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101 Cards in this Set
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Who developed the Internet, and what year?
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Internet or net-Developed by Defense Dept in 1969.
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www
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world wide web
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document composed of electronic pages
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website
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web site address
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domain name
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ISP. What does it stand for?
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Internet service provider
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an address identifying the location of a file on the Internet
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URL
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What are the four functions of the net?
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communication (email most popular application), information (portals), Entertainment and E-commerce.
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business to business e-commerce-electronic business transactions between organizations using the Internet.
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B2B
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Business to consumer e-commerce- electronice business transactions between organizations and final customers using the Internet.
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B2C
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What has the larger value B2B or B2C?
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B2C has the larger $ value
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EDI
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Electronic data interchange
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web sites that offer items for sale to consumers
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Electronic storefronts
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items are placed here if the consumer wish to purchase it
Portals- a website that provides links and to info and other sites |
Shopping carts
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process of encoding data for security purposes
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Encryption
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electronic barrier between a company’s internal network and the Internet that limits access into and out of the network
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Firewall
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What are the two most common types of internet frauds?
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auction fraud and investment scams
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Traffic jams
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delays and sometimes outages of internet use
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Poor website design
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important for costumers to know how to use the site
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Seperation can be either______or ______.
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voluntary or firing
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Interviews some business have to know why an employee is leaving and to see and get ideas to make the company better.
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exit interviews
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Process of reducing the number of employees within a firm by eliminating jobs.
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Downsizing (+/-)
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Practice of contracting out work preciously preformed by company employees.
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Outsourcing (+/-)
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job design that expands an employee’s responsibilities
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Job enlargement
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change in job duties to increase employee’s authority
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Job enrichment
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assumes that employees dislike to wokr and try to avoid it whenever possible.
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Theory X
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assumes that the typical person likes work and learns, under proper conditions, to accept and seek responsibilities to fulfill social, esteem, and self-actualization needs.
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Theory Y
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Employee who works part time, temporarily, or for the period of time specified in a contract.
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Contingent Workers
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Group of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in the workplace
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labor union
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Union tactics
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Boycott, picketing & strike
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Management tactics
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lockout, strikebreakers & injunction
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TQM, What does this stand for?
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Total Quality Management
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Giving employees authority and responsibility to make decisions about work
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Empowerment
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Trust employees
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provide info on “their” company
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ESOP
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employee stock ownership plans
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rights to buy a specified amount of the company stock at a given price within a given time period
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Stock Options
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The cooperative effort by a group of workers acting together for a common cause.
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teamwork
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Group of employees who are committed to a common purpose, approach, and set of performance goals.
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team
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Problem solving-teams
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temporaily
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Work teams
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permenant
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Which team is more common? Problem solving- teams or work teams?
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problem solving
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A team where each person has a specific job and must complete that job.
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Self-managed teams
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A team where the team members help each other reach a common goal
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Cross functional teams
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What are team functions?
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Role, Size and Diversity
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______ is very critical to organization’s success.
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communication
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Skill of receiving a message and interpreting its intended meaning by grasping the facts and feelings it conveys.
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listening
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transmitted through speech (personal convos, speeches, meetings, voice mail, telephone convos, and video conference.)
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oral communication
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transmitted through writing (letters, memos, e-mail, etc.
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Written Communication
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transmitted in the form of words (meetings, telephone calls, voice mail, videoconferences)
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Verbal Communication
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transmitted through actions and behaviors rather than through words (gestures, facial expressions, posture, etc.)
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Non-verbal Communication
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An internal channel that passes info from unofficial sources.
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grapevine
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messages sent through channels within an organization
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internal communication
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meaningful exchange of info through messages transmitted between an organization and its major audiences.
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external communication
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Convert into finished goods
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Production
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Difference in production and manufacturing
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Production is a Broader term that spans both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries
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resources, raw materials in the production process.
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inputs
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Add value in the production process.
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Conversion Process
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goods, and services in the production process
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Outputs
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Typical production systems
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Example: Department store- PRIMARY INPUTS- building, displays, scanners, merchandise, etc.-TRANSFORMATION- attracts customers, stores goods, sells products- OUTPUTS- Merchandise sold
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Manufacturing products in large amounts using employees with specialized skills, mechanization, and standardization
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mass production
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using information technology
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flexible production
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establish computer links between factories and retailers’ scanners
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Customer Driven Production
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combines different people with different strengths to work together
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Team concept
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Reprogrammable machine capable of performing a variety of jobs that require manipulation of materials and tools
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robots
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CAD, What does this stand for?
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computer aided design
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CAM, What does this stand for?
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computer aided manufacturing
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FMS, What does this stand for?
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flexible manufacuring system
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Supplier Selection
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right price/right QTY/right time
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requires them to balance the need to keep stocks on hand to meet demand against the costs of carrying inventory
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Inventory control
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aimed at improving profits and return on investment by minimizing costs and eliminating waste through cutting inventory on hand.
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JIT- Just-in-time system
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creates a well-defines set of procedures for coordinating people, materials, and machinery to provide maximum production efficiency.
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Production control
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phase of production contol, managers develop timetables that specify how long each operation in the production process takes and when workers should perform it.
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Scheduling
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Process of determining customer wants and needs and then providing the goods and services that meet or exceed expectations
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Marketing
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PPDP
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Product, Price, Distribution, Promotion
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5 elements in the environment.
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Political/Legal, Social/Cultural, Technological, Competitive, Economic
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who is the center of a marketing strategy?
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The customer
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Time, form, place and ownership
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Utility
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Value perception
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Customer satisfaction
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the way a producer produces its goods and the way it is made
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quality
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helps a company know what they need to work on.
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Customer feedback
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Toby Keith Promotional Tour is an example of what type of marketing?
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Person Marketing
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The T-shirts I love New York, Promoting the City is an example of what tyep of marketing?
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Place Marketing
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Steroids issue, promotes a cause or social issue
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Cause Marketing
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Athletic competitions
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event marketing
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influences consumer to accept the goals of or contribute to the organization.
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Organization Marketing
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products or services sold directly or indirectly
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B2B
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products such as shampoo and DVDs
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B2C
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Process of collecting and evaluating info to help marketers make effective decisions
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Market research
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Using a computer to search through massive amounts of customer data to detect patterns and relationships
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Data Mining
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Process of dividing a market into several relatively homogeneous groups
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Market Segmentation
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Developing and maintaining long-term, cost-effective exchange relationships with individual customers.
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Relationship Marketing
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Two or more businesses team up to closely link their names for a single product
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Co-Branding
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Another tool for building emotional links with customers
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Affinity Program
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Manufacturer’s brand is a brand offered and promoted by a manufacturer
Private label brand- identifies a product that is not linked to the manufacturer but instead carries a wholesaler’s or retailer’s label. |
Manufacturer’s brand vs. private label brand
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items the consumer seeks to purchase frequently, immediately, and with little effort.
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Convenience products
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typically purchased only after the buyer has compared competing products in competing stores.
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Shopping products
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those that a purchaser is willing to make a special effort to obtain.
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Specialty products
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long-lived and relatively expensive
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Capital goods
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used in a firms’s daily operation that do not become part of the final product.
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Expense goods
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less expensive and shorter lived than installations and involve fewer decision makers
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Accessory goods
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farm and natural products used to produce other products.
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Raw Materials
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includes paper clips, light bulbs, and copy paper.
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MRO- (Maintenance, Repair, Operating)
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