mcq 20% Flashcards

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What is mktg

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companies create value for cust, build strong cust relationship to capture value from cust in return

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How do calculate value?

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benefit divide cost

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What are the 5 ‘not’ for our cust?

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  • not an interruption of our work (they are the purpose of it)
  • not someone to argue with ( they brings us their wants; if we have insufficient imagination, we will endeavour to handle them profitably)
  • not dependent upon us (we depend on them)
  • not a rank to our business (they are part of us)
  • not a statistic (human being equipped with biases, prejudices, emotions)
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What are the 5 steps marketing process?

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  1. understand the marketplace and cust needs and wants
  2. design a cust value driven mktg strategy
  3. construct an integrated mktg program that delivers superior value
  4. build profitable relationships and create cust delight
  5. capture value from cust to create profits and cust equity
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What are consider cust needs? (4)

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States of deprivation

Physical

Social

Indiv

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What does physical cust needs include? (4)

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food, clothing, warmth, safety

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What does individual cust needs include? (2)

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knowledge and self affection

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What does social cust needs include? (2)

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belonging and affection

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What’s cust wants?

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form that needs take as shaped by culture and indiv personality

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What is cust demands

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wants backed by buying power

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What is market offerings?

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Combination of products, services, info, offered to market to satisfy need or want

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How does marketers meet cust value / satisfaction

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need to set the right lvl of expectations, not too high / low

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How to define markets?

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Set of actual and potential buyers of a product

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What are the 2 major envir forces?

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suppliers, consumers

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What is marketing management?

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Choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them

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How to select cust to serve? (2)

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Marketing segmentation
Dividing the markets into segments of cust

Target marketing
Choose which segments

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What’s value proposition?

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Set of benefits or values a company promises to deliver to cust to satisfy their needs

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What should company consider in order to achieve societal marketing? (4)

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A company should make good marketing decisions by considering :
Consumer’s wants

Company’s requirements

Consumer’s long term interests

Society’s long run interests

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How is the marketing landscape changing? (4)

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Not for profit mktg growth
Sustainable marketing
Rapid globalisation
Digital marketing

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What are the social criticisms of mktg? (7)

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Acquisition of competitors
Decreases competition
Detrimental to consumer choice = acquisition will not go thru

barriers to entry

Unfair competitive mktg prac

Deceptive prac

High-pressure selling

Planned obsolescence

Profiteering

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What is sustainable mktg?

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Meeting needs of cust while preserving the ability of future gen to meet their needs

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What is consumerism?

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Organised movement of citizens and gov agencies to improve the rights and power of buyers in relation to sellers

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What is environmentalism?

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Organised movement of concerned citizens, business, gov agencies to protect and improve people’s living envir

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What is envir sustainability?

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seeking profit while planning to help the planet

