Marketing 305 Test 1 – Flashcards

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After discovering consumers' needs, marketing's next task is to:
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translate information about consumer needs into product concepts
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Sound and Cinema is a company that will turn an ordinary basement into a home theater. It advertises in publications that are mailed to homeowners in subdivisions where the least expensive home costs $550,000. These homeowners are the __________ for Sound and Cinema.
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Target Market
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Beth's sorority volunteers to paint over graffiti on downtown fences. She spent last Saturday helping out, and felt satisfied because she was contributing to her community. Was this an exchange?
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Yes, because painting the fences was exchanged for something of value—a feeling of satisfaction.
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The marketing concept is the idea that an organization should strive to satisfy the needs of consumers
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while also trying to achieve the organization's goals.
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Which of the following statements is an example of place utility?
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ATM machines in thousands of locations.
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The process of identifying prospective buyers, understanding them intimately, and developing favorable long-term perceptions of the organization and its offerings so that buyers will choose them in the marketplace is referred to as:
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customer relationship management
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The "4 Ps" of the marketing mix include product, price, place, and
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promotion
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The primary difference between a good and a service, both of which are products to the marketer, is that a good is __________ and a service is __________.
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a physical object; intangible.
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The goal of marketing is to both __________ the needs of prospective customers.
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discover and satisfy
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A friend gave you the name of a company, Batteries Plus, where you could inexpensively purchase a new power cord for your laptop. However, when you called, no one answered the phone even though you called during business hours. Marketing did not occur because:
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there was no way for the parties to communicate.
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