Friday, 4 October 2013

Important Marketing Terms for Exam A-D

some important glossary terms used  by  marketers,  usually  at  the  management  level,  when  preparing  marketing plans and pitching for business 

Anti-competitive practice: A practice is considered anti-competitive if it prevents, distorts or restricts competition in a market for goods and services in Barbados.

Anti-dumping: Anti dumping is a measure to rectify the situation arising out of the dumping of goods and its trade distortive effect.  Thus,  the  purpose  of  anti  dumping  duty is  to  rectify  the trade  distortive effect  of dumping  and  re-establish  fair  trade.  The  use  of  anti  dumping  measure  as  an  instrument  of  fair competition  is  permitted  by  the  WTO.  In  fact,  anti  dumping  is  an  instrument  for  ensuring  fair trade  and  is  not  a  measure  of  protection  for  the  domestic  industry.  It  provides  relief  to  the domestic  industry  against  the  injury  caused  by  dumping.  Anti  dumping  measures  do  not  provide protection  per  se  to  the  domestic  industry.  It only serves the purpose of providing remedy to the domestic industry against the injury caused by the unfair trade practice of dumping.

Advertising: Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. Many advertisements are designed  to  generate  increased  consumption  of  those  products  and   services  through  the  creation and  reinforcement  of  "brand  image"  and  "brand  loyalty".  For these purposes, advertisements sometimes embed their persuasive message with factual information.
Barter: A Trade Exchange or  Barter is a  type of trade in which  goods or  services  are directly exchanged for other  goods  and/or  services,  without  the  use  of  money.  It  can  be  bilateral  or  multilateral,  and usually  exists  parallel  to  monetary systems  in  most  developed  countries,  though  to  a  very limited extent. Barter usually replaces money as the method of exchange in times of monetary crisis, when the currency is unstable and devalued by hyperinflation.

Branding: It is a promise, a pledge of quality. It is the essence of a product, including why it is great, and how it is better than all competition products. It is an image.  It is a combination of words and letters, symbols, and colors.

Conglomerate: A conglomerate is the term used to describe a large company that consists of seemingly unrelated business sections. This term may also be referred to as a multi-industry company.

Circulation: The total number of copies distributed by a newspaper or magazine.

Classifieds: An advertisement in a newspaper that is placed along with advertisements for similar events under a classified heading, e.g. 'Entertainment' or 'Cinema'.

Concept: A design in which all aspects of the product are linked to a central idea, function or theory, etc.

Copy: Written or typed matter intended to be reproduced in print.

Copyright: The  exclusive  right,  granted  by  law  for  a  certain  term  of  years,  to  make  and  dispose  of  copies  of, and otherwise to control, a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work.

Critical Path: Plots the events that need to occur to complete a project on a timeline.

CRM: Customer Relationship Marketing. Building loyalty through your relationship with a customer.

Database: A  large  volume  of  information  stored  in  a  computer  and  organised  in  categories  to  facilitate retrieval.

Direct Mail: Mailing brochures, letters, questionnaires etc. directly to the target market.

Direct Marketing: Marketing to the customer without the use of an intermediary.
Types of Direct marketing:
There are many types of direct marketing, only some important types are listed below and these are the most form of direct marketing.
i)Direct Mail Marketing: Advertising material sent directly to home and business addresses. This is the most common form of direct marketing.
ii)Telemarketing: It is the second most common form of direct marketing, in which marketers contact consumers by phone.
ii)Email Marketing: This type of marketing targets customers through their email accounts

Display Ad: An advertisement which is usually designed by the advertiser and displayed in a box.

Direct Response: In advertising. Advertising  designed  to  trigger  a  behavioural  response  in  target  audiences,  e.g. placing mail back coupons in the ad, asking people to bring in or mention an ad, setting up a phone number and asking individuals to call for further information etc.

Digital Marketing: Digital Marketing is the practice of promoting products and services using all forms of digital advertising. It includes Television, Radio, Internet, mobile and any other form of digital media.

Distress Rates: Cheaper rates for advertising at short notice, i.e.  When newspapers have spaces to fill shortly before their deadlines.

Distribution: To place promotional material, e.g. fliers or posters, throughout areas where they will be picked up.

Drip Marketing: Method of sending promotional items to clients is called Drip marketing.

Dumping: If a company exports a product at a price (export  price) lower than the price it normally charges on its own home market (normal value), it is said to be 'dumping' the product. Dumping can harm the domestic  industry  by  reducing its  sales volume  and  market  shares,  as  well  as  its sales  prices. This in  turn  can  result  in  decline  in  profitability,  job  losses  and,  in  the  worst  case,  in  the  domestic industry going  out  of  business.  Often,  dumping  is  mistaken  and  simplified  to  mean  cheap  or  low priced  imports.  However, it is a misunderstanding of the term. On the other hand, dumping, in its legal sense, means export of goods by a country to another country at a price lower than its normal value.  Thus, dumping implies low priced imports only in the relative sense (relative to the normal value), and not in absolute sense. 
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