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What are the 5 factors of envir sustainability?
Pollution prevention Product stewardship Design for envir (DFE) New clean tech Sustainability vision
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What is product stewardship?
Involves minimising the pollution from production and all envir impact throughout the full product life cycle
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What does it mean to have sustainability vision?
Guide to the future that shows how the company’s products and services, processes, policies must evolve and what is needed to get there
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How to be a sustainable company?
Goes beyond caring for the needs of tdy cust and has concern for tmr cust and the broader world
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What are the 4 sustainable mktg principles?
Consumer oriented Consumer value mktg Innovative mktg Sense of mission mktg
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What is sense of mission mktg?
Define mission in broad social terms rather than narrow product terms
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What are the 4 mktg ethics?
Broad guidelines Cover distributor relations, ads, standards, cust service, pricing, product dev, general ethics standards Everyone must flw Relationship w corporate sustainability (Balance among profit, planet, people)
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How does the international trade system works? (4)
tariffs, quotas, exchange controls, nontariff trade barriers
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What is quotas?
limits on the amount of foreign imports (to protect domestic industry and employment)
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What is exchange controls?
limit on the amount of foreign exchange and exchange rate against other countries
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What is nontariff trade barriers
biases against bids or restrictive product standards
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How does economic factors reflect country's attractiveness?
Industrial structure Income distribution
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Why does fcmg target low income households?
More profit margin, low purchasing power but large base of customer
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What are the factors within political legal environment? (5)
Country attitude toward int bullying Gov bureaucracy Political stability Monetary reg Countertrade is non-cash payment
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What are the activities involve in countertrade? (3)
Barter = exchange of goods and services Compensation / buyback = sale of a plant or equipment and the payment in resulting products Counter Purchases = when seller receives payment and agrees to spend some money in other country
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What are the factors when companies decide to go global? (6)
Can the company understand the consumers Has management considered reg and political envir of other countries Can it offer competitively attractive products Will it be able to adapt to local culture Do the company managers have the experience Can they deal w foreign nationals
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What are the factors to consider when companies decide which market to enter? (4)
Define int mktg obj and policies Foreign sales volume How many countries to market to Types of countries to market to based on
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How to decide which countries to market? (3)
Geo Income and population Political climate
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How to rank potential global market? (5)
Market size Risk level Market growth Comp adv Cost of doing business
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From low to high, rank the amount of commitment, risk, control, profit potential of entering a market
Exporting, joint venturing, direct investment
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What are the types of joint venturing? (4)
licensing, contract manufacturing, management contracting, joint ownership
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What is strategic planning?
Maintaining a strategic fit between the org goals and capabilities and its changing market opp
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What are the current global consumer trend ? (4)
AI Greenwashed out Wellness pragmatists Value hackers
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What are the 4 steps in strategic planning?
corporate level 1. defining company mission 2. setting company obj and goals 3. designing business portfolio Business unit, product, market level 4. planning marketing and other functional strategies
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What is a market oriented mission statement?
defines the business in terms of satisfying basic cust needs
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How to set business obj? (3)
Build profitable cust relationship Invest in research Improve profits
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How to set market objectives? (3)
Increase market share Create local partnership Increase promotion
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How to analyse current business portfolio? (3)
1. identify key businesses that make up the firm 2. assess the attractiveness of its various SBUs 3. decide how much support each SBU deserves
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What is the product/market expansion grid used for?
identifying company growth opp through market penetration, market dev, product dev, diversification (can be achieved through acquisition)
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How does a business downsize? (3)
eliminating products business units that aren’t profitable no longer fit company’s overall strategy
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What are the 4 types of cust value driven mktg strategy?
segmentation, targeting, differentiation, positioning
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What is market segmentation?
Understand people have distinct needs, characteristics, or bhv and who might require separate products or mktg mix Division of market of people into diff groups
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What does threats stand for?
current and emerging external factors that may challenge the company's perf
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What is cust relationship management?
Overall process of building and maintaining profitable cust relationship by delivering superior cust value and satisfaction
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What are the 3 levels of cust relationship?
Basic relationships (low margin cust) Full partnerships (high margin cust) Frequency mktg prog (reward cust)
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What is customer engagement marketing? (3)
Makes the brand a meaningful part of consumer’s convo and lives Create direct and continuous cust involvement Shapes brand convo, experiences and community
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What is consumer generated mktg?
Brand exchanges created by cust themselves (whether invited or not) Shape own brand experiences
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What is a value chain?
partners inside the company that carry out value creating activities to design, produce, market, deliver, support a firm's product
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What is a value delivery network?
Partners outside the company, how marketers connect w their suppliers channels and competitors
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What does customer lifetime value equivalent to?
value of the entire stream of purchases that one would make over a lifetime of patronage
