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Marketing Strategy is a comprehensive course that explores the development, implementation, and evaluation of effective marketing strategies in diverse business environments. The course covers key concepts such as market segmentation, target market selection, positioning, and value proposition development. Students will analyze consumer behavior, competitive dynamics, and environmental forces to design strategic marketing plans that drive organizational growth and profitability. Through case studies, real-world examples, and practical assignments, students will gain critical thinking skills and hands-on experience in formulating strategies that align with overall business objectives and respond to changing marketplace trends.
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MKTG 11th Edition by Charles W. Lamb
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Chapter 1: An Overview of Marketing
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of production-oriented firms?
A)They do not focus on their internal capabilities.
B)They do not understand the needs and wants of the marketplace.
C)They focus on their customers and have quick cycle times.
D)They determine what products their customers want and then produce them.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following statements is true of marketing?
A)It makes products inaccessible to low-income customers.
B)It offers great career opportunities in business and nonbusiness organizations.
C)It is an unnecessary luxury in food business.
D)It is limited to the people of the marketing department of a firm.
Answer: B
Q3) Define customer value, and discuss ways to provide customer value.
Answer: Answers will vary. Customer value is the relationship between benefits and the sacrifice necessary to obtain those benefits.Marketers who want to be perceived by their customers as offering value can (1) offer products that perform, (2) earn trust, (3) avoid unrealistic pricing of their products, (4) give the buyer facts, (5) offer organization-wide commitment in service and after-sales support, and (6) co-create with customers.
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Chapter 2: Strategic Planning for Competitive Advantage
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Q1) Marketing strategy involves the activities of selecting and describing one or more target markets and developing and maintaining a marketing mix that will produce mutually satisfying exchanges with target markets.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In the context of a marketing mix, which of the following statements is true of a product?
A)The heart of a marketing mix is the product offering and product strategy.
B)A buyer must give up the need for a product in order to obtain its benefit.
C)A product includes all the business activities concerned with storing and transporting raw materials.
D)Products are often the most flexible in a marketing mix- the quickest elements to change.
Answer: A
Q3) Market segments cannot be differentiated by ethnicity and multicultural aspects. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Ethics and Social Responsibility
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Q1) The _____ compares a current ethical dilemma with examples of similar ethical dilemmas and their outcomes.
A)deontological theory
B)moral relativism theory
C)casuist ethical theory
D)utilitarian ethical theory
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following companies is an advocate of green marketing?
A)Poldoid Inc., a manufacturer of plastic products, uses biodegradable plastics to reduce the generation of hazardous wastes.
B)Harlose Brothers, an ice cream manufacturer, offers discounts on its ice creams during summer.
C)Magnira Inc., a textile company, uses cost-effective strategies to generate higher profits.
D)Laelle Corp.'s management believes that its employees are the most important and valuable resource of the company.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Marketing Environment
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Q1) Which of the following strategies can help business firms stimulate innovation?
A)Hiring employees who have low risk tolerance
B)Letting employees know that they must fear failure and should not attempt anything that might fail
C)Instructing managers to use micromanagement techniques
D)Using teams of writers to build scenarios of opportunities and threats
Q2) In terms of purchasing power, when income is low relative to the cost of living, people have more discretionary income.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Magnira Corp., a technological firm, recently acquired a smaller firm abroad. The Federal Trade Commission looked into the acquisition and found that Magnira Corp. used unfair means to acquire the business. In this case, which of the following bureaus was responsible for reviewing the acquisition?
A)The Bureau of Consumer Protection
B)The Bureau of Economics
C)The Bureau of Competition
D)The Bureau of Consumer Privacy
Q4) Discuss a few strategies for marketing products to baby boomers.
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Chapter 5: Developing a Global Vision
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Q1) Because Facebook, YouTube, and other social media are popular around the world, firms both large and small have embraced social media marketing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements is true of a company that is in the second stage of global business?
A)It maintains a virtual executive suite.
B)It sets up foreign subsidiaries to handle sales in one country.
C)It runs its business entirely through the Internet.
D)It bases its entire operations in its home country.
Q3) Joint ventures prevent a local firm from acquiring managerial skills and new technology.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is true of outsourcing?
A)It reduces corporate growth.
B)It reduces productivity and revenue growth.
C)It faces production delays due to faulty parts.
D)It increases energy costs in the United States.
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Chapter 6: Consumer Decision Making
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Q1) Which of the following is a psychological factor that impacts consumer buying decisions?
A)Social class
B)Learning
C)Age
D)Lifestyle
Q2) Which of the following statements is true of postpurchase behavior?
A)Communication with consumers does not help in reducing cognitive dissonance.
B)Marketers encourage customers to have doubts even after they purchase a product.
C)Consumers expect certain outcomes from a product after making a purchase.
D)Consumers tend to increase dissonance by justifying their purchase decision.
Q3) Personality refers to how consumers perceive themselves in terms of attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the context of information searches, explain a marketing-controlled information source.
Q5) Explain how cultural influences affect consumer decision making.
Q6) How do psychological factors affect consumer buying decisions?
