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Chp. 3 Marketing
Question | Answer |
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Marketing enviroment | The actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management's ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers. |
Microenvironment | The actors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers - the company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitors, and publics. |
Macroenvironment | The larger societal forces that affect the microenvironment - demographic, economic, natural, technological, political, and cultural forces. |
Marketing intermediaries | Firms that help the company to promote, sell, and distribute its goods to final buyers. |
Public | Any group that has an actual or potential interest in or impact on an organization's ability to achieve its objectives. |
Demography | The study of human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and other statistics. |
Baby boomers | The 78 million people born during the baby boom following World War II and lasting until 1964. |
Generation X | The 45 million people born between 1965 and 1976 in the "birth dearth" following the baby boom. |
Millennials (or Generation Y) | The 83 million children of the baby boomers, born between 1977 and 2000. |
Economic environment | Factors that affect consumer buying power and spending patterns. |
Engel's laws | Differences noted over a century ago by Ernst Engel in how people shift their spending across food, housing, transportation, health care, and other goods and services categories as family income rises. |
Natural environment | Natural resources that are needed as inputs by marketers or that are affected by marketing activities. |
Technological environment | Forces that create new technologies, creating new product and market opportunities. |
Political environment | Laws, government agencies, and pressure groups that influence and limit various organizations and individuals in a given society. |
Cultural environment | Institutions and other forces that affect society's basic values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviors. |