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Ad Response function
-a phenomenon in which spending for advertising and sales promotion increases sales or market share up to a certain level but then produces diminishing returns
Institutional Advertising
-A form of advertising designed to enhance a company's image rather than promote a particular product
Product Advertising
-A form of advertising that touts the benefits of a specific good or service
Advocacy Advertising
-A form of advertising in which an organization expresses its views on controversial issues or responds to media attacks
Pioneering Advertising
-A form of advertising designed to stimulate primary demand for a new product or product category
Competitive Advertising
-A form of advertising designed to influence demand for a specific brand
Comparative Advertising
-A form of advertising that compares two or more specifically named or shown competing brands on one or more specific attributes
Ad Campaign
-A series of related advertisements focusing on a common theme, slogan, and set of advertising appeals
Advertising Objective
-A specific communication task that a campaign should accomplish for a specified target audience during a specified period
Advertising Appeal
-a reason for a person to buy a product
Unique Selling Proposition
-a desirable, exclusive, and believable advertising appeal selected as the theme for a campaign
Media Planning
-the series of decisions advertisers make regarding the selection and use of media, allowing the marketer to optimally and cost-effectively communicate the message to the target audience
Media Mix
-the combination of media to be used for a promotional campaign
Cost per contact
-the cost of reaching one member of the target market
Reach
-the number of target consumers exposed to a commercial at least once during a specific period, usually four weeks
Frequency
-the number of times an individual is exposed to a given message during a specific period
Audience Selectivity
-the ability of an advertising medium to reach a precisely defined market
Media Schedule
-designation of the media, the specific publications or programs, and the insertion dates of advertising
Continuous media schedule
-a media scheduling strategy in which advertising is run steadily throughout the advertising period; used for products in the later stages of the product life cycle
Flighted media schedule
-a media scheduling strategy in which ads are run heavily every other month or every two weeks, to achieve a greater impact with an increased frequency reach at those times
Pulsing media schedule
-a media scheduling strategy that uses continuous scheduling throughout the year coupled with a flighted schedule during the best sales periods
Seasonal media schedule
-a media scheduling strategy that runs advertising only during times of the year when the product is most likely to be used
Sales Promotion
-Marketing communication activities that typically apply short-term incentives to motivate customers or channel members to purchase (consumer & trade promotion)
Consumer Sales Promotion
-sales promotion activities targeting the ultimate consumer
Trade Sales Promotion
-sales promotion activities targeting a marketing channel member, such as a wholesaler or retailer
Sales Promotion tools
-Coupons
-Rebates
-Premiums
-Loyalty Marketing programs
-Contests/Sweepstakes
-Sampling
-Point of Purchase Display
-Online sales promotion
Loyalty Marketing Programs (sales promotion tool)
-A promotional program designed to build long-term, mutually beneficial relationships between a company and its key consumers
Point-of-Purchase (P-o-P) display
-A promotional display set up at the retailer's location to build traffic, advertise the product, or induce impulse buying
Trade Sales promotional tools
-Trade Allowance
-Push Money
-Training
-Free Merchandise
-Store Demonstrations
-Business Meetings, Conventions, Trade shows
Trade Allowance
-A price reduction offered by manufacturers to intermediaries, such as wholesalers and retailers
Push Money
-Money offered to channel intermediaries to encourage them to "push" products - that is, to encourage other members of the channel to sell the products
Personal Selling
-Direct communication between sales rep and customer(s) in an attempt to influence each other
Advantages of Personal Selling
-Provides a detailed explanation or demonstration of the product
-The sales message can be varied according to the motivations and interests of each prospective customer
-Can only be directed to qualified prospects
-Personal Selling costs can be controlled by adjusting the size of the sales force in 1 person increments
-Considerably more effective than other forms of promotion in obtaining a sale and gaining a satisfied customer
-Product has high value
-its a custom-made product
-the product is technically complex
-Customers are concentrated

(Ex: insurance policies, custom windows, airplane engines)
Personal Selling is more important IF:
-Product has low value
-its a standardized product
-the product is easy to understand
-customers are geographically dispersed

