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Marketing 1 Semester 1 Common Assessment

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What two factors do businesses need to address in order to satisfy customers and make a profit?

a)

Customer needs and wants

b)

Customer desires and dreams

c)

Customer objectives and goals

d)

Customer likes and dislikes

2.

Which of the following is an element included in the Marketing Mix?

a)

Product

b)

Profit

c)

Production

d)

Performance

3.

What are the classic four P's of marketing?

a)

Product, Place, Price, Promotion

b)

Price, Product, Profit, Placement

c)

People, Promotion, Production, Product

d)

Performance, Product, Place, Price

4.

What are the four P's of marketing known as?

a)

Marketing Mix

b)

Consumer Mix

c)

Promotional Mix

d)

Brand Mix

5.

Which of the following best describes a target market?

a)

A group of customers with similar wants and needs that have the ability to buy your product

b)

Groups of customers that businesses approach first when researching delivery of a product

c)

The group of potential customers that live geographically closest to the business corporate office

d)

All potential customers a business could potentially sell its products and services to

6.

If Erin were to focus all marketing decisions to attract a particular type of customer, what is this called?

a)

Target Marketing

b)

Broadcast Marketing

c)

Market Research

d)

Promotion

7.

Marketing is the process of developing, promoting, and distributing products to satisfy needs and wants.

a)

Businesses

b)

Customers

c)

Stores

d)

Managers

8.

What is the process of grouping a market into smaller subgroups defined by specific characteristics?

a)

Market segmentation

b)

Physical logistics

c)

Relationship marketing

d)

Marketing mix

9.

The Coffee House is creating a customer profile. Which factors should be included in the customer profile?

a)

Psychographic

b)

Demographic

c)

Geographic

10.

What aspect of the marketing mix describes a company's strategy to inform, persuade, and remind customers about its brand?

a)

Promotion

b)

Power

c)

Price

d)

Product

11.

What is a group of people with similar wants and needs who have the desire and ability to buy a product or service called?

a)

Market

b)

Awesome

c)

Demographic

d)

Audience

12.

What is the most basic economic problem?

a)

Scarcity

b)

Opportunity cost

c)

Monopolies

d)

Competition

13.

What is the price at which the quantity demanded of a product or service equals the quantity supplied and no surplus or shortage exists in the market?

a)

Market clearing price or Equilibrium

b)

Market closing price or shortage

c)

Market demand price or surplus

d)

Market supply price

14.

What type of system best describes the United States economy?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Socialism

c)

Communism

d)

Traditional

15.

What are the processes and methods used to gather information, analyze it, and report findings related to marketing goods and services called?

a)

Marketing mix

b)

Marketing research

c)

Marketing functions

d)

Marketing segmentation

16.

What is the primary focus of marketing research?

a)

Obtaining information about customers' preferences, opinions, and habits

b)

Obtaining information about a business's current success in satisfying its customers

c)

Determining the effectiveness of a business's advertising campaign

d)

Analyzing a business's management and operations

17.

What elements of a business are evaluated using a SWOT analysis?

a)

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

b)

Standards, Willingness, Opinions, and Trust

c)

Stiffness, Wellness, Oldness, Tallness

d)

Struggles, Weather, Outlook, and Time

18.

Research that seeks to find new and specific information

a)

Secondary research

b)

Primary research

c)

Utility research

d)

Quarterly research

19.

Using a sample when conducting market research is an efficient way to learn about a wider population

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

20.

The first step in the marketing research process is?

a)

Obtaining data

b)

Applying the results

c)

Defining the problem

d)

Recommending Solutions

21.

An advantage of using secondary data is?

a)

The existing data may not be suitable for the problem under study

b)

The data may be inaccurate

c)

Recommending solutions

d)

The data can be obtained easily

22.

Which of the following actions are NOT part of the personal selling process?

a)

Positioning the brand

b)

Presenting the product

c)

Closing the sale

d)

Approaching the customer

23.

Which of the following situations best describes personal selling?

a)

There is direct contact between a salesperson and a customer

b)

The salesperson personally knows the customer

c)

An actual sale is made by the salesperson

d)

Exchanges are made between two or more business groups

24.

Why is determining a customer's needs important to the sales process?

a)

To focus the presentation on the customer's needs and wants

b)

Without needs no consumer will be interested in buying

c)

It establishes the most profitable way to close the sale

d)

To present product selling points not interesting to the customer

25.

In the sales process, when should you begin determining a customer's needs?

a)

As soon as possible in the sales process

b)

Once you have established a rapport with the customer

c)

Only after a thorough market analysis has been completed

d)

After the sale but before the customer has paid

26.

