The Buyer Decision Process.
Recognition of a need - to communicate with friends, as a fashion item.
Choice of level of involvement (i.e. justifying you time and effort e.g. low for bubble gum, high for a holiday).
Handling Buyer Resistance
It is a rare instance when a salesperson does not receive resistance from a prospect. By resistance we are referring to a concern a prospect has regarding the product (or company) and how it will work for their situation.
Understanding buyer behavior is vital to B2B marketing. It is a process that involves considering outside factors, such as the economic climate; how customers have purchased in the past; and how they search for information on products and services.
Buyer readiness stages: categorise consumers in terms of how close they are to making a purchase or a decision. Stages range from initial awareness, through to interest, desire and, finally, action.
buyer
the individual who makes the actual purchase in a buying decision, a recognized title for someone who does this on behalf of a company
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buyer - Agent who purchases media time for an advertiser.
buying center - A committee or group of individuals in an organization who are responsible for evaluating products and services and making purchase decisions.
Buyer-Seller Interdependence - the close relationship between buyers and sellers, especially in organisational markets, where buyers become highly dependent on sellers for assured supply and delivery.
Active Buyer:
An active buyer is a consumer that has made a purchase during the previous 12 months.
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He clicks on the subscribe button on the top of the column's web page;
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Media Buyer:
An individual working directly for an advertiser, or for an advertising agency, charged with the responsibility of purchasing advertising space. An interactive media buyer makes online ad space purchases, sometimes through an ad network ...
Consumer buyers are those who purchase items for their personal consumption
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hurling a buyer's objection back as a reason for buying. If, for example, a buyer objects that he or she cannot afford the item, a salesperson might answer, "Yes, but can you afford not to buy it?"; sometimes referred to as the Translation Method.
Multiple Buyer " Customer who has made purchases more than once. Also called "repeat buyer."
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National Change of Address (NCOA) " Means provided by the U.S. Postal Service to correct addresses on a mailing list prior to mailing.
The business buyer is an information-seeker, constantly on the look-out for information and advice that can help the buyer do the job better, increase profits, or advance his career.
Organizational buyers come in several forms. Resellers involve either wholesalers or retailers that buy from one organization and resell to some other entity.
Market Penetration The percentage of buyers you have as compared with the total households or businesses in the area you have selected as your market.
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The seller, however, will not get the most revenue the market would have paid if the buyers had had to compete for the purchase. The buyer who wanted the product most (willing to pay the highest price) would not automatically receive the product.
Branding an ebook means that buyers or recipients (if the ebook was given away as a gift) of the book are granted and make use of the right to place their own affiliate link (s) in the book.
It's true, you probably won't ink that important deal or get tons of new buyers during the holiday mixer. Still, all of the chances to meet and celebrate with many people are a golden business opportunity.
Direct Marketing The sale of a product or service by the advertiser directly to the buyer without the use of a retail outlet. It is an action taken by the advertiser. See also: Direct Response =Or More.
Creative: This term is often used by ad agencies and buyers to refer to ad banners and other forms of created advertising. It is often referred to as 'the creative' by those in the industry.
Buyer information is contained on the magnetic strip on the back of the credit card. The merchant "swipes" the card through a terminal, and the buyer information is "read" by the computer system and merged with the sales information.
Advertising networks provide a way for media buyers to coordinate ad campaigns across dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of sites in an efficient manner.
It works by acting as an intermediary between buyers and sellers so that someone wishing to purchase a downloadable product such as an ebook, can buy it via Clickbank.
Delivered Pricing - a pricing method in which the final price to the buyer is adjusted to include transportation costs; the seller takes responsibility for arranging delivery but adds the cost to the quoted price.
It is a description that involves all the steps in the purchasing process, and also goes by the names of buying cycle, buyer decision cycle, and sales cycle.
Diversion When genuine product is sold to a buyer in one market/channel and then resold by the same buyer into another market/channel, without the consent or authority of the brand owner, to take advantage of a price arbitrage situation.
Formally defined as the subjectively weighted difference between the most a buyer would be willing to pay for the product or service, less the actual price of the item.
Premiums can thus be sold to a bookseller, who in turn sells them to the bookbuyer (as with a line of modestly priced art books). Alternately, such books may be produced as part of a broader marketing package.
Conversion Rate (CR): The key metric to evaluate the effectiveness of a conversion effort, reflecting the percentage of people converted into buyers (or subscribers, or whatever action is desired) out of the total population exposed to the ...
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Open-to-Buy The difference between planned purchases and the purchase commitments already made by a buyer for a given time period, often a month.
Certain offers will help you move customers from being one-time buyers to fans. Loyalty programs deserve consideration from almost every marketer.
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Echeck A demand for payment sent electronically over a network by a buyer (generally a consumer) to a seller (generally a merchant) and sent on over a network to the seller's bank and thence to the buyer's bank. See debit transfer.
BuyingFunnel - Also called the Buying Cycle, Buyer Decision Cycle and Sales Cycle, Buying Funnel refers to a multi-step process of a consumer's path to purchase a product - from awareness to education to preferences and intent to final purchase.
Hotline Names: Most recent buyers on a list.
Housefile: Commonly referred to as a "customer list," a housefile is a consolidated database containing each customer's name, address and summarized order information.
Digital products (e.g. eBooks, articles etc.) are often sold with different rights that determine how the buyer can use the product.
PLR (Private Label Rights) allow the buyer to use the product any way they choose.
Conversion Rate: The ratio that measures the relationship between a visitor and buyer.
Cost Per Click (CPC): A method of pricing online advertisements. Advertisers pay the publisher an amount based on the number of clicks an ad receives.
Relating to the sale of product for personal consumption. The buyer may be an individual, family or other group, buying to use the product themselves, or for end use by another individual.
List Broker
A specialist who acts as an intermediary between the list owner and the list buyer.
List Building
The process of gathering names and addresses and compiling them into a database for direct marketing purposes (e.g. telemarketing).
In paid search, the method of distributing ads for a product or service to a defined market based on the geographic location of prospective buyers.
Viral Marketing (Word-of-mouth): It is the personal communication about a product between target buyers and their friends, relatives, and associates.
INSERTION ORDER (IO)
The contract between a media buyer and the media property selling the advertising.
CONSUMER - A private individual at whom advertisements are aimed; a buyer.
CONSUMER MARKET - A defined group of consumers.
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Promotions - Communications activities, excluding advertising, that call attention to a product or service by creating incentives. Contests, frequent buyer programs, unique packaging, and coupons are all examples of tools commonly used in promotions.
Discrepancy
A difference between station billing and the original order; requires a discussion between the buyer and the station before the invoice is paid.
Conversion: When one of your visitors makes a purchase on the merchant's site… i.e. converts from 'visitor' to 'buyer'.
Marketing - The activities involved in the transfer of goods from the producer or seller to the consumer or buyer.
Media Mix - The distribution of time and money allocated among TV, radio, print and Internet advertising that makes up the total advertising budget of an advertiser, agency or media buyer.
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Run-of-Network: A run-of-network ad is one that is placed to run on all sites within a given network of sites. Ad sales firms such as Latitude90 handle run-of-network insertion orders in such a way as to optimize results for the buyer consistent ...
The goal of any conjoint survey is to assign specific values to the range of options buyers consider when making a purchase decision.
Speculative (spec) sample A sample promotional product, with the prospective buyer's imprint on it, produced with the hope that the customer will purchase it.
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