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Marketing   Process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships to capture value from customers in return  
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Market offerings   Combination of products, services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want  
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Marketing myopia   Focusing only on existing wants and losing sight of underlying consumer needs  
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Exchange   The act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return  
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Markets   Set of actual and potential buyers of a product  
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Marketing management   The art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them  
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Market segmentation   Dividing the markets into segments of customers  
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Target marketing   Which segments to go after  
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Demarketing   Marketing to reduce demand temporarily or permanently; the aim is not to destroy demand but to reduce or shift it  
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value proposition   The set of benefits or values a company promises to deliver to customers to satisfy their needs  
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Production concept   The idea that consumers will favor products that are available or highly affordable  
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Product concept   The idea that consumers will favor products that offer the most quality, performance, and features. Organization should therefore devote its energy to making continuous product improvements.  
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Selling concept   The idea that consumers will not buy enough of the firm’s products unless it undertakes a large scale selling and promotion effort  
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Marketing concept   The idea that achieving organizational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of the target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions better than competitors do  
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Societal marketing concept   The idea that a company should make good marketing decisions by considering consumers’ wants, the company’s requirements, consumers’ long-term interests, and society’s long-run interests  
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marketing mix   The set of tools (four Ps) the firm uses to implement its marketing strategy. It includes product, price, promotion, and place  
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Integrated marketing program   Comprehensive plan that communicates and delivers the intended value to chosen customers.  
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM)   The overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction.  
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Customer perceived value   The difference between total customer value and total customer cost  
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Customer satisfaction   The extent to which a product’s perceived performance matches a buyer’s expectations  
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Partner relationship management   Working closely with partners in other company departments and outside the company to jointly bring greater value to customers  
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Supply chain   A channel that stretches from raw materials to components to final products to final buyers  
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Customer lifetime value   The value of the entire stream of purchases that the customer would make over a lifetime of patronage  
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Share of customer   The portion of the customer’s purchasing that a company gets in its product categories  
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Customer equity   The total combined customer lifetime values of all of the company’s customers  
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Strategic planning   The process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization’s goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities  
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Market-oriented mission statement   Defines the business in terms of satisfying basic customer needs  
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business portfolio   The collection of businesses and products that make up the company  
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Portfolio analysis   A major activity in strategic planning whereby management evaluates the products and businesses that make up the company  
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Strategic business unit (SBU)   A unit of the company that has a separate mission and objectives that can be planned separately from other company businesses  
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Product/market expansion grid   A tool for identifying company growth opportunities through market penetration, market development, product development, or diversification  
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Market penetration   A growth strategy increasing sales to current market segments without changing the product  
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Market development   A growth strategy that identifies and develops new market segments for current products  
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Product development   A growth strategy that offers new or modified products to existing market segments  
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Diversification   A growth strategy for starting up or acquiring businesses outside the company’s current products and markets  
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Downsizing   The reduction of the business portfolio by eliminating products or business units that are not profitable or that no longer fit the company’s overall strategy  
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Value chain   A series of departments that carry out value-creating activities to design, produce, market, deliver, and support a firm’s products  
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Value delivery network   Made up of the company, suppliers, distributors, and ultimately customers who partner with each other to improve performance of the entire system  
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Market segmentation   The division of a market into distinct groups of buyers who have distinct needs, characteristics, or behavior and who might require separate products or marketing mixes  
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Market segment   A group of consumers who respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing efforts  
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Target marketing   The process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter  
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Market positioning   The arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of the target consumer  
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Implementing   The process that turns marketing plans into marketing actions to accomplish strategic marketing objectives  
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Marketing Control   The measurement and evaluation of results and the taking of corrective action as needed  
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Return on marketing investment (marketing ROI)   The net return from a marketing investment divided by the costs of the marketing investment. Marketing ROI provides a measurement of the profits generated by investments in marketing activities.  
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marketing environment   Actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with customers  
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Microenvironment   actors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers, the company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitors, and publics  
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Demography   The study of human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and other statistics  
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Generation X   includes people born between 1965 and 1976  
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Millennials (gen Y or echo boomers)   include those born between 1977 and 2000  
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Generational marketing   Segmenting people by lifestyle of life state instead of age  
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Economic environment   consists of factors that affect consumer purchasing power and spending patterns  
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Natural environment   involves the natural resources that are needed as inputs by marketers or that are affected by marketing activities  
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Political environment   consists of laws, government agencies, and pressure groups that influence or limit various organizations and individuals in a given society  
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Cultural environment   consists of institutions and other forces that affect a society’s basic values, perceptions, and behaviors  
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Core beliefs and values   persistent and are passed on from parents to children and are reinforced by schools, churches, businesses, and government  
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Secondary beliefs and values   more open to change and include people’s views of themselves, others, organizations, society, nature, and the universe  
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Marketing information system (MIS)   consists of people and procedures for: Assessing the information needs Developing needed information Helping decision makers use the information for customer  
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Internal databases   electronic collections of consumer and market information obtained from data sources within the company network  
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Marketing intelligence   is the systematic collection and analysis of publicly available information about consumers, competitors, and developments in the marketplace  
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Marketing research   is the systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data relevant to a specific marketing situation facing an organization  
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Secondary data   consists of information that already exists somewhere, having been collected for another purpose  
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Primary data   consists of information gathered for the special research plan  
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Observational research   involves gathering primary data by observing relevant people, actions, and situations  
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Ethnographic research   involves sending trained observers to watch and interact with consumers in their natural environment  
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Survey research   is the most widely used method and is best for descriptive information—knowledge, attitudes, preferences, and buying behavior  
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Experimental research   is best for gathering causal information— cause-and-effect relationships  
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Sample   is a segment of the population selected for marketing research to represent the population as a whole  
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM)   consists of sophisticated software and analytical tools that integrate customer information from all sources, analyze it in depth, and apply the results to build stronger customer relationships  
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Information distribution   involves entering information into databases and making it available in a time-useable manner  
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