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Marketing Exam 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Business-To-Business Marketing | The marketing of products and services to companies, governments, or nonprofit organizations for use in the creation of products and services that they can produce and market to others. |
| The 3 types of organizational markets | 1. Industrial 2. Resellers 3. Government |
| Industrial Market | These firms in some way reprocess a product or service they buy before selling it again to the next buyer |
| Resellers | Wholesalers and retailers that buy physical products and resell them without and reprocessing. |
| Government Markets | Federal, state, and local agencies that buy goods and services for the constituents they serve. |
| Reciprocity | When 2 organizations agree to buy each other's products or services. |
| Supply Partnership | When a buyer and its supplier adopt mutually beneficial objectives and procedures for the purpose of lowering cost or increasing the value of products or services delivered to the ultimate consumer. |
| Derived Demand | The demand for industrial products and services that is driven by, or derived from, the demand for consumer products and services. (Example: Fidget Spinners) |
| Organizational Buying Behavior | 1. Market Characteristics 2. Product or Service Characteristics 3. Buying Process Characteristics 4. Marketing Mix Characteristics- Direct selling is the rule |
| Buying Center | The group of people in an organization who participate in the buying process and share common goals, risks, and knowledge important to a purchase decision. |
| Types of Buys | 1. New Buys 2. Straight Rebuys 3. Modified Rebuys |
| New Buy | The organization is first-time buyer of a product or service. |
| Straight Rebuy | When an organization rebuys a product without hesitation or looking for alternative suppliers. |
| Modified Rebuy | Deciders in the buying center want to change the products specifications. Such as price, delivery, or supplier. |
| Organizational Buying Process | 1. Problem Recognition 2. Information Search 3. Alternative Evaluation- Negotiation takes place here & 4 4. Purchase Decision- Contract Awarded 5. Post Purchase Behavior |
| E-Marketplace | Online trading communities that bring together buyers and supplier organizations to make possible the real-time exchange of information, money, products, and services. Also called B2B exchanges or e-hubs. |
| Traditional Auction | A seller puts up an item for sale, and potential buyers are invited to bid in competition with each other. |
| Reverse Auction | A buyer communicates a need for a product or service, and potential suppliers are invited to bid in competition with each other. |
| Home vs. Workplace Buyers | Buying furniture for home vs. buying toilet paper for workplace bathrooms. |
| Countertrade | Using bartering rather than money for global sales. |
| GDP | The monetary value of all products and services produced in a country for one year. |
| Protectionism | The practice of shielding one or more industries within a country’s economy from foreign competition through the use of tariffs or quotas. |
| Quota | A restriction placed on the amount of a product allowed to enter or leave a country. |
| Tariff | Government taxes on products or services entering a country that primarily serve to raise prices on imports. |
| Globalization | The focus on creating economic, cultural, political, and technological interdependence among individual national institutions and economies. |
| Global Competition | Exists when firms originate, produce, and market their products and services worldwide. |
| Types of Firms | 1. International 2. Multinational 3. Transnational |
| International Firms | Engages in trade and marketing in different countries as an extension of the marketing strategy in its home country. |
| Multinational Firms | Views the world as consisting of unique parts and markets to each part differently. Uses the multidomestic marketing strategy. |
| Multidomestic Marketing Strategy | A strategy used by multinational firms that have as many different product variations, brand names, and advertising programs as countries in which they do business. |
| Transnational Firms | Views the world as one market and emphasizes cultural similarities across countries or universal consumer needs and wants rather than differences. They use the global marketing strategy. |
| Global Marketing Strategy | A strategy used by transnational firms that employ the practice of standardizing marketing activities when there are cultural similarities and adapting them when cultures differ. |
| Economic Espionage | The clandestine collection of trade secrets or proprietary information about a company’s competitors. |
| Cross-Cultural Analysis | The study of similarities and differences among consumers in two or more nations or societies. |
| Values | Personally, or socially preferable modes of conduct or states of existence that tend to persist over time. |
| Customs | What is considered normal and expected about the way people do things in a specific country. |
| Language | How consumers communicate in their given countries. |
| Ethnocentrism | The belief that your own culture is superior to another. |
| Economic Considerations | 1. Assessment of the economic infrastructure 2. Measurement of consumer income 3. Recognition of a country's exchange rate |
| Currency Exchange Rate | The price of one country’s currency expressed in terms of another country’s currency. |
| Global Market Entry Strategies | 1. Exporting 2. Licensing 3. Joint Venture 4. Direct Investment |
| Exporting | A global market-entry strategy in which a company produces products in one country and sells them in another country. |
| Licensing | A company offers the right to a trademark, patent, trade secret, or other similarly valued item of intellectual property in return for a royalty or fee. |
| Joint Venture | A global market-entry strategy in which a foreign company and a local firm invest together to create a local business in order to share ownership, control, and profits of the new company. |
| Direct Investment | A domestic firm investing in and owning a foreign subsidiary or division. |
| Product Extensions | Selling virtually the same product in other countries. |
| Product Adaptation | Changing a product in some way to make it more appropriate for consumer preferences or a countries climate. |
| Product Invention | Inventing totally new products designed to satisfy common needs across countries. |
| Dumping | When a firm sells a product in a foreign country below its domestic price or below its actual cost. |
| Gray Market | A situation where products are sold through unauthorized channels of distribution. (Black Market) |
| Steps in the market research process | 1. Define the problem 2. Develop the research plan 3. Collect relevant information 4. Develop findings 5. Take marketing actions |
