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Business Fundamentals provides a comprehensive introduction to the core concepts and practices that underpin the world of business. The course covers essential topics such as organizational structures, management principles, finance, marketing, operations, and business ethics. Students will gain an understanding of how businesses operate in local and global environments, explore the roles of entrepreneurs and managers, and examine the impact of decision-making on organizational success. Through case studies, interactive discussions, and practical assignments, learners will develop foundational skills necessary for effective problem-solving and informed participation in todays dynamic business environment.
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Marketing An Introduction 13th Edition by Gary Armstrong
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Chapter 1: Marketing: Creating Customer Value and Engagement
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Q1) The overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction is referred to as ________.
A) perceived-value management
B) societal marketing
C) customer relationship management
D) partner relationship management
E) enterprise resource planning
Answer: C
Q2) According to the five-step model of the marketing process, the first step in marketing is ________.
A) capturing value from customers to create profits and customer equity
B) constructing an integrated marketing program that delivers superior value
C) engaging customers, building profitable relationships, and creating customer delight
D) understanding the marketplace and customer needs and wants
E) designing a customer-driven marketing strategy
Answer: D
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Build Customer Engagement, Value, and Relationships
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Q1) According to the Boston Consulting Group approach, how can a company classify its SBUs on a growth-share matrix?
Answer: The growth-share matrix defines four types of SBUs:
1. Stars: Stars are high-growth, high-share businesses or products. They often need heavy investments to finance their rapid growth. Eventually their growth will slow down, and they will turn into cash cows.
2. Cash cows: Cash cows are low-growth, high-share businesses or products. These established and successful SBUs need less investment to hold their market share. Thus, they produce a lot of the cash that the company uses to pay its bills and support other SBUs that need investment.
3. Question marks: Question marks are low-share business units in high-growth markets. They require a lot of cash to hold their share, let alone increase it. Management has to think hard about which question marks it should try to build into stars and which should be phased out.
4. Dogs: Dogs are low-growth, low-share businesses and products. They may generate enough cash to maintain themselves but do not promise to be large sources of cash.
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Chapter 3: Analyzing the Marketing Environment
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Q1) Stringent product regulations have helped to lower research costs and decrease time between new product ideas and their introduction to the market.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following is part of the microenvironment of a firm's marketing environment?
A) the political state of the country in which the firm exists
B) the cultural forces that exist in a society
C) the suppliers who work with the company
D) the technological resources available to the company
E) the different demographic trends in the market
Answer: C
Q3) A bank that helps a company finance transactions is both a financial intermediary and a financial public.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Managing Marketing Information to Gain Customer Insights
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Q1) Experimental research is best suited for gathering ________ information.
A) exploratory
B) causal
C) ethnographic
D) interactive
E) descriptive
Q2) Which of the following would most likely use informal research methods to obtain marketing insights?
A) multinational firms
B) pharmaceutical firms
C) brick-and-mortar companies
D) not-for-profit organizations
E) family-owned businesses
Q3) The response rate in mail surveys is often very low.
A)True
B)False
Q4) CRM analysts use big data and marketing analytics to unearth patterns in customer data.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Understanding Consumer and Business Buyer Behavior
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Q1) Explain the cultural factors that influence consumer behavior.
Q2) Which of the following is the means by which companies post purchase requests online and invite suppliers to bid for their business?
A) extranet links
B) intranet connections
C) trading exchanges
D) traditional procurement
E) reverse auctions
Q3) It's advisable for a company to fit its products into existing attitude patterns rather than attempt to change them.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Personal sources of information normally inform the buyer, but commercial sources legitimize or evaluate products for the buyer.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of e-procurement?
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Q6) Explain how the decision process in the business market and consumer market differ.
Chapter 6: Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy: Creating Value for Target Customers
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Q1) Brand differences are worth promoting if they satisfy certain criteria. What are these criteria?
