Designing and Managing

 

Designing and Managing

Integrated Marketing Communications

GENERAL CONCEPT QUESTIONS

Multiple Choice

1. Modern marketing calls for more than developing a good product, pricing it attractively, and making it accessible. Companies must also ________.

a. attract popular celebrities to endorse their brands in order to appear credible

b. reach historically underrepresented markets with their products

c. relate to employees on a more personal level

d. advertise exclusively to current users to cement their commitment to the brand

e. communicate with present and potential stakeholders and the general public

2. Marketing communications are the means by which firms attempt to ________, persuade, and remind consumers about the products and brands that they sell.

a. inform

b. reach

c. attract

d. interest

e. none of the above

3. Marketing communications can contribute to brand equity by establishing the brand in memory and ________.

a. creating interest

b. communicating quality

c. creating demand

d. creating a brand image

e. introducing new products to the market

4. Dramatic changes in consumer technologies and media habits have ________.

a. eroded the effectiveness of the mass media

b. increased the effectiveness of the mass media

c. expanded the appeal of mass-media marketing

d. reduced the cost of mass-media marketing

e. all of the above

 

Television advertising used to be the most powerful means of hitting the consumer marketing bull’s-eye. Its demise is attributed to ________ and to shifts in the media now used to reach consumers.

f. the aging of the baby boomer demographic

g. a shift in the proportion of radio listening to television viewing

h. increasing consumer cynicism toward advertising

i. the fragmentation of U.S. audiences

j. none of the above

5. The marketing communications mix consists of eight major modes of communications. Which of the following is NOT one of these modes?

a. Personal selling

b. Direct marketing

c. Sales promotions

d. Packaging

e. Advertising

6. Every ________ delivers an impression that can strengthen or weaken a customer’s view of the company.

a. brand equity

b. brand contact

c. salesman

d. featured ad

e. direct-mail piece

7. Marketing communications activities contribute to brand equity in all of the following ways EXCEPT ________.

a. by enhancing brand performance

b. by creating brand awareness

c. by eliciting positive brand judgments

d. by linking the right associations to the brand image in consumers’ memories

e. by facilitating a stronger consumer-brand connection

8. The starting point in planning marketing communications is an audit of all the potential ________ that customers in the target market may have with the brand and the company.

a. consumers

b. interests

c. interactions

d. usages

e. exposures

 

One implication of the concept of brand equity is that the manner in which brand associations are formed does not matter. In other words, if a consumer has an equally strong, favorable, and unique brand association between two media, then the impact in terms of brand equity should be ________.

f. prominent

g. identical

h. different

i. measurable

j. actionable

9. Blogs and chat rooms are examples of the ________ communication platform.

a. personal selling

b. events and experiences

c. public relations and publicity

d. word-of-mouth marketing

e. direct and interactive marketing

10. Marketers need to assess which experiences and impressions will have the most influence at each ________ of the buying process.

a. stage

b. level

c. consumer

d. step

e. none of the above

11. Anything that causes the consumer to notice and pay attention to the brand can ________ brand awareness.

a. decrease

b. increase

c. effect

d. affect

e. influence

12. The macromodel of effective communications contains nine elements. Two elements represent the major parties in a communication. These two parties are called ________ and ________.

a. sender; subject

b. beginner; receiver

c. receiver; starter

d. initiator; receiver

e. sender; receiver

 

13. According to the macromodel of communication, the four major communication functions are decoding, response, feedback, and ________.

a. message

b. encoding

c. response

d. feedback

e. noise

14. In communicating, selective attention, selective distortion, and ________ may come into play.

a. selective listening

b. noise

c. selective retention

d. selective hearing

e. selective interest

15. In micromodels of marketing communications, the four classic response hierarchy models includes all of the following EXCEPT ________.

a. communications model

b. innovation-adoption model

c. hierarchy-of-effects model

d. AIDA

e. BAMT

16. The hierarchy-of-effects model contains awareness, knowledge, liking, ________, conviction, and purchase.

a. cognitive response

b. preference

c. interest

d. attitude

e. none of the above

17. Senders know that to effectively communicate, they must encode their messages so that the target audience can decode them; the must transmit the message through the media that reach the target audience and develop ________ channels to monitor the responses.

