Marketing management summary definitions Flashcards
Business portfolio
The group of different products, brands or SBUs owned by a company and having different income generating and growth capabilities
SBU
Single business unit or a collection of related businesses planned separately from the rest with own set of competitors and own responsibility for strategic planning and profit performanc
Mission statement
Is a statement of why an organization exists and what its overall goal is.
Characteristics of a good missions statement
Market rather than product oriented
Stress companys major poicies values and culture
Take a long term view
Stated in brief, with flexibility and distinction
Portfolio analysis
Can be conducted to assess the potential of a firms strategic business units. This is done witha BCG matrix
BCG matrix
Graph of relative market share and market growth rate
BCG matrix (stars)
Are high growth, high share businesses or products
BCG matrix (Cash cows)
Are low growth high share businesses or products
BCG matrix (question mark)
Are low share business units in high g rowth markets
BCG matrix (dogs)
Are low growth low share businesses and products (enough to maintain themselves though)
Ansoff matrix
Focuses on business growth in potential new market
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Market development
Company growth by increasing sales of current products to current market segments without changing the product
Market developments
Company growth by indentifying and developing new market segments for current company products
Product developemtns
Company growth by offering modified or new products to current market segments
Diversification
Company growth through starting up or acquiring businesses outside the companys current products and markets
Value chaing
Is the series of internal departments that carry our value creating activiteis to design, produce, market and deliver
Marketing strategy
Is the marketing logic by which the company hopes to create customer value and achieve profitable relationships
Market segmentation
Dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs characteristics or behaviors and who might require separate marketing strategies or mixes
Marketing targeting
The process of evaluating each market segments attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter
Positioning
Arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive and desirable place relative to competing products in the mind of target consumers
Differentiation
Actually differentiation the market offering to create superior customer value
Marketing mix
the set of tactical marketing tools – product, price, place and promition – that the firm blends to produce the response it wants in the target market
Five marketing management functions
Analysis, planning, implementation, organization and control
Marketing return on investment
Is the net return from a marketing investment divided by the cost of the marketing investment
2 ways for a firm to obtain new products
Acquisition (buying a whole company, patent or license)
New product development
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Customer centred new product development
Focuses on finding new ways to solve customer problems and create more customer satisfying experiences
Team based new product development
Is a new product development approach in which various company departments work closely together, overlapping the steps in the product development process
Product life cycle (PLC)
Is the course of a products sales and profits over its lifetime (typically slow rise, preak, falls off
PLC five stages
Product developemnt, introduction, growth, maturity, decline
Customer based pricing
Setting price based on buyers perceptions of value rather than on the sellers cost
Good value pricing:
Offering just the right combination of quality and good service at a fair price
Value added pricing
Attached value added features and services to differentiate a companys offers and charging higher prices
Cost based pricing
Setting prices based on the cost of producing, distributing and selling the product plus a fair rate of return for the effort and risk
Cost plus pricing
Adding a standard mark up to the cost of production
Break even pricing (tarket return pricing)
Firm tries to determine the price at which it will break even or make the target return it is seeking)
Competetive based pricing
Setting prices based on competitors strategies, price, costs, and market offers
Pure competition market
Market consists of many buyers and sellers trading in uniform commodity, such as wheat, copper or financial securities. No single buyer or seller has much effect on the going market price
Monopolistic competition market
The market consists of many buyers and sellers trading over a range of prices rather than a single market price. A range of prices occurs because sellers can differentitate their offers to buyers
Oligopolistic competition Market
The market consists of only a few large sellers. Because there are few sellers, each seller is alert and responsive to competitors pricing strategies and market moves
Pure monopoly market
The market is dominated by one seller, pricing is handled differently in each case
(price skimming)
setting a high price for a new product to skim maximum revenues later by layer from the segments willing to pay the high price; the company makes fewer but more profitable sales
Market penetration prices:
Setting a low price for a new product in order to attract a large number of buyers and a large market share
Product line pricing
Setting the price steps between various products in a product line based on cost differences between the products, customer evaluations of different features, and competitiors prices
Optional product pricing
The pricing of optional or accessory products along with a main product
Captive product pricing
Setting a price for products that must be used along with a main product, such as blades for a razor and games for a video game console
By product pricing
Setting the price for by-products in order to make the price of the main product more competitive.
By product pricing
Setting a price for by products in order to make the main products price more competetive
Product bundle pricing
Combining several products and offering the bundle at a reduced price
Segmented pricing
Selling a product or service at two or more prices, where the difference in prices is not based on differences in costs
Psychological pricing
Pricing that considers the psychology of prices and not simply the economics; the price is used to say something about the product.
Promotional pricing
Temporarily pricing products below the list price and sometimes even below cost, to increase short run sales
Geographical pricing
Adjusting prices to account for the geographic location of customers
Dynamic pricing
Adjusting prices continually to meet the characteristics and needs of individual customers and situations
International pricing
Adjust prices for international market
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Supply chain
Consists of upstream and downsteram partners.
upream from the company is supplies they need
Downstream are markets
Channel level
A layer of intermediaries that performs some work in bringing the product and its ownership closer to the final buyer
Indirect marketing channels
A marketing channel containing one or more intermediary levels
Conventional distribution channel
Consists of one or more independent producers, wholesalers, and retailers, each aiming to maximize its own profits.
Very little control over each others –> no means to resolve channel conflict
Vertical marketing system (VMS)
consists of producers, wholesalers and retailers acting as a unified system (due to contracts or one has so much power the others must follow)
Corporate VMS
Integrates successive stages of production and distribution under single ovwnership
Contractual VMS
Consists of independent firms at different levels of production and distribution that join together through contracts to obtain more economies or sales ipmact
Administered VMS
Leadership is assumed not through common ownership or contractual ties but through the size and power of one or a few dominant channel members
Multichannel distribution system
A distribution system in which a single firm sets up two or more marketing channels to reach one or more customer segments
Supply chain management
Managing upsteam and downstream value added flows of materials final goods and related information among suppliers
Integrated logistics management
The logistics concept that emphasizes teamwork, both inside the company and among all the marketing cahnnel organizations
Third party logistics provider
An independent logistics provider that performs any or all of the functions required to get a clients product to market
Five C’s of the marketing mix
Company, Customers, Competitors, Collaborators, and context.
Three parts of positioning statement
Frame of reference, primary benefit and target customers
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Demand increases as price increases
Price elasticity + formula
The sensitivity to changes in price
1) Demand2- demand1/ Demand1 = Percentage change in demand
2) Price2-Price1/Price1 = Percentage change in price
Price framing
Refers how the offer is communicated to the consumer
Example: Price is 4,99 instead of 5
Psychological pricing
The pricing that considers the psychology of prices not simply the econoics
Two mechanisms that relate to the left-digit bias
1) consumers want to reduce cognitive costs and do not read the cents ending
2) Consumers came to associate 99endings with sales or low price
Compromise effect
An increase in the choice share of focal option after it becomes intermediate following addition of a new extreme option to a set
(You evaluate prices relative to the prices of other products)
PWYWP (Pay what you want to pay)
A participative pricing mechanism in which consumers have maximum control over the price they pay. This leads to higher perceived control and attracts more attention
Promotion mix
The specific blend of communications tools that the company uses to communicate customer value and build customer relationships
Push strategy
Pushes products to the final consumer
Pull strategy
Attempts to attract attention of customers and builds up desire within these
Promotion mix typology
5 Promotional tools:
Advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, public relations and direct and digital promotion