Marketing Keywords Flashcards

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Market Research

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Collection, presentation and analysis of info relating to the marketing and consumption of goods and services

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Untapped

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Market or talent that is available but has not yet been exploited

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Primary or field research

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Gathering of new info that does not already exist

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Consumer panels

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Groups of customers are asked for feedback about products over a set period

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Secondary or desk research

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Collection of data that already exists

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Qualitative data

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Info about attitudes, beliefs, and intentions, usually written in words

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Quantitive data

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Info that can be quantified, that is, in numbers

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Sample

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Small group of people which must represent a proportion of the total market when carrying out market research

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Market

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Set of arrangements that allows buyers and sellers to communicate and trade in goods and services

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Marketing

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Identifying customer needs and satisfying them profitably

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Product oriented

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Where a business focuses on the design and manufacture of the product rather than the needs of customers

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Market oriented

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Where a business focuses on the needs of consumers when developing new products

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Market share

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Proportion of sales in a total market that a business or product enjoys

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Market analysis

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Quantitive and qualitative assessment of a market

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Mass markets

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Very large markets in which products with mass appeal are marketed

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Niche markets

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Smaller market, usually within a large market of industry

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Market segments

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Part of a whole market where a particular customer group has similar characteristics

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Socio economic groups

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Division of people according to social class based on employment status

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Marketing mix

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Elements of a firms marketing that are designed to meet the needs of customers

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Product life cycle

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Level of sales at the different stages through which a product passes over time

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Skimming

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Setting a high price initially and then lowering it over time

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Penetration pricing

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Setting a low price to begin with in order to get established in the market. Price may be raised once established

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Extension strategies

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Methods are sed to lengthen the life of a product

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Product portfolio

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Range of products a business is currently marketing

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Boston matrix

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2x2 matrix that describes products according to the market share they enjoy and wether the market has any potential for growth

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Cost plus pricing

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Adding a percentage to the costs of producing a product to get the price

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Mark up

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Percentage added to costs that makes a profit for a business when setting the price

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Competition based pricing

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Pricing strategies based on the prices charged by rivals

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Destroyer pricing

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Setting a low price until rivals have gone out of business

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Parents

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Legal documents giving a person or company the right to make or sell a new invention, product, or method of doing something. No one else can do or make what is patented

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Loss leader

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Product sold below cost to lure customers

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Early adopters

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Consumers who are keen to buy new products as soon as hey are launched

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Distribution channel

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Route taken by a product from the producer to the customer

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Intermediary

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Person or organization that helps arrange agreements or business deals between other people or organization

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Wholesalers

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Persons or businesses that buy goods from manufacturers and sell them in smaller quantities to retailers

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Retailers

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Business that buy goods from manufacturers and wholesalers and sell them in smaller quantities to consumers

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Bulk breaking

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Dividing a large quantity of goods received from the supplier before selling them on in smaller quantities to customers

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E commerce

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Use of electronic systems to sell goods and services

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Business to customers

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Selling of goods by businesses to consumers

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Direct selling

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Where businesses sell their products directly to consumers

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Agent or broker

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Intermediary that brings together buyers and sellers

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Above the line promotion

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Placing adverts using the media

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Below the line promotion

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Any promotion that does not involve using the media

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Merchandising

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The way the goods are arranged and placed in store

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Coupons

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Printed piece of paper given to customers by the seller of a product, allowing the customer to pay less than the usual price for a products

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Direct mail

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Advertisements that are sent to people in the post, often people who have chosen because they night be interested in the products

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Advertising

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Communication between a business and its customers where messages are placed in the media to encourage the purchase of products

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Public relations

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Attempt by a business to communicate with interested parties

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Viral advertising

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Direct marketing technique in which a company persuades internet users to forward its publicity via social media

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Exposure

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Advertising and publicity that is used to sell a product or a service

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Product positioning

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Way that people think about a product in relation to the competing products, or the wya that a business would like them to think about it