Exam 5: Entrepreneurial Marketing
Brand awareness is created through a customer's exposure to what?
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Customer acquisition and retention are the core processes of marketing.
True
Distribution channel strategy includes three types of channel coverage, please define them.
Distribution channel strategy includes three types of channel coverage: intensive, selective, and exclusive.The appropriate strategy depends on the type of product or service that entrepreneurs will sell.
Intensive coverage works for consumer goods and other fast-moving products.The carbonated soft drink category is one of the most intensively distributed: products are sold in supermarkets, drug stores, convenience stores, restaurants, vending machines, sporting event concessions, and fast food outlets.
Selective distribution brings the product to specific distributors, often limiting selection geographically by establishing a dealer network.Kate Spade sells her handbags and other fashion accessories to high-end department stores but not to mainstream retailers or mass merchandisers.Selective distribution can protect dealers and retailers from competition, while helping manufacturers maintain prices by thwarting price competition.
Exclusive distribution is often used for luxury products.For some time, Neiman-Marcus had exclusive rights to distribute the Hermes line of very high-end leather goods and fashion accessories.
New ventures must differentiate their product or service to make its distinctiveness and value clear to customer.
All entrepreneurs face the need for brand building, which is ___.
Describe how an entrepreneur may think about selected primary and secondary target audiences from a segmented market.
Consider how critical your value proposition is to the customer segment.Are you selling "oxygen or Tylenol?" How essential is your product or service to THIS segment?
Which of the following most directly affects revenue, profits, and how consumers perceive a product's position in the market?
Brand equity is the combined result of brand awareness and brand image.
For a rapidly growing company seeking greater growth, a large established channel partner who wishes to place large orders at high prices would seem like a great opportunity.What factors could make this a terrible idea for a new venture, that an entrepreneur must first look at?
Will you need to incur fixed costs to serve this channel partner, and what share of your present, and near-term revenue is this partner representing? This is necessary to avoid entering into a situation where your channel partners bargaining power is too great and where you will be unable to cover your fixed costs if they demand a lower price or volume in the future.
What methods can an entrepreneur leverage to identify the most appropriate price for his or her product?
The attractiveness of a market segment is related to its size, growth rate, and ___.
Why is defining what guerrilla marketing does easier than defining what it is?
The customer's direct experience with the brand has a strong effect on brand image.
New ventures cannot survive in competition with larger corporations, since the latter can spend intimidating sums on marketing research, testing their strategies, or designing marketing campaigns.
Guerilla marketing is, at its essence, an asymmetric manner of competing in which a low resource entrant seeks to outmatch competitors by concentrating creativity, boldness, agility, and local knowledge within their marketing methods that are practically (if not economically)difficult for larger competitors to imitate or keep pace with.
In addition to acquiring and retaining customers, marketing serves the venture by function as its___.
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