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What is customer equity? (3)
Total combined of cust lifetime value of all of the company’s cust Gives potential rev stream and profitability To see how our business is doing
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What does the suppliers do? (2)
Prov resources to produce goods and services Treated as partners to prov cust values
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What does marketing intermediaries do?
Firms that help company to promote, sell, distribute final products to final buyers
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What are the categories for the demographic envir? (4)
baby boomers gen x millennials net gen (gen z)
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What are the characteristics of gen x? (6)
High parental divorce rate Cautious economic outlook Less materialistic Fam comes first Lags on retirement savings Born between 1965-1976
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What is generational marketing?
Segmenting people through lifestyle, life stage, common value instead of age
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What are the trends in the current demographic envir? (7)
divorcing / separating Choosing not to marry Marry at a later age Marrying w no intention to have kids Increased no. of working women Stay at home dads Move from rural to city
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What does value mktg involves? (2)
ways to offer financially cautious buyers greater value Right combination of quality and service at a fair price
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What are the trends in natural envir? (6)
Shortage of raw materials Increased pollution Increased gov Intervention Envir sustainable strategies Pandemics
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What are the 3 characteristics of tech envir?
Most dramatic force Creates new products and opp Concern for safety of new products
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What are the 2 characteristics in social / political envir?
Legislation regulating business project increased emphasis on ethics
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What are the 2 characteristics in cultural envir?
Institutions / other forces that affect a society’s basic values, perceptions, bhv Language complexities
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What is buyer's black box?
variety of factors that exist inside the person's mind which influences their buying decisions
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What is a subculture?
Grps of ppl within a culture w shared value system Based on common life experiences / situations eg, Fans of kpop, pop, etc
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What are the two social characteristics affecting consumer bhv
family social roles and status
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What are the 6 different groups and social network
online social networks buzz mktg influencers / bloggers virtual worlds word of mouth opinion leaders
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What are the 4 psychological factors that determines customer purchase intention?
motivation, perception, learning, attitudes & beliefs
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What is perception? How is it formed? (3)
Process which people select, organise, interpret info to form a meaningful pic of the world thru Selective attention Selective distortion Selective retention
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Why do we need customer insight teams? (4)
Incl all company functional areas Collect info from wide variety of sources To generate more value for cust Incorporate AI
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When will be the 7 times where customer and management will touch?
cust purchases service / support calls market research studies satisfaction surveys web / social media sites sales force contacts credit / payment interactions
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What are the 4 types of buying behaviour?
complex variety seeking dissonance reducing habitual
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What are the 5 steps a buyer will go through for a decision to buy something?
Need recognition Info search Evaluation of alter Purchase decision Post purchase bhv
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What does cust satisfaction do? (3)
key to build profitable relationship retaining and growing consumers reaping cust lifetime value
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How to identify different adopters for new product?
innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, laggards
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How to reach out to customer? 5
industry events, search, search engine optimisation (SEO), content mktg, linkedin campaigns
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How to act after customer has made their 1st purchase? 3
remarketing website home page / product page / linkedin page influencer out reach
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How to convert indecisive customer or make customer repeat their purchase? (4)
personalised email (account based marketing ABM), refundables, webinars, ROI calculator online
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How to gain loyal cust? 3
cust onboarding, newsletter, user group
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What is market segmentation?
Process that companies use to divide large heterogeneous market into small ones
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Why do we segment our market?
To reach cust more efficiently / effectively w products and services that match their unique needs
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What are the ways to segment consumer market? (4)
Geographic, demographic, psychographic, behavioural
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What is intermarket segmentation?
Divides consumers into grps w similar needs and buying bhv even if located in diff countries
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How to evaluate market segments? (4)
Segment size and growth Segment structural attractiveness Long run attractiveness (competitors, substitute products, power of buyers and sellers) Company obj and resources
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What is market targeting?
A set of buyers who spare common needs / characteristics that company decides to serve
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What are the 4 target market strategies?
Undifferentiated (mass) mktg, differentiated (segmented) mktg, concentrated (niche) mktg, micromktg (local / indiv)
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What is undifferentiated mktg?
Targets whole market w one offer Focuses on common needs rather than whats diff
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What is differentiated mktg? (3)
Target several diff market segments and designs separate offers for each Goal: achieve higher sales and stronger position More expensive
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What is concentrated mktg? (4)
Targets small share (niches) of a large market Limited company resources Knowledge of the market More effective
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What is micromktg?
Prac of tailoring products and mktg programs to suit taste of specific inidv and locations
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What does choosing a target market depends on? (5)
Company resources Product viability Product life cycle stage Market variability competitors’ mktg strategies
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What are the 5 types of differentiation?
product, service, channel, people, image
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What is product position?
