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chapter 4 - Business Buying Behavior
Question | Answer |
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Derived demand | Demand that springs from, or is derived from, a secondary source other than the primary buyer of the product. Ex: consumers. |
Fluctuating demand | Demand that fluctuates sharply in response to a change in consumer demand. |
Joint demand | When the demand for one product increases the demand for another. |
Producers | companies that purchase goods and services that they transform into other products. They include both manufacturers and service providers.Ex: GM, McD's |
Resellers | companies that sell goods and services produced by other firms without materially changing them. They include wholesalers, brokers, and retailers. Ex: Walmart |
Business-to-government (B2G) markets | Markets in which local, state, and federal govt's by products. |
Institutional markets | Nonprofit orgs such as the American Red Cross, churches, hospitals, private colleges and civic clubs. |
Buying centers | groups of people within organizations who make purchasing decisions. |
Users | people and groups within the organization that actually use the product. |
Influencers | people who may or may not use the product but have experience or expertise that can help improve the buying decision. |
Gatekeepers | people who will decide if and when you get access to members of the buying center. Ex: people at Walmart who allow access to sell to Walmart. |
Decider | the person who makes the final purchasing decision. Often but no necessarily the purchasing manager. |
requests for proposal (RFPs) | An invitation to submit a bid to supply the good or service. |
Straight rebuy | When a purchaser buys the same product in the same quantities from the same vendor. |
New-buy(selling) | When a firm purchases a product for the first time. |
Modified rebuy | occurs when a company wants to buy the same type of product it has in the past but make some modifications to it(ex: qty, delivery, etc). |
e-commerce | commerce conducted electronically, such as over the Internet. |
sell-side (e-commerce) site | is a site in which a single seller sells products to many different buyers. |
buy-side (e-commerce) site | is one in which a business buys products from multiple sellers that go there to do business with the firm. |
B2B auctions (aka reverse auction) | Web-based auctions that occur between businesses. The auctions can be either sell side or buy side. Ex: AssetAuctions.com where surplus industrial equipment is sold.Roles of buyers/sellers reversed. |