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CH. 1
Marketing's Value to Comsumers, Firms, and Society
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Marketing
Undergraduate 3
02/13/2011

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Production
Definition
Actually making or performing services.
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Customer Satisfaction
Definition
Extent to which a firm fulfills a customer's needs, desires, and expectations.
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Innovation
Definition
Spread and development of new ideas, goods and services.
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Marketing
Definition
Identifying and meeting a customer's needs.
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Economies of Scale
Definition

More units 

=

Lower costs

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Pure Subsistence Economy
Definition
Each family unit produces everything it consumers.
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Macro-Marketing
Definition
A social process that directs an economy's flow of goods and servces from producers to consumers in a way that effectively matches supply and demand and accomplishes the objectives of society.
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Universal Functions of Marketing
Definition
Buying, selling, transporting, storing, standardization and grading, financing, risk taking and market information.
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Intermediary
Definition
Someone who specializes in trade rather than production.
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Collaborators
Definition
Firms that facilitate or provide one or more of the functions other than buying or selling. 
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E-commerce
Definition
Refers to excanges between individuals or organizations and activities that faciliate these exchanges based on applications of information technology.
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Command Economy
Definition
Government officials make the decisions.
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Market-Directed-Economy
Definition
The individual decisions of the many producers and consumers make the macro-level decisions for the whole economy. (It adjusts itself)
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Simple Trade Era
Definition
Time when families traded or sold their "surplus" output to local distributors.
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Production Era
Definition
A time when a company focuese on production of a few specific products - perhaps because few of these products are available in the market.
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Sales Era
Definition
A time when a company emphasizes selling because of increased competition.
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Marketing Department Era
Definition
Time when all marketing activites are brought under the control of one department to improve short-run policy planning and to integrate the firm's activites.
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Marketing Concept
Definition
An organization aims all its efforts at satisfying its customers - at a profit.
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Marketing Orientation
Definition
Carrying out the marketing concept.
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Production Orientation
Definition
Making whatever products areeasy to produce and then trying to sell them.
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Customer Value
Definition
Difference between the benefits a customer sees from a market offering and the cost of obtaining those benefits.
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Macro Dilema
Definition
Conclicts and difficulties caused by producers and consumers making free choices. 
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Marketing Ethics
Definition
Moral standards that guide marketing decisions and actions.
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