Marketing Exam Flashcards

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Stars

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SBUs whose products have a dominant market share in high-growth markets

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Question Marks

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SBUs whose products have a low market share in high growth markets

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3
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Cash Cows

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SBUs whose products have a dominant market share in a low-growth market

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4
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Dogs

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SBUs nobody wants

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5
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Triple Bottom Line

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Management seeks to maximize financial, social, and environmental bottom lines

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6
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What is marketing first and foremost about?

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Satisfying customer needs

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What is the evolution of the marketing concept?

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The idea that organizations succeed when they satisfy customers needs

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CX (Customer Experience)

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The overall assessment of every interaction the customer has experienced with a business

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9
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What is the production era?

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  • Marketing dominated by a production orientation
  • A management philosophy that emphasizes the most efficient ways to produce and distribute products
  • At the beginning of the industrial revolution, when demand for products outstripped supply
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What does Triple Bottom Line put emphasis on?

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Sustainability, accountability, ROI, and ROMI (return on marketing investment)

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Perceived Value

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The ratio of perceived benefits to perceived costs

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12
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What is disruptive marketing?

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  • Stepping outside of the box
  • The only way to stay in business for the long term
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13
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What is World Trade?

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Refers to the flow of goods and services among different countries

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Countertrade

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  • In some countries sufficient
  • Cash or credit is not available. Firms work out deals to trade their producers.
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15
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Steps in the decision process to enter global markets

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Step 1: Wether to go global
Step 2: Which market(s) to enter
Step 3: Level of commitment
Step 4: How to adapt marketing mix strategies (localize and standardize)

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16
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What do tarrifs do?

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Affect the price of goods sold internationally

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17
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What are some elements of the external enviroment?

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Economic environment, competitive environment, political/legal environment, sociocultural environment, decisions in the domestic market, decisions in the global market

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18
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Marketing Mix Strategies

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  • Straight extension
  • Product adaptation
  • Product invention
  • Backward invention
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19
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Straight extension

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Offer the same product into a foreign market

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20
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Product Adaptation

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Some changes in the product depending on what country it is being sold in

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21
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Product Invention

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Create a new product for the new market

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22
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Backward Invention

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Take an existing product and defeature it

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23
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Competition in the Microenvironment

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Involved three types of decision making

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Competition in the macroenvironment

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  • Monopoly
  • Oligopoly (small number of sellers w/ substantial market share)
  • Monopolistic Competition (May sellers who compete for buyers in a market - small market share)
  • Perfect Competition (Many sellers each offering the same good at the same price with the same level of demand)
25
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Xenocentrism

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When someone believes another country is better than their own in some way
Ex) Americans believe Germans make better cars

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Ethnocentrism

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The belief that your country is better than another

27
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Levels of Business Planning

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  • Strategic Planning
  • Functional Planning
  • Operational Planning
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Strategic Planning

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Planning done by corporate and/or SBU-level management
1) Define the mission
2) Evaluate the internal and external environment
3) Set organized or SBU objectives
4) Establish the business portfolio
5) Develop growth strategies

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Functional (Market) Planning

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Planning done by top functional-level management, such as the firm’s chief marketing officer
1) Perform a situation analysis
2) Set marketing objectives

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Operational Planning

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Planning done by supervisory managers
1) Develop action plans to implement the marketing plan
2) Use marketing metrics to monitor how the plan is working
* Products to produce (the portfolio)
* Identifying target markets (functional plan)
* Specific new producer ad language, media, selection, cities to run in etc.

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What makes a good mission statement?

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Can’t be too narrow, broad, or short sighted

32
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Internal Environment

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A firm’s strengths and weaknesses
- Technologies/patents
- Physical facilities
- Financial stability
- Supplier relationships
- Reputation
- Strong brands
- Human Capital

33
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What is a SWOT Analysis

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Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

34
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BCG Growth Share Matrix

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Classifies various SBUs into one of four categories based on the SBU market growth rate and relative market share

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SBU

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Strategic business unit

36
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Product-Market Growth Strategies Matrix

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Displays the product-market growth matrix which characterizes different growth strategies according to type of market and type of product

37
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Market Penetration Strategy

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Seek to increase sales of existing products to existing markets

38
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Product Development Strategy

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Create growth by selling new products in existing markets

39
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Market Development Strategy

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Introduce existing products to new markets

40
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Diversification Strategy

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Emphasizes both new products and new markets to achieve

41
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What are two measures of actual performance

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1) Activity metrics
2) Outcome metrics

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ROMI

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Return on marketing investment

43
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What is ROMI

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Revenue (or profit) generated by investment in a given marketing program divided by the cost of the program at its given level of risk

44
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What is a internal company data system

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  • Information generated from within the company, often through their intranet and marketing dashboards
  • Used to produce reports on sales and marketing activities
  • Includes sales records: who buys what in what quantities at what intervals
  • Commonly accessed by marketers via secure intranets
45
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Cross-Sectional

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Study a fresh sample of people each time

46
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Longitudinal

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Follow the same sample of people over time

47
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Descriptive Research

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-Systematically investigates a marketing problem
-Conclusions based on a large representative sample of research participants
-Results expressed in quantitative terms

48
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Mail questionnaire advantages and disadvantages

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Advantages
- Respondents feel anonymous
- Low Cost
- Good for ongoing research
Disadvantages
- It may take a long time
- Low rate of response; many consumers may not return questionnaires
- Inflexible questionnaire format
- The length of the questionnaire is limited by the respondents

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Probability Sampling

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Each member of the population has some known chance of being included

50
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Simple Random Sample

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Systematic sampling procedure

51
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Stratified Sample

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Researchers obtain more accurate results when they carefully design and implement good sampling techniques.

52
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Where does a CRM capture information?

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CRM captures information at each customer touchpoint

53
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Non-probability sampling

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A sample in which personal judgment is used to select respondents

54
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Data mining

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The process by which analysts identify unique patterns of behavior in big data

55
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Data Warehouse

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A system to store and process data