A | B |
Utility | useful to customers |
Form utility | changing the shape of a product |
Tangible good | item you can touch |
Place utility | products available where they are needed |
Time utility | products available at the time they are needed |
Possession utility | happens when ownership is transferred |
Form | Marketing is INDIRECTLY involved in this utility |
Sales Promotions | possession utility helps to create this |
Want | desire for something |
Economic want | desire that is satisfied with money |
Non-economic want | desire satisfied without spending money |
Free good | air or water from a river |
Consumer goods | purchased by the final user |
Industrial goods | purchased for use in business or resale |
Convenience good | bread |
Shopping good | consumers compare prices |
Specialty goods | consumers willing to pay for something unique |
Materials | sugar and flour to make bread |
Installations | buildings |
Computers | equipment |
Cash register tape | supplies |
Themselves | Consumers buy products to benefit these people |
Consumer satisfaction | Marketers study this to discover a product's utility |
task utility | Making changes to a service to make it more convenient |
buying the product | In possession utility a consumer finds the product most helpful after what |
Preferences | Utility reveals this about cunsumers |
Businesses aren't the same | Why firms gain more or less utility from the same products |
Present | All forms of utility must be this |
Buy it | What consumers are more likely to do with a product if marketers provide information about it |
At every point | With place utility when do marketers move the product to the right place in the process? |
Marketing Concept | Utility is used as a satisfaction gauge when implementing this |