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Marketing Chap 1-8

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Value   The benefits a customer receives from buying and using a good or service in relation to the cost and sacrifices of buying and using it.  
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Marketing   An organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders.  
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Customer Value   What the customer gets in the purchase, usa, and ownership of a product relative to the costs and sacrifices incurred.  
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Stakeholder   People or organizations who influence or are influenced by marketing decisions  
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Exchange   The process by which some transfer of value occurs between a buyer and a seller.  
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Consumer   The ultimate user of a good or service  
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Marketing Concept   A business orientation that focuses on achieving organizational objectives by understanding customer needs and creating and delivering value in exchange that satisfy the needs of all parties.  
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Need   The recognition of any difference between a consumers actual state and some ideal or desired state.  
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Want   The desire to satisfy needs in specific ways that are culturally and socially influenced.  
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Benefit   The outcome sought by a customer that motivated buying behavior.  
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Demand   Customers desire for products coupled with the resources to obtain them.  
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Marketplace   Any location or medium used to conduct and exchange  
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Market Segment   A distinct group of customers within a larger market who have similar needs, wants and preferences.  
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Market Segmentation   The process of diving up the entire market into difference sections based on customers similar needs, value, and wants.  
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Segment Profile   Detailed description of the characteristics, behaviors and lifestyles of the market segment selected.  
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Target Markets   A market segment which a firm decides to focus its marketing plan toward.  
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Mass Market   All possible customers in a market, regardless of the differences in their specific needs and wants.  
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Positioning   The development of a marketing strategy to separate the offering from other similar products, It establishes how the product is know to consumers.  
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Marketing Mix   The development of the four P's. Product, Price, Promotion, and Place. Which is used to introduce it to customers, to create a desired response.  
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Product   A tangible good, a service, an idea, or a combination, that satisfies a customers needs in some way  
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Price   The sellers assessment of the products value  
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Place   The availability of the product to the customer at the desired time and location.  
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Promotion   The coordination of efforts to influence a consumer or organization about a good, service, or idea.  
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Social Marketing Concept   A marketing concept that emphasizes the idea that customers needs must be met in ways that also benefit society.  
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Triple Bottom Line   A business perspective that measures economic, social, and environmental value creation  
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Product Orientation   A management idea that focuses on creating the most efficient way to produce and distribute products.  
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Selling Orientation   A managerial view of marketing as a selling function in which products are sold to create less inventory  
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Consumer Orientation   A management focus that advocated being proactive and responsive to satisfying consumer needs and wants.  
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Value Proposition   A marketplace offering that fairly and accurately sums up the value that will be realized if the good or service is purchased  
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Competitive Advantage   The ability of a firm to outperform the competition, thereby providing customers with a benefit the competition cannot.  
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Distinctive Competency   A superior capability of a firm in comparison to its direct competitors.  
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Differential Benefit   Properties of products that set them apart from competitors products by providing unique customer benefits.  
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Strategic Planning   A managerial process that matches an organizations resources and capabilities to its market opportunities for long term growth and survival.  
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Strategy   What a firm is going to do to achieve an objective  
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Tactics   How a strategy is going to be implemented  
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Business Portfolio   The group of different products or brands owned by an organization and characterized by different income generating and growth capabilities.  
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Market Penetration Strategies   Growth strategies designed to increase sales of an existing product to existing markets  
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Market Development Strategies   Introducing existing products to new markets  
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Product Development Strategy   Create growth by selling new products to existing markets  
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Diversification Strategy   Introducing a new product to a new market to achieve growth.  
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Marketing Plan   A document that describes the marketing environment, outlines the marketing objectives and strategy, and identifies who will be responsible for carrying out each part of the marketing strategy.  
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SWOT analysis   An analysis of the companies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats in its external environment.  
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Competitive Advantage   The ability of a firm to outperform the competition providing the consumer with a unbeatable benefit.  
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Grey Market   The importing of products by an unauthorized party, who sells them for a fraction of the price.  
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Dumping   Pricing products lower in a foreign market than they are offered at home  
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Social Profit   The benefit a firm receive from ethical practices.  
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Business Ethics   Rules of conduct for a firm  
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Code of Ethics   Written standards of behaviors that everyone in the organization must commit to  
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Consumerism   A social movement that attempts to protect consumers from harmful business practices.  
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Price Fixing   An illegal business practice where a firm decides in advance on a price of a product.  
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Market Fragmentation   Creation of many consumer groups due to a diversity of distinct needs and wants in modern society.  
