Mark 1 midterm Flashcards
Five core customer and marketplace concepts
Needs, wants, and demands
Market offerings
Customer Value and satisfaction
Exchanges and relationships
Markets
Second step in the marketing process
Design a customer value-driven marketing strategy
Fourth step of the marketing process
Engage customers, build profitable relationships and create customer delight
Ultimate marketing goal
Capture value from customers to create profits and customer equity
Definition of Marketing
the process by which companies engage customers, build strong customer relationships, and create customer value in order to capture value from customers in return”
What is Marketing Offerings
Products, services, information, or experiences (Everything found in the market that is for sale)
Third step in the marketing process
Construct an integrated marketing program that delivers superior value (4p)
What is this describing; ‘ Marketing consists of actions to create, maintain, and grow desirable exchange relationships with target audiences.
Strong relationships are built by consistently delivering superior customer value.
Exchanges and Relationships
What are the 4p
Product
Price
Place: distribution
Promotion
What questions must the marketers ask themselves when designing a customer value-driven marketing strategy and plan
What is our target market? (what customers)
What is our value proposition? (how we can best serve them
what is a value proposition
how it will differentiate and position itself in the marketplace
set of benefits or values it promises to deliver to consumers to satisfy their needs in a superior way.
Name the 5 types Marketing Management Orientation
Production concept: affordability; production and distribution
Product concept: product quality; continuous product improvements
Selling concept: creating sales with selling and promotion effort
Marketing concept: customer-centered; customer value and relationship
Societal marketing concept
Customer Relationship Levels
Low-margin customers: build basic relationships
High-margin customers: create full partnerships
Customer Relationship Tools
Frequency marketing programs: e.g., Airlines, hotels
Loyalty rewards programs: e.g., SCENE with Scotiabank
Club marketing programs
what is customer engaging marketing
makes the brand a meaningful part of consumers’ conversations and lives.
making relevant and genuine contributions to targeted consumers’ lives and interactions.
what is Consumer-Generating Marketing and what are the types
Brand exchanges created by consumers (Uninvited)
Consumers invited by companies
What is Partner relationship Management
Working closely with others both inside and outside the company to jointly engage and bring more value to customers”
what are the two types.
Partners inside the firm—cross-functional teams
What is CLV and why is it important
Customer Lifetime Value. Keeping customers loyal makes good economic sense: 5 times cheaper to keep an old customer than acquire a new one
What is Growing Share of Customer
Portion of the customer’s purchasing that a company gets in its product categories
What does Building Customer Equity measure
Measures the future value of the company’s customer base (Current and future Customers) Total CLV
What are the 4 trends and forces that are changing the marketing landscape in this age of relationships
Digital Age
Growth of Not-for-Profit Marketing
Rapid Globalization
Sustainable Marketing
6 actors of Microenvironment
company, suppliers, marketing intermediates, competitors, public, customers
What is the marketing intermediate’s job
Sell, promote and distribute
What are the 5 types of customers
Consumer markets
Business markets
Reseller markets
Government markets
International markets
How do marketers gain strategic advantage on their competitors
positioning products strongly against competitors.
An example of “public”
Government, Media, local
What are the 6 forces in a company’s macroenvironment
Demographic, Economic, Natural, Technological, Political, cultural
What does demographic study
human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation,
What do marketers analyze in the demographic
Changing age and family structures
Geographic population shifts
Educational characteristics
Population diversity
What are the generational groups
Baby Boomers: 9.4 million, born between 1946-1965
Generation X: 7.2 million, born between 1966-1980
Millennials (or Generation Y): 8.6 million, between1981-1997
Generation Z: 8.6 million, between 1997-2016
What does the economic force study
Economic factors affect consumer purchasing power and spending
Changes in consumer spending - frugal- back to basics
What is are the trends in the Natural environment
Shortages of raw materials
Increased pollution
Increased government intervention
Environmental sustainability
What are (2) pros from the technological environment
New technologies create new markets and opportunities.
