Marketing and Promoting Your Business Flashcards

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Affinity group

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A group of people who share a common hobby, interest, or activity, or who are united through regular participation in shared outings.

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AIDA model

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An advertising model that identifies the stages that an individual goes through during the process of purchasing a product; it stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, Action.

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Blog

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A website or web page that contains comments, opinions, and observations—often written in a conversational, chronological format—by an individual or small group.

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Brand

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A name, symbol, or design that identifies and differentiates a product from other products, is the face your agency presents to the world and is the sum total of who you are and how you connect to your target market.

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Business development manager (BDM)

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A person who represents a business entity and who works to promote it by informing others about its products and services; a point of contact for a business entity.

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Cost per thousand (CPM)

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The price of 1,000 advertisement impressions on one web page. (also referred to as cost per mile)

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Customer relationship management (CRM)

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Software that allows agents to create and maintain an extensive database covering special interests and travel patterns.

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Co-op funds

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Money provided by a supplier, vendor, or other travel partner to share in advertising and other promotional activities.

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Demographics

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Measurable characteristics—such as age, gender, marital status, income, education, race or ethnicity, religion, household size, and employment or occupation—used to group people with similar characteristics together.

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Destination management organization (DMO)

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A local organization specializing in managing and promoting its destination.

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Elevator speech

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A short and persuasive description of your product and service that is used to market yourself in a short time (30 to 60 seconds).

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Familiarization (FAM) trip

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A trip offered to travel professionals at a reduced rate so they can inspect and experience hotels, resorts, restaurants, and destinations and can sample area attractions and services.

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Familiarization (FAM) trip

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A trip offered to travel professionals at a reduced rate so they can inspect and experience hotels, resorts, restaurants, and destinations and can sample area attractions and services.

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FIT

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Foreign independent tour - A tour for which the travel professional books all elements and designs a unique and individualized itinerary selected to meet the specific requests and needs of the individual traveler.

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Focus group

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A small group of customers gathered together with a trained moderator to discuss a particular topic, product, or issue.

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Four Ps of marketing

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The four characteristics of a business—Product, Promotion, Place, and Price—that make up the marketing mix.

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Keyword domain name

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Wording made up of two or more keywords that web surfers use to find information in a search engine.

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Logo

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A unique symbol, image, or wording that defines your brand and aligns with you and your special interest products.

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Marketing

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A series of decisions and actions taken by a seller to create a match between consumers’ preferences and a product.

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Marketing mix

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A combination of the seven Ps of marketing—employed while keeping the customer at the center—that provides you with the most effective marketing plan.

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Marketing plan

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A document that defines your market, outlines your strategies, sets your goals and establishes a framework for assessing the success of your efforts.

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Marketing process

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The method used to examine the marketplace, deeply understand a target market, devise and execute a marketing plan and gather information to help analyze the effectiveness of marketing

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Media planning

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The process of matching your message with the medium that has the largest reach of people you have targeted.

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Newsletter

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A written publication containing news or other information about an individual or organization that is sent on a regular basis to members of the organization or other interested persons.

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News release (formerly called press release)

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A formal printed announcement by a company about its activities that is written in the form of a news article and given to the news media.

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Niche

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A highly specialized segment of the travel market, defined by the common characteristics that a group of potential travelers shares, such as an affinity group with a unique special interest.

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Pay per click (PPC)

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A model of internet marketing in which advertisers pay a fee each time one of their ads is clicked.

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People

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The individuals and relationships—your internal resources—that help you deliver your brand and product.

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Physical evidence

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Clients’ experiences, feedback, quotes, endorsements, and so on to use in promotions through all marketing platforms.

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Pied Piper

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Group leader who is well respected and liked in a particular industry or area of interest and who will attract fellow travelers just by having his or her name connected with an activity.

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Place

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Where you will sell your product.

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Price

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How much you will charge for what you are selling.

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Process

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A system that helps ensure the efficient delivery of your service and product.

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Product

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What you intend to sell.

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Product mix

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The products or destinations your agency will focus on, along with their benefits.

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Promotion

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How you will sell your product.

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Psychographics

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Characteristics—such as values, attitudes, interests, behaviors, and lifestyle—used to group people with similar characteristics together.

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Public relations

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A core promotion strategy that primarily involves sending news releases to newspapers, magazines, and radio stations.

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Publicity

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Messages issued on behalf of a product or business.

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Relationship marketing

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A type of marketing that focuses less on selling and more on fostering loyalty and developing long-term, meaningful relationships with current prospective clients.

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Search engine

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Program that indexes documents and then attempts to match any documents relevant to the user’s search requests.

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Search engine optimization (SEO)

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A method of increasing the number of visitors to a website in which the search engine lists search results by relevance to the keyword search; web surfers tend to use links located near the top of the list.

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Search engine results page (SERP)

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A page displayed by search engines responding to a user’s query.

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Seven Ps of marketing

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The seven characteristics of a business—Product, Promotion, Place, Price, People, Process, and Physical evidence—that make up the marketing mix.

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Social media

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Electronic communication, websites, and applications used to share information and develop professional and personal connections; online communication in the form of social communities, online chat groups, digests, bulletin boards, forums, chat rooms, and so on.

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Social media influencer

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A user of social media who has established credibility or a reputation because of knowledge and expertise on a particular topic; a person who may have the power to affect buying decisions based on knowledge and expertise.

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Social proof

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The idea that, because so many people behave or feel a certain way, it must be the correct behavior or feeling; therefore, comments, testimonials, and reviews affect the buying behavior of consumers—both positively and negatively.

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Survey

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A list of questions intended to gather important information from current and prospective clients.

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Target market

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The group of potential clients who will be the focus of a company’s marketing efforts.

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Travel night

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An event hosted to bring a target market together for a presentation on a specific destination, product, or service.

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Tourism board

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The official organization that promotes a city, country, or region and encourages visitors through its efforts.

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Unique value proposition (UVP)

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Your unique qualities, certifications, knowledge, and experience that are the reasons clients should award their business to you; it establishes your brand.

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Uniform resource locator (URL)

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A web address that uniquely identifies a resource on the internet.

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Value

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The relationship between the price your clients pay and the benefits they receive; it reflects the client’s perception of the degree to which the benefits exceed the costs.

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Viral marketing

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Network-enhanced word of mouth that is a strategy many webpreneurs use to drive traffic to their website.

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Vlog

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Video blog

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Webpreneur

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An entrepreneur whose business relates to the internet or Web.

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Website

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A page or group of pages on the internet maintained by an individual or organization; web pages that share one domain name to represent an individual or organization online.