Cours 1 Flashcards
What is the definition of marketing?
It is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that give value to customers, clients, partners, and society.
What are the main orientations that make up the milestones in the development of modern marketing?
Production orientation, product orientation, sale orientation, and marketing orientation.
What is the production orientation approach?
This orientation focuses on production efficiency that will lead to high quality. products. The user of this method promotes efficiency and efficacity.
What is product orientation?
It is the idea that consumers will always buy a good product at a reasonable price, so a business only has to make the best products to automatically reap financial success.
What is sales orientation?
It is the idea that all you need is a good sales and communication strategy to convince a consumer to buy a product.
What is marketing orientation?
It is the idea that we need to satisfy the consumer while keeping the company’s goals in mind. This orientation focuses mainly on the consumers rather than the businesses.
What are the 2 basic activities of a business?
Producing and selling.
What is a product?
It can be a manufactured product, a pure service, or a clever mix of both.
What is a need?
It is a state of lacking something (hungry, thirsty, lonely).
What is a want?
It is a way of meeting your need (going to Mcdo, drinking Smart-water, going to a board-game café).
What is demand?
It is the quantity of a good or service that economic agents (people, companies, governments) buy in a given market.
What do you need to do to compare the sales in dollars?
You need to take the amount without the inflation into account.
How do you evaluate demand?
The best way to evaluate demand is by using a volume that corresponds to the demand that we evaluate.
How do you find a market share?
By dividing the company demand by the market demand.
How can a company own more share of a market?
It can use a lot of different strategies, but one of them is to share a market with another company to increase the sales of both entities.
What are the 3 types of demand?
- Actual demand
- Potential demand
- Demand projection