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Course Introduction
Marketing Strategy is a course designed to equip students with the analytical frameworks and practical skills required to develop, evaluate, and implement effective marketing strategies in a dynamic marketplace. The curriculum covers the foundational concepts of market analysis, segmentation, targeting, and positioning, as well as advanced topics such as competitive advantage, brand management, digital marketing, and global marketing strategies. Through case studies, simulations, and real-world projects, students learn to make strategic marketing decisions that align with organizational goals, respond to consumer needs, and outperform competitors. This course is essential for those seeking to understand how to create and sustain value for both customers and organizations in the modern business environment.
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M Marketing 4th Edition by Dhruv Grewal
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Chapter 1: Overview of Marketing
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Q1) Which element of the marketing mix is most relevant to the activity "capturing value"?
A) promotion
B) purchasing
C) product
D) price
E) place
Answer: D
Q2) Whenever Valerie has a new massage therapy customer, she invites the person to be on her e-mail distribution list. In the process, in addition to exchanging her massage therapy service for payment, Valerie is gathering
A) information.
B) promotional capital.
C) pricing data.
D) value cocreation.
E) feedback.
Answer: A
Q3) How should marketers determine prices?
Answer: Prices should be based on potential customers' perceptions of value.
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Chapter 2: Developing Marketing Strategies and a Marketing Plan
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Q1) STP refers to segmentation, testing, and promotion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Imagine that you are in a convenience store choosing your favorite comfort food instead of being in a classroom taking this test. You might notice the packaging, colors, labels, even the fonts used on labels. All of these efforts are part of the marketer's
A) value-based promotions.
B) market segmentation.
C) positioning strategy.
D) customer excellence strategy.
E) target market.
Answer: C
Q3) The components of a SWOT analysis are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and tactics.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Social and Mobile Marketing
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Q1) Social media first began to get more professional and offer more to users
A) just after its invention phase in the early 1990s.
B) at the turn of the twenty-first century.
C) when Apple launched the first App Store.
D) in the past few years, during its entrepreneurial phase.
E) in 2011-2012, when the market became flooded with smartphones.
Answer: B
Q2) A Groupon offer for discounted theater tickets was sent to targeted customers who had previously purchased movie or theater tickets. This best describes which of the 4E frameworks?
A) Engage
B) Energize
C) Excite
D) Experience
E) Educate
Answer: C
Q3) Keyword analysis refers to the study of people's queries on search engines.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Marketing Ethics
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Q1) Ethos Water donates 2 percent of its profits to children in need of clean water. This action demonstrates that Ethos Water is a firm with a strong ethical climate.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did Johnson and Johnson recently respond to new limits on acetaminophen dosages?
A) It changed the dosages to significantly lower levels.
B) It didn't do anything and waited to see if there would be a problem with its products.
C) It reminded people not to take more than the recommended dosage.
D) It pulled all Tylenol products off the shelf until it could be sure it wasn't causing problems for consumers.
E) It changed its packaging to reflect the new standards.
Q3) A local deli has decided that it wants to become more socially responsible. For three of the stakeholder groups listed in the chapter, suggest socially responsible actions the deli could take to serve those stakeholders.
Q4) What short-run versus long-run ethical dilemma do marketers often face?
Q5) What types of unethical behavior are most frequently encountered in marketing?
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Chapter 5: Analyzing the Marketing Environment
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Q1) Julie has been doing the family's weekly shopping since she was twelve, although she doesn't particularly like doing it. She tends to question what salespeople tell her and demands convenience. Julie demonstrates characteristics of the __________ generational cohort.
A) Baby Boomers
B) Generation W
C) Generation X
D) Generation Y
E) Generation Z
Q2) The 1936 ________ specifically outlawed price discrimination toward wholesalers, retailers, or other producers and required sellers to make ancillary services or allowances available to all buyers on proportionately equal terms.
A) Sherman Antitrust Act
B) Clayton Act
C) Robison-Patman Act
D) Financial Reform Law
E) Do Not Spam Law
Q3) How is the balance of ethnicities in the U.S. population changing, and what implications does this have for marketers?
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Chapter 6: Consumer Behavior
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Q1) Many states have laws regulating the prices businesses charge during emergencies like hurricanes. These laws are designed to protect consumers whose __________ state may impair their ability to make sound purchase decisions.
A) shopping
B) social
C) theoretical
D) temporal
E) physical
Q2) The Wall Street Journal provides a set of guidelines each year for purchasing a laptop computer. The guidelines include recommendations for hard disk capacity, memory size, battery life, and several other attributes. The Wall Street Journal is providing consumers with A) an evoked set.
B) psychological needs.
C) social concerns.
D) evaluative criteria.
E) biased information.
Q3) Naomi knows that habitual purchasers make great customers for her coffee shop. How can Naomi attract and maintain habitual purchasers?
