Basic Biz Terms
Ancient Greece
Society and the Marketplace
Marketplace Jargon
Evolution of the Marketplace
100

Tangible products such as computers, food, clothing, cars, etc. 

What are goods? 

100

Who is known as the Father of Rhetoric? 

Who is Aristotle? 
100

The amount of goods and services people can buy with the money they have. 

What is standard of living? 

100
Producing the desired result.

What is effectiveness? 

100

Industrialization in the 19th and 20th centuries moved jobs from farms to
factories.


What is the Manufacturing Era? 

200

The total amount of money a business takes in during
a given period by selling goods and services. 

What is revenue?

200
The art of persuasion. 

What is rhetoric? 

200

The general well-being of a society in terms of its political freedom, natural environment, education, healthcare, safety, amount of leisure and rewards that add to personal satisfaction.


What is quality of life? 

200

Producing goods/services using the least amount of resources. 

What is efficiency? 

200

Since the mid-1980s, this industry generated almost all the increases in employment.

What is Service Era? 

300

The chance an entrepreneur takes of losing time and money on a business that may not prove profitable.

What is risk? 

300

The Aristotelian appeal that connects with the emotions of the target audience. 

What is pathos? 

300


The statistical study of the population in terms of
size, density and characteristics like, age, race, gender and income.


What is demography? 

300
The amount of output you generate given the amount of input (ex. hours you work). 
What is productivity? 
300

In the 1800s, the agricultural industry led economic development.

What is the Agricultural Era? 

400

The amount of money a business earns above and beyond what it spends for salaries and other expenses.



What is profit? 

400

The Aristotelian appeal that connects with the values of the target audience. 

What is ethos? 

400

The study of a target audience's assumptions, values, attitudes, life styles, ethics, associations, etc. (in the mind of the consumer). 

What is psychographics? 

400

Giving frontline workers the responsibility, authority, and freedom to respond quickly to customer requests.


What is empowerment? 

400

This era is represented by IT affects all industries.

What is Information-Based Era? 

500

All the people who stand to gain or lose by the policies and activities of a business and whose concerns the businesses need to address.

Who are stakeholders? 

500

The missing "puzzle" piece that pulls the audience into the persuasive narrative?

What is enthymene? 

500

The study of a specific territory or area in terms of population segments. 

What is geo-demographics? 

500

Trend toward saving energy and producing products that cause less harm to the environment.


What is greening? 

500

Five factors of production through all the marketplace eras include: Land, Labor, Capital, __________, and Knowledge. 

What is entrepreneurship?