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Consider the Amazon Kindle photo above.According to the textbook,what stage of the product life cycle are e-book readers like the Kindle in?


A) harvest
B) decline
C) maturity
D) growth
E) introduction

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Imagine that Post Cereal introduces a cereal bar-Trail Mix Crunch-just like the ones Kellogg's and General Mills already have on the market.Post has decided to promote the bars using ads without coupons and to price the bars at about the same price as these other brands.Post Cereal Trail Mix Crunch cereal bars will also be distributed to the same stores as the products from Kellogg's and General Mills' bars.Which of the following barriers to new product adoption will most likely prevent the Post Cereal Trail Mix Crunch cereal bars from being a successful product?


A) value barrier
B) psychological barrier
C) risk barrier
D) usage barrier
E) social barrier

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Which of the following statements about the introduction stage of the product life cycle is most accurate?


A) If a firm's product is especially good,efforts should be made to create selective demand rather than primary demand in order to allow the firm to distinguish itself from competitors.
B) During the introduction stage,it is best to avoid a skimming pricing strategy.
C) During the introduction stage,it is best to avoid a penetration pricing strategy.
D) A firm should introduce the identical product at several different price points in order to gauge customer price sensitivity.
E) Because of large initial investment costs,industry profits often go from negative to positive.

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The fourth and last step in the sequential process of building brand equity is to __________.


A) develop positive brand awareness
B) establish a brand's meaning in the minds of consumers
C) elicit the proper consumer responses to a brands identity and meaning
D) create an intense,active,and loyal consumer-brand connection
E) reward loyal customer behavior

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Which of the following quotes from a new product adopter would signal the need for a firm to counteract a value barrier?


A) "But it might make me fat."
B) "What if I can't make the monthly payments?"
C) "I don't want to try this if it means I have to swallow it with milk."
D) "Big deal,the only difference is the shape of the package."
E) "Sure I'll try it;why not!"

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Which of the following quotes from a new product adopter would signal the need for a firm to counteract a risk barrier?


A) "It is against my religion."
B) "What if I can't make the monthly payments?"
C) "I don't want to try this if it means I have to swallow it with milk."
D) "Big deal,the only difference is the shape of the package."
E) "Sure I'll try it;why not!"

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A company uses __________ when it manufactures products but sells them under the brand name of a wholesaler or retailer.


A) manufacturer branding
B) private branding
C) generic branding
D) co-branding
E) brand licensing

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Secret maintains its leadership position as one of many products in what is typically considered a __________ product category.


A) fad
B) low-learning
C) fashion
D) high-learning
E) specialty

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Among teenagers,Pez has a __________ percent awareness level.


A) 50%
B) 60%
C) 75%
D) 89%
E) 98%

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Consider the photo above of Apple's iPhone 5C.Apple launched its revolutionary iPhone in 2007,the first smartphone that used a multi-touch user interface.iPhone unit sales then skyrocketed for several years.Recently,smartphone sales have slowed and profits have declined somewhat as fierce competition from Samsung,Motorola,Nokia (Microsoft) ,BlackBerry,and several others battle for new customers or those who are considering switching their mobile/smartphones after their contracts expire.The smartphone market is expected to grow at a slower compound annual rate of 13 percent in the next few years.To maintain market shares and attract new customers,smartphone marketers are dropping their average smartphone prices or offering new,lower-cost phones like Apple did with its iPhone 5C (compared to its iPhone 5S) .Globally,Apple's iPhone had a 15 percent share of the smartphone market in 2013-second to Samsung,whose share was 41 percent.Which stage of the product life cycle are smartphones like the iPhone 5C in?


A) decline stage
B) commercialization stage
C) growth stage
D) accelerated development stage
E) introduction stage

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Products that are introduced,decline,and seem to return are characteristic of the __________ type of product life cycle.


A) high-learning
B) low-learning
C) fashion
D) fad
E) generalized

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The pairing of two brand names of two manufacturers on a single product is referred to as


A) multibranding.
B) brand bundling.
C) co-branding.
D) mixed branding.
E) reseller branding.

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Four important aspects of product life cycles are: (1) their length; (2) the shape of their sales curves; (3) how they vary with different levels of products;and (4) the rate at which __________.


A) consumers recognize products
B) consumers adopt products
C) consumers abandon products
D) competitors create "me too" products
E) environmental forces affect products

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In terms of its effect on faxing,e-mail has __________.


A) led to a significant number of improvements in fax machine technology to keep the product class competitive
B) led to a significant decrease in fax machine sales because e-mail better suits the needs of the business community
C) led to a significant increase in fax machine purchases due to distrust of e-mail spam
D) a minimal impact since the two technologies do not directly compete with each other
E) caused most fax machine manufacturers to incorporate new Internet technology to send,receive,and print e-mails through a wireless connection to a personal computer

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The first step in the sequential building process of brand equity involves __________.


A) developing positive brand awareness
B) creating a consumer-brand connection
C) easing consumers' decision making
D) eliciting the proper consumer responses to a brand's identity and meaning
E) establishing a brand's meaning in the minds of consumers

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Nike has successfully used __________ with its lines Air Jordan and Air Lebron.


A) family branding
B) subbranding
C) multiproduct branding
D) mixed branding
E) generic branding

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All of the following are market modification strategies EXCEPT:


A) creating a new use situation.
B) finding new customers.
C) changing a product's appearance.
D) targeting new market segments.
E) increasing a product's use among existing customers.

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A set of human characteristics associated with a brand name is referred to as __________.


A) a symbolic brand
B) a brand personality
C) a brand psychographic
D) brand personification
E) product personification

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Major American car manufacturers are offering buying incentives to newly graduated college students who traditionally have little or no credit.Car manufacturers are using which of the following market modification strategies?


A) finding new users
B) creating new use situations
C) increasing a product's use by existing customers
D) modifying the product
E) reacting to competitors' positions

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Consumer packaged goods firms like General Mills and PepsiCo and as well as industrial firms such as Intel and Hewlett-Packard employ a product manager to manage __________.


A) all of an organization's product items or brands
B) all of an organization's product classes
C) all of an organization's existing products through the stages of their life cycles
D) all products or brands that require close fiscal scrutiny
E) a close-knit family of products or brands

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