Marketing Flashcards
(47 cards)
Marketing research
To analyze the market (detect needs and wants). It’s a process
Marketing management
Offer profitable solutions (Plan, implement & control)
Market information
Result
Secondary Data
- Cheap
- easy to access
- some data can just be obtained by secondary data
- may not meet data requirement
Primary Data
- expensive
- a lot effort
- some data can be just obtained from primary data (e.g. corporate image)
- meets the data requirement perfectly
Company’s Macroenvironment
- Economic
- Political / Legal
- Social / Cultural
- Demographic
- Technological
- Physical
Company’s Microenvironment
- Company
- Suppliers
- Intermediaries
- Stakeholders
- Costumer / Consumers
7O’s
- Occupants (Who)
- Objects (What)
- Objectives (Why)
- Operations (How)
- Organization (?)
- Outlets (Where)
- Occasions (When)
Guideline of market research
- Introduction
- Customer study
- Competition study
- Intermediaries study
- Environment study
- Conclusions
Types of collecting behavioral data
- Visual observation
- Technical means
Use of observational data
- Analysis of the behaviors of customers (e.g. routes, act of purchase etc.)
- Investigate the conduct or efficiency of vendors
- Meaasuring the impact of adverstising sketches
Method of collecting information in which conditions are controlled to test a commercial hypothesis
Control group
- Governed by the principe of the black box.
Group technique
Process of obtaining ideas or solutions to a marketing problem
Types of group techniques
- Focus groups, Mini focus groups
- Interviews
- Brainstorming
- Role-playing
- Philipps 66
- Delphi
Internal experts
Marketers, product managers, executives
External experts
Experts, customers
Delphi method
Goal: minimize the subjectivity of personal opinions
- Degree of agreement is the degree of objectivity
Advantages: reduces inhibitions, avoid consequences of leadership, economical…..
Panel studies
Method of collecting data
Retail panel applications: Time series
- Stock rotation time
- Number of shops with the product or brand
- Market share by type of shop
- Average prices by type of establishment
Audience panel application
- Audience media
- Audience characteristics
- Audience loyalty
- Ranking programm
Consumer panel apllications
- Sales volume by geographical areas, by period of time
- sales volume by brand
- Season of consumption
- Sensitivity of sales to pirce, advertising etc….
types of managing promotional activities
- Up-selling
2. Cross-selling
Up-selling
Objective: Increase customers total purchases
E.g.: If the customer reaches a monthly purchase worth 400$, he is given a check worth 15$
Cross-selling
Its goal is for the customers to purchase products he normally doesn’t buy.