a. feedback

b. interest

c. response

d. decoding

e. none of the above
The eight steps in developing effective communications start with the basics: identifying the target audience, determining the objectives, designing the communications, ________ , and establishing the budget.

f. selecting the advertising copy

g. managing the process

h. choosing the media mix

i. selecting the channels

j. measuring results

18. The ability to identify the brand within the category, in sufficient detail to make a purchase, is known as ________.

a. category need

b. brand awareness

c. brand attitude

d. brand purchase intention

e. brand conviction

19. Formulating the communications to achieve the desired response will require solving three problems: message strategy, creative strategy, and ________.

a. market-specific advertising

b. media sources

c. advertising

d. transformational appeal

e. message source

20. Creative strategies are how marketers translate their messages into a specific communication. Creative strategies can be broadly classified as involving either informational or ________ appeals.

a. branded entertainment

b. point-of-purchase

c. advertorials

d. transformational

e. individualization

21. John Maloney saw buyers as expecting one of four types of reward from a product. These include rational, social, ego satisfying, and ________.

a. exciting

b. functional

c. low costs

d. sensory

e. safety
A(n) ________ appeal elaborates on a non-product-related benefit or image when advertising a product or service.

f. informational

g. destructive

h. involving

i. creative

j. transformational

22. Communicators use ________ appeals such as fear, guilt, and shame to get people to do things or stop doing things.

a. destructive

b. scary

c. attractive

d. emotional

e. negative

23. Communicators use positive emotional appeals to attract consumer attention and raise their ________ with an ad.

a. emotions

b. exposure

c. involvement

d. assessment

e. interest

24. Messages delivered by attractive or popular sources can potentially achieve higher attention and recall. What is important is the spokesperson’s credibility. Source credibility consists of trustworthiness, likability, and ________.

a. celebrity status

b. experience

c. expertise

d. age

e. reputation

25. ________ is the specialized knowledge that the communicator possesses to back the advertising claim.

a. Likeability

b. Source

c. Expertise

d. Trustworthiness

e. Faith

 

26. A well-chosen celebrity can draw attention to a product or brand. The choice of the celebrity is critical. The celebrity should have high recognition, high positive affect, and high ________ to the product.

a. interest

b. attachment

c. relevancy

d. appropriateness

e. fit

27. If a person has a positive attitude toward a source and a message, or a negative attitude toward both, a state of ________ is said to exits.

a. communication

b. congruity

c. celebrity

d. insight

e. transformation

28. Personal communications channels derive their effectiveness through ________ presentation and feedback.

a. effective

b. group

c. canned

d. individualized

e. persuasion

29. ________ channels consist of company salespeople contacting buyers in the target market.

a. Individualized

b. Personal

c. Expert

d. Advocate

e. Social

30. ________ channels consists of neighbors, friends, family members, and associates talking to target buyers.

a. Social

b. Expert

c. Advocate

d. Professional

e. None of the above

 

31. Personal influence carries especially great weight with consumers in two situations. The first is with products that are expensive, risky, or purchased infrequently. The second is where the product ________.

a. suggests something about the user’s ethnic background

b. suggests something about the user’s education

c. suggests something about the user’s family

d. suggests something about the user’s financial wealth

e. suggests something about the user’s status or taste

32. Nonpersonal channels are communications directed to more than one person and include media, sales promotions, events and experiences, and ________.

a. Internet access

b. coupons

c. direct exposure

d. guerilla tactics

e. public relations

33. Most of the recent growth of nonpersonal channels has taken place through ________.

a. display media

b. events and experiences

c. network media

d. public relations

e. sales promotions

34. Mass communications affect personal attitudes and behavior through a two-step process. Ideas often flow from radio, television, and print to opinion leaders, and from these to the less ________-involved population groups.

a. media

b. advertising

c. informed

d. involved

e. none of the above

35. The two-step flow of information challenges the notion that consumption styles ________ a “trickle-down” or “trickle-up” effect from mass media.

a. are secondarily influenced by

b. are affected by

c. start with

d. are primarily influenced by

e. originate with

 

