Mark 1 midterm Flashcards

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Five core customer and marketplace concepts

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Needs, wants, and demands
Market offerings
Customer Value and satisfaction
Exchanges and relationships
Markets

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Second step in the marketing process

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Design a customer value-driven marketing strategy

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Fourth step of the marketing process

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Engage customers, build profitable relationships and create customer delight

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Ultimate marketing goal

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Capture value from customers to create profits and customer equity

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Definition of Marketing

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the process by which companies engage customers, build strong customer relationships, and create customer value in order to capture value from customers in return”

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What is Marketing Offerings

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Products, services, information, or experiences (Everything found in the market that is for sale)

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Third step in the marketing process

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Construct an integrated marketing program that delivers superior value (4p)

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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.

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Exchanges and Relationships

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What are the 4p

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Product
Price
Place: distribution
Promotion

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What questions must the marketers ask themselves when designing a customer value-driven marketing strategy and plan

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What is our target market? (what customers)
What is our value proposition? (how we can best serve them

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what is a value proposition

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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.

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Name the 5 types Marketing Management Orientation

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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

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13
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Customer Relationship Levels

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Low-margin customers: build basic relationships
High-margin customers: create full partnerships

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Customer Relationship Tools

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Frequency marketing programs: e.g., Airlines, hotels
Loyalty rewards programs: e.g., SCENE with Scotiabank
Club marketing programs

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what is customer engaging marketing

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makes the brand a meaningful part of consumers’ conversations and lives.
making relevant and genuine contributions to targeted consumers’ lives and interactions.

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what is Consumer-Generating Marketing and what are the types

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Brand exchanges created by consumers (Uninvited)
Consumers invited by companies

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17
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What is Partner relationship Management

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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

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What is CLV and why is it important

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Customer Lifetime Value. Keeping customers loyal makes good economic sense: 5 times cheaper to keep an old customer than acquire a new one

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What is Growing Share of Customer

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Portion of the customer’s purchasing that a company gets in its product categories

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What does Building Customer Equity measure

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Measures the future value of the company’s customer base (Current and future Customers) Total CLV

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What are the 4 trends and forces that are changing the marketing landscape in this age of relationships

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Digital Age
Growth of Not-for-Profit Marketing
Rapid Globalization
Sustainable Marketing

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22
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6 actors of Microenvironment

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company, suppliers, marketing intermediates, competitors, public, customers

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What is the marketing intermediate’s job

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Sell, promote and distribute

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24
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What are the 5 types of customers

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Consumer markets
Business markets
Reseller markets
Government markets
International markets

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25
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How do marketers gain strategic advantage on their competitors

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positioning products strongly against competitors.

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26
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An example of “public”

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Government, Media, local

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27
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What are the 6 forces in a company’s macroenvironment

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Demographic, Economic, Natural, Technological, Political, cultural

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What does demographic study

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human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation,

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What do marketers analyze in the demographic

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Changing age and family structures
Geographic population shifts
Educational characteristics
Population diversity

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30
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What are the generational groups

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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

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What does the economic force study

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Economic factors affect consumer purchasing power and spending
Changes in consumer spending - frugal- back to basics

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What is are the trends in the Natural environment

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Shortages of raw materials
Increased pollution
Increased government intervention
Environmental sustainability

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What are (2) pros from the technological environment

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New technologies create new markets and opportunities.
Government agencies investigate and ban potentially unsafe product (gouv regulations)

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34
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What does Political Environment do and why

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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

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In the Cultural Environment what are the persistence of values

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Core beliefs and values (high degree of persistence)
Secondary beliefs and values (more open to change)

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In the Cultural environment what are the possible shifts in secondary cultural values

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Themselves, others, organizations, society, nature , universes

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37
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Why is marketing information important

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Marketing information is required by companies to obtain customer and market insights

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Why is overwhelmed and overload information not good

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Because marketers do not need more information, but better information to make better use of it

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39
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Define Big Data

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The huge and complex data sets generated by today’s sophisticated information generation, collection, storage and analysis technologies.

