Quiz Flashcards

1
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A risk of marketing myopia is that sellers pay more attention to
A) their product’s profit margin than to their product’s price
B) the benefits and experiences produced by their products
C) the competition than to their product
D) their products than to customer needs

A

D

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The act of dividing a market into segments of customers is referred to as \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A)demand marketing 
B) target marketing 
C) market segregation
D) market segmentation
A

D

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Which of the following is NOT an element of marketing?
A)policy
B) price 
C)promotion 
D)product
A

A

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Ensuring that the product is available to the consumer when and where he wants it is considered during which phase of the marketing mix?
A) Price
B) Place
C) Promotion
D) Product
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B

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To be successful in the economic environment, marketers must pay attention to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A) changes in their marketing plans
B) the national debt
C) consumer spending patterns
D) their marketing budgets
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C

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\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is the total combined customer lifetime values of all the company's current and potential customers
A) share of a customer
B) customer life time value
C) customer equity 
D) profitability 
E) share of a market
A

C

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Sally purchased Brand X lotion. In comparing her perception of how the lotion performed to her expectations for Brand X lotion, Sally was measuring her level of ________.

A) customer perceived value
B) customer satisfaction
C) exchange 
D) demand 
E) customer life time value
A

A

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Afia, a team leader in charge of customer relationship management, is planning strategies for improving the profitability of her firm's least profitable but loyal customers. She is also examining methods for "firing" customers in this group who cannot be made profitable. To which of the following customer relationship groups do these customers belong?
A) butterflies
B) true friends
C) strangers
D) barnacles
E) short-term customers
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D

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Effective positioning begins with \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ the company's marketing offer from the competition in order to give consumers more perceived value.
A) pricing
B) aligning
C) differentiating
D) promoting
E) placing
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C

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The marketing environment is composed of ________.
A) the green environment and the demographic environment
B) strategic planning and the natural environment
C) the microenvironment and the macroenvironment
D) the minienvironment and the macroenvironment
E) the tactical environment and the strategic environment

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C

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The players close to the company that impact a firm's ability to serve its customers constitute \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
A) macroenivronement
B) microenvironment 
C) marketing environment
D) marketing mix
E) global environment
A

B

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Your marketing department is currently researching the size, density, location, age, and occupations of your target market. Which environment is being researched?
A) demographic 
B) psychographic
C) economic 
D) geographic
E) cultural
A

A

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This group is the wealthiest generation in Canadian history.
A) generation X 
B) baby boomers
C) millennials
D) seniors
E) tweens
A

B

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The \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ environment consists of factors that affect consumer purchasing power and spending patterns.
A) geological
B) politcal 
C) tech
D) economic
E) natural
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D

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The natural resources that are needed as inputs by marketers or that are affected by marketing activities are referred to as the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A) raw material market
B) natural environment
C) endangered environment
D) green movement
E) factors of production
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B

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a qualitative research method?
A) ethnographic research
B) descriptive research
C) exploratory research
D) focus group research
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B

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17
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When starting to gather data, marketing researchers typically begin with \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A) secondary data
B) primary data
C) survey data
D) focus group data
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A

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18
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Information collected from marketing surveys is an example of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ data.
A) experimental
B) primary
C) secondary
D) observational
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B

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A company hires trained researchers to go live in a growing community with an emerging economy. The researcher team's purpose is to study the community members in order to gain insights about how they live and what they desire. This is an example of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A) ethnographic research
B) experimental research
C) observational research
D) marketing research
A

A

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20
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Secondary data is desirable because it ______________.
A)includes information not usually accessible to a company
B) includes focus group data
C)includes survey information from consumers
D) includes information that a company has in its databases

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A

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The real value of marketing research is the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ it can provide to a company; that is, information that can give a company a strong advantage over the competition
A) customer insights
B) product testing
C) internal data
D) competitive edge
A

A

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A buyer's decisions are influenced by \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ such as the buyer's age and life-cycle stage, occupation, economic situation, lifestyle, and personality and self-concept.
A) personal characteristics
B) reference groups
C) perceptions
D) attitudes
E) psychographics
A

A

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23
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Although internal databases can usually be accessed more quickly and cheaply than other information, they are problematic because
A) the databases have mainly sales information.
B) info has limited use
C) the databases have mainly information on inventory.
D)there is too much information.