36. The four common methods that companies use to decide on a promotion budget include the affordable method, the percentage-of-sales method, ________, and the objective-and-task method.

a. financial method

b. incremental growth method

c. zero-based budgeting method

d. competitive-parity method

e. last year’s budget method

37. Many companies set promotion expenditures at a specified percentage of current or anticipated sales, or of the sales price. This method of budgeting is called ________.

a. objective-and-task method

b. percentage-of-sales method

c. affordable method

d. competitive parity method

e. none of the above

38. Companies must allocate the marketing communications budget over the eight major modes of communication, including—advertising, sales promotion, public relations, events, sales force, interactive marketing, word-of-mouth, and ________.

a. incentives

b. couponing

c. integrated marketing communications

d. Internet marketing

e. direct marketing

39. Some companies set their promotion budget to achieve share-of-voice parity with competitors. This is referred to as the ________ of promotions budgeting.

a. objective-task method

b. percentage-of-sales method

c. competitive-parity method

d. affordable method

e. comparable method

40. Marketing functions must be coordinated to ensure ________ among communications tools.

a. significant costs

b. power

c. importance

d. incremental costs

e. substitutability

41. Advertising can be used to build up a long-term image for a product and usually contains the qualities of impersonality, amplified expressiveness, and ________.

a. invitation

b. motion

c. sound and sight

d. pervasiveness

e. intrusion

42. Sales promotions tools offer three distinctive benefits to marketers. Among these benefits are communication, invitation, and ________.

a. credibility

b. impersonality

c. exclusion

d. inclusion

e. incentive

43. The appeal of public relations and publicity is based on three distinctive qualities. These include ________, the ability to catch buyers off guard, and dramatization.

a. invitation

b. free

c. high credibility

d. exposure

e. low cost

44. Personal selling is the most effective tool at later stages of the buying process, particularly in building up buyer preference, conviction, and action. Personal selling has three distinctive qualities. These are personal interaction, response, and ________.

a. customization

b. dramatization

c. involvement

d. relevance

e. cultivation

45. ________ is/are the most effective tool at later stages of the buying process, particularly in building up buyer preference, conviction, and action.

a. Direct and interactive marketing

b. Events and experiences

c. Word-of-mouth marketing

d. Personal selling

e. Public relations

 

Companies must consider several factors in developing their communications mix: type of product market, consumer readiness to make a purchase, and the stage in the ________.

f. product life cycle

g. marketing mix

h. advertising mix

i. buying process

j. none of the above

46. An effectively trained company sales force can make four important contributions: enthusiasm building, missionary selling, key account management, and ________.

a. customer contacts

b. relationship selling

c. direct sales contacts

d. increased stock position

e. account management

47. Communication tools vary in cost-effectiveness at different stages of buyer readiness. ________ and publicity play the most important role in the awareness-building stage.

a. Direct marketing

b. Sales promotion

c. Advertising

d. Personal selling

e. “Buzz”

48. Senior managers want to know the outcomes and revenues resulting from their communications investments. Too often, however, their communications directors supply only ________ and expenses.

a. inputs

b. outputs

c. measures

d. ads

e. none of the above

49. In measuring the effectiveness of a firm’s communications investment, ultimately ________ measures capture the real payoff.

a. behavior-change

b. purchase

c. action

d. inaction

e. none of the above

 

Integrated marketing communications is a concept of marketing communications planning that recognizes the added value of a ________ plan.

f. integrated

g. coherent

h. complete

i. comprehensive

j. none of the above

50. A multiple media campaign deployed within a tightly defined time frame can increase message _________.

a. delivery and reach

b. awareness and content

c. reach and impact

d. impact and awareness

e. content and delivery

51. A one-time mailing offering a cookware item is an example of a ________.

a. single-vehicle, single-stage campaign

b. direct campaign

c. single-vehicle, multiple-stage campaign

d. multiple-vehicle, multiple-stage campaign

e. none of the above

52. Which of the following is NOT one of the advantages of having an integrated marketing communications program?

a. It forces management to think about how the company communicates.

b. It forces management to think about every way the customer comes in contact with the company.

c. It produces greater sales impact.

d. It increases consumer involvement.

e. It produces stronger message consistency.