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Chapter 7: Business-To-Business Marketing
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Q1) The three types of buying situations
A) create confusion among B2B sellers.
B) suggest that B2B sellers should develop one marketing mix to use for all situations.
C) require business sellers to be consistent in their marketing mixes.
D) are theoretical and have little relation to what happens in the real world.
E) call for different marketing and selling strategies.
Q2) CA Technologies, a firm providing software and services to information technology departments, maintains a corporate blog. How can this blog help CA Technologies with B2B marketing?
A) as a place to post responses to RFPs
B) by building brand awareness among potential customers
C) by simplifying vendor performance assessment
D) by streamlining purchasing and distribution
E) by matching buyers' requests and sellers' offers
Q3) When you go to the hospital for an operation, you are the decider in the buying process.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How is vendor analysis different from a consumer's postpurchase evaluation?
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Chapter 8: Global Marketing
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Q1) Many developed countries are experiencing __________ population growth.
A) slight
B) zero or negative
C) infinite
D) moderate
E) significant
Q2) Domestic firms developing a global entry strategy might consider franchising; however, the disadvantages need to be considered. Which of these is NOT a disadvantage of franchising?
A) The franchisor has limited ability to ensure that foreign operations follow all the concepts and ideas that made the firm successful domestically.
B) The franchisor might end up becoming a competitor.
C) Franchising limits profit potential, since profits will have to be split with the franchisee.
D) Franchising is the riskiest way to enter a foreign market.
E) All of these are disadvantages a firm must consider.
Q3) What does purchasing power parity mean?
Q4) What would it mean if Oreo adopted a glocalization strategy for global sales of its cookies?
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Chapter 9: Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning
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Q1) Automobile manufacturers could build cars specially designed for very tall people (for example, over seven feet), but it is likely that this segment is not substantial.
A)True
B)False
Q2) NASCAR redirected its marketing efforts when a survey indicated that almost 50 percent of its fans were female. This is an example of psychographic segmentation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Godiva Chocolates produces specially decorated boxes of candies for Valentine's Day, Easter, and Christmas. This is an example of ________ segmentation.
A) occasion
B) loyalty
C) geographic
D) psychographic
E) demographic
Q4) Why must a firm's STP strategy be consistent with and derived from the firm's mission and objectives?
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Chapter 10: Marketing Research
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Q1) The manager of a company selling baby products asks you to conduct research into the question, "Is life expectancy getting longer in Kuwait?" The problem with this research objective is that
A) it is irrelevant to the baby products company.
B) it is already known and available from the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
C) it will lead to a set of unstructured questions.
D) it is a research question that probably cannot be answered with any level of accuracy.
E) it is a question related to another culture.
Q2) When conducting a research study attempting to understand what features were most important to automobile consumers, Gary's Research Company used a questionnaire containing __________ questions, with a predetermined set of response options.
A) structured
B) in-depth interview
C) observational
D) free-form
E) unstructured
Q3) How might Dell Computer use sentiment mining to identify ways to improve its customer service?
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Chapter 11: Product, Branding, and Packaging Decisions
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Q1) Procter & Gamble is a huge national brand manufacturer. By having leading brands like Tide and Crest, P&G
A) can monopolize store brands.
B) has greater opportunity to dictate retail pricing.
C) has greater control over marketing strategy.
D) can increase brand dilution.
E) can eliminate any local competition.
Brand ownership gives the owner greater control over marketing strategy-the ability to position the brand and to establish the marketing mix.
Q2) When a salesperson calls you to sell a cemetery plot, this is most likely what type of product?
A) unsought product
B) shopping product
C) convenience product
D) line extension
E) secondary product
An unsought product or service is a product consumers either do not normally think of buying or do not know about.
Q3) Distinguish between primary and secondary packaging.
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Chapter 12: Developing New Products
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Q1) For new product marketers, early adopters are important because they tend to be
A) few in number.
B) the first to adopt a new product.
C) opinion leaders.
D) fond of prototypes.
E) alpha testing enthusiasts.
Q2) Kristina created a virtual prototype of her new line of swimwear on a website to show to consumers. Kristina will ask consumers what they think of the clothing, but the most important question is
A) what retailers she should use to sell the swimwear.
B) whether they would purchase the swimwear if it becomes available.
C) what wholesale price should be charged.
D) what promotional plan will work best.
E) in which season she should introduce the product.
Q3) Explain the concept of outsourcing product development and give an example of when this would be a good idea.
Q4) What happens when a product has been in the marketplace for a long time? How can this be avoided?
Q5) In new product development, what advantage do first movers have?
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Chapter 13: Services: the Intangible Product
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Q1) Firms can close a __________ gap by being more realistic about the services they can provide and managing customer expectations.