(Ex: soap, magazine, subscriptions, cotton T-shirts)
Advertising and Sales Promotion are more important IF:
Relationship Selling (Consultative Selling)
-A sales practice that involves building, maintaining, and enhancing interactions with customers in order to develop long-term satisfaction through mutually beneficial partnerships
1) Generating leads
2) Qualifying leads
3) Approaching the customer and probing needs
4) Developing and proposing solutions
5) Handling objections
6) Closing the sale
7) Following up
7 steps in the Personal Selling Process
Price
-that which is given up in an exchange to acquire a good or service, typically money but also could be related to sacrifice (time and hassle); high prices symbolize quality
Value
-Is based upon Perceived Satisfaction and can change when price or benefits change
Revenue
(Price X Units) - Expenses = Revenue
-Profit maximization
-Satisfactory profits
-Target return on Investment
Profit-Oriented pricing objectives
-Market share (a company's product sales as a % of total sales for that industry)
-Sales maximization
Sales-Oriented pricing objectives
-maintains existing prices or meets the competition's prices
Status Quo pricing objectives
-Demand
-Supply
-Equilibrium
-Elasticity of demand
Determinants of Price
Elasticity of Demand
-a situation in which consumer demand is sensitive to changes in price
Yield Management Systems
-A technique for adjusting prices that uses complex mathematical software to profitably fill unused capacity by discounting early purchases, limiting early sales at these discounted prices, and overbooking capacity
Markup Pricing
-the cost of buying the product from the producer, plus amounts for profit and for expenses not otherwise accounted for
Profit maximization
-a method of setting prices that occurs when marginal revenue equals marginal cost
Break-Even analysis
-a method of determining what sales volume must be reached before total revenue equals total costs
1) Introductory
2) Growth
3) Maturity
4) Decline
Product life cycle stages
1) Establish pricing goals
2) Estimate demand, costs, and profits
3) Choose a pricing strategy to help determine a base price
4) Fine-tune the base price with pricing tactics
Steps in Setting a Price
Price Skimming
-charging a high introductory price, often coupled with heavy promotion
(above the market)
Penetration Pricing
-charging a relatively low price for a product initially as a way to reach the mass market
(below the market)
Status Quo Pricing
-charging a price identical to or very close to the competition's price
(at the market)
Unfair trade practice acts
-laws that prohibit wholesalers and retailers from selling below cost
Price Fixing
-an agreement between 2 or more firms on the price they will charge for a product
Predatory Pricing
-the practice of charging a very low price for a product with the intent of driving competitors out of business or out of a market
1) Quantity discounts
2) Cash discounts
3) Functional discounts
4) Seasonal discounts
5) Promotional allowances
5 Types of Discounts/Allowances
Value-based pricing
-setting the price at a level that seems to the customer to be a good price compared to the prices of other options
1) FOB Origin pricing
2) Uniform delivered pricing
3) Zone pricing
4) Freight absorption pricing
5) Basing-point pricing
5 types of Geographic pricing
Single-price tactic
-offers all goods and services at the same price (or perhaps 2 or 3 prices
Flexible pricing (variable pricing)
-different customers pay different prices for essentially the same merchandise bought in equal quantities
Price lining
-the practice of offering a product line with several items at specific price points
Leader Pricing
-a price tactic in which a product is sold near or even below cost in the hope that shoppers will buy other items once they are in the store
Bait pricing
-tries to get consumers into a store through false or misleading price advertising and then uses high-pressure selling to persuade consumers to buy more expensive merchandise
Odd-Even pricing
-uses odd-numbered prices to connote bargains and even-numbered prices to imply quality
Price bundling
-marketing 2 or more products in a single package for a special price
Two-part pricing
-a price tactic that charges 2 separate amounts to consume a single good or service
Consumer Penalty
-an extra fee paid by the consumer for violating the terms of the purchase agreement
Product line pricing
-setting prices for an entire line of products
If products are Complimentary:
-an increase in the sale of one good causes an increase in demand for the complementary product, and vice versa

(Ex: the sale of ski poles depends on the demand for skis, making these 2 items complimentary)
Substitutes
-2 products in a line can also be substitutes for each other. If buyers buy one item in the line, they are less likely to buy a second item in the line
Neutral relationship
-can exist between 2 products. In other words, demand for one of the products is unrelated to demand for the other
Joint costs
-costs that are shared in the manufacturing and marketing of several products in a product line
FOB Origin pricing
-requires the buyer to pay the freight costs from the shipping point (free-on-board)
Uniform delivered pricing
-the seller pays the freight charges and bills every purchaser an identical, flat freight charge
Zone pricing
-divides the US (or the total market) into segments or zones and charges a flat freight rate to all customers in a given zone
Freight absorption pricing
-the seller pays all or part of the actual freight charges and does not pass them on to the buyer
Basing-point pricing
-charges freight from a given (basing) point, regardless of the city from which the goods are shipped