experiential marketing - Answers Creating opportunities for consumers to directly interact with brands.
greenwashing - Answers The deceptive use of marketing practices to give the impression that a good,
service, or organization is environmentally friendly.
marketing mix - Answers The 4 Ps—product, price, place, and promotion.
marketing orientation - Answers Focusing organizational efforts to collect and use information about
customers' needs to create customer value.
marketing process - Answers The process of (1) identifying consumer needs, (2) managing the marketing
mix to meet these needs, and (3) realizing profits.
partnership marketing - Answers The creation of formal associations between brands that will result in
incremental business for both brands that could not have been achieved separately.
place - Answers Distribution channels, retail formats, and merchandising used to sell a product.
price - Answers What is exchanged for a product, including theexpected regular retail or sale price.
product - Answers Attributes that make up a good, a service, or an idea, including product design,
features, colour, packaging, warranty, and service levels.
promotion - Answers Communication tools needed to inform consumers about a product, including
advertising, public relations, sales promotion, direct response, event marketing, sponsorship, online
approaches, and personal selling.
relationship marketing - Answers When organizations create long-term links with customers, employees,
suppliers, and other partners to increase loyalty and customer retention.
sales orientation - Answers Focusing organizational efforts on selling as many products as possible.
production orientation - Answers Focusing organizational efforts on the manufacture of goods.
competitive forces - Answers Alternative products that can satisfy a specific market's needs.
demographics - Answers The statistical data on a population according to characteristics such as gender,
age, ethnicity, income, education, and occupation.
environmental scan - Answers The process of continually acquiring information on events occurring
outside an organization to identify trends, opportunities, and threats to a business.
Typically conducted annually
, monopolistic competition - Answers Type of competition where a large number of sellers compete with
each other, offering customers similar or substitute products.
monopoly - Answers When only one company sells in a particular market.
oligopoly - Answers Type of competition that occurs when a few companies control a market.
perfect competition - Answers Type of competition where there are many sellers with nearly identical
products and little differentiation.
situation analysis - Answers Taking stock of a firm's or product's past performance, where it is now, and
where it is headed.
socio-cultural forces - Answers Cultural values, ideas, and attitudes, as well as society's morals and
beliefs.
SWOT analysis - Answers The assessment of how well an organization or brand is servicing its businesses
and target markets by evaluating its internal strengths and weaknesses, andits external opportunities
and threats.
brand loyalty - Answers Favourable attitude toward and consistent purchase of a single brand over time;
the degree of target market commitment toward a brand over time that results in varying levels of
purchase commitment.
perceived risk - Answers Anxiety felt when a consumer cannot anticipate possible negative outcomes of
a purchase.
purchase decision process - Answers Stages that a buyer passes through when making choices about
which products or services to buy.
reference group - Answers A group of people who influence a person's attitudes, values, and behaviour.
marketing plan - Answers Road map for the marketing activities of an organization for a specified future
period of time.
marketing tactics - Answers Detailed day-to-day operational decisions essential to the overall success of
marketing strategies.
marketing strategy - Answers Means by which a marketing goal is to be achieved.
The mission - Answers Statement of the organization's scope, often identifying its customers,markets,
products, technology, and values
strategic marketing process - Answers Approach whereby an organization allocates its marketing mix.
Three levels of strategy in organizations - Answers Board of directors, Corporate level, Strategic business
unit