Sports and Entertainment Marketing Flashcards
Final Exam
Marketing
The creation (product) and maintenance (relationships) of satisfying exchange relationships
Creation
Suggests that marketing involves product development (improve, constantly updating)
Satisfaction
Implies that marketing must continue as long as a business operates (long lasting relationships with customers)
Exchange Relationships
Occurs when the parties involved (business and customer) both give and receive something of value (customers needs and wants are getting met in exchange for profit)
Marketing Mix
- Product: Is what a business offers customers to satisfy needs
- Place: Involves the locations and methods used to make products available to customers
- Price: Is the amount that customers pay for products (research, covering costs)
- Promotion: Describes ways to make customers aware of a products and encourage them to buy (advertising)
Discretionary Income
Money that is left over after expenses are paid
Demographics
Shared characteristics of a group (age, marital status, gender, ethnic background, income level, and education level)
Sports Marketing
Spectators of sporting events are the potential consumers of a wide array of products ranging from apparel and athletic equipment to food items and automobiles
Entertainment Marketing
Entertainment involves some type of performance people are willing to spend their money and spare time watching
Gross Impression
The number of times per advertisement, game or show that a product or service is associated with an athlete, team or entertainer
Core Standards of Marketing IMPORTANT
- Channel Management: Determining the best way to get a company’s products or services to customers
- Pricing: The process of establishing and communicating to customers the value (quality, feel, prestige) or cost of the goods and services they have available to purchase
- Marketing Information Management: Involves gathering and using information about customers to improve business decision-making
Guerilla Marketing
An advertising strategy that focuses on low-cost unconventional marketing tactics that yield maximum results with obtaining the maximum exposure for a product
Marketing Concept
A business that keeps the focus on satisfying customer needs (while also trying to reach their organizations goals)
Opportunity Cost
The value of the next best alternative that you pass up when making a choice, and the value is measured in terms of the benefits that you are giving up. For example, you may want to go to a care race and a music concert, but you cannot afford both. If you go to the concert the car race would be the opportunity cost.
Benefits Derived
The value people believe they receive from a product or service
Comparative Advantage
The capability to produce products or services more efficiently and economically than the competition
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- Physiological: Foods, sleep, water, shelter, air
- Security: Physical safety and economic issues
- Social: Desire for friends, love, belonging, acceptance
- Esteem: To gain recognition and respect from yourself and others
- Self-actualization: To realize your potential
Emotional Purchase
When consumers spend little though during emotional highs or lows
Patronage Purchase
Based on consumer loyalty to a particular brand or product
Rational Purchase
Take place when individuals recognize needs and wants, asses their priorities and budget, conduct research, compare alternatives, and then make purchases based on careful thought and sound reasoning
Mass Marketing
An attempt to appeal to a large, general group of consumers
Customer Service Gap
The difference between customer expectations and the service that is actually received
Market Segmentation
Most businesses do not try to satisfy the needs of al possible customers. They recognize that individuals have different wants and needs and view product choices quite differently.
4 Market Segmentations
- Geographic Segmentations: Divided markets into physical education locations, such as eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western regions or urban and rural areas.
- Demographic Segmentation: Focuses on information that can be measured, such as age, income, profession, gender, education, martial status and size of household.
- Psychographic Segmentation: Focus on characteristics that cannot be measured physically, such as values, interests, and lifestyle choices
- Behavioural-Based Segmentation: Focuses on a consumer’s attitude towards products and services. There are 2 categories: Product usage (reflects what products you use and how often) and Product Benefits (benefits derived from products or services)
Brand
The name, symbol, logo, word, or design (or combination of these) that identifies a product, service, or company. The brand represents the company’s reputation for quality, reliability, and status
Product Life Cycle: Introduction Stage
- Product is unique in the marketplace and only one brand of the new product available.
- Product development begins by finding ideas for new products and these ideas are screened to select the one that has the greatest chance of succeeding
- Research is conducted two identify a target market and product mix
- Product is developed and tested then introduced to the market
- To encourage customers to try a new product, businesses may use a price strategy (skimming or penetration pricing)
Product Life Cycle: Growth Stage
- Sales and profits increase
- The target market knows about he product and regularly purchases it
- Product in the growth stage may need to be modified and new models offered in order to maintain customer loyalty (through product enhancement and extensions)
- Completion increases in this stage as competitors begin offering alternative products
Product Life Cycle: Maturity Stage
- Sales often level off or slow down
- Most of the target market has already purchased the product at one time or another
Price is an important factor because of increase competition; sales prices may be offered - Marketing costs ruse at this stage because it is important to increase promotion to fight off competition and maintain market share