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_____ ____ pricing - setting price based on buyer's perceptions of value rather than on seller's cost
value based pricing
____ ____ pricing - offering just the right combination of quality and good service at a fair price
good value pricing
____ ____ pricing - attaching value-added features and services to differentiate a market offering and support higher prices, rather than cutting prices to match competitors
value-added pricing
____ ____ pricing - setting prices based on the costs for producing, distributing, and selling the product plus a fair rate of return for its effort and risk
cost based pricing
_____ costs - costs that don't vary w/ production or sales level
fixed
____ costs - costs that vary directly with the level of production
variable
____ costs - sum of the fixed and variable costs for any given level of production
total
____ ____ pricing - adding a standard markup to the cost of the product
cost-plus
_____ ____ pricing - setting price to break even on the costs of making and marketing a product; or setting price to make a target profit
break-even pricing (target market pricing)
_____ _____ pricing - pricing that starts with an ideal selling price, then targets costs that will ensure that the price is met
target costing
____ ____ - curve that shows the number of units the market will buy in a given time period, at different prices that might be charged
Demand Curve
_____ ____ - measure of the sensitivity of demand to changes in price
price elasticity
New Product Pricing Strategies - _____ _____ pricing: setting a high price for a new product ot skim maximum revenues layer by layer from the segments willing to pay the high price; the company makes fewr but more profitable sales
market-skimming
New Product Pricing Strategies
______ ____ pricing - setting a low price for a new product in order to attract a large number of buyers and a large market share
market-penetration
____ ____ pricing - setting prices across an entire product line
product line pricing
____ ____ pricing - pricing optional or accessory products sold with the main product
optional-product pricing
____ ____ pricing - pricing products that must be used with the main product
captive-product pricing
____ ____ pricing - pricing low value by products to get rid of them
by-product pricing
____ ____ pricing - pricing bundles of products sold together
product bundle pricing
______ pricing - reducing prices to reward customer responses such as paying early or promoting the product
discount & allowance prices
____ ____ - curve that shows the number of units the market will buy in a given time period, at different prices that might be charged
Demand Curve
_____ ____ - measure of the sensitivity of demand to changes in price
price elasticity
New Product Pricing Strategies - _____ _____ pricing: setting a high price for a new product ot skim maximum revenues layer by layer from the segments willing to pay the high price; the company makes fewr but more profitable sales
market-skimming
New Product Pricing Strategies
______ ____ pricing - setting a low price for a new product in order to attract a large number of buyers and a large market share
market-penetration
____ ____ pricing - setting prices across an entire product line
product line pricing
____ ____ pricing - pricing optional or accessory products sold with the main product
optional-product pricing
____ ____ pricing - pricing products that must be used with the main product
captive-product pricing
____ ____ pricing - pricing low value by products to get rid of them
by-product pricing
____ ____ pricing - pricing bundles of products sold together
product bundle pricing
______ pricing - reducing prices to reward customer responses such as paying early or promoting the product
discount & allowance prices
______ pricing - adjusting prices to allow for differences in customers, products, or locations
segmented pricing
______ pricing - adjusting prices for psychological effect
psychological pricing
______ pricing - temporarily reducing prices to increase short run sales
promotional
______ pricing - adjusting prices to account for the geographic location of customers
geographical
______ pricing - adjusting prices continually to meet the characteristics and needs of individual customers and situations
dynamic
______ pricing - adjusting prices for international markets
international
_____ ___ ____ network made up of the company, suppliers, distributors and ultimatley customers who "partner" with each other to improve the performance of the entire system in delivering customer value
Value Delivery Network
_____ ______ - set of interdepent organizations that help make a product or service available for use or consumption by the consumer or business user
Marketing channel (distribution channel)
How channel members add value
_____ - gathering and distributing marketing research and intelligence info about actors or forces in the marketing environment needed for planning and aiding exchange
information
How channel members add value
_____ - developing and spreading persuasive communications about an offer
promotion
How channel members add value
_____ - finding and communicating w/ persuasive communications about an offer
contact
How channel members add value
_____ - shaping and fitting the offer to the buyer's needs, including activities such as manufacturing, grading, assembling, and packaging
Matching
How channel members add value
_____ - reaching an agreement on price and other terms of the offer so that ownership or possession can be transferrred
negotiation
