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What is global marketing?

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Marketing that targets markets throughout the world

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What is global vision?

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Recognizing and reacting to international market opportunities, using effective global marketing strategies
Being aware of threats from foreign competitors in all markets

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What is absolute advantage?

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A country can produce and sell a product at a lower cost than any other country or when it is the only country that can provide a product

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What is comparative advantage?

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A country chooses to produce specific products because they can do so more efficiently than producing other products
A country should trade these products with products other countries can produce most efficiently

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What is protectionism?

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Aims to protect home industries from outside competition through tariffs and trade restrictions
Opposite of free trade

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What is offshoring?

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Sending US jobs abroad

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What’s inshoring?

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Returning production jobs to US

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What is glocalization?

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Keeping big things standard and localizing local tactics & strategies

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What is a standardization strategy?

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Presumes that markets throughout the world are becoming more alike and keeps the products the same across markets

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What is a multidomestic strategy?

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Occurs when multinational firms enable individual subsidiaries to compete independently in domestic markets

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What is culture?

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The language, education, religious attitudes, and social values of a particular area

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What is a tariff?

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A tax levied on goods entering a country

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What is a quota?

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A limit on the amount of a product that can enter a country

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What are trade agreements and what are 2 big ones?

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An agreement to stimulate international trade
EU and USMCA

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What is an exchange rate?

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The price of one country’s currency in terms of another country’s currency

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What is the balance of trade?

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The difference between the value of a country’s exports and the value of its imports over a given period

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What is the balance of payments?

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Measures the difference between a country’s total payments to other countries and its total receipts from other countries

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What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?

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Created to foster global trade
“Most favored nation” concept that establishes that what one member does for another, it will do for all other member nations

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What is value?

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A personal assessment of the net worth one obtains from making a purchase

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What is perceived value?

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The value a customer expects to obtain from a purchase

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What is customer behavior?

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Processes a consumer uses to make a purchase decisions as well as to use and dispose of purchased goods or services
Includes factors that influence purchase decisions and product use

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What are the steps of the consumer decision process?

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  1. Need recognition
  2. Information search
  3. Evaluating alternatives
  4. Purchase decision
  5. Post-purchase evaluation
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What is a stimulus?

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Any unit of input affecting one or more of the 5 senses

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What is need recognition?

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The result of an imbalance between actual and desired states

