Marketing strategy and the consumer Flashcards

1
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What is marketing?

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It is engaging customers and managing
profitable customer relationships

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What are the goals of marketing?

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  • Identify and attract new customers by offering superior value
  • Maintain and grow existing customers by delivering satisfaction and fostering loyalty
  • Create value for and capture value from customers
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What is the marketing concept?

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It is the philosophy that a company should deliver on desired customer satisfaction in order to create loyalty, which will in turn create profit

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4
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What is the customer lifetime value (CIV)?

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It is the value of the entire stream of purchases a customer makes over a lifetime of patronage

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Why does a company want to keep customers satisfied and loyal?

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  • Can lose that customer’s lifetime value
  • May cause other customers to defect
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What is a ‘need’?

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Something a customer is deprived of/lacks

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What is a ‘want’?

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Something a customer is looking for

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What is a ‘demand’?

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Wants which are backed up by financial power

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9
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What is marketing myopia?

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Paying too much attention to market offering that customers already buy within an existing product category rather than focusing on the needs/wants

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10
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What is the value proposition?

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What value does this company propose to provide its customers?
The reason to purchase your product

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10
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Who is the target customer?

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The people the company wants to sell their products to

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Why does a company need a value proposition?

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it allows to compete effectively by focusing on the USP and the core competencies

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12
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What is positioning?

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How does your product compare to the competition?

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12
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What is differentiation?

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Does the product provide greater value and can the customers tell?

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13
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What is the perception map?

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A simplified way to visually represent the relationships between the company and the competitors from the customer’s perspective

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14
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What is the positioning statement?

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Value proposition and target customer in linked with the positioning statement

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15
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What are the 4Ps?

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Product
Price
Promotion
Place

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16
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What is product?

A

Value creation - benefits

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17
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What is price?

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Value capture - revenue

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18
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What is place?

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Value delivery/access - distribution

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19
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What is promotion?

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Value communication - messaging and media

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20
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4As in the customer’s perception:

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Acceptability
Affordability
Accessibility
Awareness

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21
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What is the ansoff matrix?

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Growth strategy

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22
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What is market penetration?

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Focus on sales to current target customers without changing the original products

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23
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What is market development?

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Identify and develop new markets for current products

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24
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What is product development?

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Offer new products for a current customer

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25
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What is diversification?

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Start or acquire new products/businesses

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26
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What are the different target market segments?

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Total market, available market, target market, penetrated market

27
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What is market segmentation?

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Dividing a market into distinct group of buyers who have different needs, characteristics, behaviours, etc.
It is a group of consumers who respond in a similar way to given marketing efforts

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What is market targeting?

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Evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more target segments to enter

29
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How do you identify the target market?

A

Market segmentation and market targeting

30
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What are the different consumer segmentations?

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Geographic segmentation
Demographic segmentation
Psychographic segmentation
Behavioural segmentation

31
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What is geographic segmentation?

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Dividing the market into different geographical units

32
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What is demographic segmentation?

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Dividing a market into segments based on easily observable, individual-level variables
Age, gender, religion, etc.

33
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What is psychographic segmentation?

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Dividing a market based on social class, lifestyle, and personality characteristics

34
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What is behavioural segmentation?

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Using consumer behaviours to distinguish segments
Occasion, usage, loyalty, etc.

35
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What are the requirements for identifying profitable target segments?

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Measurable, accessible, substantial, differentiable, actionable

36
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What are the targeting strategies?

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Undifferentiated, differentiated, concentrated, micromarketing

37
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What is undifferentiated targeting strategy?

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Mass marketing– strategically ignore market segment differences and go after the whole market with a single offer

38
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What is differentiated targeting strategy?

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Target several market segments and design a separate marketing mix

39
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What is concentrated targeting strategy?

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Target a large share of smaller segments

40
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What is micro-marketing targeting strategy?

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Tailoring products and marketing programs to suit the tastes of specific individuals and locations
- local marketing - tailoring to specific geographic segments
- individual marketing - tailoring to specific customers

41
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What is marketing intelligence?

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Systematic monitoring and evaluation of consumers, competitors, and other internal and external factors that can impact marketing

42
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What is market research?

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Systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data relevant to a specific marketing problem facing an organization

43
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How do you design a market research plan?

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  1. Research question - what problem does the company face? What data does the company need?
  2. Sampling plan - who will be the subject(s) of the research? How will they be selected?
  3. Research method - what kind of research are you using? How will you contact respondents?
  4. Implementation - who will collect data and how? How much will it cost? How are you ensuring data quality and accuracy? Are you conducting ethical research?
44
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What are the types of samples?

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Probability - relies on randomness
Non-probability - prioritizes convenience and affordability

45
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What are the advantages of secondary data?

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Low cost/quick to obtain
Some data could not be collected otherwise

46
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What are the disadvantges of secondary data?

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Irrelevant, inaccurate, biased
Out-of-date

47
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What are the different research approaches?

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Observational research
Survey research
Experimental research
Marketing analytics

48
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What is observational research?

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Collecting data by observing relevant people, actions, and situations
* Ethnographic research
– Sending trained observers to watch and interact with consumers in their natural environments
* Tracking research
– Logging consumer actions in order to review their behaviors and preferences
– Online and offline methods

49
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What are methods of online tracking research?

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Online listening, web tracking, social targeting

50
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What are methods of offline tracking research?

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Scanner data, mechanical tracking, volunteers

51
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What is marketing analytics?

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Collecting and finding valuable or meaningful patterns in big data.
Big data refers to the huge and complex data sets generated

52
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What are research ethics?

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Failure to address privacy issues result in angry, less cooperative consumers and increased government intervention

53
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What is a customer?

A

An actual/potential patron of your business

54
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What is a buyer?

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Someone who has decided to give you money in exchange for your product or service

55
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What is a shopper?

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A customer who is currently comparing your products against your competition’s

56
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What is a consumer?

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An individual person who makes purchase decisions based on their needs, wants and demands

57
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What is the customer journey?

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Pre-purchase, point-of-purchase, post-purchase

58
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What is the B2C customer journey?

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  1. Need recognition
  2. Information search
  3. Evaluate alternatives
  4. Purchase decision
  5. Post-purchase decision
59
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What is the B2C conversion funnel?

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Product awareness
Interest
Consideration
Purchase
Relationship management

60
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What is the online conversion funnel?

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Impressions
Clicks
Click-through
Conversion
CRM

61
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What is the B2B customer journey?

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  1. Need recognition
  2. Formally describe the need
  3. Identify product specifications
  4. Search for suppliers
  5. Solicity proposals/quotes
  6. Select a supplier
  7. Specify an order routine
  8. Review supplier relationship
62
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What is a single/new task?

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Buyer purchases a product for the first time/once

63
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What is the straight rebuy?

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Buyer routinely reorders something without any modifications

64
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What is the modified rebuy?

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Buyer wants to modify product specifications, prices, terms

65
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What is the systems/solutions selling?

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Buyer purchases a packaged solutions to a problem from a single seller

66
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What is the vendor-manage inventory?

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Buyer turns over ordering and inventory responsibilities to their supplier