How channel members add value
_____ - transporting and storing goods
physical distribution
How channel members add value
_____ - acquiring and using funds to cover the costs of the channel work
financing
How channel members add value
_____ - assuming the risks of carrying out the channel work
risk taking
____ _____ - layer of intermediaries that performs some work in brining the product and its ownership closer to the final buyer
channel level
_____ ____ channel - marketing channel that has no intermidiary levels
direct marketing
_____ ____ channel - channel containing one or more intermediary levels
indirect marketing
___ _____ - disagreement among marketing channel membes on goals and roles - who should do what and for what rewards
channel conflict
______ _____ channel - channel consiting of one or more independent producers, wholesalers, and retailers, each a separate business seeking to maximze its own profits even at the expense of profits for the system as a whole
conventional distribution
_____ ______ _____ - distribution channel structure in which producers, wholesalers, and retailers act as a unified system. One channel member owns the others, has contracts w/ them, or has so much power that they all cooperate
Vertical Marketing System
_______ VMS - vertical marketing system that comines successive stages of production and distribution under single ownership - channel leadership is established through common ownership
CorporateVMS
_______ VMS - independent firms at different levels of production and distribution join together through contracts to obtain more economies or sales impact than they could achieve alone
Contractual
_____ ______ - contractual vertical mmarketing system in which a channel member, called franchiser, links several stages in the production-distribution process
franchise organization
_______ VMS - coordinates successive stages of produciton and distribution, not through common ownership or contractual ties, but through the size and power of one of the parties
administered
_____ _____ system - channel arragement in which two or more compaines at one level join together to follow a new marketing opportunity
horizonal marketing
______ _____ system - single firm sets up two or more marketing channels to reach one or more customer segments
multichannel distribution
_______ - cutting out of marketing channel intermediaries by product or service producers, or the displacement of traditional resellers by radical new types of intermediaries
disintermediation
_________ distribution - stocking the product in as many outlets as possible
intensive
_________ distribution - giving limited number of dealers the exclusive right ot distribute the company's products in their territories
exclusive
_________ distribution - the use of more than one, but fewer than all, of the intermediaries who are willing to carry the company's products
selective
___ ____ ______ - selecting, managing, and motivating individual channel members and evaluating their performance over time
marketing channel management
_____ ______ - planning, implementing, and controlling the physical flow of materials, final goods, and related information from points of origin to points of consumption to meet customer requirements at a profit
marketing logistics
_____ _____ _____ - managing upstream and downstream value-added flows of materials, final goods, and related info among suppliers, the company, resllers, and final consumers
supply chain management
______ _______ - large, highly automated warehouse designed to receive goods from various plants and suppliers, take orders, fill them efficiently, and deliver goods to customers as quickly as possible
Distribution center
______ ________ - combining two or more modes of transportation
intermodal transportation
_____ ______ ______ - logistics concept that emphasizes teamwork, both inside the company and among all the marketing channel organizations, to maximize the performance of the entire distribution system
Integrated logistics management
____ _______ _______ - independent logistics provider that performs any or all of the functions required to get its client's product to market
third party logistics provider
Business whose sales come primarily from retailing
retailer
All activities involved in selling goods or services directly to final consumers for their personal, nonbusiness use
Retailing
Carry a narrow product line w/ a deep assortment, such as apparel stores, sporting goods stores, furniture stores, florists, and books stores. (Radio shack, tiffany)
Specialty Store
Carry several product lines, typically clothing, home furnishing, and household goods - with each line operated as a separate department managed by specialist buyers or merchandisers
Department Store (Macy's, Sears)
Relativley large, low-cost, low-margin, high-volume, self-service operation designed to serve the consumer's total needs for grocery and household products
Supermarkets (Safeway, HyVee)
Relativley small stores located near residential ares, open long hours 7 days a week, and carrying a limited line of high-turnover convenience products and slightyly higher prices
Convenience Stores (7-11, U-Stop, Kabredlos)
Carry standard merchandise sold at lower prices w/ lower margins and higher volumes
Discount Stores (WalMart, Target, Kohls)
Sell merchandise bought at less-than-regular wholesale prices and sold at less than retail. Often leftover goods, overruns, and irregular products obtained at reduced prices from manufactureres or other retailers.
