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MP Chapter 1
Creating Customer Relationships & Value Through Marketing
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| customer value | Buyers' benefits, including quality, convenience, on-time delivery, and before-and-after-sale service at a specific place. |
| customer value proposition | A cluster of benefits that an organization promises customers to satisfy their needs. |
| environmental forces | The uncontrollable social, economic, technological, competitive, and regulatory forces that affect the results of a marketing decision. |
| exchange | The trade of things of value between a buyer and a seller so that each is better off. |
| market | People with both the desire and the ability to buy a specific offering. |
| market orientation | Focusing organizational efforts to collect and use information about the customers' needs to create customer value. |
| marketing | The activity for creating and delivering offerings that benefit the organization, its stakeholders, and society. |
| marketing concept | The idea that an organization should strive to satisfy the needs of consumers while also trying to achieve the organization's goals. |
| marketing mix | The controllable factors--product, price, promotion, and place--that the marketing manager can use to solve a marketing problem. |
| marketing program | A plan that integrates the marketing mix to provide a good, service, or idea to prospective buyers. |
| organizational buyers | Manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and government agencies that buy products and services for their own use or for resale. |
| product | A good, service, or idea consisting of a bundle of tangible and intangible attributes that satisfies the consumers' needs and is received in exchange for something else of value. |
| relationship marketing | Linking the organization to its individual customers, employees, suppliers, and other partners for their mutual long-term benefit. |
| societal marketing concept | The view that organizations should satisfy the needs of consumers in a way that also provides for society's well-being. |
| target market | One or more specific groups of potential consumers toward which an organization directs its marketing program. |
| ultimate consumers | The people who use the products and services purchased for a household. |
| utility | The benefits or customer value received by users of the product. |