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  • A. customer relationships
  • B. customer purchases value
  • C. customer cost incurred
  • D. customer lifetime value

Explanation: Customer lifetime value is the net present value of the future profit expected from a customer's purchases throughout the relationship.

Correct answer: customer lifetime value
  • A. dissatisfaction
  • B. profitable customers
  • C. superior value
  • D. satisfied customers

Explanation: A profitable customer generates revenue that exceeds the costs of attracting, selling to, and serving that customer.

Correct answer: profitable customers
  • A. psychological cost
  • B. total customer cost
  • C. personal benefits
  • D. image benefits

Explanation: Total customer cost includes the money, time, energy, and psychological costs incurred in obtaining and using an offering.

Correct answer: total customer cost
  • A. retailer's management
  • B. Company relationship management
  • C. customer relationship management
  • D. supplier management

Explanation: Customer relationship management involves tailoring products and services and interacting with individual customers to build and maintain…

Correct answer: customer relationship management
  • A. loyalty rates
  • B. marketing rates
  • C. shopping rates
  • D. conversion rates

Explanation: A conversion rate measures the proportion of customers who move from one stage of the buying decision process to the next, such as from…

Correct answer: conversion rates
  • A. total customer cost
  • B. total functional cost
  • C. total economic cost
  • D. total sampling cost

Explanation: Total customer cost includes every cost a buyer expects to incur, including money, time, effort and psychological cost.

Correct answer: total customer cost
  • A. assessing the attributes importance
  • B. both B and C
  • C. monitoring competitor's performance
  • D. assessing the company's performance

Explanation: After identifying important customer attributes, the firm compares its performance with competitors on those attributes.

Correct answer: both B and C
  • A. brand proposition
  • B. customer proposition
  • C. product proposition
  • D. value proposition

Explanation: A value proposition is the complete bundle of benefits a company promises to deliver through its market offering.

Correct answer: value proposition
  • A. business database
  • B. customer database
  • C. databases marketing
  • D. company marketing

Explanation: A business database records organisational customers' purchase history, prices, volumes and other transaction details.

Correct answer: business database
  • A. customer funnel
  • B. marketing funnel
  • C. company funnel
  • D. retailers funnel

Explanation: A marketing funnel shows how potential customers progress through stages such as awareness, consideration, purchase and loyalty.

Correct answer: marketing funnel
  • A. company relationship management
  • B. supplier management
  • C. customer relationship management
  • D. retailer's management

Explanation: Customer relationship management, or CRM, uses customer information and interactions to improve relationships and maximise loyalty.

Correct answer: customer relationship management
  • A. company database
  • B. individual database
  • C. detailed database
  • D. customer database

Explanation: A customer database is an organised collection of comprehensive, accessible and actionable information about individual customers.

Correct answer: customer database
  • A. assessing quantitative importance
  • B. examining specific segment
  • C. monitoring customer value
  • D. identifying benefits

Explanation: Customer value analysis first identifies important benefits and attributes, then assesses their quantitative importance to customers.

Correct answer: assessing quantitative importance
  • A. supplier marketing
  • B. permission marketing
  • C. customer specified marketing
  • D. activity marketing

Explanation: Permission marketing sends messages only after consumers have expressed consent or willingness to receive them.

Correct answer: permission marketing
  • A. superior value
  • B. dissatisfaction
  • C. distinctive proposition
  • D. satisfaction

Explanation: Satisfaction is the pleasure felt when a product performs as expected or better.

Correct answer: satisfaction
  • A. frequency programs
  • B. customer's program
  • C. distribution programs
  • D. None of above

Explanation: Frequency programs reward customers for repeated purchases, such as points or benefits after reaching a purchase target.

Correct answer: frequency programs
  • A. house of products
  • B. branded house strategy
  • C. house of brands
  • D. strategy house

Explanation: A branded house uses one main corporate brand name across many products, as with Virgin or Samsung.

Correct answer: branded house strategy
  • A. similarities
  • B. knowledge
  • C. differences
  • D. equity

Explanation: Brand equity depends on the differential response consumers give to a branded product compared with an otherwise similar unbranded…

Correct answer: differences
  • A. relevance
  • B. clarity
  • C. customer size and profile
  • D. risk profile

Explanation: The customer multiplier considers the size and profile of the customer base because these determine the scale and quality of customer…

Correct answer: customer size and profile
  • A. brand earnings
  • B. brand responsiveness
  • C. branding rate
  • D. brand architecture

Explanation: Brand architecture shows how a firm's brands are organised, including the common and distinctive elements used across products and…

Correct answer: brand architecture