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Competition Costs Company objectives Customers Channel members |
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Profit Oriented Sales oriented Competitor oriented Customer oriented |
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Price elasticity of demand |
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% change in quantity demanded/ % change in price |
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Price sensitive. Price will affect demand |
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Not price sensitive. Price has no effect on demand |
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Upward sloping product on a demand curve are |
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Prestigious projects (products purchase for status rather than functionality) |
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Costs that are unaffected by production value |
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Costs that vary with production value |
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Sum of variable and fixed costs |
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Point at which the number of units sold generates just enough revenue to eqaul the total costs and profits are zero |
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Variable cost per unit X Quantity |
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Fixed costs + Total variable cost |
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One firm controls the market |
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Handul of firms control the market |
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Many firms sells differentiated products at different products |
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Many firms selling the commodities for the same prices |
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EDLP (Everday low pricing) |
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Companies stress the continuity of their retail prices at a level somewhere between te regular, nonsale price and the deep-discount sale prices their competitors may offer |
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Relies on the promotions of sales. |
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Market penetration strategy |
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When firms set the initial price low for the introduction of the new product or service. |
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Selling a new product at a high price that innovators and early adopters ae willing to pay for it |
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No intermediaries between the buyer and seller |
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Indirect marketing channel |
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One or more intermediaries work with manufacturers to provide goods and services to customers. |
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Vertical channel conflict |
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When supply chain members that buy and sell to one another are not in agreement about their goals, roles or rewards |
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Horizontal channel conflict |
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Occurs when there is a disagreement or discord among members at the same level of marketing channel, such as two competing retailers or two competing manufacturers. |
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Independent (Conventional marketing channel) |
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A manufacturer, whoelsaler and retailer each attempt to satisfy its own objectives and maximize its profits often at the expense of the other members |
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Vertical marketing channel |
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Members act as a unified system. |
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Administered vertical marketing system |
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There is no common ownership or contractual relationships but the dominant channel members controls or holds the balance of power. |
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Contractual vertical marketing systems |
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Independent firms at different levels of t he marketing channel join through contracts to obtain economies of scale and coordination to reduce conflict. |
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Corporate vertical marketing system |
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The parent company has complete control and can dictate the priorities and objectives of the marketing channel because it owns multiple segments of the channel |
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Distribution center is in charge of |
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Inbound transportation Receiving and checking Storing and cross docking |
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Transporting goods to a distribution center |
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Process of recording the receipt of merchandise as it arrives at a distribution center |
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Storing and cross-docking |
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Storing is unloading the cartons and placing them in racks until they are to be distributed. Cross-docking is merchandise cartons that are prepackaged by the vendor for a specific store, placed on a conveyor belt that routes it from the unloading dock to the truck going to the specific store. |
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Merchandise allocated to stores based on previous sales forecasts. |
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Amount of merchandise sent to the store is determined based on sales data captured by POS terminals. |
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Inventory managment systems designed to deliver less merchandise on a more frequent basis than traditional inventory systems. It is to be used in the manufacture of another product or for sale when the customer wants it. |
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Larger firms are less likely to? More efficient and effective in? |
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Use intermediaries More efficient and effective in control |
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Strategy designed to place products in as many outlets as possible. |
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Strategy of granting exclusive geographic territories to one or very few retail customers so no other retailers in the territory can sell a particular. |
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Strategy that relies on a few selected retail customers in a territory to sell products. |
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A self-service retail food store offering groceries, meat and produce with limited sales of nonfood items |
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Large stores that combine supermarkets with discount stores. |
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Large retailers that offer a limited and irregular assortment of food and general merchandise |
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Provide limited variety and assortment of merchandise at a convenient location with speedy checkout. |
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Broad variety and deep assortment |
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Broad variety at low prices |
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Limited merchandise with service in small store |
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Specialty for pharmaceutical and heath |
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Discount with narrow but deep assortment |
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Full line, limited, very low prices |
