Primer Parcial 4 Semestre Flashcards

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Are essential necessities that all humans must have to survive

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Needs

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Are human desires; things that people would like to have

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Wants

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Exists to address people’s needs and wants

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Marketing

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Supply the right products, set the correct price, place products conveniently and effective promotion are…

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The four main objectives of marketing

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Process involved in identifying, anticipating and satisfying consumer requirements profitably

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Marketing

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Marketing approach used by businesses that focuses on making products that they can sell, rather than selling products that they can make. It cares about the customer.

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Market orientation

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Greater flexibility and lower risk are…

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Advantages of market orientation

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Market research can be very expensive. This is…

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A disadvantage of market orientation

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Marketing approach adopted by businesses that focuses on selling products that they make instead of making products that they can sell. Hi-tech products belong to this orientation.

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Product orientation

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Quality can be assured and the firm has more control over its operations are…

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Advantages of product orientation

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High failure rate and high risk are…

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Disadvantages of product orientation

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Use of marketing strategies to meet the needs and wants of customers in a profitable way. Provides customers what customers want, when they want it and where they want it.

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Commercial marketing

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The planning and implementation of programs designed to bring about social change using concepts from commercial marketing. Uses mainstream marketing methods to achieve benefits of social change.

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Social marketing

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Place or process whereby customers and suppliers trade. It exists where there is demand for a particular product and where there is willingness from businesses to supply this products.

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Market

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Markets that cater for private individuals (general public)

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Consumer markets

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Markets that cater for organizations (government and businesses)

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Industrial or producer markets

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Refers to an organization’s portion of the total value of sale revenue within a specific industry. It is measured by expressing the firm’s sales revenue as a percentage of the total sales revenue of the industry.

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Market share

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Firms with the largest market are known as…

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Market leaders

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Measures the degree of competition that exists within a market by calculating the market share of the largest few firms in the industry. The sum of the market shares is known as concentration ratio.

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Market concentration

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Document outlining a firm’s marketing objectives and the marketing strategies to be used to achieve these objectives.

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Marketing plan

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Review of the current position of a firm’s marketing mix in terms of its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

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Marketing audit

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Systematic process of devising marketing objectives and appropriate marketing strategies to achieve these goals

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Marketing planning

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Improvement of a firm’s chances of success, clearer idea of the organization’s objectives and allows marketing managers to have better control of the organization are…

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Advantages of marketing planning

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Small firms don’t have the time, resources or expertise to do it and it might be outdated quickly are…

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Limitations of marketing planning

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Combination of various elements needed to successfully market a product. Used to review and develop marketing strategies and is at the heart of marketing planning. Is known as the 4Ps

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Marketing mix

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What are the 4Ps?

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Product, price, place and promotion

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Refers to the good or service being marketed

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Product

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Refers to how much customers have to pay to buy the product

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Price

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Refers to the methods of informing, reminding and persuading customers to buy a product

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Promotion

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Refers to the distribution channels used to get the product to the customers

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Place

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Industrial products sold to other businesses to further the production process

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Producer products

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Products sold to the end user (private individuals)

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Consumer products

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Targets that the marketing department wishes to achieve

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Marketing objectives

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Market share, market leadership, product positioning, consumer satisfaction and high market standing are…

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Marketing objectives

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Refers to a distinct group of customers with similar characteristics and similar wants or needs.

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Market segment

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Refers to each distinctive market segment having its own specific marketing mix

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Targeting

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Are the demographic and psychographic characteristics of consumers in different markets (age, gender, occupation, income, religion, status and habits).

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Consumer profiles

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Better understanding of customers, higher sales, growth opportunities and support for product differentiation are…

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Market segmentation advantages

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Type of segmentation by characteristics of the human population within a certain area, country or region. This includes age, gender, race and ethnicity, marital status, religion, language and income.

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Segmentation by demographics

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Type of segmentation that takes in count the location of customers and climate of a certain region.

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Segmentation by geographic factors

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Type of segmentation that considers emotions and lifestyle of customers. This includes hobbies, interests, values, religion, status and culture.

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Segmentation of psychographic factors

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Targets a specific and well-defined market segment

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Niche marketing

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Refers to undifferentiated marketing. Strategy that ignores targeting individual market segments

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Mass marketing

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Better marketing focus, less competition and highly specialization in meeting the needs and wants are…

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Advantages of niche marketing

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Small markets, few opportunities to exploit economies of scale and endangered survival of businesses are…

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Disadvantages of niche marketing

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Gain from huge potential economies of scale, no need to modify marketing strategies, bigger customer base and more profits are…

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Advantages of mass marketing

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Not suitable for all businesses, fierce competition, lack of focus and wasteful are…

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Disadvantages of mass marketing

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Visual tool that reveals customer perceptions of a product or brand in relation to others in the market.

