Marketing Strategy
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Course Introduction
Marketing Strategy explores the frameworks, tools, and analytical techniques necessary to develop effective marketing plans in diverse business environments. The course examines how organizations create, communicate, and deliver value to targeted customers while achieving long-term competitive advantage. Students will analyze market opportunities, assess competitive landscapes, segment markets, and position offerings. Through case studies, real-world projects, and simulations, participants will formulate, implement, and evaluate marketing strategies, considering challenges such as digital transformation, globalization, and sustainability.
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Marketing An Introduction 5th Canadian Edition by Gary Armstrong
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Chapter 1: Marketing: Creating and Capturing Customer Value
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Q1) Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following is most essential to any definition of marketing? demand management the production concept customer relationships making a sale making a profit
Answer: customer relationships
Q3) Only sellers of products, services, and ideas practice marketing, whereas buyers do not.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q4) Market offerings are limited to physical products. A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Company and Marketing Strategy: Partnering to Build Customer Relationships
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Q1) Why should a mission statement be "motivating" instead of stated in terms of sales or profits?
Answer: Sales and profits are only a reward for undertaking a useful activity; a company's employees will be more dedicated to the company's mission if they feel that their work is significant.
Q2) Under the ________ organizational format of marketing departments, different marketing activities are headed by a specialist such as a sales manager, advertising manager, marketing research manager, or customer-service manager. geographic product management market management customer-centered functional
Answer: functional
Q3) At Google, "we help you organize the world's information and make it universally accessible," is a product-oriented mission.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Sustainable Marketing: Social Responsibility and Ethics
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Q1) In sense-of-mission marketing, a company defines its mission in broad social terms rather than narrow product terms.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following is a traditional sellers' right? the right to charge any price, provided that no discrimination exists among similar buyers the right to be well informed the right to sell consumer information the right to use any buying incentive programs the right to introduce any product in any size and style
Answer: the right to charge any price, provided that no discrimination exists among similar buyers
Q3) How do resellers answer criticism of the high costs of distribution?
Answer: Resellers argue that intermediaries provide services that customers want, such as more convenience, more service, longer store hours, and return privileges. Also, retail competition is so intense that profit margins are actually quite low.
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Chapter 4: Analyzing the Marketing Environment
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Q1) LandPort Transportation and Omega Warehousing move and store the products your company sells.The two businesses are examples of ________. resellers marketing services agencies marketing intermediaries physical distribution firms geographic segments
Q2) Which demographic group is characterized by a total fluency and comfort with computer, digital, and Internet technology?
Generation X Millennials
Seniors
Generation Z Baby boomers
Q3) Why has a growing portion of the Canadian population shifted to metropolitan areas?
Q4) Traditional households are growing more rapidly than nontraditional households. A)True B)False
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Chapter 5: Managing Marketing Information to Gain Customer Insights
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Q1) Juanita Petino operates a dress shop in a suburban mall.Her research budget is very small, so she uses low-cost or no-cost methods to gather research data.One method that works very well for her is changing the themes in her local newspaper and radio advertising and watching the result.Juanita is using ________ to gather data for marketing decisions. informal surveys experiments guess work logic-directed research secondary sources
Q2) Provide the advantages/benefits of each of the contact methods.
Q3) The availability of which of the following is most problematic in international marketing research? primary data research specialists secondary data intelligence limitations consumers willing to answer surveys
Q4) Why is it important for a research plan to be presented as a written proposal?
Q5) Discuss the makeup and functions of a marketing information system (MIS).
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Chapter 6: Understanding Consumer and Business Buyer
Behaviour
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Q1) Early adopters are opinion leaders in their communities and adopt new ideas early but carefully.
A)True B)False
Q2) Why is it important for marketers to understand the changing roles and influence of family members? How are roles and social status related to product choice?
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a major force affecting consumer behaviour? cultural geographical philosophical channels physiological
Q4) The study of consumer behaviour begins and ends with ________. culture the individual beliefs lifestyles social classes
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Chapter 7: Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning
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Q1) As in consumer segmentation, many marketers believe that ________ and ________ segmentation provide the best basis for segmenting business markets. geographic; demographic user status; user loyalty benefits; buying behaviour age and life-cycle; psychographic income; usage rate
Q2) When New Port Shipping uses segmented marketing, it targets several segments and designs separate offers for each one.This approach is called ________ marketing. undifferentiated differentiated individual mass niche
Q3) List three variables that are applicable to segment business markets.
Q4) Half of a marketer's consumers buy a product because it is "in style"; the other half buy the product because of its superior functionality.What is this type of segmentation called?
