Section 3 - Marketing Flashcards

Definitions

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Marketing

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A management task that links the business to the customer by identifying and meeting the needs of customers profitability - it does this by getting the right product at the right price to the right place at the right time

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Marketing objectives

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The goals set for the marketing department to help the business achieve its overall objectives

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Marketing strategy

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Long-term plan established for achieving marketing objectives

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Market orientation

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An outward looking approach basing product decisions on customer demand, as established by market research

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Product orientation

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An inward looking approach that focuses on marketing products that can be made or have been made for a long time and then trying to sell them

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Asset-led marketing

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An approach to marketing that bases strategy on the firm’s existing strengths and assets instead of of Purely on what the customer wants

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Societal marketing

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This approach considers not only the demands of consumers but the effects on all members of the public involved in some way when firms meet these demands

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Demand

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The quantity of a product that consumers are willing and able to buy at a given price in a time period

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supply

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The quantity of a product that firms are prepared to supply at a given price in a time period

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equilibrium price

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The market price that equates supply and demand for a product

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Market size

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The total level of sales of all producers within a market

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market growth

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The percentage change in a total size of a market over period of time

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direct competitor

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Businesses that provide the same or very similar goods or services

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USP unique selling point (Proposition)

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The special feature of a product that differentiates it from its competitors products

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Market differentiation

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Making a product distinctive so that it stands out from competitors products in Consumer perception

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Niche marketing

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Identifying and exploiting a small segment of larger market by developing products to suit it

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mass marketing

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Selling the same product to the whole Market with no attempt to target groups within it

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market segment

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A subgroup of a home market in which consumers have similar characteristics

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Market segmentation

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Identifying different segments within a market and targeting different products or services to them

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consumer profile

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a quantified picture of consumers of a firms product showing, proportions of age groups, income levels, location, gender and social class

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market research

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This is a process of collecting recording and analysing data about customer, competitors and the market

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primary research

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The collection of first hand data that is directly related to a firms needs

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Secondary research

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Collection of data from second-hand sources

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Qualitative research

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Research into the in-depth motivations behind consumers buying behaviour and opinions

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Quantitative research

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Resets that leads to numerical results that can be statistically analysed

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Focus group

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A group people who are asked about the attitude towards a product, service, advertisement or new style Packaging

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Sample

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The group of people taking part in the market research survey selected to representative of the overall target market

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Random sampling

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Every member of the target population has an equal chance of being selected

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Systematic sampling

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Every nth item in the target population is selected

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Market share

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The percentage of sales in the total market sold by one business. This is calculated by the following formula:

(Firms sale in time period/total market sales in time period times)×100

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Stratfield sampling

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This draws a sample from a specified subgroup or segments of the population and uses random sampling to select an appropriate number for each Stratum

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Quota sampling

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When the population has been stratified and the interviewer selects appropriate number of respondents from each stratum

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Cluster sampling

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Using one or a number of specific group suit or samples from a non selecting from and not selecting from the whole population

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Open question

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Those that invite a wide-ranging or imaginative response - the result will be difficult to collate and present numerically

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Closed questions

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Questions to which and limited number of preset answers is offered

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Mode

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The value that occurs most frequently in a set of data

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Arithmetic mean

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Calculated by Totaling all the results and dividing by the number of results

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Median

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The value of the middle item when data has been ordered and ranked. It divides the data to show two equal parts

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Range

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The difference between the highest and lowest value

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Inter-quartile range

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The range of the middle 50% of the data

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marketing mix

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The four key decisions that must be taken in the effective marketing of a product

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Customer relationship management (CRM)

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Using marketing activities to establish successful customer relationships to the existing customers loyalty can be maintained

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brand

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An identifying symbol, name, image or trademark that distinguishes a product from its competitors

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Intangible attributes of a product

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Subjective opinions of customers about a product that cannot be measured or compared easily

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Tangible attributes of a product

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Measurable features of a product that can easily be compared with other products

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Product

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The end result of a production process sold on the market to satisfy customers needs

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product positioning

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The customers perception of the product or service as compared to its competitors

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Product portfolio analysis

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Analysing the range of existing products of a business to help allocate resources effectively between them

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Product portfolio analysis

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Analysing the range of existing products of a business to help allocate resources effectively between them

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product life cycle

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The pattern of sales recorded by product from lunch to withdraw from the market and is one of the main forms of product portfolio analyst

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customer durable

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Manufactured product that can be reused and a is expected to have a reasonably long life such as, a car or a washing machine

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Extension strategies

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These are marketing plans to extend the maturity stage of product before a brand new one is needed

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Price elasticity of demand

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Measures the responsiveness of the demand following a change in price

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Markup pricing

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Adding a fixed markup for profit to the unit price of a product

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Target pricing

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Setting a price that will give a required rate of return at a certain level of output

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Full cost pricing

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Setting a price by calculating a unit cost for the product and then adding a fixed profit margin.

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Contribution cost pricing

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Setting prices is based on a variable cost of making a product in order to make contribution towards fixed cost and profit

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Competition based pricing

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A thermal base it’s price upon the price set by its competitors

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Dynamic pricing

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Offering goods at a price that changes according to the level of demand and the customers ability to pay

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Penetration pricing

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Set in a relatively low price orphan supported by strong promotion in order to achieve a high volume of sales

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Market skimming

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Setting a high price for a new product when a firm has a unique or highly differentiated product with low price elasticity of demand

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Promotion

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The use of advertising, sale promotions, personal selling, direct mail, trade fairs, sponsorship and public relations to inform consumers and persuade them to buy

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promotion mix

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The combination of promotional techniques that a firm uses to sell product

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Above-the-line cremation

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A form of a nation that is undertaken by a business but paying for communication with consumers

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advertising

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Pay for communication with consumers to inform and persuade edgy TV and cinema advertising

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advertising

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Pay for communication with consumers to inform and persuade edgy TV and cinema advertising

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Below the line promotion

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Permission that is not a directly paid for means of communication but based on short-term incentives to purchase

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Below the line promotion

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Permission that is not a directly paid for means of communication but based on short-term incentives to purchase

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Sales promotion

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Incentives such as special offers or special deals direct at consumers or italicized Chiefs for term sales increases and repeat purchases by consumers

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personal selling

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a member of the sales staff communicate with one consumer with the aim of selling the product and establishing a long term relationship between the company and consumer

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sponsorship

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Payment by company to the organisers of an event or team so that company’s name becomes associated with the event team or individual

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public relations

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The deliberate use of free publicity provided by newspapers TVs and other media to communicate with and achieve understanding by the public

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Branding

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The Strategy of differentiating products from those of competitors by creating identifiable image and clear expectations about a product

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marketing or promotion budgeting

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The financial amount made available by a business for spending on marketing when a certain period of time

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Channel of distribution

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This refers to the chain of intermediaries a product passes through from producer to find a consumer

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internet marketing

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Refers to advertising and marketing activities that use Internet email and mobile communications to encourage direct sales by electronic commerce

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E-commerce

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The buying and selling of goods and services by businesses and consumers through electronic medium

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Viral marketing

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The use of social media sites or text messages to increase brand awareness or sell products

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Integrated marketing mix

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The key marketing decisions complement each other and work together to give customers a consistent message about the product