MG1006 CHAPTERS 4,6,7 Flashcards

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what is B2B marketing?

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is concerned with the marketing of a huge range of products and services that are bought and sold between organisations

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what are the key difference between B2C and B2B

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  • B2B marketing is fundamentally different from consumer goods or services marketing because organisational buyers do not consume the products or services themselves
    • Decisions are made by organisations not individuals
    • While organisations are often structurally and legally independent, they are also interdependent
    • Fewer customers!
    • B2B markets serve demand, which is driven by firms (intermediaries) across the value chain, whereas B2C markets serve demand at the end of the value chain
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Types of B2B markets

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-industrial market
- Reseller Markets
- Government and institutional markets

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What are the dimensions in B2B marketing

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The purchase dimension
The sales dimension
The communication dimension

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5
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The decision making unit of B2B have how many roles?

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6

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what are the 6 roles in DMU of B2B

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initiator
user
decider
influencer
buyer
gatekeepers

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7
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what are the 3 ways sales and marketing strategy can affect a sale?

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  • Through influencing need recognition
  • Through the design of production specifications
  • By clearly presenting the advantages of the product or service over those of the competition
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What are the stages in the Decision making process of B2B?

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  • recognition of a problem
  • Determination of specification and quantity of needed item
  • search for and qualification of potential sources
  • Acquisition and analysis of proposals
  • evaluation of proposals and selection of suppliers
  • selection of an order routine
  • Performance feedback and evaluation
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B2B buying is characterised by? (choice criteria)

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Economic
technical
social
personal

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10
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how many categories are there in segmenting B2B markets

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2

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11
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What are the categories in segmenting B2B markets

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Macrosegmentation
microsegmentation

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The Characteristics of organisational buying

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  • The organizational purchase depends on:
  • The risks and uncertainty
  • Negotiations
  • Complexity of buying
  • Nature and size of customers
  • Network technology and e-commerce
    *Derived demand
  • Economical and technical choice criteria
  • Buying to a specific requirements
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13
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what is the market research?

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The process of gathering, interpreting and reporting information to help marketers solve specific problems or to take advantage of marketing opportunities

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what are the benefits of market research?

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  • making important business decisions
  • securing investments and funding
  • determining new business opportunities
  • avoiding business failures
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how many stages are there in the market research process?

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5

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what are the stages in the market research process?

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  1. Research Planning:
  2. Exploratory Research
  3. Main data collection considerations
  4. Data analysis and interpretation
  5. Report writing and presentation
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what are the research approaches in the market research process?

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Qualitative research
Quantitative research

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Qualitative research

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  • Research where you analysis and understand consumers
  • They are focus groups and in-depth interviews
  • They gather verbal data
  • small samples, rarely above 30
  • content analysis of the data
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Quantitative research

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  • Provide information that can be generalised to the population
  • Gather numerical data
  • large, representative samples
  • surveys using a structured questionnaire
  • statistical analysis of data
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what do we find in research planning

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Initial contact
research brief
research proposal

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what is Initial contact (research planning)

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Realisation of a problem, information to resolve

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what is Research Brief (research planning)

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Outline the research objectives

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23
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what is Research Proposal (research planning)

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Statement of objectives

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what do we find in initial contact?

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Meetings with the Internal marketing research staff or outside agency

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what do we find in Research Brief?

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Background information, sources of information, scale of the project, timetable

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what do we find in Research Proposal?

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  • Work to be completed, research design etc.,
  • Timetable
  • Costs
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27
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what are the types of research in the explanatory research?

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primary research
secondary research

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28
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what is primary research in explanatory research?

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  • Creating new data for the purpose of the research
  • The Data Collection is under the supervision of the investigator
  • Research conducted for the first time
29
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what is secondary research in explanatory research?

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Secondary data collection and analysis

30
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Questions the marketer needs to ask? (secondary research)

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– Accuracy/dependency of the data?
– Qualitative vs quantitative?
– What is more appropriate to answer their research question?
– When was the original data collected?
– Purpose of the study?
– Content of the dat

31
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what do we find in macrosegmentation

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indutry
organizational size
geographic location

32
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what do we find in micro-segmentation B2B

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choice criteria
DMU structure
DMProcess
buy class
purchasing organisation
organisation innovativeness

33
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what is B2B segmentation?

