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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. World Bank
- B. international monetary fund
- C. European Union
- D. all of above
Explanation: The European Union is an economic community because member countries coordinate economic policies and facilitate trade among themselves.
Correct answer: European Union1422. The companies that practice online marketing into their traditional operations are classified as?
- A. premium companies
- B. direct companies
- C. click only companies
- D. click and mortar companies
Explanation: Click-and-mortar companies combine online marketing or sales channels with traditional physical operations.
Correct answer: click and mortar companies- A. direct mail marketing
- B. kiosk marketing
- C. catalog marketing
- D. premium marketing
Explanation: Direct mail marketing sends promotional offers, reminders, or announcements to identified physical or electronic addresses.
Correct answer: direct mail marketing- A. premium database
- B. customer database
- C. event database
- D. rebate database
Explanation: A customer database systematically stores information about individual customers or prospects, including demographic, geographic, and…
Correct answer: customer database- A. direct mail marketing
- B. catalog marketing
- C. personal selling
- D. all of above
Explanation: Direct marketing includes direct mail, catalogs, and personal selling because each communicates an offer directly to identifiable…
Correct answer: all of above- A. geographic segmentation
- B. income segmentation
- C. psychographic segmentation
- D. benefit segmentation
Explanation: Benefit segmentation groups buyers according to the specific benefits they seek, such as comfort, performance, or style in athletic wear.
Correct answer: benefit segmentation- A. exporting
- B. importing
- C. joint venturing
- D. licensing
Explanation: Joint venturing involves entering a foreign market by partnering with another firm and sharing resources, risks, or production activities.
Correct answer: joint venturing1428. Segmentation of international markets such as amount of bureaucracy in a country is an example of?
- A. geographic location
- B. cultural factors
- C. economic factors
- D. political and legal factors
Explanation: The amount of bureaucracy reflects a country's political and legal environment, including its regulations and administrative requirements.
Correct answer: political and legal factors- A. geographic segmentation
- B. demographic segmentation
- C. psychographic segmentation
- D. behavioral segmentation
Explanation: Usage rate is a behavioral variable because it classifies consumers by how frequently or heavily they use a product.
Correct answer: behavioral segmentation- A. contract manufacturing
- B. joint ownership
- C. management contracting
- D. investment ownership
Explanation: Management contracting occurs when a company supplies managerial expertise or services to a foreign business instead of exporting physical…
Correct answer: management contracting- A. geographic segmentation
- B. demographic segmentation
- C. psychographic segmentation
- D. behavioral segmentation
Explanation: Marital status is a demographic characteristic because it describes a measurable personal or household attribute.
Correct answer: demographic segmentation- A. mass marketing
- B. segmented marketing
- C. niche marketing
- D. micromarketing
Explanation: Toyota uses different brands to serve distinct customer segments, which is segmented, or differentiated, marketing.
Correct answer: segmented marketing1433. Segmentation of international markets on the basis of overall economic development is an example of?
- A. geographic location
- B. cultural factors
- C. economic factors
- D. political and legal factors
Explanation: A country's level of economic development reflects income, infrastructure, purchasing power, and industrial conditions, so it is an…
Correct answer: economic factors- A. geographic segmentation
- B. demographic segmentation
- C. psychographic segmentation
- D. behavioral segmentation
Explanation: Usage rate describes how consumers behave toward a product, making heavy-user and light-user groups examples of behavioral segmentation.
Correct answer: behavioral segmentation- A. straight product marketing
- B. product adaptation marketing
- C. standardized global marketing
- D. adapted global marketing
Explanation: Standardized global marketing uses the same product, price, promotion, and distribution approach across international markets.
Correct answer: standardized global marketing- A. contract manufacturing
- B. joint ownership
- C. management contracting
- D. investment ownership
Explanation: Joint ownership is formed when a domestic company and foreign investors share ownership in a locally created business.
Correct answer: joint ownership- A. geographic segmentation
- B. income segmentation
- C. psychographic segmentation
- D. behavioral segmentation
Explanation: Promoting soft-drink consumption specifically in the morning appeals to a product-use occasion, which is a behavioral segmentation…
Correct answer: behavioral segmentation1438. The segmentation of the market having similar buying behaviors but located in different countries?
- A. intermarket segmentation
- B. intramarket segmentation
- C. international market
- D. domestic markets
Explanation: Intermarket segmentation groups consumers with similar needs or buying behavior even when they live in different countries.
Correct answer: intermarket segmentation1439. The marketing strategy which focuses on 'common characteristics' of needs of consumers is called?
- A. mass marketing
- B. segmented marketing
- C. niche marketing
- D. micromarketing
Explanation: Mass marketing treats the market as broadly homogeneous and focuses on common customer needs with one general offer.
Correct answer: mass marketing- A. joint venturing
- B. licensing
- C. exporting
- D. importing
Explanation: Licensing allows a foreign company to use a firm's brand, technology, or production rights under an agreement in return for fees or…
Correct answer: licensing