English Test
English Test
English Test
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why has the main focus of companies moved first from finance to engineering and then from engineering to marketing?
Because the main demand on companies first changed from
controlling costs to competing with other companies with similar
products and then to serving customers.
what to negative descriptions of marketing does he reject?
Fooling the customer and falsifying the company’s image.
what does he say about customers and market driven companies?
Market driven companies integrate the customer into the design
of the product.
what is wrong with focusing on r&d and creating new products?
If you focus on your R and D you forget about the customer, the
market, and the competition.
what is wrong with focusing on increasing market share?
Trying to increase your market share is like fighting over crumbs
rather than trying to own the whole pie (or the whole market).
explain in your own words what he describes as the real job or goal of marketing?
The real job or goal of marketing is to produce what customers want so well that you control or own or lead the entire market
for your products.
what are the two functions of advertising?
To inform and to persuade
what is the role of advertising agencies?
Create advertisements and develop a media plan
what three diffrent methods of determining advertising spending are mentioned?
Spending a fixed % of current sales; spending as much as
competitors, increasing current spending in order to increase
sales
what does the text describe as disadvantages of traditional advertising?
Expensive and not always reaching the target; interrupts people;
can be annoying
what ways of using the internet to advertise are mentioned?
Blogs, online forums, commenting on blogs, social networking
sites, podcasts and viral videos
companies that design advertising for clients?
Advertising agencies
the advertising of a particular product or service during a particular period of time?
Advertising campaigns
the statement of objectives that a client works our with an adverising agency?
brief
a defined set of customers whose needs a company plans to satisfy?
target customers
the amount of money a company plans to spend in developing its advertising and buying media time or space?
advertising budget
the choice of where to advertise in order to reach the right people?
media plan
coosing to spend the same amout on advertising as ones competitors
compararive-parity method
a small amout of a product given to customers recommend products to their friends?
word of mouth
trying to get consumers to forward an online marketing message to other people?
viral marketing