Mktg Mngt Exam 1

Understand the marketplace and customer needs and wants

Design a customer driven marketing strategy

Construct an integrated marketing program that delivers superior value

Build profitable relationships and create customer delight

Capture value from customers to create profits and customer equity

States of felt deprivation

The form human needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality

Human wants that are backed by buying power

Some combination of products, services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want.

The mistake of paying more attention to the specific products a company offers than to the benefits and experiences produced by these products.

The act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return

The set of all actual and potential buyers of a product or service.

The art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them.

The idea that consumers will favor products that are available and highly affordable and that the organization should therefore focus on improving production and distribution efficiency

The idea that consumers will favor products that offer the most quality, performance, and features and that the organization should therefore devote its energy to making continuous product improvements.

The idea that consumers will not buy enough of the firm's products unless it undertakes a large-scale selling and promotion effort.

A philosophy that holds that achieving organizational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions better than competitors do.

The idea that a company's marketing decisions should consider consumers' wants, the company's requirements, consumers' long-run interests, and society's long-run interests.

• Product
• Price
• Place
• Promotion

The overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction.

The customer's evaluation of the difference between all the benefits and all the costs of a marketing offer relative to those of competing offers.

The extent to which a product's perceived performance matches a buyer's expectations.

Marketing relationships in which customers, empowered by today's new digital technologies, interact with companies and with each other to shape their relationships with brands.

Brand exchanges created by consumers themselves - both invited and uninvited - by which consumers are playing an increasing role in shaping their own brand experiences and those of other consumers.

Working closely with partners in other company departments and outside the company to jointly bring greater value to customers.

The value of the entire stream of purchases that the customer would make over a lifetime of patronage.

The portion of the customer's purchasing that a company gets in its product categories.

The total combined customer lifetime values of all of the company's customers

The actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management's ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers.

The actors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers - the company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitors, and publics.

The larger societal forces that affect the microenvironment - demographic, economic, natural, technological, political, and cultural forces.

Firms that help the company to promote, sell, and distribute its goods to final buyers.

Any group that has an actual or potential interest in or impact on an organization's ability to achieve its objectives.

The study of human population in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and other statistics.

Natural resources that are needed as inputs by marketers or that are affected by marketing activities.

Developing strategies and practices that create a world economy that the planet can support indefinitely.

Forces that create new technologies, creating new product and market opportunities.

Laws, government agencies, and pressure groups that influence and limit various organizations and individuals in a given society.

Institutions and other forces that affect society's basic values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviors.

Dividing a market into smaller segments with distinct needs, characteristics, or behavior that might require separate marketing strategies or mixes.

The process of evaluating each market segment's attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter.

Differentiating the market offering to create superior customer value.

Arranging for a market offering to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers.

Dividing a market into different geographical units, such as nations, states, regions, counties, cities, or even neighborhoods

Dividing the market into segments based on variables such as age, gender, family size, family life cycle, income, occupation, education, religion, race, generation, and nationality

Dividing the market into different age and life-cycle groups.

Dividing a market into different segments based on gender

Dividing a market into different income segments.

Dividing a market into different segments based on social class, lifestyle, or personality characteristics.

Dividing the market into segments based on consumer knowledge, attitudes, uses, or responses to a product.

Dividing the market into segments according to occasions when buyers get the idea to buy, actually make their purchase, or use the purchased item.

Dividing the market into segments according to the different benefits that consumers seek from the product.

Forming segments of consumers who have similar needs and buying behavior even though they are located in different countries

A set of buyers sharing common needs of characteristics that the company decides to serve

A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to ignore market segment differences and go after the whole market with one offer.

A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to target several market segments and designs separate offers for each

A market-coverage strategy in which a firm goes after a large share of one or a few segments or niches.

Tailoring products and marketing programs to the needs and wants of specific individuals and local customer segments; it includes local marketing and individual marketing

Tailoring brands and promotions to the needs and wants of local customer segments - cities, neighborhoods, and even specific stores.

Tailoring products and marketing programs to the needs and preferences of individual customers - also called one-to-one marketing, customized marketing, and markets-of-one marketing

The way the product is defined by consumers on important attributes - the place the product occupies in consumers' minds relative to competing products.

The full positioning of a brand-the full mix of benefits on which it is positioned

A statement that summarizes company or brand positioning. It takes this form: to (target segment and need) our (brand) is (concept) that (point of difference)

A product bought by final consumers for personal consumption

A consumer product that customers usually buy frequently, immediately, and with minimal comparison and buying effort.

A consumer product that the customer, in the process of selecting and purchasing usually compares on such attributes as suitability, quality, price, and style

A consumer product with unique characteristics or brand identification for which a significant group of buyers is willing to make a special purchase effort.

A consumer product that the consumer either does not know about or knows about but does not normally consider buying

A product bought by individuals and organizations for further processing or for use in conducting a business.

The use of commercial marketing concepts and tools in programs designed to influence individuals' behavior to improve their well-being and that of society.

The characteristics of a product or service that tear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied customer needs

A name, term, sign, symbol, design, or a combination of these, that identifies the products or services of one seller or group of sellers and differentiates them from those of competitors.

A group of products that are closely related because they function in a similar manner, are sold to the same customer groups, are marketed through the same types of outlets, or fall within given price ranges.

The set of all product lines and items that a particular seller offers for sale.

Services cannot be seen, tasted, felt, heard, or smelled before they are bought.

Services are produced and consumed at the same time and cannot be separated from their providers.

The quality of services may vary greatly depending on who provides them and when, where, and how

Services cannot be stored for later sale or use

The chain that links service firm profits with employee and customer satisfaction

Orienting and motivating customer-contact employees and supporting service people to work as a team to provide customer satisfaction.

Training service employees in the fine art of interacting with customers to satisfy their needs.

The differential effect that knowing the brand name has on customer response to the product or its marketing.

A brand created and owned by a reseller of a product or service.

The practice of using the established brand names of two different companies on the same product.

Extending an existing brand name to new forms, colors, sizes, ingredients, or flavors of an existing product category.

Extending an existing brand name to new product categories.