Final Exam Flashcards
Product encompasses?
Goods, services, and ideas
Marketing process (3 steps)
- Identify consumer needs
- Manage the marketing mix to meet consumer needs
- Realize revenue or profits
What is the marketing mix? (4 P’s)
- Product
- Price
- Promotion
- Place (Distribution)
What does product entail in the marketing mix?
The benefits the product provides, what it looks like, the packaging, any warranties, etc..
What does price stand for ?
What buyers must give up in exchange for the product. Often this is a specified $ amount.
what does promotion stand for?
How we communicate with buyers to make them aware of our product and the benefits it provides to meet their needs.
What does place stand for ?
Where/how consumers can get our product. We often think of retail outlets. but many consumers now look to purchase online.
What do you do when theirs limited funds?
It’s best to channel resources to a specific group of consumers who are most interested in purchasing a product, rather than target everyone and squander funds.
Target Market?
A specific group (or segment) of existing and potential consumers to which marketers direct their marketing efforts.
The “4 Ps” of the marketing mix include
product, price, place, and ____
Promotion
What are the 6 environmental forces in the marketing environment?
- Demographic
- Socio-cultural
- Economic
- Technological
- Competitive
- Regulatory
Environmental Scan?
Is the process of continually acquiring information on events occurring outside an organization to identify external trends, that are opportunities or threats to a business
usually the first step
Steps in an environmental scan (3)?
- Collect the facts and identify trends
- Determine the impact that this fact/trends will have on the business
- Brainstorm evaluate, and implement ideas to meet business objectives
SWOT
Internal Strength and Weakness
External Opportunities and Threats
CRESTD
Competitive Regulatory Economic Socio-Cultural Technological Demographic
Competitive
Companies can purchase data on their competitors (Nielsen or comScore)
Direct Competitors
Coke vs. pepsi
Indirect Competitors
Coke vs. gatorade
Monopoly
Only one company carries this product or service and have no competition (controlling the market).
Oligopoly
When a few companies control the market (cell phone companies).
Monopolistic Competition
Large number of sellers compete with each other (running shoe companies).
Perfect Competition
Multiple companies with identical products and little differentiation (Fruits and vegetables).
Regulatory
Refers to restrictions placed on marketing practices by the government - these are put in place to protect consumers.
Economic
Refers to the economic environment of the customer - this includes the world market
Socio-cultural
Cultural values, ideas and attitudes, as well as societies morals and beliefs.
Technological
Refers to inventions or innovations that stem from science or engineering research.
Demographic
The statistical study of populations is referred to as demographics.
Situational Analysis?
Situational analysis is taking stock of where the firm or product has been recently, and where it is headed towards in terms of the organization’s marketing plans and the external forces and trends affecting it.
(SWOT)
Showrooming?
I as a consumer go to a brick and mortar store, then go buy it online for cheaper.
ROI
Return on investment