Section 3 - Marketing Flashcards
Definitions
Marketing
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
Marketing objectives
The goals set for the marketing department to help the business achieve its overall objectives
Marketing strategy
Long-term plan established for achieving marketing objectives
Market orientation
An outward looking approach basing product decisions on customer demand, as established by market research
Product orientation
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
Asset-led marketing
An approach to marketing that bases strategy on the firm’s existing strengths and assets instead of of Purely on what the customer wants
Societal marketing
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
Demand
The quantity of a product that consumers are willing and able to buy at a given price in a time period
supply
The quantity of a product that firms are prepared to supply at a given price in a time period
equilibrium price
The market price that equates supply and demand for a product
Market size
The total level of sales of all producers within a market
market growth
The percentage change in a total size of a market over period of time
direct competitor
Businesses that provide the same or very similar goods or services
USP unique selling point (Proposition)
The special feature of a product that differentiates it from its competitors products
Market differentiation
Making a product distinctive so that it stands out from competitors products in Consumer perception
Niche marketing
Identifying and exploiting a small segment of larger market by developing products to suit it
mass marketing
Selling the same product to the whole Market with no attempt to target groups within it
market segment
A subgroup of a home market in which consumers have similar characteristics
Market segmentation
Identifying different segments within a market and targeting different products or services to them
consumer profile
a quantified picture of consumers of a firms product showing, proportions of age groups, income levels, location, gender and social class
market research
This is a process of collecting recording and analysing data about customer, competitors and the market
primary research
The collection of first hand data that is directly related to a firms needs
Secondary research
Collection of data from second-hand sources
Qualitative research
Research into the in-depth motivations behind consumers buying behaviour and opinions
Quantitative research
Resets that leads to numerical results that can be statistically analysed
Focus group
A group people who are asked about the attitude towards a product, service, advertisement or new style Packaging
Sample
The group of people taking part in the market research survey selected to representative of the overall target market
Random sampling
Every member of the target population has an equal chance of being selected
Systematic sampling
Every nth item in the target population is selected
Market share
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
Stratfield sampling
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