A) seniority
B) knowledge
C) standards
D) delivery
E) communication
Q2) In the marketing of services, empowerment means allowing employees to make decisions about how service is provided to customers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The old cliché, "Service with a smile," recognizes the fact that A) service providers need to be pleasant even if the customer is not.
B) smiling is contagious.
C) service providers should smile and not think.
D) life is too short to be ugly.
E) services are perishable but a smile is forever.
Q4) How do airlines and hotels overcome the perishability of their services?
Q5) What are the potential gaps in the Gaps model? What is it designed to do?
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Chapter 14: Pricing Concepts for Establishing Value
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Q1) Why are price wars more common in oligopolies than in pure competition markets?
Q2) Marlie designs and manufactures specialty furniture. She has a number of unique products but can only produce in limited quantities. Marlie will probably NOT use a market penetration strategy because
A) there are few barriers to competitive entry in the market.
B) she could not meet a rapid rise in demand.
C) a low price would indicate low quality.
D) she would have to determine zone pricing discounts.
E) the experience curve effect would drop unit costs too rapidly.
Q3) In determining the price for his company's new pocket digital camera, Matt determines what consumers consider the regular or original price for similar cameras available in the market. Matt is assessing the influence of __________ on pricing strategy.
A) improvement value
B) odd-even prices
C) everyday low pricing
D) reference prices
E) cost of ownership
Q4) What is the experience curve effect? What pricing strategy is it associated with?
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Chapter 15: Supply Chain and Channel Management
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Q1) With a _______ marketing strategy, there is less likelihood of being overstocked or out of stock because the store orders merchandise as needed on the basis of consumer demand.
A) consignment
B) push
C) vendor-managed
D) manufacturer-managed
E) pull
Q2) In retailing, a just-in-time delivery system is called a _____________ system.
A) cross-docking
B) quick response
C) UPC
D) CPFR
E) lead time
Q3) Supply chain management expert Bernard LaLonde once said, "American management's philosophy has been: If you're smart enough to make it, and aggressive enough to sell it-then any dummy can get it there. Now we're paying for [that philosophy]." What supply chain problems will managers with this philosophy likely encounter?
Q4) What are the main challenges in managing a supply chain?
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Chapter 16: Retailing and Multichannel Marketing
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Q1) The only consumer advantages to shopping in a brick-and-mortar store are browsing and the ability to touch and feel the products.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Name three kinds of food retailers and five kinds of general merchandise retailers.
Q3) One advantage of a retail store that is NOT shared with an Internet channel is
A) providing meaningful product information.
B) offering a greater selection of products.
C) accepting cash payments.
D) collecting information about how consumers shop.
E) price matching competitors.
Q4) Conventional supermarkets still sell a majority of food merchandise, but they are under substantial competitive pressures. Who are the emerging competitors and what can they offer customers that conventional supermarkets do not?
Q5) What is the goal of newspaper, magazine, and television advertising for brick-and-mortar retailers?
Q6) Describe an extreme value retailer. Who is its target customer and what does this customer seek?
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Chapter 17: Integrated Marketing Communications
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Q1) In the AIDA model, the think stage is the __________ stage.
A) awareness
B) action
C) interest
D) desire
E) intention
Q2) Betty is assessing the effectiveness of her firm's marketing communications. She knows the ultimate goal is to
A) maximize rating points.
B) minimize marketing communication expenditures.
C) shift encoding into decoding.
D) use personal selling to augment public relations.
E) drive the receiver to action.
Q3) Integrated marketing communications represents the __________ P in the four Ps of a firm's marketing mix.
A) pricing
B) product
C) promotion
D) place
E) partnering
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Chapter 18: Advertising, Public Relations, and Sales Promotions
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Q1) Informative advertising is used to
A) prompt repurchase of a product.
B) create and build brand awareness.
C) trigger an emotional response.
D) gather information about consumers.
E) convince consumers to take action.
Q2) A ____________ advertising schedule uses heavy advertising during some periods followed by periods of no advertising.
A) continuous
B) flighting
C) pulsing
D) penetrating
E) purposeful
Q3) Marketers know perception is a highly selective process. What does this mean for advertisers?
Q4) The primary federal agencies that regulate advertising activities in the United States are the FED, FEMA, and FCC.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Personal Selling and Sales Management
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Q1) Retail salespeople should never judge a book by its cover.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Retail salespeople should not __________ and assume that a person in the store cannot afford to purchase the store's products based on appearances.
A) assume Murphy's Law is true
B) run for the roses
C) judge a book by its cover
D) let sleeping dogs lie
E) attempt to keep up with the Joneses
Q3) In the selling process, the saying, "It ain't over till it's over," refers to the __________ stage of the process.
A) generating and qualifying leads
B) preapproach
C) sales presentation
D) closing the sale
E) follow-up
Q4) Why are nonfinancial rewards important?
Q5) What basic rule should be used in creating sales evaluation criteria?
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