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Marketing Ch 1&2
Term | Definition |
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Products | Goods and services |
Goods | Tangible products |
Services | Intangible products; usually a series of tasks performed for a customer |
Exchange | 1. Merchandise brought back to be replaced by other merchandise 2. Sale of something in the marketplace |
Utility | Added economic value |
Form utility | Value added by changing raw materials or putting parts together to make them more useful |
Place utility | Value added by having a product where customers can buy it |
Time utility | Value added by having a product available at a certain time of year or a convenient time of day |
Possession utility | Value added by exchanging a product for some monetary value |
Information utility | Value added by communicating with the consumer |
Customers | Those who buy a product |
Consumers | Those who actually use a product |
Value | Personal satisfaction gained from use of a good or service |
Marketing mix | Combination of marketing decisions involving product, price, place, and promotion; also called the four P's |
Positioning | Getting consumers to think of a product in a certain way |
Mass-marketing | Using a single marketing plan to reach all the consumers |
Market segmentation | Dividing the total market into smaller groups of people who share specific needs and characteristics |
Geographics | Segmentation of a market based on where people live |
Demographics | Statistics that describe a population in terms of personal characteristics like age, gender, income, ethnic background, education, and occupation |
Psychographics | Study of consumers based on their lifestyle, and the attitudes and values that shape it |
Customer Profile | Picture of a prospective customer based on geographic, demographic, and psychographic data |