A

B

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24
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Each culture contains smaller \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, or groups of people with shared value systems based on common life experiences and situations.
A) alternative evaluations
B) cognitive dissonances
C) subcultures
D) social classes
E) occupations
A

C

25
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A shoe company uses ads featuring the members of a country music band with the hope that the band's fans will see them wearing the company's shoes and want to wear the same shoes. The shoe company is hoping that fans of the band view the band as a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A) membership group
B) reference group
C) brand personality
D) subculture
E) lifestyle
A

B

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A(n) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is a person's consistent evaluations, feelings, and tendencies toward an object or idea.
A) lifestyle
B) motive
C) belief
D) attitude
E) perception
A

D

27
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Maslow's theory is that \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ can be arranged in a hierarchy.
A) stimuli 
B) beliefs and attitudes
C) perceptions
D) human needs
E) decisions
A

D

28
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Many major purchases result in \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, or discomfort caused by postpurchase conflict.
A) need recognition
B) cognitive dissonance
C) purchase decisions
D) legitimizations
E) dissatisfaction
A

B

29
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The buying process starts with \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, in which the buyer recognizes a problem
A) need recognition
B) information search
C) evaluation of alternatives
D) purchase decision
E) separation of needs and wants
A

A

30
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Positioning a new chocolate bar brand as "the chocolate bar with the fewest calories" is positioning based on:
A) product attributes 
B) product benefits
C) product values and ideals 
D) user imagery
E) brand equity
A

A

31
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Product planners consider products and services on three levels. The most basic level is the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, which addresses the question, "What is the buyer really buying?"
A) actual product 
B) augmented product 
C) core customer value 
D) co-branding 
E) exchange
A

C

32
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The strongest brands go beyond attributes or benefit positioning; they are positioned on
A) desirable benefit
B) good packaging
C) service inseparability 
D) strong beliefs and values 
E) customer image
A

D

33
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Once the prototype of Wainwright Industries' new riding lawnmower, made especially for women, passes product tests, the next step is \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A) test marketing
B) focus group surveys 
C) commercialization 
D) post-testing
E) business analysis
A

A

34
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The fundamental asset underlying brand equity is \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_–the value of the customer relationships that the brand creates.
A) the customer mix 
B) customer equity
C) line equity
D) service variability
E) the service encounter
A

B

35
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What are the stages, in correct order, of the product life cycle?
A) Introduction, Maturity, Growth, and Decline
B) Introduction, Growth, Decline, and Maturity
C) Introduction, Growth, Maturity, and Decline
D) Growth, Introduction, Maturity, and Decline
E) Decline, Introduction, Growth, and Maturity

A

C

36
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An increasing number of retailers and wholesalers have created their own \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, also called store brands.
A) unsought products 
B) private brands 
C) specialty products 
D) service variability 
E) shopping products
A

B

37
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Price is the only element in the marketing mix that produces \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A) revenue 
B) variable costs 
C) expenses 
D) fixed costs 
E) stability
A

A

38
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With \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ pricing, price is set to match consumers' perceptions of product value.
A) variable cost 
B) cost-plus 
C) cost-based 
D) value-based 
E) everyday low
A

D

39
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\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ pricing involves setting prices based on the costs for producing, distributing, and selling the product plus a fair rate of return for the company's efforts and risks.
A) Value-based 
B) Fixed cost 
C) Cost-based 
D) Variable 
E) Skimming
A

C

40
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The relationship between the price charged and the resulting demand level can be shown as the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
A) demand curve 
B) variable cost 
C) target cost 
D) break-even chart 
E) experience curve
A

A

41
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Rent, electricity, and executive salaries are examples of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ costs.
A) fixed 
B) variable 
C) total 
D) accumulated 
E) marketing
A