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profiles the organisation and the buyers. It has two types of segmentation. (macro and micro segmenation)

34
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What is B2C segmentation?

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Focuses on grouping individuals into marketing related segment

35
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What is Choice criteria in B2B?

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It refers to the criteria used by member of the DMU to evaluate suppliers proposals

36
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what is market segmentation?

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the process that consists of sectioning the target market into smaller groups that share similar characteristics such as age, income, interest, needs, location…

37
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what is mass marketing?

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  • selling the same product to all consumers.
  • companies try to communicate with the largest possible number of consumer, with the aim of selling the highest possible volume
38
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what is targeted marketing?

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Selecting a group of consumers for marketing

39
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why should we segment?

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  • everybody is different
  • it is unlikely for a company to appeal to an entire market
  • identifies segments that have viable target market.
  • reduces the risk of a product life cycle declining
40
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target marketing , what is segmentation?

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Identifying potential company’s customers and splitting them into groups with those who have similar needs.

41
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target marketing, what is targeting?

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identifying target market involves evaluating segments and deciding on which segment is worth pursing, having considered issues such as size, value , potential.

42
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target marketing, what is positioning?

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designing product to meet segment needs and develop a marketing mix

43
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target market has three processes what are they?

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segmentation
targeting
positioning

44
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what are the three processes in market segmentation?

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the disaggregated market
the segmented market
the target market

45
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what happens in The disaggregated market ?

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The characteristics of individual customers are understood.

46
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what happens in The segmented market

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Customers are grouped into segments on the basis of having similar characteristics.

47
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what happens in The target market ?

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Find the Segment that is most attractive and a design a marketing mix is for that target market.

48
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What happens in the positioning process in target market?

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Marketing Mix is introduced and developed so that it fits the target markets needs and wants.

49
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what are the advantages of market segmentation?

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1) Differentiation
2) Target market selection
3) Tailored marketing mix
4) Opportunities and threats

50
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consumer segmentation is divided into 3 groups what are they?

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  • behavioural
  • psychographic
  • profile
51
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what happens in Behavioural segmentation ?

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It divides the market into groups based on their knowledge, attitudes, uses and responses to the product.

52
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Examples of segmentation criteria include

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usage frequency
brand loyalty
purchase occasion

53
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benefits of Behavioural segmentation?

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provides an understanding of why people buy in a market and can aid in identifying opportunities.

54
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what is Psychographic Segments ?

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involves dividing your market into segments based upon different personality traits, values, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles of consumers.

55
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what is Profile Segments

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allow consumer groups to be classified in a way that they can be reached by communications media.

56
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Profile variable are objective and can be assessed using….

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demographic
socio-economic
geographic
……segmentation variables.

57
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Geographic segmentation examples?

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region, climate, population density, population growth rate and culture

58
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Demographic segmentation examples?

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age, race, religion, gender, family size, ethnicity, income, and education.

59
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what are the 4 criteria’s for selecting market segments?

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measurable
accessible
substantial
profitable

60
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give me 4 target marketing strategies

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undifferentiated marketing
differentiated marketing
focused marketing
customised marketing

61
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what is Undifferentiated marketing?

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a company develops a single marketing mix for the whole market

62
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what is Differentiated marketing?

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: a company develops specific marketing mixes to appeal to some or all of the segments

63
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what is Focused marketing?

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a company develops a single marketing mix aimed at one target (niche) market

64
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what is Customized marketing ?

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a company develops a discrete marketing mix for each customer

65
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what are multi segment approach?

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  • Focuses on a variety of different segments
  • Develops a different marketing mix for each
  • Applicable to many situations – easy to implement
  • Different packaging type of the same product
  • Little additional marketing cost (sometimes)
    Must be implemented carefully
66
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what do companies decided in positioning?

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they decided the value position – how it will create differentiated value for targeted segments and what positions it wants to occupy in those segments

67
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what are the key tasks in positioning?

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market segmentation
target market
differentiated advantage

68
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what changes are involved in repositioning ?

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target market
the differentiated advantage
or both

69
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what are Repositioning strategies?

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image Repositioning
product Repositioning
intangible Repositioning
tangible Repositioning