Professional Documents
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Marketing 1 6 SG
Marketing 1 6 SG
Marketing 1-6 SG
Quiz 1
vi. A market orientated company is one that organizes its activities, products
and services around the wants and needs of its customers. By contrast,
a product-orientated firm has its primary focus on its product and on the skills,
knowledge and systems that support that product.
i. size
ii. density
iii. location
iv. age
v. gender
vi. race
vii. sexuality
viii. occupation
ix. income
e. external forces: PEST (poli/legislative; economic; social/cultural; tech)
i. Political
1. Tax, trade, employment laws and regulations
ii. Economic
1. Interest rates, state of economy, employment rate, inflation
iii. Social
1. Culture, education, demographics
iv. Technology
1. Tech, research, barriers, and advantages
f. U.S. legislation affecting marketing
i. Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) – Prohibits monopolies, price fixing,
predatory pricing that restrains trade.
ii. Federal Food and Drug Act (1906) -Forbids the mfg. or sale of
adulterated or fraudulently labeled food and drugs.
iii. Federal Trade Commission (1914) – Monitors and remedies unfair
trade methods
iv. Lanham Trademark Act (1946) – Projects and regulate distinctive
brand names and trademarks.
v. Consumer Safety Protection Act (1972) – Set safety standards for
consumer products and can penalize for not upholding these
standards
vi. Children’s Television Act (1990) – Limits the number of commercials
during kids programming
vii. Nutrition Labeling Education Act (1990) – Requires food product
labels have detailed nutrition information.
g. cultural environment
i. institutions and other forces that affect society’s basic values,
perceptions, preferences, and behaviors
h. marketing environment
i. Probability
1. Simple random
a. Equal chance of selection
2. Stratified random sample
a. Divided into mutually exclusive groups, random
samples drawn from each group
3. Cluster (area) sample
a. Divided into mutually exclusive groups, and the
researchers draws a sample from the groups to
interview
ii. Nonprobability
1. Convenience sample
a. Select the easiest population members from which to
obtain information
2. Judgement sample
a. Researchers uses his or her judgement to select
population members who are good prospect for
accurate information
3. Quota sample
a. The researcher finds and interviews a prescribed
number of people in each of several categories
i. customer relationship management (CRM)
i. managing detailed information about individual customer and
carefully managing customer touch points to maximize customer
loyalty
j. public policy and ethics in research
i. pretty much just DONT be a total asshole and market incorrect
information to consumers dudoy
3. Learning
4. Beliefs and Attitudes
c. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
iv. Trial
h. rate of adoption/innovators, early adopters, early mainstream, late
mainstream, laggards
i. rate of adoption/innovators
1. Relative advantage
a. Degree to which the innovation appears superior to
existing products
2. Compatibility
a. The degree to which innovation fits the values and
experiences of potential consumers
3. Complexity
a. The degree to which the innovation is difficult to
understand or use
4. Divisibility
a. The degree to which the innovation may be tries on a
limited basis
5. Communicability
a. The degree to which the results of using the innovation
can be observer or described to others
ii. Early Adopters
1. Are guided by respect- they are opinion leaders in their
communities and adopt new ideas early but carefully
iii. Early mainstream
1. Are deliberate- although they are rarely leaders, they adopt
new ideas before the average person
iv. Late mainstream
1. Are skeptical- they adopt an innovation only after a majority of
people have tried it
v. Laggards
1. Tradition bound- they are suspicious of changes and adopt the
innovation only when it has become something of a tradition
itself