Påståendefrågor Flashcards
Assume you want to increase the number of customers by applying the marketing concept. Which of the following strategies would be the most consistent with this approach?
A) Target specific markets
B) Offer more product variety than competitors
C) Employ inexpensive labor
D) Reduce product costs
A) Target specific markets
Customer costs include anything the buyer must give up in order to obtain the benefits the product provides. The most obvious customer cost is
A) Price
B) Effort
C) Risk
D) Time
A) Price
Ansoff’s matrix (product-market mix) is a strategic marketing tool being used to plan for:
A) Product lifecycle changes
B) Business growth
C) New product development
D) Product positioning
B) Business growth
By converting indifferent customers into loyal ones through relationship marketing, companies can:
A) Avoid the necessity of improving customer service in the long run
B) Generate repeat sales
C) Increase the cost of maintaining existing customers
D) Start a process by which customers become bound contractually to the business
B) Generate repeat sales
Technological innovation in marketing has direct effects on the efficiency of business. Which of the following statements is true?
A) Technological innovation has complicated the production process, so products take longer to produce
B) Technological innovation has increased demand, therefore products cost more to distribute
C) Technological innovation allows for consumption in order to meet diverse customer needs
D) Technological innovation causes higher prices because of the distance that raw material has to travel
C) Technlogical innovation allows for consumption in order to meet diverse customer needs
The pricing strategy which starts with ideal price and targets the cost which ensures that set price will be met is classified as
A) Target costing
B) Marginal costing
C) Learning curve costing
D) Demand based costing
A) Target costing
The loss in sales because of poor quality raw materials have been used in production is concluded in companys?
A) Strengths
B) Weaknesses
C) Opportunities
D) Threats
C) Opportunities
The situation in which company is making more sales with its existing product is classified as
A) Market development
B) Market penetration
C) Product development
D) Diversification
B) Market penetration
Permanent and ordered division in society on basis of values and interests is called
A) Social class
B) Culture
C) Subculture
D) Both b and c
A) Social class
According to marketing four Ps, the credit terms can be classified as
A) Place
B) Product
C) Price
D) Promotion
C) Price
Considering the strategic planning, the ‘Organizations purpose’ statement is known as
A) Vision statement
B) Mission statement
C) Value proposition
D) Both a and b
B) Mission statement
In measuring consumer’s major AIO dimensions, the ‘activities’ includes
A) Social events
B) Social issues
C) Recreation
D) Both a and b
A) Social events
From the buyer’s point of view, the product is considered as
A) Customers cost
B) Customer solution
C) Convenient availability
D) Communication
A) Customers cost
The kind of products that does not provide immediate satisfaction neither provide long term benefits to consumers are classified as
A) Deficient products
B) Pleasing products
C) Salutary products
D) Desirable products
A) Deficient products
The SBU’s of a company with low market share and growth rate are considered in
A) Stars
B) Dogs
C) Cash Cows
D) Question marks
B) Dogs
The only element which is cause of income for company is
A) Price
B) Tax
C) Discount
D) Value added tax
A) Price
Evaluation of the profitability of each segment is called
A) Targeting
B) Market segmentation
C) Positioning
D) Differentiation
A) Targeting
The kind of products that provides immediate satisfaction and also provide long term benefits to consumers are classified as
A) deficient products
B) pleasing products
C) salutary products
D) desirable product
D) Desirable product
In growth-share matrix, the high growth and high share SBU’s are considered as
A) Stars
B) Cash Cows
C) Question marks
D) Dogs
A) Stars
The major pricing strategies does not includes A) competition based pricing B) customer value based pricing C) cost based pricing D) discount and bonus pricing
D) Discount and bonus pricing
The sum of variable costs and fixed costs is called
A) total costs
B) overhead costs
C) markup costs
D) both a and b
A) Total costs
The products or market offering bought by consumers for personal consumption are classified as
A) augmented product
B) consumer products
C) industrial products
D) intangible services
B) Consumer products
The buying of products such as ‘fast food’ is an example of
A) difficult products
B) sought services
C) sought products
D) convenient products
D) Convenient products
The Company?s key businesses are known as
A) Portfolio analysis
