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Marketing
Ch. 1-4
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Marketing
Undergraduate 2
02/01/2012

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Term
Marketing
Definition
The activity for creating and delivering offerings that benefit the organization, its stakeholders, and society
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Exchange
Definition
The trade of things of value between buyer and seller so that each is better off
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Market
Definition
People with both the desire and the ability to buy a specific offering
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Target Market
Definition
One or more specific groups of potential consumers toward which an organization directs its marketing program
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Four P's
Definition

Product: Good/service/idea to satisfy consumer's needs

Price: What is exchanged for product

Promotion: A means of communication between buyer and seller

Place: A means of getting the product to the consumers

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Marketing Mix
Definition
The controllable factors-product, price, promotion and place-that the marketing manager can use to solve a marketing problem
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Environmental Forces 
Definition
The uncontrollable social, economic, technological, competitive and regulatory forces that affect the results of a marketing decision
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Customer Value
Definition
Buyers' benefits, including quality, conveneince, on-time delivery, and before-and-after-sale service at a specific price
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Relationship Marketing
Definition
Linking the organization to its individual customers, employees, suppliers, and other partners for their mutual long-term benefit
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Marketing Program
Definition
A plan that integrates the marketing mix to provide a good, service, or idea to prospective buyers
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Marketing Concept
Definition
The idea that an organization should strive to satisfy the needs of consumers while also trying to achieve the organization's goals
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Market Orientation
Definition
Focusing organizational efforts to collect and use information about customers' needs to create customer value
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Societal Marketing Concept
Definition
The view that organizations should satisfy the needs of consumers in a way that also provides for society's well-being
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Profit
Definition
The reward to a business firm for the risk it undertakes in marketing its offerings
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Strategy
Definition
An organization's long-term course of action that delivers a unique customer experience while achieving its goals
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Core Values
Definition
The fundamental, passionate, and enduring principles that guide an organization
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Mission 
Definition
A statement or vision of an organization's function in society
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Organizational Culture
Definition
The set of values, ideas, attitudes, and behavioral norms that is learned and shared among the members of an organization
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Business
Definition
The underlying industry or market sector of an organization's offering
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Goals (Objectives)
Definition
Targets of performance to be achieved, often by a specific time
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Market Share 
Definition
Ratio of a firm's sales to the total sales of all firms in the industry
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Marketing Dashboard
Definition
The visual computer display of essential marketing information
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Marketing Metric
Definition
A measure of the value or trend of a marketing activity or result
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Marketing Plan
Definition
A road map for the marketing activities of an organization for a specified future time period
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Business Portfolio Analysis 
Definition
A technique that managers use to quantify performance measures and growth targets of their firms' strategic business units 
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Diversification Analysis 
Definition
A technique a firm uses to search for growth opportunities from among current and new products and markets
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Strategic Marketing Process 
Definition
An approach whereby an organization allocates its marketing mix resources to reach its target markets
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Situation Analysis
Definition
Taking stock of where a firm or product has been recently, where it is now, and where it is headed
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SWOT Analysis
Definition
An acronym describing an organization's appraisal of its internal strenghts and weaknesses and its external opportunites and threats
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Market Segmentation
Definition
The sorting of potential buyers into groups that have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing action
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Points of Difference 
Definition
Those characteristics of a product that make it superior to competitive substitutes
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Marketing Strategy
Definition
The means by which a marketing goal is to be achieved
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Marketing Tactics 
Definition
Detailed day-to-day operational decisions essential to the overall success of marketing strategies
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Environmental Scanning
Definition
The process of acquiring information on events outside the organization to identify and interpret potential trends
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Socail Forces 
Definition
The demographic characteristics of the population and its values
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Demographics
Definition
Description of a population according to characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity, income, and occupation
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Baby Boomers
Definition
The generation of children born between 1946 and 1964
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Generation X
Definition
Members of the US population born between 1965 and 1976. Self-reliant, supportive of racial and ethnic diversity, better educated than any before
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Generation Y
Definition
The 72 million Americans born between 1977 and 1994 (Echo-boom or baby boomlet). Exerts influence on music, sports, computers, video games, friends/family 
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Multicultural Marketing
Definition
Marketing programs that reflect unique aspects of different races
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Culture
Definition
The set of values, ideas, and attitudes that is learned and shared among the members of a group
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Economy
Definition
Pertains to the income and resources that affect the cost of running a business or household
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Gross Income 
Definition
Total amount of money made in one year by a person, household, or family unit
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Disposable Income
Definition
Money a consumer has left after paying taxes to use for necessities such as food, housing, cothing, and transportation
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Discretionary Income
Definition
The money that remains after paying for taxes and necessities
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Technology
Definition
Inventions from applied science or engineering research
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Marketplace
Definition
An information and communication based electronic exchange environment occupied by digitized offerings
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Competition
Definition
Alternative firms that could provide a product to satisfy a specific market's needs
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Regulation
Definition
Restrictions that state and federal laws place on business
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Consumerism
Definition
A movement that started to increase the influence, power, and rights of consumers in dealing with institiutions
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Exclusive Dealing
Definition
An arrangement a manufacturer makes with a reseller to handle only its products and not those of competitors
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Requirement Contracts
Definition
Require a buyer to purchase all or part of its needs for a product from one seller for a time period
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Exclusive Territorial Distributorships
Definition
A manufacturer grants a distributor the sole rights to sell a product in a specific geographical area
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Tying Arrangement
Definition
A seller requires the purchaser of one product to also buy another item in the line
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Self-Regulation
Definition
An alternative to government control, whereby an industry attempts to police itself
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Ethics
Definition
The moral principles and values that govern the actions and decisions of an individual or a group
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Laws
Definition
Society's standards and values that are enforceable in the courts 
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Consumer Bill of Rights
Definition
Codified the ethics of exchange between buyers and sellers, including rights to safety, to be informed, to choose, and to be heard
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Code of Ethics
Definition
A formal statement of ethical principles and rules of conduct 
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Moral Idealism 
Definition
A personal moral philosophy that considers certain individual rights or duties as universal, regardless of the outcome
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Utalitarianism 
Definition
A personal moral philospy that focuses on the "greatest good for the greatest number"
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Social Responsibility
Definition
The idea that organizations are part of a larger society and are accountable to that society for their actions
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Green Marketing
Definition
Marketing efforts to produce, promote, and reclaim environmentally sensitive products
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Cause Marketing
Definition
Tying the charitable contributions of a firm directly to sales produced through the promotion of one of its products
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Social Audit 
Definition
A systematic assessment of a firm's objectives, strategies, and performance in the domain of social responsibility 
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Greenwashing
Definition
The practice of making an unsubstantiated or misleading claim about the environmental benefits of a product, service, technology, or company practice
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