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Terms & Definitions
Term | Definition |
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Marketing Information Management (MIM) | Provide info in a useful format for business decisions |
Product Service Management (PSM) | Making product/service available to meet wants/needs of customers |
Promotion | Communicate info about products/services to potential customers |
Selling | Finalizing the exchange process with the customer by selling products/services & developing loyal, repeat customers |
Financing | Manage cash needs on daily basis/future |
Simultaneously | At the same time |
Example of an inventory method | Putting the freshest milk in the back of the stock while putting the older milk in the front. |
Examples of promotion | Billboard ads, TV/Internet Ads, Radio Ads |
Why are happy, repeat, loyal customers important to businesses? | To get repeated customers |
How is availability related to distribution? | Making sure there is enough product for the customers/consumers. |
Marketing | All the activities required to bring products/services from the manufacturer to the consumer |
4P’s of marketing | Product, Place, Promotion, Price |
Define customer | Buys product/service but may not use/consumes it |
Define consumer | Buys and uses/consumes product/services |
Marketing concept | A philosophy that drives the decision making process. |
What is the SWOT Analysis? | Reviews the potential for success or failure of a business or product |
Distribution | Availability, Transportation, Inventory Methods |
Tangible products | Items that can be touched, smelled, tasted, seen or heard. |
Intangible products | Productive activities that we pay someone else to perform |
Suggestion Selling | Suggesting additional products/services that will enhance his/her primary purchase |
Product information | Providing help and giving all info |
Domineering/Superior Customer | Think they know more than salesperson |
Suspicious Customer | Questions everything - doubtful |
Slow/Methodical Customer | Take a lot of time to decide/buy |
Dishonest Customer | Intentionally avoid paying, switch prices, etc |
Standards | Statements that specify a product’s size, contents, and/or quality; used as a basis for comparing or judging goods or services |
Grades | Ratings assigned to products that tell to what extent standards apply |