Way the product is defined by consumers on important attributes - place the product occupies in consumers’ minds relative to competing products
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What is value proposition?
Full mix of benefits upon which a brand is positioned
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What are the 3 steps of competitor analysis?
Identifying Company competitors Assessing Competitors obj, strategies, strengths, weaknesses, reaction patterns Selecting key competitors Which to attack / avoid
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What are the 4 ways to assess competitors?
Competitors obj Competitor’s strength Competitors weaknesses Estimating competitors reaction
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What does competitors objectives include? (5)
Profitability Market share growth Cash flow Technological leadership Service leadership
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What is blue ocean strategy
Finding uncontested market spaces
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What are the 3 competitive strategies?
cost leadership, differentiation, focus
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What does Michael treacy and fred wiersema value disciplines states?
Companies gain leadership positions by delivering superior value to their cust
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How are companies gaining leadership positions by delivering superior value to their cust? (3)
operational excellence, product leadership, customer intimacy
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What is product leadership? (2)
Prov superior value through continuous stream of leading-edge products or services Product leaders are open to new ideas and solutions, bring them quickly to market
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What is customer intimacy?
Segmenting markets and tailoring products or services to match the needs of targeted customers
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How are market leaders leading the market? (4)
price changes Product innov Distribution coverage Promo spending
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How to protect market share? (4)
Fixing / preventing weaknesses that prov opp to competitors Maintain consistent prices that prov value Keep strong cust relationships Cont innov
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How to expand market share? (4)
Increasing market share in served markets - growth Produce high quality products Build close relationship Create good service experiences
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How can market challenger challenge market leader? (2)
Full frontal attack on rival’s strength Indirect attack on rivals weakness / gaps in the market coverage (flanking attack)
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What does market follower do? (4)
Firms want to hold onto their market share Plays along w competitors Challenges w firms like its own size / smaller Second mover adv
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What is second mover advantage?
when a market follower observes what has made the leader successful and improves on it
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What is ideal for a market nicher?
big enough to be profitable with high growth potential and lil interest from competitors
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What is the key for market nicher?
specialisation
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What does experiences stand for?
represent what buying the product or service will do for cust
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What does augmented product include? (4)
delivery and credit, product support, warranty, after sales service
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What are the 3 levels of product and services?
core, actual, augmented
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What are the 4 classifications of products?
convenience, shopping, specialty, unsought
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What is shopping products? What are some examples?
Consumer products and services that the cust compares carefully on suitability, quality, P and style (furniture, appliances, hotel stays)
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What is specialty product?
Unique characteristics / brand identification for which a significant grp of buyer is willing to make a special purchase effort
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What is unsought products?
Consumer does not know about / knows about but does not normally think of buying
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Which type of product suits in complex buying behaviour?
specialty
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Which type of product suits in dissonance reducing buying behaviour?
unsought
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What could be purchased for further processing or for use in conducting a business? (industrial product) (3)
capital, materials and parts, supplies and services
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What are the 4 factors in service mktg?
intangibility, inseparability, variability, perishability
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What is perishability? (3)
Services cannot be stored for later sale or use Overbooking Demand pattern
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Aside from traditional mktg strategies, what other strategies (3) does service firms often require?
Service profit chain Internal mktg Interactive mktg
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What are the 3 types of service marketing?
internal marketing employees interactive marketing
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What are the 3 factors within interactive marketing?
Service differentiation: offer, delivery, image Service quality: recovery Service productivity: cost considerations
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What is the mktg strategy for service firms?
Service profit chain links service firm profits w employee n cust satisfaction
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What are the 5 factors when indiv make product and service decisions?
product attributes, branding, packaging, labeling, product support services
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What are the 9 factors in indiv product and service decisions?
quality level, product features, style, design, product attributes, brand, brand equity, packaging, labels
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What are the 4 factors within international product and service marketing?
Determining what products and services to introduce in which countries Standardisation vs customisation Packaging and labelling Customs, values, laws
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What are the 2 ways to obtain new products?
acquisition, new product development
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How to build a branding strategy? (4)
Brand positioning Brand name selection Brand sponsorship Brand development
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What are the 8 major stages in new product development?
Idea generation Idea screening Concept dev and testing Mktg strategy dev Business analysis Product dev Test mktg Commercialisation
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How to manage new product development? (3)
Customer centred Team centred Systematic
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What are the 4 stages in product life cycle?
intro, growth, maturity, decline
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What are the 3 modifying strategies in maturity stage?
Market modifying Product modifying Mktg mix modifying
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What is a price?
Sum of all values that consumers give up to gain benefits of having or using product or service
