Multiple choice Flashcards
Touch Point represents the level at which the firm stars to make a profit.
true or false
false
A vendor for Ford Motor Company received the following message from one of Ford’s marketing managers: “As we move forward during the
21st century, it is incumbent upon us to inform you that Ford is committed to building profitable customer relationships by creating
environmentally better cars and getting them to market faster at lower costs.
“ The marketing manager is most likely referring to Ford’s
________.
Selecione uma opção de resposta:
1. business objectives
2. market tactics
3. business portfolio
4. mission statement
5. vision statement
Mission statement
Among the following which is the best advice about creating research questionnaires?
Selecione uma opção de resposta:
1. Ask personal questions in the middle part of the questionnaire.
2. Use difficult vocabulary to differentiate between educated and non-educated respondents.
3. Avoid asking any type personal questions like age and gender since they may make some respondents uncomfortable.
4. Gather individual psychological information because they may reveal ‘hidden’ segments.
5. When the questionnaire has more than 100 questions, questions should be presented in random order to keep respondents
engaged.
- Gather individual psychological information because they may reveal ‘hidden’ segments.
We discussed a research project where the researchers found that the convenience stores that sold more tended to have poorer customer
service (i.e., store personnel did not greet, smile, talk with customers). This research illustrates that:
- The products sold at convenience stores have a negative brand image.
- Consumers who buy at convenience stores are usually in a bad mood and tend to score low in happiness surveys.
- Managers do not always have a good understanding of their own business and the goals of consumers.
- Convenience stores are a feasible job location for individuals with an introverted personality.
- Treating certain types of customers poorly can be used to create anger, which tends to motivate buying in convenience stores.
- Managers do not always have a good understanding of their own business and the goals of consumers.
Starbucks has an annual plan in place to deal with the company’s current SBUs and their operations. However, as a growth-oriented firm,
Starbucks is interested in both domestic and international markets. This requires Starbucks to constantly monitor the environment and adapt
to the opportunities with which it is presented. To take advantage of its changing marketing opportunities, it is most important for Starbucks
to have which of the following in place?
- penetration pricing
- value-delivery network
- strategic plan
- profit analysis
- supporting objectives
- strategic plan
When a company lengthens its product line beyond its current range, it is ________.
- product mixing
- product line filling
- building brand equity
- increasing product depth
- product line stretching
- product line stretching
A key difference between retailing and wholesaling is that:
Selecione uma opção de resposta:
1. Retailers tend to sell at lower prices than do wholesalers.
2. Retailing tends to provide more personalized customer service than wholesaling.
3. Brand image matters more for retailers than to wholesalers.
4. Retailers sell to the end-consumer while wholesalers sell to those buying for resale or business use.
5. Only retailers engage in marketing campaigns while wholesales tend to promote via trade shows.
- Retailers sell to the end-consumer while wholesalers sell to those buying for resale or business use.
_____________ consists of short-term incentives to encourage the immediate purchase of a product or service.
- Push strategy
- Re-positioning
- Introduction strategy
- Sales promotion
- Re-branding
- Sales promotion
Consumers use price less to judge the quality of a product when they ________.
- lack information
- are shopping for a specialty item
- have experience with the product
- cannot physically examine the product
- lack skills to use the product
- have experience with the product
When it comes to product quality: quality level can vary, quality consistency should not vary.
True or false
True
All of the following conditions support market-penetration pricing EXCEPT which one?
- Production and distribution costs must fall as sales volume increases.
- The opportunity to raise prices must be present.
- The market must be highly price sensitive.
- The low price must help keep out the competition.
- A low price will produce more market growth.
- The opportunity to raise prices must be present.
We discussed in class research on patronage rewards where the researchers investigated the effect of giving customers a longer loyalty card (with X + 1 slots) where one slot was already stamped versus a regular loyalty card (with X slots). Results of that research showed that:
- The shorter loyalty card requires less consumer effort, and as a result were completed faster.
- Loyalty cards of all types have been losing their effectiveness in developed countries.
- These types of initiatives can bring confusion, and therefore should be avoided.
- Consumers have an equally negative reaction to both types of loyalty card.
- Consumers with the longer loyalty card were more likely to complete the remaining empty slots.
- Consumers with the longer loyalty card were more likely to complete the remaining empty slots.
Pricing strategies are influenced by all of the following factors, except:
- Exchange rates.
- Political conditions.
- Recycling patterns.
- Inflation.
- Stage of PLC.
- Recycling patterns.
One advantage of using a channel of distribution over selling direct to consumers is that each channel member plays a ________ in the
channel.
- random role
- self-interested role
- specialized role
- minor role
- disciplinary role
- specialized role
As talked about in class, all of the following topics are taken into account when deciding where to locate outlet stores, except:
- Cannibalization.
- Consumer’s desire to make the trip worthwhile.
- The distance to airports.
- Amount of off-season business.
- Land prices.
- The distance to airports.
________ is the place a product occupies in the consumer’s mind relative to competitors’ products.
- Product position
- Cognitive location
- Product imagination
- Product placement
- Market segmentation
- Product position
Demographic variables are frequently used in market segmentation because they ________.
- create more easily reached segments
- are easy and cheap to measure
- involve fewer attributes to consider
- do not involve stereotypes
- create smaller segments
- are easy and cheap to measure
Indicate which statement is wrong:
- Marketing has increasingly lost its status as an authority.
- Likert scales provide less information than do dichotomous questions.
- Branding is closely associated with reputation.
- Low and middle class consumers tend to display their brands more than do the very rich.
- Fashion comes from people’s desire to identify and distinguish different social classes.
- Likert scales provide less information than do dichotomous questions.
All are characteristics of a service, except?
- variability
- incompensability
- perishability
- inseparability
- intangibility
- incompensability
Which of the following is NOT a step in the strategic planning process?
- designing the business portfolio
- defining the company mission
- setting company objectives and goals
- planning marketing and other functional strategies
- identifying the company’s culture
- identifying the company’s culture
In which stage of the PLC are promotional expenditures towards consumer awareness especially high?
- introduction
- maturity
- growth
- adoption
- product development
- introduction
When General Motors provides payments or price reductions to its new car dealers as rewards for participating in advertising and sales support programs, it is granting a/an
________.
- promotional allowance
- price break
- trade credit
- functional discount
- trade discount
- promotional allowance