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Perception map (or product positioning map)

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Products of high quality and high price

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Premium products

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Products of low quality but at appropriate prices

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Economy products

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High quality products with low products

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Bargain products

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Low quality products with high prices

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Cowboy products

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Helps businesses to refine their marketing strategies, simplicity, quick and easy to interpret and inform about opportunities and threats are…

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Advantages of perception maps

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Is any aspect of a business, product or brand that makes it stand out from those offered by competitors

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Unique selling point (USP)

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Act of distinguishing a business or its products from rivals in the industry

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Differentiation

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Price advantages, brand recognition, loyalty and distribution advantages are…

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Advantages of differentiation

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Expensive, economies of scale and excessive differentiation are…

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Disadvantages of differentiation

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Form of non-price competition that focuses on the ways in which a product is presented to the customer

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Packaging

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Refers to the image portrayed by a business regarding its observable and tangible features

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Physical evidence

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Part of the extended marketing mix which refers to the methods and procedures used to give clients the best possible experience

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Process

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Marketing strategy that involves changing the market’s perception of a firm’s product or brand in comparison to rival firms

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Repositioning

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Refers to marketing activities designed to discover the opinions, beliefs and preferences of potential and existing customers

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Market research

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Takes place on an ‘as and when necessary’ basis. Focuses on specific problems or issues and tends to be on a one-off basis.

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Ad hoc research

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Research that takes place on a regular and ongoing basis

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Continuous research

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Market research that involves gathering new data first-hand for a specific purpose

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Primary market research

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Document that contains a series of questions used to collect data for a specific purpose. Is the most common method of primary research.

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Survey (or questionnaire)

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Relevance, up to date, confidential and unique are…

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Advantages of primary research

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Time consuming, costly and misleading results are…

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Disadvantages of primary research

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Type of primary research that involves one-to-one discussions between an interviewer and interviewees to investigate their personal circumstances and opinions.

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Interview

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Type of primary research that involves small discussion groups to gain insight into the attitudes and behavior of respondents

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Focus groups

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Method of primary research that involves watching how people behave and respond in different situations

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Observations

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Involves the collection of second-hand data and information that already exists

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Secondary research (or desk research)

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Method of secondary research that reveals the characteristics and the outlook (trends) for a particular product or industry

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Market analysis

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Method of secondary research that involves publications from educational and research institutions

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Academic journals

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Type of secondary research in which the government publishes information

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Government publications

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Type of secondary research that involves newspapers, journals, television documentaries and books

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Media articles

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Cheaper and faster to collect, provides an insight to changes or trends and huge range of sources are…

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Advantages of secondary research

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Results might be outdated, inappropriate format, only provide partial information and available to competitors are…

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Disadvantages of secondary research

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Market research that involves getting non-numerical answers and opinions from respondents. Its main purpose is to understand behavior, attitudes and perceptions of others.

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Qualitative market research

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Market research that relies on a much larger number of responses to get ‘hard’ answers (measurable information rather than opinions).

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Quantitative market research

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Information gathered is very rich, inexpensive, respondents are not under pressure and honest answers are…

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Advantages of qualitative research

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Findings might not be representative, time consuming and validity is questionable are…

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Disadvantages of qualitative research

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All the potential customers of a particular market make up the…

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Population

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Refers to selecting a small group of the population for a particular market for primary research purposes

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Sampling

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Is the most commonly used sampling method in which a certain number of people (known as quota) from different market segments is selected. They share characteristics such as age, gender or occupation

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Quota sampling

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Reliable findings and relatively representative sample can be obtained are…

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Advantages of quota sampling

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The number of people interviewed in each segment is not always representative of the population is…

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A disadvantage of quota sampling

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Involves giving everyone in the population an equal chance of being selected for the sample. The respondents are randomly chosen by a computer using a database

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Random sampling

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It is quite easy to get a sample. This is…

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An advantage of random sampling

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It is indiscriminate (it might choose people who aren’t part of the target group due to randomness). This is…

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A disadvantage of random sampling

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The population is divided into segments (known as stratum). It chooses a number of respondents from each stratum that is proportional to the population and then randomly selects them as the sample.

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Stratified sampling

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Sample are more representative. This is an…

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Advantage of stratified sampling

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Difficulty to select relevant strata and expensive are…

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Disadvantages of stratified sampling

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Used when getting feedback from respondents involves too much time, traveling or money

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Cluster sampling

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It is quicker, easier and cheaper than other methods of sampling. This is an…

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Advantage of cluster sampling

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Bias and sampling errors. This a…

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Disadvantage of cluster sampling

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Refers to market research carried out with individuals who then suggest to other friends, family members or colleagues to increase the sample size

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Snowballing

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It is cheap and easy to enlarge the sample. This is an…

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Advantage of snowballing

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Uses subjects that are easy (convenient) to reach

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Convenience sampling

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Ease of data collection is an…

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Advantage of convenience sampling

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Market researchers exclude a large proportion of the population is a…

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Disadvantage of convenience sampling