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What is the data a business collects itself using surveys and interviews called?
Primary data
Descriptive data
Population data
Irrational data
By tracking customer sales, businesses can learn about their customers’:
Demographics and behavior
Marriage status
Tax information
Social media habits
A system that collects and analyzes marketing information is called a:
Inferential statistics system
Marketing information system
Descriptive research system
Exploratory design system
Combining market and economic data helps businesses figure out the _____ of their market.
Likeability
Size
Implications
Damage
Word-of-mouth, online reviews, and referrals are examples of:
Indirect marketing
Uncompromised marketing
Direct marketing
Compromised marketing
Marketing information systems help which team understand customers and set product prices?
Social media managers
Product marketing teams
Communication directors
Interpersonal officers
Under GDPR, businesses can only collect customer data if they have:
Consent
Payment
Insight
Encouragement
Watching customers in their natural environment to study behavior is called:
Focus research
Online research
Observational research
Direct research
Which team benefits most from creating marketing campaigns and tracking results?
Audit team
Marketing team
Design team
Finance team
A more expensive way to collect customer opinions in-person or online is:
Focus groups
Observation
Surveys
Interviews
A simple way to avoid confirmation bias is to use more _____ than _____ data.
Descriptive; populated
Populated; descriptive
Qualitative; quantitative
Quantitative; qualitative
Focus group results can sometimes be:
Abundant
Accurate
Inaccurate
Unimportant
Which industry is highly regulated when collecting customer data?
Pharmaceutical
Art
Automotive
Photographic
A cheap alternative to surveys or in-person interviews is:
Online research
Focus groups
Phone interviews
Surveys
When businesses interpret survey results to match their beliefs, this is:
Statistical certainty
Knowledge bias
Confirmation bias
Creative impressionism
Tools that measure and analyze marketing results track the brand’s:
Interval
Performance
Bias
Inferential
Mistakes in reasoning, evaluating, or remembering are called:
Descriptive statistics
Cognitive bias
Knowledge bias
Irrational escalation
Research to find out why sales are low and customer tastes are changing is:
Formal
Descriptive
Exploratory
Causal
Businesses must carefully plan questions by checking:
Inferential, escalation, and knowledge
Bias, descriptor, and presenter
Wording, sequence, and length
Research, statistics, and design
A bias where businesses keep investing money before results show it won’t work is:
Descriptive statistics
Irrational escalation
Exploratory design
Cognitive bias
The biggest limitation of marketing research is the:
Illusion
Lag time
Conversation
Discrepancy
The goal of any business is to make:
Profits
Adversaries
News
Friends
The marketing mix helps companies:
Set marketing budgets
Identify tactics to meet customer needs
Design packaging
Promote using influencers
Information about customer attitudes, values, and lifestyles is:
Psychographics
Infographics
Demographics
Linguistics
_____ are services like accounting or car repair; products are things you can touch.
Processes
Ideas
Services
Plans
The steps customers take when deciding to buy something are called:
Influencer marketing
Situational analysis
Consumer decision-making process
Competitive situation
If a product goes viral because customers tell their friends, this is:
Automotive marketing
Word-of-mouth marketing
Billboard marketing
Photographic marketing
What term refers to a set of principles that guide the decisions and behavior of businesses?
business exploitations
business values
business ethics
business pricing
The code of ethics set by what organization states that marketers should adopt honesty, responsibility, fairness, respect, transparency, and citizenship?
Ethical Marketing Members
American Marketing Association
Code of Ethics Committee
Environmental Advertising Agency
Ethical standards can often help marketers make better decisions about the planning and execution of:
employee discipline
marketing campaigns
financial projections
lawsuit responses
The idea that marketers must be truthful and stand behind their claims relates to which AMA quality?
honesty
responsibility
transparency
respect
Claims that can affect a consumer’s _____ or _____ are looked at closely by the FTC.
success; growth
health; finances
happiness; humor
education; intelligence
Education-based selling and value-based selling are two types of _____ selling techniques.
unethical
ethical
predatory
exploitative
Marketers cannot exploit vulnerable segments such as the elderly or children. This relates to which AMA quality?
loyalty
fairness
responsibility
respect
What organization enforces laws regarding truth-in-advertising?
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Internal Revenue Service
Environmental Protection Agency
Claims involving images that do not represent the product accurately are called _____.
misleading claims
ethical claims
predatory claims
transparent claims
Giving customers in-depth information to help them shop is the goal of:
value-based selling
channel-based selling
education-based selling
predatory-based selling
Most spam messages are just annoying, but others could put you at risk of:
job loss
scams or identity theft
tax evasion
memory loss
Duties are assigned based on the _____ and _____ of imported merchandise.
size; shape
height; weight
value; type
price; tax
Unsolicited messages sent to customers via email are called:
spam
marketing
ethics
duties
Export laws are restricted when products could be used for _____ services.
educational
military
culinary
electrical
What unethical selling technique involves hiding information in tiny print?
excessive fine print
spam
bait and switch
misrepresentation
Over-exaggerating features or lying about product upgrades is an example of:
spamming
excessive fine print
misrepresentation
bait and switch
When large companies set prices extremely low to force out competitors, this is called:
discriminate pricing
emotional pricing
predatory pricing
value pricing
When competitors agree to raise or stabilize prices, this is called:
price anomalies
price fixing
price fluctuating
price parties
Imported products are subject to special taxes known as:
tarps
duties
ethos
spam
The act of manipulating emotions to get action is called:
emotional endurance
emotional ethics
emotional persuasion
emotional exploitation
Data collected to solve a specific marketing problem (like surveys) is called:
primary information
secondary information
quadrilateral information
tertiary information
Under GDPR, companies must get what from users before sending marketing messages?
