Unit 3b Flashcards
What are the 4 P’s of Marketing?
They are:
Product
Promotion
Place (Distribution)
Price
The 4 P’s working together to create a desire in the consumers mind for the product being marketed.
What’s are the 5 parts of a product?
Quality
Design
Features
Benefits
Product/Service mix (things like warranty and installation)
Products can be services too.
They constantly strive to stay ahead of the competition and repeat sales.
What economic factors can affect price?
Profit and Demand
What is the discount pricing strategy?
-Lowest price
-Consumer getting deal
-Sacrifice quality
What is the premium pricing strategy?
-High price
-Perception of quality
What is the psychological pricing strategy?
-Ending in .99, .97
-Increases sales
What is cost?
the amount of money it takes to produce the
product
What is loss?
Sales price of product does not cover expense
What is the break-even point?
Sales price is equal to expenses
What is profit?
Sales is greater than expenses
What’s the place (channels of distribution)?
The methods that a business uses to sell and
distribute its product.
What is a direct channel?
-Selling directly to the consumer
What’s an indirect channel?
Having one or more intermediary. Importers, wholesalers or retailers.
What are the 3 indirect channels?
Importers, wholesalers or retailers.
What’s the intermeditary channel?
Businesses that take possession of a good before consumers do.
NOTE: This adds costs to the product.
What’s the importer channel?
-Someone who seeks out foreign products to bring into his/her country.
-Negotiates distribution with foreign manufacturer
-Buys the manufactured merchandise
-Stores it in Canada
-Sometimes sells it
What’s the wholesaler channel?
-Buys goods from producers or importers and resells them to retailers.
-Manufacturers usually ask for a minimum amount
quantity of goods.
-Smaller stores do not have the money or space for
large orders.
-Wholesalers are usually located close to retailers and
can store a large quantity of goods
What’s the retailer channel?
-Linked directly to the customer
-Buy merchandise that consumers want.
-Have it in stock when consumers want it
-Display the merchandise
What are specialty channels?
-Any indirect channel of distribution that does not involve a retail store.
Including:
-Vending Machines
-Telemarketing
-Catalogue Sales
-online
-Door-to-door
What is promotion?
Any attempt to sell a product
What are coupons?
Offer consumers money off a product
What are contests?
An exciting way to increase brand
recognition and sales.
What are premiums?
Giveaways – something a consumer gets free with the purchase of a product.
* Can be unrelated to the product
* Usually carry the company’s logo (brand recognition)
* Customer loyalty cards – Scene Cards, Sephora VIP
What are samples?
small trial sizes of products
What are special events?
marketers organize special events
to attract customers and increase product sales.
Example: autograph signing, celebrity appearances
What are the 2 C’s of Marketing? (actually a C and a D)
Competition and Demographics (Customers)
What is the competitive market?
-Consists of all of the sellers of a product
-Expressed in terms of total dollars spent annually on this product
What is market share?
The percentage of the market that a company or brand has (ex. Coke has 26% of soda market, while Pepsi has 15%, etc).
What is a market segment?
Part of the overall market that has similar characteristics
How can a company increase market share?
-Increasing the size of the overall market (ex. creating energy drink segment)
-Increase market share by decreasing sales of competitors.
What is indirect competition?
Competition between products or services that are not directly related to each other. (ex. watch a movie or go laser tag)
What is direct competition?
Competition between products that are similar. Compete mainly on image (ex. Apple vs Samsung)
What is discretionary income?
Income left over after paying for taxes
What is disposable income?
Income left over after paying for basic necessities
What are demographics?
The study of obvious characteristics that categorize people (ex. Age, Gender, Family Status, Income level, Geography, Education)
What are demographics used for?
They are used to determine the target market for your idea or product
What is the target market?
A specific group of customers whose needs and wants a company will focus on satisfying. (ex. mature market needs dentures)
What are Pre-Customers?
Customers aged 0-9 and their gatekeepers/parents who buy products for them. The product must appeal to both the customer (gatekeeper) and consumer (kid), making it a double market.
What are Allowance customers?
Customers aged 10-15, and don’t have a regular income (rely on allowance). Parents/gatekeepers still have a influence but they start to make their own decisions.
What are Youth Market Customers?
Customers aged 16-19 and still rely on gatekeepers for money, but they have disposable money from part time jobs. This is a very attractive market for cell phones, electronics etc.