Marketing Exam Review Flashcards

1
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define marketing

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Promoting a product to get more people to want and know about the product

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2
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Why is marketing dynamic

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Peoples preferences and trends change constantly

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3
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Why should marketing focus on the customer

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Marketing is about making sure the what customer wants and needs are met

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4
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In what ways is marketing international.

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People can buy products from anywhere in the world
explain in your own words

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Explain what are the 4 P in Marketing

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The elements involved in marketing a product/ service, they interact significantly with each other

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what is price (4 Ps)

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○ Price of the product or service
○ Determining the price based on the demand and materials

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what is place (4 Ps)

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○ Where the consumers buy the product
○ Online, retail, through a professional

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what is product (4 Ps)

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○ The product/ service that the company is selling

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what is promotion (4 Ps)

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○ Advertising that reaches the target market
○ Instagram campaign, public relations campaign

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what is a good

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Tangible/ physical products

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what is a service

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Intangible products that offer their expertise or labor

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what is an idea

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○ Intangible concept that can be used for financial gain.
○ concept, cause, image, issue, or philosophy

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13
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what is an example of a good

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literally anything you can touch

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what is an example of a service

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hairstylest, cleaner

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what is an example of an idea

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a campaign promoting recycling to encourage environmental responsibility

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why is the target market part of a marketing strategy

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Different people of age group, genders, income want/ need different things

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what are the 4 qualities that a target market should have

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demographic, geographic, psycographic, behavioral

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what is the demographic of a target market

examples

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Specific age group, income level, gender, occupation, and education level

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what is the geographic of a target market

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Regional preferences need to be taken into account

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what is the psychographic of a target market

give examples aswell

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○ More into depth then demographic
○ Consider lifestyle, attitudes, interests, and values

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what is the behavioral of a target market

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Relies on research into the decisions of a company’s current customers

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22
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What is the difference between mass marketing and target marketing?

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→ Mass marketing targets all people
→ Target marketing targets a specific group

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23
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what is segmenting a market

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divide your market into groups based on characteristics like age, gender, income level

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what is target marketing

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focus your marketing efforts on a specific group of people that you think are likely to buy your product or service

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what are 2 problems with target marketing

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  1. Focusing too much on a group can reduce adaptability to broader market trends
  2. exclude potential customers outside the chosen segments
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26
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What do you call the process of dividing a large marketing into smaller parts

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Market segmentation

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27
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List 3 geographic variables

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Region, Climate, Population density

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28
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List 5 demographic variables

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Age, Gender, Income, Education level, Family size

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29
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Why do marketers use generation to segment a market?

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People of different generations use and are used to different things

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30
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what is the product life cycle

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The stage in the life cycle of a product is based on industry sales

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what is the introduction stage in the product life cycle

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customers get introduced to the product, little to no competition

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what is the growth stage in the product life cycle

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the product becomes more recongnized, Marketing will likely be towards differentiating its product from others

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what is the maturity stage in the product life cycle

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market becomes saturated, higher competition

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34
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what is the decline stage in the product life cycle

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will lose market share, can chose to continue or discontinue the product.
continue - revamp the product or new generation
discontinue - company will stop generating support to the product

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35
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what are the 5 major modes of transportation

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truck, ship, train, plane, pipline

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what are the advantages and disadvantages of a plane (mode of transportation)

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Advantages: speed
Disadvantages: requires another mode of transportation

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what are the advantages and disadvantages of a pipleline (mode of transportation)

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Advantages: products safe from damage/ theft
Disadvantages: potential enviromental damage

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what are the advantages and disadvantages of a truck (mode of transportation)

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Advantages: flexible delivery times
Disadvantages: delay from traffic, weather

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what are the advantages and disadvantages of a ship (mode of transportation)

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Advantages: Can move large quantities farther at a lower cost
Disadvantages: requires another mode of transportation

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what are the advantages and disadvantages of a train (mode of transportation)

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Advantages: good for heavy goods
Disadvantages: no destination flexibility, can only go where there are tracks

41
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what is AIDA

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A model that shows what individual goes through during the process of purchasing a product/ service

42
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what is the marketing for the attention/awareness part of the AIDA model

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get the consumers attention

43
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what is the marketing for the interest part of the AIDA model

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Work on increasing the potential customer’s interest level

44
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what is the marketing for the desire part of the AIDA model

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Make consumers desire it, moving their mindset from “I like it” to “I want it.”

