Chapter 1
1.1 Knowledge Check
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c. Place utility addresses convenience in terms of where a consumer can purchase your company’s product.
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b. Marketing is a complex activity and includes creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.
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a. Customer equity is the total potential profits a company earns from its current and potential customers.
1.2 Knowledge Check
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c. Place—sometimes known as distribution—involves focusing on how and where to deliver the product to consumers most likely to buy it.
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d. Place— sometimes known as distribution—involves focusing on how and where to deliver the product to consumers most likely to buy it.
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d. In the realm of promotion advertising, direct mail, social media communications, trade shows, events, coupons, and media choices are among the many aspects considered.
1.3 Knowledge Check
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a. Materials considers the availability of the resources needed for product. It is the element that looks at the supply.
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b. Market intermediaries are retailers, wholesalers, and others in the distribution channel who help deliver products to the end user.
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a. The competition has to be assessed to see how well and to what degree the need you hope to fulfill is currently being addressed.
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b. The technological domain is responsible for emerging production technologies as well as the creation of new innovations that make possible new products.
1.4 Knowledge Check
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a. The product concept is concerned most with the quality of the product a company intends to sell.
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c. The societal marketing concept involves meeting consumers’ and businesses’ current needs while simultaneously being aware of the environmental impact of marketing decisions on future generations’ ability to meet their needs.
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c. The goal of the selling concept was simple: beat the competition. Customer needs and satisfaction took a back seat to beating the competition.
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b. During the societal era, it was recognized that society as a whole, had to be considered in all activities.
1.5 Knowledge Check
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d. A delight need is an added value you may get from the seller without prior expectation or request for the same.
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c. The customer is the individual or business that purchases the product or service. The consumer is the user of the product or service.
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c. The exchange process is designed to allow for the transaction to occur without either party feeling like the other has benefitted at its own cost.
1.6 Knowledge Check
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d. All the other choices are ways of achieving customer relationship management. Offering the lowest price of all companies on the market is not.
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b. Customer relationship management (CRM) is the means through which companies track, manage, and analyze customer interactions.
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b. Customer loyalty is a customer’s willingness to repeatedly return to a company to conduct business.
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d. Collaborative CRM is sharing customer data with outside companies. It can give the company a fuller perspective on customers by collaborating with other companies in order to obtain data to which it would not otherwise have access.
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a. A customer loyalty program offers rewards, discounts, and other special incentives designed to attract and retain customers.
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