MKTG201 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.
Value
Ratio of the benefits a customer recieves from an offering compared to the costs
Exchange
When people give something up of value to them for something else they desire.
Marketing management
Leading and managing the facets of marketing to improve individual unit, organisational performance
Value proposition
The firms communication of the unique value of its product to customers
Marketing planning
Ongoing process of developing and implementing market driven strategies for an organisation.
Situation analysis
Loooking at company, enviromental, market and competitive analysis to evaluate where the company is now
Mission statement
Organization’s purpose, what do they do and why
PESTEL analysis
Political,economic, socio cultural, technological,enviromental, legal
Competitive enviroment
Forced driving industry competition. (potential entrants, suppliers, buyers, substitues)
SWOT analysis
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.
Summarise the situation analysis into this.
Customer Orientation
When a company understands it’s customers and listens to the market
Competitor Orientation
When a company uses competitor analysis as the primary driver for its strategies
Industry
Group of firms offering a product that are close substitutes for one another
Perfect competiton
Lots of producers, identical product, easy entry/exit, high competition, no control over price
Monopolistic competition
large no of producers, highly similar products, easy exit/entry, high competition, low control over price
Oligopoly
Few large producers, differentiated, high barriers to entry, competitors collaborate, high market power influencing price through collaboration
Monopoly
One producer, unique, no substitues, very high barriers to entry, no/low competition, complete control over price
Forward integration
When a producer gains control on the downstream of the supply chain, offers it directly to the end consumer.
Backward integration
Take over the upstream of their supply chain.
Market leader
largest market share, leads in price changes
Market follower
Willing to maintain market share
Market challenger
gain ground, or even overtake a leader, can attack a leader if they aren’t excelling
Consumer decision making process
problem recognition, search for information, evaluation of alternatives, product choice decision, post purchase decision
Market Nichers
leaders in small markets, avoid competing with large firms
Market segmentation
Dividing a market into submarkets based on common characteristics
Target marketing
Evaluating market segments, then making decisions about which one is most worthy to target.
Positioning
Communicating one or more sources of value in ways that connect needs and wants to what the product has to offer.
Types of segmentation
Geographic, demographic, psychographic, behavioural
Primary target markets
Most attractive segment, aligns with factors
Secondary target market
Have potential, not suitable for development immediately, no current products for them
Customer profiles
Customer jobs, customer pains, customer gains
Types of customer jobs
functional, social, personal/emotional, supporting
Three primary categories of competitive strategy
Cost leadership, Differentiation, Focus (or niche)
Cost leadership
low cost, removing costs of things that aren’t essential
Differentiation
Unique goods or services for which customers will pay a premium price, adopts strategy
Focus (or niche)
Narrow target, low cost, can differentiate themselves
Types of marketing strategies
Market penetration, Market development, Product development, Diversification
Market penetration
Existing products in existing markets. Increase sales products through promotion
Market development
Existing products in new markets. How can you make more markets aware of the product.
Product development
New products in existing markets. Create more growth
Diversification
New products in new markets.
Product value
Essential benefit, core product, enhanced product
Disruptive innovation
So innovative it create a fundamental change in the marketplace
Consumer goods, product classifications
Convenience goods, shopping goods, specialty goods, unsought goods