chapter 3 Flashcards

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what is marketing?

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an organizational function for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders

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is marketing done by all companies?

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yes all companies both for profit and non profit companies

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3
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what do non profits look to provide?

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non profits look to provide a service or product

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4
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what are some examples of non profits?

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MADD (mothers against drunk drivers)

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5
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what are the 2 steps in developing a marketing strategy?

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find your target market
marketing mix

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what is a target market?

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the group of people that you choose to sell to and who you should direct your marketing strategy towards

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7
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can a company have multiple target markets?

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yes

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8
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why do companies have target markets?

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because companies cannot please everyone so they decide to focus on their target market

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what are the 4 P,s/ the 4 components of the marketing mix?

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product strategy
place (distribution) strategy
promotional strategy
pricing strategy

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explain what product strategy is in the marketing mix?

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the product strategy is what kind of product you are going to offer your customer and other product decision like quality, packaging, logo colours and branding

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explain what place (distribution) strategy is in the marketing mix?

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how you get your products to customers, if your products can be purchased online, in store, retail and what stores

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explain what promotional strategy is in the marketing mix?

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how a company reaches their target audience

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explain what pricing strategy is in the marketing mix?

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what the price that people are willing to pay and how they price their product based on profit approach, cost approach

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14
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how Is marketing research used?

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it Is used to shape and form companies products

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what needs to work together for the marketing mix to work?

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all 4 of the components/ P’s need to work together to have a successful marketing strategy

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what is market research?

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the process of collecting and evaluating information to support marketing decision-making

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17
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what is internal data?

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information that is inside the organization, such as financials, sales reports and cost data

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18
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what is external data?

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information that is outside the organization, such as stuff on the internet and stats Canada information

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what is secondary data?

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information that is already published

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what is primary data?

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information that you have to collect to to help you do marketing research

21
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what are focus groups?

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a small (8-10 people) informal group of people to talk about or discuss your research question

22
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why do companies do focus groups?

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to help get a sense if their new idea is worth pursuing

23
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what is data mining?

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collecting data on consumers shopping habits, browsing habits and past purchasing

24
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why do companies use data mining?

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to create marketing research, sell the info they mine and to compare one consumers shopping habits to another

25
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what is market segmentation?

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the process of dividing a total market into several relatively similar groups

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what are the 4 kinds of market segmentation?

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geographic segmentation
demographic segmentation
psychographic segmentation
product-related segmentation

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what is geographic segmentation?

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segmenting a market according to city, parts of a city, neighbourhood, country, Provence, postal code

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what is demographic segmentation?

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segmenting a market according to age, gender, income or ethnicity

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what is psychographic segmentation?

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segmenting a market according to personality, lifestyle, attitudes and values

30
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what is product-related segmentation?

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segmenting a market according to brand loyalty, benefits of a product and usage rate

31
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what is consumer behaviour?

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the study of how people behave and buy products

32
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what can influence consumer behaviour?

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family upbringing

33
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what is business buying behaviour?

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how businesses behave and buy products

34
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why is business buying behaviour important?

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because businesses make large lucrative purchases buying a lot of dollars worth of goods

35
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what its relationship marketing?

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developing and maintaining long-term, cost effective exchange relationships with partners

36
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why is relationship marketing important?

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to create return customers and grow a customer group so they do not have to spend as much on always getting new customers

37
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what are the 3 benefits of relationship marketing?

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lower costs
higher profits
protection against competitors for the business

38
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what is the life time value of a customer?

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the lifetime value of a customer is, the revenue they give you and the intangibles they provide (reviews, referrals) minus the cost of serving that customer and the cost of acquiring new customer (advertising)

39
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what are the 2 ways of executing relationship marketing?

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frequency marketing
affinity programs

40
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what is frequency marketing?

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when companies reward your frequent purchases with cash back, merchandise, loyalty cards and discounts

41
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what are affinity programs?

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things that target people who share common interests or activities (team sponsored credit cards)

42
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what is one-to-one marketing?

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customizing products and marketing, and rapidly delervering goods for a single individual

43
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what is customer relationship management (CRM)?

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a software that helps companies gather, sort and interpret data about specific customers