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Chapter 2 Marketing Essentials

Basic Marketing Concepts

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Place decisionsInvolve what store to locate in, how to get the product there
Geographicssegmentation by where people live
Market segmentationseparating a large group into smaller ones like ethnicity or income
Baby BoomersBorn 1946-1964
Customer Profilegeographic, demographic, and psychographic data make up this description of people
Generation Xmost appreciates advertising taht includes images, humor and music
demographicsethnicity, age, gender, income
place4p about the location of a business
4 basic marketing decisionsProduct place price promotion
Psychographicsvalues and attitudes and lifestyles...things that people enjoy doing
target marketingcreating plan to meet a specific group
marketing plana formal written document which directs activities for a specific time
database technologybusinesses can use this to provide products to a specified target market
time framethis will help you know when your objective has been reached by when it was supposed to
discretionary incomeused to purchased extras...not necessities
Company analysisTeh company review of staff, financial, production, and marketing mix can be found in this section of the marketing plan
Economythe current state of this is important to businesses
performance standardexpectations that reflect marketing plan objectives
environmental scananalysis of outside influences like political economic socio-cultural and technological
recessionduring these times businesses cut back on everything including research and new facilities
disposable incomemoney left after taxes
implementationputting a marketing plan into action and managing it
executive summarybrief overview of entire plan
Generation Ymost ethnically and racially diverse generation
PoliticalThis part of the environmental scan looks at regulations and law changes
CaucasianThe ethnic group that is declining compared to others
External OpportunitiesGood chances for businesses that occur outside the company
PESTthis analysis is political, economic, socio-cultural, and technological
Demographics-EthnicityHow a company is segmenting the market if by Hispanic, Asian, etc
Ythe generation that gathers info from the Internet
Outsidea PEST analyzes outside influences in an organization
Marketing Mixcombination of four strategies used to market a product



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