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Marketing3.06
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bait and switch advertising | promoting a low priced product to get people to buy a pricier product |
| Business cycles | periods of expansion and contraction in economic activities |
| Capital | assets of a business |
| Cash flow | movement of funds in and out of a business |
| Elastic demand | A form of demand for products in which changes in price correspond to changes in demand |
| Inelastic demand | A form of demand in which change in price does not effect demand |
| Law of supply and demand | Economic principle; high demand= high supply Low demand= low supply |
| Market price | actual price that prevails in a market at any particular moment |
| Mark-up | difference between cost and its selling price |
| Monopolistic competition | Market structure where a business sells similar products that have only a few differences |
| Obsolescence | Being outmoded or unfashionable |
| oligopoly | market structure in which there are relatively few seller and industry leaders usually determine prices |
| operating expenses | expenses related to running a business |
| Price discrimination | sells to different businesses at different prices |
| Price fixing | companies setting prices |
| pricing objectives | goals companies hope to accomplish by pricing |
| profit maximazation | profit oriented pricing objective to give the most profit |
| profit oriented pricing | objective focuses on profit |
| pure competition | same product selling at the same price |
| pure monopoly | controlled by one company |
| return on investment | bases profit of off investiments |
| return on sales | profit based on sales |
| sales oriented pricing | focussed on increasing sales |
| sales volume | firms sales |
| selling price | what somethings actually sold for |
| target return | return on sales |
| total costs | all a businesses costs |
| unit pricing | price per unit |
| variable costs | costs that change |