unit 3. Marketing Flashcards
what is a market?
market is when there are buyers and sellers
how sales are mesaured
measured in terms of slaes volume (number of units sold) and
sales value (how much would be made to the product)
formula of market share
sales of the product➗market size x 100
pros of having high market share
1:relatively high sales therefor possibly increase proft-depends on costof production,
2:relatively high output: may be able to have a good deal with suppliers. may have low cost per unit-bulk
values of setting marketing objectives
1:helps cooridnate within the business: may motivate employees due to clear goal. leading to increase in labour productivity.-increasing more unit- labor cost per unit may decrease-may be able to decrease price-
Depends on PED, and if they have applied lean production.
2:helps other functional objectives as they determine otheer decision such as staffing level, production capacity.
-creating a overall efficiency in the business-reputation, profit.
dependson if marekting objectives are SMART
common market objectives
-sales growth
-market share
-brand loyalty
-sales value
-sales volume
what are the internal influmces on marketing objectives
1:overall aim(corporate objectives) of the biz. if firm wants to increase the profit in the short term, marketing department focusing on new product that is still 2 years away from being launched.
2:finance: depends on how much biz could produce.
3:HR: if there is less staff, business needs to adjust what firm could do with amount of staff with marketing.
what are the external influences on marketing objectives?
1:technology :ex) market where tech changes rapidly-may focus on sales and price since tech causes price to rise or fall very fast
2:social :ex)if customers are conceerned about environment-could damage the brand image-NIKE-
3:economy: ex) In 2008 uk faced recession biz like tesco lidl changd price level low.
4: competitions-if they are selling low prices they may need to sell lower-price competitive
what is market research
gathering and analysing data relvant to marketing process
what does market research provide
provides insights of
1:who buys the product
2:what they are buying
3:when they are buying
4: why are they buying
5:where are they buying
6: what influenced to buy.
What do market research brings in terms of competitiveness
market research provides managers to make good marketing decision-biz provides higher value-competitive advantage
what is secondary research
-research using existing data-
➕cheap and quick
➕often free and eazy to obtain
➖not tailored to biz needs
➖could be out of date
what is primary research
orginial research firm did by their selves
➕kept private
➕more detaileed insights
➖risk of survey bias
➖time consuming and expensive
what is sample
selecting a representative group or people from target pop.
pros of sample
1:saves money because they dont have to survey a whole target pop.
2:quicker and easy
cons of sample
1: could be unrepresentable if undertaken badly
this depends on:
how people/items are selected
how the sampling is conducted
-if the question isnt clear may be unreliable
the size of the sample
Quantitative/Qualitative data
numbers/opininos
what is market mapping
is when customers are asked to rate a group of products into several charcteristics.
used when biz think whether if they want to fit in the market relative to existing products,
what number indicates strong negatie correlation
-1
what is extrapolation
is when using past trends to forecasty the future.
what is confidence level and
what does confidence level depend on
is how confidence they are at the results:
depends on :
size of the sample- the bigger the sample the better
how sample was constructed- were they picked randomly?
what is confidence interval
an range of the out come given from the confience level
95% confidence the range is between 1000-4000
Factors effect PED
Subsititue(#)
Percentage of income spent on
Luxury/necesity
Addictive/habit forming
Time bound
pros and cons of big data by increse tech
and what is depends on
➕able to gather more data on customer and analyse more effectively and quickly
-helps what influences to buy, and what type of people buys
➕help biz forecast sales more effectively by being able to anticipate what customers want
➖doesnt gurantee success
➖the date may not be trusted
depends on whther managers have the right data and and make a right decision.
what is the relationship between sales forecast and market research
marketing research provides info which enebales managers to forecast sale, which is essential in biz.
factors affecting market research negatively
-change in market
data collected in particular situation may be irrelevant data to have in a fast changing market.
-the way info is gathered
research may not be collected accurately
-lack of info