Off-Price Retailers (TJ Maxx, Costco) - factory outlets or warehouse clubs
Very large stores traditionally aimed at meeting consumer's total needs for routinely purchased food and nonfood itmes.
Superstores (WalMart Supercenters, Super Target, Best Buy, PetSmart)
Giant speciality store that carries a very deep assortment ofa particular linea nd is staffed by knowledeable employees
Category Killer
Retailer whose product line is actually a service (hotel, airlines, banks, colleges)
Service Retailer
Off-Price retailer that is either independently owned and run or is a division of a larger retail coporation
Independent off-price retailer
Off-price retailer that sells a limited selection of brand name grocery items, appliances, clothing, and many other goods at deep discounts to members who pay annual membership fees
Warehouse club (sams club)
Two or more outlets that are commonly owned and controlled
Chain Stores
A contractual association between a manufacturer, wholesaler, or service organization (a franchiser) and independent businesspeople (franchisees) who buy the right to own and operate one or more units in the franchise system
Franchise (McDonalds, JiffyLube, Subway, Holiday Inn)
two or more outlets that are commonly owned and controlled. Appear in all types of retailing, but are strongest in department stores, food stores, drug stores, food stores
Corporate chain Store (Sears, CVS)
Wholesaler-sponsored group of independent retailers engaged in group buying and merchandising
Voluntary Chain (True Value, Western Auto)
Group of independent retailers who set up a central buying organization and conduct joint promotion efforts
Retailer Cooperative (Ace Hardware)
Free-form corporation that combines several diversified retailing lines and forms under central ownership, along w/ some integration of their distribution and management functions
Merchandising Conglomerate (limited brands)
Group of retail businesses planned, developed, owned and managed as a unit
Shopping Center
Concept that states that new types of retailers usually begin as low-margin, low-price, low-status operations but later evolve into higher-priced, higher-service operations, eventually becoming like the conventional retailers they replaced
Wheel of retailing concept
All activities involved in selling goods and services to those buying for resale or business use
Wholesaling
A firm engaged primarily in wholesaling activities
Wholesaler
Independetly owned busienss that takes title to the merchandise it handles
Merchant Wholesaler
A wholesaler who doesn't take title to goods and whose function is to bring buyers and sellers together and assist in negotiation
Broker
A wholesaler who represents buyers or sellers on a relatively permanent basis, performs only a few functions, and doesn't take title to goods
Agent
Wholesaling by sellers or buyers themselves rather than through independent wholesalers
Manufactuerers' sales branches and offices
Specific blend of advertising, public relations, personal selling, sales promotion, and direct-marketing tools that the company uses to persuasively communicate customer value and build customer relationships
Promotion Mix
Any paid form of nonpersonal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor
Advertising
Short-term incentives to encourage the purchase or sale of a product or service
Sales Promotion
Personal presentation by the firm's sales force for the purpose of making sales and building customer relationships
Personal Selling
Building good relations with the company's various publics by obtaining favorable publicity, building up a good "corporate image", and handling or heading off unfavorable rumors, stories, and events
Public Relations
Direct connections with carefully targeted individual consumers to both obtain an immediate response and cultivate lasting customer relationships
Direct Marketing
Carefully integrating and coordinating the company's many communications channels to deliver a clear, consistent, and compelling message about the organization and its products
Integrated Marketing Communications
A promotion strategy that calls for using the sales force and trade promotion to push the product through channels. The producer promotes the product to channel members to induce them to carry the product and to promote it to final consumers
Push Strategy
Promotion strategy that calls for spending a lot on advertising and consumer promotion to induce final consumers to buy the product. If the pull strategy is effective, consumers will then demand the product from channel members, who will in turn demand it from producers
Pull Strategy
Specific communication task to be accomplished with a specific target audience during a specific period of time
Advertising objective
The dollars and other resources allocated to a product or company advertising program
Advertising budget
Setting the promotion budget at the level management thinks the company can afford
Affordable Method
Setting the promotion budget at a certain percentage of current or forecasted sales or as a percentage of the unit sales price
Percentage of sales method
Setting the promotion budget to match competitors' outlays
Competitive-parity method
Strategy by which the company accomplishes its advertising objectives. It consists of two major elements: creating advertising messages and selecting advertising media
Adversting strategy
Term that has come to represent the merging of advertising and entertainment in an effort ot break through the clutter and create new avenues for reaching consumers with more engaging messages
Madison & Vine
