Marketing Flashcards
Marketing
Management task that links the business to the customer, identifying and meeting the needs of the customers profitably
Marketing objectives
Goals for marketing department to help the business achieve its overall objectives
Marketing strategy
Long-term plan established for achieving marketing objectives
Market orientation
An outward looking approach basing product decisions on customer demands, as established by market research
Product orientation
An inward looking approach that focuses on making products that can be made or have been made for a long time and then trying to sell them
Asset led marketin
Approach to Marketing the basis strategy on the firms existing strengths and assets instead of purely on what the customer wants
Societal marketing
This approach considers not only the demand of customers but the effects on all members of society involved in some ways when the firm meets these demands
Demand
Quantity of a product that consumers are willing And able to buy at a given price in a time period
Supply
Quantity of a product that firms are prepared to supply at a given price in a time period
Equilibrium price
The market price that equal supply and demand for a product
Market size
Total level of sales of all producers in a market
Market growth
The percentage change in the total size of a market over a period of time
Market share
Percentage change of sales in the total market sold by one business
Firms sales in a period
Total market sales in a period. X100
Direct competitor
Business that provides the same or very similar goods or service
Unique selling point – USP
Special feature of a product that differentiated from competitors products
Product differentiation
Making a product distinctive so that it stands out from competitors product in a consumers perception
Niche marketing
Identifying and exploiting a small segment of a large market or developing products to suit it
Mass marketing
Selling the same product to the whole market with no attempt to target groups within it
Market segment
A segment of a whole market in which consumers have similar characteristics
Market segmentation
Identifying different segments with in the market and targeting different products or services to them
Consumer profile
Qualified picture of consumers of a firms products, surely proportions of age groups, income levels, location, gender, social class
Market research
Process of collecting, recording, analysing data about consumers, competitors and the market
Primary research
Collecting First hand data that is directly related to references
Secondary research
Collection of data from secondhand sources
Qualitative research
Research into the in-depth motivation behind consumers Buying, behaviour/opinions
Quantitative research
Research that leads to numerical results that can be statistically analysed
Focus group
A group of people who ask about their attitude towards a product, service, advertisement, style of packaging
Sample
Group of people taking part in a market research survey selected to be representative of the overall target market