exam review Flashcards
What is the marketing mix
- divided into 4 categories (product, palce, price, promotion)
what is demographics
- used by businesses to help them understand the characteristics of the people who buy their products and services
- include age, gender, family life cycle, income level, and ethnicity/culture
- Each category can be then subdivided into variables/ranges
what is geographics
used to determine a consumer’s wants and needs based on their geographical location. The 3 main categories are urban, suburban, and rural
what is free market societies
An economic system that permits profit, competition, and private property
what is AAU
- stands for awareness, attitude and usage studies
- conducted to measure how aware consumers are of a product or service and what they think of it and if they use it
Unaided awareness/Top of the mind awareness
- also called top-of-the-mind awareness
- when researchers ask respondents to list within a certain period of time all the brands, companies or product names they can think of
Aided awareness
when researchers give respondents a complete list of product names, companies, or brands and ask them to identify which names they have heard of but forgot to list.
Attitude awareness
- consumer’s attitude towards the brand being tested
- can help determine consumers’ opinion regarding the brand’s strengths and the brand’s perceived weaknesses
Usage awareness
- how much a consumer uses the brand/product
- can help in the consumer profiles and can be categorized by heavy, medium, light, or non user
Product positioning
- creating an image of the product in the consumer’s mind
- 5 different types of positioning → benefit, target, price, distribution, or service
Co-Branding
when 2 or more brands combine and cooperate for their mutual benefit
Competitive advantage
- advantages that competitors have over another company
- can be sustainable which means the business has a hold over customers in spite of their competitors
- based on USPs, lower production costs, serving niches, customer loyalty, etc
Pricing strategies
plans made by a company that established the initial price and any changes to pricing after that ot help meet the marketing goals of a product
Pricing theories
microeconomic principle that says the market force of supply and demand will determine the logical price point for a particular good or service at any given time
Transportation methods
- 5 main transportation methods
- trucks, trains, planes, ships and pipelines
Inventory turnover
number of times a company sells its inventory in one year
Advertising
- promoting a product or service using factors that are appealing to the target market and consumers
- research to determine how to effectively convey s product message to potential customers
Copywriters
- people responsible for the wording of the message to promote a product or service
- responsible for creating effective email campaigns, articles, and other data to reel in consumers
Questions asked by marketing/product department when developing new product
- can we produce it
- can we sell it
Value added service
activities that are performed to support the sale of a product
purpose of marketing research
- the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of information used to develop a marketing strategy or solve a marketing problem
Types of primary research
- done by a researcher using primary data
- 2 general types (qualitative and quantitative)
qualitative research
- used to measure people’s reactions, responses, or feelings towards a given subject or problem
Quantitative research
primarily focuses on collecting data by surveying a representative sample of a target-market population.
Types of survey questions
- closed-ended questions
- open ended questions
closed-ended questions
- select one answer from two or more options
open ended questions
- short answers
Cohorts
- groups of people with like interest or buying habits
- Companies can separate these people based on their characteristics, which allows them to target their advertising better, and create more sales.