30 questions
________ marketing involves engaging directly with carefully targeted individual consumers and customer communities to both obtain an immediate response and build lasting customer relationships.
Undifferentiated and differentiated
Mass and targeted
Direct and digital
Internal and external
Standardized and customized
Which of the following statements is most likely true about direct and digital marketing?
They are used to sell goods to an undifferentiated market segment.
They are inconvenient and lengthen the process for most buyers.
They remain unaffected by the rapid growth of technologies.
They build customer engagement and constitute a complete model for doing business.
They are rarely used by companies as supplementary channels.
How has the Internet most likely affected direct and digital marketing?
The time taken by marketers to reach customer segments has increased.
The role of technology has become less intense.
The expenditures on direct and digital marketing have increased.
The growth of digital sales has seen a significant downturn.
The number of mass marketing forms has expanded.
A comprehensive database is a tremendous tool for the direct marketer. It should contain geographic, demographic, psychographic, and ________ data.
ethical
cultural
medical
behavioral
sociological
Catalogs, brochures, samples, and DVDs are all examples of which type of marketing?
direct-response marketing
direct-mail marketing
digital direct marketing
kiosk marketing
online marketing
Fiona Lambrech is the marketing director of a charity that raises funds to help provide educational services to children and families in developing countries. Fiona wants to reach a selective market of individuals who have recently donated to international charities. Which of the following types of direct marketing is Fiona most likely to use?
direct-mail marketing
catalog marketing
telephone marketing
direct-response television marketing
kiosk marketing
Organic Designs is a small, successful chain of stores offering stylish clothes made of all-organic materials for infants, toddlers, and young children. Most of the Organic Designs stores are located in urban areas. Now Organic Designs is considering using direct marketing to reach potential customers who live outside of the company's existing markets, with the goal of creating emotional connections and long-term relationships with a new group of customers. Which of the following methods of direct marketing would likely be most effective in accomplishing this goal?
direct-mail marketing
telephone marketing
catalog marketing
direct-response television marketing
podcast marketing
Marketers use ________ telephone marketing to receive orders from television ads and catalogs.
inbound
outbound
interactive
direct-response
business-to-business
What are two major forms of direct-response television marketing?
direct-response television advertising and infomercials
home-selling and toll-free response
home television response and attention commercials
call-in response and Web-site response
home shopping channels and vodcasts
Green Gardens is a click-and-mortar seller of gardening and landscaping goods and equipment. The marketing department wants to encourage shoppers at the physical stores to use the company's online catalog to order items that are not available at a given retail location. Which of the following marketing devices is the best match for this goal?
kiosks
mobile phones
telemarketing
podcasts
What is the fastest growing form of direct marketing?
mobile-phone marketing
online marketing
interactive TV
direct-response television
podcasts
The growth of the Internet caused many brick-and-mortar companies to ________ in response to customer demands and a changing marketplace.
become click-only companies
become content sites
become click-and-mortar companies
develop more infomercials
expand their outside sales forces
Online communities where people socialize or exchange information and opinions are called ________.
corporate Web sites
marketing Web sites
online social networks
interactive Web sites
affiliate programs
Which of the following is not the plus side of using social media?
Social media are targeted and personal.
Social media are interactive.
Social media are not immediate.
Social media can be very cost effective.
Social media are engaging.
Unsolicited and unwanted commercial e-mail is known as ________.
viral e-mail
e-tailing
pop-up advertising
pop-under advertising
spam
Oscar Aviation has a corporate Web site. Prospective customers are likely able to do all of the following on the site EXCEPT ________.
learn about Oscar's philosophy
ask online questions
enjoy entertainment features on the site
purchase products
register to receive more information from the company
Your Cleaning Team is a company that provides house cleaning services in major urban and suburban areas. Marketers at Your Cleaning Team developed a short, humorous video promoting the company's services and hope that customers who see the video will be so entertained that they will pass it on to their friends and colleagues. The marketers at Your Cleaning Team are using ________.
content sponsorship
viral marketing
C2B marketing
rich media ads
a marketing Web site
What does the term viral marketing mean?
It is the Internet version of word-of-mouth marketing.
It refers to problems that occur with viruses online.
It is another term for invasions of online privacy.
It is another term for online security.
It is a system that allows a supplier to access a customer's inventory levels online.
Which of the following is a primary disadvantage of viral marketing?
The costs of viral marketing are too high for most companies.
The brand associated with the viral message is usually forgotten.
Marketers have little control over who receives the viral message.
Viral messages are less likely to be viewed than other types of online promotions.
Viral messages are blocked by most search engines.
Digital marketing through online, mobile, and social media provides a sense of brand engagement and community.
TRUE
FALSE
Though direct mail permits high target-market selectivity and can be personalized, it does not allow easy measurement of results.
TRUE
FALSE
A catalog is currently defined as a printed, bound piece of at least eight pages that sells multiple products and offers a direct ordering mechanism.
TRUE
FALSE
Mobile marketing is an unsuitable tool for triggering an immediate purchase from a consumer.
TRUE
FALSE
Direct marketing rarely occurs on a one-to-one, interactive basis.
TRUE
FALSE
Other forms of online promotions
mail, social clubs
banners, pop ups, rich media
radio, telemarketing