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Marketing Definitions
Definitions for Vocabulary-Chapter 14: Basic marketing-A Marketing Strategey Planning Approach, McGraw Hill Publishing Co.
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Undergraduate 3
12/03/2007

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Promotion
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communicating information between the seller and potential buyer or others in the channel to influence attitudes and behavior
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Personal selling
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direct spoken communication between sellers and potential custiomers; salespeople get immediate feedback; often expensive, so desireable to combine w/ other methods
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Mass selling
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communicating with large numbers of potential customers at the same time; when the target market is large and scattered mass selling can be less expensive
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Advertising
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any paid form of non-personal presentation of ideas, goods or services by an identified sponsor
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Publicity
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any unpaid form of nonpersonal presentation of ideas, goods, or services; try to attract attention to the firm and its offerings without having to pay media costs. ex: press releases do this
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Sales Promotion
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referss to promotion activites other than advertising, publicity and personal selling that stimulate interest, trial or purchase by final customers or others in the channel; can be implemented quickly and get results sooner relative to other promotion methods; ex: contests, coupons, gifts, sales aids
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Sales Managers
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concerned with managing personal selling; responsible for building good distribution channels and implementing place policies
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Advertising Managers
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manage their company's mass-selling effort in television newspapers, magazines and other media; job is to choose the right media and develop the ads
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Public Relations
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communication with noncustomers, including labor, public interest groups stockholders and the government
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Sales Promotion Managers
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manage their company's sales promotion effort
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Integrated marketing communications
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the intentional coordination of every commnunication from a firm to a target customer to convey a consistent and complete message; different promotion methods handle different parts of the job; everyone involved must clearly understand the plan for the overall marketing strategy
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Promotion Must:
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1. reinforce present attitudes or relationships that might lead to favorable behavior
2. actually change the attitudes and behavior of the firm's target market
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3 pasic promotion objectives
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informing: consumers must know something about a product if they are to buy persuading: the firm will try to develop a favorable set of attitudes so customers will buy and continue to buy the product and reminding: consumers who have been attracted and sold once are still targets for competitors appeals-reminding of past satisfaction may keep them from switching
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AIDA Model
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consists of four promotion jobs: Attention Interest, Desire and Action
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communication process
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a source trying to reach a receiver with a message through different channels: ex: source->encoding-> message channel-> decoding-> receiver
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source
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the sender of a message
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receiver
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potential customer
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Encoding
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the source deciding what it wants to say and translating it into words or symbols that will have the same meaning to the receiver
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Noise
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any distraction that reduces the effectiveness of the communication process
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Decoding
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reveiver translating the message; different audiences may interpret a message differently
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message channel
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the carrier of the message
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Pushing
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using normal promotion effort-personal selling advertising and sales promotion to help sell the whole marketing mix to possible channel members
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Pulling
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getting customers to ask middlemen for the product
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adoption curve
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shows when different groups accept ideas; emphasizes the relations among groups and shows that individuals in some groups act as leaders in accepting a new idea
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innovators
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the first to adopt; eager to try a new idea and willing to take risks; tend to be young and well educated
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Early Adopters
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well respected by their peers and often are opinion leaders; tend to be younger more mobile and more creative; tends to have the greatest contact with salespeople; help the promotion effort by spreading word of mouth information
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Early Majority
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avoid risk and wait to consider a new idea after many early adopters have tried it; avg sized business firms; members themselves aren't opinion leaders
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Late Majority
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cautious about new ideas; are older and more set in their ways; less likely to follow late adopters
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Laggards/Nonadopters
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prefer to do things the way they've been done in the past and are very suspicious of new ideas' older and less well educated
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Primary Demand
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demand for the general product idea; not just for the company's own brand
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Selective Demand
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demand for a company's own brand; job is to persuade customers to buy and keep buying the company's product
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Task method
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basing the budget on the job to be done; ex: spending level might be based on the number of new customers desired and the percentage of current customers that the firm must retain to leverage investments in already established relationships
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