Government agencies investigate and ban potentially unsafe product (gouv regulations)
What does Political Environment do and why
Laws, government agencies, and pressure groups to
Protect companies from each other
Protect consumers from unfair business practices
Protect the interests of society against unrestrained business behaviors
In the Cultural Environment what are the persistence of values
Core beliefs and values (high degree of persistence)
Secondary beliefs and values (more open to change)
In the Cultural environment what are the possible shifts in secondary cultural values
Themselves, others, organizations, society, nature , universes
Why is marketing information important
Marketing information is required by companies to obtain customer and market insights
Why is overwhelmed and overload information not good
Because marketers do not need more information, but better information to make better use of it
Define Big Data
The huge and complex data sets generated by today’s sophisticated information generation, collection, storage and analysis technologies.
Define Customer Insight
Fresh marketing information-based understandings of customers and the marketplace ( creates customer value, engagement, and relationships)
What must producers no for Marketing Information Systems
Assess information needs
Develop the needed information
Help decision makers use the information to generate and validate actionable customer and market insights
What is the goal of marketing Information System
To give managers the right information, in the right form, at the right time and help them to use this information to create customer value, engagement and stronger customer relationships
What is the Marketing Information system (MIS)
Assessing information needs
Developing needed information
Analyzing and using information
What does assessing Marketing Information Needs include
-Information users (marketers, managers, external partners)
-A balance of the information the user would like
-Decide if the insight is worth the cost
What does Developing Needed Information consist of
Internal Databases
Marketing Intelligence
Marketing reserach
What are internal databases
Collections of consumer and market information obtained from data sources within the company network.
Which data source can be accessed quickly and cheaply
Internal Database
What is an issue with internal databases
They can be incomplete, wrong form, age quickly, require sophisticated equipment and techniques
What does competitive marketing intelligence consist of
Systematic monitoring, collection, analysis of publicly available information about consumers, competitors and developments in the marketing environment
What is the goal of Competitive marketing intelligence
to improve strategic decision making by understanding the consumer environment, assessing and tracking competitors’ actions, and providing early warnings of opportunities and threats
What are the techniques used to collect competitive marketing intelligence
Observing consumers first-hand
Quizzing the company’s own employees
Benchmarking competitors’ products
Monitoring social media buzz
What is the marketing research process
-defining the problem and research objectives
-Developing the research plan-collecting and analyzing data
-Implementing the research plan-collecting and analyzing data
-Interpreting and reporting the findings
What types or research methods are used in step 1 of the marketing research process (Defining the problem and research objectives)
Exploratory research
Descriptive research
Casual research
What is exploratory research good for
To define the problem and suggest hypothesis
What is descriptive research used for
used to better describe the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of consumers
What is casual research used for
text hypotheses about cause-effect reletionships
What topics are covered in the research plan (second step of the marketing process)
Problems and research objectives
Information to be obtained
How results will help decision making
type of data required
What is secondary data
It is information that already exists
Collected for another purpose
Where can secondary data be retrieved from
company’s internal database
purchased from outside suppliers
commercial online databases
internet engines
What are the advantages of secondary data
low cost
obtained quickly
cannot collect otherwise
What are the disadvantages of secondary data
potentially irrelevant
inaccurate
dated
biased
What are the steps that we must follow to plan primary data collection
Determine:
Research Approaches
Contact methods
Sampling plan
Research instruments
What are the types of research approaches to collect primary data
Observational research
Ethnographic research
Survey research
experimental research
What are the details that we need to determine for a sampling plan
sampling unit (who)
sampling size (hoe many)
sampling procedure (how)
How is ethnographic research conducted
By sending a trained observer to watch and interact with consumers in their natural habitat
How do marketers conduct observational research
gather primary data by observing relevant people, actions and situations
why is mail interviewing efficient
it let’s marketers gather a lot of information for a low cost
What are personal interviewing methods
Individual interviewing
Group interviewing
Name the (3) online behavioural and social tracking and targeting
Online listening
Behavioural Targeting
Social Targeting
What does behavioural targeting do
Uses online consumer tracking data to target advertisements and marketing offers to specific consumers
what is a sampling plan
a segment of the population selected to represent the population as a whole
What does probability sample calculate
confidence limits for sampling errors
define stratified random sample
the population is divided into mutually exclusive groups (age) and random samples are dream from each group
define cluster sample
The population is divided into mutually exclusive groups and the researcher draws a sample of the groups to interview
What does nonprobability sample mean
sampling errors cannot be measured