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Culture |
The shared meanings,beliefs, morals,values,and customs of a group of people. |
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Demographics |
Education age gender ethnicity income.Indicate the characteristics of human populations and segments especially those used to identify consumer markets |
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Generational cohort |
A group of people of the same generation |
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Green marketing |
Involves a strategic effort by firms to supply customers with environmentally friendly merchandise |
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What are major factors that influence the state of an economy |
The rate of inflation, foreign currency exchange rates, and interest rates |
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Inflation |
Refers to the persistent increase in the prices of goods and services |
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What can influence consumer spending |
Foreign currency fluctuation |
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Interest rates |
Represent the cost of borrowing money |
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Political / regulatory environment |
Comprises of political parties government organizations and legislation and laws |
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What are the 3 C's |
Company, competitors, corporate. |
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What are the five steps of the consumer decision-making process |
1. need recognition 2. Search for info 3. Evaluation of alternatives 4. Purchase and consumption 5. Postpurchase |
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What are the two needs in need recognition |
Functional needs and psychological needs |
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What are the two ways to search for information |
Internal search and external search |
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What are 2 factors affecting consumer search process |
1 the personal benefits vs perceived cost of search. 2 the locus of control |
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what is an internal locus of control |
People who believe they have some control over the outcome of their actions |
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What is an external locus of control |
Consumers believe that fate or other external factors control all outcomes |
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P what are the five types of risks associated with purchase decisions |
1 performance risk 2 Financial Risk 3 social risk 4 physiological risk safety risk 5 psychological risk |
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What are three attributes sets of evaluation of the alternative |
Universal sets, retrieval sets, evoked set |
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P post-purchase cognitive dissonance |
An internal conflict that arises from an inconsistency between two beliefs or a belief and a behavior |
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Customer loyalty |
In the post-purchase stage marketers attempt to solidify a loyal relationship with their customers |
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Reference group |
One or more persons human individual uses as a basis for comparison regarding beliefs feelings and behavior |
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How do reference groups affect the buying decisions |
Offering information provided rewards before specific purchasing behaviors enhancing consumer self image |
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The three factors influencing the consumer decision process |
1 psychological factors 2 social factors 3 situational factors |
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Involvement |
The consumers interest in the product or service |
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Derived demand |
Reflects the link between consumers demand for a company's output and the company's purchase of necessary Imports to manufacture or Assemble that particular output |
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What are B2B marketers |
Manufacturers and service providers . Resellers . Institutions. Government. |
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What are the six steps in the business-to-business buying process |
1 need recognition 2 product specification 3 RFP process 4 proposal analysis . vendor negotiation, and selection 5 order specification 6 vendor performance assessment using metrics |
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All of the people involved in the buying process |
Initiator, your doctor. Influencer comma medical device supplier, the pharmacy decider the hospital. Buyer. GateKeeper. The patient user the insurance company |
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Globalization |
Refers to the process by which Goods, Services, Capital , people comma information, and ideas flow across National borders |
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What are four sets of criteria necessary to assess a country's Market |
One economic analysis 2 infrastructure and technological analysis 3 government actions or inactions 4 social cultural analysis |
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Trade deficit |
Means that a country Imports more Goods than it exports |
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Trade Surplus |
A higher level of exports than Imports because it signals a greater opportunity to export products to more marketers |
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Gross domestic product |
is defined as the market value of goods service product by a country in a year |
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Gross national income |
Princess of GDP plus the next income earned from Investments abroad |
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Purchasing power party or PPP |
The theory that states that if the exchange rates of two companies are in equilibrium a product purchased in one will cost the same in the other if expressed in the same currency |
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Tarrif |
A tax levied on Goods imported into a country |
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Quota |
Designates a minimum or maximum quantity of a product that may be brought into a country during a specified time period Max or minimum of a product |
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Trading Bloc |
Consist of those countries that have signed the particular trade agreement |