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Target Marketing Strategy   Dividing the total market into different segments based on customer characteristics, selecting one or more segments, and developing products to meet eh needs of those specific segments.  
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Segmentation   The process of dividing a larger market into smaller pieces based on one or more important trait  
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Segmentation Variables   Bases for dividing the market into fairly homogeneous groups, each with different needs.  
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Behavioral Segmentation   Technique that divides consumers based on how they act, feel, or use a product  
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Benefit Segementation   Groups consumers based on the benefits they seek in buying an product  
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Product Usage Segmentation   Groups customers based on the amount of a product purchased  
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Psychographic Segmentation   A segmentation that groups people based on their attitudes, values, lifestyle and other aspects.  
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Demographics   Variables that describe objective characteristics of a population or group  
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Geodemography   Segmentation technique that combines geography with demographics  
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Industrial Psychographics   The application of psychographics to the business-to-business context  
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Segment Profile   A description of the typical customer in a segment  
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Market Potential   The maximum demand expected among consumers in a segment for a product.  
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Target Market   A group the marketers focus on when developing marketing programs  
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Differentiated Target Strategy   Developing one or more products for each of several distinct customers groups and making sure these offerings are kept separate from the marketplace  
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Concentrated Targeting Strategy   Focusing a firms efforts on offering one or more products to a certain segment  
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Niche Marketing   A type of concentrated targeting strategy where the market segment chosen is relatively small  
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Custom Marketing Strategy   Approach that tailors specific products and the messages about them to individual customers.  
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Mass Customization   Approach that modifies a basic product to meet the needs of an individual  
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Brand Image   How consumers perceive the positioning of a brand  
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Brand Concept   How the marketer wants the brand to be positioned  
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Brand Personality   A distinctive image that captures a product's characters and benefits  
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Marketing Intelligence   A method by which marketers get information about everyday happenings in the marketing environment.  
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Marketing Research   The process of gathering information about customers, competitors, and the business environment to make marketing decision.  
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Secondary Research   Research collected for a purpose other than the decision at hand.  
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Syndicated Research   Research collected by firms on a daily business which they then sell as reports to other firms.  
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Primary Research   Research conducted by or for a single firm to provide specific information for a marketing decision  
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Data Mining   A sophisticated system of research that takes massive amounts of information  
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Exploratory Research   Techniques that marketers use to generate insights for future, more rigorous studies  
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Ethnography   A detailed report on observations of people in their own homes or communities.  
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Consumer Behaviour   The process individuals or groups go through to select, purchase and use goods or services to satisfy their needs.  
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Perceived Risk   The belief that use of a product has potentially negative consequences either financial, physical,or social  
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Consideration Set   The set of alternative brands the consumer is considering for the decision process.  
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Heuristics   A mental rule of thumb that leads to a speedy decision by simplifying the process.  
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Cognitive Dissonance   The regret or remorse buyers may feel after making a purchase  
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Motivation   An internal state that drives us to satisfy needs by activating goal-oriented behavior  
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Classical Conditioning   A person percieves two stimuli at about the same time. After a while, the person transfers his or her response from one stimulus to the other  
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Operant Conditioning   Learning that occurs from the result of rewards or punishments  
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Stimulus Generalization   Behaviour caused by a reaction to one stimulus that occurs in the presence of other similar stimuli  
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Cognitive Learning Theory   A theory of learning that stresses the importance of internal mental processes and that views people as problem solvers, who actively use information from the world around them to master their environment.  
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Multicultural Marketing   The practice of recognizing and targeting the distinctive needs and wants of one of more ethnic subcultures  
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Status Symbol   Products that consumers purchase to signal membership in a desirable social class  
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Reference Group   An actual or imaginary individual or group that has a significant effect on an individual's evaluations, aspirations or behaviors  
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Conformity   A change in beliefs or actions as a reaction to real or imagined group pressures  
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Sex Roles   Society's expectations about the appropriate attitudes, behaviors, and appearance for men and women.  
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Opinion Leaders   A person who is frequently able to influence others attitudes or behaviors by virtue of his or her active interest and expertise in one or more product categories.  
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Growth Stage   The second stage in the product life cycle, during which the product is accepted an sales rapidly increase  
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Maturity Stage   The third and longest stage in the product life cycle, in which sales peak and profit margins narrow  
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Introduction   The first stage of the product life cycle in which slow growth follows the introduction of a new product in the marketplace.  
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Decline Stage   The final stage in the product life cycle in which sales decrease as customer needs change.  
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