exam review Flashcards

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What is the marketing mix

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  • divided into 4 categories (product, palce, price, promotion)
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what is demographics

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  • 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
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what is geographics

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used to determine a consumer’s wants and needs based on their geographical location. The 3 main categories are urban, suburban, and rural

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what is free market societies

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An economic system that permits profit, competition, and private property

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what is AAU

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  • 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
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Unaided awareness/Top of the mind awareness

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  • 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
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Aided awareness

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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.

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Attitude awareness

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  • consumer’s attitude towards the brand being tested
  • can help determine consumers’ opinion regarding the brand’s strengths and the brand’s perceived weaknesses
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Usage awareness

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  • 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
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Product positioning

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  • creating an image of the product in the consumer’s mind
  • 5 different types of positioning → benefit, target, price, distribution, or service
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Co-Branding

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when 2 or more brands combine and cooperate for their mutual benefit

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Competitive advantage

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  • 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
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Pricing strategies

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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

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Pricing theories

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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

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Transportation methods

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  • 5 main transportation methods
  • trucks, trains, planes, ships and pipelines
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Inventory turnover

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number of times a company sells its inventory in one year

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Advertising

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  • 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
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Copywriters

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  • 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
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Questions asked by marketing/product department when developing new product

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  • can we produce it
  • can we sell it
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Value added service

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activities that are performed to support the sale of a product

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purpose of marketing research

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  • the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of information used to develop a marketing strategy or solve a marketing problem
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Types of primary research

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  • done by a researcher using primary data
  • 2 general types (qualitative and quantitative)
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qualitative research

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  • used to measure people’s reactions, responses, or feelings towards a given subject or problem
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Quantitative research

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primarily focuses on collecting data by surveying a representative sample of a target-market population.

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Types of survey questions

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  • closed-ended questions
  • open ended questions
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closed-ended questions

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  • select one answer from two or more options
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open ended questions

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  • short answers
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Cohorts

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  • 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.
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Commodities

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products that are not branded; usually a raw product that can be made into something else

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Conjoint analysis

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an analysis of the specific feature of a product that contribute to its perceived worth

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Economies of scale

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the more products a company makes, the lower the production costs for each individual product

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Market segmentation

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categorizing parts of the market defined by specific characteristics

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Types/forms of businesses

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  • Sole Proprietorships
  • partnerships
  • corporations
  • limited lability company (LLC)
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Push strategy

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  • used to get stores to sell products
  • using discounts to the retailers, provident displays, etc
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pull strategy

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  • used to get people to buy the product by convincing them that they need the product and nothing else will do.
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slogans

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phrases used to market a product

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Product utilities

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  • what is added to a product to make it valuable on the market
  • 5 main types of utilities (information utility, place utility, time utility, possession utility, form utility)
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Information Utility

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provides consumers with instructions, directions, and user manuals

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Place Utility

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the easier the product is to find, the more place utility it has

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time utility

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when that product or service is available when the consumer wants it

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Possession Utility

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when the goods and products are easy to purchase

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Form Utility

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expands into material, scent, flavour, colour, design, and packaging

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Product processing

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  • changing the raw materials in some way
  • ex. adding sugar or preservations to food
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Aggregate campaign

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an advertising campaign that is aimed at everybody

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Benchmark

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analyzing competitor’s data and market position to find your place in the market, along with any strengths or weaknesses of either company

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Brand awareness

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potential consumer’s realization that a specific brand in on the market

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break even point

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  • the number of a product that a company must sell to cover the costs of making and marketing that product
  • break even point → Fixed Costs ÷ (Price - Variable Costs)
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Cartels

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are groups that control the supply and therefore the price of a product or service

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Category killer

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  • large retail store that have an extensive variety of one specific type of merchandise
  • ex. walmart in retail business
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Consumer

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someone that used a product or service

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customer

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  • someone who hasn’t used the product or service
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Cost benefit analysis

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a comparison of estimated costs and benefits an action is likely or intended to produce

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Data mining

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looking for unknown connections between behavior and purchasing habits of specific consumers

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Ergonomics

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  • something that has been designed to be more comfortable and encourage productivity from its user
  • ex. office chair, keyboards
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FAD

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  • short lived movements towards a style or idea
  • are a product or service or idea that is extremely popular for a very brief period of time
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Focus groups

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are a group of people who are brought together to discuss a product or problem

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Hard data

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information that is supported by facts

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Listserv

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an email list that distributes queries and information to all the people who belong or subscribe to it

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Market skimming

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setting an initially high price for a product or service before competitors enter the market

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Monopoly

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a business that is the only supplier of a good or service; a situation in which a single company controls the entire market

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Oligopoly

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when there are a small number of large companies, each with a bit of market control

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niche

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  • small section of the market where there are only a few competitors
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product life cycle (PLC)

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  • the changes in consumer demand over time
  • 4 types (traditional, fad, seasonal, niche)
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traditional PLC

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  • goes from introduction, growth, maturity, decline, decision point, onto obsolete
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Seasonal PLC

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goes from unpopular to popular to unpopular because of the changes in the seasons

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Return on investment

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the percentage of profit a store owner realizes each year on the capital invested in the business

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Inventory shrinkage

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the lost of inventory due to breakage, damage, or theft

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Trends

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mass movements towards a style or idea

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USP - Unique selling proposition

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features or benefits of a product or service that cannot be duplicated by any other product or service

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Volume discount

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offering a lower price on a product is the customer buys more

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value equation

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total value = value created - cost