Exam 1 Flashcards
Entails all consumer activities associated with the purchase use and disposal of goods and services including the consumers emotional mental and behavioral responses
Consumer behavior
Purchase goods and services to satisfy their own personal needs and wants or to satisfy the needs and wants of others
Individual consumers
Purchase goods and services in order to produce other goods or services resell them to other organizations or individual consumers or help manage and run their organization
Organizational consumers
The idea that a firm should discover and satisfy customer needs and wants in an efficient and profitable manor well benefiting the long-term interest of the company’s stakeholders
Marketing concept
The consumers overall assessment of the utility of a product based on perceptions of what is received and what is given
Customer perceived value
Goes a step be on a customer perceived value suggesting customer benefits that not only meat but exceed expectations in on anticipated
Customer delight
Applies the scientific method relying on systematic rigorous procedures to explain control and protect the consumer behavior
Behavioral science
A systematic process of planning collecting analyzing and interpreting data and information relevant to marketing problems in consumer behavior
Marketing research
Looks for generally relationships between variables regardless of the specific situation
Ex. A celebrity who advertises a product generates a positive response and encourages them to purchase that product
Basic research
Data that already exists in our readily accessible
Secondary data
New data collected specifically for the research purpose at hand
Primary data
Qualitative research done to generate ideas or help further formulate problems for further research
Ex: a magazine experiences a drop in sales and conducts research to discover why
Exploratory research
On structured and direct form of questioning that encourages respondents to project their underlying beliefs attitudes feelings and motivations and in apparently unrelated or ambiguous scenario
Projective techniques
A study done to describe the characteristics of some group or their behaviors or to make predictions about trends or variables
Descriptive research
Data that we collected at various points in time or overtime
Ex: measuring the temperature every day for a month
Longitudinal studies panel
Research that involves taking a snapshot in time of some variables of interest from a specific sample group of interest and usually are conducted by taking a survey
Cross-sectional studies
Concerned with identifying an understanding cause and effect relationships through experimentation
Casual research
Manipulate variables in a controlled setting to determine the relationship from one another
Experiment
The segment toward which a firms marketing efforts are directed
Target market
The process of communicating with our target market through use of marketing mix variables, A specific product, price, distribution channel, and promotional appeal,
Positioning
Hey single product, one size fits all strategy in which individual differences among consumers are ignored
Market aggregation
The process of dividing the large and diverse mass-market into subsets of consumers who share common needs, characteristics, or behaviors, and then targeting one or more of those segments with a distinct marketing mix
Marketing segmentation
The extent to which tastes and preferences differ among consumers
Consumer preference heterogeneity
As market segmentation increases, sales increase because a firms offerings align more closely to consumers preferences
Sales cost trade off
Occurs when products offered by the same firm are so similar that they compete among themselves
Cannibalization
Relies on a single attribute or benefit that differentiates the brand from the competitors offerings
Core benefit proposition
Attempt to change the way consumers perceive a brand
Repositioning
Measures the way products are positioned in the minds of consumers and show these perceptions on a graph who’s axes are formed by product attributes
Perpetual mapping
Develop many new products and try to be the first in the race to the market
Proactive strategy
Wait to see what competitors offer and then develop copycat brands
Reactive strategy
The first brands to enter a new market often enjoy a long term preference advantage over copy cat brands
Pioneering brand advantage