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business principles
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Marketing Concept | business must satisfy needs and wants of their customer to compete |
| Customer | person who buys the product |
| Pricing | determines prices for products in order to maximize profit |
| Promotion | applying promotional techniques to potential customers |
| Product/Service Management | developing, improving and maintaining a product mix |
| Financing | obtaining the money necessary for business operations |
| Selling | providing consumers with the products and services they desire |
| Marketing Information Management | managing market information to maximize business decisions |
| Distribution | using channels to get products to consumers |
| Disaggregate | reduce the marketing focus to product-market areas where companies are more likely to have a competitive advantage |
| Segmentation | aggregating process which clusters people with similar needs into market segments |
| Market Segments | similar group of consumers responding to the same marketing mix |
| Baby Boom Generation | babies born between 1946-1964; aging population; are of interest to companies promoting products related to aging populations |
| Generation X | babies born between 1965-1977; children of dual-careered parental homes and rising divorce rates; media savvy; big spenders in cosmetics, electronics, clothing and entertainment; reached through sharp images music and humor |
| Generation Y | babies born between 1977-1997; children growing up in computer-dense environment; comfortable with computers; are attractive to marketers for building lasting consumer loyalty |
| Disposable Income | money left after taxes are taken out of paychecks |
| Discretionary Income | money left after basic living expenses have been paid |
| Trends | changes in households, the economy, politics and workplace; changes in personal attitudes about health, time, fun and general living |
| Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) | created by the government to help distribute federal aid; used by marketers to target consumers and launch promotional campaigns |
| Target Marketing |