Advertising and Promotion Exam Materials
Course Introduction
Advertising and Promotion explores the fundamental concepts, strategies, and practices used to create effective communication campaigns that influence consumer behavior and build brand awareness. The course examines the roles and functions of advertising and promotional tools such as public relations, sales promotion, digital marketing, and personal selling within the broader context of integrated marketing communications. Students will analyze target audiences, develop creative messaging strategies, and evaluate media options to optimize campaign effectiveness. Through case studies and hands-on projects, learners gain practical experience in planning, executing, and assessing advertising and promotional efforts in dynamic business environments.
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Marketing An Introduction 12th Edition by Gary Armstrong
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Chapter 1: Marketing: Creating and Capturing Customer Value
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Q1) A market is a segment of potential consumers who share a common need or want.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) What is marketing? Briefly describe the marketing process. Answer: Marketing can be defined as the process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships in order to capture value from customers in return.The marketing process consists of five steps.In the first four steps,companies work to understand consumers,create customer value,and build strong customer relationships.In the final step,companies reap the rewards of creating superior customer value.By creating value for consumers,they in turn capture value from consumers in the form of sales,profits,and long-term customer equity.
Q3) Organizations that follow the societal marketing concept most likely practice socially and environmentally responsible marketing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Company and Marketing Strategy: Partnering to Build Customer Relationships
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Q1) The Four Ps concept takes into consideration the seller's view of the market. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following best describes a marketing department with a functional organization?
A) A company creates large teams, or even whole divisions, to serve domestic and international markets.
B) Marketing managers are responsible for developing marketing strategies and plans for their specific markets or customers, and the company is organized around the needs of specific customer segments.
C) A product manager develops and implements a complete strategy and marketing program for a specific product or brand.
D) Sales and marketing people are assigned to specific countries, regions, and districts.
E) Different marketing activities are headed by specialists such as sales managers, advertising managers, marketing research managers, and customer service managers.
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Analyzing the Marketing Environment
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Q1) The Consumer Product Safety Commission has created complex regulations for testing new drugs before they are sold to the public.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Minority groups that question a company's marketing decisions most likely belong to ________ publics.
A) general
B) local
C) citizen-action
D) media
E) financial
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is a demographic trend observed in the United States?
A) More people are working remotely.
B) Fewer women are entering the workforce.
C) Literary rates are dropping in the United States.
D) More people are migrating from the suburbs to the cities.
E) More people are shifting toward the manufacturing industry.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Managing Marketing Information to Gain Customer Insights
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Q1) The objective of ________ research is to gather preliminary information that will help define the problem and suggest hypotheses.
A) descriptive
B) exploratory
C) causal
D) corrective
E) experimental
Q2) CRM analysts develop data warehouses and use sophisticated data mining techniques to unearth patterns in customer data.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ideally,a sample should be representative so that a researcher can make accurate estimates of the thoughts and behaviors of the larger population.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the steps involved in the marketing research process.
Q5) The Internet is especially well suited to qualitative research.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Understanding Consumer and Business Buyer Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following sources of product information can marketers control completely?
A) public sources
B) personal sources
C) commercial sources
D) experimental sources
E) experiential sources
Q2) Ben usually buys new devices such as PDAs,DVRs,and MP3 players only after his friends and family start owning these devices.In this case,Ben is an innovator.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Advertisements are internal stimuli that influence consumer needs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The buying center consists of key decision makers from both the buying organization and the supplier.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the major types of buying situations.
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Chapter 6: Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy: Creating Value for Target Customers
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Q1) When an effective program can be designed for attracting and serving a chosen segment,the segment is best described as ________.
A) accessible
B) measurable
C) reachable
D) actionable
E) differentiable
Q2) Briefly describe the characteristics of effective market segments.
Q3) Pacific Fisheries groups its customers by regions in the U.S.,such as Midwest,Northeast,and Southwest.For each region,Pacific Fisheries tailors a different set of advertisements and promotions.Based on which of the following segmentation variables does the firm divide its market?
A) behavioral factors
B) personality characteristics
C) geographic location
D) benefits sought
E) demographics
Q4) Compare and contrast local and individual marketing.
Q5) How do businesses segment their markets?
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Chapter 7: Products,Services,and Brands: Building Customer Value
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Q1) Most major new innovations are unsought until consumers become aware of them through advertising.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Differentiate between line extensions and brand extensions.Provide an example of each.
Q3) BerryBerry is a fruit juice company that has traditionally sold three varieties of mixed-fruit juices: DazzleBerry,AquaBerry,and GloBerry.The company wants to add more products to its product line.In this case,which of the following is an example of co-branding by BerryBerry?
A) The company introduces BerryBliss, a dried berry snack mix for kids.
B) BerryBerry adds a new fruit juice flavor, TangyBerry.
C) The company introduces a line of flavored milk and yogurt under a new brand name.
D) The company creates a new brand, NatureFresh, for a line of cosmetics based on fruit flavors and colors.
E) BerryBerry teams up with SFX, a sporting goods company, to introduce a line of energy bars called BerryBerry SFX.
Q4) What are the functions of product labels? What marketing role do labels play?
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Chapter 8: New Product Development and Product Life
Cycle
Strategies
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Q1) Explain what happens during the concept testing stage of new product development.
Q2) Product development usually costs the least among all the steps of the new product development process.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The maturity stage of the PLC is characterized by a slowdown in sales growth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Internal sources of new product ideas for a company include its ________.
