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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. rational concept
- B. reminder concept
- C. creative concept
- D. persuasive concept
Explanation: A creative concept gives an advertising message its memorable and distinctive execution, turning the basic idea into an engaging…
Correct answer: creative concept1602. The 'Fit and Polish' consumers seek benefits balance between function and style is an example of?
- A. geographic segmentation
- B. income segmentation
- C. psychographic segmentation
- D. benefit segmentation
Explanation: Benefit segmentation groups consumers according to the benefits they seek, such as a balance between functional performance and style.
Correct answer: benefit segmentation- A. market follower
- B. market niche
- C. market challenger
- D. market leader
Explanation: A market nicher concentrates on small customer segments that larger competitors overlook or cannot serve profitably.
Correct answer: market niche- A. geographic location
- B. cultural factors
- C. economic factors
- D. all of above
Explanation: International markets can be divided by geographic location, cultural characteristics, economic conditions, and other factors.
Correct answer: all of above- A. customer value analysis
- B. corporate image analysis
- C. strategic behavior analysis
- D. benchmarking
Explanation: Customer value analysis compares the benefits customers seek and how they evaluate the company's offer against competitors' offers.
Correct answer: customer value analysis- A. experimental research
- B. ethnographic research
- C. observational research
- D. survey research
Explanation: Observational research collects primary data by watching relevant actions and behaviour as they occur.
Correct answer: observational research- A. profit centered company
- B. market centered company
- C. competitor centered company
- D. customer centered company
Explanation: A competitor-centered company shapes its strategies mainly in response to the actions and strategies of rival firms.
Correct answer: competitor centered company- A. market follower
- B. market niche
- C. market challenger
- D. market leader
Explanation: A market challenger is a firm below the leader that aggressively seeks greater market share, often by attacking the leader or other…
Correct answer: market challenger- A. banks
- B. investment analysis
- C. stockholders
- D. all of above
Explanation: Financial publics influence a company’s access to funds and investment information, including banks, investment analysts and stockholders.
Correct answer: all of above- A. mass marketing
- B. segmented marketing
- C. niche marketing
- D. micromarketing
Explanation: VF Corporation uses multiple premium brands to serve distinct market segments, rather than offering one product to the whole market.
Correct answer: segmented marketing- A. subsistence economies
- B. industrial economies
- C. developing economies
- D. none of above
Explanation: Developing economies often offer strong growth opportunities because rising incomes, urbanisation and expanding consumer markets create…
Correct answer: developing economies- A. Finance, Operations, purchasing
- B. Research & Development (R&D)
- C. Both a and b
- D. None of the above
Explanation: The internal environment includes departments that shape marketing decisions, such as finance, operations, purchasing and research and…
Correct answer: Both a and b- A. user status
- B. usage rate
- C. loyalty status
- D. benefits sought
Explanation: A customer who repeatedly buys the same Apple brand demonstrates high brand loyalty.
Correct answer: loyalty status- A. finding and growing products
- B. delivering superior value
- C. gaining customer lifetime value
- D. all of above
Explanation: New-product planning and customer-driven strategy aim to develop offerings, deliver superior customer value and strengthen customer…
Correct answer: all of above- A. internal idea sources
- B. external idea sources
- C. crowd sourcing
- D. on-boarding
Explanation: Idea generation draws on internal sources, external sources and increasingly crowdsourcing.
Correct answer: on-boarding- A. the cultural environment
- B. the demographic environment
- C. customers in international markets
- D. both a and b
Explanation: The macroenvironment includes broad forces such as demographic and cultural conditions that affect all organisations.
Correct answer: both a and b- A. Suppliers & customers
- B. Marketing intermediaries
- C. Competitors
- D. All of above
Explanation: Marketing success depends on the wider value-delivery network, including suppliers, intermediaries, customers and competitors.
Correct answer: All of above- A. Environmental organizations
- B. Editorial opinion
- C. Community organizations
- D. Both a and b
Explanation: Local publics are community-based groups that affect a company’s local acceptance, such as community organisations.
Correct answer: Community organizations- A. full positioning
- B. full targeting
- C. full market segmentation
- D. full competitive advantage
Explanation: A value proposition is the full positioning of a brand, combining the benefits and value it promises to deliver to customers.
Correct answer: full positioning- A. minority groups
- B. stockholders
- C. Community organizations
- D. both b and c
Explanation: Citizen-action publics include groups that seek to influence a company's actions, such as minority, environmental, and consumerist groups.
Correct answer: minority groups