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Marketing Flashcards

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What is meant by marketing

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Meeting the needs and wants of customers so that marketing’s primary aim of increasing sales can be met

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What is the marketing mix

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4 P’s

  • Product
  • Price
  • Place
  • Promotion
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What is meant by promotion

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The collection of techniques used to inform and persuade consumers to buy a product or service

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What are the 2 types/categories of promotion

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Above the line

Below the line

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What is meant by above the line promotion

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Promotion which uses media where there is no direct contact with the potential customer

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What are some examples of above the line promotion strategies

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  • Television
  • Billboards
  • Radio
  • Magazines
  • Cinema
  • Sponsorship
  • Newpapers
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Recall who can be targeted with one of the above the line promotion strategies, the advantages of this strategy and disadvantages of it

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Random

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What is meant by below the line promotion

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Promotion where the business can directly contact the potential customer

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Examples of below the line promotion strategies

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  • Email
  • Personal selling
  • Telesales
  • Product sampling
  • Leaflet distribution
  • Trade fairs
  • Internet (website)
  • Social media
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How should the advantage of social media being cheaper be referred as

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More cost effective, not free

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How can social media be used for promotion

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  • Cold sell
  • Use of influencers/brand ambassadors
  • Organic posts showing personality to engage audience
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What is meant by price

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The amount of money a customer needs to give up in order to obtain a product or service

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What are the 7 pricing strategies

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  • Cost-plus pricing
  • Competitor pricing
  • Price skimming
  • Penetration pricing
  • Marginal pricing
  • Contribution pricing
  • Psychological pricing
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What is meant by cost-plus pricing

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Add a percentage to the cost of making the product to get the selling price

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What is meant by competitor pricing

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Set based on prices charged by a competitor for a similar or identical product

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What is meant by price skimming

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When a price is set higher than that of rivals products because it’s has a higher value eg brand, more advanced technology

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What is meant by penetration pricing

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When a business that is new to a market sets a lower price than competitors in an attempt to break customer loyalties from trusted brands
Usually short-term

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What is meant by marginal pricing

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When price is set only to cover variable costs, as the level of output that’s revenue covers both fixed costs and variable costs has been surpassed

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What is meant by contribution pricing

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Setting a price to cover variables costs and make a contribution to covering fixed costs

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What is an example of when contribution pricing may be used

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In a hotel In an off-peak time

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What is meant by psychological pricing

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Reducing the price slightly to make the customer believe that the price of somethings is a lot lower than it actually is

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What is the formula for price elasticity of demand

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%change in D/%change in P

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Interpretation of Ped results

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Above 1 = Price elastic
1 = Unit elastic
Between 0 and 1 = Price inelastic
0 = Perfectly inelastic

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What should the answer of Ped always be

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Negative
Because of an inverse relationship between price and demand
Inferior goods would be positive but unlikely to be asked this in business

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What is the formula for income elasticity of demand

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% change in QD/% change in income

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Interpretation of income elasticity of demand results

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More than 1 = luxury

Between 0 and 1 = necessity

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What is the formula for cross price elasticity of demand

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% change in D for A/% change in price for B

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Interpretation of results for cross price elasticity of demand

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Positive = substitutes 
Negative = complements
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What is a use of working out elasticity

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Allows firms to find optimal sales price

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What is a limitation of using elasticities

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Prediction of changes in demand, which is even more difficult for a brand new product

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What does pricing mix mean

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Pricing strategy

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What is the product life cycle

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A model describing the stages of level of sales that a product goes through over time

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Draw the product life cycle

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In book 29th jan 2020

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What is the purpose of the product life cycle

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To tack progress to aid decision making at each stage

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What are the 4 stages of the product life cycle

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Introduction
Growth
Maturity
Decline

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What is meant by introduction in the product life cycle

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Researching, development and launching the product

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What is meant by growth in the product life cycle

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When sales are increasing at their fastest rate

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What is meant by maturity in the product life cycle

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When sales are near or at their highest, and growth of sales is slowing down

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What is meant by decline in the product life cycle

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When sales begin to fall

40
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What is meant by an extension strategy

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A strategy to increase sales when they begin to decline and therefore extend the products life cycle

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What are some examples of extension strategies

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Advertising 
Price reduction
Add value
Enter new markets
Change packaging
42
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What are advantages of using the product life cycle

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  • Aids decision making and planning

- Can spot trends of past similar products to avoid pitfalls

43
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What are some limitation of using a product life cycle

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  • Suggests that all products will follow that pattern, which is often not the case
  • Doesn’t consider other factors (eg might start to decline but then rise again due to changes in fashion or economic factors)
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What is a product positioning chart/market map

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A grid that considers 2 important features of the market and where a product can be plotted

45
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Why is a product positioning chart useful

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Allows business to identify gaps in the market when looking to launch a new product or adapt their existing one

46
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What may marketers not aim to fill a gap in the market

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A crowded segment suggests that products of this nature have high demand and therefore high sales volume

47
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What is meant by a product portfolio

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The collection/range of products that a business produce

48
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How can a business analyse its own product portfolio

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Using a product positioning chart

49
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Why do firms want to have a large product portfolio

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Increase sales
Meet needs of different customers
Spread risk
Increase competitiveness
Increase cash flow
Increase brand awareness
50
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Draw a Boston matrix

51
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What is the purpose of the Boston matrix

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Helps you decide where to allocate investment

52
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What are stars

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  • Stars are high growth products competing in markets where they are strong compared with the competition
  • Often need heavy investment to maintain growth
  • Stars will eventually becomes cash cows
53
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What are dogs

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  • Products that have a low market share in unattractive, low growth markets
  • May generate enough revenue to break even, but are rarely worth investing in
54
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What are question marks

