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Section A - Principles And Purposes Of Marketing Flashcards

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What is BOGOF

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Buy one get one free

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What is market share

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The percentage of a given market that a business holds. It leads to meaning more customers.

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What is brand personality

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Human characteristics to which a customer can relate, especially if similar to their own

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Define marketing

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Marketing involves understanding the customers needs and ensuring they hate are the most important thing to the business. Marketing is NOT just selling or advertising.

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What is the role of Marketing in a business?
(Marketing helps business to…..)

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  • build their image reputation
  • develop customer loyalty
  • gain/increase market share
  • launch a new product
  • develop brand recognition
  • develop/sell the right products to meet customer needs
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principles and purposes of marketing

What is anticipating demand

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Predicting the amount of sales in the business

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principles and purposes of marketing

What is recognising demand

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Acknowledging the existence and legality of the business/product and keeping up to date with what competitors are selling

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What is stimulating demand

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Creating or enhancing demand, businesses find ways of promoting their brand through advertising.

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What is satisfying demand

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To fulfil the requirements for something, ensuring stocks and capacity are sufficiently available to meet any demands

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marketing aims and objectives

Why is understanding customer wants and needs important

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Wants = luxury
Needs = food and water
Understanding = getting to know the customer
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It is important because they can anticipate their customers needs and exceed their expectations. The marketer needs to differentiate between needs and wants to promote products effectively and identify the key features they should be marketing

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Why is developing new products so important

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It can provide businesses with customers ideas to help them expand their range. Once a business has developed a new product to sell to existing customers, the business will increase their sales.

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How can the marketing department help improve profitability

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By reducing/increasing cost - a business can improve profitability, a brand name makes it possible to sell at an expensive price - which marketing helps establish

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How could marketing improve market share?

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They could create new products, promote their existing products, recuse their prices, or find new channels of selling. This will increase the market share.

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Why is increasing market share so important

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You get an increase in customers which means more sales for a business = more profit

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marketing aims and objectives

What is diversification

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Where a business markets new products which differ from its usual products.

Overall it is making and selling more than one thing in different industries

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marketing aims and objectives

Why would business diversify

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To attract more customers

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marketing aims and objectives

Why is diversification so important

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More people are pulled into the products and more sales are made. This increases your market share.
More money is made in certain industries which covers the ones not making any money - overall covering the companies risk.

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marketing aims and objectives

Why is increased brand awareness and loyalty so important

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Customers want to buy from a brand with loyalty and confidence. Overall it creates repeat purchases and word of mouth recommendation

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types of market

Define mass market

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A mass market is the largest market possible for a product. This concerns products that are aimed at the general population
Eg. Cars

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types of market

Define niche market

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A niche market is a small market that aims to meet specific user needs. Eg. Polish food

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types of market

What is market segmentation

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Market segmentation is the process of dividing an entire market up into different customer segments based on age, income, gender, ethnicity, etc.

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Why would a business offer a range of products

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To satisfy the different needs of customers to gain more sales

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Why is branding important

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Branding is important because it makes a business distinctive and memorable. This enables it to stand out from it’s competitors

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Define brand dimensions
Include components

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These are the components that make the brand distinctive and give it identity. They make it instantly recognisable and reinforce its image in the mind of consumers.

  • Logo
  • celebrity endorsement
  • symbol
  • colours
  • images
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What are the steps to creating a distinctive brand

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  1. Choose an appropriate name
  2. Choose a symbol/use a logo type (distinctive lettering) for the name
  3. Decide on brand colours for packaging, posters and stationary
  4. Have images or endorsements to reinforce the brand identity
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What are the 4P’s and 7P’s

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4P’s:
- product
- price
- promotion
- place

7P’s:
The above and;
- process
- physical environment
- people

27
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The target to achieve aims; objectives must be…..
(SMART)

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Specific
Measured
Achievable
Realistic
Timed

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What is brand personality

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Brand personality is having human characteristics that a person can relate to.
It can help achieve marketing objectives such as gaining market leadership and raiding customer awareness

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Successful marketing can be achieved by….

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  • understanding customers wants and needs
  • developing new products (diversification)
  • improving profitability by reducing costs
  • increasing market share
  • increased brand awareness and loyalty
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What is USP

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Unique selling point
A brand can portray a USP to gain market share over their competitors and stand out from the crowd

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What are the implications of business size on marketing activity

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There are many implications for marketing that are influenced by the size of the business:
- the possibility of product development to meet customer needs and whether this is profitable will depend on having enough employees. The business also needs to have the capacity and resources to develop
- the elimination of products or services which no longer meet requirements and are not financially viable
- marketing methods for promoting branding need to be cost effective
- changes to branding can make excessive demands on a limited workforce

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What are budgetary constraints

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All marketing plans should be based on a budget to ensure the business does not overspend and justify its expenditure

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What can a business do if they do not have the availability of specialist staff

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  1. Hire external support specialists
  2. Change their intentions and their ways of marketing to adapt to their own resources available
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Define strapline

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A caption of heading often providing a brief and snappy overview of a product, service, or news story

35
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Define disposable income

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The amount of extra money left over after paying for essential items/expenses

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Geographic (Location) is a type of market segmentation. Explain the segments key characteristics

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  • Splitting up the market by the location of potential customers
  • businesses can choose to alter their product offering according to location
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Demographics is a type of market segmentation. Explain the segments key characteristics

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  • based in characteristics of the target market; age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation
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Behaviour and lifestyle is a type of market segmentation. Explain the segments key characteristics

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BEHAVIOUR
- relates to consumer buying behaviour and how it varies between industries and specific segments of the market
- how often people purchase

LIFESTYLE
- focused on hobbies and interests of people

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Income is a type of market segmentation. Explain the segments key characteristics

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Focused on how much the average income is and how much is disposable

40
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What are the internal influences in a business (things within the business that can influence the marketing of the business)

Hint: ACES

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  • availability of finance
  • cost of campaign
  • expertise of staff
  • size and culture of the business
    = ACES
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What are the external influences in a business marketing (the less controllable ones)

Hint: PESTLE

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Political eg. Brexit, new laws and PMs

Economical eg. Inflation, taxes, cost of living

Social eg. Baby boom, aging population, health, war, immigration

Technology eg. AI, social media, advances like robots

Legal eg. Brexit, employment and shipping laws

Environmental/Ethical eg. Natural disasters, war, ethical = laws

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