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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. New product in existing market
  • B. Existing product in new market
  • C. Existing product in existing market
  • D. New products in new markets

Explanation: Market development means taking an existing product into a new market, such as a new geographic area or a new customer segment.

Correct answer: Existing product in new market
  • A. Product
  • B. Price
  • C. Promotion
  • D. Place

Explanation: Communication is the main role of promotion, which informs, persuades, and reminds customers about an offering.

Correct answer: Promotion
  • A. tangible products
  • B. exchange of goods
  • C. product marketing
  • D. ownership of nothing

Explanation: Cars, food items, and computers can be physically seen and touched, so they are tangible products.

Correct answer: tangible products
  • A. materials and parts in industrial product
  • B. supplies and services
  • C. capital items
  • D. consumer products

Explanation: Livestock, vegetables, wheat, and cotton are raw materials that enter the production process, so they fall under materials and parts in…

Correct answer: materials and parts in industrial product
  • A. Strengths
  • B. Weaknesses
  • C. Opportunities
  • D. Threats

Explanation: A competitive edge is an internal capability that gives the company an advantage, making it a strength in SWOT analysis.

Correct answer: Strengths
  • A. intra-model logistic network
  • B. intermodal logistic network
  • C. intermodal transportation
  • D. intra-model transportation

Explanation: Intermodal transportation uses two or more modes, such as rail and truck, in one movement of goods.

Correct answer: intermodal transportation
  • A. geographic segmentation
  • B. income segmentation
  • C. psychographic segmentation
  • D. behavioral segmentation

Explanation: Income segmentation divides a market according to customers' earnings or purchasing power.

Correct answer: income segmentation
  • A. horizontal mediation
  • B. multiple mediation
  • C. disinter mediation
  • D. vertical mediation

Explanation: Disintermediation occurs when established intermediaries are bypassed or displaced by newer channel arrangements, often allowing producers…

Correct answer: disinter mediation
  • A. differentiable segment
  • B. non-differentiable segments
  • C. intermarket segmentation
  • D. intramarket segmentation

Explanation: A segment is differentiable when different groups respond differently to the firm's marketing mix.

Correct answer: differentiable segment
  • A. Little fit
  • B. Strong fit
  • C. Good fit
  • D. Limited fit

Explanation: In the customer-relationship classification, strangers have both low loyalty and low profit potential, so the company's offering has…

Correct answer: Little fit
  • A. advertising messages
  • B. advertising budget
  • C. advertising strategy
  • D. advertising objective

Explanation: An advertising budget is the amount of money and resources assigned to a promotional or advertising programme.

Correct answer: advertising budget
  • A. Butterflies
  • B. Barnacles
  • C. True friends
  • D. Strangers

Explanation: Barnacles show high loyalty but low profitability, often because they buy too little or generate small margins.

Correct answer: Barnacles
  • A. purpose of buying the product
  • B. quantity of buying the product
  • C. quality of bought product
  • D. all of above

Explanation: The key distinction is the buyer's purpose: consumer products are bought for personal or household use, whereas industrial products are…

Correct answer: purpose of buying the product
  • A. Strangers
  • B. Butterflies
  • C. True friends
  • D. Barnacles

Explanation: Stock-market investors are commonly used as an example of butterflies because they may generate substantial value but are not necessarily…

Correct answer: Butterflies
  • A. sought specialty products
  • B. unsought consumer products
  • C. convenient specialty products
  • D. convenience products and services

Explanation: Convenience products and services are bought frequently with little effort and therefore require wide distribution and mass marketing.

Correct answer: convenience products and services
  • A. The product concept
  • B. The production concept
  • C. The selling concept
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: The product concept assumes customers favour products with superior quality, performance, and features, so the company continuously…

Correct answer: The product concept
  • A. specialty products
  • B. convenience services
  • C. augmented products
  • D. unsought industrial product

Explanation: Lamborghini automobiles are specialty products because buyers have strong brand preferences and are willing to make considerable effort to…

Correct answer: specialty products
  • A. attention
  • B. acquisition
  • C. use or consumption
  • D. all of above

Explanation: In marketing, a product is anything offered to a market to attract attention, acquire ownership, use, or consume, including goods…

Correct answer: all of above
  • A. persuasive advertising
  • B. reminder advertising
  • C. reminder advertising
  • D. all of above

Explanation: Advertising objectives commonly include informing, persuading, and reminding customers.

Correct answer: all of above
  • A. industrial accessory equipment
  • B. industrial office equipment
  • C. fixed equipment
  • D. installation

Explanation: Computers and fax machines used in offices are accessory equipment, a category of industrial products that supports business operations…

Correct answer: industrial accessory equipment