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