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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. internal assessment
  • B. external assessment
  • C. direct approach
  • D. indirect approach

Explanation: The direct approach measures the actual impact of brand knowledge on consumers' reactions to marketing activities and outcomes.

Correct answer: direct approach
  • A. relevance
  • B. esteem
  • C. energized differentiation
  • D. all of the above

Explanation: The Brand Asset Valuator uses four pillars: energized differentiation, relevance, esteem and knowledge.

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. higher
  • B. lower
  • C. stable
  • D. earned

Explanation: A strong brand generally produces more predictable and stable future cash flows, so investors apply a lower discount rate to those…

Correct answer: lower
  • A. brand discount rate
  • B. brand auditing
  • C. brand personification
  • D. total brand earnings

Explanation: Brand valuation calculates net present value by discounting future brand earnings using the brand-specific discount rate.

Correct answer: brand discount rate
  • A. associations
  • B. communications
  • C. cost structure
  • D. stock price

Explanation: The customer-mindset stage measures what customers know, feel and associate with a brand, including brand associations.

Correct answer: associations
  • A. buyer's equity
  • B. market share equity
  • C. positive brand equity
  • D. negative brand equity

Explanation: Negative brand equity exists when a brand produces less favourable customer reactions than an otherwise similar unbranded or competing…

Correct answer: negative brand equity
  • A. integrated marketing
  • B. holistic marketing
  • C. adoptable marketing
  • D. protectable marketing

Explanation: Integrated marketing coordinates different marketing activities so their combined effect is greater than isolated efforts.

Correct answer: integrated marketing
  • A. category extension
  • B. company extension
  • C. company architecture
  • D. company earning rate

Explanation: A category extension occurs when an existing parent brand is used to enter a different product category.

Correct answer: category extension
  • A. brand elements
  • B. brand emotions
  • C. brand conversation
  • D. brand judgments

Explanation: Brand elements are the identifying devices that distinguish a brand, such as its name, logo, symbol, packaging and slogan.

Correct answer: brand elements
  • A. individual brand names
  • B. company brand name
  • C. sub-brand name
  • D. variant brands

Explanation: Common branding strategies include individual brand names, a company or family brand name, and sub-brands.

Correct answer: variant brands
  • A. brand extension
  • B. sub-brand
  • C. parent brand
  • D. product extension

Explanation: A brand extension uses an established brand name to introduce a product in a new category or market.

Correct answer: brand extension
  • A. social networking
  • B. impression management
  • C. community engagement
  • D. brand use

Explanation: Impression management includes activities such as evangelising and justifying the brand, which help shape how the brand community and…

Correct answer: impression management
  • A. brand audit
  • B. brand tracking
  • C. brand valuation
  • D. brand evaluation

Explanation: A brand audit is a structured, customer-focused examination of a brand's current health, sources of equity and opportunities for…

Correct answer: brand audit
  • A. visualization
  • B. acquisition
  • C. add-on spending
  • D. retention

Explanation: Retention is a customer-lifetime-value dimension because retention spending and the probability of retaining customers directly affect the…

Correct answer: retention
  • A. brand audits
  • B. extract brands
  • C. bait brands
  • D. retained brands

Explanation: A brand audit evaluates a brand's current position, performance, and sources of equity, often by comparing them with earlier periods.

Correct answer: brand audits
  • A. medium customer equity
  • B. high customer equity
  • C. low customer equity
  • D. equity portfolio

Explanation: Customer relationship management aims to build profitable, lasting relationships, which increases the total value of customers to the…

Correct answer: high customer equity
  • A. presence
  • B. brand relevance
  • C. performance
  • D. advantage

Explanation: Presence is the entry stage of brand dynamics and reflects whether customers know the brand, based on familiarity, trial, or saliency.

Correct answer: presence
  • A. market dynamics
  • B. competitive reactions
  • C. channel support
  • D. distinctiveness

Explanation: The market multiplier reflects marketplace conditions that affect how brand value is converted into financial value, including market…

Correct answer: market dynamics
  • A. house of brands
  • B. strategy house
  • C. house of products
  • D. extended strategy

Explanation: A house of brands gives separate individual brand names to products under one parent company, allowing each brand to target a distinct…

Correct answer: house of brands
  • A. brand value chain
  • B. company supply chain
  • C. direct supply chain
  • D. indirect supply chain

Explanation: The brand value chain is a structured model that traces how marketing investment creates customer perceptions, market performance, and…

Correct answer: brand value chain