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Marketing
The activity for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that benefit the organization, its stakeholders, and society at large
What are the factors influencing marketing activities?
Research and development, Human resources, Information systems, Marketing, Finance, Manufacturing, Other organizations, Suppliers, Customers, and Shareholders
What is needed for marketing to occur?
1. Two or more parties w unsatisfied needs 2. desire and ability on their part to be satisfied 3. A way for the parties to communicate 4. Something to exchange
Market
People with both the desire and ability to buy a specific offering
Target market
One or more specific groups of potential consumers toward which an organization directs its marketing program
The 4 P's
--Product - good product or service
--Price - exchanged for product
--Promotion - communication
--Place - get product to customer
Marketing mix
The marketing managers controllable factors--product, price, promotion, and place--that can be used to solve a marketing problem
Environmental forces
Social, economic, technological, competitive, and regulatory forces
Relationship marketing
Linking the organization to its individual customers, employees, suppliers, and other partners for their long-term benefits
Marketing program
A plan that integrates the marketing mix to provide a good, service, or idea to prospective buyers
Marketing concept
The idea that an organization should (1) Strive to satisfy needs of consumer
(2) while also trying to achieve the organizations goals
Market orientation
1. Continuously collecting info about customers needs
2. Sharing this info across departments
3. Using it to create customer value
Customer relationship management (CRM)
The process of identifying prospective buyers, understanding them, and developing long term perceptions
Social marketing concept
The view that organizations should satisfy the needs of consumers in a way that provides for societies well-being
Ultimate consumers
People who use the goods and services purchased for a household
Organizational buyers
Manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and gov. agencies that buy goods and services for own use or for resale
Utility
The benefits or customer value received by users of the product
Profit
The money left after a business firms total expenses are subtracted from its total revenues
Strategy
An organizations long term course of action designed to deliver a unique customer experience while achieving its goals
Corporate level
Where top management directs overall strategy for the entire organization
Strategic Business Unit (SBU)
A subsidiary, division, or unit of an organization that markets a set of related offerings to a clearly defined group of customers
Functional level
Groups of specialists actually create value for the organization
Cross-functional teams
Consist of a small number of people from different departments
Core values
The fundamental, passionate, and enduring principles that guide its conduct
Mission
A statement of the organizations function in society, often identifying its customers, markets, products, and technologies
Organizational culture
The set of values, ideas, attitudes, and norms of behavior that is learned and shared among the members of an organization
Business
Describes the clear, broad, underlying industry or market sector of an organizations offering
Market share
The ratio of sales revenue of the firm to the total sales revenue of all firms in the industry, including the firm itself
Marketing dashboard
The visual computer display of the essential info related to achieving a marketing objective
Marketing metric
A measure of the quantitative value or trend of a marketing activity or result
Marketing plan
A road map for the marketing activities
Competitive advantage
A unique strength of an entire organization relative to competitors
Business portfolio analysis
To quantify performance measures and growth targets to analyze its clients strategic business units (SBUs) as though they were a collection of separate investments
Diversification analysis
Helps a firm search for growth opportunities among current and new markets as well as current and new products
Strategic marketing process
An organization allocates its marketing mix resources to reach its target markets
3 phase of the strategic marketing process
--Planning phase
--Implementation phase
--Evaluation phase
Situation analysis
Taking stock of where the firm or product has been recently, where it is now, and where it is headed
SWOT analysis
Acronym describing an organizations appraisal of its internal Strengths and Weaknesses and its external Opportunities and Threats
Market segmentation
Involves aggregating prospective buyers into groups
Points of difference
Those characteristics of a product that make it superior to competitive substitutes
Marketing strategy
The means by which a marketing goal is to be achieved; specific target market and marketing program
Marketing tactics
Detailed day-to-day operational decisions essential to the overall success of marketing strategies
Environmental scanning
Continually acquiring info on events outside the org to identify potential trends
Environmental forces (5)
--Social
--Economic
--Technological
--Competitive
--Regulatory
Environmental forces (Social)
--Demographic shifts
--Cultural changes
Environmental forces (Economic)
--Macroeconomic conditions
--Consumer income
Environmental forces (Technological)
--Changing technology
--Technology's impact on customer value
--Electronic business technologies
Environmental forces (Competitive)
--Alternative forms of competition
--Small businesses
Environmental forces (Regulatory)
--Laws protecting competition
--Laws affecting marketing mix actions
--Self-regulation
Demographics
Describing a population according to age, gender, ethnicity, income, and occupation
Baby boomers
1946 - 1964
Generation X
1965 - 1976
Generation Y
1977 - 1994
Millennials
1994 - Present
Blended family
Merging two previously separated units into a single household
Metropolitan Statistical Area
50,000 people or more highly integrated
Micropolitan Statistical Area
At least 10,000 but less than 50,000 people
Multicultural marketing
Combinations of the marketing mix that reflect the unique attitudes, ancestry, communication, preferences, and lifestyles of different races
Culture
Incorporates the set of values, ideas, and attitudes that are learned and shared among members of a group
Value consciousness
The concern for obtaining the best quality, features, and performance of a product or service
Economy
Income, expenditures, and resources that affect the cost of running a business and household
Gross income
Total amount of money made in one year by a person, household, or family unit
Disposable income
Money a consumer has left after paying taxes to use for necessities such as food, housing, clothing, and transportation
Discretionary income
Money that remains after paying for taxes and necessities
Technology
Inventions or innovations from applied science or engineering research
Marketspace
Information and communication based electronic exchange environment mostly occupied by sophisticated computer and telecommunication tech. and digitized offerings
Electronic Commerce
Any activity that uses some form of electronic communication in the inventory, exchange, advertisement, distribution, and payment of goods and services
Competition
The alternative firms that could provide a product to satisfy a specific markets needs
Intranet
An internet-based network used within the boundaries of an organization
Extranets
Use internet-based technologies , permit communication between a company and its supplier, distributors, and other partners (such as advertising agencies)
Forms of competition (4)
--Pure competition
--Monopolistic competition
--Oligopoly
--Pure monopoly
Pure competition
Many sellers and they each have a similar product--Agribuisness
Monopolistic competition
Many sellers compete with substitutable products within a price range
Oligopoly
A common industry structure, occurs when a few companies control the majority of industry sales--Wireless cell phone companies
Pure Monopoly
Only one firm sells the product--Water, electricity, and cable
Barriers to entry
Business practices or conditions that make it difficult for new firms to enter the market
Regulation
Restrictions stat and federal laws place on business with regard to the conduct of its activities
Consumerism
A grassroots movement started in the 1960s to increase the influence, power, and rights of consumers in dealing with institutions
Exclusive dealing
An arrangement a manufacturer makes with a reseller to handle only its products and not those of competitors
Requirement contract
Require a buyer to purchase all or part of its needs for a product from one seller for a time period
Exclusive territorial distributorships
A manufacturer grants a distributor the sole rights to sell a product in a specific geographical area
Tying arrangement
A seller requires the purchaser of one product to also buy another item in the line
Cease and desist order
The FTC orders a company to stop practices the commission considers unfair
Corrective advertising
The FTC can require a company to spend money on advertising to correct previous misleading ads
Self-regulation
An alternative to government control