Week 6 Marketing Communication in Not-For-Profit Organizations Flashcards
What is Business Marketing (Industrial/ B2B) ?
Marketing of goods and services to individuals and organisations for purposes other personal consumption.
An example of B2B?
Sale of pc to a college/uni
What are Business products for?
- Used to manufacture other products
- Facilitate an organisation’s purpose
- Resold to other customers
What are Consumer products?
Bought to satisfy an individual’s personal wants or needs.
What is the key characteristic distinguishing business products from consumer products?
Intended use and not physical form
What are the ways in which B2B firms use the internet?
- Company website to facilitate communication and orders
- Digital marketing to increase brand awareness and to position their businesses as thought leaders so as to generate sales leads.
Benefits of new applications?
- Provide additional info about customers
- Help lower costs
- increase supply chain efficiency
- Enhance customer retention, loyalty and trust.
Define Content Marketing.
Strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content.
Define Goal.
To attract and retain a clearly defined audience and drive profitable customer action.
What is the key to social media-based content marketing?
Creating compelling and useful content for customers
What are the metrics that are useful for increasing the success of a social media campaign?
- Awareness
- Engagement
- Conversion
Define Awareness.
Attention that social media attracts.
Define Engagement.
Interactions between brands and audience through comments, retweets, shares, and searches.
Define Conversion.
Occurs when action is taken.
Why has Relationship Marketing become important?
- Customers have become more demanding
- Competition has become more intense
- Business suppliers use social networking sites to advertise themselves to businesses
How to gain repeat business?
Steady dialogue between the supplier and the customer needs to be maintained
List the types of Strategic Alliance.
- Licensing or distribution agreements
- Joint ventures
- Research and development consortia
- Partnerships
What is essential for an alliance to succeed?
commitment and trust
Define Relationship commitment.
Means that a firm believes an ongoing relationship with some other firms is so important that it warrants maximum efforts at maintaining indefinitely.
Define Trust.
Exists when one party has confidence in an exchange partner’s reliability and integrity.
Define Keiretsu.
Network of interlocking corporate affiliates.
What are the Major Categories of Business Customers?
- Producers
- Resellers
- Governments
- Institutions
Define producers.
Construction, manufacturing, transportation, finance, real estate, and food service firms