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BUSI 330 Midterm
The Core Marketing 4/e
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Marketing
Undergraduate 3
06/11/2012

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Term
Marketing
Definition
The activity for creating and delivering offerings that benefit the organization, its stakeholders, and society. (p.5)
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Exchange
Definition
The trade of things of value between buyer and seller so that each is better off. (p.6)
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Market
Definition
People with both the desire and the ability to buy a specific offering. (p.9)
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Target Market
Definition
One or more specific groups of potential consumers toward which an organization directs its marketing program. (p.9)
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Marketing Mix
Definition
The controllable factors - product, price, promotion, and place - that the marketing manager can use to solve a marketing problem. (p.10)
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Environmental Forces
Definition
The uncontrollable social, economic, technological, competitive, and regulatory forces that affect the results of a marketing decision. (p.10)
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Customer Value
Definition
Buyers' benefits, including quality, convenience, on-time delivery, and before- and after-sale service at a specific price. (p.10)
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Relationship Marketing
Definition
Linking the organization to its individual customers, employees, suppliers, and other partners for their mutual long-term benefit. (p.11)
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Marketing Program
Definition
A plan that integrates the marketing mix to provide a good, service, or idea to prospective buyers. (p.12)
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Marketing Concepts
Definition
The idea that an organization should strive to satisfy the needs of consumers while also trying to achieve the organization's goals. (p14)
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Marketing Orientation
Definition
Focusing organizational efforts to collect and use information about customers' needs to create customer value. (p.14)
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Societal Marketing Concept
Definition
The view that organizations should satisfy the needs of consumers in a way that also provides for society's well-being. (p.15)
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Ultimate Consumers
Definition
The people who use the goods and services purchased for a household. (p.16)
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Organizational Buyers
Definition
Manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and government agencies that buy goods and services for their own use or resale. (p.16)
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Utility
Definition
The benefits or customer value received by users of the product. (p.16)
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Profit
Definition
The reward to a business firm for the risk it undertakes in marketing its offerings. (p.22)
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Strategy
Definition
An organization's long-term course of action that delivers a unique customer experience while achieving its goals. (p.22)
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Core Values
Definition
The fundamental, passionate, and enduring principles that guide an organization. (p.25)
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Mission
Definition
A statement or vision of an organization's function in society. (p.25)
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Organizational Culture
Definition
The set of values, ideas, attitudes, and behavioral norms that is learned and shared among the members of an organization. (p.26)
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Business
Definition
The underlying industry or market sector of an organization's offering. (p.26)
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Goals (Objectives)
Definition
Targets of performance to be achieved, often by a specific time. (p.26)
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Market Share
Definition
Ratio of a firm's sales to the total sales of all firms in the industry. (p.27)
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Marketing Dashboard
Definition
The visual computer display of essential marketing information. (p.27)
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Marketing Metric
Definition
A measure of the value or trend of a marketing activity or result. (p.28)
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Marketing Plan
Definition
A road map for the marketing activities of an organization for a specified future time period. (p.28)
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Business Portfolio Analysis
Definition
A technique that managers use to quantify performance measures and growth targets of their firms' strategic business units. (p.31)
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Diversification Analysis
Definition
A technique a firm uses to search for growth opportunities from among current and new products and markets. (p.33)
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Strategic Marketing Process
Definition
An approach whereby an organization allocates its marketing mix resources to reach its target markets. (p.34)
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Situation Analysis
Definition
Taking stock of where a firm or product has been recently, where it is now, and where it is headed. (p.34)
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SWOT Analysis
Definition
An acronym describing an organization's appraisal of its internal strengths and weaknesses and its external opportunities and threats. (p.35)
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Market Segmentation
Definition
The sorting of potential buyers into groups that have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing action. (35)
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Points of Difference
Definition
Those characteristics of a product that make it superior to competitive substitutes. (p.36)
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Market Strategy
Definition
The means by which a marketing goal is to be achieved. (p.38)
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Marketing Tactics
Definition
Detailed day-to-day operational decisions essential to the overall success of marketing strategies. (p.38)
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Environmental Scanning
Definition
The process of acquiring information on events outside the organization to identify and interpret potential trends. (p.60)
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Social Forces
Definition
The demographic characteristics of the population and its values. (p.60)
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Demographics
Definition
Description of a population to characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity, income, and occupation. (p.60)
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Baby Boomers
Definition
The generation of children born between 1946 and 1964. (p.62)
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Generation X
Definition
Members of the U.S. population born between 1965 and 1976. (p.62)
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Generation Y
Definition
The 72 million Americans born between 1977 and 1994. (p.63)
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Multicultural Marketing
Definition
Marketing programs that reflect unique aspects of different races. (p.64)
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Culture
Definition
The set of values, ideas, and attitudes that is learned and shared among the members of a group. (p.64)
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Economy
Definition
Pertains to the income and resources that affect the cost of running a business or household. (p.65)
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Technology
Definition
Inventions from applied science or engineering research. (p.67)
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Marketspace
Definition
An information- and communication-based electronic exchange environment occupied by digitized offerings. (p.69)
