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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. geographic segmentation
- B. income segmentation
- C. psychographic segmentation
- D. behavioral segmentation
Explanation: Affluent customers are identified primarily by their income level, making this income segmentation.
Correct answer: income segmentation- A. late majority
- B. early majority
- C. innovators
- D. early adopters
Explanation: Innovators are the first adopter group and are willing to try new ideas despite substantial uncertainty and risk.
Correct answer: innovators- A. what consumers buy
- B. why consumers buy
- C. where consumers buy
- D. all of above
Explanation: Consumer buying-behaviour research examines what consumers buy, why they buy it, and where they buy.
Correct answer: all of above- A. need recognition
- B. information search
- C. evaluation of alternatives
- D. both b and c
Explanation: Evaluation of alternatives is the stage in which consumers compare competing brands or products against criteria such as price, quality…
Correct answer: evaluation of alternatives- A. late majority
- B. early majority
- C. laggard
- D. early adopter
Explanation: Laggards are the last adopter group and are strongly suspicious of change, often relying on traditional practices.
Correct answer: laggard1366. In the new product development process, after the analysis of business the next step to be taken is?
- A. test marketing
- B. One channel marketing
- C. penetration marketing
- D. individual marketing
Explanation: After business analysis, the firm moves to product development, followed by test marketing.
Correct answer: test marketing- A. product classes
- B. product forms
- C. branding
- D. product perception
Explanation: A product form is a specific version within a broader product class, such as VHS tapes within the home-video or entertainment category.
Correct answer: product forms- A. sales concept
- B. product idea
- C. product image
- D. customer management
Explanation: Product image is the set of beliefs, impressions and feelings consumers hold about an actual or potential offering.
Correct answer: product image- A. internal sources
- B. external sources
- C. product lines extension
- D. both a and b
Explanation: Product ideas may come from inside the firm, such as employees and research and development, or outside it, such as customers, competitors…
Correct answer: both a and b- A. communication tools
- B. communication channels
- C. communication functions
- D. communication parties
Explanation: Encoding, decoding, response and feedback are functions performed during communication, while channels are the media used to carry the…
Correct answer: communication functions- A. negative
- B. continuously rising
- C. higher
- D. declining
Explanation: New-product introduction usually produces negative profits because promotion, distribution and development costs are high while sales…
Correct answer: negative- A. online media
- B. print media
- C. broadcast media
- D. display media
Explanation: Magazines, direct mail and newspapers are print media because they communicate through printed material.
Correct answer: print media- A. innovators
- B. early adopters
- C. middle majority customers
- D. laggards
Explanation: Early adopters typically enter during the product's growth stage and help establish wider acceptance of the innovation.
Correct answer: early adopters- A. emotional appeal
- B. rational appeal
- C. moral appeal
- D. irrational appeal
Explanation: Emotional appeal uses message themes that create positive or negative feelings to influence buying motivation.
Correct answer: emotional appeal- A. relative advantage
- B. complexity
- C. communicability
- D. compatibility
Explanation: Complexity is the perceived difficulty of understanding or using a new market offering.
Correct answer: complexity- A. product concept
- B. production phase
- C. production screening
- D. raw-material screening
Explanation: A product concept is a detailed version of a product idea stated in meaningful consumer terms, explaining what the product will do for…
Correct answer: product concept- A. product idea
- B. product image
- C. customer management
- D. none of the above
Explanation: A product idea is a possible product that a company may offer to the market.
Correct answer: product idea- A. physiological needs
- B. self-actualization needs
- C. esteem needs
- D. all of above
Explanation: Maslow’s hierarchy includes physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization needs.
Correct answer: all of above- A. communication tools
- B. communication channels
- C. communication functions
- D. communication parties
Explanation: In the communication model, the message and the medium carrying it are communication tools.
Correct answer: communication tools- A. need recognition
- B. information search
- C. purchase decision
- D. both b and c
Explanation: Purchase decision is the stage where a buyer converts an intention to buy into an actual choice or decision.
Correct answer: purchase decision