Marketing Management Questions and Answers Part-3

1. Which of the following is central to any definition of marketing?
a) Making a profit
b) Demand management
c) Transactions
d) Customer relationships

Answer: d

2. Introducing new products to existing markets is an example of:
a) conglomerate diversification
b) vertical diversification
c) horizontal diversification
d) concentric diversification

Answer: c

3. When a company acquires a supplier through an acquisition strategy, this is referred to as:
a) vertical marketing system
b) horizontal integration
c) forward integration
d) backward integration

Answer: c

4. When backed by buying power, wants become ..........
a) physical needs
b) demands
c) social needs
d) exchanges

Answer: b

5. Which of the following reflects the marketing concept philosophy?
a) "You won't find a better deal anywhere."
b) "When it's profits versus customer's needs, profits will always win out."
c) "We're in the business of making and selling superior products."
d) "We don't have a marketing department, we have a customer department."

Answer: d

6. Selecting which segments of a population of customers to serve is called ........
a) managing the marketing effort
b) target marketing
c) customization
d) positioning

Answer: b

7. Which of the following is the term for customers who make repeat purchases and tell others about their positive experiences with a product or service?
a) full partners
b) butterflies
c) social customers
d) customer evangelists

Answer: d

8. Greater consumer control means that companies must rely more on marketing by ........than by ..........
a) producing; selling
b) inspiration; competition
c) interruption; involvement
d) interaction; intrusion

Answer: d

9. Most companies today enter a new market by serving a ........, and if this proves successful, they
a) single market segment; add segments
b) target market; reposition
c) few segments; add more segments
d) multitude of segments; add more segments

Answer: a

10. An increasingly large number of firms are changing their organizational focus from ......... to .......
a) product management; functional management
b) brand management; customer relationship management
c) territory management; functional management
d) global management; regional management

Answer: b