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Competition
Definition
Alternative firms that could provide a product to satisfy a specific market's need. (p.69)
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Regulation
Definition
Restrictions that state and federal laws place on business. (p.70)
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Consumerism
Definition
A movement started to increase the influence, power, and rights of consumers in dealing with institutions. (p.71)
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Self-regulation
Definition
An alternative to government control, whereby an industry attempts to police itself. (p.73)
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Ethics
Definition
The moral principles and values that govern the actions and decisions of an individual or a group. (p.80)
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Laws
Definition
Society's standards and values that are enforceable in the courts. (p.80)
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Consumer Bill of Rights
Definition
Codified the ethics of exchange between buyers and sellers, including rights to safety; to be informed, to choose, and to be heard. (p.82)
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Code of Ethics
Definition
A formal statement of ethical principles and rules of conduct. (p.84)
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Moral Idealism
Definition
A personal moral philosophy that considers certain individual rights or duties as universal, regardless of the outcome. (p.85)
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Utilitarianism
Definition
A personal moral philosophy that focuses on the "greatest good for the greatest number." (p.85)
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Social Responsibility
Definition
The idea that organizations are part of a larger society and are accountable to that society for their actions. (p.86)
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Green Marketing
Definition
Marketing efforts to produce, promote, and reclaim environmentally sensitive products. (p.87)
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Cause Marketing
Definition
Tying the charitable contributions of a firm directly to sales produced through the promotion of one of its products. (p.87)
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Social Audit
Definition
A systematic assessment of a firm's objectives, strategies, and performance in the domain of social responsibility. (p.88)
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Consumer Behavior
Definition
The actions a person takes in purchasing and using products and services. (p.96)
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Purchase Decision Process
Definition
The stages a buyer passes through in making choices about which products or services to buy. (p.96)
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Involvement
Definition
The personal, social, and economic significance of a purchase to the consumer. (p.99)
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Motivation
Definition
The energizing force that stimulates behavior to satisfy a need. (p.102)
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Personality
Definition
A person's consistent behaviors or responses to recurring situations. (p.102)
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Perception
Definition
The process by which a person selects, organizes, and interprets information to create a meaningful picture of the world. (p.103)
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Perceived Risk
Definition
The anxiety felt when a consumer cannot anticipate possible negative outcomes of a purchase. (p.103)
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Learning
Definition
Behaviors that result from repeated experience or reasoning. (p.104)
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Brand Loyalty
Definition
A favorable attitude toward and consistent purchase of a single brand over time. (p.106)
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Attitude
Definition
A tendency to respond to something in a consistently favorable or unfavorable way. (p.106)
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Beliefs
Definition
A consumer's perceptions of how a product or brand performs. (p.106)
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Opinion Leaders
Definition
Individuals who have social influence over others. (p.108)
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Word of Mouth
Definition
People influencing each other in personal conversation. (p.109)
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Reference Groups
Definition
People to whom an individual looks as a basis for self-appraisal or as a source of personal standards. (p.110)
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Family Life Cycle
Definition
A family's progression from formation to retirement, each phrase bringing with it distinct purchasing behaviors. (p.111)
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Subcultures
Definition
Subgroups within the larger, or national, culture with unique values, ideas, and attitudes. (p.113)
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Business Marketing
Definition
The Marketing of products and services to firms, governments, or not-for-profit organizations. (p.120)
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North American INdustry Classification System (NAICS)
Definition
Provides common industry definitions for Canada, Mexico, and the United States. (p.121)
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Derived Demand
Definition
The demand for industrial products and services is driven by demand for consumer products and services. (p.122)
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Organizational Buying Behavior
Definition
The process by which organizations determine the need for goods and then choose among alternative suppliers. (p.126)
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Buying Center
Definition
The group of people in an organization who participates in the buying process. (p.126)
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Buy Classes
Definition
Three types of organizational buying situations: new buy, straight rebuy, modified rebuy. (p.128)
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E-Marketplace
Definition
Online trading communities that bring together buyers and supplier organizations. (p.129)
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Traditional Auction
Definition
Occurs when a seller puts an item up for sale and would-be buyers bid in competition with each other. (p.131)
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Reverse Auction
Definition
Occurs when a buyer communicates a need for something and would-be suppliers bid in competition with each other. (p.131)
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Protectionism
Definition
The practice of shielding one or more industries within a country's economy from foreign competition through use of tariffs and quotas. (p.138)
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Tariff
Definition
A government tax on goods or services entering a country, primarily serving to raise prices on imports. (p.138)
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Quota
Definition
A restriction placed on the amount of a product allowed to enter or leave a country. (p. 138)
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World Trade Organization (WTO)
Definition
Institution that sets rules governing trade between its members through a panel of trade experts. (p.138)
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European Union
Definition
Consists of 27 member countries that have eliminated most barriers to the free flow of goods, services, capital, and labor across their borders. (p.139)
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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Definition
Lifted many trade barriers between Canada, Mexico, and the UNited States and created a marketplace with more than 450 million consumers. (p.139)
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Global Competition
Definition
Exists when firms originate, produce, and market their products and services worldwide. (p.140)
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Multidomestic Marketing Strategy
Definition
