Exam 1 Flashcards
Marketing
The process by which companies engage customers, build strong customer relationships, and create customer value in order to capture value from customers in return.
Demands
Human wants that are backed by buying power
Wants
The form human needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality.
Products
Anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use, or consumption that might satisfy a want or need.
Exchange Process
The act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return.
Transfer
Charity, giving stuff for nothing in return.
Strategic Planning
The process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization’s goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities.
Long Range Planning
a process that involves creating a vision for the future of an organization and aligning that vision with action plans
Annual Plan
a roadmap that outlines how a business will achieve its marketing goals
Marketing Penetration
a measure of how much a product or service is being used by target customers compared to the total estimated market for that product or service.
Market Development
Company growth by identifying and developing new market segments for current company products.
Product Development
Company growth by offering modified or new products to current market segments.
Disversification
Company growth through starting up or acquiring businesses outside the company’s current products and markets.
Target Market
A set of buyers who share common needs or characteristics that a company decides to serve.
Market Segmentation
Dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs, characteristics, or behaviors and who might require separate marketing strategies or mixes.
Market Segment
A group of consumers who respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing efforts
Market Targeting
Evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to serve.
Market Positioning
a strategy that aims to establish a brand or product’s identity in the minds of consumers.
Marketing Mix
The set of tactical marketing tools—product, price, place, and promotion—that the firm blends to produce the response it wants in the target market.
Benefits of Formal Planning
a written document that outlines a company’s marketing strategies and efforts for a set period of time- better for planning
Star
Products with high market growth and a high market share.
Cash Cow
Products with low market growth but a high market share.
Question Mark
product or business unit with a high growth rate but a low market share.
Dog
Products with low market growth and a low market share.