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What is a situation analysis?

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An appraisal of a company’s competencies and environment

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What is the SWOT analysis?

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Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats

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What is a microenvironment?

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External groups with which the company must manage relationships

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What is the value delivery network?

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All the members of the microenvironment in creating and delivery value to customers - company, suppliers, distributors, customers

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What is the internal environment?

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Must be kept customer-focused - internal partners

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What are the suppliers?

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Provide the resources needed by the company to produce its g/s

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What are the marketing intermediaries?

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They help the company to promote, sell, and distribute its products to final buyers - physical distribution, marketing services

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What are the customers?

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They must be considered as part of your value chain

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What the competitors?

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Who are they and what are they doing?

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Who is the public?

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Any group with an actual/potential interest in the company

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What is the standardized global marketing?

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Using the same marketing strategy and 4Ps in all of the company’s international markets

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What is the adapted global marketing?

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Adjusting the marketing strategy and 4Ps to each international target market

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What is the macroenvironment?

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External forces that the company cannot control

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What is the demographics?

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As demographics change, companies need to take note, and both anticipate and respond

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What is the economic forces?

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Impact consumer buyer power/spending

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What is the natural?

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The physical environment and natural resources needed as inputs by the company or affected by the company

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What is the techonology?

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New tech create new markets and new opportunities to differentiate the product

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What is the political?

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Legal and regulatory forces that influence or limit various organizations and individuals within or between countries

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What is the cultural?

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Institutions and other forces that affect a society’s basic values, perceptions, and behaviors

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What is the cultural environment?

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Core beliefs and values have a high degree of persistence
Secondary beliefs and values are more open to change

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How can you respond to the environment?

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Reactive firms passively accept the marketing environment and do not try to change it
Proactive firms develop strategies to change the environment where possible:
- they manage relationships with groups
- they take aggressive actions to affect the groups
- socially responsible companies seek out ways to protect the long-run interests of their environment

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What does place mean?

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Supply chains, distribution channels, marketing logistics, retailing and wholesaling

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What are upstream partners?

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Supply materials, information, finances, expertise, etc.

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What are downstream partners?

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Serve as distribution channels that link the firm and its customers