A multinational firm's strategy of offering as many different product variations, brand names, and advertising programs as countries in which it does business. (p.141)
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Global Marketing Strategy
Definition
The practice of standardizing marketing activities when there are cultural similarities and adapting them when cultures differ. (p.141)
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International Firm
Definition
Engages in trade and marketing in different countries as an extension of the marketing strategy in its home country. (p.141)
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Multinational Firm
Definition
Views the world as consisting of unique parts and markets to each part differently. (p.141)
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Transnational Firm
Definition
Views the world as one market and emphasizes universal consumer needs and wants more than differences among cultures. (p.141)
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Global Brand
Definition
A brand marketed under the same name in multiple countries with similar and centrally coordinated marketing programs. (p.142)
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Global Consumers
Definition
Consumer groups living around the world who have similar needs or seek similar benefits from products or services. (p.143)
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Cross-Cultural Analysis
Definition
The study of similarities and differences among consumers in two or more nations or societies. (p.144)
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Values
Definition
A society's personally or socially preferable modes of conduct or states of existence that tend to persist over time. (p.144)
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Customs
Definition
Norms and expectations about the way people do things in a specific country. (p.145)
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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (1977)
Definition
A law that makes it a crime for U.S. corporations to bribe an official of a foreign government or political party to obtain or retain business. (p.145)
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Cultural Symbols
Definition
Things that represent ideas or concepts in a specific culture. (p.145)
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Back Translation
Definition
Retranslation a word or phrase back into the original language using a different interpreter to catch errors. (p.147)
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Economic Infrastructure
Definition
A country's communications, transportation, financial, and distribution systems. (p.147)
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Currency Exchange Rate
Definition
The price of one country's currency expressed in terms or another country's currency. (p.148)
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Exporting
Definition
Producing goods in one country and selling them in another country. (p.150)
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Indirect Exporting
Definition
When a firm sells its domestically produced goods in a foreign country through an intermediary. (p.150)
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Direct Exporting
Definition
When a firm sells its domestically produced goods in a foreign country without intermediaries. (p.150)
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Licensing
Definition
A company offers the right to a trademark, patent, trade secret, or other similarly valued item of intellectual property in return for a royalty or fee. (p.151)
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Joint Venture
Definition
When a foreign company and a local firm invest together to create a local business, sharing ownership, control, and the profits of the new company. (p.151)
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Direct Investment
Definition
When a domestic firm actually invests in and owns a foreign subsidiary or division. (p.152)
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Product Extension
Definition
Selling virtually the same product in other countries. (p.153)
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Product Adaptation
Definition
Changing a product in some way to make it more appropriate fora country's climate or consumer preferences. (p.153)
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Product Invention
Definition
When a company invents a totally new product designed to satisfy common needs across countries. (p.153)
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Dumping
Definition
When a firm sells a product in a foreign country below its domestic price below its actual cost. (p.155)
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Gray Market
Definition
A situation in which products are sold through unauthorized channels of distribution. (p.155)
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Marketing Research
Definition
The process of collecting and analyzing information in order to recommend actions. (p.162)
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Measures of Success
Definition
Criteria or standards used in evaluating proposed solutions to a problem. (p.163)
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Constraints
Definition
Restrictions placed on potential solutions to a problem. (p.164)
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Concepts
Definition
Ideas about productsnor services. (p.165)
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Methods
Definition
The approaches that can be used to collect data to solve all or part of a problem. (p.165)
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Data
Definition
The facts and figures related to a problem. (p.166)
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Secondary Data
Definition
Facts and figures that have already been recorded before the project at hand. (p.166)
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Primary Data
Definition
Facts and figures that are newly collected for a project. (p.166)
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Observational Data
Definition
Facts and figures obtained by watching, either mechanically or in person, how people behave. (p.168)
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Questionnaire Data
Definition
Facts and figures obtained by asking people about their attitudes, awareness, intentions, and behaviors. (p.170)
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Sales Forecast
Definition
The total slaes of a product that a firm expects to sell during a specified time period under specified conditions. (p.181)
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Market Segmentation
Definition
Aggregates potential buyers into groups that have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing action. (p.188)
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Market Segments
Definition
The relatively homogenous groups of prospective buyers that result from the market segmentation process. (p.188)
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Product Differentiation
Definition
The strategy of using different marketing mix activities to help consumers perceive a product as being different and better than competing products. (p.188)
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Usage Rate
Definition
The quantity consumed or the number of store visits during a specific period. (p.193)
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80/20 Rule
Definition
The idea that 80 percent of a firm's sales are obtained from 20 percent of its customers. (p.194)
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Market-Product Grid
Definition
A framework relating the segments of a market to products or marketing actions of the firm. (p.197)
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Product Positioning
Definition
The place a product occupies in consumers' minds on important features relative to competitive products. (p.202)
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Product Repositioning
Definition
Changing the placea product occupies in consumers' minds relative to competitive products. (p.202)
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Perceptual Map
Definition
A means of displaying the position of products or brands in consumers' minds. (p.203)
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