A) customers
B) distributors
C) suppliers
D) employees
E) competitors
Q5) When developing a new product,concept testing should ideally be followed by marketing strategy development.
A)True
B)False
Q6) List and explain some of the reasons why new products fail. Page 10
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Chapter 9: Pricing: Understanding and Capturing Customer Value
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Q1) Explain how companies that market their products internationally decide what prices to charge in different countries.
Q2) The strategy of setting a low initial price to attract a large number of buyers quickly and win a large market share is referred to as ________.
A) market-skimming pricing
B) market-penetration pricing
C) value-added pricing
D) target costing
E) deceptive pricing
Q3) ________ prices are carried in buyers' minds and used when looking at a given product.
A) Captive-product
B) Reference
C) Promotional
D) Geographical
E) Dynamic
Q4) Distinguish between market-skimming pricing and market-penetration pricing.
Q5) What is segmented pricing? Briefly describe the different types of segmented pricing.
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Chapter 10: Marketing Channels: Delivering Customer Value
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Q1) A company that has no intermediary levels sells its products directly to its customers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In which of the following situations is a producer guaranteed full control over product sales?
A) a corporate marketing channel
B) a direct marketing channel
C) a contractual distribution channel
D) a horizontal marketing system
E) an administered marketing system
Q3) With a vendor-managed inventory system,the supplier takes full responsibility for managing inventories and deliveries.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Differentiate between the three types of franchises and provide examples of each type.
Q5) Differentiate between intensive distribution,exclusive distribution,and selective distribution strategies,Provide examples of products that would be appropriate for each.
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Chapter 11: Retailing and Wholesaling
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Q1) Category killers are superstores that carry a deep assortment of a particular product line.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Shopper marketing involves focusing the entire marketing process-from product and brand development to logistics,promotion,and merchandising-toward turning shoppers into buyers at the point of sale.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Department stores carry narrow product lines with deep assortments within those lines.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is retailing? Explain the concept of shopper marketing.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A majority of shoppers who buy products at traditional stores first check them out online.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Engaging Consumers and Communicating
Customer Value: Advertising and Public Relations
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Q1) Comparative advertising is a type of persuasive advertising.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the primary disadvantage of outdoor advertising?
A) It provides low flexibility.
B) It permits low repeat exposure.
C) It provides poor positional selectivity.
D) It provides little audience selectivity.
E) It has high message competition.
Q3) Which of the following promotion tools would best reach a geographically dispersed mass audience in a short period of time?
A) direct mailing
B) telephone marketing
C) door-to-door selling
D) television advertising
E) printed-catalog marketing
Q4) With a suitable example,show how advancements in technology help consumers avoid advertisement cluttering.What implications does this trend hold for advertisers?
Q5) What are the different functions of a public relations (PR)department?
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Chapter 13: Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
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Q1) Contests,premiums,and displays are tools solely used for trade promotions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Salespeople write up their completed activities in a(n)________.
A) sales quota report
B) profit-sharing plan
C) call plan
D) call report
E) expense report
Q3) Fruity Loop,a leading manufacturer of fruit-juices,introduces a new range of potato chips.To promote this new product,it offers a packet of potato chips free with every bottle of Fruity Loop juice.Which of the following promotion tools is Fruity Loop using in this case?
A) rebates
B) samples
C) coupons
D) advertising specialties
E) price packs
Q4) Differentiate between consumer promotions and trade promotions.Explain the various tools used in trade promotions.
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Chapter 14: Direct, Online, Social Media, and Mobile Marketing
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Q1) Viral marketing involves creating a Web site,video,e-mail,mobile message,advertisement,or other marketing event that is so infectious that customers will seek it out or pass it along to others.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a type of identity theft that uses deceptive e-mails and fraudulent Web sites to fool consumers into revealing their personal data?
A) cold calling
B) crowdcasting
C) viral marketing
D) phishing
E) crowdsourcing
Q3) Stephanie Archer has been saving her money to buy a BMW convertible.Archer has spent hours on the BMW Web site choosing the exterior and interior colors and studying the various options and models.In this case,Archer has been using BMW's marketing Web site.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe direct-response television (DRTV)marketing.
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Chapter 15: The Global Marketplace
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Q1) Channels of distribution within countries are similar across nations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Through which of the following routes do firms generally get into international marketing?
A) buying shares of an international company
B) shipping products to foreign customers
C) organizing an international division
D) establishing a joint venture
E) acquiring a foreign firm
Q3) Under management contracting,a domestic firm ________.
A) adopts management know-how from a foreign company
B) manufactures the products of a foreign company
C) exports its products to a foreign company
D) provides financial capital to a foreign company
E) exports management services to a foreign company
Q4) Income distribution generally remains constant across different types of economies.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Social Responsibility and Ethics
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Q1) Xorbate Blue is a relatively new food supplement that provides both high immediate satisfaction and high long-run benefits.Xorbate Blue is best classified as a salutary product.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Critics who assert that the marketing system promotes too much interest in material possessions are most likely concerned that the result of successful marketing will be
A) high-pressure selling tactics
B) unsustainable overconsumption
C) perceived obsolescence
D) planned obsolescence
E) deceptive pricing
Q3) An increase in private goods,such as cars,typically leads to an increased need for public services,such as parking spaces.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Define consumerism and environmentalism.
Q5) What is a sustainability vision?
Q6) Identify the major social criticisms of marketing.
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