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Retail format represented by general or specialty merchandisers whose main strategy is to offer discount pricing and whose outlets offer few services and generally lower quality product than is available at higher-end retailers.
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A concept in consumer buying behavior which relates to people or organizations within a group who a consumer looks to for advice or direction and, consequently, may hold influence on what a consumer purchases.
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Retail format represented by a small service-oriented outlet carrying very specialized and often high-end, high priced merchandise.
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Refers to conditions that describe the effect a change in a product's price may have on the target market's demand for a product and includes conditions that are elastic, inelastic or unitary.
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In marketing this represents a type of product that consists of tangible items (i.e., can be felt, tasted, heard, smelled or seen) that marketers offer to satisfy the needs of their customers.
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The fifth category within the Diffusion of Innovation consisting of a sizeable though not large percentage of a market who are primarily characterized as being reluctant to accept new products and may only do so if they have no other choice.
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A target marketing strategy that assumes all customers in a large market seek the same benefits and, consequently, a marketer appeals to this market with a single marketing strategy including a single product.
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A category within personal selling that includes salespeople who actively engage in obtaining orders from customers and includes sub-categories of New Business Development and Account Management.
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A type of business purchase decision that involves routine order placement that often leads to buyers buying the same product and not evaluating other product options or other brands.
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A category within personal selling that includes salespeople who primarily concentrate on selling activities targeted to those who influence others to purchase the product of which is the Missionary Selling is most predominant example.