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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. competitor's
  • B. industry
  • C. Corporation
  • D. organization

Explanation: Companies offering similar products to satisfy the same customer needs are competitors because customers can choose among their…

Correct answer: competitor's
  • A. effective differentiation
  • B. channel differentiation
  • C. efficient differentiation
  • D. working differentiation

Explanation: Channel differentiation comes from having more effective or efficient distribution channels, such as better availability or faster…

Correct answer: channel differentiation
  • A. points of disparity
  • B. points of parity
  • C. points of difference
  • D. similar attributes

Explanation: Points of parity are brand associations that are not unique but are shared with competing brands and help establish category membership.

Correct answer: points of parity
  • A. differentiability
  • B. feasibility
  • C. desirability
  • D. deliverability

Explanation: Desirability means the association is personally relevant and valued by consumers.

Correct answer: desirability
  • A. comparative advantage
  • B. competitive advantage
  • C. announcing advantage
  • D. relying advantage

Explanation: Competitive advantage exists when a company performs in ways that competitors cannot readily match.

Correct answer: competitive advantage
  • A. channel differentiation
  • B. image differentiation
  • C. employee differentiation
  • D. all of the above

Explanation: A firm can differentiate through its employees, distribution channels, or brand image, among other methods.

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. communication
  • B. inspiration
  • C. simplifying
  • D. straddling

Explanation: The communication dimension of a brand mantra defines the business category and establishes the boundaries of the brand.

Correct answer: communication
  • A. internal marketing metrics
  • B. perceived metrics
  • C. quality 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. open -ended questions
  • B. close-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. completely unstructured
  • B. word association
  • C. sentence completion
  • 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. focus group
  • B. group discussion
  • C. demographically selected group
  • D. psycho graphically selected 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. questionnaires
  • B. qualitative measures
  • C. technological devices
  • D. random sample

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

Correct answer: random sample
  • A. customer's metrics pathway
  • B. unit 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. quality metrics
  • B. loyalty metrics
  • C. internal marketing 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. custom marketing research firms
  • C. specialty line marketing firms
  • D. product alliance 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. picture completion
  • B. structure completion
  • C. unstructured story
  • 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