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• The "four Ps" of a marketing mix are: -✓✓Product, Place, Promotion, and Price
• T or F: Part of the criteria for determining a viable market segment is that the
segment needs be large enough to be profitable. -✓✓True.
• The marketing mix consists of ___ the company used to satisfy the ___. -
✓✓controllable variables
target group
• The "5 C's" of Strategy: -✓✓Customers: Potential buyers with wants and needs
that the company aims to fulfill.
Competitors: Other organizations offering similar goods or services.
Collaborators: External business entities that work with the company to create
value for customers (e.g., suppliers, distributors, agencies).
Company: The organization or business unit providing the goods and services (the
offering). Involves internal analysis (e.g., SWOT).
Context: The environment in which the company operates, including regulations,
economic conditions, cultural norms, and technological factors (e.g., PESTAL
analysis).
• Customer profiles/personas consist of these 5 elements: -✓✓(1) Demographic
profiling
(2) Geography variables
(3) Behavioral variables
(4) Psychological profiling
(5) RFM
• RFM -✓✓recency, frequency, monetary value
, • Behavioral variables -✓✓-Usage rate
-Brand loyalty
-Benefit sought
• Marketing strategy = ___ + ___ -✓✓target market
marketing mix
• S.W.O.T -✓✓Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats
• Direct Environment: -✓✓Customers, company resources and objectives, and
competitors (current, prospective, and indirect).
• External Environment: -✓✓Economic, technological, political and legal, and
cultural and social factors.
• Define Segmentation -✓✓An aggregating process that clusters people with
similar wants and needs into a market segment.
Its role is to identify possible target markets by defining the broad product market
and then breaking it apart into more homogeneous segments.
• Key Criteria for Determining Segments: -✓✓Homogeneous (within): Customers
within a segment should be as similar as possible in their likely responses to
marketing mix variables and segmenting dimensions.
Heterogeneous (between): Customers in different segments should be as different
as possible in their likely responses.
Substantial: The segment must be large enough to be profitable.
Operational: The segmenting dimensions should be useful for identifying
customers and designing the marketing mix (e.g., accessible, measurable).
Actionable: The company must have the resources and abilities to adjust its
marketing mix to appeal to each chosen segment.
• Tension caused by uncertainty about the rightness of a decision is known as: -
✓✓dissonance