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What are marketing channels?
Describe the relationship among marketing intermediaries that help make a product/service available to the customer
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What are wholesalers?
Involved in all the activities of selling goods and services to those buying for resale or B2B use
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What are retailers?
Businesses involved in selling goods or services directly to consumers
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How are retailers classified?
- Relative price - Breadth and depth of the product assortments - Amount of service offered: - Self-service retailers - Limited-service - Full-service
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What is a whole-channel view?
Refers to designing an international value delivery network that accounts for the entire global supply chain and marketing channels
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What is vertical integration?
Producers, wholesalers Incorporating or taking control over an actor at a different level of marketing channel Examples include: Contractual Corporate
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What is horizontal integration?
2 or more companies at the same level of a marketing channel join together to pursue a new marketing opportunity or a common target customer ie. starbucks at target
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What are multichannel distribution systems ?
Using multiple channels to reach customers, often meaning that customers can access your product in multiple ways
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What are the different multichannel distribution systems?
Exclusive - Tesla Selective - Black toilet paper Intensive - Coke
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What is disintermediation?
Removing a level in the marketing channel ie. drones for amazon deliveries
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What are the marketing logistics?
Logistics refer to managing distribution channels
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What do logistic functions include?
Warehousing and inventory management Transportation Information management
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What are storage warehouses?
Store goods for moderate to long periods
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What are distribution centers?
Large, automated warehouses that manage their inventories to efficiently deliver goods to customers
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What is inventory management?
Just-in-time logistics
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What in information management?
Communication within the firm, between channel partners, customers
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Examples of logistics partnerships?
Vendor-managed inventory 3rd party logistics
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What is promotion?
Activities that involve communication with members of the microenvironment
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What is the promotion mix?
It is a blend of promotion tools: PR Sales promotion Personal selling Direct and digital marketing
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What is advertising?
The paid, non-personal presentation of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor
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What are the steps for advertising?
1. Set advertising objectives 2. Create advertising messages 3. Select advertising media 4. Set a budget and evaluate ROI
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What is setting advertising objectives?
Informative advertising, persuasive advertising and reminder advertising
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What is creating advertising messages?
Grabbing attention and be memorable
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What is selecting advertising media?
With what media does the target audience engage?
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What is PR?
Involves building good relations with the company's microenvironment
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What are PR tools?
Press - newsworthy moments for media Public affairs - building relationships with adjacent publics Lobbying - building relationships with regulators in the government public Investor relations - managing relations with investors and wider financial public
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What are sales promotions?
Short-term incentives to encourage a desired behavior, often the purchase or sale of a product
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How are sales promotions tactics categorized?
Consumer promotions, trade promotions, sales force promotions
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What does personal selling involve?
The company’s sales force interacting with customers for engagement, making sales, and building relationships
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What is the most important job of a sales manager?
Compensation - commissions, quotas and sales force promotions Scheduling
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What is direct marketing?
Using personalized efforts to obtain an immediate response and/or build lasting relationships with carefully selected individuals or communities Traditional and digital methods
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What is a push strategy?
Incentivizing movement of the product through a marketing channel
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What is a pull strategy?
Inducing final consumers to buy the product, causing intermediaries to derive demand for the product from a produce
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What are digital marketing strategies?
Owned media - websites, blogs, etc. Paid media - display ads, paid influencers, paid content, etc. Earned media - mentions, shares, reviews, etc.
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What is content marketing?
Making and distributing engaging material that consumers will seek out
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What do you need to consider when selecting an influencer?
Relevance, resonance, reach, relationship, risk
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What is integrated social media marketing?
Social media efforts that blend with and support other elements of the Promotion Mix
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What is inbound marketing?
Consumers come to your online channels for your content and offers Includes content marketing
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What is omni-channel retailing
Seamless buying experience across in-store, online, and mobile
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What is a merchant?
Operates similarly to retails but they sell to just businesses
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What is a broker?
An individual who looks at someone who is looking to sell something and brings them together with someone who wants to buy it
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What is an agent?
If a broker is loyal to one side, then it is an agent
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What is predatory targeting?
Targeting consumers who you are vulnerable to a given message rather than interested in your product
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What is digital red lining?
Discriminating against certain groups of consumers for ideological rather than strategic reasons
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What are examples of self-regulation?
Use data to provide customer value Provide transparency about data usage Don’t collect more data than you plan to use Don’t share or sell data without permission Invest in and build for data security
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What is globalisation?
Process by which businesses develop international influence
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What are pros and cons of globalisation?
Pros: Better opportunities for growth Competing with international rivals Cons: Greater risk Unfamiliar markets
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What are macroenvironmental factors?
Demographics, economic factors, political factors, cultural environments
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What is intermarket segmentation?
Grouping consumers with similar needs and buying behaviors irrespective of their country or geopolitical location
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What are types of trade barriers?
Tariffs, quotas, nontariff trade barriers
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What is straight product extension?
Entering a foreign market without making any changes to the product
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What is product adaptation?
Adapting a product to meet local conditions or wants in foreign markets
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What is product invention?
Creating something new to meet the needs of consumers
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What is communication adaptation?
Strategy of adapting advertising messages and channels to global markets
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What is indirect exporting?
The company is not on-the-ground in the foreign market, and does not work with any overseas marketing organizations
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What is direct exporting?
The company handles their own exports
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What are the 3 steps of market entry strategies
Exporting, joint venturing, direct investment
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What is joint venturing?
Partnering with a foreign company to produce or market the product/service
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What are types of joint venturing?
Licensing, contracts, joint ownership
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What is licensing?
Developing an agreement with a licensee or franchisee in the foreign market
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What is contract manufacturing?
Working with manufacturers in a foreign market to produce product or provide services
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What is management contracting?
A local firm provides information, consulting services, or operations for the company’s business in the foreign market
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What is joint ownership?
A company shares control and risk with a company locally present in the foreign market
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What is direct investment?
When a company develops their own foreign-based operations
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What are examples of direct investments?
Acquisitions, take overs
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What is sustainable marketing?
Meeting present needs while preserving the ability of future generations to meet their needs There is an ethical component and a strategic component
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What is ethical standards marketing?
Defining a company’s mission in broad social terms
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What is consumer-orientated marketing?
Viewing a company’s marketing activities from the consumer’s point of view
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What is customer value marketing?
Putting most of a company’s resources into customer value-building marketing
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What is cause-related marketing?
When is it a strategy for selling more products rather than a strategy for giving back to society?

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