MKTG201 Flashcards
(113 cards)
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