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Marketing
Term | Definition |
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Advertising | A non-personal form of promotion delivered through media outlets that generally require the marketer pay for message placement |
Agents | A specialty service firm found within a marketer’s channel of distribution that, for a fee, works to bring the marketer together with buyers |
Pricing | The evaluation of something in terms of its price |
Market research | Research that gathers and analyzes information about the moving of good or services from producer to consumer |
Brand | A name given to a product or service |
Advertising agency | An agency that designs advertisement to call public attention to its clients |
Promote | Assign to a higher position |
Communication | The activity of conveying information |
Publicity | A message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea |
Competitor | The contestant you hope to defeat |
Loss leader | Selling products at a low price to attract customers |
Target market | The audience at which the product is aimed |
Niche market | Very specific market where a product is developed specially to meet the needs of consumers in the market |
Marketing mix | A combination of PRODUCT ,PRICE, PLACE , PROMOTION |
Public relations | To create and maintain a good image of the firm and its products |
Channel of distribution | The network of firms that distribute and deliver goods from manufacturer to consumer |
Price | Price must cover all firms cost and also earn a profit |
Price discrimination | When companies charge different prices to different consumers for the same product to maximise their profit |
Sponsorship | When companies provide money for sporting or charitable events in return for advertising |
Desk research | This involves researching existing information e.g. examining business records, looking up suitable internet sites examining census of population, Central Statistics Office. |
Field research | This involves obtaining new information directly from the customer. |