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Marketing Unit Terms
BBI1OI Terminology
Term | Definition |
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Marketing | All activities involved in getting goods from the businesses that produce them to the consumers who want to purchase them. |
Marketing Research | The collection and analysis of information that is relevant to the marketing strategy |
Advertising | “Paid for” promotion of a business’ products over mass media. |
Publicity | Media coverage that a business doesn’t pay for --- could be positive or negative. |
Primary Research Data | Data gathered first-hand by the researcher – surveys, interviews, questionnaires, observations. |
Secondary Research Data | Data obtained from the results of other people’s research – Stats Canada, government publications, research agencies. |
Channels of Distribution | The paths of ownership that goods follow as they pass from the producer to the consumer. |
Sales Promotion | Any attempt to help sell a product. |
Peer Pressure | The strong influence of people from one’s own social group. |
Shelf Allowance | The fee a manufacturer pays the retailer for preferential treatment or placement of their product. |
Focus Group | Company-arranged meeting of potential consumers to record observation of reactions to: the product, advertising campaigns, slogans, logos, jingles |
Redemption Rate | Measures the effectiveness of a coupon promotion by measuring how many are used |
Customer Loyalty Card | Cards that are stamped for every purchase, usually entitles the holder to something free |
Emotional Advertising | An ad tries to evoke a response from the consumer whether it is through humour, sadness, joy or sex appeal |
Informational Advertising | Advertising that presents practical and usually detailed facts about a product or service |
Jingle | A short, catchy song used mainly in radio/TV commercials to imprint the name of a product in consumers’ minds |
Lifestyle Advertising | Advertising that features attractive people doing enjoyable things that may involve a product or may relate to it in some way |
Repetitive Advertising | An ad is played often or a phrase is said or printed over and over again |
Retailer | A business that buys goods and resells them to consumers. |
Slogan | A short, catchy advertising phrase associated with a product or company |
Specialty Channels | Any indirect channel that does not involve a retail store |
Surplus | An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand |
Testimonial Advertising | Advertising that uses a person, usually a celebrity, to promote a product by vouching for its’ usefulness |
Wholesaler | A merchant who buys products in large quantities from producers and resells them in smaller quantities to retailers or consumers |