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Define Customer Insight

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Fresh marketing information-based understandings of customers and the marketplace ( creates customer value, engagement, and relationships)

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What must producers no for Marketing Information Systems

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Assess information needs
Develop the needed information
Help decision makers use the information to generate and validate actionable customer and market insights

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What is the goal of marketing Information System

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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

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What is the Marketing Information system (MIS)

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Assessing information needs
Developing needed information
Analyzing and using information

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What does assessing Marketing Information Needs include

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-Information users (marketers, managers, external partners)
-A balance of the information the user would like
-Decide if the insight is worth the cost

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What does Developing Needed Information consist of

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Internal Databases
Marketing Intelligence
Marketing reserach

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What are internal databases

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Collections of consumer and market information obtained from data sources within the company network.

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45
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Which data source can be accessed quickly and cheaply

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Internal Database

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46
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What is an issue with internal databases

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They can be incomplete, wrong form, age quickly, require sophisticated equipment and techniques

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What does competitive marketing intelligence consist of

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Systematic monitoring, collection, analysis of publicly available information about consumers, competitors and developments in the marketing environment

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What is the goal of Competitive marketing intelligence

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to improve strategic decision making by understanding the consumer environment, assessing and tracking competitors’ actions, and providing early warnings of opportunities and threats

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What are the techniques used to collect competitive marketing intelligence

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Observing consumers first-hand
Quizzing the company’s own employees
Benchmarking competitors’ products
Monitoring social media buzz

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What is the marketing research process

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-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

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What types or research methods are used in step 1 of the marketing research process (Defining the problem and research objectives)

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Exploratory research
Descriptive research
Casual research

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51
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What is exploratory research good for

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To define the problem and suggest hypothesis

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What is descriptive research used for

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used to better describe the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of consumers

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What is casual research used for

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text hypotheses about cause-effect reletionships

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What topics are covered in the research plan (second step of the marketing process)

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Problems and research objectives
Information to be obtained
How results will help decision making
type of data required

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What is secondary data

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It is information that already exists
Collected for another purpose

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56
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Where can secondary data be retrieved from

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company’s internal database
purchased from outside suppliers
commercial online databases
internet engines

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What are the advantages of secondary data

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low cost
obtained quickly
cannot collect otherwise

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What are the disadvantages of secondary data

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potentially irrelevant
inaccurate
dated
biased

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What are the steps that we must follow to plan primary data collection

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Determine:
Research Approaches
Contact methods
Sampling plan
Research instruments

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What are the types of research approaches to collect primary data

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Observational research
Ethnographic research
Survey research
experimental research

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What are the details that we need to determine for a sampling plan

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sampling unit (who)
sampling size (hoe many)
sampling procedure (how)

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How is ethnographic research conducted

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By sending a trained observer to watch and interact with consumers in their natural habitat

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How do marketers conduct observational research

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gather primary data by observing relevant people, actions and situations

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why is mail interviewing efficient

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it let’s marketers gather a lot of information for a low cost

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65
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What are personal interviewing methods

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Individual interviewing
Group interviewing

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66
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Name the (3) online behavioural and social tracking and targeting

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Online listening
Behavioural Targeting
Social Targeting

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What does behavioural targeting do

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Uses online consumer tracking data to target advertisements and marketing offers to specific consumers

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what is a sampling plan

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a segment of the population selected to represent the population as a whole

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What does probability sample calculate

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confidence limits for sampling errors

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define stratified random sample

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the population is divided into mutually exclusive groups (age) and random samples are dream from each group

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define cluster sample

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The population is divided into mutually exclusive groups and the researcher draws a sample of the groups to interview

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What does nonprobability sample mean

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sampling errors cannot be measured

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Define convenience sample

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the researcher selects the easiest population members

74
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What is a Judgment sample

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The reacher uses his or her judgment to select population members who are good prospects for accurate information