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What are the factors to consider when setting up Price? (4)
competitors' strategies and prices, mktg mix, objectives, nature of market and demand
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What is benefit make up of?
functional + emotional
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What is value based pricing? (4)
Assess cust need and value perception Set target P to match cust perceived value Determine cost that can be incurred Design product to deliver desired value at a target P
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What does cost based pricing stands for?
Setting P based on costs for producing, distributing, selling the product + fair rate of return for its effort and risk
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What are the steps for setting up price (cost based)? 4
Design a good product Determine product costs Set price based on cost Convince buyers of product’s value
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What is cost plus pricing?
Add standard markup to cost of the product markup percentage is a method of generating a particular desired rate of return
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What are the benefits (4) & disadv of cost plus pricing?
Sellers are certain about costs P are similar in industry P comp is minimised Buyers feel it is fair Disadv Ignores demand & competitor P
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What are the type of costs? (4)
fixed, variable, total, average
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How to calculate unit cost?
unit VC + FC / unit sales
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How to calculate markup sales P?
Markup sales P = unit cost / ( 1 - desired return on sales)
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How to calculate markup cost P?
Markup cost P = unit cost x (1 + desired cost markup)
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What is break even pricing?
P at which Total cost = total rev
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How to calculate breakeven volume?
Breakeven volume = FC / (P - VC)
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What does the slope of total revenue represents?
P per unit
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How to calculate target pricing?
(FC + Target profit) / (Price per unit - VC per unit)
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What are some other internal / external considerations affecting P decisions?
Company strategy, obj, mktg mix Competitors’ strategy, response, P Market & Demand Economic conditions Reseller’s response to p Gov Social concerns Pure comp (transparent situation) Monopolistic comp (most often seen) Oligopolistic comp (few players eg petrol) Pure monopoly
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What are the 4 solutions to counter Price change?
Reduce P to match comp Maintain P but raise perceived value thru comm Improve quality and Increase P Launch a lower P fighting brand
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How to respond to Price change? (7)
Why did competitor change P Is P cut permanent or temporary What is the effect on market share and profits Will competitor respond Is company trying to grab market share Is company doing poorly and trying to boost sales Is it a signal to decrease industry P to stimulate demand
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How does buyer react to price cut? (4)
Better value Delay purchase to wait for new models Models not selling well Quality issues / company facing problems
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How does buyer react to price increase? (2)
Product is ‘hot’ Company is greedy
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What events may cause price increase? (3)
Cost inflation Increased D Lack supply
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What events may cause price cuts? (4)
Excess capacity Falling D from price comp Desire to increase market share Increased volume likely to reduce cost
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What is market skimming pricing? (5)
Strategy with high initial P to ‘skim’ rev layers from the market Product quality & image must support this price Buyers must want the product at this P Costs of prod the product in small volume should not cancel the adv of higher P Competitors shld not be able to enter market easily
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What are the 6 product mix pricing strategies?
Product line pricing Optional product pricing Captive product pricing By-product pricing product bundle pricing 2 part pricing
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What is 2 part pricing?
consumers are charged both an entry fee (fixed price) and a usage fee (per-unit price)
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What is market penetration? (4)
Low initial p to penetrate market quickly and deeply to attract a large number of buyers quickly to gain market share P sensitive market Inverse relationship of production and distribution cost to sales growth Low P must keep comp out of market
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What is product line pricing?
Takes into acc of cost diff between products in the line Cust evaluation of their features and rival P
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What is optional product pricing?
Optional or accessory products along with the main product
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What is captive market pricing?
Captive product pricing, pricing strategy where the price of one product is tied to the price of another product (printer and ink)
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What is by-product pricing?
Products w lil or no value produced as a result of the main product Seek lil or no profit than the cost to cover storage and delivery
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What is product bundle pricing?
Combine several product at a reduced P
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How to be effective in segmenting prices? (4)
Market must be segmentable Cost incurred cannot exceed the extra rev obtained form P diff Must be legal Must show diff degrees of demand or respond to segmented pricing
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What is segmented pricing? (5)
When company sells a product at 2 or more P even though difference is not based on cost Location based (concert tickets) Product form (evian water, evian spray) Time based Cust segments
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What is references price?
Prices buyers carry in their mind and refer to when looking at a given product
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How does companies hold promotions? (6)
Loss leaders Special event pricing Cash rebates Low interest financing longer warranties Free maintenance
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What are the 5 types of geographical pricing?
Fob origin pricing Uniformed delivered pricing zone basing point freight absorption
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What is dynamic pricing?
Occurs when P are adjusted continually to meet the characteristics and needs of indiv cust and situations
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What's fob origin pricing?
title and responsibility for goods transfer from the seller to the buyer once the goods are placed on a delivery
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What's basing point pricing?
companies determine a fee for a good sold, plus an additional freight charge that is calculated based upon the customer's distance from a starting
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How does the new marketing communication landscape looks like? (4)
More comm Less mass mktg Consumers are better informed Changing comm tech