45
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what is the marketing for the action part of the AIDA model

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The ultimate goal is to drive the receiver of the marketing campaign to initiate action and purchase the product or service

46
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why do customers needs and wants change

3

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customers change
economy change
social trends change

47
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what is the marketing mix

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The marketing mix is a plan of action for marketing a product
(4 ps make the marketing mix)

48
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what are the 3 ways money is used

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exchange, value, store of wealth

49
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what is a corporation

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a business that exists separately from the people who own it -> owned by stockholders

50
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what is a business

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trem for activities involved in the development and exchange of products

51
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what is a sole propreitorship

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a business owned by one person who gets all profits and risks

52
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what is a partnership

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a business owned by a small number of people that share profits and risks

53
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what is a for-profit orginization

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to make profit for its owners

54
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wht is a non-for-profit orginzation

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Goal of a not-for-profit is to benefit society, money made gets invested into the orginzation

55
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what is a non-profit orginization

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Often used for smaller membership-based groups, focused on serving the interests of their members

56
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what are the 3 influences on consumer buying behaviour

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Psychological, social, situational

57
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what is maslo’s heirachy of needs

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a model for the motivations for human behavior

58
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why do markers know about maslo’s hierarchy of needs

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Marketers try to turn those needs/ wants into buying motives

59
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why do salespeople try to understand a customer’s buying motives

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they can do a better job of encouraging the customer to buy the product

60
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what are direct competitors

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businesses that sell similar products

60
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what are the 4 differencences between a service and a good

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intangible, inseparable, variable, perishable

61
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what are the 4 product elements

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usage, protection, basic product, name

62
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what are the goals of marketing

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distinguish their brand from the competition + build brand loyalty

63
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what is the good-service continuum

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Products can be visualized as being on a good-service continuum

64
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what is the “value of a brand”

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ability to increase sales through brand recognition and brand loyalty

65
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what is a brand

A

mark or design placed on an object

66
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what are the 4 parts of brand

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brand name, logo, mark, slogan

67
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what is the brand name (brand)

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consists of words, numbers, or letters that can be spoken

68
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what is a logo (brand)

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picture, design, or graphic image associated with the brand

69
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what is the mark name (brand)

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a logo that has human characteristics

70
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what is the slogan (brand)

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phrase or sentence that summarizes some essential aspect of the product

71
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what is a corprate brand

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represents a whole company

72
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what is a product brand

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represents a specific product

73
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what are the 3 types of brands

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manufacturer, private, generic

74
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how does branding help customers

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by identifying the product, providing assurance of quality and consistency

75
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what is positioning

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actions marketers take to create a specific image of a product in a customer’s mind

76
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what is brand positioning

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the image that the brand has in the customer’s mind

77
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what is an intermediaries

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the businesses between the original source of the product and the customer transportation

78
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what are the two intermediaries

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wholesaler -> B2B
retailer -> B2C

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what is a wholesaler

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buys from producers sells to another busines

80
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what is a retailer

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buys from producers or wholesalers sells to consumers

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what are examples of B2B promotion

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trade shows, point-of-purchase advertise

82
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what are examples of B2C promotion

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coupons, free samples

83
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what is the supply chain

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each step in the channel of distribution

84
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what are the channels of distribution in order

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producer, wholesaler, realiter, consumer
down is supplier
up is customer

85
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what does an agent/ broker do

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connects buyers and sellers where its hard to find eachother

86
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what is direct distribution

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channel of distribution with no intermediaries

87
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what is indirect distribution

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channel of distribution with more than one intermediary

88
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what are the 4 components of physical distribition

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  1. products to be shipped
  2. channel members
  3. transportation conpanies
  4. warehouses
89
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what is the Just-in-time (JIT)

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distribution strategy, allows for materials to be delivered the moment they are needed

90
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Electronic data interchange (EDI)

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business-to-business exchange of data through computers

91
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what is the goal of promotion

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inform, persuade, express (attract customers attention and demand)

92
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what are the 4 elements of promotion

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personal selling, non-personal selling, advertising, sales promotion

93
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what is personal selling (promotion)

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promotion in which the marketer and the customer communicate in perso

94
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what is non-personal selling (promotion)

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promotion that communicates the same message to all potential customers

95
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what is advertising (promotion)

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commercials, ads

96
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what is persuade (promotion)

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coupons, free samples

97
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what is the pull strategy

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promotion that communicates the same message to all potential customers, B2C

98
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what is the push strategy

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promotion that communicates the same message to all potential customers, B2B