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MKTG 250 Ch. 1-2
Vocab Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Marketing | the activity, set of instructions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. |
| Exchange | The trade of things of value between buyer and seller so that each is better off after the trade. |
| Target market | consists of one or more specific groups of potential consumers toward which an organization directs its marketing program. |
| Market | Consists of people with both the desire and the ability to buy a specific offering. |
| Product | good, service, or idea |
| Price | something to exchange |
| Promotion | communication between buyer and seller |
| Place | gets product to consumer. |
| Customer value | is the unique combination of benefits received by targeted buyers that includes quality, convenience, on-time delivery, and both before-sale and after-sale service at a specific price. |
| Relationship marketing | links the organization to its individual customers, employees, suppliers, and other partners for their mutual long-term benefit. |
| Marketing program | a plan that integrates the marketing mix to provide a good, service, or idea to prospective buyers. |
| Market segment | the relatively homogeneous groups of prospective buyers that have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing action. |
| Customer Relationship Management (CRM) | the process of identifying prospective buyers, understanding them intimately, and developing favorable long-term perceptions of the organization and its offerings so that buyers will choose them in the marketplace and become advocates after their purchase |
| Societal Marketing Concept | the view that organizations should satisfy the needs of consumers in a way that provides for society’s well-being. |
| Ultimate consumer | consists of the people who use the products and services purchased for a household. |
| Organizational buyer | are those manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, service companies. |
| Organization | Legal entities and consists of people who share a common mission. |
| Strategy | An organization’s long-term course of action designed to deliver a unique customer experience while achieving its goals. |
| Mission | A statement of the organization’s function in society that often identifies its customers, markets, products, and technologies. Also called vision. |
| Values | The fundamental, passionate, and enduring principles of an organization that guide its conduct over time. |
| Corporate culture | Consists of the sets of values, ideas, attitudes, and norms of behavior that is learned and shared among members of an organization. |
| Marketing plan | A road map for the marketing actions of an organization for a specified future time period, such as one year or five years. |
| Marketing dashboard | The visual computer display of the essential information related to achieving a marketing objective. |
| Marketing metric | A measure of the quantitative value or trend of a marketing action or result. |
| Strategic marketing process | An approach whereby an organization allocates its marketing mix resources to reach its target markets. |
| SWOT analysis | An acronym describing an organization’s appraisal of its internal Strengths and Weaknesses and its external Opportunities and Threats. |
| Market segmentation | Involves aggregating prospective buyers into groups, or segments that (1) have common needs and (2) will respond similarly to a marketing action. |
| Point of difference | Those characteristics of a product that make it superior to competitive substitutes. |
| Market strategy | The means by which a marketing goal is to be achieved, usually characterized by a specified target market |
| Marketing tactics | Day-to-day operational marketing actions for each element of the marketing mix that contributes to the overall success of marketing strategies. |