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What do businesses often take into consideration when forecasting sales for marketing plans?
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SWOT analysis is a technique for summarizing which components of a company?
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Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
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Skills, workers, organizations, and teams
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Strategy, wholesalers, objectives, and trademarks
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Store, warranty, occupations, and tariffs
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When it is conducting a competitive analysis a firm discovers a competitor's weakness. Which condition has the firm most likely uncovered?
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Ethical disadvantage
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Internal threat
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Marketplace opportunity
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Product liability
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Which is a factor that new businesses consider when conducting an analysis of competitors in a specific market?
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Product quality and price
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Size and availability of space
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Cost of supplies and equipment
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Industry research and training
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A SWOT analysis indicates that the buying preferences are changing, but the business has a very limited product line. This is an example of which situation?
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Internal weakness compensating for an external threat.
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Internal strength responding to an external threat.
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External threat attacking an internal weakness.
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External opportunity coinciding with an internal strength.
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A business asks its customers about the types and amounts of products that they plan to purchase in the next 12 months. What is the business using to help forecast sales?
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The marketing objectives that a business develops for its marketing plan should lead to which situation?
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Increased prices
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Increased sales
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Decreased costs
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Decreased taxes
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Once a SWOT analysis identifies an internal strength, a business can use that strength to take advantage of which option?
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Operating procedure
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External opportunity
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Marketing strategy
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Promotional technique
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Businesses usually analyze market potential for a certain product by considering total demand for which component?
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Research sample
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Day of the week
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Geographical area
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Social situation
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As part of its market analysis, the SVM Company estimates to increases in product demand over a set time frame for a particular market segment. The SVM Company is attempting to analyze which market feature?
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Size
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Growth rate
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Performance
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Profitability
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What is a potential weakness a manager might identify in a SWOT analysis?
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Which is a factor that businesses often consider when conducting a market analysis?
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Location of the test market
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Size of the market next year
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Safety of the research process
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Design of the questionnaire
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One of the purposes of conducting a market analysis is to develop which component?
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Management team
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Distribution plan
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Operating budget
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Customer profile
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Which is an internal strength that a business might identify during a SWOT analysis?
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Limited competition
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Extensive regulations
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Increased expenses
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Financial resources
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By conducting a competitive analysis, businesses often are able to determine if they have which attribute?
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A competitive advantage
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A target market
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A promotional plan
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A security problem
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The marketing strategy of a marketing plan should include which component?
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Proposed annual budget
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Explanation of accounting methods
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Detailed product description
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List of current employees
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In which situation might a business decide that the cost of implementing a marketing plan for a specific product is much greater than the financial benefits?
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Advertising rates are increasing slightly.
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Level of profitability will remain the same.
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Two competitors have 65% of current market share.
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Target market buys $500,000 worth of product each year.
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One way that a business can learn about activities of its competitors is by performing which activity?
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Evaluating Intranet efficiencies
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Reviewing secondary data
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Developing product specifications
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Identifying communication barriers
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When a business develops a marketing plan, the objectives should be timely, measurable, and which other feature?
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General
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Attainable
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Serviceable
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Impulsive
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When forecasting sales for marketing plans, businesses often rely on which component?
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Supplier data
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General statistics
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Research information
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Operating reports
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An important step in the process of developing a marketing plan involves selecting which component?
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Distribution agent
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Target market
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Sales force
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Research strategy
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Which is an activity that a business performs when conducting a competitive analysis?
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The MKO Company projects that sales will increase from $675,900 this year to $736,731 next year. What is the forecasted percentage of the sales increase?
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Which information is known when conducting a market analysis about the demand for a product?
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Market potential
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Sales growth
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Target market
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Supply factor
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What is a potential threat a manager might identify in a SWOT analysis?
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Forecasting sales for marketing plans is important because the forecast is used as which component?
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Standard of measurement
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Type of research
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Method of communication
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Compilation of data
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Which situation should a business consider prices of its competitors when developing a marketing plan?