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Marketing Management explores the foundational principles and strategic practices essential for effective marketing in today's dynamic business environment. The course delves into key concepts such as market analysis, segmentation, targeting, positioning, and the development of integrated marketing strategies. Students learn to apply the classic marketing mix product, price, place, and promotion while considering consumer behavior, digital trends, and ethical issues. Case studies and real-world examples are used to illustrate how marketing decisions impact organizational success, equipping students with analytical and decision-making skills necessary for managerial roles in marketing.
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Marketing Real People Real Choices 9th Edition by
Michael R. Solomon
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Chapter 1: Welcome to the World of Marketing: Create and Deliver Value
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Q1) Jolene's firm markets preplanning services for a mortician. She finds that most of her target market wants to avoid discussing future funeral needs, so she must somehow first get their attention. Jolene's firm most likely uses the ________.
A) production orientation
B) sustainability concept
C) selling orientation
D) consumer orientation
E) societal marketing concept
Answer: C
Q2) According to the theory of the wisdom of crowds, under the right circumstances
A) a mass market approach is favorable to a target market approach
B) a target market approach is favorable to a mass market approach
C) groups are smarter than the smartest people in them
D) companies can make money by giving their products away for free
E) consumers can generate value
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Global, Ethical, and Sustainable Marketing
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Q1) A firm's code of ethical relativism is a set of standards of behavior that everyone in the firm is expected to follow.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) BeneBag is a marketer of reusable shopping bags made 100% from recycled materials. The side of each BeneBag reads "Helping you do your part for Mother Earth." BeneBag is most likely trying to target which of the following?
A) locavores
B) ethical relativists
C) bottom-of-the-pyramid customers
D) ethnocentrists
E) green customers
Answer: E
Q3) Like financial metrics, sustainability metrics are standardized.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Strategic Market Planning
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Q1) Strategic planning for a large firm such as Disney with several SBUs probably occurs
A) only in its corporate headquarters
B) only at the individual business unit level
C) at both the overall corporate level and at the individual SBU level
D) as needed based upon the success of each division
E) at each location on a quarterly basis
Answer: C
Q2) Advertising, sales promotion, public relations, publicity, direct marketing, and personal selling are all parts of the ________.
A) target market strategy
B) pricing strategy
C) product strategy
D) promotional strategy
E) distribution strategy
Answer: D
Q3) Decisions about packaging and branding are part of a firm's product strategy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Market Research
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Q1) Descriptive research using a ________ design tracks the responses of the same sample of respondents over time.
A) latitudinal
B) cause-and-effect
C) longitudinal
D) cross-sectional
E) hierarchical
Q2) Which of the following is true about a probability sample?
A) The observation method is used to select people who appear most willing to participate.
B) Convenience is the key determinant of who participates.
C) A researcher uses personal judgment to select participants.
D) Every member of the population is included in the sample.
E) Each member of the population has some known chance of being included in the sample.
Q3) When researchers suspect that research subjects will alter their behavior if they know someone is watching, the researchers are likely to use unobtrusive observational methods.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Marketing Analytics: Welcome to the Era of Big Data
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Q1) Which of the following has limited the practice of reality mining?
A) lack of communication among departments within an organization
B) difficulties analyzing unstructured data
C) concerns about preventing information overload
D) concerns about reactions to privacy infringement
E) concerns about preventing customer abandonment
Q2) A building supply company has many high-volume customers and many low-volume customers. A CRM system would be LEAST likely to help management decide to use which of the following methods for communicating with low-volume customers?
A) Every November, send each customer a new calendar that has the phone number of the building supply company printed on the cover.
B) Once or twice a year, mail a new product catalog to each customer.
C) Every few months, have a customer service representative from the building supply company call each customer.
D) Have a sales representative make a personal one-on-one appointment with every low-volume customer at least twice a month.
E) Give each low-volume customer the company Web address to check building supply products sold by the company.
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Chapter 6: Understand Consumer and Business Markets
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Q1) A consumer who is considering purchasing a house would probably use ________.
A) habitual decision making
B) stimulus generalization
C) operant decision making
D) limited problem solving
E) extended problem solving
Q2) Business markets tend to be more geographically concentrated than consumer markets.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The greater the ________ of a purchase, the higher the consumer's level of involvement will be.
A) perceived risk
B) cognitive dissonance
C) psychographics
D) heuristics
E) targeting
Q4) Compare the three business-to-business buyclasses.
Q5) Discuss the security issues of B2B e-commerce and how companies address those issues.
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Chapter 7: Segmentation, Target Marketing, and Positioning
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Q1) Of the following generations, which has the youngest members?
A) Baby Boomers
B) Echo Boomers
C) Generation X
D) Generation Y
E) Generation Z
Q2) Using the strategy of ________, marketers give badges to reward consumers who have progressed through an application or activity.