explicit consent
implied consent
ambiguous consent
assumed consent
What term refers to how companies reach customers through online or offline channels?
channel management
channel discrimination
channel extrapolation
channel exploitation
A system using more than one distribution channel is called a(n):
omnichannel objective
plural-channel objective
predatory channel objective
customer channel objective
The person responsible for setting distribution tasks is the:
channel host
channel boss
channel manager
channel aficionado
Debit cards do not affect a person’s credit score and allow spending up to:
lottery amount
gift balance
birthday balance
account balance
Accounts with fixed payments over a set period are called:
installment accounts
revolving accounts
social security accounts
investor accounts
Interest based only on the original principal is called:
simple interest
compound interest
investor interest
revolving interest
An individual’s FICO score falls between:
250–900
100–500
500–1000
300–850
What term refers to a unique number businesses use to identify themselves?
SBN
TLN
SSN
EIN
A business line of credit helps cover expenses such as:
payroll and rent
vacations
student tuition
home repairs
The financial report showing revenues and expenses for a period is the:
liability list
cash flow statement
balance sheet
income statement
What term refers to all the outstanding debts a business owes?
balances
loans
credits
liabilities
Sales forecasts are a key part of creating what type of strategy?
operational strategy
marketing strategy
asset strategy
tax strategy
When it comes to the marketing process, some businesses may not be able to get the information they are seeking due to what kind of restrictions?
manpower and personnel restrictions
legal and liability restrictions
communication and access restrictions
time and financial restrictions
It is easy and inexpensive to obtain information from ______ of data like a business’s financial and operations reports.
exploratory sources
internal sources
external sources
statistical sources
In market research, after the problem is defined, what is the next step?
gather needed information
experiment with social media platforms
personally reach out to customers
create a marketing team
In market research, _____ is defined as the total set of people being observed.
interval
statistics
sample
population
A _____ is a smaller piece of the population that represents the entire population.
bias
interval
sample
population
What term refers to a number that tells researchers how close their data is to the actual population value?
descriptive interval
confirmation bias
cognitive bias
confidence interval
What type of analysis simplifies data into just a few key variables or factors?
factor analysis
discriminant analysis
conjoint analysis
bias analysis
Exploratory, descriptive, and causal are three different ways to design what?
research design
advertising budget
product life cycle
pricing schedule
When businesses test different marketing messages and ad designs to find what works best, they are conducting research related to:
business
advertising
merchandising
customers
What type of research uses data already collected by another source?
tertiary research
secondary research
exploratory research
bias research
What tells businesses how confident they should be that their data is close to the true population value?
confirmation bias
confidence interval
exploratory design
inferential statistics
Government publications and market research reports are examples of:
tertiary data
descriptive data
primary data
secondary data
A surfing company surveying 5,000 pro surfers instead of all surfers is an example of using a:
descriptive statistic
confidence interval
sample size
bias group
What market research method is one of the oldest and most cost-effective for understanding customer opinions?
surveys
phone interviews
web searches
diary studies
Research related to how product placement affects sales refers to:
taxes
funding
advertising
merchandising
Which research method observes customers in their natural environment?
online research
direct research
observational research
focus research
One of the more expensive primary research methods that can be done in-person or virtually is:
interviews
observation
focus groups
surveys
Coca-Cola’s New Coke failed because the company relied too much on:
top executive opinions
one person’s opinion
too many research methods
one marketing research method
What happens when people make mistakes in the way they reason or evaluate information?
A cognitive bias occurs, leading to distorted judgments
Data validity increases because errors cancel out
Sample size grows, improving representativeness
Confidence intervals narrow due to stronger evidence
The biggest limitation of marketing research is the _____ between conducting research and getting results.
discrepancy
lag time
illusion
conversation
The goal of any business is to make:
adversaries
profits
friends
headlines
SMART stands for:
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Bound
Sturdy, Mixed, Affable, Researched, Trident
Singular, Method, Affirm, Reflect, Tried
Strenuous, Marked, Affluent, Radical, Tremendous
Which component of the marketing mix refers to how much a product or service costs?
price
promotion
place
people
The marketing mix is a framework used to:
promote products using influencers
determine the marketing budget
identify tactics to meet customer needs
design product packaging
A semi-fictional representation of the target customer is called a:
consumer process
buyer persona
competitive situation
influencer
Information about attitudes, values, and lifestyles used in buyer personas is known as:
infographics
linguistics
demographics
psychographics
What term refers to the steps customers take when deciding whether to buy something?
situational analysis
competitive situation
consumer decision-making process
influencer marketing
What type of marketing occurs when customers tell friends about a product they love?
photographic marketing
automotive marketing
word of mouth marketing
billboard marketing
Products are things you can see and touch, while _____ are intangible benefits like accounting or repairs.
ideas
plans
services
processes
Businesses may overspend on inventory because estimates of potential demand based on what may be inaccurate?
consumer feedback
the financial department
statistics
market research
What type of market data is represented by customers' age, income, education, and occupation?
Demographic
Geographic
Psychographic
Motivation
These customers tend to make quick purchase decisions, often buying inexpensive items that are not of high importance to them.
Innovation/trend buyers
Impulse buyers
Recreational shoppers
Comparison shoppers
What is a fundamental step in identifying a business opportunity?
Ignoring customer feedback
Analyzing market gaps and consumer needs
Replicating a competitor's product
Focusing solely on personal interests
A group of people who were born and lived during the same time period are known as a
bunch of old people
generation
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