Exam 1 Review Flashcards
What is Marketing?
the process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships in order to capture value from customers in return
Marketing Concept
Management philosophy according to which a firm’s goals can be best achieved through identification and satisfaction of the customers’ stated and unstated needs and wants.
Market Orientation
A business approach or philosophy that focuses on identifying and meeting the stated or hidden needs or wants of customers, competition, and the macroenvironment.
Facilitate the Exchange
creating, communicating, delivering, value
The Offering
some combination of products, services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want. These not just physical products, but also services—activities or benefits offered for sale that are essentially intangible and do not result in the ownership of anything.
The Society at Large
Value Proposition
the set of benefits or values a company promises to deliver to customers to satisfy their needs.
Marketing Mix
4 P’s
- Product (offering)
- Price
- Place (distribution)
- Promotion (selling and advertising
Social responsibility
an ethical ideology or theory that an entity, be it an organization or individual, has an obligation to act to benefit society at large.
societal marketing concept
Production Concept
consumers will favor products that are available and affordable, therefore management should focus on improving production and distribution efficiency.
Product Concept
consumers will favor products that offer the most in quality, performance, and innovative features, therefore marketing strategy focuses on making continuous product improvements.
Selling Concept
Consumers will not buy enough without a large scale selling and promotion effort
typically practiced with unsought goods—those that buyers do not normally think of buying, such as insurance or blood donations.
Marketing Concept
customer focus and value are the paths to sales and profits.
The job is not to find the right customers for your product but to find the right products for your customers.
societal marketing concept
holds that marketing strategy should deliver value to customers in a way that maintains or improves both the consumer’s and the society’s well being.
(electricity generated by windmills)
unsought products
those that buyers do not normally think of buying, such as insurance or blood donations.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
The overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction
Marketing Myopia
when a company becomes so focused on their own products that they lose sight of underlying customer needs.
Consumer generated marketing
ads created by the consumers, very beneficial to the company bc they dont have to make the ads
(doritos super bowl commercials)
CLV (Customer Lifetime Value)
the value of the entire stream of purchases that the customer would make over a lifetime of patronage.
needs
states of felt deprivation. They include physical, social, and individual needs. These needs are not created by marketers; they are a basic part of the human makeup.
wants
the form needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality. An American needs food but wants a Big Mac.
demands
wants that are backed by buying power
Customer Value
the customer’s evaluation of the difference between all the benefits and all the costs of a market offering relative to those of competing offers
Segmentation
the division of a market into distinct groups of buyers who have distinct needs, characteristics, or behavior and who might require separate products or marketing mixes
- Geographic, demographic, psychographic
Targeting
the process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to serve.
Geographic Segmentation
- region: by continent, country, state, or even neighborhood
- size of population
- population density
- according to weather patterns
Demographic Segmentation
age, gender, family size etc.
psychographic segmentation
set groups according to lifestyle
Product/brand positioning
the arrangement of a product to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of the target consumer.
the graph with the suvs w luxury and offroad
demographics
the study of human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and other statistics.