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Economic
Technological
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Regulatory
100

This describes a population using characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity, income, and occupation.

What are demographics?

100

This pertains to the income, expenditures, and resources that affect the cost of running a business and household.

What is the economy?

100

This refers to inventions or innovations from applied science or engineering research.

What is technology?

100

This consists of alternative firms that could provide a product to satisfy a specific market's needs.

What is competition?

100

This consists of the restrictions state and federal laws place on businesses regarding their activities.

What is regulation?

200

Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z are examples of these.

What are generational cohorts?

200

This is the total amount of money made in one year by a person, household, or family unit.

What is gross income?

200

Gen Z discovers products through social media and purchases them directly through platforms like Instagram. What technological trend is this an example of?

What is e-commerce?

200

This type of competition has many sellers offering similar products, such as commodities.

What is pure competition?

200

This is when an industry attempts to police itself instead of being controlled by the government.

What is self-regulation?

300

A type of influencer who has a smaller following but focuses on genuine relationships with followers.

What is a micro-influencer?

300

This is the money a consumer has left after paying taxes to use for necessities such as food, housing, clothing, and transportation.

What is disposable income?

300

These are smart devices, such as phones, watches, and glasses, that can collect and share information about users.

What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?

300

A coffee shop competes with many other businesses selling similar products, such as tea and other coffee shops. What type of competition is this?

What is monopolistic competition?

300

Passed in 1890, this law was created to protect competition and prevent businesses from creating monopolies.

What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?

400

This type of marketing recognizes the different values, beliefs, and characteristics of diverse cultural groups.

What is multicultural marketing?

400

This is the money that remains after paying for taxes and necessities.

What is discretionary income?

400

This technology allows devices like Siri and Alexa to understand requests and interact with users.

What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

400

In this type of competition, a few sellers control the majority of sales, such as T-Mobile and AT&T.

What is an oligopoly?

400

This type of legislation protects original works and gives creators legal rights over how their work is used.

What is copyright law?

500

This is what Gen Z is known for embracing.

What is diversity?

500

This economic force occurs when the overall prices of goods and services rise, reducing consumers’ purchasing power.

What is inflation?

500

These extremely large sets of information require massive storage and sophisticated analysis to identify patterns, trends, and associations that help marketers make decisions.

What is big data?

500

These consist of business practices or conditions that make it difficult for new firms to enter the market.

What are barriers to entry?

500

This type of legislation is designed to protect competition by preventing businesses from engaging in practices that restrict or eliminate competition.

What is antitrust legislation?