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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. demographic analysis
- B. socio cultural environment analysis
- C. competitor's analysis
- D. natural environment analysis
Explanation: Views about oneself, other people and nature are cultural and social beliefs, so their study belongs to analysis of the sociocultural…
Correct answer: socio cultural environment analysis- A. market-buildup method
- B. multiple-factor index method
- C. chain-ratio method
- D. both A and B
Explanation: Area market potential can be estimated by building the market from identifiable buyers or by applying a multiple-factor index to…
Correct answer: both A and B- A. market forecast
- B. demand forecast
- C. product forecast
- D. market share forecast
Explanation: A market forecast is the expected market demand at a specified level of industry marketing effort.
Correct answer: market forecast- A. target market
- B. available market
- C. penetrated market
- D. potential market
Explanation: The penetrated market consists of consumers who are actually buying the company’s product.
Correct answer: penetrated market- A. marketing shade
- B. short-term marketing wave
- C. fad
- D. fade
Explanation: A fad is a consumer interest or activity that spreads quickly but lasts only briefly and is difficult to predict.
Correct answer: fad706. The purchase of customer information from outside firms and vendors is classified as ____________?
- A. marketing intelligence system
- B. market information system
- C. market development system
- D. market record system
Explanation: A marketing intelligence system obtains information about competitors, customers and market conditions from internal and external sources…
Correct answer: marketing intelligence system- A. target market
- B. penetrated market
- C. potential market
- D. available market
Explanation: An available market includes consumers who have interest in a product, sufficient income and access to it.
Correct answer: available market- A. management information system
- B. marketing information system
- C. financial information system
- D. corporate information system
Explanation: A marketing information system uses people, equipment and procedures to collect, process and distribute information for marketing…
Correct answer: marketing information system- A. sales quota
- B. production quota
- C. demand potential
- D. marketing expenses quota
Explanation: A sales quota is a specific sales target assigned to a division, territory, salesperson or product line for a stated period.
Correct answer: sales quota- A. data based on real happenings
- B. data based on results
- C. data based on raw materials
- D. data based on sales
Explanation: Marketing intelligence gathers information about actual events and developments in the market, such as competitor actions and customer…
Correct answer: data based on real happenings- A. low market penetration index
- B. strict demand
- C. high market penetration index
- D. stretched market penetration index
Explanation: A high market penetration index indicates that much of the potential market has already been reached, so attracting the remaining…
Correct answer: high market penetration index- A. raw material cost
- B. production
- C. sales
- D. marketing effort
Explanation: In a sales-response graph, marketing effort is normally placed on the horizontal axis and sales on the vertical axis, showing how sales…
Correct answer: marketing effort- A. geographic environment analysis
- B. economic environment analysis
- C. demographic environment analysis
- D. analysis of natural environment
Explanation: Income distribution and personal saving patterns describe consumers' purchasing power and spending capacity, so they belong to the…
Correct answer: economic environment analysis- A. total market potential
- B. total production potential
- C. total demand potential
- D. current demand
Explanation: Total market potential is the maximum possible sales of all firms in an industry during a specified period under given environmental…
Correct answer: total market potential- A. minor trends
- B. mega trends
- C. special followers
- D. introductory products
Explanation: Megatrends are broad, long-term social, economic, technological or political changes that influence markets on a very large scale.
Correct answer: mega trends- A. expansible market
- B. no expansible market
- C. expanding expenditure
- D. limited expenditure
Explanation: An expansible market grows when firms increase marketing efforts such as advertising, promotion and distribution.
Correct answer: expansible market- A. fad
- B. fade fashion
- C. marketing shade
- D. short-term marketing wave
Explanation: A fad is a short-lived and socially limited marketing or consumption trend with little lasting economic significance.
Correct answer: fad- A. reference groups
- B. affecting groups
- C. marketing groups
- D. retailer groups
Explanation: Reference groups influence a person's attitudes, opinions and buying behaviour either directly through interaction or indirectly through…
Correct answer: reference groups- A. family of procreation
- B. family orientation
- C. inspiration orientation
- D. group orientation
Explanation: The family of procreation consists of a person's spouse and children, whereas the family of orientation refers to the parents and siblings…
Correct answer: family of procreation- A. representative heuristic
- B. motivation heuristic
- C. expectancy heuristic
- D. psychological heuristic
Explanation: The representative heuristic judges an offering by how closely it resembles the typical product in a category.
Correct answer: representative heuristic