A

42
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Which of the following is a cost-based approach to pricing?
A) value-based pricing 
B) going-rate pricing
C) break-even pricing 
D) good-value pricing 
E) EDLP
A

C

43
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Under \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, the market consists of many buyers and sellers who trade over a range of prices rather than a single market price.
A) pure competition 
B) monopolistic competition 
C) oligopolistic competition 
D) a pure monopoly 
E) socialism
A

B

44
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\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is the product life cycle period when sales fall off and profits drop.
A)Introduction 
B)Growth 
C)Maturity 
D)Decline 
E)Development
A

D

45
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Which of the following are major categories in the promotion mix?
A) advertising, sales promotion B) sales promotion, positioning C) positioning, public relations D) positioning, advertising
E) advertising, indirect marketing

A

A

46
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More companies are adopting the concept of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, which carefully coordinates the company's many communication channels to deliver a clear, consistent, and compelling message about the organization and its brands.
A) integrated marketing communications 
B) integrated personal selling
C) integrated competitive methods 
D) non personal communication channels 
E) buzz marketing
A

A

47
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Clean and Clear, a large producer of all-natural hair care and beauty products, is most likely to use which of the promotion mix strategies to gain increased shelf space in stores and to gain increased customer sales?
A) push
B) pull
C) push and pull 
D) pulse 
E) continuity
A

C

48
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Suave ran ads featuring a woman with beautiful hair questioning "Suave or Matrix? Can You Tell?" This is an example of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A) informative advertising 
B) reminder advertising 
C) comparative advertising 
D) secondary advertising 
E) buzz marketing
A

C

49
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Though the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ method of setting an advertising budget is simple to use and helps management think about the relationships among promotion spending, selling price, and profit per unit, it wrongly views sales as the cause of promotion rather than the result.
A)percentage-of-sales
B)affordable
C)competitive-parity
D)objective-and-task 
E)regression
A

A

50
Q

________ is the first step in creating effective advertising messages—deciding what general message will be communicated to consumers.
A)Eliminating advertising clutter B)Message strategy
C)Media opportunity
D)Rewarding consumers E)Selecting the medium

A

B

51
Q
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is a measure of the percentage of people in the target market who are exposed to the ad campaign during a given period of time
A) Reach
B) Qualitative value 
C) Impact 
D)Premium
E) Frequency
A

A

52
Q
Which of the following functions is least likely to be performed by a public relations department?
A)product publicity 
B)lobbying
C)public affairs
D)investor relations 
E)media vehicle selection
A

E

53
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An email from Amazon.ca offers free shipping on your next purchase of more than $35. This is an example of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A) sales promotion 
B) personal selling
C) public relations
D) an advertising objective
E) a push strategy
A

A

54
Q
Companies facing the challenge of setting prices for the first time can choose between two broad strategies: market- penetration pricing and \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A) market-level pricing 
B) market-competitive pricing 
C) market-skimming pricing 
D) market-price lining 
E) market-price filling
A

C

55
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In Lima, Peru, 20 stores specializing in selling the same quality and brand of wheat products are located on one street. An individual seller cannot charge more than the going price without the risk of losing business to the other stores. This is an example of what type of market?
A) pure competition
B) monopolistic competition 
C) oligopolistic competition 
D) pure monopoly
E) socialist
A

A

56
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The relationship between the price charged and the resulting demand level can be shown as the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A) demand curve 
B) variable cost
C) target cost 
D) break-even chart 
E) experience curve
A

A

57
Q
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ distribution is a product distribution strategy that involves stocking a product in as many outlets as possible.
A)Selective 
B)Exclusive 
C)Intensive 
D)Exponential 
E)Comprehensive
A

C

58
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Which type of channel arrangement does a franchise organization most likely follow?
A)administered vertical marketing system
B)horizontal marketing system C)contractual vertical marketing system
D)corporate vertical marketing system
E)direct marketing system

A

C

59
Q

Vertical conflicts in distribution channels are conflicts that occur between ________.
A)same levels in the same channel
B)different levels of the same channel
C)same levels of different channels
D)different levels of different channels
E)retailers and customers

A

B