Q2) The practice of tailoring products and marketing programs to suit the tastes of specific individuals and locations is referred to as ________.
A) niche marketing
B) micromarketing
C) segmented marketing
D) global marketing
E) undifferentiated marketing
Q3) When a company interacts one-on-one with large numbers of customers to create customer-unique value by designing products and services tailor-made to individual needs, it is engaging in ________.
A) concentrated marketing
B) mass marketing
C) mass customization
D) differentiated marketing
E) local marketing
Q4) Explain the four major steps in designing a customer-driven marketing strategy.
Q5) Briefly describe the characteristics of effective market segments.
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Chapter 7: Products, Services, and Brands: Building Customer Value
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Q1) Which link in the service profit chain emphasizes superior employee selection and training?
A) healthy service profits and growth
B) satisfied and loyal customers
C) greater service value
D) satisfied and productive service employees
E) internal service quality
Q2) Non-Dairy Delight, a manufacturer of soy milk, attracts new customers by adding cinnamon, pumpkin, and vanilla flavors to its traditional product. In this case, the company has developed its brand with ________.
A) brand extensions
B) line extensions
C) multibranding
D) new product lines
E) co-branding
Q3) Differentiate between line extensions and brand extensions. Provide an example of each.
Q4) What is a product mix? What are the four dimensions of a product mix?
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Q5) What is a brand? What are the advantages of branding?
Q6) What are the two ways in which a company can extend its product line?
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Chapter 8: New Product Development and Product
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Q1) What is test marketing? What role does it play in new product development? What factors do firms consider when determining whether or not to conduct test marketing?
Q2) During the ________ stage of the product life cycle, product sales may plunge to zero, or drop to a low level where they continue for many years.
A) decline
B) growth
C) maturity
D) ideation
E) analysis
Q3) The amount of test marketing needed is the same for each new product.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An innovation management system would most likely be used by ________.
A) managers to update details about customer information
B) brand managers to collect, review, and evaluate new product ideas
C) suppliers to access inventory information
D) product managers to track logistics of a new product
E) human resource managers to update information on employee incentives
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Q5) Distinguish between a product idea, a product concept, and a product image.
Chapter 9: Pricing: Understanding and Capturing Customer Value
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Q1) Retailers like Walmart and Target carry less-expensive versions of established brand name products or new lower-price lines. They have adopted a ________ pricing strategy.
A) high-low
B) target return
C) cost-plus
D) good-value
E) market-skimming
Q2) Establishing prices for razor blades that must be used with a razor blade system is known as ________ pricing.
A) by-product
B) market-penetration
C) product line
D) product bundle
E) captive-product
Q3) Explain the concept of price elasticity.
Q4) What is a demand curve? Why is it useful to marketers?
Q5) What is customer value-based pricing? Describe the two types of value-based pricing.
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Chapter 10: Marketing Channels: Delivering Customer Value
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Q1) Which of the following is true of a conventional distribution channel?
A) It has each channel member acting as a separate business unit trying to maximize its own profits.
B) It consists of producers selling their products directly to customers without the use of intermediaries.
C) It has one channel member owning the other channel members.
D) It is a distribution channel where a producer is owner of all the other channel members.
E) It has all members of the channel working together as a single organization.
Q2) In a just-in-time logistics system, ________.
A) retailers carry small inventories of merchandise to last for only a few days
B) retailers store products for long periods to avoid an interruption in supply
C) producers supply products to resellers before customers place their orders
D) producers that are geographically far from their retailers use an express-delivery system
E) retailers incur high inventory-carrying and inventory-handling costs
Q3) Explain multichannel distribution systems with an example.
Q4) How does a company determine its channel objectives? What factors influence the channel objectives of a company?
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Chapter 11: Retailing and Wholesaling
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Q1) Pricing decisions of specialty stores are typically based on low markups on a high volume of products.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Office Solutions is a large retailer that specializes in office products and services. Their offerings include a wide and deep assortment of computers, desk furniture, printers, office supplies, stationery, and printing. Office Solutions is most likely an example of a ________.
