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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. unit metrics
  • B. procedural metrics
  • C. marketing external metrics
  • D. sampling metrics

Explanation: Relative perceived quality compares customers' perception of a firm's quality with that of competitors, so it is an external marketing…

Correct answer: marketing external metrics
  • A. marketing dashboards
  • B. customer dashboards
  • C. stakeholder's dashboards
  • D. unit dashboards

Explanation: A marketing dashboard presents marketing data and insights in an organized, accessible format so managers can monitor performance and…

Correct answer: marketing dashboards
  • A. indicated service firms
  • B. syndicated research firms
  • C. research firms
  • D. special marketing firms

Explanation: Syndicated research firms collect information on markets, consumers and trade channels, then sell the same research report to multiple…

Correct answer: syndicated research firms
  • A. stakeholder performance scorecard
  • B. marketing dashboards
  • C. customer performance scorecard
  • D. market performance record

Explanation: A stakeholder performance scorecard tracks satisfaction and performance among groups that affect the company, including employees…

Correct answer: stakeholder performance scorecard
  • A. marketing-mix modeling
  • B. customer-mix modeling
  • C. data-mix modeling
  • D. market oriented research

Explanation: Marketing-mix modeling combines data such as media expenditure, sales and retailer scanner information to estimate how marketing…

Correct answer: marketing-mix modeling
  • A. collecting the information
  • B. storing the findings
  • C. ignoring competitive prices
  • D. analyzing the marketing information

Explanation: After defining the problem, developing the research plan and collecting information, researchers analyze the marketing information as the…

Correct answer: analyzing the marketing information
  • A. close-ended questions
  • B. rating scale
  • C. open-ended questions
  • D. stratified sampling

Explanation: Close-ended questions provide a predetermined list of possible answers, making responses easy to code and tabulate.

Correct answer: close-ended questions
  • A. quantitative measures
  • B. qualitative measures
  • C. open-ended questionnaire
  • D. close-ended questionnaire

Explanation: Qualitative measures use relatively unstructured techniques to uncover a broad range of responses, perceptions and motivations.

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

Explanation: Awareness of organisational goals concerns how well employees understand the company's aims, so it is an internal marketing metric.

Correct answer: internal marketing metrics
  • A. demographic research
  • B. psychographic research
  • C. ethnographic research
  • D. observational research

Explanation: Observational research gathers information by watching relevant behaviour or conditions rather than relying only on respondents' reports.

Correct answer: observational research
  • A. sampling size
  • B. sampling unit
  • C. sampling scale
  • D. sampling procedure

Explanation: The question of how many individuals to survey concerns the sample size, written here as “sampling size.” Sampling unit identifies who…

Correct answer: sampling size
  • A. open-ended questionnaire
  • B. close-ended questionnaire
  • C. quantitative measures
  • D. qualitative measures

Explanation: Qualitative measures help researchers explore perceptions, meanings and motivations about a product or brand, often through open-ended…

Correct answer: qualitative measures
  • A. intention-to-buy scale
  • B. ranking scale
  • C. Two option answer
  • D. least important scale

Explanation: An intention-to-buy scale measures how likely or willing a respondent is to purchase a product.

Correct answer: intention-to-buy scale
  • A. research plan development
  • B. problem definition
  • C. deciding mission statement
  • D. reporting of findings

Explanation: The research plan specifies how the study will be conducted, including the research approach, data sources and sampling plan.

Correct answer: research plan development
  • A. thematic appreciation test
  • B. story appreciation test
  • C. graphic appreciation test
  • D. word appreciation test

Explanation: The thematic appreciation test presents a picture and asks respondents to describe or interpret what they see, often revealing underlying…

Correct answer: thematic appreciation test
  • A. relative employee satisfaction
  • B. level of customer dissatisfaction
  • C. active innovation support
  • D. both A and C

Explanation: Internal marketing metrics assess employee-related conditions, including employee satisfaction and support for innovation.

Correct answer: both A and C
  • A. visualizations
  • B. personifications
  • C. laddering
  • D. associations

Explanation: Visualization techniques ask participants to express perceptions through collages, drawings or other images rather than only words.

Correct answer: visualizations
  • A. marketing external metrics
  • B. sampling metrics
  • C. unit metrics
  • D. procedural metrics

Explanation: Customer loyalty and retention measure the market's response to a firm's marketing and its ability to keep customers.

Correct answer: marketing external metrics
  • A. unit dashboards
  • B. brand metrics pathway
  • C. marketing dashboards
  • D. stakeholder's dashboards

Explanation: A brand metrics pathway links brand strength and equity with longer-term customer outcomes and financial health.

Correct answer: brand metrics pathway
  • A. customer's metrics pathway
  • B. unit metrics pathway
  • C. cash-flow metrics pathway
  • D. brand metrics pathway

Explanation: Brand equity tracks the long-term value created by a brand and its effects on customer behaviour and business performance.

Correct answer: brand metrics pathway