Misc
Potpourri
Misc
Potpourri
Misc
100

________ is the process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization's goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities.

What is strategic planning?

100

A single business or collection of related businesses that can be planned separately from the rest of the company.

What are strategic business units (SBUs)?

100

A guide to provide all the publics of a company with a shared sense of purpose, direction, and opportunity, allowing all to work independently, yet collectively, toward the organization’s goals.

What is (corporate) mission statement?

100

In a SWOT analysis, which of the following refers to factors in the external environment?

What are opportunities?

100

Effective positioning begins with ________.

What is differentiation?

200

A growth strategy by which companies acquire businesses supplying them with products or services

What is backward integration?

200
The marketing logic by which the company hopes to create this customer value and achieve these profitable relationships.
What is marketing strategy?
200
Relationships between independent parties that agree to cooperate but still retain separate identities.
What are Strategic alliances?
200

The second step of the marketing planning process is to ________.

What is to set company objectives and goals?

200
A growth strategy where firms offer modified or new products to its current market.
What is product development?
300
The process of dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs, characteristics, or behavior who might require separate products or marketing programs.
What is market segmentation?
300
________ consists of evaluating each market segment's attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter.
What is market targeting?
300
A growth strategy by which companies acquire competitors.
What is horizontal integration?
300
When companies identify and develop new markets for its existing products.
What is market development?
400

A growth strategy that involves increasing sales of current products to current customers without changing the product, this is called a ________ strategy.

What is market penetration?

400
A product growth strategy in which a company seeks new businesses that have no relationship to the company’s current product line or markets.
What is conglomerate diversification strategy?
400

________ is the place a product occupies in the consumer's mind relative to competitors' products.

What is (product) position?

400

What are the buyer's four Cs?

What are: customer solution, customer cost, convenience, and communication?

500

The final step in the strategic planning process.

What is planning marketing and other functional strategies?

500

A(n) ________ is when a company might seek new products that have technological or marketing synergies with its existing product lines

What is concentric strategy?

500
A growth strategy by which companies acquire businesses that are closer to the ultimate consumer, such as a hotel acquiring a chain of travel agents.
What is forward integration?
500
A product growth strategy whereby a company looks for new products that could appeal to current customers that are technologically unrelated to its current line.
What is horizontal diversification strategy?
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