1.1 Meeting Customer Needs

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Different Types of Market
1) Industrial, 2) Consumer, 3) Local, 4) Electronic.
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Markets
Anywhere where buyers and sellers communicate to exchange goods and services.
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Dynamic Market
A fast-paced and constantly changing market.
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Monopoly
Where the market is dominated by one seller or producer. The legal market share to become a monopoly is 25%. E.g. Royal Mail for letters.
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Oligopoly
A market dominated by a small number of businesses who are able to collectively exert control over supply and market prices- e.g. supermarkets.
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Duopoly
An industry which is dominated by two large firms- e.g. Coca-Cola and Pepsico.
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Collusion
Where businesses decide a market price in secret, which is illegal.
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Product Orientation
A business develops products based on what it is good at doing.
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Market Orientation
A Business responds to customer wants and needs and designs the product accordingly.
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Sampling
A selection of customers are targeted to produce responses which represent the entire market.
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Examples of Primary Research
Focus group, Questionnaire, Observation, Test Marketing, Various types of survey.
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Examples of Secondary Research
Government documents, Internal data, Information from competitors, The Internet, Commercial Publications, The EU.
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Quantitative Research
Research involving statistics and date from closed questions.
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Qualitative Research
Research involving detailed information such as opinions from open questions.
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Explanatory Research
Research that answers the questions of why and how something happened.
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Exploratory Research
Research that involves lengthy answers to define a specific problem, and is involved with predicting that something is going to happen.
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Factors that affect market research
Theoretical, practical and ethical factors.
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Market Segment
A group of people sharing characteristics that cause them to have similar product or service needs.
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Examples of segmentation variable
Age, Job, Location, Wealth, Gender, Social Class, Culture, Habits, Hobbies etc.
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Ways to create USP (Unique Selling Point)
Price, innovation, reliability, quality, branding and image etc.
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Anywhere where buyers and sellers communicate to exchange goods and services.

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A fast-paced and constantly changing market.

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Where the market is dominated by one seller or producer. The legal market share to become a monopoly is 25%. E.g. Royal Mail for letters.

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A market dominated by a small number of businesses who are able to collectively exert control over supply and market prices- e.g. supermarkets.

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