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  • Products with low market share operating in high growth markets
  • They have potential, but will require large investment to grow market share
  • Have to decide which to invest in
55
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What are cash cows

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  • Low growth products with a high market share
  • Mature, successful products with relatively little need for investment
  • Need to be managed for continued profit, to generate cash flows that can be invested in stars and question marks
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What are some reasons that cash cows are important

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  • Little need for investment
  • Little need for advertisement
  • Use profit to reinvest in stars and QM’s
  • Good for cash flow
57
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What are some benefits of using the Boston matrix

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  • Identify which products to invest in (stars)
  • Identify products to reduce investment in (cash cows)
  • Identify which question marks to invest in and which to terminate
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Limitations of Boston matrix

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  • Doesn’t give figures (market share, growth and profitability)
  • Assumes market share will remain the same
  • Doesn’t identify which question marks are good
  • Doesn’t look at factors other than market share and growth
  • Cash cows often still need investment
  • Qualitative judgements have to be made
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What is meant by place

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How the product is distributed

60
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What is meant by channels of distribution

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  • Something that provides a link between production and consumption
61
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What are the 5 channels of distribution

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  • Producer, wholesaler, retailer, consumer
  • Producer, retailer, consumer
  • Producer, consumer
  • Producer, wholesaler, consumer
  • Producer, agent, consumer
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What are the 3 intermediaries that distribution channels may have

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Retailers
Wholesalers
Agents

63
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What is meant by a retailer

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The firm responsible for selling the product to the consumer eg shops

64
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What are some key trends in retailing

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  • Growth in out of town stores (retail parks)
  • Decline in independent stores
  • Increased use of technology
65
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What is the role of a wholesaler

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To break the bulk of products from the producer and distribute them to retailers or consumers

66
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What are the benefits of wholesalers

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  • Producers May be too big to deal with retailers individually
  • Help small retailers who are unable to store large quantities
  • Can use own logistics, may gain EOS from these
  • Producer and retailer can focus on their specialist areas
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What is a limitation of a wholesaler being part of the distribution channel

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  • Profits have to be shared amongst another intermediary
68
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What is meant by an agent

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A negotiator between the consumer and the producer

69
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What are some examples of agents

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Ticketmaster
Admiral insurance
Hays travel

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What are some benefits of agents

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  • Revenue through commission
  • Don’t have to hold stock
  • Reduce need for marketing for producers
71
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What is meant by a direct marketing channel

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When a producer sells directly to the consumer

72
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What are 2 examples of direct marketing channels

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  • Consumer buying eggs from a farmer face to face

- Customer buying iPhone from apple website

73
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What is meant by online distribution

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When a tangible product is bought online and then delivered by means of physical distribution

74
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What is meant by digital distribution

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Delivering goods to the customer via electronic methods

75
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What are advantages of online distribution

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  • Increased geographical reach to customers
  • Lower overheads
  • Can be ordered at all times
76
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What are drawbacks of online distribution

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  • Shipping and returns can be complicated and costly
  • Can often require high initial capital investment
  • Customers May like to see products before they buy them
  • Can increase security threats
77
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What are advantages of digital distribution

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  • No delivery costs
  • Product bought can be consumed instantly
  • No need to hold physical stock
78
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Disadvantages of digital distribution

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  • Not applicable for all products
  • Relies on internet access
  • High costs to launch and run software
  • Costs and difficulty in maintaining security and preventing fraud
  • Have to compete with illegal providers
79
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What are the P’s for service marketing

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  • People
  • Process
  • Physical evidence
80
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What is meant by people

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The people who make contact with customers in delivering the product (customer service)

81
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What is meant by process

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The systems and processes that deliver a product to a customer
Eg self service

82
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What is meant by physical evidence

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The elements of the physical environment the customer experiences
Eg furniture

83
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What is drip marketing

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Automated processes that send a set of messages (usually emails) to customers to move them through the sales cycle (eg new season of clothing)

84
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What is viral marketing

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The use of social media to share an advert like a compute virus

85
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What does advertising elasticity of demand look at

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The extent to which spending on advertising will affect sales

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What is the formula for AED

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% change QD/% change advertising cost

87
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What does an AED over 1, 1, under 1, 0 and less than 0 mean

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Over 1 - elastic
1 - Response equals advertising spend
Under 1 - Inelastic
0 - No effect
Under 0 - Less sales as a result of advertisement
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Advantages of AED

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  • Shows how worthwhile advertising is

- Can compare which methods of advertising to pursue

89
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Limitations of AED

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  • Difficult to predict change in demand
  • Percentages don’t show real values
  • Can’t credit increase in sales directly to an advertising campaign
90
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What is SWOT

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A framework for a business to assess its current position in order to make strategic decisions
Proactive rather than reactive
Internal - Strengths and weaknesses
External - Opportunities and threats

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Advantages of using SWOT for marketing

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  • Used as a proactive tool
  • Has a logical and simple structure
  • Encourages firms to look at external factors that they may have to respond to
92
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Limitations of SWOT analysis for marketing

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  • Can be too detailed so lacks focus
  • External environment can quickly change so plans become out of date eg coronavirus
  • May be biased when conducted by management who are responsible for strategic issues and don’t realise
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What are examples of marketing resources

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  • Marketing budget
  • Department or someone with marketing responsibility
  • Knowledge of the market
  • Set of objectives to be achieved through the marketing plan or strategy
94
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What are marketing objectives

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What a business wants to achieve from its marketing activities

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What is crucial about marketing objectives

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That they are related and consistent to overall aims and objectives of the business

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What is an example of a marketing objective

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Increase market share by 10% in the next 2 years

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