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Chapter 7: Business Marketing
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Q1) Line Twists Inc. is a start-up dance company. On its Web site, it conducts an online competition for amateur dancers. It also asks people to post one sentence on why they love to dance. Thousands of people participate and comment on the Web site. In the context of business-to-business social media marketing, this step taken by Line Twists Inc. is an example of the marketing metric of _____.
A)product adaptation
B)engagement
C)conversion
D)review
Q2) A _____ is used to manufacture other goods or services, to facilitate an organization's operations, or to resell to other customers.
A)consumer product
B)retail product
C)business product
D)convenience product
Q3) A practice whereby business purchasers choose to buy from customers of their competitors is called reciprocity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Segmenting and Targeting Markets
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Q1) In the context of family life cycle segmentation, middle-aged married couples with or without children:
A)are hard to influence with advertising.
B)are better off financially than young married couples with or without children.
C)buy medical care products that aid health, sleep, and digestion.
D)have the highest purchase rate.
Q2) Which of the following statements is true of product positioning?
A)It assumes that consumers compare products solely on the basis of price.
B)There are two positioning bases, application and price.
C)The quality of competing products does not influence product positioning.
D)Consumer goods marketers are particularly concerned with positioning.
Q3) Tennot Inc. sells used cars. It focuses solely on low-income customers who prefer to buy an old car rather than a new one. Therefore, it develops one marketing mix that targets the low-income group. In this scenario, Tennot Inc. most likely uses a(n)_____.
A)undifferentiated targeting strategy
B)multisegment targeting strategy
C)concentrated targeting strategy
D)universal targeting strategy
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Chapter 9: Marketing Research
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Q1) In the context of marketing research projects, the research design specifies:
A)how and when data will be gathered.
B)which management decision problem needs to be solved.
C)what modifications should to be made to the approved project budget.
D)how employees are to be motivated.
Q2) The most popular technique for gathering primary data is _____.
A)survey research
B)observation research
C)ethnographic research
D)experimental research
Q3) Neuromarketing is a fresh attempt to better understand consumers' responses to promotion and purchase motivations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Internet surveys are labor-intensive efforts incurring training, telecommunications, and management costs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is competitive intelligence (CI)?
Q6) Explain the importance of marketing research in marketing decision making.
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Chapter 10: Product Concepts
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Q1) Identify a true statement about specialty products.
A)They are made directly available to a consumer through direct mail.
B)They are relatively inexpensive and merit little shopping effort.
C)They are easily substituted with other products.
D)They are distributed to only a few outlets in a geographic area.
Q2) Define express warranty and implied warranty.
Q3) Which of the following statements is true of product lines?
A)They limit the product choices offered to customers to one or two product items.
B)They provide economies of scale in advertising.
C)They require greater transportation and warehousing costs than product items.
D)They increase a firm's manufacturing and inventory costs.
Q4) Which of the following statements is true of convenience products?
A)A consumer is unwilling to shop extensively for convenience products.
B)They are shopping products that are perceived to be similar in features.
C)A consumer is unwilling to accept other substitutes for convenience products.
D)They are shopping products that are not actively sought after by consumers.
Q5) Discuss the concept of planned obsolescence.
Q6) Discuss the significance of product mix width and product line depth in marketing.
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Chapter 11: Developing and Managing Products
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Q1) What are the major implications of the new-product development process and the diffusion process to marketing managers?
Q2) In the context of the new-product development process, which of the following statements is true of screening?
A)It eliminates ideas that are inconsistent with an organization's new-product strategy.
B)It calculates preliminary figures for demand, cost, sales, and profitability.
C)It involves getting consumer reactions to visual representations of a proposed product.
D)It involves making cosmetic or functional changes to existing products.
Q3) Which of the following statements is true of simulated market testing?
A)It is often conducted on prototype models during the development stage.
B)It is a useful tool for implementing simultaneous product development.
C)It is the final stage in the new-product development and marketing process.
D)It is used to monitor shopper behavior to assess a product's performance.
Q4) Absolute failure occurs when a product returns a profit but fails to achieve sales, profit, or market share goals.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Services and Nonprofit Organization Marketing
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Q1) Briefly explain what service firms must do to be successful in the global marketplace.
Q2) Level 2 (social) relationship marketing is often more effective than level 1 (financial) relationship marketing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Each part of a firm's service mix should make a different contribution to achieving its goals.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the factors that should be emphasized when deciding distribution strategies for service organizations.
Q5) Patronage-oriented pricing seeks to match supply and demand by varying prices.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the three product-related distinctions between business and nonprofit organizations?
Q7) What are the challenges faced by service providers while deciding a pricing strategy?
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Chapter 13: Supply Chain Management and Marketing Channels
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Q1) What is the manufacturing flow management process? Briefly explain the differences between lean and agile supply chain strategies.
Q2) Which of the following best defines the order-to-cash cycle?
A)It is the time gap between purchase of raw materials and manufacturing of the final product.
B)It is the amount of time between order placement and receipt of the customer's payment following order shipment.
C)It is the time delay between the packaging of an order and the consumption of the product.
D)It is the amount of time between the cancellation of an order and the approval of cancellation.
