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What are the three actions a marketing manager must take in the final step of the five-step marketing research approach?

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  Figure 8-1 -According to Figure 8-1 above, what does E represent in the marketing research process? A)  Take marketing actions. B)  Define the problem. C)  Develop the research plan. D)  Collect relevant information. E)  Develop findings. Figure 8-1 -According to Figure 8-1 above, what does E represent in the marketing research process?


A) Take marketing actions.
B) Define the problem.
C) Develop the research plan.
D) Collect relevant information.
E) Develop findings.

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A salesforce survey forecast involves


A) starting with the last known value of the item being forecast, listing the factors that could affect the forecast, assessing whether they have a positive or negative impact, and making the final forecast.
B) making decisions without any intervening steps.
C) asking prospective customers if they are likely to buy the product during some future time period.
D) asking the firm's salespeople to estimate sales during a coming period.
E) selecting the forecasting alternative that would allow a firm to survive financially even if the forecasts were totally incorrect.

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A special kind of individual interview in which researchers ask lengthy, free-flowing kinds of questions to probe for underlying ideas and feelings is a


A) focus group.
B) discovery interview.
C) probing interview.
D) guided interview.
E) depth interview.

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A survey by the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, government statistics from the Department of Commerce, and stock market information from The Wall Street Journal would all be examples of


A) internal primary data.
B) nonprobability sampling methods.
C) internal secondary data.
D) external secondary data.
E) external primary data.

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Filmmakers want movie titles that use the same factors that make a good brand name. They must be without legal restrictions, memorable, appealing to consumers, and


A) creative.
B) familiar
C) short.
D) alliterative
E) easy to remember.

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The marketing research measure of success for the LEGO Group MINDSTORMS®product is assembly time for a particular design meant for middle school kids. Which would be the best possible marketing action if the results of a marketing research study concluded, "All 10 teams could assemble Design B in 20 minutes but only three teams completed Design A"?


A) Redesign the kits so that assembly time is more uniform.
B) Introduce Design B.
C) Introduce Design A, but add more new features to charge a higher price.
D) Mine the data further for student reactions.
E) Consult the marketing dashboards to analyze LEGO Group sales in the United States.

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Carma Laboratories, Inc., the maker of Carmex lip balm, used ________ to conduct marketing research to understand the nature of online conversations about lip balm.


A) ethnographic research
B) depth interviews
C) focus groups
D) social media
E) telephone surveys

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One test of whether marketing research should be done is if


A) different outcomes will lead to different marketing actions.
B) multiple changes can be implemented simultaneously.
C) interpreting the data can be done using a jury of executive opinions.
D) the decision to undertake it is unanimous.
E) there is a budget for the research.

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Marine Midland Bank sent market researchers door-to-door in the neighborhoods surrounding its branch banks. Each researcher planned to spend up to 15 minutes talking with a head of the household about his or her savings accounts to discuss why he or she did not also have checking accounts and credit cards with the bank. Marine Midland researchers were using ________ to collect these data.


A) secondary interviews
B) individual interviews
C) intercept interviews
D) observational data collection
E) ethnographic research

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Once the problem has been defined, the market researcher proceeds to __________, the second step of the five-step marketing research approach.


A) develop the research plan
B) evaluate the results
C) examine the alternatives
D) list the variables
E) conduct the experiment

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Children's accessory and toy store Red Carpet Baby! uses U.S. Census Bureau information to determine the number of families with children under age 5 for each state in its market area. Data obtained from this source are called


A) proprietary data.
B) primary data.
C) secondary data.
D) observational data
E) experimental data.

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In marketing experiments, the independent variable is the ________ and the dependent variable is the


A) element that never changes; element that always changes.
B) result; factor beyond the experimenter's control.
C) result of an action; cause of an action.
D) cause of an action; result of an action.
E) element that always changes; element that never changes.

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When Home Depot entered the Quebec market in Canada, two percent of people were aware of the retail chain. To determine advertising effectiveness during the first 18 months in Quebec, awareness research was done a second time. For this research, it was decided that if at least 50 percent of a 600-person sample of the population were aware of the Home Depot brand, it would continue its present advertising program. Here, level of awareness is an example of


A) secondary data.
B) a constraint.
C) an assumption.
D) a measure of success.
E) a barrier to entry.

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Martin Lindstrom used ________ to analyze buying processes and presented the findings of his research in his book Buyology.


A) genealogy
B) brain scanning
C) segmentation
D) biochemistry
E) numerology

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The Internet sites for The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Bloomberg


A) sell information on trade activity collected by the U.S. government.
B) are portals to all government websites that can be found by topic or keyword.
C) provide information in online databases and an index of blogs by primary topic.
D) are the most popular online portals in which to enter keywords or topics for specific searches.
E) provide up-to-the-minute business news and video clips about companies, industries, and trends.

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Which of the following is one of the three frequently used sales forecasting techniques?


A) heuristic prognostications
B) customer contracts
C) trade association experts
D) judgments of the decision maker
E) empirical studies

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Which of the following statements represents a possible measure of success in the first step of the five-step marketing research approach, defining the problem?


A) You have three weeks and $10,000 to determine if it is going to be profitable to serve breakfast on weekdays or not.
B) If 3-year-olds like this product, then it stands to reason that 4-year-olds will like it even more.
C) Use email questionnaires, not focus groups.
D) Let's identify the most cost-effective method of advertising.
E) If the test subject eats most or all of the sample during the taste test, it will be assumed that he or she likes it.

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Research and media firm Youth Culture publishes Watch magazine, a teen publication distributed free to high school students, and wanted to gauge whether it was meeting the needs of its audience. Youth Culture handed out surveys to learn how students felt about the publication. Feedback indicated teen boys and girls were demanding very different things from the magazine. This feedback was gleaned from ________ data.


A) questionnaire
B) internal secondary
C) external secondary
D) observational
E) promotional sales

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Specifying constraints, identifying data needed for marketing actions, and determining how to collect data would all take place during which step of the five-step marketing research approach?


A) Define the problem.
B) Develop the research plan.
C) Collect relevant information.
D) Develop findings.
E) Take marketing actions.

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