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D174 Module 1
Marketing
Term | Definition |
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Marketing Management | The leading and managing of the facets of marketing to improve individual, unit, and organizational performance. |
Marketing's stakeholders | Any person or entity inside or outside a firm with whom marketing interacts, impacts, and is impacted by. |
Societal marketing | The concept that, at the broadest level, members of society at large can be viewed as a stakeholder for marketing. |
Sustainability | The practicing of business that meets humanity’s needs without harming future generations. |
Value | A ratio of the bundle of benefits a customer receives from an offering compared to the costs incurred by the customer in acquiring that bundle of benefits. |
Exchange | The giving up of something of value for something desired. |
Production orientation | The maximization of production capacity through improvements in products and production activities without much regard for what is going on in the marketplace. |
Sales Orientation | The increase of sales and consequently production capacity utilization by having salespeople “push” product into the hands of customers. |
Marketing concept | Business philosophy that emphasizes an organization-wide customer orientation with the objective of achieving long-run profits. |
Marketing mix (4P's of marketing) | Product, price, place, and promotion—the fundamental elements that comprise the marketer’s tool kit that can be developed in unique combinations to set the product or brand apart from the competition. |
Customer-centric | Placing the customer at the core of the enterprise and focusing on investments in customers over the long term. |
Differentiation | Communicating and delivering value in different ways to different customer groups. |
Market orientation | The implementation of the marketing concept, based on an understanding of customers and competitors. |
Customer orientation | Placing the customer at the core of all aspects of the enterprise. |
Relationship orientation | Investing in keeping and cultivating profitable current customers instead of constantly having to invest in gaining new ones. |
one-to-one marketing | Directing energy and resources into establishing a learning relationship with each customer and connecting that knowledge with the firm’s production and service capabilities to fulfill that customer’s needs in as customary a manner as possible. |
mass customization | Combining flexible manufacturing with flexible marketing to greatly enhance customer choice. |
Marketing | The activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. |
Strategic marketing | The long-term, firm-level commitment to investing in marketing—supported at the highest organization level—for the purpose of enhancing organizational performance. |
Marketing (Big M) | The dimension of marketing that focuses on external forces that affect the organization and serves as the driver of business strategy. |
marketing (little m) | The dimension of marketing that focuses on the functional or operational level of the organization. |
tactical marketing | Marketing activities that take place at the functional or operational level of a firm. |
marketing metrics | Tools and processes designed to identify, track, evaluate, and provide key benchmarks for improvement of marketing activities. |