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  • A. meaningful
  • B. distinctive
  • C. believable
  • D. remembered

Explanation: Showing how a product is better than competing brands makes the advertisement distinctive by highlighting its difference.

Correct answer: distinctive
  • A. The percentage spent on food rises
  • B. The percentage spent on housing increases
  • C. The percentage spent on other categories increase
  • D. The percentage spent on savings remains constant

Explanation: Engel’s law states that as income rises, the percentage spent on food falls, leaving a greater share for non-food categories such as…

Correct answer: The percentage spent on other categories increase
  • A. retailer
  • B. wholesaler
  • C. distribution channel
  • D. logistics

Explanation: A distribution channel is the network of interdependent organizations that moves a product or service from producer to final user.

Correct answer: distribution channel
  • A. Intensive distribution
  • B. Exclusive distribution
  • C. Selective distribution
  • D. Open distribution

Explanation: Rolls-Royce uses exclusive distribution because its luxury vehicles are offered through a very limited number of authorised dealers.

Correct answer: Exclusive distribution
  • A. master salespersons
  • B. sales assistants
  • C. technical support persons
  • D. telemarketers

Explanation: Telemarketers contact potential customers by telephone, qualify their interest and pass promising leads to the field salesforce.

Correct answer: telemarketers
  • A. decline stage
  • B. introduction stage
  • C. growth stage
  • D. maturity stage

Explanation: The introduction stage is when a product is launched, so the firm concentrates on building awareness, encouraging trials and expanding the…

Correct answer: introduction stage
  • A. licensed brand
  • B. manufacturer's brand private brand
  • C. private brand
  • D. co-brand

Explanation: A private brand is developed and owned by a reseller, such as a retailer, rather than by the manufacturer.

Correct answer: private brand
  • A. Intangibility
  • B. Inseparability
  • C. Variability
  • D. Perishability

Explanation: Inseparability means a service is generally produced and consumed simultaneously, so the provider and customer often participate in the…

Correct answer: Inseparability
  • A. lower prices
  • B. increase promotion both at home and abroad
  • C. continuously improve their products at home
  • D. join into cartels at home

Explanation: Continuous product improvement helps firms compete internationally through better quality and customer value rather than relying on…

Correct answer: continuously improve their products at home
  • A. Innovative marketing
  • B. Consumer oriented marketing
  • C. value marketing
  • D. Sense of mission marketing

Explanation: Innovative marketing requires a firm to pursue genuine improvements in its products and marketing methods instead of merely making…

Correct answer: Innovative marketing
  • A. Online infomercials
  • B. Online ads
  • C. Online broadcasts
  • D. Online bullets

Explanation: Online ads are digital advertisements displayed on websites or online services, including banners, pop-ups, tickers, and roadblocks.

Correct answer: Online ads
  • A. Product extensions
  • B. Line extensions
  • C. Brand extensions
  • D. New brands

Explanation: When existing brand names do not suit a new product category, the firm introduces a new brand.

Correct answer: New brands
  • A. factory outlet
  • B. super specialty store
  • C. seconds store
  • D. warehouse club

Explanation: Sam's Club operates on a membership basis and sells goods in bulk, which are defining features of a warehouse club.

Correct answer: warehouse club
  • A. browsers
  • B. Webcasters
  • C. search engines
  • D. software

Explanation: Yahoo, Infoseek, and Baidu are search engines because they help users locate information on the web.

Correct answer: search engines
  • A. idea
  • B. demand
  • C. product
  • D. service

Explanation: A product is any offering presented to satisfy a want or need, including physical goods, services, ideas, people, places, and experiences.

Correct answer: product
  • A. internal marketing
  • B. service-profit chains
  • C. interactive marketing
  • D. service differentiation

Explanation: The service-profit chain links internal service quality and employee satisfaction with customer value, loyalty, and ultimately profits.

Correct answer: service-profit chains
  • A. Advertising
  • B. Personal selling
  • C. Public relations
  • D. Sales promotion

Explanation: Advertising is suited to reaching a large, geographically scattered audience at a relatively low cost per exposure.

Correct answer: Advertising
  • A. retrieval systems
  • B. marketing research reports
  • C. flow diagrams and PERT charts
  • D. internal databases

Explanation: Internal databases are computerized collections of customer, sales, inventory and other information generated from sources within the…

Correct answer: internal databases
  • A. gender segmentation
  • B. benefit segmentation
  • C. occasion segmentation
  • D. age and lief-cycle segmentation

Explanation: Occasion segmentation divides consumers according to when or under what occasion they use a product, such as morning, afternoon or…

Correct answer: occasion segmentation
  • A. long term customer sanctification
  • B. competitive predatory pricing performance
  • C. full customer service
  • D. retention rates

Explanation: Modern sales evaluation may include customer satisfaction, service quality and retention rates because these reflect long-term…

Correct answer: competitive predatory pricing performance