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MK 360 CH 3-4
Term | Definition |
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marketing environment | Outside forces that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers |
Microenvironment | Actors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers |
Macroenvironment | Larger societal forces that affect the microenvironment |
internal environment | Interrelated groups in a company form the |
customer value. | Departments share the responsibility for understanding customer needs and creating |
suppliers | Provide the resources needed by the company to produce its goods and services |
Supply shortages or delays Labor strikes Price trends of key inputs | Supplier problems seriously affect marketing |
Marketing intermediaries | help the company to promote, sell, and distribute its products to final buyers |
competitors. | Marketers must gain strategic advantage by positioning products strongly against |
Publics | any group that has an actual or potential interest in or impact on an organization’s ability to achieve its objectives |
Consumer markets Business markets Reseller markets Government markets International markets | Five types of customer markets |
Demography | the study of human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and other statistics. |
Changes in consumer spending Differences in income distribution | Economic factors affect consumer purchasing power and spending |
natural environment | Physical environment and natural resources needed as inputs by marketers or affected by marketing activities |
Environmental sustainability | concerns have grown steadily over the past three decades |
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) | is technology to track products through various points in the distribution channel |
political environment | Forces that influence or limit various organizations and individuals in a society |
companies from each other consumers from unfair business practices the interests of society against unrestrained business behavior | Legislation regulating business is intended to protect |
Socially responsible companies | actively seek out ways to protect the long-run interests of consumers and the environment. |
Controversy | strategy for selling more rather than a strategy for giving |
Exercise their social responsibility Build more positive images | Companies use cause-related marketing to |
cultural environment | Institutions and other forces that affect a society’s basic values, perceptions, and behaviors |
price, promotion, product, place (distribution) | four Ps of marketing |
through media that will connect with certain types of people | how would a single parent family change the demographics of the American market |
production may not want to work with marketing in certain areas, more interaction required, dynamic interaction | why would they put the company in the microenvironment? |
producer-> transportation agent-> warehouse agent-> retailer | simple distribution channel |
place because it is very specialized | which "P" creates the most jobs |
pricing/marketing | there is more legistlation in this field than in any of the other Ps |
Germany, U.S. is 3rd | which country has the mot legislation regarding marketing? |
Big data | refers to the huge and complex data sets generated by today’s sophisticated information generation, collection, storage, and analysis technologies. |
customer insights | Fresh marketing information-based understandings of customers and the marketplace |
Internal databases | are collections of consumer and market information obtained from data sources within the company network |
marketing research | Systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data relevant to a specific marketing situation facing an organization |
ethnographic research | sending trained observers to watch and interact with consumers in their natural environments |
A sample | is a segment of the population selected to represent the population as a whole |
customer relationship management (CRM) | Managing detailed information about individual customers, Carefully managing customer touch points to maximize customer loyalty |
Marketing analytics | consists of the analysis tools, technologies, and processes by which marketers dig out meaningful patterns in big data to gain customer insights and gauge marketing performance |
primary data research | information collected without surveys |
customer insights | chart things people like to know how to market to them - what you buy, how you buy, how often/much, etc. |
defining the problem, developing the research plan, implementing research plan, interpreting findings | marketing research process |
exploratory research | like a discovery, used to gather prlimiary info, helps to define problems and suggest hypothesis (taking survey - factors for buying product) |
hypothesis | educated guess based off of other info |
descriptive research | used to better describe the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of consumers (relationships that help describe how info for the model fits together) |
causal research | used to test hypothesis about cause-and-effect relationships (how did relationship cause customer to buy product?) |
secondary data | data that has been collected by someone else, usually for another purpose |
primary data | data you collect yourself for some specific purpose |
observational research | gathering primary data by observing relevant people, actions, and situations |
probability samples | best kind of sample |
nonprobability sample | worst kind of sample |
simple random sample | chances of being selected are completely random |
stratified random sample | 5 freshmen, 5 sophomores, 5 juniors, 5 seniors |
cluster sample | used for election polling - go to certain cities that are a general representation of entire sample |
convenience sampling | Dr. Armstrong's class |
judgement sample | someone who is an expert/superior knowledge |
quota sample | include percentages, quotas representative of groups being studied |
international market research | problems handling differences in culture, language, and attitudes toward research |