Compelling "big idea" that will bring the advertising message strategy to life in a distinctive and memorable way
Creative Concept
Approach, style, tone, words and format used for exchanging an advertising message
Execution Style
Vehicles through which advertising messages are delivered to their intended audiences
Advertising Media
Net return on advertising investment divided by the costs of the advertising investment
Return on advertising investment
Marketing services firm that assists companies in planning, preparing, implementing, and evaluating all or portions of their advertising programs
Advertising Agency
___ ____ pricing - price is considered before marketing program is set. Pricing begins with assesing customer needs and value perception. Ex. Bentley Cars (good value even at $150,000)
Value - Based Pricing
Offering just the right combination of quality and good service at a fair price (ex. McDonald's Dollar Menu)
Good-value pricing
Power to escape price competition and to justify higher prices and margins. Example - Stag made their umbrellas higher quality, as well as made better designs, but still price their umbrellas relatively high
Value - Added Pricing
"Low cost producers = low price" Example, Wal Mart, Southwest Airlines
Cost - based pricing
Cots of companys monthly rent, heat, interest, salary, etc.
Fixed Costs
Total costs of these varies w/ number produced/sold
Variable Costs
___ ___ pricing ignores competition, adds a standard markup to cost (ex. store pays manufacturer $20/toaster. Sells toaster at store for $30)
cost plus pricing
______ ___ pricing - also called going rate pricing. May price at same, higher, or lower level. Bidding for jobs is an example
Competition based pricing
_____ ____ is used to support product positioning strategies based on price
target costing
Setting high price for product entering market (Sony HDTV's were price at $2000 to begin)
market skimming
Setting low price while entering market (walmart, Dell
Market penetration
Setting prices based on items within the product line (ex. Marriot hotel Chain - Marriott luxury all the way down to Courtywards)
Product line pricing
Accessory products sold within the main product (supplement software, Cars - option of navigation system, Tv, speakers, etc)
Option product pricing
Setting price for product that must be used with another product (ex. - xbox 360 $199, fifa 2010 $60)
captive product pricing
combining several products and offerering them as a bundle and reduced price (Time Warner Cable - cable, internet, phone - cheap price)
product bundle pricing
price becomes an important quality signal when customers cant judge quality..price is used to say something about a product (What do you think is higher quality of whiskey based on price...Jack or Windsor?)
psychological pricing
____ ____ can be formed by noting current prices, remembering old prices, or assessing the buying situation (example - clothes placed in higher pricing area of store must mean they're greater quality)
reference point
___ pricing - A - $100, B - $150
FOB
____ pricing - A - $100, B - $100
uniform
___ pricing - west $200, east $300
zone
______ pricing - select a city, and charge shipping from that city
basing potin
___ pricing on web allows sellers to charge lower prices, monitor customer behavior, change prices on demand
dynamic
price ___ may occur b/c of excess capacity, falling market share, dominate market through lower costs
price cuts
price ____ may occur b/c cost inflation, overdemand (gas, oil)
price increase
____ ____ -competitors cannot work with eachother to set prices
price fixing
____ _____ - firms may not sell below cost with the intention of punishing a competitor or gaining higher long run profits or running a competitor out of business
predatory pricing
Reward customer for paying early is example of ______ pricing
discount
difference between amount of product produced and the amount an end user wants to buy
discrepeancy of quantity
lack of all the items a customer needs to receive full satisfaction form a product or products
discrepancy of assortment
situation that occurs when a product is produced but a customert is not ready to buy it
temporal discrepancy
difference between the location of a producer and the location of widely scattered markets
spatial discrepency
How _____ ____ add value: Dove makes millions of bars of soap everyday. They distribute them in boxes by the hundreds to Wal Marts. Wal Marts put them on their shelves so customers only have to buy a box instead of all 1 million
marketing channels
This channel has no intermidary levels (Door to door selling)
Direct Channel
This channel has one or more intermidiary levels (HyVee)
Indirect Channel
There are 2 Holiday Inns in Omaha. Holiday Inn A runs hotel very well, but Holiday Inn B has very poor customer service and is disgusting. Holiday Inn A complains that B is hurting the overall image of the hotel. This is an example of ____ conflict
horizontal
Eustis has always sold its corn to local farmer markets. Now, they are decided to scrap that idea and sell all their corn to Wal Mart. This is an example of a ____ conflict
vertical
HyVee has 8 milk farms, 7 ice cream plants, and 4 soft drink botling plants. They use all these foods and drinks and then puts them on their own shelves. This is an example of a _______ marketing system
Corporate VMS
Leadership based on size and power (for example, Wal Mart can have strong influence on the manufacturers that supply the procuts they sell)
administered VMS
Occurs when a company uses two or more marketing channels (for example, John Deere sells all its stuff online, in Lowes, in retail shops, etc.)
