Across
- 8. a physical good, a service, experience or idea designed to fill the customer’s want or need
- 11. the process of identifying marketing opportunities and solving marketing problems using customer insights
- 12. provides the same offering but is accentuating different features and benefits
- 13. the customer has learned from past experiences what will best satisfy their need, so they can bypass the second or third stage of the processes
- 19. focuses on low-production costs, highly efficient processes, and mass distribution
- 21. a combination of people, technologies, and processes for managing marketing information, overseeing market research activities, and using customer insights to guide marketing decisions and broader management and strategy decisions
Down
- 1. focuses on knowing as much about the consumer as possible and bases marketing, product, and strategy decisions on this information
- 2. The six-stage buying process represents the steps customers undergo when they make a conscious effort to learn about the options and select a product
- 3. the act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something of value in return
- 4. the measure of the benefit gained from a product or service relative to the full cost of the item
- 5. is a set of activities related to creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for others
- 6. a person or organization with a want or need who is willing to give money or other personal resource to address this need
- 7. emphasizes the sale process and tries to make it as effective as possible
- 9. an advantage in the marketplace whereby an organization’s offering provide greater value because of a unique strategy, asset, or approach that others cannot easily copy
- 10. the company or organization offering a need-satisfying thing
- 14. focuses on building and showcasing impressive features and product advances
- 15. predicts how much profit the company will make from the customer during his or her lifetime relationship with the company
- 16. to identify, satisfy, and retain customers
- 17. a clear and succinct statement to the customer of the value being offered by a company’s products or services
- 18. the process of identifying and optimizing the elements of an offering that provide unique value to a customer
- 20. the terms around which both parties agree to trade value-for-value
