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AUM MKTG 3310D - CH 8
Chapter 8
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Marketing
Undergraduate 3
09/11/2008

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Good
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A tangible product that we can see, touch, smell, hear, or taste.
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Core product
Definition
All the benefits the product will provide for consumers or business customers.
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Actual product
Definition
The physical good or the delivered service that supplies the desired benefit.
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Augmented product
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The actual product plus other supporting features such as a warranty, credit, delivery, installation, and repair service after the sale.
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Durable goods
Definition
Consumer products that provide benefits over a long period of time, such as cars, furniture, and appliances.
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Nondurable goods
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Consumer products that provider benefits for a short time because they are consumer (such as food) or are no longer useful (such as a newspaper).
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Convenience produt
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A consumer good or service that is usually low-priced, widely available, and purchased frequently with a minimum of comparison and effort.
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Staples
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Basic or necessary items that are available almost everywhere.
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Impulse Product
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A product people often buy on the spur of he moment.
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Emergency products
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Products we purchase when we're in dire need.
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Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)
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Products that exhibit consistently high velocity of sales in the consumer marketplace.
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Shopping product
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A good or service which consumers spend considerable time and effort gathering information and comparing alternatives before making a purchase.
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Shopbots
Definition
Computer programs that find sites selling a particular product.
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Specialty product
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A good or service that hs unique characteristics and is important to the buyer and for which the buyer will devote significant effort to acquire.
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Unsought products
Definition
Goods or services which a consumer has little awareness or interest until the product or a need for the product is brought to his or her attention.
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Equipment
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Expensive goods that an organization uses in its daily operations that last for a long time.
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Maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO) products
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Goods that a business customer consumes in a relatively short time.
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Raw materials
Definition
Products of the fishing, lumber, agricultural, and mining industries that organizational customers purchase to use in their finished products.
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Processed materials
Definition
Products created when firms transform raw materials from their original state.
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Component parts
Definition
Manufactured goods or subassmblies of finished items that organizations need to complete their own products.
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Innovation
Definition
A product that consumers perceiv to be new and different from existing products.
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Continuous innovation
Definition
A modification of an existing product that sets one brand apart from its competitors.
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Knockoff
Definition
A new product that compies, with slight modification, the design of an original product.
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Dynamically continuous innovation
Definition
A change in an existing product that requires a moderate amoung of learning or behavior change.
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Convergence
Definition
The coming together of two or more technologies to create a new system with greater benefits than its parts.
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Discountinous innovation
Definition
A totally new product that creates major changes in the way we live.
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Idea generation
Definition
The first step of product development in which marketers brainstorm for products that provide customer beneifts and are compatible with company mission.
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Product concept development and screening
Definition
The second step of product development in which marketers test product ideas for technical and commercial success.
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Business analysis
Definition
The step in the product development process in which marketers assess a product's commercial viability.
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Technical development
Definition
The step in the product development process in which a new product is reinfed and perfected by company engineers.
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Prototypes
Definition
Test version of a proposed product.
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Test marketing
Definition
Testing the complete marketing plan in a small geographic area that is similar to the larger market the firm hopes to enter.
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Commercialization
Definition
The final step in the product development process in which a new product is launched into the market.
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Product adoption
Definition
The process by which a consumer or business customer begins to buy and use a new good, service, or idea.
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Diffusion
Definition
The process by which the use of a product spreads throughout a population.
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Tipping point
Definition
In the context of product diffusion, the point when a product's sales spike from a slow climb to an unprecedented new level, often accoompanied by a steep price decline.
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Media blitz
Definition
A massive advertising compaign that occurs over a relatively short time frame.
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Media blitz
Definition
A massive advertising compaign that occurs over a relatively short time frame.
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Impulse purchase
Definition
A purchase made without any planning or search effort.
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Innovators
Definition
The first segment (roughly 2.5 percent) of a population to adopt a new product.
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Early adaptors
Definition
Those who adopt an innocation early in the diffusion process but after the innovators.
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Early majority
Definition
Those whose adoption of a new product signals a general acceptance of the innovation.
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Late majority
Definition
The adopters who are willing to try new products when there is little or no risk associated with the purchase, when the purchase becomes an economic necessity, or when there is social pressure to purchase.
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Laggards
Definition
The last consumers to adopt an innovation.
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Relative advantage
Definition
The degree to which a consumer perceives that a new product provides superior benefits.
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Compatibility
Definition
The extent to which a new product is consistent with existing cultural values, customs, and practices.
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Complexity
Definition
The degree to which consumers find a new product or its use difficult to understand.
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Trialability
Definition
The ease of sampling a new product and its benefits.
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Observability
Definition
How visible a new product and its benefits are to others who might adopt it.
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