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what is a Quota sample

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the researcher finds and interviews prescribed number of people in each of several categories

76
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What are some mechanical instruments that marketers use as research instruments

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people meters
checkout scanner s
neuromarketing (eye movement)

77
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What is the third step in the marketing process

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Implementing the research plan

78
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What do researchers do in the step 3 of the marketing process (implementing the research plan)

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Collect data
process the data
analyze the data

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What is the fourth step of the marketing process

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Interpreting the reporting findings

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What are the responsibilities of the market researcher in the 4th step of the marketing process (interpreting the reporting findings

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the market researcher must interpret findings, draw conclusions and report findings

81
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What are the responsibilities of the managers and the researchers

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work closely together when interpreting research results
share responsibility for the research process and resulting decisions

82
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What is Customer relationship management (CRM) used for

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-to manage detailed information about individual customers
- manage touch points to maximize customer loyalty

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What is the goal of customer relationship management (CRM)

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provide higher levels of customer service and develop deeper customer relationships by:
-providing a 360-degree view of the customer relationship
- pinpointing high-value customers, target them more efficiently
-creating offer tailored to specific customer requirements

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What does marketing analytics consist of

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the analysis tools, technologies, and processes by which marketers dig out meaningful patterns in big data to gain customer insights and gauge marketing performance.

85
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What is artificial intelligence

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technology by which machines think and learn in a way that looks and feels human but with a lot more analytical capacity.

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What process facilitate the information-sharing process in the information system (MIS)

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intranets: giving employees real-time access to customer information
- extranets: allowing key customers and value-network members to access account, product, and other data on demand

87
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What are the key words for customer relationship management

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Integrate, analyze, and apply individual customer data to build stronger relationships

88
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What is the consumer buyer behaviour

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buying behaviour of final consumers

89
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What is the consumer market

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all the individuals and households that buy or acquire goods and services for personal consumption

90
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What are the factors influencing consumer behaviour

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Cultural
Social
Personal
Psychological

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What are the 3 subcategories of cultural factors

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culture
subculture
social class

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define culture in the cultural factor influencing consumer behaviour

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Set of basic values, perceptions, wants, and behaviours learned by an individual from family and other important institutions

93
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define subculture in the cultural factor influencing consumer behaviour

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Group of people with shared value systems based on common life experiences and situations
ex. nationalities
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94
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What are the three important subculture groups in Canada

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regional subculture, founding nations, ethnic subcultures / visible minorities.

95
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What are the three subcategories of the social factors that influence customer behaviour

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Groups and social networks
Family roles and status

96
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What are membership groups from the social factors that influence consumer behaviour

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have a direct influence and to which a person belongs

97
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What are reference groups from the social factors that influence consumer behaviour

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serve as direct or indirect points of comparison or reference in forming a person’s attitudes or behaviour

98
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What does word-of-mouth mean from the social factors that influence consumer behaviour

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he impact of the personal words and recommendations of friends, family, associates, and other consumers

99
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What is an opinion leader from the social factors that influence consumer behaviour

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a person within a reference group who, because of certain characteristics (e.g., skills, knowledge, personality), exerts social influence on others

100
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What is influencer marketing from the social factors that influence consumer behaviour

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involves enlisting established influencers or creating new influencers to spread the word about a company’s brands

101
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What is the goal of online social networks from the social factors that influence consumer behaviour

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is to get customers involved with brands, turn them into brand advocates, and help them share their brand passions and experiences with others

102
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What is the most important reference group and consumer buying organization in society

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family

103
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How do people usually choose products

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appropriate to their role and status

104
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Name personal factors

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Occupation
Age and life stage
Economic situation
lifestyle
personality and self-concept

105
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How is a person’s pattern of living expressed

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by their psychographics

106
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What are the AIO dimensions

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Activities (work, hobbies)
Interests (food, fashion)
Opinions (about oneself, social issues)

107
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What is brand personality

