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  • A. quality metrics
  • B. perceived metrics
  • C. internal marketing metrics
  • D. loyalty metrics

Explanation: Resource adequacy measures whether the organisation has sufficient resources to support its marketing activities, so it is an internal…

Correct answer: internal marketing metrics
  • A. perceived quality and awareness
  • B. customer loyalty and retention
  • C. freedom to fall
  • D. both A and B

Explanation: External marketing metrics measure customers' responses, including perceived quality, awareness, loyalty, and retention.

Correct answer: both A and B
  • A. close-ended questions
  • B. open -ended questions
  • C. stratified sampling
  • D. rating scale

Explanation: Open-ended questions allow respondents to answer in their own words rather than selecting from fixed alternatives.

Correct answer: open -ended questions
  • A. sentence completion
  • B. word association
  • C. completely unstructured
  • D. story completion

Explanation: A completely unstructured question places no meaningful limits on the form or content of the response, allowing the respondent to answer…

Correct answer: completely unstructured
  • A. psycho graphically selected group
  • B. group discussion
  • C. demographically selected group
  • D. focus group

Explanation: A focus group is a researcher-selected group, commonly around six to ten participants with relevant demographic characteristics, who…

Correct answer: focus group
  • A. dichotomous
  • B. multiple choice
  • C. Likert scale
  • D. semantic differential

Explanation: A dichotomous question offers exactly two response options, such as yes or no.

Correct answer: dichotomous
  • A. random sample
  • B. qualitative measures
  • C. technological devices
  • D. questionnaires

Explanation: Questionnaires, qualitative measures, and technological devices are tools used to gather marketing data.

Correct answer: random sample
  • A. unit metrics pathway
  • B. customer's metrics pathway
  • C. stakeholder satisfaction pathway
  • D. company metrics pathway

Explanation: The customer metrics pathway examines customer experiences and shows how they create value and competitive advantage for the company.

Correct answer: customer's metrics pathway
  • A. technological devices
  • B. random sample
  • C. questionnaires
  • D. stratified sample

Explanation: A questionnaire is a structured set of questions presented to respondents for collecting information.

Correct answer: questionnaires
  • A. internal marketing metrics
  • B. loyalty metrics
  • C. quality metrics
  • D. perceived metrics

Explanation: Commitment to organizational goals is an internal marketing metric because it reflects employees' attitudes and alignment within the…

Correct answer: internal marketing metrics
  • A. syndicated research firms
  • B. product alliance firms
  • C. specialty line marketing firms
  • D. custom marketing research firms

Explanation: The standard categories of marketing research firms include syndicated research firms, custom research firms, and specialty-line firms.

Correct answer: product alliance firms
  • A. unstructured story
  • B. structure completion
  • C. picture completion
  • D. graphic representation

Explanation: Picture completion presents respondents with a visual scene or characters and asks them to supply the missing statement or response.

Correct answer: picture completion
  • A. open -ended questions
  • B. close-ended questions
  • C. rating scale
  • D. both A and B

Explanation: Marketing questionnaires may use both open-ended questions, which allow unrestricted answers, and close-ended questions, which provide…

Correct answer: both A and B
  • A. make the decision
  • B. plan next corporate plan
  • C. gather market data
  • D. deciding decision alternatives

Explanation: After data collection, analysis, and interpretation, the findings are used to make the marketing decision.

Correct answer: make the decision
  • A. brand metrics pathway
  • B. cash-flow metrics pathway
  • C. company metrics pathway
  • D. customer's metrics pathway

Explanation: The cash-flow metrics pathway evaluates whether marketing spending produces short-term financial returns and cash-flow effects.

Correct answer: cash-flow metrics pathway
  • A. storing the findings
  • B. analyzing the information
  • C. collecting the information
  • D. ignoring competitive prices

Explanation: In the simplified marketing research process, collecting information follows problem definition and research planning, making it the third…

Correct answer: collecting the information
  • A. all of the above
  • B. story completion
  • C. thematic appreciation test
  • D. word association

Explanation: Open-ended projective methods allow respondents to give relatively unrestricted responses, as in word association, story completion and…

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. presenting the market data
  • B. presenting the findings
  • C. presenting the competitor's offering
  • D. presenting marketing plan

Explanation: After defining the problem, developing the research plan, collecting information and analysing it, the fifth step is presenting the…

Correct answer: presenting the findings
  • A. sampling unit
  • B. sampling size
  • C. all of the above
  • D. sampling procedure

Explanation: A sampling plan specifies whom to survey through the sampling unit, how many people to include through the sample size, and how to select…

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. sentence completion
  • B. word association
  • C. completely unstructured
  • D. story completion

Explanation: Story completion presents respondents with an incomplete story and asks them to supply its continuation, often revealing attitudes or…

Correct answer: story completion