Unit 1 Test Flashcards
What makes a sport a sport?
- Involves an activity or skill
- Set of rules
- With a recreational purpose for competition
What is entertainment
Whatever people are willing to spend their money and spare time on.
Consumer
People who buy/use products.
What is Discretionary Income
Money left to spend after expenses are paid.
Early 20th Century Entertainment
Performing arts (live theatre, ballet, opera, concerts)
Marketing: Limited to posters, newspapers, magazines, and word of mouth.
What helped both wealthy and working-class families seek forms of entertainment?
Public Transportation
Birth of Movies
Louis Le Prince made the first moving pictures in 1888.
Thomas Edison invented the kinetoscope in the late 1890s.
Lumiere brothers presented the first projected movie in 1895.
Bill Veeck
Introduced entertainment to sports through fireworks, dazzling scoreboards, and special-event nights.
Modern Marketing Methods
Public buses/subways cars.
Cell phones/social media.
Sports stadiums named after advertisers.
Corporate logos on jerseys.
What is marketing?
The process of making, promoting, and distributing goods and services to satisfy customers’ needs and wants.
What are Needs
Basic necessities like food, clothing, shelter.
What are Wants?
Desires based on personality or experiences
Marketing Concept
Organizations need to satisfy customers while trying to reach organizational goals.
Target Market
A group of consumers an organization selects as the main focus of its marketing plan.
What are demographics?
Statistics that describe the population by personal characteristics.
Mass Marketing
Promoting products with one message directed to everyone.
What is cohort Marketing?
Studies groups of people who underwent the same experiences as kids.
4 P’s in the Marketing Mix
Product, Price, Place, Promotion.
Product
Design, development, maintenance.
Price
Establishing and communicating value.
Place
Distribution to consumers.
Promotion
Using methods to advertise the product
What is the Channel of Distribution?
The path a product takes the product from the producer to the consumer.
4 Types of Promotion
Advertising, sales promotion, publicity, personal selling.
7 Key Marketing Functions
- Product/service management
- Distribution
- Selling
- Marketing information management
- Financing
- Pricing
- Promotion.