Marketing Flashcards

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What are the 2 types of research and their methods?

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Primary:
- Questionnaires
- Interviews
- Trialing
- Focus groups

Secondary:
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- Census

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What is primary research?

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Information collected by the researcher

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3
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What is secondary research?

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The collection of data using research or information collected by others

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4
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What is marketing?

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Finding out the needs and wants of potential customers and promoting the company’s products or services.

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5
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Advantages and disadvantages of primary research

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Advantages:
-Specific to the business
-Provides detailed information
-Relevant and up to date
-Can gather a mix of quantitative and qualitative
Disadvantages:
- Time consuming
- Expensive
- Can be difficult to collect

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Advantages and disadvantages of secondary research

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Advantages:
-Saves time
-Relatively inexpensive
-Widely available
Disadvantages:
-Not specifically gathered for the business
-May contain bias
-May be out of date

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What is qualitative research?

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  • Not numbers, words
  • can help define problems and learn about customers’ opinions, values and beliefs
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What is quantitative research?

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  • All about numbers
  • Collects factual information on things that can be quantified (put into numbers) and recorded easily
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9
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What are the 4 P’s

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  • Product
  • Place
  • Promotion
  • Price
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What is promotion?

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Promotion is the methods a business uses to communicate information about its products and services among its customers and potential customers

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What are the methods of promotion- advertising?

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  • social media
  • television
  • websites
  • radio
  • print media
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12
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What are the methods of promotion - point of sale?

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  • Price reductions
  • Loss leaders
  • Competitions
  • Free samples
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13
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What is price?

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  • Price is the amount a business charges its customers for its product or service.
  • Customers want value for money and this may mean a business needs to set low prices to generate high levels of sales.
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14
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What is competitive pricing?

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when a business sets its prices for its products and services based on what other firms in the market are charging

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What is cost plus pricing?

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where a business considers how much a product has cost them to produce, and then adds a mark-up to how much profit they want to make

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16
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What is penetration pricing?

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the pricing technique of setting a relatively low initial price, usually lower than the intended established price, to attract new customers, then rising it later on

17
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What is price skimming?

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charging a high price initially, and then lowering the price over time

18
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What is a product?

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A good or service provided by a business

19
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What is product design?

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is the process of creating new products or services for firms to sell.

20
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What is product innovation?

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Changing existing processes or creating new, more effective processes, products and ideas

21
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What is the product lifecycle?

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Represents the stages that a product goes through from the initial development, right through to the overall decline and withdraw

22
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What is introduction in the product life cycle?

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When the product is released to the market

23
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What is growth in the product life cycle?

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When sales are increasing at their fastest rate

24
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What is maturity in the product lifecycle?

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Sales are near their highest, but the rate of growth is slowing down

25
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What is decline in the product life cycle?

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Final stage, when sales begin to fall

26
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What is the product extension strategy?

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The business keeps people interested in the product for longer, thereby increasing the number of sales. Cheaper than creating new products

27
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What is point of sale promotion?

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Reducing the price of a product, usually for a limited time, is designed to attract new customers

28
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What is promotional pricing?

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Prices are reduced for a period of time through discounts, special offers or the use of vouchers

29
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What is place in the 4P’s

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where you sell your product and the distribution channels you use to get it to your customer

30
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What is digital distribution?

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Distributing products digitally means that they are available for customers to buy at any time and they can access the products immediately

31
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What is physical distribution?

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Distribution of goods using physical presence. like shop/office

32
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What is market data?

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Information that can help marketing decisions. It includes data on such things as market share, changes in demand and the effect of promotions.

33
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What is market share?

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the percentage of total sales of a product or service that a company expects to capture in relation to its competitors