A) microtargeting
B) concentrated targeting
C) gamification
D) perceptual mapping
E) brand anthropomorphism
Q3) The number of Americans aged 65 or older has decreased since 2000.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A mass marketing approach involves more advertising costs than a target marketing approach does.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Product I: Innovation and New Product Development
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Q1) Simulated test marketing can help a company determine where in a store a product should be placed to maximize sales.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Marketers estimate ________ when they determine whether anyone is likely to buy a new product.
A) pricing points
B) diffusion rates
C) commercial success
D) technical success
E) creative success
Q3) ________ is the category of B2B products that refers to the products an organization uses in its daily operations.
A) Raw materials
B) Component parts
C) Equipment
D) Processed materials
E) MRO products
Q4) What are the disadvantages and advantages associated with test marketing?
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Chapter 9: Product Ii: Product Strategy, Branding, and Product Management
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Q1) Product packaging can do all of the following EXCEPT which one?
A) protect the product
B) provide service
C) communicate brand personality
D) make the product easier to store
E) create a competitive advantage
Q2) Which of the following controls package communications and labeling in the United States?
A) the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
B) the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act
C) the Nutrition Facts Panel
D) the Federal Fair Packaging and Labeling Act
E) the Consumer Bill of Rights
Q3) The length of the introduction stage of the product life cycle is typically the same for all products.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the potential problems associated with the brand management system.
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Q5) What is the difference between a product line and a product mix?
Q6) How does a product category manager differ from a market manager?
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Chapter 10: Price: What Is the Value Proposition Worth
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Q1) Which of the following statements about price is true?
A) Pricing is the least important marketing mix element.
B) Price is always a monetary value.
C) Price can mean exchange of nonmonetary goods or services.
D) Most consumers believe price has little influence on their purchase decisions.
E) Pricing is unaffected by changes in the business cycle.
Q2) Which of the following is a set price or price range in consumers' minds that they refer to in evaluating a product's price?
A) dynamic price
B) internal reference price
C) suggested retail price
D) captive price
E) value price
Q3) Price fixing occurs when two or more companies conspire to ________.
A) keep prices at a certain level
B) use predatory pricing
C) use loss-leader pricing
D) use bait-and-switch tactics
E) prohibit competitors from entering a market
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Chapter 11: Deliver the Goods: Determine the Distribution Strategy
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Q1) Which of the following is most likely to force a manufacturer to pay a slotting allowance?
A) a selling agent
B) a merchandise broker
C) a large retail chain
D) a small retailer
E) a rack jobber
Q2) Rack jobbers are important to both the producers and the customers of bulky products such as coal, oil, or lumber.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A selective distribution strategy is most suitable for which consumer product category?
A) convenience goods
B) unsought goods
C) shopping products
D) luxury products
E) materials and supplies
Q4) Explain why inventory control has such a major impact on the costs of logistics.
Q5) What types of products are exclusively distributed?
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Chapter 12: Deliver the Customer Experience: Goods and Services Via
Bricks and Clicks
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Q1) The talent agency that is trying to convince Berry College to hire a motivational speaker for the college's homecoming festivities is marketing people.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Shoplifting, sweethearting, and retail borrowing are all problems that contribute to
A) off-price retailing
B) shrinkage
C) pyramid schemes
D) omnichannel marketing
E) pop-up retailing
Q3) As a service provider, why might you perceive the buyer-seller interaction in the service encounter to be especially critical?
Q4) Bass Pro Shops, a chain of outdoor sports equipment stores, features giant aquariums, waterfalls, trout ponds, archery and rifle ranges, putting greens, and free classes on topics from ice fishing to conservation. Why would a retailer do this?
Q5) Why have department stores struggled to survive in the United States in recent years?
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Chapter 13: Promotion I: Advertising and Sales Promotion
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Q1) What promotional efforts would a marketer be likely to use if the communication objective was to increase awareness of the brand?
Q2) Which of the following is a media schedule of short, intense bursts alternating with periods of little to no activity?
A) a continuous schedule
B) sequencing
C) segmenting
D) flighting
E) monetizing
Q3) The ________ step in the hierarchy of effects calls for marketers to inform the target market that there is a new brand on the market, often by using simple, repetitive advertising in a variety of media.
A) awareness
B) knowledge
C) demand
D) desire
E) purchase
Q4) When might a marketer be most likely to use informative advertising?
Q5) When might a marketer be most likely to use a comparative ad?
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Chapter 14: Promotion Ii: Social Media, Directdatabase
Marketing, Personal Selling, and Public Relations
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Q1) Southern Security makes safes for storing valuables such as jewelry and family records. When Ed sold safes for the company, he had to be prepared with a response when a prospect said, "I have no room for a safe" or "My family heirlooms aren't valuable enough to put in a safe." In other words, Ed had to ________.
A) prepare several different closings
B) use a canned sales presentation
C) treat each sale as a transaction
D) utilize cold calling
E) anticipate objections
Q2) Identify the seven steps in the creative selling process. What may be the most difficult step for most salespeople?
Q3) Lobbying, or building and maintaining relations with legislators and government officials to influence legislation and regulation, is part of ________.
A) corporate identity management
B) media relations
C) buzz marketing
D) crisis management
E) public relations
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