MART112 Flashcards
What is marketing?
Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.
What is needed for marketing to occur?
- We need two or more parties with unsatisfied needs
- Desire and ability to satisfy these needs
- A way for the parties to communicate (usefully the business who builds these communication channels)
- Something to exchange
what is a need?
someone is deprived of basic necessities (food, clothing, shelter etc.)
what is a want?
a need shaped by a person’s knowledge, culture and personality
how do we discover consumer needs?
- consumer needs are diversified and dynamic
- the first objective of marketing is to find the consumer needs
- however, consumers may not always know or be able to describe what they need and want
what are the 4 P’s?
- product (a good or service which will satisfy the customer needs and wants)
- place (the means of getting the product to the consumer)
- price (what is exchanged for the product)
- promotion (the means of communication between the buyer and the seller)
what type of factors are the 4 P’s?
- they are all controllable factors
- can be changed by the marketing manager
- when combined together they create a cohesive marketing programme
what are environmental forces?
- influence the marketing activity
- include social, economic, technological, competitive and regulatory
- competition is an uncontrollable factor
what is customer value?
The unique combination of benefits received by targeted buyers that includes quality, convenience, on time delivery, and both before-sale and after-sale service at a specific price.
What is CLV (customer lifetime value)?
how much money a customer will bring your brand throughout their entire time as a paying customer.
What is relationship marketing?
Links the organisation to it’s individual customers, employees, suppliers, and other partners for their mutual long-term benefit.
what is form utility?
- giving you the product the way you want it
- By transforming raw materials into finished products
what is place utility?
- giving you the product where you want it
- By getting the product to the desired location
what is time utility?
- giving you the product when you want it
- Storing products until they are needed or by opening at convenient times
what is possession utility?
- helping you purchase, use and enjoy the product
- Advice, installation, finance, and other services can make it possible for you to possess the value in the product
what are the four utilities?
- form
- place
- time
- possession
what is the utility sentence?
Marketing creates its utilities by bridging space (place utility) and hours (time utility) to provide products (form utility) for consumers to own and use (possession utility).
what are the three types of organisations?
- for profit
- not for profit
- government agency
what is an organisational strategy?
An organisations long-term course of action designed to deliver a unique customer experience while achieving it’s goals.
how do organisational strategy levels show hierarchy?
the higher the levels are on the hierarchy the broader the strategy would be
what is the strategy in visionary organisations ?
organisational foundation + organisational direction = organisational strategies
what is an organisational foundation?
An organisations core values are the fundamental, passionate, and enduring principles that guide it’s conduct over time.
what is a mission statement ?
a statement of the organisations function in society that often identifies it’s customers, markets, products, and technologies
what is organisational culture?
the set of values, ideas, attitudes, and norms of behaviour that is learned and shared among the members of an organisation
what is organisational direction?
A business describes the clear, broad, and underlying industry or market sector of an organisations offering.
define goals
profit. Sales. Market share. Quality. Customer satisfaction. Employee welfare. Social responsibility. Sometimes you need to sacrifice your short term gain to maintain your long term sustainable.
what is the organisational assessment ?
This categorises the products/ strategic business units (SBU’s) into one of the four different types, stars, cash cows, dogs, question marks
what is the organisational assessment based on?
- Market share – does the product being sold have a high or low market share?
- Market growth – are the number of potential customers in the market growing or not?
what is the flow of cash in the organisational assessment?
- Cash generated from cash cow products are used to develop star products and question mark products and question mark products.
- Cash should be reinvested in cash cow products so that they continue to generate strong cash flows
what is Ansoff’s matrix?
A strategic planning tool to help devise strategies for growth. Four options for growth – based on new or existing products, and new or existing products
what does the SWOT analysis stand for?
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
what is the order of the strategic marketing process?
- planning. (1. Swot analysis, 2. market-product focus and goal setting, 3. marketing programme)
- implementation phase
- evaluation phase
what is market-product focus and goal setting?
Determining which products will be directed toward which customers, often based on market segmentation, which involves aggregating prospective buyers into groups or segments that
(1) Have common needs
(2) Will respond similarly to a marketing action
what is a marketing plan ?
a roadmap for the marketing actions of an organisation for a specified future time period, such as one year or five years
what is environmental scanning?
- The process of continually acquiring information on events occurring outside the organisation to identify and interpret potential trends
what is monopolistic competition?
- Marketers attempt to gain differential advantage
- Marketer aims to get the buyer to perceive an attractive difference in their offerings
what is oligopoly?
- A market structure in which only a few large sellers, marketing essentially similar products, account or almost all of an industry’s sales
- E.g. air travel, beer, cigarettes, telecom industry
what is monopoly?
- A market structure where there is only one supplier of a product, for which there are no close substitutes
- Monopolies are becoming rare in New Zealand
- Traditionally utilities such as power, water etc.
what is duopoly?
- Jetstar and air new Zealand
- The warehouse and kmart
- Food stuffs and woolworths
what is pure competition?
A market structure where a large number of sellers sell an undifferentiated product
what are some benefits of technology in marketing?
- Faster cheaper communication
- Ability to sort ,calculate and manipulate data
- Ability to manipulate images, video and artwork
- Increased ability of small organisations to compete
what is the macro - environment ?
- external to organisation
- no control over