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What does integrated marketing communication (IMC) suggests?
Company must blend the promo tools carefully into a coordinated promo mix
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What is IMC?
Integration by the company of its many comm channels to deliver a clear, consistent and compelling msg about org and its brand
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What are the 5 major promotional tools?
Personal selling Ad Pr Direct mktg Sales promo
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What are the factors in the growth of sales promotion? (5)
Product managers are under pressure to increase current sales Companies face more comp Competing brands result in less differentiation Advertising efficiency has declined Consumers have become more deal oriented
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What are the 4 major trade sales promotional tools?
discount, allowance, free goods, specialty ad items
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What are the 2 major business sales promotion tools ?
sales contests and conventions (trade shows)
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What is advertising?
Any paid form of non personal pre, promo of ideas, goods, services by an identified sponsor
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How to set advertising objective?
informative, persuasive, reminder
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What are the 3 factors to consider when setting advertising budget?
product life cycle, market share, competition
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When does a firm need larger ad budget? (4)
undifferentiated brands, heavy comp, high advertising clutter, plan to build or take market share
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How to evaluate ad effectiveness? (3)
return on ad investment, communication effects, sales and profit effects
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What are the 4 interpersonal part of promotion mix?
Making sales and building cust relationship F2f comm Telephone comm Video or web conferencing
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What are the 2 most effective method in personal selling?
Building buyers’ preferences, convictions, actions Developing cust relationship
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What are the 6 major activities for managing a sales force?
Designing sales force strategy and structure Recruiting and selecting salespeople Training salespeople Compensating salespeople Supervising salespeople Evaluating salespeople
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What are role and impact of PR? (3)
Lower cost than ad Stronger impact on public awareness (More credible) Has power to engage cust
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What's the new direct marketing model? (3)
Complete model for doing business Fastest growing form of mktg Become more internet-based
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What is direct and digital mktg? (5)
Engaging directly w carefully targeted indiv cust (w/o intermediaries) Obtain immediate response Cultivate lasting cust relationship Non-public, immediate, customised, interactive promotional tool Utilise cust databases
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What are the benefits to BUYERS if firm utilises direct and digital marketing? (4)
Convenience Ready access to many products Interactive and immediate Access to comparative info about companies, products, rivals
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What are the benefits to SELLERS if firm utilises direct and digital marketing ? (5)
Flexible Tool to build cust relationship Low cost efficient Fast alter to reach market Access to buyers not reachable thru other channels
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What are the 2 types of online marketing?
email / placing ads and promotion online
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What are the 5 forms of traditional direct marketing?
direct mail, catalog, telemktg, direct response tv, kiosk
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What are the challenges for web based catalogs?
lack emotional appeal, still require marketing
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What is selective attention?
our ability to focus on the most important information when there are other distractions
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What is selective distortion?
interpreting information to fit existing beliefs, even if it alters the original meaning.
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What is selective retention?
Remembering information that aligns with existing beliefs and forgetting contradictory information
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What are the 4 A?
acceptability, affordability, accessibility, awareness
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What are the 4 E?
Experience, Exchange, everywhere, evangelism
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What are the 4 C?
customer solution, customer cost, convenience, communication
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What is variety seeking buying behaviour?
Refers to individuals switching among products, categories, or brands to avoid the decreasing utility due to repeat purchases or consumption of the same product
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What is dissonance reducing buying behaviour?
highly involved in the decisioning process and is unable to differentiate between different options does not have enough information based on which to make a decision
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What is operational excellence?
firm leading its industry in price and convenience
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What are the 3 types of vertical marketing systems?
Corporate, contractual, administered
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What is corporate marketing system?
integrates successive stages of production and distribution under single ownership
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What is contractual marketing system?
consist of independent firms at different levels of production and distribution who join together through contracts to obtain more economies or sales impact
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What is administered marketing system? (2)
few dominant channel members w/o common ownership ownership comes from size and power
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What to analyse when looking at consumer needs?
cost and feasibility
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How to set channel objectives (4 steps)?
targeted levels of customer service what segments to serve best channels to use minimising the cost of meeting customer service requirement
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How to identify major channel alternatives (4)?
types of intermediaries numbers of marketing intermediaries responsibilities of channel members intensity of distribution
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What are the 3 types of distribution?
intensive, selective, exclusive
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How to evaluate channel design decisions (3)?
economic criteria, control, adaptive criteria
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How to classify retailers? 3
amount of service, product line, relative price
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What are the 3 types of wholesalers?
merchant, agents and brokers, manufacturers' sales branches
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How to set up an online presence? (4)
online social networks website placing ads / promotion online using email
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How to create customer delight?
Exceed customer value and satisfaction expectations