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Mktg Vocab Chap 2
Chapter 2
Question | Answer |
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Marketing concept | Businesses must satisfy customers’ needs and wants in order to make a profit |
Customers | People who buy the product |
Market | Potential customers who share common needs and wants and have the ability and desire to buy a product |
Target marketing | Focusing all marketing decisions on a specific group of people you want to reach (sell to) |
Customer profile | Information about the customer-age, income level, ethnic background, occupation, attitudes, lifestyle, or geography |
Marketing mix | The 4 P’s of marketing – product, place, price, promotion |
Market segmentation | Analyzing a market by specific characteristics in order to create a target market |
Demographics | Personal characteristics that describe a population-age, gender, income, ethnic background, education, occupation |
Baby Boom Generation | People born between 1946 and 1964,Huge potential market |
Generation X | Americans born between 1965 and 1976-Dual careers, divorced parents |
Generation Y | Americans born between 1977 and 1997 |
Disposable income | Money left after taking out taxes |
Discretionary income; | Money leftpaying for basic living necessities like food, shelter and clothing |
Psychographics | Studies of consumers based on social and psychological characteristics |
Geographics | Segmenting the market based on where people live-local, region, nation, global. |