B) Strategic Business Units (SBU’s)
C) Both a and b
D) None of above
B) Strategic Business Units (SBU’s)
The customers who adopt new ideas and rarely are leaders are classified as
A) innovators
B) early majority
C) laggard
D) early adopter
B) Early majority
The social class group who rely heavily on inherited wealth is best classified as
A) upper middles
B) working class
C) lower uppers
D) upper uppers
D) Upper uppers
The procedure of arranging a product to occupy distinct place in target customers mind is called
A) Market segmentation
B) Targeting
C) Differentiation
D) Positioning
D) Positioning
The businesses and products collectively make a company’s
A) Business portfolio
B) Strategic plan
C) Mission statement
D) Vision statement
A) Business portfolio
The second step of value based pricing is to
A) determine incurred costs
B) design product
C) assess needs of customer
D) set target price
D) Set target price
The pricing strategy in which prices are based on cost of distribution and production plus fair return rate is classified as
A) cost based pricing
B) differentiated pricing
C) competitive pricing
D) value added pricing
A) Cost based pricing
The delivery and credit services are part of
A) marketing strategy
B) augmented product
C) non-augmented product
D) positioning strategy
B) Augmented product
The adopter group ‘early adopters’ is classified as
A) deliberate
B) guided by respect
C) skeptical
D) tradition bound
B) Guided by respect
In marketing analysis, the result evaluation of marketing activities is part of
A) Analysis
B) Planning
C) Implementation
D) Control
D) Control
The products or services having significant group of buyers who are willing to make purchase efforts are called
A) sought products
B) unsought products
C) specialty products
D) both a and b
C) Specialty products
The negative situational factors are part of
A) Strengths
B) Weaknesses
C) Opportunities
D) Threats
B) Weaknesses
The factors that must be considered while designing the pricing strategies are
A) price of competitors
B) strategies of competitors
C) marketing strategy
D) all of above
D) All of above
The movement by concerned government agencies and citizens towards improvement and protection of future and current living environment is called
A) consumerism
B) seller’s extrovert sellers
C) environmentalism
D) seller introvert seller
C) Environmentalism
The lot of marketing efforts are required to market the products and services for the product category called
A) unsought consumer products
B) specialty industrial products
C) industrial augmented products
D) sought primary products
A) unsought consumer products
The higher the is gap between product performance and customer expectations, the customer is
A) more satisfied
B) more dissatisfied
C) more delighted
D) none of the above
B) More dissatisfied
The type of value based pricing includes
A) good value pricing
B) cost plus pricing
C) value added pricing
D) both a and c
D) both a and c
The adopter group ‘innovators’ are
A) deliberate
B) venturesome
C) skeptical
D) tradition bound
B) Venturesome
Leveraging the mature Björn Borg brand by producing new underwear models, you use a:
A) Line extension
B) Brand extension
C) Multibrand
D) None of the above
A) Line extension
Which of the following statements is true?
A) The most powerful brand position builds around strong consumer beliefs and values
B) Employer branding is the differential effect that knowing the brand name has on customer response to the product and its marketing
C) Brands don’t need to be repositioned because of changing customer preferences or new competiton
D) None of the above
A) The most powerful brand position builds around strong consumer beliefs and values
Which of the following options represent the manufacturers’ sponsorship options?
A) Licensed brand
B) Co-brand
C) Private brand
D) All of the above
D) All of the above
What are the four choices that a company has when it comes to developing brands?
A) Line extensions, brand extensions, multibrands, new brands
B) Line awareness, brand extensions, multibrands, new brands
C) Line extension, brand promotion, multibrands, new brands
D) None of the above
A) Line extensions, brand extensions, multibrands, new brands
Co-branding is defined as: the practice of using the established brand names of two different companies on the same product.
A) True
B) False
A) True
A store brand (private brand) is created and owned by a manufacturer of a product or service.
A) True
B) False
B) False
Line extension refers to which of the following?
A) A brand created and owned by a reseller of a product or service
B) A company extends a current brand name to a new or modified product in a new category
C) A company extends existing brand names to new forms, colors, sizes or flavors
D) All of the above
C) A company extends existing brand names to new forms, colors, sizes or flavors