Exam 2 Chap 7 Flashcards
What are the 3 important evaluative criteria?
- quality
- service
- price
Quality
Refers to technical suitability
- apply to sales people and firm
Service
Include pre-purchase (survey of buyer’s need), post-sale (installations of the equipment and training those who will use it), and dependability of supply ( must be able to count on delivery when it is scheduled)
Price
Business buyers want to buy at low prices
- buyer who force supplier to cut price to a point supplier lose money (quality is affected)
Relationship marketing
Seeking and establishing ongoing partnership with customers.
Why did relationship marketing become an important business marketing strategy?
- customers have become more demanding
- competition has become more intense
- business suppliers use social networking site to advertise themselves to business.
What is a proven way to gain repeated business?
Maintaining steady dialogue between supplier and customers
Strategic Alliance
A cooperative agreement between business firms
What is the other name of strategic alliance?
Strategic partnership
What different form can strategic alliance take?
- licensing or distribution agreements
- joint ventures
- research and development consortia
- partnership
Why is strategic alliance formed?
Strengthen operation and better compete
For alliance to succeed in the long term it must be built on ______
Commitment and trust
Relationship commitment
Mean that a firm believes that an ongoing relationship with another firm is so important that the relationship warrants maximum efforts at maintaining it indefinitely.
Trust exist when ____
One party has confidence in an exchange partner’s realizability and integrity
Can alliance fail when participants lack trust?
Yes.
Ex: Costco and American Express.
Cost move forward with visa.
American Express believed to was a betrayal.
Relationship in other cultures (Japan)
- exchange between firms is based on personal relationship that are developed through what is called AMAE, or indulgent dependency.
What is AMAE?
Feeling of nurturing concern for, and dependence on, another
What contributes to AMAE?
Reciprocity and personal relationships
What is business marketing
Is the marketing of goods and services to individuals and organizations for purposes other than personal consumption.
What is business marketing other name
- industrial Or - business to business Or - B to B OR - B2B marketing
Example of business marketing?
Sale of a personal PC to your university
Business product or industrial product
Used to manufacture other goods or services, to facilitate and organization’s operations, or to resell to other customers