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Business Principles EXAM 3
Ch13-16
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Business
Undergraduate 2
08/12/2015

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What is marketing?
Definition
The activity set of institutions, and process for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society as a large
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What marketing era is associated with mass production?
Definition
The production era
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The marketing concept is based what three elements?
Definition
Customer, service and profit orientation
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What is the definition of a product?
Definition
Any physical, good, or service that satisfies a want or need plus anything that would enhance the product in the eyes of the consumer
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Listeing to customers and other stakeholders is key what marketing function?
Definition
Marketing research
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Why use secondary date first in marketing research?
Definition
to avoid incurring unnecessary expenses
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What are the techniques commonly used to collect primary data in marketing research?
Definition
Telephone, online, mail, and personal surveys
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What is the B2B market?
Definition
All the individuals that want goods and services to use in producing other goods and services to sell, rent or supply to others
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What determines if a product is classified a consumer or industrial product?
Definition
The buyer’s reason for buying- that is, the end use of the product
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What is target marketing?
Definition
The market that the organization decides to serve and sell to
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What does psychographic segmentation look at?
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Group’s values attitudes and interests
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What is the goal of relationship marketing?
Definition
To keep each individual consumer over time by offering them new products that exactly meets their needs
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What is “installations?”
Definition
Consists of major capital equipment such as new factories and heavy machinery
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What is a trademark?
Definition
A brand that has exclusive legal protection for both its name and design
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When consumers reach the point of brand insistence; the product becomes what classification?
Definition
A specialty good
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What is a brand management team?
Definition
A team used to bolster the overall effort of the brand manager who is responsible for new product development
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What happens to the marketing strategy as products move through the product life cycle?
Definition
Marketing managers will make strategic changes as needed to start a new growth cycle
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What is the primary basis used to set product prices?
Definition
Cost
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What is break-even analysis?
Definition
The process used to determine profitability at various levels of sales
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What is high-low pricing?
Definition
High-low pricing is setting prices that are higher than everyday low pricing (EDLP) stores, but having many special sales where the prices are lower than competitors.
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What is Demand-oriented pricing?
Definition
Demand-orientation pricing is pricing on the basis of consumer demand rather than cost or some other calculation
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What is nonprice competition?
Definition
Marketers competing on product attributes other than price
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How can small firms succeed against larger competitors?
Definition
By adding value to their product offering
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What are the utilities commonly provided by marketing intermediaries?
Definition
Form, Time, Place, Possession, Info, and Service
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What is the information utility?
Definition
Adding value to products by opening two-way flows of information between marketing participants
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What is the place utility?
Definition
Adding value to products by having them located where ppl want them
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What are the two basic types of merchant wholesales?
Definition
Full-service and limited functions
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What is a full-service wholesaler?
Definition
Merchant wholesalers who perform all of the distribution functions
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What is a rack jobber wholesaler?
Definition
Limited-function wholesalers who furnish shelves full of merchandise to retailers who sell these items on consignment
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What are agents and brokers and how do they differ from merchant wholesalers?
Definition
Agents and brokers earn commission or fees based on the percentage of the sales revenues, while merchant wholesalers earn profit from the sale of goods. Agents maintain long-term relationships with the people they represent where as brokers are usually for temporary use
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What is a manufacture’s agent?
Definition
Agents that may represent several producers in a specific territory, as long as they do not represent competing producers
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What is an exclusive distribution strategy?
Definition
Distribution that sends products to only one retail outlet in a given geographic area
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What is telemarketing?
Definition
The sale of goods and services by telephone
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What is multilevel marketing?
Definition
Salespeople earn commissions on their own sales, creating commissions for the “upliners” who recruited them, and receive commission from any “downliners” they recruit to sell
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What is outbound logistics?
Definition
Moving finished product and info to business buyers and to the consumers
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What transportation mode moves the greatest volume of goods and services in the U.S?
Definition
Rail
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What are distribution warehouses?
Definition
Facility that gathers and redistributes products
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What is the goal of promotion?
Definition
To inform and remind people in a target market about specific products, eventually persuading them to participate in an exchange
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What is interactive promotion?
Definition
Promotion process that allows marketers to go beyond a monologue, where sellers try to persuade buyers to buy things, to a dialogue in which buyers and sellers work together to create mutually beneficial exchange relationships
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Why use online advertising?
Definition
It offers the greatest potential for meaningful interaction between buyers and sellers
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Which will produce better results; country or global promotion?
Definition
Country
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In B2C sales a salesperson do no spend much time ______ a customer.
Definition
Prospecting or qualifying
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What is the definition of publicity?
Definition
Any information about a product or an organization that is communicated to the public through the media and is not paid or controlled by the sponsor
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How much control do a firm have over publicity?
Definition
Little
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What are the benefits of virtual trade shows?
Definition
Allows B2B buyers to see products on the Internet 24 hours a day, 365 days a year without having to leave their office
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What is viral marketing?
Definition
Describes everything from paying customers to say positive things on the Internet to setting up multilevel selling schemes whereby customers get commission for directing their friends to specific websites
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What is a podcast?
Definition
Distribution method for audio and video programs via the Internet that lets users subscribe to a number of files and feeds
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What is the purpose of using a pull strategy in sales promotion?
Definition
To convince consumers to go to the store and ask for the products
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