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the specific bus of human traits that may be attributes to a particular brand

108
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What is self-concept

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that people’s possessions contribute to and reflect their identities

109
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What are some psychological factors

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Motivation
Perception
Beliefs and Attitudes

110
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What does the hierarchy of needs illustrate

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a person tries to satisfy the most important need first. When that need is satisfied, it will stop being a motivator. The person will then try and satisfy the next most important need

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What is the most important need to satisfy on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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physiological needs (under/thirst)

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What is the last need that needs to be satisfied on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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self-actualization needs (self-development and realization)

113
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name the needs that need to be satisfied from most important to least important

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physiological needs
safety and needs
social needs
esteem needs
self-actualization needs

114
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define perception

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the process by which people select, organize and interpret information to form a meaningful picture of the world

115
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what is selective attention

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the tendency for people to screen out most of the information to which they are exposed

116
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What is selective distortion

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the tendency of people to interpret information in a way that will support what they already believe.

117
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What is selective retention

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more likely to remember good points made about a brand they favour and forget good points made about competing brands.

118
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what is subliminal advertising

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being affected by marketing messages without even knowing it

119
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What is the consumption process

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repurchase issues
purchase issues
postpurchase issues

120
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What are the factors influencng consumer behaviour

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cultural
social
personal characteristics
psychological factors

121
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What are the stages of buyer decision process

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need recognition
information research
evaluation of alternatives
purchase decision
post-purchase behaviour

122
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What is ‘need recognition’ (first step in the buyer decision process) triggered by

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internal stimuli
external stimuli

123
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What is ‘information research’ (second step in the buyer decision process) sourced from

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Personal: Family, friends
Commercial:ads, websites
Public: media, review
Experimental:Sampling

124
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What are the five stages in adoption process

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Awareness
interest
evaluation
trial
adoption
(AIETA)

125
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What is the adoption process

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the mental process through which an individual passes from first learning about an innovation to final adoption

126
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how are adoption levels characterized

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innovators
early adopters
early mainstream
late mainstream
late adopters

127
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What are the characteristics that influence an innovation’s rate of adoption

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relative advantage
compatibility
complexity
communicability
initial and ongoing costs, risk and uncertainty, social approval

128
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define relative advantage

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the degree to which the innovation appears superior to existing products

129
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define divisibility

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the degree to which the innovation may be tried on a limited bases

130
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define communicability

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the degree to which the results of using the innovation can be observed or described to others

131
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Define business markets

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are huge and revolve more money and items than consumer markets

132
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why do business markets involve more money and time than consumer markets

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because they buy in bulk and involve less people

133
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how are consumer markets and business markets similar

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in terms of making decision to satisfy needs

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134
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How do business markets and consumer markets differ

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market structure and demand
nature of the buying unit
types of decisions and the decision process .

135
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1.What is the business market structure and demand

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less but larger buyers
inelastic and fluctuating demand

136
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What is derived demand

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business demand that comes from the demand for consumer good

137
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  1. what is the nature of the buying unit
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more decision participants
more professional purchasing effort

138
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what are the 3 types of decisions in the business market

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business purchases
buying process
supplier development

139
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what are the 4 questions about business buyer behaviour

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what buying decisions do business buyers make
who participates in the business buying process
what are the major influences on buyers
how do business buyers make their buying decisions

140
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What are the types of buying situations

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Straight rebuy
Modified rebuy
New task
Systems selling (solutions selling)

141
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define straight rebuy

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Buyer routinely reorders something without modifications

142
Q

Define modified rebuy

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buyer wants to modify product specifications, price, terms or suppliers

143
Q

Define New task

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Buyer purchases a product or service for the first time

144
Q

Define systems selling (solutions selling)

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Buying a packaged solution to a problem for a single seller

145
Q

The participants in the business buying process are called buying center: all the individuals and units that play a role in the purchase decision-making process. give some examples

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actual users of the product and service
people who make the buying decision
People and units influencing the buying decision
People who do the actual buying

