Novel Electronics sold 400 Technova smartphones in the first week of October 2013 at a price of $250 per unit. The following week, it reduced the price to $230 per unit and it saw sales increase by 20%. What is the price elasticity of demand of Technova smartphones?
When advertising content appears to be native to a platform (a news article, independent website, organic search result), the ethical thing to do is to:
Which of the following stages of a product life cycle attracts laggards?
Cuppa, a coffee-mug manufacturer, invests money in procuring equipment to produce custom prints on coffee mugs. Cuppa also releases a new line of eco-friendly porcelain mugs priced at $20 each. Cuppa spends $24,000 per month on its production, including employees' salaries. The cost of producing and packaging each mug is $12. Cuppa has a target profit of $8,000 a month. How many mugs should Cuppa sell to gain this profit?
_____ appeal aims to satisfy consumers’ sensitive desires rather than their utilitarian needs.
Peltz, a chewing gum manufacturer, markets chewing gum in a variety of flavors. The company also sells cardamom- and clove-flavored chewing gum under the Peltz brand. Five years after the introduction of the cardamom and clove flavors, the name Peltz is synonymous with cardamom- and clove-flavored chewing gum. Which of the following aspects of the Peltz brand is exemplified in this scenario?
Rudolf Freer Inc., an automobiles manufacturer, decides to create an all-weather golf cart. The decision is stimulated by the increasing popularity of snow-golfing. The R&D team of Rudolf develop a working model of the golf cart and simulate different weather conditions in the lab to see how the golf cart holds up. The golf cart is currently in the stage of _____.
In a franchise system,:
_____ requires a firm to maintain 100 percent ownership of its plants, operation facilities, and offices in a foreign country, often through the formation of wholly owned subsidiaries.
If an endorser is represented as an actual user of the marketer’s product, the endorsement can only be used as long as: