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Marketing 3305
Exam 3
40
Business
Undergraduate 3
11/20/2011

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Promotion
Definition
communication by marketers that informs, persuades, and reminds potential buyers of a product in order to influence opinion or elicit response
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Promotional Strategy
Definition

is a plan for the optimal use of the elements of promotion: advertising, PR, personal selling, and sales promotion

 

-goal is to convince consumers that g & s offer competitive advantage over the competition

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Promotional Mix
Definition
combination of promotional tools used to reach the target market and achieve overall goals
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Advertising
Definition
any form of impersonal paid communication in which the sponsor or company is identified
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Public Relations
Definition

marketing function that evaluates the public attitudes and identifies the areas of the company the public may be interested in; for maintaining a positive image and educating the public about new products, objectives and help support sales efforts

 

The way they communicate with the public

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Sales Promotion
Definition

consists of the marketing activities that stimulate consumer purchasing and dealer effectiveness. Generally, a SR tool thats used to increase demand aimed at end users, trade customers, or employees

 

Includes free samples, contests, premiums, trade shows, vacation giveaways, and coupons

 

Yields faster sales responses.

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AIDA Concept
Definition

Attention, interest, desire, action: the stages of consumer involvement in the promotional message

 

Consumers respond to marketing messages in a cognitive, affective, and conatative, sequence.

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Push Strategy
Definition
Uses aggressive personal selling and trade advertising to convinve wholesaler or retailer to carry and sell particular merchandising
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Pull Strategy
Definition
stimulates consumer demaND in order to obtain product distribution; tries to inluence end users opinions in order to gain wholesaler support
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Major types of Advertising
Definition

Institutional: designed to enhance a company's image rather than promote a product; doesn't ask the audience to do anything but maintain a positive attitude toward their company

 

Product Adveritsing: touts the benefits of g and s

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Types of  Product Advertising
Definition

Pioneering: intended to stimulate primary demand for a product; heavily used durign the introductory phase of the product life cycle; goal is to create interest

 

Competitive: Influence demand for a specific brand; promotion is less informative and appeals to emotions; ads begin to stress subtle differences; 

 

Comparative: directly or indirectly compares two or more competing brands on some special attribute

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Advertising Campaign
Definition
series of advertisements focusing on a common theme, slogan, and set of advertising appeals. Specific advertising effort for a specific product for a defined period of time
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Advertising Objective
Definition
specific communication task that a campaign should accomplish; objectives often depend on org objectives and the product being advertised
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Advertising Appeal
Definition

identifies a reason for a person to buy a product; typically play off of consumers' emotions or address some need or want

 

Profit, health, fear, admiration, convenience, fun and pleasure, vanity and egotism, Environmental consciouness

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Unique Selling Proposition
Definition

desireable, beleivable, and exclusive advertising appeal selcted as the theme for a campaign

"SLOGAN"

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Medium
Definition
channel used to convey a message to a target market
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Cooperative Advertising
Definition
arrangement in which the reatailer and the manufacturer split the advertising costs of a product
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Media Mix
Definition

Combination of media to be used in a promotional campaign;

 

Decisions based on: costs per contact, reach, frequency, targer audience, flexibillity of the medium, noise level, and the life-span of the medium

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Premium
Definition

extra item offered to consumers usually in exchange for some proof that the promoted product has been purchased.

 

Reinforce decision to buy, increase consumption, and persuade nonusers to switch brands

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Loyalty Marketing Programs
Definition
program for rewarding loyal consumers for making multiple purchases; objective is to establish long-term mutually beneficial relationships between a company and its key customers
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Sampling
Definition
allows a consumer to try a product risk-free
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POP
Definition
Point of purchase Dispplay: display set-up at the retailer to build traffic, advertise the product, or promote impulse buying
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Trade Allowance
Definition
price reduction offered to intermediaries such as wal-mart
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Push Money
Definition
money offered to channel intermediaries to encourage them to "push" their products
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Relationship Selling
Definition
involves building, maintaining and enhancing interactions with customers in order to develop long-term satisfaction in a mutually beneficial partnership
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Sales Process
Definition

Generating Leads

Qualifying Leads

Approaching the customer and probing needs

Developing and proposing solutions

Handling objections

Closing the sale

Following up

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Price
Definition
what is given up in exchange for g or s
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Price Skimming
Definition
high introductory price coupled with heavy promotion
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Price Strategy
Definition
general long-term plan for intial price and movements in price throughout a PLC
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Quantity Discounts
Definition
price deduction for amount of units or specificed dollar amount
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Cash Discounts
Definition
price reduction offered for prompt bill repayment
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Functional Discount
Definition
discount to wholesalers and retailers for perfomring channel functions
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Customer-centric
Definition
company customizes product based upon data generated from interactions with customers
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Knowledge Management
Definition
process by which customer information is centralized and shared in order to enhance the relationship between customers and the organization
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Interaction
Definition
point at which customer and company exchange information and learning relationships
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Touch Points
Definition
all possible areas of business where customers interact with that business
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Point-of-Sale Interaction
Definition
communication with customers that occurs at the POS
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Data Warehouse
Definition
central repository for data from various funtional areas of the organization that are   stored and inventoried on a centralized computer system so that the information can be shared across functional departments of the business
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Data Mining
Definition
used to find hidden patterns and relationships within data bases
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Life-time Value Analysis
Definition
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