Exam 1 review Flashcards
What is marketing?
the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large
What is Exchange?
people giving up something in order to receive something else they would rather have
what is customer value?
the relationship between benefits and the sacrifice necessary to obtain those benefits
What is customer satisfaction
customers’ evaluation of a good or service in terms of whether it has met their needs and expectations
What is a Strategic Business Unit (SBU)?
a subgroup of a single business or collection of related businesses within the larger organization
What is Marketing Myopia?
defining a business in terms of goods and services rather than in terms of the benefits customers seek
What is environmental scanning?
collection and interpretation of information about forces, events, and relationships in the external environment that may affect the future of the organization or the implementation of the marketing plan.
What is Demography?
the study of people’s vital statistics, such as age, race and ethnicity, and location
What is purchasing power?
a comparison of income versus the relative cost of a standard set of goods and services in different geographic areas
What is a recession?
a period of economic activity characterized by negative growth, which reduces demand for goods and services
What is perception?
the process by which people select, organize, and interpret stimuli into a meaningful and coherent picture
What is learning?
a process that creates changes in behavior, immediate or expected, through experience and practice
What is culture?
the set of values, norms, attitudes, and other meaningful symbols that shape human behavior and the artifacts, or products, of that behavior as they are transmitted from one generation to the next
What is a market?
people or organizations with needs or wants and the ability and willingness to buy
What is market segmentation?
the process of dividing a market into meaningful, relatively similar, and identifiable segments or groups
What is a target market?
a group of people or organizations for which an organization designs, implements, and maintains a marketing mix intended to meet the needs of that group, resulting in mutually satisfying exchanges
What is positioning?
developing a specific marketing mix to influence potential customers’ overall perception of a brand, product line, or organization in general
What is marketing research?
the process of planning, collecting, and analyzing data relevant to a marketing decision
What is a measurement error?
an error that occurs when there is a difference between the information desired by the researcher and the information provided by the measurement process
What is a sampling error?
an error that occurs when a sample somehow does not represent the target population
What are the four marketing philosophies?
Production orientation, sales orientation, market orientation, societal orientation.
what is production orientation?
Focuses internally on what firm can do best. Example furniture manufacturers like Ashley
What is a sales orientation?
more people will buy if more aggressive sales techniques are used. Car salesman.
What is a marketing orientation?
focusing on customer wants and needs.
What is societal orientation?
satisfy customers but also to preserve and enhance societies long term interests.
What is Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM)
Business strategy that focuses on highly defined and percise customer groups
what are the four P’s of a marketing mix?
product, price, place, promotion
What is Product in the marketing mix
It is the physical good and all the services or amenities that come with it.
What is the place in the marketing mix
concerned with making the product available when and where the customers want them.
What is the promotion in the marketing mix?
Promotion includes advertising, public relations, sales promotion, and personal selling.
What is price in the marketing mix
what a customer must give up in order to obtain the product.
What are the compents of the boston consulting groups?
stars, cash cows, problem children, and dogs.