Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Marketing Unit 4 HL/SL 4.1-4.4
- The role of Marketing 4.1
- Marketing
- The Management process of getting the right product to the right customer
at the right price to the right place and time
- Marketing of Goods
- The use of the 4 p's of product, price, place and promotion in the marketing mix
- Marketing of Services
- The use of the 7 P's of product, place, price, promotion, people, process,
and physical evidence in the marketing mix
- Goods
- Tangible Product
- Can be returned
- Can be stored and consumed later
- There is ownership of the product
- Easier to compare between products
- Services
- Are Intangible
- Cannot be taken back
- Cannot be stored and need to be consumed immediately
- There is no ownership of the product
- Difficult to compare between products
- Product Orientation
- A Business approach that focuses on making the product first before
attempting to sell it
- Marketing Orientation
- A Business approach of first establishing consumer
demand through marketing research before producing and
selling a product
- Commercial Marketing
- Marketing activities that determine consumers needs and wants before
using appropriate strategies to market the product
- Social Marketing
- A marketing approach aimed at
influencing a positive change in
individual behaviour and
improvements in societal well-being
- Social Media Marketing
- The use of the internet
through social networking
websites to market a firm's
product or service
- Market Share
- Market Share (%) =
(Firms Sales / Total
sales in the market)
X 100
- The percentage of one firm's share
of the total sales in the market
- Market Growth
- The percentage change in
the total market size over a
period of time
- Market Size
- The total sales of all firm's in a market
- Market Leader
- A firm with the highest
market share in a given
market
- Marketing Planning (4 P's) (4.2)
- Elements of a Marketing Plan
- Marketing Objectives
- Key Strategic Plans
- Detailed Marketing Actions
- The Marketing Budget
- The Process of formulating
Marketing Objectives, and
devising appropriate marketing
strategies to meet those
objectives
- Marketing Mix
- The key Elements of a
marketing strategy that
ensure the sucessfull
marketing of a product
- 4 P's
- Price
- Product
- Place
- Promotion
- Market Segment, Target and Profile
- Market Segment
- A sub-group of consumers
with similar characteristics in
a given market
- Market Segmentation
- The process of dividing the market into distinct
groups of consumers so as to meet their desired
needs and wants
- Demographic Segmentation
- Age
- Gender
- Religion
- Family Characteristics
- Ethic Grouping
- Geographic Segmentation
- Regions in a country where consumers reside
- Climatic Conditions
- Psychographic Segmentation
- Social and Economic Status
- Values
- Targeting
- The process of marketing to a specific market segment
- Target Market
- A group of consumers with common
needs or wants that a Business decides
to serve or sell too
- Niche Market
- A narrow, smaller or more specific market segment
- Mass Market
- A large or broad market that ignores specific market segments
- Consumers Profiles
- The Characteristics of consumers of a
particular products in different markets
based on their gender, age, and income
levels among other characteristics
- Positioning
- Product position Map/ Perception Map
- A visual representation of how consumers perceive a product in relation to other competing products
- Unique Selling Point/ Position (USP)
- A product's feature that differentiates it
from other competing products in the
market
- Sales Forecasting (HL) (4.3)
- The Process of predicting the future sales of a firm
- Time Series Analysis
- A quantitative sales forecasting method that predicts future sale levels from past sales data
- The Trend
- A visible pattern noted after inputting the past sales data
- Seasonal Fluctuations
- Are changes in demand because of the varying seasons in the year.
- Cyclical Fluctuations
- Variations Tied to the Business cycle in an economy
- Random Fluctuations
- Notable changes or fluctuations that stand out from a given trend
- Moving Averages
- Sales forecasting method that identifies and
emphasizes the direction of a trend
- Exploration
- An extension of a trend line to predict future sales
- Variation
- The difference between actual sales and trend values
- Market Research (4.4)
- The process of collecting, analysing, and reporting data related to a particular market
- Purpose of Market Research
- To Identify Customers Needs
and Wants
- To Assist a Business in
predicting what is likely
to happen in the future
- To reduce the risk of
product failure
- To measure the effectiveness
of a marketing strategy
- To provide current or the latest
information regarding activity in the
market
- Primary Research
- The collection of first-hand information from the Market
- Surveys
- Interviews
- Focus Groups
- Observations
- Secondary Research
- The collection of second-hand information from the market
- Media Articles
- Government Publications
- Academic Journals
- Market Analyses
- Qualitative Research
- The collection of data about opinions,
attitudes or beliefs
- Information is open to a
high degree of
interpretation
- It is Subjective
- Key research question
would include "Why?"
- The researcher is part
of the process
- It provides with
multiple realities
- Quantitative Research
- Involves the collection of numerical
data or data that can be measured
- Information is open to less interpretation
- It is Objective
- Key Research questions would
include "How Many?"
- The researcher is separate
- it provides one reality
- Sample
- A group of people selected to represent the population or target market
under research
- Sampling
- The process of selecting an appropriate sample
- Quota Sampling
- Segmenting a given population into a number of groups
that share a certain characteristics
- Random Sampling
- Every member in the population has an equal chance of being
selected as part of the sample
- Stratified Sampling
- The target population is made up of many different groups
who are subdivided into segments or strata that share
similar characteristics.
- Cluster Sampling
- Used when the population is
geographically dispersed.
- Snowballing
- Sampling that involves surveying
the first group or individual who
then suggests other groups or
individuals who could participate
- Convenience Sampling
- Technique where groups are selected based on their easy access and
proximity to the researcher.