Marketing Strategies

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Marketing Strategies: Ansoff's Matrix
A strategic model for helping a business analyse the relationship between general strategic direction and suitable marketing strategies
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Average
A term for various measures of central tendency, including the mean, mode and median
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Competitive Advantage
Skills, competences, resources and other advantages that enable a business to out-perform its competition
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Correlation
A measure of how close the relationship it (positive or negative) between an independent variable and a dependent variable
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Customer relationship management (CRM)
The process of building a long-term, profitable relationship between a business and its customers
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Diversification
The relatively risky strategy of trying to enter new markets with new products (from Ansoff matrix)
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Extrapolation
The use of trends established by historical data to make predictions about future values
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Growth Rate
The percentage growth over a particular period. Market growth rates are typically quoted in terms of percentage growth per year
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Market Analysis
The process of analysing the size, structure and growth of a market in order to support marketing decisions
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Market Development
A growth strategy where the business seeks to sell its existing products into new markets - e.g. exporting (from Ansoff matrix)
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Market Penetration
A relatively low-risk growth strategy where a business focuses on selling existing products into existing markets (from Ansoff matrix)
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Market Share
The proportion of a market revenue or sales volume that is captured by a business or brand
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Marketing Budget
Specific amounts that are allocated to activities in the marketing plan
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Marketing Plan
The actions that management intend to take via the marketing mix in order to achieve marketing objectives
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Moving Average
A calculation that takes a data series and “smoothes” the fluctuations in data to show a trend average
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Product Development
A growth strategy where a business aims to introduce new products into existing markets (from Ansoff matrix)
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Product Positioning
The way in which the marketing function tries to create an image or identity in the minds of the target market
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Repositioning
Changing the marketing mix for a product to appeal to a different market segment
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Sales Forecasting
Techniques for estimating the likely demand (revenue and volume) for a product in future periods
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Target Market
The market segment or segments which a business is attempting to enter with the chosen marketing mix
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Test Marketing
Launching a new product or service in a limited part of the target market in order to gauge the viability of the product and assess the most appropriate marketing mix
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Trend
A general direction in which something tends to move
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A term for various measures of central tendency, including the mean, mode and median

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Average

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Skills, competences, resources and other advantages that enable a business to out-perform its competition

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A measure of how close the relationship it (positive or negative) between an independent variable and a dependent variable

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The process of building a long-term, profitable relationship between a business and its customers

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