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Marketing Concepts
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Marketing | Marketing is the activity, set of instructions, and possesses for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. American Marketing Association |
| Marketing Mix | A combination of factors that can be controlled by a company to influence consumers to purchase its product. |
| Functions of Marketing | Seven basic Marketing functions: Distribution, Financing, Marketing, Information Management, Pricing, Product/Service Management, Promotion, and Selling. |
| Situation Analysis | Analyzing the situation and finding the best way to solve the problem. |
| Marketing Concept | The idea that you must satisfy a customer's needs and wants in order to make a profit |
| Customer | The actual or prospective purchaser of products or services |
| Target Market | The particular segment of a total population on which a business focuses its expertise to satisfy that submarket in order to accomplish its profit objectives |
| Market Segmentation | a large market into clearly identifiable segments having similar needs, wants, or demand characteristics. Its objective is to design a marketing mix that precisely matches the expectations of customers in the targeted segment. |
| Demographic | characteristics of a population expressed statistically, such as age, sex, education level, income level, marital status, occupation, religion, birth rate, death rate, average size of a family, average age at marriage |
| Geographic | market segmentation based on where your target market lives. Includes local, regional, national, and global markets |
| Physchographic | a qualitative methodology used to describe consumers on psychological attributes. Psychographics have been applied to the study of personality, values, opinions, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles. |