General info
How consumers behave
Market Segments
Research Processes
The Product Mix
100

What is the process of creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and managing those relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its employees, customers, investors, and society as a whole.

What is Marketing?

100

This is a measure of how optimistic consumers are about the overall state of the economy and their own personal finances.

What is consumer confidence?

100

This is the relatively homogenous groups of consumers that result from a segmentation process.

What are Market Segments?

100

This is the organizational activity that links the consumer, customer, and public to the marketer through information.

What is Market Research?

100

This is the specific combination of goods, services, or ideas that a firm offers to its target market.

What is a Product?

200

What is the perceived benefits, both monetary and nonmonetary, that customers receive from a product compared with the cost associated with obtaining it?

What is customer value?

200

This is the study of individuals, groups, or organizations and the processes they use to select, secure, use, and dispose of products, services, experiences, or ideas to satisfy needs.

What is Consumer Behavior?

200

This segmentation group divides markets by characteristics such as age, gender, and income.

What is demographic?

200

Gathering data about what competitors are doing in the marketplace.

What is Competitive Intelligence?

200

This technology displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry, or a groundbreaking product that creates a completely new industry.

What is Disruptive Technology?

300

This document guides the analysis, implementation, and control of the firm's marketing strategy.

What is a Marketing Plan?

300

When it comes to income distribution, this income class is particularly attractive to marketing professionals.

What are middle-income households?

300

These are the two most commonly used demographic variables used by marketers.

What are Age and Gender?

300

This is the use of statistical techniques and algorithms based on patterns of past behavior to predict future buying behavior.

What is Predictive Modeling?

300

A company can advertise a product as "new and improved" after it hits store shelves for this length of time.

What is 6 months?

400

This element of the marketing plan helps firms understand where they are currently and how best to move forward.

What is a Situation Analysis?

400

When evaluating choices, a consumer asking "How do I feel about it?" is using this evaluative criteria.

What is Affective Choice?

400

When a firm is reasonably certain that its marketing mix can inform consumers about the product, how it adds value to the consumer, and ultimately how to purchase it, then the firm rates favorably on this market segment criteria.

What is Actionable?

400

Business-to-business firms generally segment their markets according to these three variables.

What are demographic, geographic, and behavioral?

400

In this stage of the new-product development process a company would use a SWOT analysis and environmental scanning to determine where new products may be able to help strengthen the firm's marketing position.

What is new-product strategy development?

500

 The five key components of the marketing plan.

What are executive summary, situation analysis, marketing strategy, financials, and controls.

500

Trevor went to the store to get a new pair of running shoes but the store was temporarily out of the brand he normally buys. Trevor has just experienced this.

What is a Stockout?

500

The group of American households that have between $100,000 and $250,000 in invest-able assets, and are one of the fastest growing segments in the United States is called this.

What is mass affluent?

500

This study measure how well an advertising campaign meets marketing objectives like increasing market share, generating consumer awareness of a product, or creating a favorable impression of the products.

What is Advertising Effectiveness?

500

A concept test is part of this stage of the new-product development process.

What is idea screening?