Q3) In the context of demand management, _____ is a method companies use to align production with demand by merging tactical and strategic planning methods across functional areas of the business.
A)sales and operations planning
B)demand and order fulfillment planning
C)material and service planning
D)technology and integration planning
Q4) Explain the product factors that affect the selection of a distribution channel.
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Chapter 14: Retailing
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Q1) Floor stock refers to the inventory held in reserve for potential future sale in a retailer's storeroom or stockroom.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a similarity between factory outlets and off-price retailers?
A)Both sell at prices 25 percent or more below traditional department store prices.
B)Both offer high levels of customized service to customers.
C)Both follow an agile approach to inventory.
D)Both carry multiple product lines that are considerably deep.
Q3) _____ is an emerging retailing trend that employs market data to best serve customers as they prepare to make a purchase.
A)Channel omnification
B)Click-and-collect
C)Shopper marketing
D)Cloud computing
Q4) Briefly explain the actions a retailer should take to address retail product/service failures.
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Chapter 15: Marketing Communications
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Q1) Dernz Inc., a food manufacturing company, markets its tomato ketchup globally. As its consumers are well aware of the uses of ketchup, the company does not have to generate product awareness. The company, however, wishes to focus on convincing consumers to buy Dernz's ketchup instead of other brands' ketchup. In this scenario, Dernz Inc. must employ _____.
A)reminder promotion
B)persuasive promotion
C)informative promotion
D)connective promotion
Q2) Explain interpersonal and mass communication.
Q3) Social media rely on the repetition of the brand message.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following statements is true of informative promotion?
A)It is designed to stimulate a purchase or an action to purchase.
B)It is used to keep the product and brand name in the public's mind.
C)It seeks to convert an existing need into a want or to stimulate interest in a new product.
D)It seeks to form relationships with customers and potential customers through technological ties.
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Chapter 16: Advertising, Public Relations, and Sales Promotion
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Q1) _____ is the element in the promotional mix that evaluates the public's attitudes, identifies issues that may elicit their concern, and executes programs to gain their understanding and acceptance.
A)Personal selling
B)Cooperative advertising
C)Sales promotion
D)Public relations
Q2) Which of the following models does an advertising campaign often follow?
A)BCG matrix
B)IMC model
C)AIDA model
D)SWOT matrix
Q3) Laelle Corp., a furniture manufacturing company, uses marketing efforts like paid television commercials and magazine inserts to publicize its products. These are examples of activities associated with:
A)advertising.
B)franchising.
C)personal selling.
D)nonstore retailing.
Q4) Discuss the effects of advertising on consumers.
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Chapter 17: Personal Selling and Sales Management
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of prequalification systems?
A)They free sales representatives from the time-consuming task of following up on leads to determine need, buying power, and receptiveness.
B)They describe the ''homework'' that must be done by a salesperson before contacting the prospect.
C)They use friends, business contacts, coworkers, acquaintances, and fellow members in professional and civic organizations to identify potential clients.
D)They determine a customer's specific needs and wants and the range of options the customer has for satisfying them.
Q2) Identify a true statement about sales force training.
A)It is done by giving compensation to employees.
B)It cannot occur during sales meetings, annual meetings, or during the course of everyday business.
C)Training does not take place in the field or by using online modules.
D)Conducting job training in the field via a live sales call provides real world experience for a trainee.
Q3) Briefly explain the impact of technology on personal selling.
Q4) Write a note on customer relationship management.
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Chapter 18: Social Media and Marketing
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Q1) Twitpic, Flickr, and Photobucket are all examples of:
A)media sharing sites.
B)corporate blogs.
C)virtual travel sites.
D)search engines.
Q2) In social media, negative comments and complaints can illuminate unknown brand flaws.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements is true of crowdsourcing?
A)It describes how the input of many people can be leveraged to make decisions that used to be based on the input of only a few people.
B)It describes how the level of buzz created for a product can be used as a measurable parameter for determining the product's effectiveness.
C)It describes various criteria to choose a suitable method to promote a product or a service.
D)It describes the factors that lead to consumers buying a product.
Q4) Explain the role of social media in marketing.
Q5) Describe the different mobile marketing tools.
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Chapter 19: Pricing Concepts
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Q1) The newly opened Stone Restaurant was unable to attract a lot of customers. Since the owner of the restaurant had to pay back the loan that he had taken to start the restaurant, he decided to offer a 20 percent discount on the entire menu on weekends. In this scenario, the owner's pricing objective is a(n) _____.
A)market share maximization objective
B)profit maximization objective
C)asset maximization objective
D)sales maximization objective
Q2) Riya saw a box of collector's edition comic books at Fournotts, a retail corporation. Each book was priced at $28.50, but a customer who bought five books was required to pay only $19.99 for each book. Riya bought one book and her friend bought five books. Fournotts' revenue from this purchase is _____.
A)$158.51
B)$19.99
C)$28.50
D)$128.45
Q3) Explain the concept of price lining as a pricing tactic for fine-tuning the base price.
Q4) Briefly explain how distribution strategy acts as a determinant of price.
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