multichannel distribution systems
Cutting out of marketing channel intermediaries (example - southwest airlines sells directly to customer, iTunes and threatining existence of traditional CD stores)
disintermediation
____ _____ decision consists of analyzing consumer needs, setting channel objectives, identifying major alternatives, evaluating major alternatives
channel design decisions
coke distributed at every outlet example of ______ distribution
intensive
Bentley Cars only distributed at certain car dealerships exapmle of ______ distribution
exclusive
Samsungs are distributed at Best Buys, Targets, and Wal Marts are example of ___ distribution
selective
____ ___ dominant and controlling member of a marketing channel
channel captain
____ distribution - only certain outlets are allowed to carry a firms product
exclusive
Suppliers to company to resellers to customers back to suppliers is the _____ ____ _____
supply chain managemetn
Marketing logistics in supply chain system
outbound, inbound, reverse
piggyback - rail and trucks, fishyback - water and trucks, trainship - water and rail, airtruck - air and truck
true
Basis of all discount operations and is typically used by retailers selling convinence goods (wal-mart, Kohls)
self-service retailer
These retailers provide more sales assistance b/c they carry more shopping godos about which cusomters need information about (Sears/Home Depot)
limited service retailers
These retailers are high-end specialty stores, where sales people assist customers in every phase of the shopping process (Nordstroms)
full-service retailers
Tiffanys is an example of this store that carries a narrow product line with deep assortment within those lines (full service retailer)
specialty stores
Nordstrom is an example of this store, as it provides exclusive merchandise, high quality service, but a broader service line (limited service)
department store
Safeway is an example of this store that is relatively large, low cost, high volume, designed to serve customers total needs for grocerys and household
supermarket store
7-Eleven is an example of this store that provides a limited line of high turnover products at slightly higher prices
convience store
Walmart is a perfect example of this kind of store, which sells standard merchandise at lower prices by accepting lower margins and selling at higher prices (self-service stores)
discount store
Factory outlets are examples of this kind of store, which buys the less than regulare wholesale price and sells at less than retail
off-price retailer
Barnes and Noble is an example of this giant specialty store
category killer
Sears is an example of this commonly owned and controlled store
corporate chain store
Wholesaler sponsored group of independent retailers engaged in group buying and merchandising
voluntary chains
group of independent retailers who buy in bulk (ace hardware)
retailer cooperatives
diversified retailing lines and forms under central ownership (limited brands)
merchandising conglomerate
Southpointe is an example of a ______ mall
lifestyle
merging of consumers, prodcuts, prices and retailers (greater competition for retailers and greater difficulty in differentiating offererings)
(Ex. - WalMart destroying independent local stores, Best Buy destroying independent CD, electronic stores)
Retail convergence
T/F - because wholesalers buy mostley from PRODUCERS and sell mostly to RETAILERS, many of them aren't known to final consumers
TRUE
______ bring buyers and sellers together and assist in negotiation
brokers
__________ targeting may be made on the basis of size of the customer (large retails), type of retailer (convenince store), need for service (customers need credit)
wholesalers
__________ only carry the most profitable inventory/lines. They usually markup their prices by 20%, they don't really care about promotion, their location must be techonolgical and automated
wholesalers
_____ ______ _______ - fierce resistance to price increases, winnowing out of suppliers who are not adding value based on cost and quality, distinciont between large retailers and wholesalers is blurry
trends in wholesaling
specific blend of advertising, public relations, sales promotion, personal selling, direct marketing
promotion/marketing communications mix
Nikon gave 200 ordinary people their newest camers, and featured them and their photos in TV and prints ads. They were also on a website. The ads, website, supporting PR, and even event itself were carefully integrated to deliver a unified message. This is an example of_______