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Inconsistent assortment of brand name at low prices |
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What are the Benefits of the Internet and Multichannel Retailing? |
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Deeper and broader selection Personalization Expand market presence |
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A model that suggests that awareness lead to interest which leads to desire which interest |
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Integrated marketing communications. Represents promotion of the four P's. It encompasses all types of communication to provide maximum communicative impact. |
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Advertising Direct Marketing Online Marketing Personal selling Public Relations Sales Promotions |
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Characteristics of IMC: Interactive offline |
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Personal selling contests telemarketing |
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Characteristics of IMC: Interactive online |
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M-Marketing Online marketing |
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Characteristics of IMC: Passive offline |
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Advertising Coupons Public relations Catalogs |
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Characteristics of IMC: Passive online |
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Normally short term objectives trade promotion vs. consumer promotion |
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How do companies direct market? |
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Targeting via emails and m-commerce Database technology Multicultural groups |
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IMC budget can be based on either |
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Rule of thumb methods objective and task method |
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IMC Plan: Marketing metrics |
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Reach Frequency Gross rating points |
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Impressions Clicks Click through rate Return on investments (ROI) |
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Transit: Search engine marketing |
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Clicks relate to revenue based on the ROI |
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A subsection of a firm's overall marketing plan that explicitly analyzes the marketing and advertising situation, identifies the objectives of the advertising campaign, clarifies a specific strategy for accomplishing those objectives and indicates how the firm can determine whether the campaign was successful. |
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Target audience Advertising objectives Advertising Budget Message Media Create advertisements Assess impact |
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Inform the audience Persuade the audience Remind the audience |
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The USP (unique selling proposition) |
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Strategy of differentiating a product by communicating its unique attributes |
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More cognitive. Persuades the audience using rational thought |
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Persuades the audience through triggering emotional response |
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The usage context of each medium affects how marketers design messages for them |
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Specifies the timing and duration of advertising. |
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Runs steadily throughout the year and therefore is suites to products and services that are consumed continually at relatively steady rates and require a steady level of persuasive or reminder advertising. |
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Refers to an advertising schedule implemented in spurts, with periods heavy advertising followed by period of no advertising. |
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Combines the continuous and flighting schedules by maintaining a base level of advertising but increasing intensity during certain periods. |
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Samples Coupons Cash refunds Price packs Premiums Advertising specialties Point-of-purchase displays Contests Sweepstakes Games |
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Sales data from the past is used to forecast the future |
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Additional sales caused by advertising usually marked on a time-series analysis |
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Generate and qualify leads Preapproach Sales presentation and overcoming reservations Closing the sale Follow-up |
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Generate and qualify leads |
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Generate list of potential customers and assess their potential May involve trade shows, telemarketing and cold calls |
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Occurs before meeting the customer for the first time when the salesperson conducts additional research and makes plans to meet with the customer Uses CRM program |
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Sales presentation and overcoming reservations |
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Presentation of information and listen to customer reservations (Objections about the product) |
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Obtaining commitment for a customer to make a purchase |
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Involves reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy and tangibles |
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Delivering the right product or service on time |
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Salesperson must be ready to deal quickly with any issue, question or problem that may arise |
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Customers must be assured through adequate guarantees that their product will perform as expected |
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Salesperson must have a good understanding of the problems and issues faced by their customers |
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Tangibles reflect the physical characteristics of the seller's business, such as website, marketing communications and delivery materials |
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Comprises people who are employees of the selling company |
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Involves planning, direction, and control of personal selling activities, including recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, compensating and evaluating |
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Order getting Order taking Sales support personnel |
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A salesperson whose primary responsibilities are identifying potential customers and engaging those customers in discussions to attempt to make a sale |
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A salesperson whose primary responsibility is to process routine orders, reorders or rebuys for products. |
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Enhance and help with the overall selling effort. |
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Aspects of managers and sales experts |
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Personality Optimism Resilience Self-motivation Empathy |
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Motivating and compensating sales people |
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Financial rewards: Salary, commission, bonus, sales contests Non financial rewards: Plaques, pens, rings, free trips |
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