MKTG Final Flashcards
Advertising
Paid, nonpersonal communication through various media about a business firm, not-for-profit organization, product, or idea by a sponsor identified in a message intended to inform or persuade members of a particular audience
AIDA Concept
Steps through which an individual reaches a purchase decision (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action)
App
Short for application, a free or paid download that links users to a wide range of goods and services, media and text content, social media platforms, search engines, and the like.
Backward Integration
Process through which a manufacturer attempts to gain greater control over inputs in its production process, such as raw materials
Blogging
An online journal for an individual or organization where a writer posts information or opinions on various topics and followers may respond.
Bottom Line
overall company profitability
Brand Equity
added value that a respected well-known brand name gives to a product in the marketplace
Brand Recognition
Consumer awareness and identification of a brand.
Business Product
Goods and services purchased for use either directly or indirectly in the production of other goods and services for resale.
Buyers Market
A market in which there are more goods and services than people willing to buy them.
Cannibalization
loss of sales of an existing product due to competition from a new product in the same line.
Cause Marketing
Identification and marketing of a social issue, cause, or idea to selected target markets.
Celebrity Testimonials
celebrity endorses and promotes a product/business
Channel Conflicts
Conflicts among manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers. For example retailers do not like it when manufacturers create a website where they can sell the goods that are sold in the retail store.
Cohort Effect
Variations in the characteristics of an area of study (such as the incidence of a characteristic or the age at onset) over time among individuals who are defined by some shared temporal experience or common life experience, such as year of birth, etc.
Consultative Selling Process
Primarily focused on the experience that the potential customer (the lead) feels and sees during their interactions with you. The steps are: research, ask, listen, teach, qualify and close.
Content Marketing
A marketing technique of creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood target audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action.
Contractual Marketing System
System in which independent firms at different levels of distribution are tied together by contract to achieve economies of scale and greater sales impact.
Convenience Products
Products that appeal to a very large market segment. They are generally consumed regularly and purchased frequently. Examples of such products include most household items including food, cleaning products, and personal care products.
Cooperative Advertising
Agreement between a manufacturer and a member of the distribution chain (distributor, wholesaler, or retailer) under which the manufacturer shares a certain percentage of the member’s advertising and promotion costs, or contributes a fixed sum.
Corporate Website
an informational website operated by a business or other private enterprise such as a charity or nonprofit foundation.
Cultural Differences
The variations in the way of life, beliefs, traditions and laws between different countries, religions, societies and people.
Cumulative Quality Discount
More than one discount. For instance: Take an additional 20% off the 30% off. You can’t just add it to each other, you have to do the 30% off. Then 20% off that total amount.
Currency Exchange Rates
The price of one nation’s currency in the terms of another country’s currency. Fluctuations in exchange rates can make a nation’s currency more or less valuable compared with those of other nations.
Deregulation Movement
Fewer and simpler regulations will lead to a raised level of competitiveness, therefore higher productivity, more efficiency and lower prices overall.
Differentiated Marketing
Strategy that focuses on producing several products and pricing, promoting and distributing them with different marketing mixes designed to satisfy smaller segments; this allows a company to produce more sales because they are able to target many markets.
Direct Selling
is the marketing and selling of products directly to consumers away from a fixed retail location.
Dumping
controversial practice of selling a product in a foreign market at a price lower than what it receives in the producers domestic market. for example international companies that try to dump their products in the US at a lower price. To counteract this the US puts import tariffs on the foreign products so that the price increases to those prices of the US
Elastic Demand
Measure of responsiveness of purchasers and suppliers to a change in price
Elements of the Promotional Mix
Works like a subset of the marketing mix, with its product, distribution, promotion, and pricing elements.
Environmental Scanning
Process of collecting information about the external marketing environment to identify and interpret potential trends.
Ethics
Moral standards of behavior expected by a society.
Field Selling
Sales presentations made at prospective customer’s locations on a face-to-face basis.
Foreign Licensing
Agreement that grants foreign marketers the right to distribute a firm’s merchandise or to use its trademark, patent, or process in a specified geographic area.
Franchise
Contractual arrangement in which a wholesaler or retailer agrees to meet the operating requirements of a manufacturer or other franchiser.
Full-Service Research Supplier
Marketing research organization that offers all aspects of the marketing research process.