Test #2 Flashcards
A group of activities designed to expedite transactions by creating, distributing, pricing, and promoting goods, services, and ideas
Marketing
The act of giving up one things (money, credit, labor, goods) in return for something else (goods, services, or ideas)
Exchange
The idea that an organization should try to satisfy customers’ needs through coordinated activities that also allow it to achieve its own goals
Marketing Concept
An approach requiring organizations to gather information about customer needs, share that information throughout the firm, and use that information to help build long-term relationships with customers
Market orientation
A plan of action for developing, pricing, distributing, and promoting products that meet the needs of specific customers
Marketing Strategy
A group of people who have a need, purchasing power, and the desire and authority to spend money on goods, services, and ideas
Market
A specific group of consumers on whose needs and wants a company focuses its marketing efforts
Target Market
A strategy whereby a firm divides the total market into groups of people who have relatively similar product needs
Market Segmentation
A market segmentation approach whereby a firm tries to appeal to everyone and assumes that all buyers have similar needs and wants
Total-market approach
A market segmentation approach whereby a company develops one marketing strategy for a single market segment
Concentration Approach
A market segmentation approach whereby the marketer aims its efforts at two or more segments, developing a market strategy for each
Multisegment approach
The four marketing activities - product, price, promotion, and distribution - that the firm can control to achieve specific goals within a dynamic marketing environment
Marketing Mix
A complex mix of tangible and intangible attributes that provide satisfaction and benefits whether a good, service, idea, or combination.
-The most visible contact with customers
-Almost every purchase has trade-offs
-Often the central focus of the marketing mix
Product
A value placed on an object exchanged between a buyer and a seller
-Can be changed quickly to stimulate demand
-Directly relates to the generation of revenue and profits
-Ex. Subscription based pricing
Price
Making products available to customers in the quantities desired
-Involves transporting, warehousing, materials, handling, inventory control, packaging, and communication
-Supply Chain Management: Acquiring resources, inventory, and the interlinked networks that make products available to customers
Distribution
A persuasive form of communication that attempts to expedite a marketing exchange by influencing individuals, groups, or organizations to accept goods, services, or ideas
-Must effectively manage their resources and understand product and target-market characteristics
-Websites, TV, radio, newspapers
Promotion
A systematic, objective process of getting information about potential customers to guide marketing decisions
Marketing Research
Political, Legal, and regulatory forces: laws and regulators’ interpretation of laws, law enforcement, and regulatory activities
Social forces: The public’s opinions and attitudes toward issues such as living standards, ethics, the environment, lifestyles, and quality of life
Competitive and economic forces: Competitive relationships in industries, unemployment, purchasing power, and general economic conditions
Technological forces: Computers and other technological advances that improve distribution, promotion, and new product development
External Forces that influence marketing strategies
- Idea development: Idea is thought of then research is done to create that idea into a product
- New Idea Screening: Marketing manager looks at firm’s ability to produce and market the product
- Business analysis: Assessment of a product’s compatibility in the marketplace and potential profitability
- Product development: Idea is developed into a prototype (Expensive!)
- Test marketing: A trial minilaunch of a product in limited areas that represent the potential market
- Commercialization: The full introduction of a complete marketing strategy and the launch of the product for commercial success
6 Steps of Product Development
Products that consumers spend little to no time planning to purchase: Beverages, granola bars, gasoline, batteries.
Convenience Products