Business A/S Topic one

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What is a Market?
A market is any medium in which buyers and sellers interact and agree to trade at a price
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What is a niche market?
A small part of an overall market, products and services are usually very high priced and luxury items
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What is a mass market?
A very large market, with a high sales volume. P's and s's aimed at larger groups of consumers.
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Are customers segmented?
Yes, Businesses divide them into groups, perhaps by age/ income/ gender/ tastes... and tries to cater to their separate preferences
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What is a Dynamic market?
A market that is constantly changing
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Why must markets change and adapt?
So that they dont get left behind and no longer be competitive. A fall in sales would cause it to exit the market.
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What is a stable market?
Where the pace is change is slow: Mrket size/ share is fairly constant with little variation in price.
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What are Mesenbourg's (2001) 3 main areas of the Digital Economy?
1) Supporting infrastructure, 2) E-Businesses, 3) E-Commerce
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What is innovation?
The coming up with new ideas and ways of doing things. Producers do this to gain sales or reduce costs.
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What is product innovation?
Occurs when new technologies make it possible to create completely new products.
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What is Process innovation?
Using new technologies to improve p[production methods, so that costs are reduced without a loss in quality.
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Marketing plans must be three things?
offensive/ defensive/ a mixture of both
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What is marketing?
The action or process of promoting and selling products and services, including market research and advertising. It is how the business connects to its customers.
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What is meant by Risk?
Concerned with things that could go wrong where the chance of a mishap can be calculated. Action is possible to reduce risk.
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What is meant by uncertainty?
Unpredictable and uncontrollable and can create both minor and major problems.
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A small part of an overall market, products and services are usually very high priced and luxury items

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What is a niche market?

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A very large market, with a high sales volume. P's and s's aimed at larger groups of consumers.

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Yes, Businesses divide them into groups, perhaps by age/ income/ gender/ tastes... and tries to cater to their separate preferences

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A market that is constantly changing

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