| Define the problem | Set research objectives & identify possible marketing actions. |
| Develop the research plan | Specify constraints, identify data needed for marketing, & determine how to collect data. |
| Collect relevant information | Obtain secondary data & obtain primary data |
| Take marketing actions | Make action recommendations, implement action recommendations, & evaluate results. |
| Measures of success | Criteria or standards used in evaluating proposed solutions to the problem. |
| Constraints | In a decision, the restrictions placed on potential solutions to a problem. |
| Primary Data | Facts and figures that are newly collected for the project. |
| Secondary Data | Facts and figures that have already been recorded prior to the project at hand. |
| Data | The facts and figures related to the project that are divided into two main parts: secondary data and primary data. |
| Observational Data | Facts and figures obtained by watching how people actually behave, using mechanical, personal, or neuromarketing data collection methods. |
| Mystery Shopper | A person hired to pretend to be a normal customer to see how well a business treats customers and follows its rules. |
| Ethnographic | A research method where someone watches how people behave in their normal environment to understand their habits. |
| Neuromarketing | Using brain science to study how people react to ads, brands, and products. Usually use a neuroresponse tool. |
| Questionnaire Data | Facts and figures obtained by asking people about their attitudes, awareness, intentions, and behaviors. Surveys. |
| Focus Group | A small group of people who talk about a product or idea to give their opinions. |
| Test Market | A small area where a company tries selling a new product to see how people react before selling it everywhere. |
| IT (Information Technology) | Includes all of the computing resources that collect, store, and analyze data. |
| Data Mining | The extraction of hidden predictive information from large databases to find statistical links between consumer purchasing patterns and marketing actions. |
| Sales Forecast | A prediction of how much a company expects to sell in the future. |
| PEPSI QUESTION | WHICH FLAVOUR DO YOU PREFER? |
| LEGO'S MEASURE OF SUCCESS | PLAY TIME |
| Market Segmentation | Involves aggregating prospective buyers into groups, or segments, that (1) have common needs and (2) will respond similarly to a marketing action. |
| Product Differentiation | A marketing strategy that involves a firm using different marketing mix actions to help consumers perceive a product as being different and better than competing products. |
| Market-Product Grid | A framework to relate the market segments of potential buyers to products offered or potential marketing actions. |
| Market segmentation should lead to a increase in sales and profitability | If not, don't do it. |
| Segmentation is... | The link between buyers' needs and the marketing program. |
| Geographic Segmentation | Based on where potential customers live or work. |
| Demographic Segmentation | Based on some objective- age, gender, income. |
| Mass Customization | Making products that can be customized for each customer but still produced in large amounts. |
| Cannibalization | When a company’s new product takes sales away from its own existing product. |
| Tiffany/Walmart Strategy | Firms now offer 2 tiers, high-end and low-end products. |
| Reasons to segment markets | 1. Market size. 2. Expected growth. 3. Competitive position. 4.Cost of reaching the segment. 5. Compatibility with the organization’s objectives and resources. |
| Personas | Character descriptions of a typical customer in the form of fictional character narratives, complete with images that capture the personalities, values, attitudes, beliefs, demographics, and expected interactions with a brand. |
| Product Positioning | The place a product occupies in consumers’ minds based on important attributes relative to competitive products. |
| Product Repositioning | Changing the place a product occupies in a consumer’s mind relative to competitive products. |
| Perceptual Map | A means of displaying in two dimensions the location of products or brands in the minds of consumers to enable a manager to see how they perceive competing products or brands, as well as the firm’s own product or brand. |
| Product | A good, service, or idea consisting of a bundle of tangible and intangible attributes that satisfies consumers’ needs and is received in exchange for money or something else of value. |
| Service | Intangible activities or benefits that an organization provides to satisfy consumers’ needs in exchange for money or something else of value. |
| Durable | A good that lasts over many uses. (car, phone, airplane) |
| Convenience Products | Items that the consumer purchases frequently, conveniently, and with a minimum of shopping effort. |
| Shopping Products | Items for which the consumer compares several alternatives on criteria such as price, quality, or style. |
| Specialty Products | Items that the consumer makes a special effort to search out and buy. |
| Unsought Products | Items that the consumer does not know about or knows about but does not initially want. |
| Product Item | A specific product that has a unique brand, size, or price. |
| Product Line | A group of product or service items that are closely related because they satisfy a class of needs, are used together, are sold to the same customer group, are distributed through the same outlets, or fall within a given price range. |
| Product Mix | Consists of all product lines offered by an organization. |
| Innovation | Creating a new idea, product, or way of doing something that improves things. |
| Continuous Innovation | Consumers don't need to learn new behavior. No re-education is needed. |
| Dynamically Continuous Innovation | Only minor changes in behavior are needed. |
| Discontinuous Innovation | Completely new behavior is learned. Lots of teaching takes place. |
| Protocol | A statement that, before product development begins, identifies (1) a well-defined target market; (2) specific customers’ needs, wants, and preferences; and (3) what the product will be and do to satisfy consumers. |
| Business Products | Products that companies buy to help run their business or make other products. Or used at businesses. |
| Consumer Products | Products that people buy for their personal use. |
| A product is new if... | It is functionally different from similar products. |
| Reasons for new product failures | Insignificant difference, incomplete planning, doesn’t meet key customer needs, bad timing, hard to reach buyers, poor marketing mix, low market demand, and poor product quality. |
| New Product Development Process | 1. New-Product Strategy Development 2.Idea Generation 3. Screening and Evaluation 4. Business Analysis 5. Development 6. Marketing 7. Commercialization |