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Marketing Fundamentals: Strategy, Positioning & the Marketing Mix

The core of an intro marketing or MBA marketing course: the marketing mix, segmentation and positioning, consumer behaviour, strategy frameworks, product, branding and pricing. For business students and people starting a marketing job.

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MShared by Marcus Lindqvist
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Core Concepts and the Marketing Mix

Needs, wants and demand, the five marketing orientations, the 4Ps, 7Ps and 4Cs, and the four ways services differ from goods.

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44 total questions

MCQ: 11
Fill-in: 9
Flashcards: 13
Pair match: 11
Core Concepts and the Marketing Mix – Flashcards
Flashcards

Card #1

Marketing (Kotler and Armstrong's definition)

Card #2

Need

Card #3

Want

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Core Concepts and the Marketing Mix – MCQ
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  1. 1. A 1920s carmaker builds one model in one colour on the cheapest possible assembly line, believing buyers mainly want low prices and wide availability. Which orientation is this?

    • Product concept: focus on quality, features and constant improvement
    • Production concept: focus on efficient output and low unit cost
    • Selling concept: focus on large-scale selling and promotion effort
    • Societal concept: focus on the long-run welfare of buyers and society
  2. 2. A firm keeps adding features to a mousetrap it believes is the best ever made, without asking whether customers want a better mousetrap at all. Which orientation is this?

    • Marketing concept: starts from what target customers need and want
    • Production concept: assumes buyers favour cheap, widely available goods
    • Product concept: assumes buyers favour the most quality and features
    • Selling concept: assumes buyers will not buy enough without a hard push
  3. 3. A timeshare company invites people to a free dinner, then runs a long, high-pressure presentation to close sales on the night. Which orientation does this reflect?

    • The selling concept
    • The marketing concept
    • The product concept
    • The production concept
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Core Concepts and the Marketing Mix – Fill-in-the-blank
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  1. 1. Peter Drucker wrote that the aim of marketing is to make ___ superfluous.

    Answer:selling

    Hint: The activity the selling concept relies on

  2. 2. A ___ is a single trade of values between two parties, such as paying $500 for a television.

    Answer:transaction

    Hint: One completed exchange

  3. 3. In marketing, a ___ is the set of all actual and potential buyers of a product.

    Answer:market

    Hint: Six letters

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Core Concepts and the Marketing Mix – Pair match
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Product (4Ps)↔Consumer wants and needs (4Cs)
Price (4Ps)↔Cost to satisfy (4Cs)
Place (4Ps)↔Convenience to buy (4Cs)
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