A) convenience store
B) pop-up store
C) category killer
D) lifestyle center
E) supermarket
Q3) When compared to merchant wholesalers, brokers and agents ________.
A) perform more extensive functions
B) do not take title to goods
C) deal only in services and not products
D) do not engage in any negotiation of wholesale deals
E) rarely specialize in one product category or customer type
Q4) Describe the promotion tools used by retailers.
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Chapter 12: Engaging Consumers and Communicating
Customer Value: Advertising and Public Relations
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Q1) When a company issues a press release to announce a sizable donation to a national charity, they are using ________ to generate goodwill and maintain a positive corporate image.
A) personal selling
B) sales promotion
C) public relations
D) direct and digital marketing
E) advertising
Q2) Surf's Up, a family-owned business, offers a free surf lesson with the purchase of any surfboard over $200 during the month of May. This is an example of which promotion mix element?
A) direct and digital marketing
B) public relations
C) advertising
D) personal selling
E) sales promotion
Q3) Persuasive advertising helps to maintain customer relationships and keep consumers thinking about the product.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
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Q1) Appliance maker Whirlpool assigns individual teams of salespeople to big retail customers such as Sears, Lowe's, Best Buy, and Home Depot. Each Whirlpool sales team aligns with the large customer's buying team. Whirlpool has most likely adopted a ________ sales-force structure.
A) product
B) team-based
C) territorial
D) market
E) complex
Q2) Sales managers use sales reports, personal observations, and customer surveys to assess the performance of sales-force members.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sweepstakes give consumers a chance to win something, such as cash, trips, or goods, by luck or through extra effort.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the difference between coupons and rebates using suitable examples.
Q5) What are the different ways of finding sales prospects?
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Chapter 14: Direct, Online, Social Media, and Mobile Marketing
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Q1) Telemarketing is infrequently used as a fundraising tool for nonprofit and political groups.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Differentiate between branded community Web sites and marketing Web sites. Provide examples to illustrate your response.
Q3) Which of the following is a direct digital marketing tool?
A) printed catalog
B) direct mail
C) telephone
D) television
E) blog
Q4) Which of the following is most likely a consequence of permission-based e-mail marketing?
A) higher return rates
B) excessive spamming
C) increased consumer frustration
D) lower consumer response rates
E) reduced consumer interaction
Q5) What are the main forms of direct and digital marketing?
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Chapter 15: The Global Marketplace
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Q1) Global companies recruit management from many countries, buy components and supplies where they cost the least, and invest where the expected returns are greatest.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is true of the Uruguay Round of the WTO?
A) It promoted short-term global trade growth.
B) It increased the world's merchandise tariffs by 50 percent.
C) It reduced the influence of the WTO in agriculture.
D) It toughened the international protection of intellectual property.
E) It consisted of discussions that lasted for two years.
Q3) Explain joint ownership with an example. What are its advantages and disadvantages?
Q4) Regardless of how companies go about pricing their products, their foreign prices will most likely be higher than their domestic prices for comparable products.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain with examples how the political-legal environment of a country affects a global firm.
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Chapter 16: Social Responsibility and Ethics
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Q1) High-pressure selling will most likely work in situations that involve ________.
A) valued customers
B) repeat customers
C) service-based sales
D) one-time sales
E) complex products
Q2) A common criticism of the marketing system is that intermediaries ________.
A) are too few in number
B) mark up prices beyond the value of their services
C) provide only essential services
D) undervalue their service costs
E) are overly protective of manufacturers' interests
Q3) The nation's poor areas have 30 percent fewer supermarkets than do affluent areas.
As a result, many low-income consumers find themselves ________.
A) buying due to high-pressure methods
B) in food deserts
C) redlining
D) being influenced by heavy advertising and promotion
E) influenced by predatory pricing tactics
Q4) What is a sustainability vision?
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