Which of the following is NOT an effective technique to determine a customer's needs?

a)

By asking the customer if they need help

b)

By observing the customer

c)

By asking open ended questions

d)

By listening to the customer

27.

If Carly sees that a customer is having difficulty making a buying decision, what should Carly do?

a)

Eliminate options that don't meet the customer's needs/wants

b)

Explain all the features and benefits of each product again

c)

Send in the store manager to close the deal

d)

Let the customer have a few minutes alone to think

28.

Why should Gary NOT continue to present product features and benefits after the customer is clearly ready, willing, and able to buy?

a)

It could risk confusing the customer leading them not to buy

b)

It could make Gary appear desperate to make the sale

c)

Because suggestion selling is always a better way to close

d)

The customer may be in a hurry to leave the store

29.

What closing method should a salesperson use if their product is in limited supply or its price will be going up soon?

a)

Standing room only close

b)

Trial close

c)

Which close

d)

Direct close

30.

At what point during the sales process should suggestion selling be used and implemented?

a)

Only once the customer has made a commitment to buy

b)

As soon as the customer is approached during the sales process

c)

After the order is taken and completed

d)

After the customer has paid the bill

31.

How does suggestion selling benefit a customer?

a)

It makes the original purchase more enjoyable

b)

It makes it easier for the customer to decide

c)

It provides subliminal messages to the customer

d)

It only is a benefit to the salesperson

32.

Which of the following is NOT a common option used during the suggestion selling stage of a sale?

a)

Selling items that a customer doesn't want

b)

Recommending special sales opportunities

c)

Cross-selling related items to the original product

d)

Upselling a customer to a high-end version of the product

33.

What is the best form of marketing that involves recommendation by satisfied clients and customers?

a)

Referrals

b)

Market segmentation

c)

Advertising

d)

Cold Calling

34.

What is a Cold Call?

a)

A sales visit without a previous relationship or appointment

b)

One of the most successful forms of personal selling

c)

Contact made with a prospective customer during winter months

d)

Contact made to a potential customer who was referred by a friend

35.

What is the advantage or personal satisfaction that a customer will get from a good or service called

a)

Customer Benefit

b)

Product Feature

c)

Buying Signal

d)

Selling Point

36.

Which of the following best describes JARGON

a)

Technical or specialized vocabulary used by members of an industry

b)

An insincere reason for not buying or not seeing a salesperson

c)

Common terminology

d)

Sales information about a product or service

37.

Which of the following is NOT a specialized method of answering customer objections?

a)

Inferior Point

b)

Boomerang

c)

Third Party

d)

Substitution

38.

If Sherri uses the boomerang method during a sales presentation, which of the folling best describes what Sherri is doing?

a)

Sending the customer's objection back as a selling point

b)

Selling using basic methods develped in Australia

c)

Authorizing a return if the customer is unsatisfied

d)

Preparing the customer to return and buy again

39.

Which of the following is included within the classic definition of a promotional mix?

a)

Publicity / Public Relations

b)

Market Segmentation

c)

Pricing Strategies

d)

Product Development

40.

Which of the following is NOT a component of a common promotional mix?

a)

Distribution

b)

Publicity

c)

Advertising

d)

Direct selling

41.

Which of the following best describes advertising?

a)

Non-personal promotion

b)

Less expensive than publicity

c)

Necessary for all businesses

d)

Non-verbal communication

42.

Which of the following types of advertising is designed to increase sales?

a)

Product

b)

Institutional

c)

Creative

d)

Multilevel

43.

Which of the following is NOT a form of direct mail advertising?

a)

Weeklies

b)

Free sample

c)

Newsletters

d)

Catalogs

44.

Which of the following is NOT an example of a consumer promotion?

a)

Publicity

b)

Rebate

c)

Coupon

d)

Contest

45.

Why would Preston send a press release to media outlets announcing a new service offered by his company?

a)

Publicity

b)

Advertising

c)

Consumer promotion

d)

Direct mail promotion

46.

Which of the following is generally considered the most expensive form of media?

a)

Broadcast media

b)

Internet media

c)

Earned media

d)

Print media

47.

Which of the following is a type of broadcast media?

a)

Radio

b)

Mass Marketing

c)

Websites

d)

Newspapers

48.

Which of the following is NOT a form of print media advertising?

a)

Internet

b)

Directory

c)

Magazine

d)

Newspaper

49.

Which of the following is NOT an element of a print advertisement?

a)

Banner

b)

Copy

c)

Headline

d)

Illustration

50.

Which of the following does NOT exemplify specialty advertising?

a)

Outdoor billboards and transit advertising

b)

Giveaways of relatively inexpensive products

c)

Practical and useful objects with high visibility

d)

Calendars, magnets, pens, bags, shirts