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GLOSSARY
Term | Definition |
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Advertising | Any paid form of nonpersonal presentation of ideas, goods, or services |
Competitive Advantage | The edge achieved by businesses that offer something better than their competitors |
Customers | The people who buy goods and services |
Durable Goods | Tangible items that should last a long time |
Economy | The system in which people make and spend their incomes |
Feature | A fact about or characteristic of of a product |
Goods | Tangible objects that can be manufactured or produced for resale |
Marketing | The activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partmers, and society at large |
Marketing concept | A philosophy of conducting business that is based on the belief that all business activities should be aimed towards satisfying customer wants and needs while achieving company goals |
Nondurable Goods | Tangible items that are consumed within a short time |
Personal Selling | The form of promotion that determines client needs and wants and responds through planned, personalized communication that influences purchase decisions and enhances future business opportunities |
Planning | The management function of deciding what will be done and how it will be accomplished |
Pricing | A marketing function that involves determining and adjusting prices to maximize return and meet customer's perceptions of value |
Producers | The people who make goods and services |
Publicity | Any nonpersonal presentation of ideas, goods, or services that is not paid for by the individual or organization benefiting from or harmed by it |
Sales Promotion | Promotion activities (other than advertising, (personal selling, and publicity) that stimulates customer purchases |
Services | Intangible activities that are performed by other people for money; productive acts that satisfy economic wants |
Societal Marketing Concept | A philosophy of conducting business which involves creating and marketing products that benefit individual customers as well as contribute to the good of society as a whole |
standards of living | The general conditions in which people live; quality of life |