IMC integrated marketing mix
Any paid form of nonpersonal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor (TV is the place to do this)
advertising
_____ _____ is nonpublic, immediate and customized, and interactive
direct marketing
___ ____ involves ___ the product through marketing channels to final consumer (producer directs its marketing actvities (primarily personal selling and trade promotion) toward channel members to induce them to carry the product and to promote it to final customrs (sales people)
Push Strategy
____ ____, producer directs its marketing activities (advertising and consumer promotion) toward the final customers to induce them to buy the product. Consumer demand _____ the prodcut through the channels (seeing ad on TV)
Pull Strategy
_____ objectives can be to inform, persuade, or remind
advertising
____ advertising is when a company compares its brand with a competing brand (ex. Pizza Hut - "sure tastes better than Dominos or Papa Johns"
Comparative
Small businesses use this method of advertising, when they set the promotion budget at a level management thinks the company can afford
Affordable method
Under this advertising method, companies develop the promotion budget by 1. defining specific objectives 3. determining the tasks that must be performed to achieve these objectives and 3. estimating the costs of performing these tasks. The sum of these costs is the proposed promotion budget
Objective and task method
Setting the promotion budget to math competitors' outlays
competitive-parity method
setting the promotion budget at a certain percentage of current or forecasted sales or as a percetnage of the unit sales price
percentage of sales method
Was the creation of the MINI cooper advertising campaigns by BMW media ideas or clever creative ideas?
BOTH - product of a tight media-creative partnership
Term coined to represent the coming together of the advertising and entertainment industry
Madison and Vine
Advertisement messages must be meaningful, believable, and distinctive (ex. - watches? Timex says it can take a beatin, Fossil focuses on luxury)
True
______ ____ - approach, style, tone, words, and format used for executing an advertising message (lifestlye, fantasy, mood, personality, etc)
execution style
This execution style shows one or more typical person using product in normal setting (young professional starting day off with milk)
slice of life
This style features someone dreaming they can do something (ex. Adidas ad where you can beat Usain Bolt)
Fantasy
This style creates a character that represents the product (Mr. Clean, GEICO gecko, Marlobora man, Afflack Duck)
Personality symbol
Style features highly believeable or likable source endoursing product (ex. manning drinking Gaterade)
Testinominal evidence or endorsement
___ of the ad: way the ad wants to be represented (funny, serious, etc) (ex. beer commercials usually funny)
tone
The Dorito's Crash the Super Bowl Challenge contest invited consumers to create their own viceo ads. Then they showed the winning ad on the Super Bowl. This is an example of a _____ ____ _____
consumer generated message
Gross rating points =
reach times frequency
marketing service frim that assists companies in planning, preparing, implementing, and evaluating all or portions of their advertising programs
advertising agency
building good relations with the company's various publics by obtaining favorable publicity, buidling up a good corporate image, and handling or heading off unfavorable rumors, stories, and events
public relations
Functions of Public Relations

creating and placing newsowrthy information in the news media to attract attention to a person, product, or service
press relations or press agency
Functions of Public Relations
publicizing specific products
product publicity
Functions of Public Relations
buliding and maintaing national or local community relations
public affairs
Functions of Public Relations
building and maintaining relations w/ legislators and government officials to influence legislation and regulation
lobbying
Functions of Public Relations
maintaining relationships with shareholders and others in the financial community
investor relations
Functions of Public Relations
public relatoins with donors or members of nonprofit organizations to gain financial or volunteer support
development
Scholastic used this to turn the release of Harry Potter book into a major international event by handing out hats, costumes, clubs, etc.
public relations