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Chapter 8: Developing and Managing Products and Services
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Q1) An attractive idea must be developed into a ________. product idea product concept product image test market product strategy
Q2) A _________ is a detailed description, drawing, or prototype of that idea that can be shown to potential customers. concept test product concept marketing strategy product development business analysis
Q3) Companies need to pay attention to their aging products.Management should regularly review sales, market shares, costs, and profit trends, and then decide whether to maintain, harvest, or drop these declining products. A)True B)False
Q4) Give an example of product mix depth in the soft drink industry.
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Chapter 9: Brand Strategy and Management
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Q1) A _________ is created and owned by the manufacturer of a product or service. advertising strategy private brand sales force
national brand customer appreciation campaign
Q2) Before a company blindly decides to incorporate a brand extension, they need to seriously consider which of the following? new customers likes and dislikes how well the brand's association fit the new product past customers preferences nostalgia word-of-mouth promotions on YouTube and Twitter
Q3) Brand advocacy is critical to the job of the brand marketer.To create brand advocates professional experts suggest 5 main elements beginning with "Advocacy begins with trust".What are the other 4 suggestions?
Q4) A good brand __________ should suggest something about the type of product it will brand.
Q5) Brands are more than just names and symbols, they are relationships.Explain.
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Chapter 10: Pricing: Understanding and Capturing
Customer
Value
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Q1) Market-skimming pricing is practiced by companies that set a low initial price in order to get their "foot in the door" quickly and deeply, attract a large number of buyers quickly, and win a large market share.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Consumer perceptions of the product's value set the ________ for prices. demand curve floor ceiling variable cost image
Q3) When a competitor cuts its price, a company might decide to ________ if it believes it will not lose much market share or would lose too much profit by cutting its own price. reduce its production costs reduce its marketing costs maintain its current price and profit margin increase its marketing budget to raise the perceived value of its product increase its production costs to improve the quality of the product
Q4) For what types of products might marketers use market-skimming pricing?
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Chapter 11: Marketing Channels
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Q1) Tiffany & Co jewelry can only be found in a limited number of intermediaries.This is an example of ________. exclusive distribution intensive distribution quality distribution high-end distribution independent distribution
Q2) Marketing logistics involves which of the following distribution flows? outbound and inbound outbound, inbound, and reverse outbound and reverse inbound and reverse outbound
Q3) A discount store buys at less than regular wholesale prices and charges consumers less than retail.
A)True B)False
Q4) Intermediaries reduce the number of channel transactions. A)True B)False
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Chapter 12: Communicating Customer Value: Advertising and Public Relations
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Q1) The goal of advertising as entertainment is for __________ to become a part of the entertainment rather than interrupting it. branded entertainment advertainment audience engagement brand messages testimonial endorsement
Q2) Integrated marketing communications encourages brand messages to be developed by different departments within an organization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the three primary purposes of advertising objectives?
Q4) Describe public relations and three of its main functions.
Q5) Explain a push strategy.
Q6) An advertiser needs to know the reach, frequency, and impact needed to achieve an advertising objective.
A)True B)False
Q7) How can a company's website be used as a public relations tool?
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Chapter 13: Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
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Q1) Why might the follow-up be considered the most critical step of the sales process?
Q2) Scenario
Reliable Tool Company manufactures hubs and axles for the trailer and heavy truck industry.Though the customer base is small, monthly sales at Reliable are approximately $1 million."You might say we have all of our eggs in one basket," says owner Arthur Deetz.Reliable Tool has captured "a small piece of the pie" but is the sole supplier of hub and axle components to its customers; therefore, it is critical that a competent sales force be maintained in order to nurture those few but large accounts.Ninety-five percent of Reliable's customers are located in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.Travel time to all customers is short but, given the nature of the industry, time spent with each customer is essential.
Will an inside or outside sales force benefit Reliable Tool more?
Q3) Which of the following describes two of the four basic types of compensation plans? commission plus bonus, straight commission straight salary, commission plus bonus salary and commission, straight salary commission plus bonus, sliding scale salary plus bonus, sliding scale
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Chapter 14: Direct and Online Marketing
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Q1) What type of information is typically exchanged through a blog?
Q2) Which of the following is an advantage of a well-designed and targeted telemarketing plan? purchasing convenience emotional connections with customers real-time merchandising high recruitment and referral rate almost limitless merchandise available to customers
Q3) Explain the major benefits of direct marketing for both customers and sellers.
Q4) The popular press has paid more attention to which of the following four major online marketing domains?
B2C (business-to-consumer)
B2R (business-to-retailer)
B2B (business-to-business)
C2C (consumer-to-consumer)
C2B (consumer-to-business)
Q5) B2C websites deal with exchanges between businesses and companies. A)True B)False
Q6) How do Internet consumers differ from traditional offline consumers?
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