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Marketing Mix And Strategy Flashcards

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What is product or service design?

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The combination of factors needed in designing a product

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What is standard design?

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products or services that are sold as standard, the customer cannot add any extra features or benefits

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What does the function mean?

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What the item is used for

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What does aesthetic mean?

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What the item looks like

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What is promotion?

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The use of marketing tools to bring a product or service to the attention of potential buyers

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What is personal selling?

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When a salesperson meets a potential buyer face to face with the aim of selling their product/service

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What is direct marketing?

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Highly focussed targeted mail based on what customers have bought before

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What is Above the line advertising (ATL)?

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Involves mass media methods for targeting larger and more general customers

Eg. Advert on the tv

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What are the advantages to ATL

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Reaches mass audience

Advert communication is repeated so the message is clear

Great for building brand awareness

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What are the disadvantages of ATL

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Very expensive

Hard to measure clear results

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What is below the line adversing (BTL)?

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The same as direct marketing for reaching smaller but more targeted audiences

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What are the advantages of BTL?

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Easy to measure if the campaign reached an audience

Easy and inexpensive

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What are the disadvantages of BTL?

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Training may be needed on marketing

Need a good understanding of customer or buyer behaviour is required

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What is public relations?

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Aims to build a relationship between the business and the public to create a favourable copywriter image- long term strategy

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What is sponsorship?

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The financial or in kind support of an event with the objective of attaining certain business objectives

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What is pricing?

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The process of pricing is the choice of pricing strategy that a business makes when setting prices for their products or services

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What is cost plus pricing?

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A cost-plus pricing strategy seeks to set a price for a product or service which covers the costs and provides a good profit margin for the business

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What are the benefits to cost plus pricing?

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Protects the profit margins of the business
Easiest method of pricing to apply
Easy to estimate profit levels

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What are the drawbacks of cost plus pricing?

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This method of pricing does not take into account the prices of the competition

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What is skimming pricing?

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The price is set high to start and as more people join the market the price is decreased

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What are the benefits of skimming?

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A high starting price can establish an upmarket image

For innovative products it can be a great way to harvest high profits from early buyers who want the latest product and are prepared to pay a premium

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What are the drawbacks of skimming?

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Cheaper imitations of the product may appear on the market too soon and take sales away from the product
Risky strategy as customers may be put off from buying due to the high price

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What is competitive pricing?

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Having your prices the same as your competition so the customer has to make a decision on other factors such as service speed

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What are the benefits of competitive pricing?

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Makes consumers focus on non-price incentives

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What are the drawbacks of competitive pricing?

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Pricing at the competitive rate may not cover all the costs of some smaller businesses which can’t get the same economies of scale as the larger ones

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What is penetration pricing?

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This means setting prices really low on a new product to encourage sales and to persuade customers to try the product. Then when they like the product and have to keep buying it the business raises the price

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What are the benefits of penetration pricing?

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Works best with new products being launched to encourage consumers to try the product

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What are the drawbacks of penetration pricing?

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Consumers may have bought anyway, even without the low start price
Expensive as it eats into profits by reducing sales revenue

29
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What is predatory pricing?

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In oligopolies existing businesses may hold off the threat of a new entrant to the market by lowering their prices so that any competitor cannot make a profit.

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What are the benefits of predatory pricing?

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The intention with predatory pricing is to drive competitors out of the market place or set a barrier to entry to discourage new entrants to the market

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What are the drawbacks of predatory prices?

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Depends on the price elasticity of the product, if it is low then a lower price won’t make much difference to customer demand

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What is psychological pricing?

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This means pricing a product at £1.99 rather than £2.00 to appear cheaper

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What are the benefits to psychological pricing?

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  • Seems cheaper than it is
  • easy to implement
  • generates more sales
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What are the drawbacks to psychological pricing?

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Psychological pricing strategy can be high risk, if comparable products are available for a lower price consumers could be tempted away

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What is distribution?

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The process of getting the right product or service to the consumer in the right place

36
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What are the 4 stages of distribution?

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Manufacturer
Wholesaler
Retailer
Consumer

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What Is marketing?

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The management process of identifying, anticipating and satisfying consumer demands for profit

38
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What is a marketing strategy?

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The methods used by a business to achieve their marketing objectives

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What is product development phase?

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first stage of the product lifecycle where a product is designed and market research is analysed to produce a product which will satisfy customer needs

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What is the introduction phase?

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When the product in finally launched and released to the public. May be costly as advertising and marketing could be needed

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What is the growth phase?

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products are enjoying rapid growth in sales and profits

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What is the maturity phase?

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face intense competition now all the producers have joined the market

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What is the decline phase?

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profits and sales have fallen and the product may be withdrawn from sale

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