Flashcards for BA 303 Exam #2

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Strategic planning  process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between organization’s goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities  
Mission statement  statement of the organization’s purpose- what its wants to accomplish in the larger environment  
Business portfolio  collection of business and products that make up the company  
Portfolio analysis  management evaluates the products and businesses making up the company  
Growth-share Matrix  portfolio-planning method that evaluates a company’s strategic business units in terms of their market growth rate and relative market share  
Product/market expansion grid  useful for identifying company growth opportunities through market penetration, market development, product development or diversification  
Value chain  each department carries out value-creating activities to design, produce, market, deliver, and support firm’s products  
Marketing Strategy  marketing logic by which the company hopes to achieve its marketing objectives  
Market segmentation  dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs, characteristics, or behaviors and who might require separate products or marketing programs  
Target marketing  evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter  
Market positioning  arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target customers  
SWOT analysis  evaluates the company’s overall strengths (S), weaknesses (W), opportunities (O), and threats (T)  
Marketing implementation  process that turns marketing plans into marketing actions in order to accomplish strategic marketing objectives  
Marketing control  measuring and evaluating the results of marketing strategies and plans and take corrective action to ensure that objectives are achieved  
Marketing audit  xamination of a company’s environment, objectives, strategies and activities to determine problem areas and opportunities  
Return on marketing  net return from a marketing investment divided by the costs of the marketing investment  
Target marketing  evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more of the market segments to enter  
Target Market  set of buyers who share common needs or characteristics that the company decides to serve  
Undifferentiated Marketing  firm ignored market-segment differences and targets the whole market with one offer.  
Differentiated Marketing  firm targets several market segments and designs separate offers for each  
Concentrated Marketing (niche marketing)  firm goes after a large share of one or a few smaller segments or niches. Only one or two companies can become successful.  
Local Marketing  tailoring brands and promotions to the needs and wants of local customer groups  
Individual marketing  tailoring products and marketing programs to the needs and preferences of individual consumers  
Brand  name, term, sign, symbol, design that identifies the maker or seller of a product or services  
Packaging  designing and producing the container or wrapper for a product  
Product line  group of products that are closely related because they function in a similar manner, are sold to the same customer groups, are marketed through the same types of outlets, or fall within a given price range  
Product line strength  number or items in the product line  
Product line stretching  lengthens a product line beyond its current range (ie upward to a higher end, downward to lower end)  
Product line filling  adding more items within the present range of the line  
Product mix  (product portfolio) consists of all the product lines and items that a particular seller offers for sale  
Product mix width  refers to the number of different product lines the company carries  
Product mix length  refers to the total number of items the company carrier within its product lines  
Product line depth  refers to the number of versions offered of each product in the line  
Product Mix: Consistency  how closely related the various product lines are in end use, production requirements, distribution channels, etc.  
Brand equity  the positive differential effect that knowing the brand name has on customer response to the product or service  
Brand valuation  the process of estimating the total financial value of a brand  
Low Level Brand Positioning  Focusing on a brand's physical attributes  
Strong Brand Positioning  positioned on strong beliefs and values, engage customers on a deep emotional level  
Manufacturer’s brand  (national brand)Nike, Ford  
Private brands  store brands, brand created and owned by a reseller of a product or service  
Cobranding  practice of using the established brand names of two different companies on the same product  
Line Extensions  using a successful brand name to introduce additional items in a given product category under the same brand name, such as new flavors, forms, colors, added ingredients or package sizes  
Brand extension  using a successful brand name to launch a new or modified product in a new category  
Multibrands  introduce additional brands in the same category  
Drawback  each brand might obtain only a small market share, and none may be very profitable  
New-product development  development of original products, product improvements, product modifications and new brands through the firm’s own R&D efforts  
90 percent  of all new consumer products fail within two years  
Idea generation  systematic search for new-product ideas  
Idea Screening  creening new-product ideas in order to spot good ideas and drop poor ones as soon as possible  
Product concept  detailed version of the idea stated in meaningful consumer terms  
Concept Testing  testing new-product concepts with a group of target consumers to find out if the concepts have strong consumer appeal  
Marketing strategy development  designing an initial marketing strategy for a new product based on the product concept  
Test Marketing  product and marketing program are tested in more realistic market settings  
Product Life Cycle (PLC)  course of a product’s sales and profits over its lifetime. Involves product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline  
Introduction Stage  when the new product is first distributed and made available for purchase  
Growth Stage  product sales start climbing quickly  
Maturity Stage  is a period of slowdown in sales growth and profits level off  
Stages in the Maturity Stage  Modifying the market, modifying the product, modifying the marketing mix  
Decline Stage  the period when sales fall off and profits drop  
Product class  (ex. Gasoline powered automobiles) have the longest lifecycles, their sales stay in mature stage for a long time  
Product form  (ex. SUV) have a standard shaped PLC  
Style  basic and distinctive mode of expression  
Fashion  currently accepted or popular style in a given field  
Fads  fashion that enters quickly, is adopted with great zeal, peaks early and then declines very quickly  
Stars  high growth, high share business or products. They need heavy investment to finance rapid growth  
Cash Cows  low-growth, high-share business or products. These are est. and successful SBUs that need less investment to hold their market share. They produce a lot of cash  
Question Marks  low-share business units in high-growth markets. They require a lot of cash to hold their share  
Dogs (Pets)  low growth, low share business and products. Generate enough cash to maintain themselves but do not promise to be large sources of cash  
Market Development  New Markets, Same Products  
Product Development  Same Markets, Different Products  


   

 
 

 
 

 

 
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