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Marketing3.06
Term | Definition |
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Bait and switch advertising | promoting a low priced product to get people to buy a pricier product |
Business cycles | periods of expansion and contraction in economic activities |
Capital | assets of a business |
Cash flow | movement of funds in and out of a business |
Elastic demand | A form of demand for products in which changes in price correspond to changes in demand |
Inelastic demand | A form of demand in which change in price does not effect demand |
Law of supply and demand | Economic principle; high demand= high supply Low demand= low supply |
Market price | actual price that prevails in a market at any particular moment |
Mark-up | difference between cost and its selling price |
Monopolistic competition | Market structure where a business sells similar products that have only a few differences |
Obsolescence | Being outmoded or unfashionable |
oligopoly | market structure in which there are relatively few seller and industry leaders usually determine prices |
operating expenses | expenses related to running a business |
Price discrimination | sells to different businesses at different prices |
Price fixing | companies setting prices |
pricing objectives | goals companies hope to accomplish by pricing |
profit maximazation | profit oriented pricing objective to give the most profit |
profit oriented pricing | objective focuses on profit |
pure competition | same product selling at the same price |
pure monopoly | controlled by one company |
return on investment | bases profit of off investiments |
return on sales | profit based on sales |
sales oriented pricing | focussed on increasing sales |
sales volume | firms sales |
selling price | what somethings actually sold for |
target return | return on sales |
total costs | all a businesses costs |
unit pricing | price per unit |
variable costs | costs that change |