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Marketing Final
106 Cain
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Not Applicable
04/24/2005

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Product
Definition
Anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use, or consumption that might satsify a want or need.
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Service
Definition
Any activity or benefit that one party can sell to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything
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Consumer Product
Definition
Product bought by final consumer for personal consupmtion
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Convenience Product
Definition
Consumer product that the customer usually buys frequently, immediately, and with a minimum of comparison and buying effort
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Shopping Product
Definition
Consumer good that the custome, in the process of selection and purchase, characteristaically compares on bases such as suitability, quality, price, and style.
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Shopping Product
Definition
Consumer good that the custome, in the process of selection and purchase, characteristaically compares on bases such as suitability, quality, price, and style.
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Specialty Product
Definition
Consumer product with unique characteristics or brand identification for which a significant group of buyers is willing to make a specail purchase effort.
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Unsought Product
Definition
Consumer product that the consumer either does not know about or knows about but does not normally think of buying.
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Social Marketing
Definition
The desing, implementation, and control of programs seeking to increase the acceptability of a social idea, cause, or practice among a target group.
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Product Quality
Definition
The ability of a product to perform its functions; it includes the prodcut's overall durability, reliability, precision, ease of operation and repair, and other valued attributes.
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Prodcut Line
Definition
A group of products that are closely related beacause tehy function in a similar manner, are sold to the same consumer groups, are marketed through the same types of outlets, or fall within given price ranges.
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Product Mix (or Product Assortment)
Definition
The set of all product lines and items taht a particular seller offers for sale
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Brand Equity
Definition
The positive differential effect that konwing the brand name has on customer response to the product or service.
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Private (or store) Brand
Definition
A brand created and owned by a reseller of a product or service.
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Brand Extension
Definition
Using a successful brand name to launch a new or modified product in a new category
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Line Extension
Definition
Using a successful brand image to introduce additional items in a given product category under the same brand name,such as new flavors, forms, colors, added ingredients, or package sizes.
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Service Intangibility
Definition
A major characteristic of services- they cannont be seen, tasted, felt heard, or smelled before they are bought.
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Service Inseparbility
Definition
A major charactersitic of services- they are produced and consumed at the same time and cannot be separated from their providers, whether the providers are people or machines.
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Service Variability
Definition
A major characteristic of services- their quality may vary greatly, depending on who provides them and when, where, and how.
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Internal Marketing
Definition
Marketing by a service firm to train and effectively motviate its customer-contact emplyoees and all the supproting service people to work as a team to provide customers satisfaction.
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Interactive Marketing
Definition
Marketing by a service firm that recognizes that perceived service quality depends heavily on the quality of buyer-seller interaction.
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New-Product Development
Definition
The development of original products, product improvements, product modifications, and new brands through the firm's own R&D efforts.
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Idea Generation
Definition
The systematic search for new product ideas.
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Idea Screening
Definition
Screening new-product ideas in order to spot good ieas and drop poor ones as soon as possible
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Product Concept
Definition
A detailed version of the new-product idea stated in meaningful consumer terms
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Concept Testing
Definition
Testing product concepts with a group of target consumers to find out if the concepts have strong consumer appeal.
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Marketing Strategy Development
Definition
Designing an intial marketing strategy for a new product based on the product concept
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Business Analysis
Definition
A review of the sales, costs, and profit projections for a new product to find out whether theses factors satsify the company's objectives.
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Product Development
Definition
Developing the product concept into a physical product in order to ensure that the product idea can be turned into a workable product.
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Test Marketing
Definition
The stage of a new-product development in which the product and marketing program are tested in more realistic settings
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Commercialization
Definition
Introducing a new product into the market
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Sequential Product Development
Definition
A new-product development approach in which one company department works to complete its stage of the process before passing the new product along to the next department and stage.
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Simultaneous (or team-based) Product Development
Definition
An approach to developing new products in which various company departments work closely together, overlapping the steps in the product-development process to sive time and increase effectivness.
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Style
Definition
A basic and distinctive mode of expression
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Fashion
Definition
A currently accepted or popular style in a given field
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Fad
Definition
A fashion that enters quickly, is adopted with great zeal, peaks early, and declines very quickly.
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Introduction Stage
Definition
The product life-cycle stage in whichc the new product is first distributed and made available for purchase
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Growth Stage
Definition
The product's life-cycle stage in which a product's sales start climbing quickly
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