Marketing Fundamentals
The Price is Right
Promotion & Branding
Place & Distribution
Advertising & Packaging
100

This is described as the active process of going to market to attract consumers.

Marketing

100

This pricing strategy involves adding a certain markup to the cost of each product to ensure a profit.

Cost-Plus Pricing

100

The acronym AIDA in promotion stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, and ...

Action

100

This is the primary function of distribution in business.

Getting a good or service to the customer

100

This packaging element is often referred to as the "silent salesperson" of a product. (specific word)

Containment

200

This concept dictates that a business must focus on satisfying the customer and overcoming competition.

The Marketing Concept

200

Setting prices that look lower, such as $19.99 instead of $20.00, is an example of this strategy.

Psychological Pricing

200

This promotional tool uses short-term special deals like coupons and contests to make people buy faster.

Sales Promotion

200

This term describes the route a product takes from its original source (producer) to its final customer.

Channel of distribution

200

According to the firm Yankelovich, Inc., this is the number of advertisements the average person is exposed to each day.

5,000!

300

These are defined as things that make it difficult for other companies to sell a specific good or service.

Barriers to entry

300

This occurs when demand for a good or service is less than availability.

Scarcity

300

This term refers to how familiar the general public is with your brand.

Brand awareness

300

This type of distribution channel occurs when the producer sells goods directly to the consumer.

Direct channel

300

This marketing style relies on creativity, imagination, and surprise rather than a massive budget.

Guerilla marketing

400

This stage of the Product Life Cycle is characterized by high costs for new machinery and packaging.

Introduction Stage

400

If the demand for a product is not affected by a change in price, the product is said to have this.

Inelastic demand

400

When used within marketing, this specific color is used to portray a meaning of energy.

Red

400

This mode of transportation has the advantage of moving large quantities farther at a lower cost per item.

Ships

400

In advertising, this term refers to the competition for the audience's attention while they are consuming an ad.

Clutter.

500

Unlike a short-lived fad, this is defined as a mass movement toward a particular style or value, such as "going green".

A Trend

500

This is defined as a measure of the rate of rising prices of goods and services in an economy.

Inflation.

500

This practice involves allowing other organizations to use your brand for a fee.

Brand licensing

500


In advertising, this term refers to the number of people who are exposed to a message.

Reach

500

While standard "clutter" involves outside competition for attention, this specific term refers to having conflicting messages within the same individual advertisement.

Internal clutter