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What is a want?
The recognition of an unfulfilled need and a product that will satisfy it
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What is an internal information search?
The process of recalling information stored in the memory
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What is an external information search?
The process of seeking information in the outside environment
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What is a marketing-controlled information source?
A product information source that is associated with advertising or promotion
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What is a non-marketing controlled information source?
A product information source that originates with marketers promoting the product
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What is an evoked set?
A group of brands resulting from an information search from which a buyer can choose
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What is a jilting effect?
Anticipation of receiving a highly desirable option only to have it become inaccessible
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What is cognitive dissonance?
Inner tension that a consumer experiences after recognizing an inconsistency between behavior and values or opinions
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What is an example of routine decision making and involvement?
Groceries, everyday items
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Example of limited decision making and involvement:
Product that requires an appropriate amount of time for gathering information and deliberating about an unfamiliar brand in a familiar product category
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Example of extensive decision making:
Car, home
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What are cultural effects on consumer behavior?
Broadest and deepest influence on purchase decisions Pervasive, functional, learned, and dynamic
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What is subculture?
A homogenous group of people who share elements of the overall culture as well as unique elements of their own group
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What is a social class?
A group of people in a society who are considered nearly equal in status or community esteem Socialize among themselves formally and informally, sharing behavioral norms
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What are reference groups?
All formal and informal groups in society that influence an individual's purchasing behavior
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What is a membership group?
A reference group with which people interact regularly in an informal, face to face manner
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What is an aspirational group?
A reference group someone would like to join
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What is a non-aspirational group?
A group with which an individual does not want to associate
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What are family effects on consumer behavior
Projects strongest influence on values, attitudes, self-concept, and buying behavior
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What is perception?
The process by which people select, organize, and interpret stimuli into a meaningful and coherent picture
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What is selective exposure?
A process whereby a consumer notices certain stimuli and ignores others
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What is selective distortion?
A process whereby a consumer changes or distorts information that conflicts with his/her feelings or beliefs
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What is selective retention?
A process whereby a consumer remembers only that information that supports his/her personal beliefs
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What are the levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and what is a product that will satisfy each level?
Self-actualization (top) - What makes you you - hiking Esteem - Fashionable clothes Love/Belonging - Dating app Safety - smoke alarm Physiological (bottom) - shelter
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What is market segmentation?
The process of dividing a market into meaningful, relatively similar, and identifiable segments or groups
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What is a market segment?
A subgroup of people or organizations sharing one or more characteristics that cause them to have similar product needs
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What are 4 criteria for successful market segments and what do they mean?
Substantial - must be large enough to warrant a special marketing mix Measurable - data about a population within geographic boundaries Accessible - firm must be able to reach members Responsive - one market needs to respond differently to a certain stimuli than another
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What is geographic segmentation?
Segmentation by region of a country or the world, market size, market density, or climate
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What is demographic segmentation?
Segmentation by age, gender, income, ethnicity, and family life cycle
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What are characteristics of the Silent Generation?
Born before 1946 Quietly persevere through hardships Taught to play by the rules
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What are some characteristics of Boomers?
1946-1964 Outspend average consumer in nearly every category Spend time and money doing whatever is necessary to maintain vitality as they age
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What are some characteristics of Gen X?
1965-1979 Sandwich generation Latchkey kids Best-educated Disloyal to brands and skeptical of big business Parents
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What are some characteristics of Gen Y?
1980-1994 Idealistic Technology-proficient Value trustworthiness, creativity, and authenticity Want experiences Shop at deep-discounting stores
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What are characteristics of Gen Z?
1995-2015 Work for success Brands need to be real Social media etiquette Cautious
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3 largest growing ethnicities in the US:
Hispanic American African American Asian American
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What is the Family Life Cycle?
A series of stages determined by a contribution of age, marital status, and the presence or absence of children
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What is psychographic segmentation?
Segmentation based on personality, motives, lifestyles, or geodemographics
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What is personality?
Reflection of a person's traits, attitudes, and habits
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What is a motive?
Examples may be caring for loved ones or status
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What is a lifestyle?
The way people spend their time, the importance of things around them, beliefs, and socioeconomic status
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What are geodemographics?
Segmentation based on combination of neighborhood, lifestyle, and other demographic values
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What is an undifferentiated target market strategy?
Views the market as one big market with not individual segments and thus uses a single marketing mix
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What is a niche (concentrated) marketing mix?
A strategy used to select one segment of a market for targeted marketing efforts
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What is positioning?
Developing a specific marketing mix to influence potential customers' overall perception of a brand, product line, or organization in general
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What are 4 things positioning can be based off of?
Benefits Price Product class Emotion
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What is perceptual mapping?
A means of displaying or graphing the location of products, brands, or groups of products in customers' minds
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What is the marketing research problem?
Determining what information is needed and how that information can be obtained efficiently and effectively
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What is descriptive marketing research?
Gathering factual information Easiest
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What is diagnostic marketing research?
Analyzing descriptive information Explaining the data
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What is predictive marketing research?
Addresses "what if" questions
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What is the marketing research objective?
The specific information needed to solve a marketing research problem Objective should be to provide insightful decision-making information
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What is the management decision problem?
A broad-based problem that uses marketing research in order for managers to take proper actions
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What are the steps in the marketing research process?
Define the problem Plan Conduct secondary research Conduct primary research Analyze the information Present the information
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What is probability sampling?
A sample in which every element in the population has a known statistical likelihood of being selected
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What is random sampling?
A sample arranged in such a way that every element of the population has an equal chance of being selected as part of the sample
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What is big data?
The exponential growth in the volume, variety, and velocity of information The development of complex, new tools to analyze and create meaning from such data
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What are surveys?
A researcher interacts with people to obtain facts, opinions, and attitudes
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What are mall intercepts?
A survey research method that involves interviewing people in the common areas of shopping malls
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What are executive surveys?
A type of survey that involves interviewing businesspeople at their offices concerning industrial products or services
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What are focus groups?
7-10 people who participate in a group discussion led by a moderator
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What are 3 types of questions used on surveys?
Open ended Closed ended Scaled response
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What is neuromarketing?
A field of marketing that studies the body's responses to marketing stimuli?

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