Exam 2 Chap 7 Flashcards

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What are the 3 important evaluative criteria?

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  • quality
  • service
  • price
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Quality

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Refers to technical suitability

- apply to sales people and firm

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Service

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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)

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Price

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Business buyers want to buy at low prices

- buyer who force supplier to cut price to a point supplier lose money (quality is affected)

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Relationship marketing

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Seeking and establishing ongoing partnership with customers.

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Why did relationship marketing become an important business marketing strategy?

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  • customers have become more demanding
  • competition has become more intense
  • business suppliers use social networking site to advertise themselves to business.
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What is a proven way to gain repeated business?

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Maintaining steady dialogue between supplier and customers

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Strategic Alliance

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A cooperative agreement between business firms

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What is the other name of strategic alliance?

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Strategic partnership

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10
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What different form can strategic alliance take?

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  • licensing or distribution agreements
  • joint ventures
  • research and development consortia
  • partnership
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Why is strategic alliance formed?

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Strengthen operation and better compete

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For alliance to succeed in the long term it must be built on ______

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Commitment and trust

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Relationship commitment

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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.

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Trust exist when ____

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One party has confidence in an exchange partner’s realizability and integrity

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15
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Can alliance fail when participants lack trust?

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Yes.
Ex: Costco and American Express.

Cost move forward with visa.
American Express believed to was a betrayal.

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Relationship in other cultures (Japan)

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  • exchange between firms is based on personal relationship that are developed through what is called AMAE, or indulgent dependency.
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What is AMAE?

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Feeling of nurturing concern for, and dependence on, another

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What contributes to AMAE?

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Reciprocity and personal relationships

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What is business marketing

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Is the marketing of goods and services to individuals and organizations for purposes other than personal consumption.

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What is business marketing other name

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- industrial 
Or 
- business to business 
Or 
- B to B
OR 
- B2B marketing
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21
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Example of business marketing?

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Sale of a personal PC to your university

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Business product or industrial product

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Used to manufacture other goods or services, to facilitate and organization’s operations, or to resell to other customers

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Consumer product

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Is bought to satisfy an individual’s personal wants or needs

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What is the key characteristics in distinguishing business product from consumer product?

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INTENDED USE. Not physical form

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Consumer product is

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A product that is purchased for personal or family consumption or gift

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Business product

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A product that is purchased for business use.

27
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Name the 4 major categories of customers

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  • producers
  • resellers
  • governments
  • institution
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Original equipment manufacturers, OEMs

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Individuals and organizations that buy business goods and incorporate them into the products they produce fro eventual sales to other producers or to consumers

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Retailers

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Business that buy finished goods to resell at a profit

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Government

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Fed, state.. account for the greatest volume of purchase in the USA

31
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Institution

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Seek to achieve goals other than the standard business (goals of profits,market shares, and return on investment)
Ex: school, church, hospital

32
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List the roles in the buying center

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  • initiator
  • influencer/evaluators
  • gatekeeper
  • the decider
  • the purchaser
  • users
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User

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Member of the org who will actually use the product.

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The purchaser

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Is the person who actually negotiates the purchase

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The decider

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Is the person who has the formal or informal power to choose or approve the selection of the supplier or brand

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Gatekeepers

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Are group members who regulate the flow of information

Ex: secretary

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Influencers/evaluator

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Are people who influence the buying decision.

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The initiator

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Is the person who first suggests making a purchase

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Buying situations

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  • new buy
  • modified rebuy
  • straight rebuy
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New buy

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Is a situation requirement the purchase of a product for the first time.

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Modified rebuy

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Is normally less critical and less time-consuming than a new buy.
- the purchaser wants some change in the original good or service. Ex: new color

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Straight rebuy

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Is a situation vendors prefer.

  • the purchaser is not looking for new information or other suppliers.
  • routine because the terms of the purchase have been agreed to in earlier negotiations
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Type of business products

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  • major equipment
  • accessory equipment
  • raw materials
  • component parts
  • processed materials
  • suppliers
  • business services.
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Major equipment

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Include capital goods (large or expensive machines, generators …) -> called installation.
- depreciation over time

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Accessory Equipment

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Generally less expensive and shorter-lived than major equipment
Ex: portable drills, computer software, power tools

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Raw materials

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Are unprocessed extractive or agricultural products.

Ex: mineral, fruits, timber

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Component parts

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Either finished items ready for assembly, or products that needs very little processing before becoming part of other products

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Processed materials

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Are products used directly in manufacturing other products.
- they have some processing compare to raw material
Ex: corn syrup, plastics, chemicals

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Supplies

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Are consumable items that do not become part of the final product
Ex: detergents, paper towels, pencils

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Business service

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Are expense items that do not become part of a final product.
- retain our side providers to perform
Ex: advertising, legal, janitorial, consulting

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Demand

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  • derived demand
  • joint demand
  • multiplier effect (accelerator principle)
52
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Derived demand

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The demand for business product

- organization buy products to be used in productions their customer’s products

53
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  • inelastic demand
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Mean that an increase or decrease in the price of the product will not significantly affect demand for the product

54
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Joint demand

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Happens when two or more items are used together in a final product.
Ex: decline in memory chips availability will slow product and lead to a reduce demand for disk drives.

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Multiplier effect ( accelerator principle)

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  • small increase or decrease in consumer demande can produce a much larger change in demande for the stuff needed to make the consumer product.
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Diff en ce between business and consumer markets

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  • demande
  • purchase volume
  • number of customers
  • distribution
  • nature of buying
  • nature of buying influencer
  • type of negotiation
    0 use of reciprocity
  • use of leasing
  • promo methods