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Proctor & Gamble would like to better anticipate consumer cleaning needs. To do this, they observed janitors in a variety of organizational settings like schools, offices, and gyms. They watched how they cleaned, how they took breaks, what tools they used, and many other sorts of aspects of their jobs. What type of exploratory research is P&G conducting?

Candace opens up a lemonade business but realizes that most of her sales come from two customers, Phineas and Ferb. Phineas and Ferb would be considered the business’s:

Marcus is an avid plant lover with the biggest “green thumb” you’ll ever see. He needs to purchase a weedwhacker to get his backyard ready for the summer before he can plant anything. He first goes online to read reviews of different weedwhackers. Then he thinks of all the ways he would use one and collects information from different stores about the features of different brands and tries them out for feel. Then he puts all this together to make his choice and determines where to buy it. Which of the following decision making concepts is most relevant to Marcus’ approach to his decision?

Hotel programs that encourage passengers to repeatedly stay at their collections of properties focus on usage rate and employ ________ strategy.

“Have you been to a dentist within the past twelve months? ___ Yes ___ No” is an example of which type of question?

The VALS framework segments consumers based on

Alex began working at a new company called MowTown. MowTown sells lawn and garden products, and a lot of their customers order their products online. Since most of their sales are online, MowTown wants to boost their reviews. Instead of receiving genuine reviews, MowTown makes Alex create and post fake customer reviews. What MowTown is making Alex do is called:

Market segmentation stresses ________ and relating them to specific marketing actions.

The sandwich company Subday is trying to use data for their strategic planning process for the upcoming year. In which of the following scenarios do they use internal secondary data?

Alissa is a tennis fanatic who likes to be informed of new tennis trends and innovative racquet technology, so she watches the Tennis World Channel daily. While watching the Tennis World Channel, she sees an ad for the new Wilson tennis racquet that will be released in less than a week. This ad specified the racquet’s new technological features, colorful design, and announced the player who would be using it in the next tournament. Wilson l knew that showing this ad would be highly appealing to tennis fanatics who would be much more likely to purchase the new racquet than the average American. Running this ad on the Tennis World Channel is an example of ____________