Q 1
Q 1
Q 1
Selling
and advertising are synonymous with marketing
2) According to the opening scenario, the Tide marketing team is MOST concerned about which of
the following? fostering customers' emotional connections with their product
4) ________ is defined as a social and managerial process by which individuals and organizations
obtain what they need and want through value creation and exchange. Marketing
5) Which steps of the five-step marketing process are about understanding customers, creating
customer value, and building strong customer relationships? First four only
6) According to the simple five-step model of the marketing process, a company needs to ________
before designing a customer-driven marketing strategy. Understand the marketplace and customer
need and wants
7) ________ are human needs as shaped by individual personality and culture. X value demand
9) What do companies call a set of benefits that they promise to consumers to satisfy their needs? X
need value
10) Which of the following refers to sellers being preoccupied with their own products and losing
sight of underlying consumer needs? Marketing myopia
11) When marketers set low expectations for a market offering, the biggest risk they run is
________. failing to attract enough customers
12) ________ is the act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return.
Exchange
13) A(n) ________ is the set of actual and potential buyers of a product. Market
14) Consumer research, product development, communication, distribution, pricing, and service are
all core ________ activities. Marketing
15) Which of the following is the most likely result of a marketing strategy that attempts to serve all
potential customers?
16) In the case of excess demand, ________ may be required to reduce the number of customers or
to shift demand temporarily or permanently. Demarketing
17) The art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them is
called ________. Marketing management
18) Selecting which segments of a population of customers to serve is called ________. Target
marketing
19) Which of the following is the set of benefits a company promises to deliver the customer to
satisfy their needs? A value proposition
20) Which customer question is ANSWERed by a company's value proposition? “why should I buy
your brand rather than a competitor’s?”
21) Which of the following marketing management orientations focuses primarily on improving
efficiencies along the supply chain? Production concept
22) Which of the following marketing management concepts is most likely to lead to marketing
myopia? Production
23) The ________ concept is aligned with the philosophy of continuous product improvement and
the belief that customers will choose products that offer the most in quality, performance, and
innovative features. Product
24) The product concept says that a company should do which of the following? Focus on making
continuous product improvement.
25) "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" reflects the ________
concept. Product
26) Which concept calls for aggressive selling and focuses on generating transactions to obtain
profitable sales? Selling
27) Which concept holds that achieving organizational goals depends on knowing the needs and
wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions better than competitors do?
Marketing
28) A firm that uses the selling concept takes a(n) ________ approach. Inside-out
29) According to the production concept, consumers will favor products that are ________ and
________. Available; affordable
30) Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines used the marketing concept in his successful organization.
Having a customer department rather than a marketing department, as suggested by Kelleher, is an
example of a(n) ________ perspective. Outside-in
31) Though often criticized, the selling concept is particularly appropriate and effective with which of
the following types of products? Unsought
32) Which of the following reflects the marketing concept philosophy? X you we re
33) Customer-driven marketing usually works well when ________ and when customers ________.
A clear need exists; know what they want.
34) Marie Ortiz enjoys her work at Futuristic Designs, Inc. Her organization understands and
anticipates customer needs even better than customers themselves do and creates products and
services to meet current and future wants and demands. Marie's firm practices ________ marketing.
Customer-driving
35) When customers don't know what they want or don't even know what's possible, the most
effective strategy is ________ marketing. Customer-driving
36) The societal marketing concept seeks to establish a balance between consumer short-run wants
and consumer ________. Long-run welfare
37) Which concept holds that firms must strive to deliver value to customers in a way that maintains
or improves the consumer's and society's well-being? Societal marketing
38) The three areas of consideration that should be balanced in the societal marketing concept are
consumer wants, society's interests, and ________. Company profit
39) The set of marketing tools a firm uses to implement its marketing strategy is called the
________. Marketing mix
40) Of the following, which is the most important concept of modern marketing? customer
relationship management
41) Building, keeping, and growing profitable relationships by delivering customer value and
satisfaction is called ________. Customer relationship management
42) Customer-perceived value is determined by a customer's ________ of the benefits and costs of a
market offering relative to those of competing offers. Personal assessment
43) It is most accurate to say that customers buy from stores and firms that offer which of the
following? The highest customer-perceived value