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Marketing covers how organisations identify customer needs, create value and exchange products or services through suitable markets. Key concepts include market segmentation, targeting, positioning, consumer behaviour, the marketing mix of product, price, place and promotion, branding, product life cycle and differences between marketing and selling.

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  • A. permission marketing
  • B. supplier 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. satisfaction
  • B. dissatisfaction
  • C. distinctive proposition
  • D. superior value

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

Correct answer: satisfaction
  • A. customer's program
  • B. frequency programs
  • 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. differences
  • C. knowledge
  • 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. customer size and profile
  • B. clarity
  • C. relevance
  • 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. brand architecture
  • D. branding rate

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
  • A. market finance
  • B. market capitalization
  • C. actual finance
  • D. asset total value

Explanation: For a well-known brand, the brand's value is often estimated as a substantial portion of the firm's market capitalisation, commonly stated…

Correct answer: market capitalization
  • A. brand risk premium
  • B. risk free rate
  • C. brand earnings
  • D. both A and B

Explanation: A brand's discount rate combines the risk-free rate with a brand risk premium that compensates for brand-related uncertainty.

Correct answer: both A and B
  • A. energized differentiation
  • B. energized similarities
  • C. perceived differences
  • D. perceived similarities

Explanation: In BrandAsset Valuator, energized differentiation measures how distinctive and dynamic a brand appears, including perceptions of…

Correct answer: energized differentiation
  • A. flankers
  • B. competitive
  • C. variant brand
  • D. sub variant brands

Explanation: Flanker brands are introduced to compete directly with competitors, often protecting a firm's main brand by targeting a different segment…

Correct answer: flankers
  • A. potential extensions
  • B. lifetime extensions
  • C. bait extensions
  • D. visual extensions

Explanation: Potential extensions refer to assessing how effectively existing brand equity can support or be leveraged for a new product.

Correct answer: potential extensions
  • A. marketer's brand equity
  • B. customer based brand equity
  • C. knowledge based equity
  • D. effective brand equity

Explanation: Customer-based brand equity is the differential effect that brand knowledge has on a consumer's response to the marketing of that brand.

Correct answer: customer based brand equity
  • A. brand awareness
  • B. brand knowledge
  • C. brand stature
  • D. brand value

Explanation: In the Brand Asset Valuator model, brand stature is formed by combining knowledge, which reflects familiarity, with esteem, which reflects…

Correct answer: brand stature
  • A. memorable
  • B. meaningful
  • C. likeable
  • D. all of the above

Explanation: Effective brand elements should be memorable, meaningful, and likeable, among other criteria such as being adaptable and protectable.

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. brand extension
  • B. sub-brand
  • C. parent brand
  • D. product extension

Explanation: The parent brand is the established brand that gives rise to a brand extension or sub-brand.

Correct answer: parent brand
  • A. brand emotions
  • B. brand conversation
  • C. brand judgments
  • D. brand resonance

Explanation: Brand resonance is the highest level of the customer-based brand equity pyramid, marked by a strong relationship in which customers feel…

Correct answer: brand resonance
  • A. maximum market coverage
  • B. minimum market coverage
  • C. categorize market coverage
  • D. brand house coverage

Explanation: A brand portfolio is designed to achieve maximum market coverage by assigning different brands to different customer segments or market…

Correct answer: maximum market coverage
  • A. brand judgments
  • B. brand resonance
  • C. brand emotions
  • D. brand conversation

Explanation: Brand judgments are customers' evaluations and opinions about a brand, including its quality, credibility, and superiority.

Correct answer: brand judgments
  • A. perceived relevance
  • B. relevance
  • C. perceived appropriateness
  • D. energized relevance

Explanation: Relevance in the BrandAsset Valuator measures how broadly a brand appeals and whether it is appropriate or meaningful to consumers.

Correct answer: relevance