The Basics
Functions of Marketing
The Utilities
The Utilities Situations
What was left out
100

A series of tasks performed for a customer.

What are services?

100

The process of creating a product in response to market opportunities.

That is product planning?

100

Making or producing things


What is form utility?

100

 Christmas season, Valentine’s Day or stores staying open late in order to attract customers who work during the day.

What is an example of time utility?

100

Determining the need for and availability of financial resources to aid in marketing activities.

What is financing?

200

Goods and services.

What are products?

200

Gathering, recording, analyzing and disseminating information to aid in making marketing decisions.

What is Marketing Information Management?

200

Making a product available at the right time of year or a convenient time of day.


What is time utility?

200

Where the various types of food you eat everyday come from.

What is an example of place utility?

200

Provides the means for the exchange process.

What is marketing?

300

Material items you can touch.

What are Goods?

300

Obtaining goods and services for use in the operation of a business or for resale.

What is purchasing?

300

Usefulness added to the product through communication.


What is information utility?

300

How is wheat changed to a more useful product?

What is a form utility example?

300

Purchasing, Pricing, Product planning, Promotion, Marketing Information Management, Financing, and Distribution.

What are all of the functions of marketing?

400

Making or producing the correct good or service to add value to consumers everyday life. 

What is Marketing?

400

The determination of an exchange price at which the buyer and seller perceive optimum value for a good or service.

What is pricing?

400

The product’s usefulness is increased because of its location.


What is place utility?

400

If the store offers credit cards or takes checks.

What is an example of possession utility?

400

The physical movement or the transfer of ownership of a good or service form the producer to the consumer.

What is distribution?

500

Takes place every time something is sold in the marketplace.

What is an exchange?

500

Communicates information about products, services, images or ideas to customers or clients to influence their purchase behavior.

What is promotion?

500

The ability to aid customers in owning goods.


What is possession utility?

500

Packages, labels, advertisements, displays, signs.

What is an example of form utility?

500

The usefulness of the produtct.

What is utility in marketing?

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