146
Q

Name the major influences on the business buying behavior

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environmental
organizational
interpersonal
individual
buyers

147
Q

what does the environmental influence of the business buying behavior entail

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the economy
supply conditions
technology
politics and regulations
competition
culture and customs

148
Q

What does the organizational influence of the business buying behaviour entail

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objectives
strategies
structure
systems
procedures

149
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What does the interpersonal influence of the business buying behaviuor entail

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influence
expertise
authority
dynamics

150
Q

What does the individual influence of the business buying behaviour entail

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age education
job position
motives
personality
preferences
buying style

151
Q

** stages if the business buyer decision process

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1.problem recognition
2.general need description
3. Product specification
4.supplier search
5. proposal solicitation
6.supplier selection
7.perforance review

152
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What is step one of the business buyer decision process

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problem recognition

153
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what is the second step of the business buyer decision process

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General need description

154
Q

What is the thrid step in the business buyer decision process

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Product specification

155
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what is the fourth step in the business buyer decision process

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supplier search

156
Q

what is the fifth step in the business buyer decision process

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Proposal solicitation

157
Q

what is the sixth step in the business byer decision process

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supplier selection

158
Q

What is the seventh step in the business buyer decision process

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order routine specification

159
Q

what is the eight step in the business buyer decision process

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performance review

160
Q

what does e-procurement and occur through

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-reverse actions
-online trading exchanges
-company buying sites
- extranet links with key suppliers

161
Q

what are the benefits of e-procurement

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-cuts transaction costs
-results in efficient purchasing for both buyer and suppliers
-reduces the time between order and delivery
-frees buyers from a lot of paperwork

162
Q

what are the problems of e-procurement

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can affect the customer-supplier relationship
buyers using the power of internet to put suppliers against one another

163
Q

4 major steps in designing a customer value driver marketing strategy
(STDP)***

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-(market) segmentation
-(market) targeting
differentiation
positioning

164
Q

segmentation variables

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geographic
demographic
psychographic
behavioral

165
Q

demographic segmentation

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based on age, life-cycle, gender, income

166
Q

psychographic segmentation

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social class, lifestyle and personality characteristics

167
Q

behavioral segmentation

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knowledge, attitudes, uses

168
Q

***what is user status

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non users, ex-users, potential users, first time users, regular users
-their status related to how many times they used the product (depends on life stage)

169
Q

***what is usage rate

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light, medium and heavy product users

170
Q

***loyalty status

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completely loyal, somewhat loyal, not loyal

171
Q

what is multiple segmentation bases

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using more than one variable to segment the market
-makes more like-minded consumers

172
Q

*** what are the requirements of the effective segmentation

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measurable
substantial
differentiable
actionable

173
Q

** how can an effective segmentation be measurable

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measurable- size, purchasing power, profiles

174
Q

** how can an effective segmentation be accessible

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accessible- effectively reached and served

175
Q

** how can an effective segmentation be substantial

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substantial- large or profitable enough to serve

176
Q

** how can an effective segmentation be actionable

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actionable- effective programs can be designed for attracting and serving the segments

177
Q

how do marketers decide which segment to target

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they evaluate- the various segments based on their size, their current competitors, potential substitute products, power of buyer

178
Q

***what are the market-targeting strategies

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-undeferential (mass) marketing
- Differentiated (segmented marketing)
-concentrated (niche) marketing
-micromarketing (local or individual marketing)

179
Q

** define undeferential (mass)marketing

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ignore the segment differences and go after the whole market

180
Q

** define differentiated (segmented) marketing

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target several market segments and designs seperate offers for each
increased cost

181
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**define concentrated (niche) marketing

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go after a large share of one or few smaller segments or niches
focus limited resources on overlooked marketing

182
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**define micromarketing (local or individual marketing)

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Individual marketing or small group marketing

183
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what are the kay terms for differentiation and positioning

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who are our customers and what is our value proposition

184
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