
Refers to info that has already been collected from inside the business
External data
Refers to published data from outside the business
Statistical Interpretation Analysis
The process of focussing on the data that represents 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
A group of customers with similar characteristics who currently purchase the product or may do so in the future
Primary Target Market
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
A 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 effect his/her buying behaviour
Motives
The reasons that individuals do something
Customer Attitude
A person’s overall feeling about an object or activity
Personality
The collection of all the behaviours and characteristics that make up that person
Sociocultural Influences
Forces exerted by other people that affect customer behaviour
Peer Group
A group of people with whom a person closely identifies, adopting their attitudes, values and beliefs